Search Results: Authors starting with T from Biomed Rare Books

Tokyo: Daiomishoin, 1930. SCARCE GUIDE TO JAPANESE FISHES WITH 355 COLOR IMAGES, TEXT IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH. 4x7 inches volume, flexible leather covers, gilt title to cover and spine in English and Japanese, cloth endpapers, 203 pp, chomolithographs of 355 fish, some with English common names laid in, text in Japanese with index in English and Japanese, very good. 15 copies listed in WorldCat. SHIGEHO TANAKA (1878–1974) was a Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American scientist David Starr Jordan.

Paris: Octave Doin, 1904. Fourth edition. 1904 UNIQUE FRENCH MANUAL OF HUMAN ANATOMY BY A PROMINENT BORDEAUX PROFESSOR, ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY A MEDICAL STUDENT. 7 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, embossed title to cover and spine, [4 publisher's ads], [6], 816 pp, covers worn, joints split but holding, handstamp of Jean Angles top of publisher's list, page edges browned, red and blue pencil underlinings throughout. LAID IN (most taped onto pages, some folding, several loose): 45 fine pencil or ink drawings, some with color, 5 lists, 1 folding table. Good in custom archival mylar cover. Testut's Precis d'Anatomie was first published in 1901 and was published until 1940 (15th edition). In his foreword, the author states that the book is simply an outline of gross anatomy for the medical student, and does not contain variations, anomalies, histology, or embryology. Illustrations are purposely omitted, because the book is written to promote committing… Read More

Calcutta: Trustees of the Indian Museum, 1909. First edition. 1909 ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF CORALS COLLECTED IN THE INDIAN OCEAN, WITH LARGE FINE LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. 13 inches tall hardcover, black pebbled cloth binding with marbled boards, rebacked, preserving original paper title label, xviii, 319 pp, 77 text figures, large folding table, 9 fine lithographed plates with tissue guards and facing descriptive text (2 colored); small institutional handstamp to bottom corner of front endpaper, browning to endpapers, age-toning to edges of pages, plates fine; very good. In custom archival mylar cover. JOHN ARTHUR THOMSON (1861 - 1933) studied natural history at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in 1880. He had already established a reputation as a worthy scientist within his first years and in 1887, aged 25, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He taught at the Royal Veterinary College from 1893 until 1899 then University of Aberdeen from 1899 until 1930 as Regius… Read More

London: Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1879. First edition. 1879 FIRST EDITION SLIM MONOGRAPH ON ASTHMA BY NOTED LONDON PULMONOLOGIST--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 7 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blindstamped brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed on half title, "Dr Lindan Coghill with the kind regards of the Author," vi, 86 pp, 32 pp publisher's adverts. Slight bubbling to covers, corners bumped, spine faded, wear to spine and spine ends frayed, front hinge starting, text pages clean and unmarked, very good minus. JOHN CHARLES THOROWGOOD (1833 – 1913) was born at Totteridge, the son of a schoolmaster, and educated in his father's school. At University College, London, he studied classical subjects before entering the medical faculty. A Fellowes medallist, he qualified in 1855 and spent a short period in general practice with a brother-in-law at Kettering. He then took charge of a patient visiting the south of France and returned to start a consulting practice in London. He was first appointed to… Read More

St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1937. First edition. 1937 SCARCE CLASSIC ATLAS OF SKELETAL MATURATION--A KEY REFERENCE FOR DOCUMENTING CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 12 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt title to spine, dedication "To the Children of America and of the World this book and its successors are dedicated by those workers drawn from all disciplines of biological science and banded together as the Associated Foundations of the Laboratory of Anatomy to promote the welfare of the Child in the interest of the Nation to the end that physical and mental health, in their fullness, may be added to the ideals of Loyalty, Honor and Service". 201 pages, hand x-rays of 40 male and 35 female White subjects 3 months to 16-18 years of age, with facing text descriptions. Light edgewear to covers, library bar code to front paste-down, institutional library bookplate and handstamp to front free endpaper, handstamp to corner of several subsequent pages, upper corner bumped,… Read More

Charlottesville: Anderson Bros., University of Virginia, 1890. First edition. 1890 LITHOGRAPHED CURSIVE ANATOMY NOTES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BY BELOVED UVA PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY, WILLIAM B. TOWLES. 11 inches tall hardcover, new black cloth binding, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, signature of "'Colonel Jube' Woods, Buckingham Palace" top of title page, "University" spelled as "NNiversity", edges darkened, pages age-toned, text in cursive script reproduced by lithography. Copious pencil notes inscribed between the printed lines throughout, presumably by a medical student. These notes include the date "Nov 1 '92" on page 176. Overall good+. WILLIAM BEVERLEY TOWLES (1847 - 1893) was born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, March 7th, 1847. He was descended from a family well-known in Virginia annals, his grandfather being Major Oliver Towles of the war of 1812, and his great-grandfather Colonel Oliver Towles of Revolutionary fame. His father was Dr. W. B. Towles, who… Read More

1865. First edition.
1865 AN EARLY STUDY OF THE ASYMMETRIC MIGRATION OF EYES IN FLATFISH TO ONE SIDE OF THE BODY.
22x28 cm hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, autograph paper title label to cover, cloth spine, handstamp of Library of R. Harry, Jr, paginated pp 263-296, scattered marginal pencil notes and underlinings, 4 engraved plates numbered 29-32 (bound out of order, partial color to first plate). Cover corners worn, corners bumped, browning to page edges, light foxing. Good association copy in custom archival mylar cover.
RAMSAY HEATLEY TRAQUAIR (1840 – 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish. Traquair trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatomy. He held posts as Professor of Natural History and Professor of Zoology in England and Ireland, before returning to his native Edinburgh to take up a post at the Museum of Science and Art. He spent the remainder of his career at the Museum building up a renowned… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1947. First edition. ASSOCIATION COPY: BIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH LISTER PRESENTED BY SURGEON GENERAL LEROY BURNEY TO SENATOR JOSEPH LISTER HILL, CO-AUTHOR OF THE HILL-BURTON ACT. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, inscribed in ink on front flyleaf, "May 27, 1960. To Senator Lister Hill with the highest personal regards, Lee Burney, Surgeon General." Frontis photograph of Lister, 270 pp, photographic plates, corners worn, cover edges and endpapers browned, otherwise very good without jacket. RHODA TRUAX SILBERMAN (1901 – 2000), an American author. was a graduate of the Horace Mann School and Barnard College in New York. She wrote a number of biographies of historical physicians, the best known being The Doctors Warren of Boston, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1968. LEROY EDGAR BURNEY (1906 - 1998) was appointed the eighth Surgeon General of the United States (1956 to 1961). Burney was born in Burney, Indiana, a town founded by his great-grandfather. He began… Read More