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Vienna, 1907. Wagner-Jauregg, Julius (1857-1940). Autograph letter signed, in German, to an unidentified correspondent. Vienna, April 19, 1907. 1 page, written on what appears to be a leaf from Wagner-Jauregg's prescription pad. 101 x 165 mm. Fine. From Viennese psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology / Medicine in 1927 "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica" (Nobel e-Museum). For Wagner-Jauregg's work on curing mental illnesses by inducing fevers, see Garrison-Morton 4806 and 4946. Wagner-Jauregg's letter can be translated as follows: Dear Colleague, I would like to recommend Mr. Brunn, a merchant who last year was erroneously diagnosed as a paralytic by a physician in Joachimstal, for a slight cure to be taken at the waters at Karlsbad, which were beneficial to him two years ago. With collegial greetings, Wagner-Jauregg. .

Charlottenburg: Adolf Eckstein, 1900.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1920. 217-249pp. 254 x 195 mm. Plain wrappers. Very good.

1879. In Nature 19 (1879): 501-5. Whole number in original printed wrappers, some fraying, light waterstains.

1878. In Nature 19, no. 476 (1878): 121. Whole number, without wrappers.

1879. In Nature 19 (1879) 581 & 582. Whole number, without wrappers.

1864. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). On anomalies in zoological and botanical geography. In Natural History Review (1864): 111-123. Whole number. [4], 156, vi, 627-631pp. plus 8 leaves of advertisements. 223 x 146 mm. (uncut and partly unopened). Original printed wrappers, a little worn and chipped, small split in upper spine. Very good copy. First Edition. Up to about 1860 Wallace explained the present similarities between plant and animal species in regions now separated by water (such as Britain and continental Europe) by postulating, along with Edward Forbes and other naturalists, that land extensions between these regions had existed in the recent geological past. By 1863 he had abandoned this position, adopting instead Lyell's uniformitarian view that the Earth's topography had not altered substantially over time. This change was based on Wallace's analysis of the global distribution of species, which convinced him of the theoretical as well as the descriptive validity of the six… Read More

1879. In Nature 19, no. 483 (1879): 289. Whole number, in original printed wrappers.

New York: Maurizio Martino, 1992. 8vo. Cloth. Printing quality is average, and the plates are poorly reproduced, but all the information is present.

Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1955. 2 vols., 4to. Original cloth. This is the original printing. A cheap reprint is also available. Containing over 20,000 volumes, Waller's library was the largest and most important rare medical library collected during the fertile period between the two world wars. He was probably Harvey's Cushing's most serious competitor for rare medical books. The Waller library is preserved at the University of Upsalla.

Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsal, 1993.

London: Lockyer Davis, 1773. Folding plate no. [19] illustrates the male and female torpedo fish. Whole volume, 507pp., 20 copper plls.. 180 x 230mm. Red contemporary cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Spine is a bit rubbed. From the library of Sir W.M. J. Pope with his bookplate to paste down. Library stamp on the title page. Pages a bit toned, otherwise a good copy. The first accurate study of the electrical organs of the torpedo fish were made by Walsh, who was given the Copely Medal of the Royal Society for his work on the subject. Walsh proved that the shock of the torpedo was electrical, and that the fish could only send the shock through a conductor. Garrison-Morton.com No. 589.

London: Lockyer Davis, 1773. Whole volume, iv [adverts], vii, 507pp. The List of the Royal Society, 8pp. 160 x 220mm. 20 copper pll. Bookplate of Sir WM. J. Pope to front paste-down. Quarter calf with marbled boards. Spine is rubbed, detached at p. 300, otherwise a very good copy. The first accurate study of the electrical organs of the torpedo fish were made by Walsh, who was given the Copely Medal of the Royal Society for his work on the subject. Walsh proved that the shock of the torpedo was electrical, and that the fish could only send the shock through a conductor. Garrison-Morton.com No. 589.

Boston: John & Thomas Fleet, 1798.

London: Capella, 1988. First edition. Wander, Tim. 2MT Writtle. The birth of British broadcasting. London: Capella, 1988. 179pp. 210 x 140 mm. Brown cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket. Very good. First Edition, Signed by the Author. Below the signature is an inscription written in a different hand, which reads: "I worked in the hut which housed this transmittor during my service with the Marconi Company. [Illegible signature.]". "2MT was the first British radio station to make regular entertainment broadcasts, and the ‘world's first regular wireless broadcast' for entertainment. Transmissions began on 14 February 1922 from an ex-Army hut next to the Marconi laboratories at Writtle, near Chelmsford in Essex.. "Two Emma Toc (as it was called in the British Army Signalling Corps spelling alphabet of the day) was a surprising success. The presenter, producer, actor-manager and writer were Captain Peter P. Eckersley (1892-1963), a Marconi engineer. His regular announcement: "This is Two Emma Toc, Writtle… Read More

London, 1856. Ward, Edward Matthew (1816-79). Artist and painter best known for his historical murals in the Palace of Westminster and for his opposition to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. 1857. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm. Tiny crease in one corner.

Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1971. First edition. xl, 1309pp. Illustrated. Original cloth. Fine copy.

San Francisco: Norman, 1989. 1st edition. 401pp. 4-1/2 x 7-3/8 inches. Cloth. Acid-free paper. New Introduction by Ira M. Rutkow, M.D. Surgeon-General of North Carolina, Warren wrote this book to counter the severe mismangement of the wounded.

Boston, 1827. Warren, John Collins (1778-1856). Document signed, dated November 19, 1827, written on the verso of the printed deed to Warren's tomb-lot in St. Paul's Church, Boston, dated February 5, 1823. 1-1/2pp., plus integral blank. 250 x 203 mm. Creased where previously folded, folds worn and with some paper tape repairs, light browning & marginal fraying. Good to very good overall. Docketed on verso of blank leaf. Recording the sale of Warren's tomb-lot at St. Paul's to Edward Luckerman of Boston, for the sum of $527--$227 more than Warren had paid when he purchased the lot four and a half years earlier. Warren, the eminent Bostonian surgeon, was a co-founder of Massachusetts General Hospital, where on October 16, 1846 he became the first surgeon to perform an operation on an etherized patient. He also introduced the operation of staphylorraphy (cleft palate repair) in America; see Garrison-Morton 5742. .

Boston: D. Clapp Jr., 1840. Warren, Jonathan Mason (1811-67). Rhinoplastic operations. With some remarks on the autoplastic methods usually adopted for the restoration of parts lost by accident or disease. Offprint from Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 22 (1840). 28pp. 2 plates. Boston: D. Clapp, Jr., 1840. 214 x 132 mm. Recent marbled wrappers. Plates a bit foxed but very good. First Edition, Scarce Offprint Issue of Mason Warren's paper describing the first successful free skin-graft operation performed in the United States; OCLC cites only five copies in North American libraries. "In April 1840 Jonathan Mason Warren of Boston transplanted a whole-thickness skin graft from the arm to the ala nasi and he is credited with ‘filling small breaches of surface with integument entirely detached from the arm or thigh and at once applied on the surface of the defect,' by Pancoast" (Gnudi & Webster, Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, pp. 328-329). Warren had already performed the first successful… Read More