Search Results: Titles starting with A from Biomed Rare Books

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1865. First edition. 1865, 1872 TWO FOLIO VOLUMES - LANDMARK STUDY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE ECOLOGY ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHS. Two folio volumes 14 inches tall, printed paper covered card covers, soiled and edge-worn, cloth spine. Vol. 1 with handstamp of the Bryant Walker Library, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, to cover, and bookplate of Bryant Walker with image of snail on cattail leaf to front paste-down, and hand-inscribed card listing contents of volume affixed to ffep. xxx, 87, [11], tinted lithographic map, color temperature graph, 18 hand colored lithographic plates, 6 uncolored plates, errata slip; Vol 2. with author's insription to cover "Prof. A. Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass., hochachtungsfoll die Verfasser [compliments of the authors]" and bookplate on front paste-down, "Alex. Agassiz Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Founded by private subscription, in 1861. Deposited by Alex. Agassiz".… Read More

Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1872. First edition. ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON THE ANATOMY OF THE OPOSSUM BY LEADING 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS. 12 inches tall red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of C. William Beebe on front and rear paste-downs, original printed paper covers bound in, text paginated pp 41-154, 36 wood engravings in the text, very good. ELLIOTT COUES (1842 - 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author. He graduated at Columbian University, (now, George Washington University) Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cadet in Washington in 1862-1863, and in 1864 was appointed assistant-surgeon in the regular army. In 1872 he published his Key to North American Birds, which, revised and rewritten in 1884 and 1901, did much to promote the systematic study of ornithology in America. He was a founding member of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883. His work was… Read More

Cambridge MA, New York: Museum of Comparative Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 1910, 1908. First editions. 1910 ANATOMY OF AN ENDANGERED VENOMOUS MAMMAL SPECIES FOUND ONLY ON THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE PLATES--BY CURATORS OF MAMMALS AT HARVARD'S MCZ. 12 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, red leather label with gilt title to spine, [1], 54 pp, 9 lithographed plates (3 colored). Cover edges worn, spine ends frayed, spine label worn, binding tight, page edges browned, text and plates clean, unmarked, very good minus. GLOVER MORRILL ALLEN (1879 - 1942) was an American zoologist who lectured at Harvard and was Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He traveled widely, to Central and South America, to West Africa, the Nile, the Belgian Congo, and Australia. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1915 and was president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1927 to 1929. JOEL ASAPH ALLEN (1838 – 1921) was an… Read More

Leiden: Verbeek, 1754. First edition. 28 EXQUISITE COPPER PLATES OF ANATOMIC DETAILS BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS, ENGRAVED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, JAN WANDELAAR IN 1754. 10 inches tall hardcover, 1/2 leather binding, brown speckled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title to spine, containing 4 books. 2 leaves, Book I, 96, 99-104 pp, 1 leaf, 7 plates; Book II, 114 pp, 7 plates; 1Book III, 120 pp, 7 plates; Book IV, 118 pp, 7 plates, colophon. Covers heavily worn, spine edges cracked, hinges holding, binding tight, pages age-toned, light foxing to first and last pages, plates crisp and clean, very good minus. BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS (1697 - 1770) was born at Frankfurt on the Oder where his father, Bernhard Albinus was professor of the practice of medicine. In 1702 the latter was transferred to the chair of medicine at Leiden University, and it was there that Bernhard Siegfried began his studies in 1709, at the age of 12, having for his teachers such men as… Read More

New York: Bradstreet Press, 1866. First edition. 1866 REPORT OF 2 CASES OF VAGINAL ATRESIA AND THEIR SURGICAL CORRECTION BY NOTED IRISH-AMERICAN SURGEON AT NEW YORK STATE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall thin monograph in gray paper wraps, author's inscription to title page, his ink inscription and signature top of first page of text, "Fordham University Library Medical Department/ from/ Thos. Addis Emmet, M.D./ May 23rd 1906," [2], 17 pp. Edges of paper wraps browned and chipped, string binding partially perished, text pages clean, good only. Contains case reports of 2 patients, one with acquired and the other with congenital vaginal atresia. Dr. Emmet emphasizes the importance of avoiding cutting tissue with a knife, which leads to formation of adhesions and scarring. Instead, he recommends the use of digital dissection to obtain better long-term results. THOMAS ADDIS EMMET (1826-1919) was the grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet, a noted attorney, and son of Dr. John Patten Emmet,… 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

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. 1864 ADDRESS OF ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS INVITED BY HARVARD LUMINARIES TO GRADUATING CLASS OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, EXTOLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MDs TO WAR EFFORT--INSCRIBED TO POPULAR CRITIC E P WHIPPLE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, gray printed wrappers, inscribed top cover, "E. P. Whipple Esq with regards of J. A. Andrew." iv, 28 pp. Soiling to covers, string binding perished, contents complete, pages unmarked, good+. JOHN ALBION ANDREW (1818 – 1867) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politican. He was elected in 1860 as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between 1861 and 1866, and led the state's contributions to the Union cause during the American Civil War. He was a guiding force behind the creation of some of the first African-American units in the United States Army, including the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Andrew was a radical abolitionist of slavery from an early age, engaged in the legal defense of fugitive… Read More

Liverpool: The University Press, 1913. First English edition. 1913 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF RICHET'S MONOGRAPH ON ANAPHYLAXIS, FOR WHICH HE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE THE SAME YEAR. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xii, 266 pp. Small circular sticker to upper left corner of cover, spine ends frayed, institutional library handstamp to front flyleaf and title page, Wellcome Institute stamp to verso of title page with "withdrawn" cancel, binding tight, text pages unmarked and crisp, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: "In the progress and development of the Science and Art of Medicine, and of the kindred Pursuits of physiology and Pathology, successive investigators find themselves confronted with facts and with difficulties of which their predecessors were unaware, or whose significance and importance they overlooked. The more closely the phenomena of life, whether in health or disease, are examined, the more complex they are found to be; the… Read More

Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1962. Second edition. UNIQUE DICTIONARY OF ANATOMICAL EPONYMS BY CURATOR OF THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM IN LONDON--COPY OF AN ACADEMIC SURGEON WITH TLS FROM THE AUTHOR WITH POCKET CONTAINING IMAGES OF KIDNEY CASTS FROM THE MUSEUM. 9 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth boards, spine gilt, bookplate of NSR Maluf front paste-down; signed and dated November 4th, 1964 by author on title page; frontis portrait of Vesalius, 235 pp; very good in jacket lightly soiled, otherwise very good in mylar sleeve. Laid in TLS from author to NSR Maluf, dated 31st March, 1969, "Dear Dr. Maluf, I have great pleasure in enclosing the negatives of the photographs of specimens from the Hunterian Museum that you wish to have. I hope you will find them suited to your purpose. I have just received the magnificent work of Galen translated by Mrs. May. I am most grateful to you for this fine addition to my library. It is a book that I would possibly not have contemplated buying but I would… Read More

Paris: Crevot, 1824. First edition.
1824 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF ASCARIS--ITS LIFE CYCLE WOULD NOT BE DISCOVERED UNTIL A CENTURY LATER.
10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine with gilt title, decorative bookplate of Jean Theodorides to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front free endpaper, vii, 130 pp, 8 fine folding engraved plates. Light wear to spine, covers clean, binding tight, plates bright, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Large intestinal roundworms have been known since antiquity. Eggs have been identified in archeological coprolites across the globe, the oldest ones being more than 24,000 years old. In 1758 Linnaeus named them Ascaris lumbricoides. For many centuries, they were thought to arise by spontaneous generation. In 1855, Ascaris eggs were found in human faeces by Henry Ransom in England. In 1922, Shimesu Koino ingested 2,000 Ascaris lumbricoides eggs, found larvae in his sputum a few days later, then after 50… 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

Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, 1842. First edition. 1842 FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF METABOLISM INTO PHYSIOLOGY BY THE FOUNDER OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 calf with marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands and red leather label with gilt title, marbled endpapers, xl, 347 pp, 8 pp reply to publishers of unauthorized edition of Part II of Liebig's work. Covers worn, binding tight, light foxing, pages crisp and text unmarked, good+. JUSTUS LIEBIG (1803 – 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time. He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant… Read More

Moscow, 1951. COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 10 1/4 inches tall volume with original navy flexible cloth covered boards, cover with blindstamped image of apple, and gilt title; gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers with sepia orchard scene. 130 black & white figures throughout text, and 32 colored plates of apples and pears. Corners and spine ends rubbed, very good. IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Michurin was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins, cultivating methods in connection with the natural course of ontogenesis, directing the process of predominance, evaluation and selection of seedlings, and acceleration of the process of… Read More

London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1954. First edition. LANDMARK ANALYSIS OF AN ARCHAEOPTERYX FOSSIL, CLARIFYING ITS LINK BETWEEN REPTILES AND BIRDS. 12 1/2 inches tall folio hardcover, brown cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, bookplate of academic physician Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, frontis of model Archaeopteryx, xi, errata slip, 68 pp; 16 plates (each with descriptive text leaf); 9 figures in text. Near Fine in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: "When Archaeopteryx was acquired by the British Museum in 1862 it was immediately studied by Richard Owen, then Superintendent of the Natural History Departments and later first Director of the British Museum (Natural History), and since at that time the Museum had scarcely begun to publish scientific monographs on its own account, Owen's work appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Subsequent investi&ators, including several members of the Museum staff, have from time to… Read More

1948 - 1989. First editions. 1948 - 1989 ARCHIVE OF OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT ECOLOGIST OLIVER PAYNE PEARSON, DIRECTOR OF MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY AT UC BERKELEY. Collection of 36 offprints, including 6 of the 7 cited as "seminal papers" by WZ Lidicker Jr and JL Patton in their obituary of Oliver Pearson (https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/oliverpaynepearson.html). The offprints are in very good condition with the exception of curled corners on a few, and are unmarked save for occasional underlining of Pearson's name under the title, and signature of J. M. Taylor on upper right corner of 5 papers. PROVENANCE: likely Jocelyn Mary Taylor (1931 –2019), an American mammalogist, who served as president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1982 to 1984. OLIVER PAYNE PEARSON (1915 - 2003) earned both an M.A. (1939) and Ph.D. degree (1947) from Harvard University. In 1947 he was appointed instructor in zoology at UC Berkeley, and in 1948 he was also appointed assistant… Read More

1940s. SUITABLE FOR FRAMING: 1940s 6 ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS OF HUMAN ANATOMY BY ANONYMOUS MEDICAL PROFESSOR.
6 drawings 14x17 inches, on art paper, some with structures labeled or with descriptive text. Browning and wear to edges. Insect damage (small holes) top or bottom margin not affecting image in 5 drawings; drawing of full skeleton with both left side and bottom affected (see images).

1936-1958. First editions. 1936-1958 SIX SCARCE LANDMARK PAPERS BY PIONEERING PITTSBURGH PHYSIOLOGIST DAVENPORT HOOKER, WHO RECORDED HUMAN FETAL REFLEX RESPONSES TO STIMULATION. Six offprints stapled in original wraps, documenting key discoveries in the fetal development of neuromuscular reflexes by pioneering anatomist and neurophysiologist Davenport Hooker. 1) Early fetal activity in mammals. Yale J Biol Med 8: (6) 579-602, July, 1936 [cover with ragged edges, text with 1 cm closed edge tear, otherwise very good]; 2) The origin of the grasping movement in man. Proc Am Philos Soc 79: (4) 597-606, November, 1938 [very good]; 3) Fetal behavior. Res Pub Assn Res Nervous & Mental Dis 19:237-243, September, 1939 [near fine]; 4) Fetal reflexes and instinctul processs. Psychosomatic Medicine 4: (2) 199-205, April, 1942 {near fine]; 5) The origin of overt behavior, A University of Michigan Lecture, April 30, 1943, 38 pp, Ann Arbor, U Michigan, 1944 [near fine]; 6) Evidence of prenatal function of the central… Read More

1958-1965. First editions.
ARCHIVE OF 6 OFFPRINTS BY FRENCH CO-DISCOVERER OF MESSENGER RNA--COPIES OF CALTECH GENETICIST STUDYING LIFE ON MARS.
1) Francois GROS, & Françoise GROS. "Role des Aminoacides dans la Synthese des Acides Nucléiques chez Escherichia Coli." Offprint from: Biochim. Biophys. Acta, vol. 22, 1956. 8vo. 200-201 pp. 2 figs. Single leaf. Ownership handstamp of Norman H. Horowitz; 2) Francois GROS, et al. "Studies on the Heterogeneity of Messenger RNA from E. Coli." Offprint from: J. Mol. Biol., 5, 1962. 8vo. 311-324 pp. Figs. Self wraps, initials of Norman H Horowitz; 3) Francois GROS, et al. "Regulation of Metabolic Breakdown and Synthesis of Messanger RNA in Bacteria." Offprint from: Cold Spring Harbor, vol. XXVIII, 1963. 8vo 299-313 pp. Figs. Self wraps; 4) Francois GROS, & Clyde WILLSON. "Protein Synthesis with an Escherichia Coli System In Vitro." Offprint from: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 80, 1964. 8vo. 478-496 pp. Self wraps; 5) Francois GROS, et al. "Preferential… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749. First edition. 1749 FIRST EDITION 2-VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON INCUBATION OF DOMESTICATED FOWL EGGS WITH TECHNIQUES ILLUSTRATED BY FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS. Two hardcover volumes 6 3/4 inches tall, full calf binding, spine with raised bands, compartments gilt, gilt red title labels, red-speckled edges, xii, Vol. I: xii, 342 pp, 9 folding copper plates; Vol. II: [iv], 339 pp, 6 folding plates; each volume additionally illustrated by 10 engraved title vignettes and several in-text engraved vignettes. Edges of boards rubbed, endpapers browned, pages age-toned, very good. French language. RENE ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE REAUMUR (1683-1757) was a French naturalist regarded as a founder of ethology. He studied the relationship between the growth of insects and temperature. He also computed the rate of growth of insect populations and noted that there must be natural checks since the theoretical population numbers achievable by geometric progression were not matched by observations of… Read More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1947. First edition.
SCARCE--AN EARLY HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION BY A POPULAR AMERICAN HEALTH WRITER.
8 1/2 inches tall staple-bound booklet, printed paper covers, 32 pp. Browning to covers and pages, unmarked, very good in mylar cover. Chapters include Non-sexual conception, Childbirth and coition not inevitably linked, Curious case reported in 1750 by London preacher, Early attemps at artificial fertilization, Earliest reported case of human impregnation, The uterine method, How donors of semen are handled, How the act is carried out, A self-administered home method, Five ways of obtaining semen, Legal aspects of artificial impregnation, Ethical considerations, sexual selection and eugenics.
ADOLPH FREDERICK NIEMOELLER (born 1903) is author of American Encyclopedia of Sex (1935), The business side of the oldest business : a survey of the organization, management and earnings of prostitution from antiquity to the present (1945), and Handbook of… Read More