Search Results: Titles starting with B from Biomed Rare Books

London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849, 1850, 1851. First editions.
VICTORIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL CHRONICLES BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHS OF NATURAL AND HUMANIZED INSECT LIFE.
Three hardcover volumes 8 inches tall, 3/4 black calf binding, marbled covered boards, spines with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decorated compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, personal library bookplate to front paste-down, hand-colored lithographed frontis, title page with vignette, and many hand-colored headpieces and uncolored illustrations throughout each volume. Vol. 1 (1st Series), xviii, 320 pp; Vol. 2 (2nd Series), xvi, 326 pp; Vol. 3 (3rd Series), xvii, 434 pp. Light wear to cover edges and corners, occasional spots to pages, no marks to text, colors bright, very good in custom archival mylar covers.
NOTES ON THE BOOKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE LIBRARY: The best-known work of a little-known author, Episodes of insect life is essentially an insect chronicle by the British writer… Read More

1934 - 1947 . First editions. 1930s and 1940s COLLECTION OF LANDMARK PAPERS BY EMINENT YALE EMBRYOLOGIST AND LEADER OF AMERICAN WARTIME SCIENCE MANAGEMENT. 16 offprints, 13 in printed paper covers and 3 (publshed in Science) without covers, as issued, all in very good condition. JOHN SPANGLER NICHOLAS (1895 - 1963) enlisted in the Army Medical Corps in 1918. His most important governmental contribution was his assistance in shaping the World War II policies governing the utilization of the nation's scientific human resources (documented in 4 offprints in collection). Upon leaving the Army at the end of World War I, Nicholas returned to Yale to pursue his PhD in zoology, becoming a leading experimental embryologist. He was elected Sterling Professor of Zoology in 1939, and was Chairman of the Department of Zoology from 1946–1956. Nicholas never abandoned his interest in the development of Amblystoma. In 1945 and 1948 he reported the results of studies, carried out by vital staining, on endodermal… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Co. and Coupland, Southampton, 1837. A New Edition. SCARCE HISTORY OF POPULAR PHRASES AND NURSERY RHYMES BY ENGLISH BOTANIST. Two volumes, 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 red leather with marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt titles to spines; light soiling to covers, wear to spine ends, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, Vol. I, xi, 290 pp; Vol. II, v, 304 pp, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. JOHN BELLENDEN KER (1764 C. - 1842), originally John Gawler, was an English botanist. He is noted for having written Recensio Plantarum (1801), Select Orchideae (c.1816) and Iridearum Genera (1827). He edited Edward's Botanical Register from 1815 to 1824 and was famous as a wit and botanist as well as being the author of Archaeology of Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes (offered here).

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899-1901. First edition.
1899 FIRST 2 VOLUMES OF THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN, BEGUN BY LEADERS OF THE FAMOUS MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT WOODS HOLE MASS, CONTAINS 4 PAPERS ON REGENERATION BY T H MORGAN.
Ten inches tall hardcover, 2 volumes bound as one; black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, discard handstamp, embossed library stamp to second front flyleaf and title page, Vol I, i-v, 314 pp, Vol II, i-iii, errata slip, 365 pp, many line illustrations throughout, 6 plates. Binding tight, faint library numbers bottom of spine, handstamps to edges, text clean and unmarked, pages age-toned, good+. Contains 4 papers by T.H. Morgan on regeneration, and works by C.M. Child, Edwin G. Conklin, C.B. Davenport, and William Morton Wheeler.
The BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN was established in 1897 as the Zoological Bulletin by Charles Otis Whitman and William Morton Wheeler. In 1899 the title was changed to The Biological Bulletin, and… Read More

Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, 1964 - 1967. First edition. 1960S SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF BIOLOGY OF THE ANTARCTIC SEAS, PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION IN THE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH SERIES. Three volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Vol. I, ix, 109 [76] pp; Vol. II, xi, 278 pp; Vol. III, vii, 261 pp; many figures, tables [some folding], maps and plates (some color); light wear to covers, corners bumped, institutional handstamp to bottom edge, bindings tight, pocket and sign-out sheet front endpapers, no other library marks, texts clean and bright, very good. The Antarctic Research Series serves working scientists, students, and nonscientists interested in biological or physical research endeavors in Antarctica and, on occasion, the general public interested in the Antarctic environment. The primary purpose is to provide an effective and authoritative outlet for research conducted in Antarctica. Most Antarctic research results are, and will… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1973. First edition.
1973 LANDMARK COMPENDIUM OF THE PHYSIOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS OF FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES IN PEDIATRICS BY 25 LUMINARIES.
9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, i-xx, 715 pp, numerous illustrations. Corners bumped, otherwise near-fine in very good+jacket. In addition to Robert W. Winters, authors include Donald D. Van Slyke, John H. Laragh, John M. Driscoll, John C. Sinclair, Laurence Finberg, Chester M. Edelmann Jr, Donald E. Potter, Malcolm A. Holliday, In the Preface, Winters emphasizes that, "an understanding of the fundamental unity of the basic principles of chemistry and physiology, on the one hand, and their relationship to bedside care of sick patients, on the other hand, is obviously the only rational approach to diagnosis and treatment.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. First printing. 2009 SIGNED COPY OF R. CRUMB'S MASTERPIECE, THE BOOK OF GENESIS, WITH SIGNED SERIGRAPH PRINT IN SLIPCASE, COPY 155 OF 250 LIMITED EDITION--NOW TRANSLATED INTO 10 LANGUAGES. 8 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches hardcover, black cloth binding with gilt title, in 9 x 11 1/2 inch black cloth slipcase with color image of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, unpaginated, illustrations, signed book together with signed 8 x 10 inch 9 color serigraph print (by Alex Wood of Wildwood Serigraphs)--unopened in original clear plastic shrink wrap, #155 from edition limited to 250. First published October 2009, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, decided to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James Bible. The culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, Crumb's Book of Genesis is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates his medium of the graphic novel.… Read More

London: John Badcock, 1803-1804. First edition.
FINE SET OF ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES FOR CHILDREN EXTOLLING NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM--AN ATTEMPT TO COMPETE WITH BUFFON'S SUCCESS IN FRANCE.
Four hardcover volumes, 14.5 cm tall, 24 mo, full leather binding, gilt decorative spines, marbled endpapers, each with added engraved title page with vignette. Vol. I, frontis of lion with tissue guard, 2 title pages, i-viii, 244 pp, 41 hand-colored copper plates; Vol. II, frontis of monkey with tissue guard, 2 title pages, [i-iv], 248 pp, 41 color plates; Vol. III, frontis of stickleback with tissue guard, 2 title pages, i-viii, 216 pp, 36 color plates; Vol. IV, frontis of peacock with tissue guard, 2 title pages, i-v, 260 pp, index 12 pp, publishers advertisements 2pp, 24 color plates. Total 142 color plates collates complete (see Smithsonial copy). Spine ends frayed, some leather labels missing from spines, bindings tight, hinges intact, pages unmarked, plates bright, very good in custom… Read More

London: Ray Society, 1851. First edition. THE MICROSCOPY OF SPORES IN CLASSIFICATION OF LICHENS WITH 30 SPECTACULAR COLOR PLATES--BY CLERGYMAN/BOTANIST SCHOOLMATE OF DARWIN WHO SUBSCRIBED TO THE BOOK. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped design to covers, gilt initials of Ray Society to cover, gilt title to spine, [vi], 101 pp, 30 handcolored lithographic plates, 18 pp List of Subscribers (including "Darwin, C. esq. F.R.S., Down, Kent"), 3 pp Report of the Council of the Ray Society, Professor Henslow in the Chair. Spine faded, binding tight, armorial bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman to front paste-down, scattered light foxing to text pages, plates bright and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Every botanist is fully aware how valuable and avail. able a character is afforded by the form and external markings of the seeds m very many species of Phsenogamous plants; the correct determination of the species frequently depending… Read More

Brno, Czechoslovakia: Universita J. E. Purkyne, 1984. First edition. 1984 SIGNED SCARCE HISTORIC ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LONG-TERM BOVINE SURVIVAL EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART AT PURKYNE UNIVERSITY, BRNO, 1979 - 1983. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, embossed title to cover and spine, pictorial endpapers. LAID IN 3 1/2 X 5 1/2 inch printed gold insert with printed text, "With compliments/ J.Vasku" with author's ink signature. 622 pp, 24 full-page color photographic plates with descriptive text of surgical placement of artificial heart in anesthetized calf. 491 black & white figures throughout text (many full-page), 301 references, 4- page summary of report in English, Czech, and Russian; 4- page summary of "recent results in 1983-1984. Unmarked covers, texts and plates, near fine in very good jacket with light edgewear, small chips top back jacket cover, in protective mylar cover. JAROMIR VASKU (born 1926) graduated in 1950 from Purkinje University (now Masaryk… Read More