Search Results: Titles starting with D from Biomed Rare Books

London: Macmillan Magazines, Ltd., 1997. First printing.
ARCHIVE OF 4 ISSUES OF NATURE (1997, 1998, 2007, AND 2016) DOCUMENTING THE FIRST 2 DECADES OF MAMMALIAN CLONING.
Included are the following issues of Nature, International weekly of science: 27 February 1997, 23 July 1998, 7 June 2007, and 30 June 2016, that chronicle Dolly, her history and her legacy. LEAD ARTICLE: Ian Wilmut, et al. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells. Nature 27 February 1997, 385, pp 810-813; EDITORIAL: Colin Stewart. An udder way of making lambs. Nature 27 February 1997, 385, pp769-771; MORE STUDIES OF DOLLY: Esther N Signer et al. DNA fingerprinting Dolly. Nature 23 July 1998, 394, pp 329-330; David Ashworth et al. DNA microsatellite analysis of Dolly. Nature 23 July 1998, 394, p 329; 20 YEARS LATER: Ewen Callaway. The story of the world's most famous sheep, from the people who brought her to life. Nature 30 June 2016, 534, pp 604-608; AFTER DOLLY: CUMULINA AND HER CLONES: T. Wakayama et al.… Read More

London: John Murray, 1823. First edition.
ILLUSTRATED WITH 27 PLATES, THE DISCOVERY OF PREHISTORIC ANIMAL FOSSILS IN EUROPE INCLUDES A 26,000 YEAR-OLD HUMAN SKELETON.
11 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding, rebacked, retaining original tooled spine with gilt black label, new marbled paper covering boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, contemporary signature, Rev. W. T. Collins to front free endpaper, i-vii, errata, folding table, 303 pp, 27 lithographed plates, 3 hand colored, 1 folding. Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise very good in custom archival mylar cover. Described by SJ Gould in "The Freezing of Noah" in The Flamingo's Smile, 1985, pp 114-125.
WILLIAM BUCKLAND (1784–1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist. Buckland wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus. His work proved that Kirkdale Cave in North Yorkshire had been a prehistoric hyena den, for which he was awarded the… Read More

Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1928. First edition.
1928 SIGNED COPY OF LANDMARK REVIEW OF DOWN SYNDROME BY AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST IN FRENCH ARMY IN WW I.
15x23 cm hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, ink inscription top of front free endpaper, "To Dr. Hill Hastings/ With the compliments of the author,/ Kate Brousseau." i-viii, 210 pp, photographic plates, graphs, tables, case reports, extensive bibliography and index. Near-fine in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 4958.
KATE BROUSSEAU (1862 – 1938) was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and studied at the University of Minnesota, University of California, and University of Chicago Law School. Daughter of the son of French Canadian parents, she was bilingual, and received a PhD with high honors from the Sorbonne in 1904. Brousseau served in the French Army in World War I from 1917 to 1919, as "directrice des Foyers du Soldat" (director of a soldiers' home), stationed on Lorraine Front; she was with the… Read More

Rome: Joannis Zempel, 1759. Revised edition.
1759 COMBINED WORKS OF RENAISSANCE PALEONTOLOGISTS SCILLA AND COLONNA ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 MAGNIFICANT PLATES.
19.5x26 cm hardcover, contemporary 3/4 leather with marbled boards, new leather spine with raised bands and gilt red leather title label; frontispiece showing allegorical struggle between truth and speculation with truth depicted by Mercury bearing an eye of reason on the chest, holding a fossil echinoid and pointing to many more specimens, title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette; 82 text pages, Index, 32 full-page copper plate engravings as follows: Frontis entitled "Vanae Speculationis Sensus Moderator"; I - X; XI, n.I, XI, n.II; XII; XIII; XIIII; XV; XVI; XVII; XVIII; XIX; XX; XXI; XXII; XXV; XXVI; XXVII; XXVIII; XXIII; XXIII, n.II; XXIIII; "Pag. LXXV." Covers worn, scattered light foxing mainly to margins, very good minus.
AGOSTINO SCILLA (1629 – 1700) was an Italian Baroque painter, paleontologist, geologist, numismatist,… Read More

London: Wilson and Spence and R. Christopher & T. Jennett, 1803. 1803 EARLY ENGLISH CHILDREN'S NATURAL HISTORY WITH 95 COPPER PLATES CONTAINING 300 ANIMALS PICTURED AFTER ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding with gilt rules and marble paper covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt red leather label, new endpapers, 210 pp, 300 animals illustrated on 95 copper plates, including folding plate of whaling in Greenland (reinforced with paper backing). Browning to title page and page edges, overall good+ in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS BOREMAN (1730–1743) was one of the earliest English children's book publishers particularly dealing with animals. His bookshops were located around London. Boreman published along with Richard Ware and Thomas Game from the 1730s. His Three Hundred Animals was the first, published ca 1730 and written for children. He published approximately a dozen titles. Many of his books were based on… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Co., 1897. First edition, first printing. 1897
FIRST EDITION OF NOBEL LAUREATE T.H. MORGAN'S FIRST BOOK--THE FIRST WORK IN ENGLISH ON EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY.
9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, xi, 192 pp; 51 figs, bibliography. Corners bumped, light foxing to endpapers, light edge browning to pages, text unmarked, very good+ in custom archival mylar cover. TOGETHER WITH W.F.R. Weldon, J.W. Jenkinson and S.J. Hickson. The influence of salt and other solutions on the development of the frog, extract from Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 75th meeting, South Africa, pp 175-182, 1905. GARRISON-MORTON No. 514: "First work in English on experimental embryology."
THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1866 - 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays… Read More

Utrecht: B. Wild & J. Altheer, 1791. First French edition.
1791 LANDMARK THEORY OF CRANIOMETRY BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN, LINKING SPECIES AND RACES, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE FOLDING ENGRAVINGS.
23x27 cm; quarto, original limp paper-covered boards, ink hand-lettered title to spine, 1x1.5 cm paper label bottom of spine. Decorative bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier to front free endpaper, untrimmed edges. viii, 114, [2] pp., 9 folding copper plates, 1 folding diagram. Wear to cover edges, 1.5 cm inkblot to bottom of front cover, faint perforated library stamp to title page, small number hand stamp bottom of following page, otherwise unmarked pages with bright clean plates. Very good minus, now in 19th century blue rubbed quarter cloth slipcase with gilt title to spine and cloth-covered folder, in custom archival mylar cover.
GARRISON-MORTON No. 158 for the German edition of 1792 (first published in Dutch in 1791).
PETRUS CAMPER (1722 - 1789), was a Dutch… Read More

London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1911. First printing. 1911 FINE FIRST EDITION OF 3 OF GB SHAW'S EDGY EARLY 20TH CENTURY PLAYS EDITED BY HIM, INCLUDING THE DOCTOR'S DILELMMA, A BITING SATIRE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 7 inches tall hardcover, pale green cloth binding, spine gilt, top edge gilt, armorial bookplate of "Everett" to front paste-down, no other ownership marks. xciv, 407 pp, 4 pp list of works by same author. Fine in elaborate blue cloth-covered slipcase with folding protective insert; slipcase with leather spine, raised bands, gilt title, light wear to corners and edges. First printing of a collection of 3 plays by Shaw, each preceded by a preface by the author. The preface to the first play, The Doctor's Dilemma, is 94 pages, while the play is 105 pages long. This preface begins, "It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity." The Doctor's Dilemma was first staged in 1906. It is a problem play about the… Read More

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.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1884. First edition.
1884 SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF A DETAILED REPORT ON THE CHESAPEAKE OYSTER ILLUSTRATED WITH LITHOGRAPHED PLATES AND LARGE FOLDING MAPS.
11 1/2 inches tall folio hardcover, recent tan cloth binding, leather spine with gilt title, new endpapers, 193 pp, 13 plates, 4 large color maps (26 x 32 1/2, 16 3/4 x 34 1/2, 31 x 35, and 31 x 36 1/2 inches). Binding fine, small library handstamp verso title page, faint embossed library seal to edge of each plate. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. Maps have browning of creases, archival tape repair to some creases, good overall. 13 copies in Worldcat. MESSAGE TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FROM D.C. GILMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY: "In accordance with your request, a small edition has been printed, for the use of the University, of a Report of the Oyster Commission of the State of Maryland, which has just been presented to the Legislature of this State. Its author is one of our… Read More

Chicago: American Medical Association, 1924. First edition. 1924 BRIEF REVIEW OF THE TURNING POINT IN DIABETES MANAGEMENT FOLLOWING DISCOVERY OF INSULIN, BY "THE DEAN OF DIABETES," ELLIOTT JOSLIN. 11 inches tall extract from JAMA including 3 papers on diabetes, unmarked and very good. The first by Joslin, who comments on the increasing life span of diabetics, and the increasing incidence of symptoms at later ages: an early recognition of the rise of type 2 diabetes. He comments on the importance of population studies comparing ethnic groups, and warns against assuming racial predispositions. Responding to the first use of insulin in 1922, he concludes that "insulin is better than any of us thought a year ago." He reports on status of his first 127 patients treated with insulin less than 2 years after its discovery. The patients received insulin an average of 18 months, and all for more than one year. 23 patients died, but "not one of the patients who died succumbed during the first year of the… Read More