Search Results: Titles starting with E from Biomed Rare Books

Paris, 1799. 1799 THE DAWN OF MICROSCOPY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent marbled paper covers, gilt leather title to spine, new endpapers, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste-down, [4], 238 pages, [34] leaves of plates: 1 unnumbered plate facing page 41, then numbered I-XXIII, XXIIIb, XXIV-XXXII (including 9 folded and 4 with partial coloring). Minimal foxing to half title page, the remainder of text and all plates crisp, bright, unmarked. Near fine. Wilhelm Friedrich von GLEICHEN-RUSSWURM (1717-1783), was a German biologist. "In 1778 Gleichen-Russworm made his most important contribution to science. In. Abhandlung iiber die Saamen- und Infusionsthierchen he described the technique of phagocytic staining, which he had developed from earlier reports of the use of dyes as coloring agents for plant and animal tissues. In order to study the nutrition of a colony of ciliates, he added water colored with carmine and… Read More

Edinburgh: Heirs of Charles Elliot, C. Elliot, T. Kay, T. Cadell, GGJ and J Robinsons, London, 1790. First edition.
REMARKABLE REVIEW OF LIFE ON EARTH FRAMES QUESTIONS ASKED BY DARWIN--BY EDITOR OF FIRST EDITION OF ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.
First edition, 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, spine with raised bands and red leather gilt title label, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste down, hinges reinforced with kozo paper, [i-xiii], [1], 547 pp including 3-page table of "'the relative fecundaty of animals". Leather covers rubbed and worn, cover edges and spine ends expertly repaired, browning to edges of paste-downs and endpapers, lacking front endpaper, binding tight, text bright and unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
WILLIAM SMELLIE (1740-1795) was a Scottish master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist. He was friends with Robert Burns, whose assessment is engraved on Smellie's tombstone: "Here lies a man who did honour to… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1968. First edition. ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ADAPTATIONS OF BIRDS FOR BREEDING BY EXPERT ON DARWIN'S FINCHES. 10 inches tall mauve cloth binding, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with edge tears. From dust jacket: "The primary aim of this book is an interpretation of the main adaptations of birds for breeding-whether a species lests solitarily or in colonies, whether it is monogamous or has several mates, the lumber of eggs that it lays, the relative size of its eggs, the rate of development of its eggs and young, and the age at which it first breeds. This book is the first comprehensive survey of these points that has been made, so readers can see what is known, and what emains to be discovered, and hence may be stimulated to add to knowledge. However it is much more than a summary of the facts, for these various adaptations have been interpreted in terms of natural selection, and the author has suggested how each of… Read More

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1795. 1st American. 1795 AN EARLY MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY PROMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIAN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, two volumes in one, full leather binding, spine with gilt red leather label, ink signature of William H. Selby in contemporary script and his hand stamp on front endpapers, Vol. I, xvi, 229 pp; Vol. II, 247 pp. Covers and spine rubbed, back cover bowed, corners worn, hinges cracked but secure, browning to pages, good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH (1752 - 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to the classification of what he called human races, of which he determined there to be five. Although the greatest part of Blumenbach's life was passed at Göttingen, in 1789 he visited Switzerland, and gave a… Read More

Brussels: H. Dumont, 1834. Belgian reprint (1st Paris Bailliere 1833).
1834 SUPERB FOLIO ATLAS OF HUMAN FETAL DEVELOPMENT BY LEADING PARIS SURGEON-ANATOMIST.
26x36 cm folio hardcover, original boards recovered with marbled paper, new leather spine with gilt title, and new marbled endpapers. xx, 65 pp, [1] (table of contents), 15 fine lithographic plates depicting human fetuses from the first 2 weeks through the first 4 months, including twins. In addition to Velpeau's specimens, others were obtained from other noted embryologists, anatomists, and obstetricians and their publications.
ALFRED-ARMAND-LOUIS-MARIE VELPEAU (1795 – 1867) was a French anatomist and surgeon who worked as a hospital surgeon in Paris. Following the death of Alexis de Boyer in 1833, he was appointed chair of clinical surgery, a position he maintained until his death in 1867. Velpeau was a skilled surgeon and renowned for his knowledge of surgical anatomy. He was the author of over 340 titles on surgery, embryology, anatomy,… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1934. First edition, first printing.
1934 NOBELIST TH MORGAN'S VISION OF EMBRYOLOGY AND GENETICS BEFORE DISCOVERY OF DNA 19 YEARS LATER.
8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of NSR Maluf to front paste-down, i-vii, 258 pp, 129 figures, wrinkling to half-title and title pages, signature of NSR Maluf to front jacket flap, very good in very good jacket protected by mylar cover. Cited in Rainger American Development of Biology (1988): "For American geneticists, Morgan had used the nuclear envelope as a conceptual and disciplinary barrier. Geneticists study the transmission of genetic traits within the nucleus, embryologists study the expression of those traits in the cytoplasm. This division was to allow each discipline to proceed separately. Thomas Hunt Morgan was an embryologist who inadvertentlv founded the gene theory in 1911. While the Mendelian geneticists had been analyzing the segregation of characters… Read More

Paris: Briasson, 1762. First edition. 1762 LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVING FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - INTERIOR OF THE BRAIN AND CEREBELLUM.Original copper plate engraving on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engraving (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: "Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of the human body, should appear with distinction in a Dictionary of the Sciences. It is primarily through the plates that it may be understood. Mr. Tarin, in charge of Anatomy, dedicated himself to finding those authors regarded as the best. His collection representing all of the parts of the human body, it would appear that he could not have done better to satisfy the Public than probing his sources with discernment, and extracting only… Read More

Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1898. First edition. REPORT OF EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS IN BOSTON, 1897 BY LEADING PATHOLOGISTS COUNCILMAN, MALLORY AND WRIGHT, WITH FOLDING MAP & COLOR PLATES--SIGNED BY COUNCILMAN AND MALLORY. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed front flyleaf, "Compliments of W.S. Councilman, F. B. Mallory", color folding map frontis, "Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Boston, 1897," x, 178 pp, 8 heliotype color plates. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. LAID IN: Papers on immunization for meningococcal disease extracted from New England Journal of Medicine, 2020. WILLIAM THOMAS COUNCILMAN (1854-1933) was an American pathologist, serving as the first pathologist-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Dr. Councilman had arrived in Harvard Medical School earlier in 1892 and was an expert in the study of amebiasis, diphtheria, smallpox, and yellow fever. His vivid morphologic description of changes seen in the liver of… Read More

New York: J. Seymour, 1816. First edition. 1816 DISSERTATION FOR THE M.D. DEGREE AT C. P. & S., NEW YORK, DEDICATED TO PROFESSORS WHO WERE LUMINARIES OF EARLY AMERICAN MEDICINE AND INSCRIBED TO HIS COUSIN. 8 inches tall slim volume, marbled paper covers, spine perished, front cover separated from text, string binding secure, text block unmarked and very good. Ink inscription verso dedication page, "Sent by the author as an affectionate remembrance to his cousin Mrs. Lyman." The essay is "An inaugural dissertation on Neuralgia, submitted to the publick examination of the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of the Univeristy of the State of New York, Samuel Bard, M. D. President, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on Monday the sixth day of May, 1816." and is dedicated to "Wright Post, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Valentine Mott, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Operations of Surgery; David Hosack, M.D.F.L.S.,… Read More

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of Calofornia Press, 1943. First edition.IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF 3 EMINENT BIBLIOPHILES OF SCIENCE IN THE BERKELEY CIRCLE: FESTSCHRIFT FOR HERBERT EVANS, COPY OF CHARLES SINGER AND MELVIN EDWARD JAHN. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of Dr. Charles Singer and Melvin Edward Jahn to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Herbert M. Evans, xxvii, 684 pp, many illustrations, plate with facing descriptive text; corners bumped, edges soiled, binding tight, very good in very good dust jacket. HERBERT McLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist. In 1908, he obtained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, eventually becoming its associate professor of anatomy. Evans moved back to California in 1915 and was made professor of anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and held that position until his death. His medical research at Berkeley addressed problems relating to human… Read More

Boston: W.M. Crosby and J.P. Nichols, 1849. First edition. END OF LIFE CONSIDERATIONS BY ENGLISH UNITARIAN PREACHER WHO MOVED TO BOSTON IN 1850, A YEAR AFTER PUBLISHING THIS BOOK IN 1849. 7 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, gilt ruled borders to covers, spine with raised bands, gilt leather title label, aeg, inscription to front flyleaf, "Mrs. Washburn, with the respects of N. J. Allen and E. A. H. Allen, Bridgewater, Aug. 15th, 1849." xii, 466 pp. Front joint starting, faint water stain bottom corner of front endpapers and text pages, scattered light foxing, overall very good minus. WILLIAM MOUNTFORD (1816 – 1885) was an English Unitarian preacher and author. Mountford entered Manchester College in York in 1813, then aged about seventeen. Within a month after leaving college (8 July 1838), he commenced his ministry at the Strangeways Chapel, Manchester (opened 17 June). After a short ministry at Hinckley, he moved to Lynn, Norfolk. He speaks of having traveled abroad; and perhaps at… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1927. First edition, first printing.
NOBEL LAUREATE TH MORGAN'S REVIEW OF 30 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY SINCE HIS MONOGRAPH ON THE FROG'S EGG IN 1897.
15x23.5 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, blinstamped with colophon of Columbia University press, spine gilt, sigature of Edith E. Rae, 1929 top of front free endpaper, color frontis showing development of the centirfuged eggs of Arbacia, i-xi, 766 pp, 263 figures, 100 page bibliography. Edges rubbed, scattered marginal pencil notatons, very good in custom archival mylar cover. From the Preface: "Between the years 1897, when I brought together the someswhat meagre results of experimental embryology in my book on The Development of the Frog's Egg: An Introduction to Experimental Embryology," and the present time, 1927, a very extenive literature has grown up covering a wide field of experimental research in embryology. Those who have followed this growth realize that many changes in outlook have taken place.… Read More

Boston: Oliver Everett and Joseph W. Ingraham, 1821. First edition. 1821 ORIGINAL REPORTS BY A YOUNG BOSTON PHYSICIAN USING SELF-EXPERIMENTATION TO STUDY URINARY EXCRETION OF ORAL AND INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS. 5 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches paperbound book, untrimmed in green printed covers, 135 pp, covers browned and foxed, front cover detached, spine partly perished, pages unmarked. TOGETHER WITH anonymous review of the dissertations in North American Review, January 1922. The medical dissertations by the Boston physician who published these remarkable papers were awarded the Harvard University Boylston Prize for 1819 and 1821. Both papers describe self-experimentation, the second describing intravenous infusions in rabbits as well as a harrowing account of the author's intravenous injection of castor oil in himself. ENOCH HALE, JR. (1790-1848) was born on January 19, 1790, in Westhampton, Massachusetts. The family was descended from Robert Hale of Kent, England, who settled in Charlestown,… Read More

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1857. American of revised London edition. AMERICAN EDITION OF EARLY IRISH TREATISE ON OBSTETRICS WITH COLOR PLATES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxiii, 568 pages, original brown cloth binding, blindstamped design to covers and spine, gilt title to spine, 2 color lithographic plates, each containing 10 figures, 48 wood engravings in text. Spine ends chipped, upper spine edges cracked and chipped, browning to preliminary and last pages, light foxing to plates, overall good +. In custom archival mylar cover. AMERICAN PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "In reproducing the present enlarged and improved edition of Montgomery's classical work, the object of the publishers has been to place within reach of the American profession a book which has been everywhere so justly received in the most flattering manner. While aiming at an exact transcript of the work, one deviation has been found necessary, in the omission of the plates representing the appearance of the mammary areola during… Read More

Anatomical Record, National Academy of Sciences, 1926 - 1949. First editions. 1926-1949 SEVEN OFFPRINTS ON CELL DIVISION AND CELL SHAPE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD EMBRYOLOGIST AND MORPHOLOGIST FREDERIC T. LEWIS, ONE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 1)The effect of cell division on the shape and size of hexagonal cells. Anat. Rec., 33: 331-355 (196); 2) The correlation between cell division and the shapes and sizes of prismatic cells in the epidermis of Cucumis. Anat. Rec, 38: 341-376 (1928); 3) A volumetric study of growth and cell division in two types of epitheium——the longitudinally prismatic epidermal cells of Tradescantia and the radially prismatic epidermal cells of Cucumis. Anat. Rec, 47: 59-99 (1930); 4) A comparison between the mosaic of polygons in a film of artificial emulsion and the pattern of simple epithelium in surface view (cucumber epidermis and human amnion). Anat. Rec., 50: 235-265 (1931); 5) Mathematically precise features of epithelial mosaics: observations on… Read More

1898. 1898 PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, OFFPRINT OF IDA H. HYDE, FIRST FEMALE RESEARCHER AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL--SIGNED BY HER. 9 1/2 inches tall offprint, string binding in printed paper wraps, age-toned, inscribed and signed on cover, "Mr. Robert W. Hall with the compliments of Ida H. Hyde". Figures of apparatus and recordings of tracings in black and white. Covers lightly soiled with closed tear to corner, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. IDA HENRIETTA HYDE (1857 - 1945) was an American physiologist known for developing a microelectrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell. In 1871, the family home was destroyed in the Great Fire of Chicago, which destroyed the family business as well. Without any form of income, the children were forced into labor. Ida entered the work force at age 14 as a milliner's apprentice. Because of her age, older than that of her… Read More