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Margin: 182x105 mm. Margins trimmed, subject is identified in pencil below the image, trace remnantsof former mounting on reverse of print.

Comune di Padova.

1946. Lederberg, Joshua (1925- ) and Tatum, Edward Lawrie (1909-75). Gene recombination in Escherichia coli. In Nature 158 (Oct. 19, 1946): 558. Whole volume, 8vo. lii, 956pp. Library buckram, a bit shaken. Very good copy. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 255.4. Lederberg and Tatum's announcement of their discovery of sexual processes in the reproduction of bacteria. This crucial discovery, together with the methodology developed by Tatum and Lederberg, provided the foundation for all subsequent research in genetic recombination. Lederberg and Tatum shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with George Beadle for their essential contributions to bacterial genetics. .

1961. Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916-2004) et al. General nature of the genetic code for proteins. In Nature 192 (1961): 1227-1232. 266 x 188 mm. Original printed wrappers, minor soiling and wear. Very good. The Haskell F. Norman copy. First Edition, journal issue. Crick and his team helped to crack the genetic code, amassing evidence suggesting that "the amino-acid sequence along the polypeptide chain of a protein is determined by the sequence of the bases along some particular part of the nucleic acid of the genetic material" (p. 1227), and that each acid was most likely coded by a group of three bases. Garrison-Morton.com 752.7. Norman 534 (this copy). .

Cambridge: University Press, 1989. ix, 274, [14]pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Fine.

1894. Offprint from Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports 4 (1894-95). 72pp. Lacks wrappers; spine oversewn. Good.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Arion Press. Genesis. Translated from the Hebrew by Robert Alter. Largo folio, printed in two colors on handmade paper. No. 21 of 200 copies, signed by the translator at the foot of the colophon. Original two-color frontispiece etching by Michael Mazur, signed by the artist. 412 x 293 mm. Original purple handmade paper wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase. Prospectus included. Mint copy. "Designed as a large folio, the Arion edition is a typographic monument that balances the Hebrew and English texts on facing pages . . . Robert Alter's translation of Genesis is an experiment in re-presenting the Bible--and, above all, biblical narrative prose--in a language that conveys with some precision the semantic nuances and the lively orchestration of literary effects of the Hebrew and at the same time has stylistic and rhythmic integrity as literary English" (Prospectus). .

1949. Luria, Salvador Edward (1912-91) & Dulbecco, Renato (1914- ). Genetic recombinations leading to production of active bacteriophage from ultraviolet inactivated bacteriophage particles. Offprint from Genetics 34 (March 1949). 8vo. 93-125pp. Diagrams. 250 x 172 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Light marginal soiling on first leaf, but very good. Ownership stamp & docketing. First Separate Edition. Garrison-Morton 2526.1. In the late 1940s Luria discovered "the production of active phage particles when many inactivated phages were allowed to infect bacteria. He called this multiplicity reactivation and he explained it in terms of the existence of a 'gene pool' formed by the independent replication of discrete genetic units, from which active phage particles were assembled. The infecting phage was assumed to break up into such units once it entered the host cell. The inactivity of ultraviolet irradiated phage was attributed to the damage to one or several of these units. Damaged units of one type,… Read More

Balitmore: Williams & Wilkins, 1937. 4to.649pp. cloth. good condition.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977. 280 x 215 mm. iii, 74pp. Original printed wrappers. Very good. .

London: Sothebys, 1989.

Margin: 108x71 mm. Faint soiling on left side, otherwise in very good condition.

Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1904. xii, 776pp. Text illustrations. 235 x 160 mm. Half morocco, cloth boards, light wear and rubbing, minor toning. Very good. "Reprints Ehrlich's writings on immunology to date, as well as three papers by Kyes" (Garrison-Morton.com).

1926. Hahn, Otto (1879-1968). Gesetzmäßigkeiten bei der Fällung und Adsorption kleiner Substanzmengen und ihre Beziehung zur radioaktiven Fällungsregel. Offprint from Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft 59 (1926). 2014-2025pp. 234 x 157 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly sunned. Very good. From the library of Walther Gerlach (1889-1979), with his pencil signature on the front wrapper. First Edition, Offprint Issue. On regularities in the precipitation and adsorption of small amounts of substance and their relation to the radioactive precipitation rule. This copy is from the library of Walther Gerlach, co-discoverer of spin quantization in a magnetic field (the "Stern-Gerlach" effect). .

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1949. Berkeley, Edmund Callis (1909-88). Giant brains or machines that think. xvi, 270pp. Text illustrations. New York: John Wiley & Sons; London: Chapman & Hall, ©1949. 212 x 140 mm. Original gray cloth, yellow pictorial dust-jacket (a bit soiled, small chips in spine). Very good. The Author's Copy, with his signature and note "Copy II" on the front free endpaper, date-stamped "Nov 22 1949." Author's notes of errata and broken fonts on the rear free endpaper in red pencil; corrections of these errors in his hand on the relevant pages. First Edition of the first popular work on electronic digital computers. When Giant Brains was published, electronic computers were virtually unknown to the general public. The few that existed were unique machines that belonged to the government; UNIVAC, the first commercial mainframe, was still in early stages of development. Apart from occasional newspaper and magazine articles, there was virtually no information on electronic… Read More

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1964. Moore, Francis D. (1913-2001). Give and take: The development of tissue transplantation. xi, 182pp. Text illustrations. Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders, 1964. 236 x 156 mm. Original cloth, slightly spotted. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed to surgeon Gunther P. Nagel (1928-2009): "For Gunther Nagel Greetings to Santa Barbara from O.C. [i.e., Oklahoma City] Francis D. Moore 3.27.65." Autograph letter signed to Nagel from his brother Carl dated Mar. 29, 1965, referencing this inscribed copy, laid in, together with mimeographed 1-sheet agenda of Moore's visit to the Oklahoma State Medical Center in March 1965. First Edition. Moore, one of the twentieth century's most brilliant surgeon-scientists, helped develop techniques leading to the first successful organ transplants in the early 1960s. His book is "a progress report on one small but rapidly evolving aspect of the new biology: the transplantation of healthy organs into sick people who need them in… Read More

Halle: Salle, 1940.

Plate: 257x160 mm. Margin: 289x187 mm. Very faint foxing.

San Francisco: Book Club of Calif, 1981.

Venice: Remondini, 1753. Second edition in Italian of Martin's "The Philosophical Grammar" (1735). [8], 326pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 22 plates, 2 folding tables. Vellum c. 1753, hand-lettered spine. Edges of plates a little frayed, but very good. Bookplates of the Libreria Forni, Bologna, and the Burndy Library (with withdrawal stamp). Martin, an instrument-maker and dealer, was one of the great popularizers of science in the mid-eighteenth century.