Search Results: Titles starting with G from Biomed Rare Books

New York: Academic Press, 1947-1965. First editions (first and second printings). SEMINAL PAPERS BY LEADING POSTWAR GENETICISTS IN THE YEARS SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF DNA STRUCTURE. 13 volumes 9 1/4 inchs tall, original green cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, library labels removed from spines, bookplate of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on front paste-down of some volumes, library handstamp to top edge of some volumes, handstamp of Library of Congress to front free endpapers (canceled), library pocket and handstamps to rear paste-down, text pages clean and unmarked. Overall good+. PREFACE to Volume 1: As material for their research geneticists use higher and lower plants, higher and lower animals, and recently also viruses and bacteriophages. They study heredity in man. In their experiments they may use biophysical methods, they may investigate the chemical synthesis of organic compounds, they may study the components of living cells. A considerable part of genetic research deals with… Read More

New York: American Geographical Society, 1948. First edition. ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS, THIS REPORT BY AMERICAN EXPLORER LOUISE BOYD REVEALS GEOGRAPHY & BOTANY OF THE ARCTIC BEFORE THE ADVANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 10 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, small institutional handstamp and accession number to front free endpaper, no other markings, xi, 339 pp, 194 figures in text, including photographs and maps depicting topography, geology, and botany of the island, TOGETHER WITH matching slipcase containing 5 folding panoramic photographic plates (8.75x17.5 inches to 8.5x29 inches) and 7 folding color maps (21x20 inches to 33.5x38 inches). Fine--unread. LOUISE ARNER BOYD (1887 – 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions, and became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955. Born to a wealthy family, Boyd began to travel in the early 1920s, and on a trip to Norway in 1924… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1924. First printing. THE BIRTH OF MODERN CELL BIOLOGY: SCARCE FIRST EDITION LANDMARK COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY AMERICA'S LEADING BIOLOGISTS. 10 inches tall thick hardcover, original blue cloth binding, bookplate of Russell B. MacFarlane to front paste-down, [i-vii], 754 pp, many text figures and 9 black & white photographic plates. Wear to covers, corners worn, text unmarked. Good plus. TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Introduction; II. Some General Aspects of the Chemistry of Cells; III. Permeability of the Cell to Diffusing Substances; IV. Reactivity of the Cell; V. The Physical Structure of Protoplasm as Determined by Microdissection and Injection; VI. Mitochondria, Golgi Apparatus, and Chromidial Substance; VII. Behavior of Cells in Tissue Cultures; VIII. Fertilization; IX. Cellular Differentiation: X. The Chromosome Theory of Heredity; XI. Mendelian Heredity in Relation to Cytology. Cited by J Maienschein in Embryos Under the Microscope 2014: "General Cytology… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871. First English translation. 1871 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LECTURES BY FAMED GERMAN SURGEON WHO MODERNIZED SURGICAL TRAINING. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown pebbled cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, leaf of publisher's ads laid in, xviii, 676 pp, 152 wood engravings in text, 2 pp publisher's ads, binder's label lower corner back paste-down. Corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, hinges starting, binding tight, text unmarked, pages age-toned, top corner of pages 266-406 creased, very good minus. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE: "During the past ten years the microscope has greatly advanced onr knowledge of Pathology; and it will perhaps be acknowledged that most progress in the study of Pathological Anatomy has been made in Germany. Prof. Theodor Billroth himself one of the most noted authorities on Surgical Pathology, has in the present volume given us a complete resume of the existing state of knowledge in this branch of medical science. The fact of this… Read More

Mill Valley, CA: University Science Books, 1991. First edition, first printing.
1991 MAGNUM OPUS OF BIOCHEMIST PAUL BERG, "FATHER OF GENETIC ENGINEERING" AND NOBEL LAUREATE--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM.
First edition, first printing. 11 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "For Peter, wIthout whose intelligence, help and friendship this book would not have been published. All the best, Paul." i-xviii, 929 pp, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good jacket with edge tears in protective mylar sleeve.
PAUL BERG (1926-2023) was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids, especially recombinant DNA. Berg was also tenured as a research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was a professor at Washington University School of… Read More

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas , 1960. First edition.
1960 UNIQUE LARGE ATLAS OF THE SKELETAL EMBRYOLOGY OF THE LABORATORY MOUSE PUBLISHED BEFORE THE EXPLOSION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY.
35.5x28.5 cm printed heavy board covers, spiral bound, i-xiii, 169 pp, many photographic illustrations of cleared specimens, developmental charts. Corners bumped, residue from label removed from top of cover, library hand stamp to half-title and title page, discard stamp back endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked, very good minus.
FROM THE PREFACE: "On the 14th day there is one bone, the clavicle, the first center of the ossification process. One day later, the 15th, there are more than 50 [compare pages 19 and 21!]. Only a serial progression of photographs together with the Chronological Table Index as evolved for this Atlas can convey the dramatic swiftness of augmentation and the beautiful exactitude of this structural process. ... A noteworthy addition is the recording and tabulatin of sex variations in the… Read More

Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2003. First edition, first printing.
BIOGRAPHY OF NOBELIST GEORGE BEADLE (OF "ONE GENE ONE ENZYME" FAME) BY NOBELIST PAUL BERG, PIONEER OF RECOMBINANT DNA, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM.
9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed to Dick Archer and signed by both authors on front free endpaper, i-ix, 383 pp, illustrated. Fine in very good jacket. LAID IN: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches folded program for the Beadle Symposium celebrating the centennial of his birth, at the Norman Davidson Lecture Hall, California Institute of Technology. Listed are an introduction by David Baltimore and lectures by Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, Seymour Benzer, and John Doebley, followed by book signing of the volume offered here.
GEORGE BEADLE (1903 – 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating… Read More

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, No date (ca. 1850).
SCARCE LITTLE ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF WONDERS OF NATURE, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY--PRESENTATION "BEHAVIOUR PRIZE" TO MISS MARVER.
6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, purple cloth binding, blindstamped covers with decorative gilt title to cover and spine, all edges gilt. Inscribed verso ffep: "Behaviour Prize present to Miss Marver by the Misses Whytale/ Russell House Mids. 1868." i-vi, 250 pp, publisher's list of books. Frontis wood engraving of Davis Straits, also plate of a rainbow, Niagara Falls, and Menai Bridge, Wales. Spine ends frayed, corners bumped, pages clean and unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: Natural Phenomena: Wonders of the Heavens, Wonders of the Atmosphere, Wonders of the Wind, Wonders of the Earth, Wonders of the Ocean, Wonders of Art and Science.

Berlin: Springer, 2005. First edition, 2nd printing.
THE NOW CLASSIC VOLUME" ESTABLISHING THE ACCELERATION OF THE EFFECTS OF HUMANS ON THE ENVIRONMENT SINCE THE 1950s.
11 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, i-xii, 336 pp, 258 figures, corners bumped, previous owner small address label affixed top of front paste-down, no marks on any page, unread, very good+, INCLUDES UNOPENED CD-ROM AFFIXED TO BACK PASTE-DOWN, CONTAINING ALL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOK IN ELECTRONIC FORM AS JPG AND PNG FILES. The cornerstone of the climate change action was the adoption in Japan in December 1997 of the KYOTO PROTOCOL to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the most influential climate change action so far taken. It aimed to reduce the industrialized countries' overall emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by at least 5 per cent below the 1990 levels in the commitment period of 2008 to 2012. The Protocol, which opened for signature in March 1998, came into… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. First edition, first printing.
TWO RICHLY ILLUSTRATED FOLIO VOLUMES PROVIDE AN EXPANDED VIEW OF THE GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA.
Two folio volumes 11 1/4 inches tall, color printed laminated covers, Vol. 1: i-ix, [2], 214 pp, illustrations; Vol 2: i-xxiii, [2], 384 pp, illustrations. Fine, like new.
PETER M. LETOURNEAU is a research affiliate of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, and a former Visiting Scholar and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University. Dr. LeTourneau has conducted extensive studies on the geology, ecology, and cultural history of the Connecticut Valley. He has conducted substantial field research on the paleoclimates, fossils, and ancient environments of Triassic-Jurassic age rift valleys in New England, the mid-Atlantic area, the Canadian Maritimes, and the western High Atlas region of Morocco, as well as the Cenozoic through modern rifts of the U. S.… Read More