Search Results: Titles starting with M from Biomed Rare Books

London: John Van Voorst, 1847. First edition. 1847 MAGNIFICENT BIOLOGY OF MARINE LIFE OF SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS AFTER PAINTINGS BY NOTED LOCAL ARTISTS. Two 11 inches tall hardcover volumes, recent 3/4 calf, spine with raised bands and gilt leather title labels, green moire cloth covered boards, bookplate of Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow front paste-down, handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to front free endpaper. Vol. I, xii, 270 pp, 53 colored engraved plates; Vol. II, [iv], 322 pp, [2], 56 colored engraved plates with tissue guards. Small abrasions to edges of spine and tips of corners, old faint dampstain to lower corner of pages, touching only 1 image; occasional minor foxing; marginal browning & light chipping to endpapers, titles & last 2 leaves, overall very good in custom archival mylar covers. Cole Pt. 2, p. 74; BMNH p. 417; Nissen ZBI 1031. SIR JOHN GRAHAM DALYELL (1775-1851) was a Scottish antiquary and naturalist. When an infant he fell… Read More

1859. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM UVA PROFESSOR TO HIS NEW YORK PUBLISHER REGARDING HIS BOOK ON THE UNITY OF MANKIND PUBLISHED MONTHS BEFORE DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
James L. Cabell, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the University of Virginia. Autograph letter signed to his New York publishers Robert Carter & Brothers, regarding proof corrections to his Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind. 12.5 x 20 cm lightly age-toned leaf, closed tears to right and bottom edges, very good minus. Inscribed, "University of Va. Feb. 24, 1859/ My dear Sir/ The printed sheets sent by the same mail with this – from p. 153 to p. 248 – contains the passages which are to be transposed. I hope there will be no difficulty in understanding my wishes – I have endeavored to mark them intelligibly – partly on the margin of the printed sheets & partly on the accompanying MSS. copy./ Yours most truly J. L. Cabell/ Rob. Carter & Brothers/ 530 Broadway/ New-York."
JAMES LAWRENCE CABELL (1813–1889),… Read More

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1939. First edition. 1939 HISTORY OF MALARIA IN THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE BY LEGENDARY US ARMY GENERAL SIMMONS AND CHIEF OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE DURING WORLD WAR 2, INSCRIBED TO LEWIS WEED, MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.
First edition, 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt emblem of Johns Hopkins University to cover, gilt title to spine, inscribed front flyleaf to "Dr. Lewis Weed,/ Dear Chief: Here's a sleep-inducing bed-time story about the naughty gal mosquitoes of the Spanish Main, which you may care to slip in your Ditty Box, when the good ship N.R.C. embarks for those romantic waters. Steve Simmons, Washington 1940". Below the ink inscription is a pencil drawing of a ship approaching the shore lined with palm trees. xv, 326 pp, 31 figures, including folding map. Corners bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
JAMES STEVENS SIMMONS (1890 - 1954) had two great careers. The first of these was in the Medical Corps of the… Read More

ca 1756. UNIQUE 18TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME WITH OVER 500 PAGES OF HAND SCRIPT CONTAINING COPIES OF CONTEMPORARY PUBLISHED MEDICAL PAPERS IN FRENCH AND LATIN. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, contemporary full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments, faded gilt red leather labels, edges stained red. Light wear to edges of covers and spine, small wormholes margins of covers and top of pages, not affecting text. Pages are consecutively numbered in ink from 1 to 524. Each page is filled with about 25 lines of neat ink script, most in French, some in Latin. The contents represent hand copies of 18th century European medical papers, apparently entered by different scribes. The first paper is recorded as, " Recherches sur la force de l'imagination de femmes enceinte sur le fœtus a l'occasion d'un chien extraordinaire " par M. Eller, acad. de Berlin tom XII, 1756. [Research on the strength of pregnant women's imagination on the fetus on the exposure to an extraordinary dog]. The title… Read More

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875. First edition.
SCARCE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED FOLIO VOLUME ON SCOTTISH MARINE LIFE BY NOTED PSYCHIATRIST-BIOLOGIST.
27.5x30 cm blue decorated cloth binding, glit title to spine, pp. vi, 186, 9 plates (6 lithographed in colors by Mintem Bros. and 3 uncolored) with facing descriptive text and 23 vignettes. Tips of comers worn; 3 small pieces of cloth missing from spine; ends of spine frayed; title & preliminary pp. foxed; occasional light foxing to remainder of text and plates; good + in custom archival mylar cover. The book is a review of many of the species collected by the author from St. Andrews Bay in Scotland. The plates and vignettes are based on drawings by McIntosh's sister, Roberta McIntosh, whom he described as being "equally persevering in collecting and in portraying." The plates were engraved for publication by G. H. Ford. Several of the vignettes are whimsical humorous depictions of marine animals.
WILLIAM CARMICHAEL MCINTOSH (1838 -1931) was a… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. Second edition, first printing. 1945 LANDMARK SUMMARY OF NOBELIST ALBERT EINSTEIN'S THEORIES THAT ESTABLISHED MODERN PHYSICS--COPY OF NOBELIST CARLETON GAJDUSEK WHO DISCOVERED KURU, THE FIRST PRION DISEASE. 8 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, decorative bookplate of D. Carleton Gajdusek to front paste-down, signature of D. Carleton Gajdusek to front free endpaper, [vi], 135 pp, near fine in very good+ unclipped jacket with faint splash mark to cover, light wear to spine ends and corners, in protective mylar sleeve. This first printing of the second edition contains an appendix added by the author discussing advances in the theory of relativity since the first edition in 1921.ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879 – 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1922. Second (revised) edition.
1922 UPDATE OF THE 1915 "EPOCH-MAKING BOOK" BY NOBEL LAUREATE T.H. MORGAN AND DISCIPLES THAT LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEW GENETICS.
8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis diagram of gene distribution on fruit fly chromosomes, i-xiv, 357 pp, 73 figures. Library numbers bottom of spine, embossed institutional library stamp to title page, library sticker and pocket to back paste-down, binding tight, text bright and unmarked, good+ in custom archival myar cover. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION We have tried to bring the book up to date not only by adding here and there throughout the text the latest results on the subject, but also by adding entirely new chapters, and new maps of the best known mutant factors. Much new material las been added to the chapter on sex; the chapter on selection has been largely rewritten. The new chapters are one on heredity in Protozoa, and one on mutation in the evening… Read More

Washington, DC: Columbia Publishing Co., 1938. First edition. 1938 SCARCE VIRULENT DIATRIBE AGAINST THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, BY THE EDITOR OF "PLAIN TALK," A LIBERTARIAN MAGAZINE. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding with embossed title in blue to cover and spine, copy of Rochester Anti-Vivisection Society, inscribed and hand stamped on front endpapers and embossed seal on title page. 255 pp, 12 plates, very good in good jacket with soiling and chips top of front cover and spine--protected by mylar cover. LAID IN Two clippings from Liberty newspaper referencing Medical Mussolini and the dangers of organized medicine, affixed to verso of last page of text AND a printed testimonial for the book on a perforated sticker affixed to the back endpaper. MORRIS A BEALLE (1891-1972), from a prominent Maryland family, was editor and publisher of Plain Talk, a libertarian magazine. A pamphlet advertising Plain Talk stated that "the subjects which the new magazine will cover will range widely… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition. 1899 ADDRESS TO MEDICAL STUDENTS AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL BY PROMINENT LONDON NEPHROLOGIST--COPY OF LEADING NEW YORK PSYCHIATRIST. 12 1/2 inches tall slim hardcover, brown pebbled cloth covers, gilt emblem of St. George & Dragon and title to cover, 47 pp, corners rubbed, decorative bookplate of Charles W. Pilgrim front paste-down, very good. WILLIAM HOWSHIP DICKINSON (1832 – 1913) was educated at Cambridge and later trained at St George's Hospital. He authored several comprehensive monographs on kidney disease, and wrote one of the first accounts of familial kidney disease in which affected family members had proteinuria but did not have typical features of Alport syndrome. In addition to St. George's Hospital, he worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital where cared for children with neurological conditions, and he also served as curator of the museum at the Royal College of Physicians. He was President of the Pathological Society of London from… Read More

London: Richard Taylor, 1832. First edition.
1832 RICHARD OWEN'S FIRST DETAILED ANATOMIC STUDY BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS OF THE PEARLY NAUTILUS.
11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, mauve cloth binding, gilt black leather title label to spine, bookplates of Drs. Noble S. M. Maluf and Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-down, [2], 68 pp, 15 fine engravings, 7 in duplicate, separated by tissue guards, showing external anatomy in outline and internal antomy in detail. The last engraving combines both in one plate. Spine ends frayed, spine label edge slightly worn, unmarked and otherwise near fine in custom archival mylar cover.
GARRISON-MORTON No. 325.
RICHARD OWEN (1804 – 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed… Read More

[Paris], 1806. First edition. FIRST EDITION--HUMBOLDT'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF "HORSE FISHING" ELECTRIC EELS AT RASTRO DE ABAXO, BOUND WITH ENGRAVING DEMONSTRATING THE ELECTRIC ORGAN. 25x33 cm folio extract in gray paper wraps, ink inscribed title and small handstamp "Library or R. Harry, Jr." to cover. Memoire sur une Nouvelle Espece de Gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine by M. de Humboldt pp. (46-) 48, BOUND WITH Observations sur L'Anguille Electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, pp. (49-) 92 by M. de Humboldt, hand-colored engraved plate. Wrappers soiled; a corner creased; 2 marginal tears to wrappers; a tear to upper blank margin of first page repaired with paper on verso; some wrinkling to lower corners; corners curled, scattered foxing, very good minus. The two papers appeared in "Le Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804," by Alexandre de Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland (Paris, 1806, etc.), consisting of thirty folio and quarto volumes… Read More

Lausanne: Marc-Michel Bosquet, Sigismond d'Arnay, 1756, 1760. First French edition (translated from the Latin by Samuel Auguste Tissot). FOUR-VOLUME PIONEERING TREATISE DISTINGUISHING NEURAL "SENSIBILITY" FROM MUSCULAR "IRRITABILITY" BY SWISS POLYMATH FATHER OF PHYSIOLOGY. Four 12mo hardcover volumes 6 1/2 inches tall, original full leather binding, gilt compartments to spine with gilt red and green leather labels, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers,. 12mo. x, 399; [vi], 500; [ii], 512, [4], 232 pp. Engraved frontis depicting vivisections, titles printed in red and black, small title vignettes, tailpieces, 2 engraved folding plates (Vol. II facing p. 432; Vol. III facing p.322). Wear to cover edges and spines, bindings tight, text and plates crisp and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar covers. French language. ALBRECHT VON HALLER (1708 – 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to… Read More

Paris: Deterville, 1817. First collected edition (most memoires previously published in Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. 1817 LANDMARK TREATISE ON MOLLUSCS BY GEORGES CUVIER, LEADING FRENCH COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST--35 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVED PLATES. 10 inches tall hardcover, recent burgundy cloth binding, gilt title on black leather label to spine, new endpapers, viii, 496 pp, 35 plates. Binding fine, institutional handstamp to half title and title pages, scattered foxing, old water stain to lower corner of some pages, overall good+. Notably, the memoire on the barnacles is inserted between memoires XXI and XXII in the table of contents, but not listed therein. Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan Thompson's account of the developmental history of cirripedes, which pointed out the similarity of barnacle larvae to those of Crustacea, most naturalists had followed Linnaeus and Cuvier in classifying the cirripedes as molluscs. TEXT IN FRENCH. GEORGES CUVIER (1769 - 1832) was a French… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1917. First edition.
LANDMARK EARLY STUDY IN DEFENSE OF THE CHROMOSOME THEORY--SHOWING THAT APPARENT AMITOSIS IS "MERELY MODIFIED MITOSIS"--SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
10 inches tall offprint, gray printed wraps, green cloth tape spine, inscribed top cover, "With the Compliments of E G Conklin", and handstamp below of F. T. Baldwin Jr. pp396-437, including 10 plates with facing descriptive text. Wear to cover edges, light browning to pages that are unmarked. Very good in poly envelope.
EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN (1863-1952) was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University. He was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891–94) and professor of zoology at Northwestern University (1894–96), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and Princeton University (1908-1935). He became coeditor of the Journal of Morphology, The Biological Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Zoology. He was president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912 and… Read More

1918 MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR US AND FRANCE: 2 VOLUMES CHRONICLE THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC.
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Mortality Statistics 1918. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of "surplus Library of Congress duplicate" to front endpaper, no other library marks, pages age-toned, unmarked, overall very good. From the Introduction: "In the 1917 report it was pointed out that, even if no correction in the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter our Army and Navy would normally reduce the general death rate of any area very little, because of the usual low death rates of young adult males. This contention which held true for 1917, has been very much upset for 1918 by the influenza pandemic which caused such very high mortality among young adults. However, no attempt has been made in this report to correct the death rates on account of this withdrawal… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, 1736. First edition. 1736 MUSCOVY DRAKE, ADAPTED TO TROPICAL AND COLD CLIMATES, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his… Read More

Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co., 1926. First edition. 1926 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY INSCRIBED BY JOHN FULTON TO FOUNDER OF THE FALLON CLINIC. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth boards, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, bookplate of NSR Maluf and hand stamp of Fallon Clinic Library on front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf "To John Fallon from the flattered author, J.F. Fulton/Oxford/March, 1929". Corners lightly bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 663, "A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography." JOHN FARQUHAR FULTON (1899 – 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale… Read More

London: BioMed Central Limited, 2001. Revised edition. MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE SYDNEY BRENNER IN HIS OWN WORDS: SIGNED COPY OF HIS TRANSCRIBED AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS TOLD TO COLLEAGUE LEWIS WOLPERT. 8 inches tall slim volume with color printed paper wraps, signed by Sydney Brenner on title page, v, 199 pp, fine in clear protective cover. FROM THE PREFACE: "This book has been produced from the transcript of a fifteen-hour videotaped autobiography, as told to Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology/ University College, London. In editing this transcript, we have strived to capture the highlights of Brenner's long and productive career as one of the pre-eminent biologists of the twentieth century. We have also attempted to capture much of the man - a man endowed with great wit and humour, a strong sense of irreverence, iconoclasm, and a profound appreciation of biology in its many and varied aspects." CONTENTS: Growing… Read More

New York: Summit Books, 1991. First edition, first printing.
GROUNDBREAKING EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO HUMAN SEXUALITY BY CELL BIOLOGIST MOTHER AND HER ECOLOGIST SON.
8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, turquoise paper-covered boards, black cloth spine with gilt title, signed by both authors on title page, 224 pp, very good in very good jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
LYNN MARGULIS (1938-2011) was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Margulis's name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin's is with evolution." In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei – an event Ernst Mayr called "perhaps the most important and dramatic event in the history of life" – by proposing it to have been the result of symbiotic mergers of bacteria. her formative paper, On the Origin of Mitosing Cells, appeared in 1967… Read More