Search Results: Titles starting with R from Biomed Rare Books

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1850. 1850 FIRST EDITION OF PRIZEWINNING RESEARCH: THE DISCOVERY OF EMBRYONIC RESPIRATION, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COLOR ENGRAVINGS. 11 inches tall hardcover, offprint from Mémoires présentées par divers savants à l'Académie des Sciences. recent gray cloth binding and endpapers, 224 pp (pagination 469 to 692), 14 fine color stipple-engraved plates by Martin de St-Ange and 4 monchrome plates by Baudrimont. Covers are very good, with abrasion of the surface fore edge both front and back, paste-down not affected. Binding tight, pages clean and crisp with minimal light marginal foxing to plates, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH.STIPPLE ENGRAVING is described in T.H. Fielding's Art of Engraving (1841). To begin with an etching "ground" is laid on the plate, which is a waxy coating that makes the plate resistant to acid. The outline is drawn out in small dots with an etching needle, and the darker areas of the image shaded with a pattern of close dots. As in mezzotint use was made… Read More

Paris: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1866. First edition.
SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON A NEW SPECIES OF CHIMPANZEE WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY PIONEER IN COMPARATAIVE BRAIN ANATOMY.
23x31 cm folio, red cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate of academic physician to verso front cover, ix, 264 pp., 9 lithographic plates. Scattered light foxing, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
LOUIS-PIEERRE GRATIOLET (1815 – 1865) was a French anatomist and zoologist who succeeded Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) as professor of zoology to the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Paris. Gratiolet is remembered for his work in neuroanatomy, physiognomy, and physical anthropology. He did extensive research in the field of comparative anatomy and performed important studies regarding the differences and similarities between human and various primate brains. He is also credited for introducing the demarcation of the brain's cortical surface into five lobes, (frontal lobe, temporal lobe,… Read More

Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 1876. First edition.
1876 EARLY MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE SKIN OF PRIMITIVE FISH BY A BELGIAN STUDENT REVEALED MANY CELL TYPES.
14x22 cm offprint, ink inscription top of title page, "A Monsieur le Professeur Lieberkuhn. Hommage d'auteur. Al. Foettinger". 83 pp, 3 folding color plates. Binding tight, blue paper wraps (handwritten ink title and handstamp of R. Harry Jr. to detached front cover; back cover lacking), minimal browning and occasional foxing, good+ in mylar sleeve. INSCRIBED by the author (student at the University of Liege) to his professor, this detailed study of the cellular morphology of the skin of cyclostomes was published only 38 years after Schleiden and Schwann formulated the cell theory. A century after publication of the monograph offered here, the intricacies of cyclostome skin structure and function continue to be explored. The fine structure of the mucus cells, granular cells, and club cells described and pictured by Foettinger have provided… Read More

Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1936. A HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF ANAPHYLAXIS BY RICHET WHO WON THE NOBEL PRIZE AND PORTIER, PHYSICIAN AND MARINE BIOLOGIST, PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS OF MONACO, COMEMMORATING THE ROLE OF PRINCE ALBERT IN 1901. 14 inches tall folio volume printed paper covers with original glassine overwraps, faint handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to cover, [4], 24 pp. corners bumped, text unmaked, very good (French language). CHARLES ROBERT RICHET (1850-1935) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis in 1913. In 1887 Richet was named professor of physiology at the Collège de France, and in 1898 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine. It was, however, his work with Paul Portier on anaphylaxis that in 1913 won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. This research helped… Read More

Paris: G. Masson, 1876. First edition.
1865 MONOGRAPH ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FISH SWIM BLADDER BY STUDENT OF CLAUDE BERNARD, INSCRIBED TO EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST.
16x24.5 cm offprint from Annales des Sciences Naturelles in blue paper wraps, inscribed top of cover, "a Monsieur Felix Henneguy, amical et sympathique souvenir de laboratoire, Armand Moreau". Title page, 85 pp, 2 fine engraved plates showing experimental physiologic apparatus. Soiling to covers, browning to page edges, light foxing, very good minus in custom archival card folder.
FRANCOIS-ARMAND MOREAU (1823-1881) was a student of the eminent CLAUDE BERNARD (1813 – 1878), master physiologist and proponent of the concept of the milieu interieur. Moreau is co-author of the definitive edition of L'oeuvre de Claude Bernard, published in 1881. Moreau served as laboratory assistant of ETIENNE-JULES MAREY (1830 – 1904) at the College de France. Marey was a physiologist and chronophotographer, making significant contributions to the development… Read More

London: B. Fellowes, 1830. First edition. FIRST EDITION OF SCATHING DIATRIBE AGAINST THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY ENGLISH ORIGINATOR OF THE CONCEPT OF THE DIGITAL COMPUTER--COPY OF PROMINENT JOURNALIST OF THE PERIOD. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches hardcover, 3/4 brown calf with marbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt, with red leather label gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate to front paste-down, ink signature of George Augustus Sala on paper affixed to front free endpaper, xvi,+ 228,+ (4). Cover edges worn, scattered foxing, binding tight, very good. CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer. In The Exposition of 1851, or Views of the Industry, the Science and the Government of England (1851) he pointed out the shortcomings of the British educational system. His Reflections on the Decline of Science and some of its Causes (offered here) aimed to improve British science, and more… Read More

Stuttgart: Princeton University, 1903. First edition. FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inches tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Narrative of the Expeditions; Geography of Southern Patagonia: The Plains, The Mountains, The Rivers of Patagonia, The Lakes of Southern Patagonia; The Coast of Patagonia; Climate; The Native Indian Tribes, Settlements in Southern Patagonia, Industries and Resources of Southern Patagonia; Summary; Errata; Index. Closed tear edge of last page and bottom corner of back cover; some tissue guards creased, covers clean, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHN BELL HATCHER (1861– 1904) was an American paleontologist and fossil… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1894 - 1906. First edition. 1894-1906 FIVE MONOGRAPHS ON MEDUSAE WITH SUPERB PLATES BY PIONEERING EXPERT IN THE BIOLOGY (AND BEAUTY) OF JELLYFISH. 5 monographs on medusae in printed paper covers: 1) A. Agassiz and A. G. Mayer. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, [ii], (139-) - 175, 13 color lithographed plates, 1 large folding color map, 1902; 2) A. G. Mayer. Memoirs of Natural Sciences Vol. I No. 1. Medusae of the Bahamas, 33 pp, 7 heliotype plates, 1904; 3) A. G. Mayer. Cruise of the Steam Yacht "Wild Duck" in the Bahamas, January to April, 1893, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz. III. An Account of Some Medusae Obtained in the Bahamas. [ii], (235-) - 242, 3 color lithographic plates, 1894; 4) A. G. Mayer. The Variations of a Newly Arisen… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1904. First edition. 2 FOLIO VOLUMES ON THE ANATOMY OF SEA URCHINS WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE PLATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, CURATOR OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I Text, 243 pp, 319 figures; Vol. II Atlas, 111 lithographic and heliotype plates (2 color), 1 color folding map; paper covers soiled, edges chipped, lacking back paper cover and lower corner of front cover and first 2 leaves of Vol. I, text pages and plates intact and clean, no library or ownership marks, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1835 – 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying… Read More

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958. First edition. 1958 FIRST PUBLICATION BY NOTED SOCIOBIOLOGIST DESMOND MORRIS--HIS DOCTORAL THESIS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper-covered boards, black pebbled cloth spine with gilt title, pp vi, 154, 50 illustrations in text, cover edges and corners worn, residual abrasions from removal of library stickers from bottom spine, back, and front paste-down; previous owner signature top of front paste-down, handstamp of Smithsonian Libraries top of table of contents and handstamp "withdrawn Smithsonian Institution Libraries." Binding tight, browning to first and last pages, text unmarked, good +. DESMOND MORRIS (born in 1928) is an English zoologist and ethologist as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. In 1951 he began a doctorate in animal behavior t the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and earned his PhD for his work on the reproductive behavior of the ten-spined stickleback (offered here). In 1956 he moved to London as… Read More