Search Results: Titles starting with S from Biomed Rare Books

London: Current Biology, Ltd., 1997. First edition. 1997 ILLUSTRATED WITH CARTOONS, A SCARCE COMPILATION OF HUMOROUS ESSAYS BY NOBELIST SYDNEY BRENNER PUBLISHED IN THE PREMIER JOURNAL, CURRENT BIOLOGY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, pale yellow cloth binding, gilt title to spine, [iv], 123 pp, illustrated with black & white humorous cartoons. Previous owner name to front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked, very good in very good jacket. FROM THE JACKET: "The Loose Ends columns, which have appeared in Current Biology, the leading journal of modern biological research, since the start of 1994, are Sydney Brenner's reflections on a long and fruitful life in science. Whether writing about sharing an office with Francis Crick or how best to bamboozle administrators, he is always both witty and erudite." SYDNEY BRENNER (1927-2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to… Read More

Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1986. First printing.
MONUMENTAL BIOGRAPHY OF SEWALL WRIGHT--SIGNED BY HIM, WITH NOTICE FROM JAMES CROW OF MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR WRIGHT AND OFFPRINT OF WRIGHT'S LAST PAPER.
17X24 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature of Alan Robertson 1987 top of front free endpaper, frontis photographic portrait of Wright, inscribed and signed on title page, "With best regards, Sewall Wright." i-xvi, 545 pp, references, publications of Sewall Wright, index. Corners bumped, very good in very good minus dust jacket with small edge tears, in protective mylar sleeve. Laid in notice of memorial service for Sewall Wright, March 1988, Madison WI, from James F. Crow on University of Wisconsin letterhead, "Sewall Wright died March 3; he was 98 years old last December 21. ... Only a few hours before his death he was looking to the future, signing his name to a check for next month's rent and wondering whether reprints of his latest article (American Naturalist,… Read More

London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1921. First edition.
PRESENTATION COPY OF GB SHAW'S COLLECTION OF 5 PLAYS REFLECTING ON DARWINIAN EVOLUTION, INSCRIBED TO COMPOSER MARGARET LANG.
12x18 cm 3/4 morocco with gilt rulings and salmon cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments and gilt title, marbled endpapers, handstamp of Baynton Binder, Bath, top of verso of front free endpaper. i-lxxxix, 267 pp. Inscribed and signed on half title by author to Margaret Lang dated 16 June 1921. Near fine in custom archival mylar cover. Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (The Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, and As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920. All were written during 1918 to 1920 and published simultaneously by Constable (London) and… Read More

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1887. First edition. A 19th CENTURY SATIRIC NOVEL PROMOTING MEDICAL REFORM BY COMPARING ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WITH "MODERN" MEDICINE--INSCRIBED BY THE PHYSICIAN AUTHOR TO A CINCINNATI POLITICAL BOSS. 8 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding with gilt title to cover including a smiling sun behind a camel, pyramids, and sphynx of Egypt, gilt title to spine. Inscribed on front flyleaf to George B. Cox, Esq. and signed by author. viii, 194 pp, near fine in custom archival mylar cover. A SUPERB SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS SCARCE TITLE. Dedication to Dr. John S. Billings, Assistant Surgeon-General of the United States Army, by his old-time friend and admirer, The Author. The story traces fictional Dr. Androcydes from ancient Egypt, who raises the spirit of Anthothis--they visit a modern physician and hospital, and compare ancient with modern medicine, concluding that the hospital is run in the interest of the doctor, and not for the benefit of the sick. They then visit a… Read More

New York & London: Scribner's, 1930. First edition.
ANALYSIS OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY BY NOBELIST PRESIDENT OF CALTECH INSCRIBED TO LUMBER BARON.
13X19 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Mr & Mrs R. R. Blacker/ With the compliments and admiration of/ Robert A. Millikan." [i-x], 194 pp. spine faded, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN (1868 –1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. In 1896 he became an assistant at the University of Chicago, where he became a full professor in 1910. In 1909 Millikan began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by a single electron. In 1914 Millikan took up with similar skill the experimental verification of the equation introduced by Albert Einstein in 1905 to describe the photoelectric effect. He used this same… Read More

London: John Calder, 1961. First trade edition, first printing. 1961 PUBLISHED BEFORE HE RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE, BECKETT'S FIRST COLLECTION OF POETRY, SIGNED BY HIM--CLARE BOOTHE LUCE'S COPY, ALSO SIGNED BY HER. 8 1/4 inches tall slim hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, slate blue dust jacket in mylar cover, signed by Clare Boothe Luce on front flyleaf, and signed by author on title page. Spine mildly askew, light browning of front and back free endpapers, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM DUST JACKET FLAP: "Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906, but has lived in Paris since before the war. Although his reputation today is based principally on his post-war novels and plays, he wrote two pre-war novels, a number of short stories and much poetry. The present volume consists of those poems written in the English language which the author is willing to have preserved. It also contains a few poems written in French, translated by Beckett himself, together with the… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition (2nd printing).
SIGNED--CLASSIC COMPENDIUM OF KEYS TO SUCCESS FOR THE EARLY CAREER SCIENTIST BY BRILLIANT NOBELIST, DISCOVERER OF IMMUNE TOLERANCE.
14.5x24 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Polly from Peter Medawar." i-xv, 109 pp, very good in very good dust jacket with edgewear and crease to front flap, in protective mylar sleeve.
SIR PETER MEDAWAR (1915 - 1987) was a British zoologist whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet. FROM JACKET FLAP: "Sir Peter Medawar has entitled his book Advice to a Young Scientist, placing himself, as he observes, in the company of Polonius, Lord Chesterfield and William Cobbett. Taking the part of a benevolent counsellor, he delivers wry observations on how to choose a… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. First printing. 1998
SCARCE SIGNED FIRST PRINTING OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY CONTROVERSIAL NOBEL LAUREATE WHO DEVELOPED PCR.
14x21.5 cm hardcover, black paper-covered boards, black cloth spine with gilt title, i-x, 222 pp, inscribed on title page, "To Bob/ Kary B. Mullis." Fine in fine dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
KARY BANKS MULLIS (1944-2019) earned his PhD in 1973 in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he published a sole-author paper in Nature in the field of astrophysics in 1968, he struggled to pass his oral exams. Following his graduation, Mullis completed postdoctoral fellowships in pediatric cardiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. Despite little experience in molecular biology, Mullis worked as a DNA chemist at Cetus for seven years, ultimately serving as the firm's director of molecular and biological research; it was there, in 1983, that… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1966. First edition (stated). 1966 ILLUSTRATED LAY GUIDE TO GENETICS BY NOBEL LAUREATE GENETICIST GEORGE BEADLE AND HIS WIFE MURIEL BEADLE--SIGNED BY BOTH.9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gray cloth spine, inscribed on half-title page: "Sincerely,/ George Beadle/ Muriel Beadle," x, [4], 242 pp, many illustrations in text, a few marginal pencil notes, very good in very good minus jacket with darkened edges, in Brodart protective cover. LAID IN: Newspaper review of the book by Noman Ross. GEORGE WELLS BEADLE (1903 – 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He also served as the 7th President of the University of Chicago. Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations. In a series of experiments, they showed… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First printing.
1974 NOTED BIOLOGIST'S STUDY OF HUMAN NATURE AND OUR CAPACITY TO SHAPE OUR FUTURE--SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
15.5x24 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt decoration to cover, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "With warmest wishes/ Rene Dubos." i-xiii, 226 pp, light fading top cover edges, top corner pages bumped, light wear to jacket cover, crease front jacket flap, very good in very good jacket.
RENE JULES DUBOS (1901 – 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited for having made famous the environmental maxim: "Think globally, act locally." Aside from a period from 1942 to 1944 when he was George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology and professor of tropical medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, his scientific career was… Read More

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1981. Second printing (1st 1980). FAMOUS LECTURES BY NOBELIST ANDREW HUXLEY WHO WITH ALAN HODGKIN DISCOVERED THE MECHANISM OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION--INSCRIBED TO NOTED SCIENCE HISTORIAN EVELYN FOX KELLER. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "For Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller/ with best wishes/ Andrew Huxley/ August 2001," ix, 111pp, fine in very good original glassine cover. SIR ANDREW FIELDING HUXLEY (1917 – 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After graduating from Westminster School in Central London, from where he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses (called an action potential) earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. They made their discovery from the giant axon of the… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943. First edition. 1943 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON THE STUDY OF CHIMPANZEE BEHAVIOR BY LEADING AMERICAN PRIMATOLOGIST ROBERT YERKES--INSCRIBED TO A NEIGHBOR AND SIGNED BY HIM.9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xv, 321 pp, 63 full-page photoplates, 24 text-figures. There is an ink inscription signed by the author to Anne Vance, dated August 1943, on the front endpaper: "Anne Vance/ Our neighborly neighbor, whom ape fanatics will not bore, neither will they edify. What, then, remains but to entertain. Robert M. Yerkes, August, 1943." ROBERT MEANS YERKES (1876 - 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees. Along with John D. Dodson, Yerkes developed the Yerkes-Dodson law relating arousal… Read More

Basel, Berlin, 1940-1950. First editions.
FOUR OFFPRINTS BY ETHOLOGIST KARL von FRISCH WHO DISCOVERED THE COMMUNICATION BY THE DANCE OF BEES, INCLUDING ONE PAPER SIGNED BY HIM.
1) 20.5x29 cm offprint without covers, 12 pp, 20 figures in text, stapled, inscribed and signed in ink top right of cover by Karl von Frisch, ink singature and catalog number of archivist/collector top right, along with institutional library handstamp. Folded, lightly age-toned, very good. Experientia VI (6): 210-221, 1950. This paper is one of 10 papers listed by author as his "most important" in his Nobel autobiography; 2) 21.5x30 cm offprint without covers, 20 pp, 25 figures in text, signature of archivist/collector and institutional library handstamp to cover. Folded, paper age-toned, very good. Die Naturwissenschaften Heft 1: 1-23 pp & Heft 2:38-43, 1948; 3) 19x26.5 cm offprint without covers, 9 pp, 5 figures, 5 tables in text, instituional library stamp top of cover. Browning to page edges that are wrinkled, very good… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. First edition. SIR JULIAN HUXLEY'S THOUGHTS ON THE RESPONSE OF DEMOCRACIES TO THE THREATS OF WAR IN THIS CASE, BRITAIN AND WWII--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Slim hardcover 7 1/2 inches tall, blue cloth binding, inscribed front free endpaper, "Mary Welsh/ from Julian Huxley/ Aug 1941," 126 pp. Light browning to cover edges, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: I. THE UNIFYING EFFECT OF WAR; II. THE .BRITISH BRAND OF DEMOCRACY; III. THE BRITISH SOCIAL SERVICES; IV., SOCIAL SERVICE AND DEMOCRACY; V. SOCIAL STANDARDS; VI. HEALTH IN A DEMOCRATIC BRITAIN; VII. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF EDUCATION; VIII. PLANNING AND DEMOCRACY; THE DEVELOPMENT OF BACKWARD AREAS; X. DEMOCRACY BETWEEN NATIONS; XI, DISINTEGRATION AND REINTEGRATION; XII. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. FROM THE FOREWORD: "Dr. Huxley marshals before us the very considerable contributions to the progress of civilization which democracy has recently made and is now making in this country. The array is both formidable… Read More

Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1950. First edition.
FIRST EDITION OF FOUNDATIONAL TEXTBOOK ESTABLISHING THE DISCIPLINE OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY--SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO AN EARLY TRAINEE AND COLLEAGUE.
21x28 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, inscribed and signed on front endpaper, "To my friend and coworker Robert Klein from Lawson Wilkins," i-xx, 385 pp, [1]. Wear to corners and spine ends, binding weak at first 2 signatures, browning to page edges and front endpapers. Good+ in very good minus dust jacket with edges chipped, in protective mylar sleeve.
LAWSON WILKINS (1894-1963) "was a pioneering pediatric endocrinologist. After serving in World War I and graduating from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he completed his pediatric residency at Yale and then returned to Baltimore to practice general pediatrics. However, he quickly distinguished himself from other practitioners by his insatiable curiosity and careful attention to measurable physical parameters and the information they provided… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1886. First edition.
THE FIRST BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK BY AMERICAN AUTHORS--INSCRIBED BY E.B. WILSON TO LEADING FEMALE PLANT BIOLOGIST.
8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped title to covers, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Effie A. Southworth front pastedown, signed in ink "Miss E.A. Southworth with the compliments of E. B. Wilson" on 2nd printer's blank. Signed "S. L. Bigelow 2439" title page. i-vii, 193 pp, 89 figures in text. Wear to corners, spine ends frayed, front hinge cracked, binding tight, text unmarked, very good minus. LAID IN: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch colored drawing of "micrasterias" on paper (presumably by Southworth).
FROM PREFACE: "Several years ago it was our good fortune to follow as graduate students a course of lectures and practical study in General Biology, under the direction of Professor Martin, at Johns Hopkins University. Since that time we have ever been strongly of the opinion that beginners in Biology should be introduced to… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1894-1909. First editions. 1894-1909 THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGY: COLLECTION OF 14 ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS FROM HARVARD'S ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY INSCRIBED BY ITS DIRECTOR + 2 SIGNED LETTERS. Two hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, full black leather binding with raised bands, gilt title to covers and spines, gilt tooled leather interior borders with fine decorative paste-downs and free endpapers. Each volume contains 7 offprints retaining original wrappers, most published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, containing 71 lithographic plates, some folding and/or color. Volume I contains an engraved dedication "To Mrs. Virginia Barret Gibbs from The Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College." Each volume is inscribed in ink, "With the best wishes of E. L. Mark, March 15,1911," followed by a table of contents. Edges of the covers and spine ends are rubbed, 2 light spots to front… Read More

New York: Harper, 1952. First edition.
FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT BY ARNOLD GESELL, FOUNDER OF YALE CHILD STUDY CENTER, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
15.5x24 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed by author on title page, "For my now eminent kid brother, Arnold Xmas 1951". i-xi, 108 pp, photographic Illustrations. Very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with edge tears, in protective mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: "Over a period of more than thirty-five years, the work of the former Clinic of Child Development at Yale University has been reported from time to time in the form of books, monographs, numerous papers, and a score of edited sound and silent films. Our interest in cinematography as both a research and a teaching tool, lies in the background and the foreground of the present volume, ... More recently the writer was afforded a unique opportunity to assist in the production of a new type of film, namely, a… Read More

Yokohama, Japan: Yamagata Press, 1947. First editions, later 1947 printings. PUBLISHED 2 YEARS AFTER END OF WW2: HISTORY AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN--2 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BINDINGS SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PRESIDENT OF FAMOUS HOTEL. Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall, silk-covered paper wrappers, traditional Japanese string binding with folded rice paper pages, decorative vertical paper label to covers. Volume 1 signed in ink on front endpaper by Alsuharu Sakai (collaborator) Tokyo, Xmas 1948, with Japanese characters; Volume 2 signed on pictorial frontis by K.M. Yamaguchi, President, Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, 20th Jan, 1949, with Japanese characters. Vol. 1 cover edges worn, top edge soiled, overall good+; Vol. 2 minimal wear to cover edges, text edges darkened, otherwise very good. Both volumes in archival custom mylar covers. MIYANOSHITA is one of the Seven Hot Springs of Hakone, Japan. The hot springs have been an attraction for tourists and pleasure-seekers for hundreds of… Read More

Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1959. First edition.
SIGNED ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON PEDIATRIC INTUSSUSCEPTION BY PIONEER IN NONOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT.
21x58.5 cm hardcover blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed & signed front paste-down, "For Miss Isabelle Forhall/ with high regard/ Mark M Ravitch/ Baltimore Sept 26, 62." color frontis diagram of intussusception, [i-xii], 121 pp, 43 figures in text, bibliography, author index. very good in very good dust jacket in protective mylar cover.
MARK M. RAVITCH (1910-1989) was an American surgeon. He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1934 and remained at Johns Hopkins to complete his surgical training, which he finished in 1943 under the mentorship of Alfred Blalock. He returned to Johns Hopkins at the conclusion of the war, becoming a professor of surgery in 1946. In the late 1940s he developed a new treatment for intussusception. His technique involved the use of a barium enema which could reduce intestinal pressure without the… Read More