Search Results: Titles starting with W from Biomed Rare Books

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1942. First edition.
BRILLIANT WARTIME DISCUSSION OF SCIENCE AND ETHICS BY MAJOR SCHOLARS, INSCRIBED TO "THE MASTER" AND SIGNED BY CH WADDINGTON.
13x20 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by Waddington to "The Master, with respectful compliments/ C. H. Waddington", 144 pp, very good in very good dust jacket, spine sunned.
REVIEW IN NATURE, June 12, 1943: "On September 6, 1941, NATURE printed an essay by Dr. C. H. Waddington on "Science and Ethics" (p. 270). This essay had previously been submitted to various men of science, philosophers and churchmen whose comments were published in the same number of NATURE (pp. 274-280). The discussion that had been opened in this way led to further communications between Waddington and authorities on the particular subjects to which he had referred, including psychology, anthropology, Marxism and logical positivism. The entire material has now been put together and published… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. First printing (stated). THE DISCOVERY OF STREPTOMYCIN--THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SELMAN WAKSMAN, WHO RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE, AND 2 LETTERS FROM ALBERT SCHATZ, WHO CONTESTED HIS EXCLUSION FROM THE AWARD. 9 1/2 inches tall blue paper-covered boards, red cloth spine, author initials to cover, gilt title to spine, small dent top back cover, very good in price-clipped jacket with edge tears. LAID IN: 1. A.L.S. From Professor Albert Schatz, Philadelphia to Dr. Milton Wainwright, Sheffield, Jan 20, 1989, agreeing to meet with soon in Philadelphia; 2. T.L.S. from Albert Schatz to Dr. Douglas E. Eveleigh, Temple University, September 25, 1989, offering "more information on the streptomycin situation," and asking to meet with him in order to discuss a book he is planning to write on soil microbiology for the layman. He specifically requests references on soil microbiology and outlines of experiments for enrichment cultures for autotrophs, etc. The letter has been forwarded to Dr.… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1884. First edition. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BIOLOGY OF AMERICAN WATER BIRDS BY FIRST CURATOR OF SMITHSONIAN. Two hardcover volumes 10 3/4 inches tall, mustard cloth binding, gilt title to spines, numerous wood engravings throughout. Vol. I, xi, 537 pp; Vol. II, [vi], 552 pp. Fine--as new. SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD (1823 - 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He would eventually serve as the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, from 1878 until 1887. He published over 1,000 works during his lifetime. He was dedicated to expanding the natural history collections of the Smithsonian and upon his death, had done so by expanding the collection from 6,000 specimens in 1850 to over 2 million upon his death. Cited by Newton in Science, Technology, and Society in the 19th Century (2001): "One of Baird's first projects at the Smithsonian was the… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1945. First edition, a wartime book (stated). 1945 SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WALTER CANNON, WHO DEFINED THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 229 pages, red cloth binding, covers lightly stained, spine darkened, corners and spine ends rubbed, residue from rusty paper clip on front paste-down and front free endpaper, text unmarked, very good minus. First printings of this wartime book, an autobiography published the year of Cannon's death, are very scarce. WALTER BRADFORD CANNON (1871 - 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term fight or flight response, and he expanded on Claude Bernard's concept of homeostasis. In his autobiography The Way of an Investigator, Cannon counts himself among the descendents of Jacques de Noyon, a French Canadian explorer and coureur des bois. A high school teacher, Mary Jeannette Newson, became his… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton, 1929. First edition. 1929 SCARCE LITTLE BOOK ON DARWINISM BY NOBEL LAUREATE T. H. MORGAN, A KEY FIGURE IN THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding with red printed logo to cover, red printed title to spine, 78 pp, publisher's advertisement. Spine sunned, bottom end of spine frayed, tiny hole punched in corner of back endpaper, all pages crisp and unmarked, very good, no dust jacket, in custom archival mylar cover. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1866 – 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Morgan received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in zoology in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit fly Drosophila… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE BLACK AND WHITE PHEASANT, 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, small crease to lower right corner not affecting image; 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… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. First edition.
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, WOODS HOLE, BY EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST.
9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, pictorial map of Cape Cod to endpapers, i-ix, 284 pp, illustrations. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANK RATTRAY LILLIE (1870 – 1947) was an American zoologist and an early pioneer of the study of embryology. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lillie moved to the United States in 1891 to study for a summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Lillie formed a lifelong association with the laboratory, eventually rising to become its director in 1908. His efforts developed the MBL into a full-time institution. Lillie was appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 1900. He was named Chairman of the Department of Zoology in 1910 and Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences in 1931. His research there was instrumental… Read More

London: Charles Griffin & Co., Ltd., 1902. First English edition. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF PAVLOV'S FAMOUS WORK ON CONDITIONED REFLEXES, EARNING HIM THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1904. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red pebbled cloth, gilt title to spine. Light wear to covers and edge of spine, age-toning to pages that are crisp and unamarked; very good. IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV (1849 – 1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. In 1870, he enrolled in the physics and mathematics department at the University of Saint Petersburg in order to study natural science. Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, becoming the first Russian Nobel laureate. Pavlov's principles of classical conditioning have been found to operate across a variety of experimental and clinical settings, including educational classrooms. After completing his doctorate, Pavlov went to Germany where he studied in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig and Eimear Kelly in the… Read More

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. First English edition. CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON ANTIMATTER BY NOBEL LAUREATE HANNES ALFVEN - SIGNED WITH MARGINAL NOTES BY NOBEL LAUREATE MARSHALL NIRENBERG, TRANSLATOR OF THE GENETIC CODE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signature of Marshall Nirenberg to front flyleaf, with handstamp of Section of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014; [vi], 103 pp, marginal notes in penciel on pages 12 and 12; very good in very good dust jacket with small edge tears. HANNES ALFVEN (1908 - 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. In 1937, Alfvén argued that if plasma pervaded the universe, it could then carry electric currents capable of generating a galactic magnetic field. His theoretical work on… Read More