La Accademia Medica di Roma nel suo primo secolo.
by [Accademia Medica di Roma] TRAVIA, Luigi (1892-1963).
Roma:: Edito dall'Accademia Medica di Roma, 1975., 1975. Series: Bollettino ed atti della Accademia Medica di Roma. Figs. Original printed wrappers. Ownership stamp on title of Franco Crainz. Very good. The Medical Academy of Rome in its first century.
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Old Age in the New Land; The American Experience Since 1790.
by ACHENBAUM, W. Andrew (b. 1947).
Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979., 1979. Second printing. 8vo. xii, [2], 237, [1] pp. 18 tables, 8 illus., index. Brown gilt-stamped cloth. Near fine. ISBN: 080182107x "Drawing on a wide range of sources from social, intellectual, and political history, Old Age in the New Land analyzes the changing fates and fortunes of America's elderly in the course of its history. By providing a historical perspective on society's conceptions of aging – and its effects on human lives... Read More
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!["The K+[nu]3 and K+e3 Decay through a Current of Definite Isotopic Rank."](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/433/340/251340433.0.l.jpg)
"The K+[nu]3 and K+e3 Decay through a Current of Definite Isotopic Rank."
by ACIOLI, J.L. & S.W. MacDOWELL.
Offprint from:: Il Nuovo Cimento, Serie X, Vol. 24, 16 Maggio 1962., 1962. pp. 606-613. (240 x 170 mm). 8 pp. 4 figs. Stapled pages. Very good. Summary: The energy distribution and polarization of muons and electrons are calculated assuming an interaction through a vector current of definite isospin character, and using form factors obtained by means of dispersion relations. The effect of the K* resonance is taken into account. The spectra, and to a lesser extent the... Read More
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Malaria in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1760-1900.
by ACKERKNECHT, Erwin H. (1906-1988).
Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins Press, 1945., 1945. Series: Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, no. 4. 25.1 cm. viii, 142 pp. figs., 5 folding maps. Original Light blue printed wrappers; wrapper extremities slightly chipped. Good +. Rare. First edition. Ackerknecht's first published work, Malaria in the Upper Mississippi Valley traces the rise of Malaria as a serious health problem in the United States.
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A Short History of Medicine. Revised edition.
by ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906-1988).
Baltimore and London:: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982., 1982. 8vo. xx, 277, [1] pp. 23 figs., index. Printed wrappers. Near fine. Coming to America because the war, Ackerknecht "was first employed as a fellow in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University while working as assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History. He was then offered a position as the University of Wisconsin's first Chair in the history of medicine. His A short history of... Read More
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On the dysenteries of India: with a chapter on secondary streptococcal infections and sprue.
by ACTON, Hugh William (1883-1935); KNOWLES, Robert (1883-1936).
Calcutta:: Thacker, Spink, 1928., 1928. Tall 8vo. xiv, 178 pp. 2 tables, 25 plates (2 folding). Original gray cloth. Ownership signature of Daniel Beltz, 1934. Very good copy. Robert Knowles was a British parasitologist, known for his discovery, with Biraj Mohan Das Gupta, of the Plasmodium species now known as Plasmodium knowlesi. He became a professor of protozoology at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in 1928. Knowles was the director of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine... Read More
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Zui xin zhen jiu xue wei gua tu. Zhen jiu xue wei gua tu.
by [Acupuncture].
Xianggang:: Yi yao wei sheng chu ban she, 1972., 1972. Folio. 87 x 40 cm folded to 40 x 29 cm. 3 color plates. Blue printed wrappers. Very good. RARE. "Latest acupuncture points." Issued with an 80-page booklet, not available here. SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF PLATES.
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The People's Health: medicine and anthropology in a Navajo community.
by ADAIR, John (1913-1997); Kurt W. DEUSCHLE (1923-2003).
New York:: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970., 1970. 8vo. Cloth, dust-jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR KURT DEUSCHLE [not stated, but inscribed to Arthur Frank, who is not named in the inscription]. Very good. First edition, hardcover issue. Adair and Deuschle recount their experiences, problems, and conclusions, in the Navajo-Cornell Field Health Research Project, to aid in improving health for the Navajo people. / John Adair was a professor of anthropology San Francisco State College, known for his studies of Navaho culture. Dr.... Read More
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Diagnostic ophthalmoscopique d'apres des reproductions types de fonds d'yeux avec examen special des cas importants de medecine generale a l'usage des medecins et des etudiants. . .. Traduit par le docteur F. Bourdier. Avec une preface par le Professeur De Lapersonne.
by ADAM, Curt.
Paris:: Librairie Le Francois, (1913)., 1913. One volume plus atlas volume. 273 x 203 mm. Tall 8vo. xxi, 242 pp. Indexes, 18 figs., 48 color plates (most with 2 figs.). QUARTER MAROON MOROCCO, vellum tips, gilt spine. Bookplate. Bookseller's ticket. Fine. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Extensively illustrated with beautiful fundus pictures.
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Ophthalmoskopische Diagnostik an der Hand typischer Augenhintergrundsbilder. Mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der fur die Allgemein-Medizin wichtigen Falle fur Arzte und Studierende von. . ..
by ADAM, Curt.
Berlin & Vienna:: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1912., 1912. 273 x 204 mm. Tall 8vo. xxi, 232 pp. Indexes, 18 figs., 48 color plates (most with 2 figs.) with opposing descriptive text; occasional pencil underlining and marginalia. Quarter brown morocco, morocco corners, cloth sides, gilt spine; lightly rubbed. Gift inscription from Dr. Th. De Speyr to Dr. Jean Bourguin, 1918, on title and with Speyr's ownership rubber stamp on front free end-paper. Bookplate of A. Franceschetti and another. Very good.... Read More
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Versuch uber die Elektricitaet, worinn Theorie und Ausubung dieser Wissenschaft durch eine Menge methodisch geordneter Experimente erlautert wird, nebst einem Versuch uber den Magnet.
by ADAMS, George (1750-1795).
Vienna:: Johann Thomas Edlen v. Trattnern, 1786., 1786. 8vo. (208 x 126 mm) vi, [10], 270 pp. Six engraved folding plates; toning and foxing throughout, lightly soiled plates, ownership pen marks on front flyleaf. Half calf over two-tone green floral motif boards, raised bands, gilt-stamping on spine, gilt-stamped red leather spine label, edges tinted red; worn boards, insect damage to spine ends, light marginal worming throughout. Cyrillic bookplate, Cyrillic library stamps and manuscript index number on title-page, Cyrillic library... Read More
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Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George III.
by ADAMS, George [et.al.]; John R. MILLBURN.
Aldershot:: Ashgate, 2000., 2000. 8vo. xix, [3], 420 pp. Numerous illustrations, index. WITH ADDED LARGE FOLDING (printer's galley, or author's graphic) GENEALOGICAL TABLE (much larger than the one published in the book, same text, but with a couple of annotations added by the author). Original gilt-stamped black cloth, dust-jacket; jacket rubbed. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, JOHN R. MILLBURN, TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND, COLLEAGUE AND CO-WRITER, "Dr. Henry C. King, With the author's compliments . . . May 2000." Very... Read More
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On the digestion of the stomach after death. In: Medical and Physical Journal, Vols. XXVII and XXVIII.
by ADAMS, Joseph.
London:: 1809-1810., 1809. 8vo. pp. 399-413. AS IS.
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The Bicentennial of Michel Adanson's "Familles de Plantes", Part One.
by ADANSON, Michel (1727-1806).
Pittsburgh:: Hunt Botanical Library, 1963., 1963. Hunt Monograph Series, no. 1. 8vo. xi, 391 pp. Illus., index. Light teal gilt-stamped printed wrappers; faded spine, rubbed extremities. Very good. Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. In 1763 he published his Familles naturelles des plantes. In this work he developed the principle of... Read More
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"Streptomycin: Promising Antibiotic Agent."
by ADDINALL, C. R.
In:: The Merck Report, vol. 54, no. 4, Oct. 1945., 1945. 4to. (Article) 4-9 pp. Photos. (Whole issue) 35 pp. Photos, figs., articles. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Interesting early study of Streptomycin.
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On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-renal Capsules.
by ADDISON, Thomas (1793-1860).
Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library, 1980., 1980. 4to. [x], 43, [2] pp. Color plates. Gilt decorated green leather, raised bands, all edges gilt. Fine. Facsimile of the 1855 edition. "Addison was the first to draw attention to the importance of the adrenals in clinical medicine. . . . It described the conditions, which later became known as 'Addison's disease' and pernicious anemia, which was later renamed 'Addisonian anemia' by Trousseau." [Garrison and Morton 3864].
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On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra-renal capsules.
by ADDISON, Thomas, 1793-1860.
London: Highley, 1855; Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library, 1980., 1980. Folio. 43 pp. 11 color plates. Full deep green gilt and blind stamped cowhide, a.e.g. Fine. Special edition. "Addison was the first to draw attention to the importance of the adrenals in clinical medicine . . . [This work] described the conditions, which later became known as 'Addison's disease'. . ." Garrison and Morton 3864.
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Group of 6 offprints. Includes: ADELBERG, David M. BONNER, & Edward L. TATUM. "A Precursor of Isoleucine Obtained from a Mutant Strain of Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 190, no. 2.
by ADELBERG, Edward A. (1920–2009).
No place:: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1951., 1951. 8vo. 837-841 pp. Printed wrappers. INSCRIBED BY ADELBERG to Norman Horowitz. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz, California Institute of Technology. Fine. Adelberg was an influential early geneticist who was associated with the Dept. of Bacteriology, University of California, Berkeley & the Osborn Botanical Laboratory, Yale University. Tatum (1909-1975) was one of the fathers of modern genetics and worked extensively with George W. Beadle on drosophila and Neurospora. This work... Read More
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![Group of 2 offprints. Includes: ADELBERG, & H. Edwin UMBARGER. "Isoleucine and Valine Metabolism in Escherichia Coli. V. [alpha]-Ketoisovaleric Acid Accumulation." Offprint from: Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 205, no. 1, 1953.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/929/338/251338929.0.l.jpg)
Group of 2 offprints. Includes: ADELBERG, & H. Edwin UMBARGER. "Isoleucine and Valine Metabolism in Escherichia Coli. V. [alpha]-Ketoisovaleric Acid Accumulation." Offprint from: Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 205, no. 1, 1953.
by ADELBERG, Edward A. (1920–2009).
No place:: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1953., 1953. 8vo. 475-482 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz, California Institute of Technology. Fine. Adelberg was associated with the Dept. of Bacteriology, University of California, Berkeley. WITH: ADELBERG, et al. "Attempted Induction of Microbial Mutants Requiring Steroidal Growth Factors." Offprint from: Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 69, no. 6, 1955. 8vo. p. 733. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Horowitz. Edward Allen Adelberg was a founder of microbial... Read More
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Les Arts de Reproduction Vulgarises.
by ADELINE, Jules.
Paris:: Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies, 1893/4., 1893. 8vo. [6], IX, [1], 379, [3] pp. 140 figures, 12 plates (several in colors), index. Contemporary brown morocco, raised bands, gilt-stamped compartments, marbled boards, marbled endleaves; corner bumped. Very good. Informative and beautifully illustrated manual that explains the processes and gives their names, illustrations of the tools, etc., specimens. The date for the title-page is assumed, but based on the fact that the advertising leaf shows a book title with a date of... Read More
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The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricus of Aquapendente: the formation of the egg and of the chick (de formatione ovi et pulli), the formed fetus (de formato foetu). A facsimile edition, with an introduction, a translation, and a commentary by Howard B. Adelmann.
by ADELMANN, Howard B.
Ithaca:: Cornell University Press, (1967)., 1967. 2 volumes. 272 x 182 mm. 8vo. xxiii, 376; xiii, 883 pp. Frontis., figs., index. Purple buckram. Lacks slipcase. Fine.
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Dictionnaire des sciences medicales, par une societe de medecins et de chirurgiens.
by ADELON, ALARD, Barbier ALIBERT, et al.
Paris:: Crapart & C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1812-22., 1812. Complete set of 60 volumes. 127 engraved plates, list of subscribers in the index volume, 10 folding charts; occasional foxing, ink and water-stains. Modern quarter green spines over original marbled boards, gilt-stamped black leather spine labels; re-backed. Ex-lib bookplates and ink stamps of the Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society, early ownership inscription of Hudson Gurney. Fine. FIRST EDITION. [19th Century French Medical Encyclopedia] Possibly one of the most important... Read More
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Physiologie de l'Homme. Third Volume (only).
by ADELON, Nicolas Philibert (1782-1862).
Paris:: Librairie de Crochard, 1831., 1831. Second edition. Volume III (of 4) only. 8vo. 574 pp. Modern quarter black morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine title. Fine. Hirsch I, 34; Wellcome II, 16.
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Lecons Elementaires de Chimie, a l'usage des lycees, ouvrage redige par ordre du gouvernement ; . . . Prefet du Departement de la Nievre.
by ADET, Pierre-Auguste (1763-1834).
Paris :: Dentu, An XIII, 1804., 1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. XVI, 435, [1] pp. Half-title (signed with the author's initials), Avant-propos, Explication des principaux termes . . . errata. Modern quarter linen, marbled boards, dark green cloth gilt-stamped spine label. Fine. [003] First edition. "This elementary textbook of chemistry for the pupils in the public schools was published at the request of the French government." – Cole. / "Adet . . . was a physician... Read More
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Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupils with absent tendon reflexes; a benign disorder simulating tabes dorsalis.
by ADIE, William John (1886-1935).
Offprint from:: British Medical Journal, May 30, 1931., 1931. 284 x 204 mm. 4to. Pages 928-930 [Entire issue: 921-962 pp.] Modern marbled wrappers. Very good. Scarce. "Adie's Syndrome." Garrison and Morton 4611.
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