ONE OF 100 MOST FAMOUS MEDICAL BOOKS. Memoire sur le Pancreas et sur le role du suc pancreatique dans les phenomenes digestifs, particulierement dans la digestion des matieres grasses neutres (Claude Bernard)
by Bernard, Claude
1856. First edition. THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED OF ALL CLAUDE BERNARD'S WRITINGS AND ONE OF 100 BOOKS FAMOUS IN MEDICINE. Offered here is a copy of the very scarce complete issue of the journal containing the first edition of one of Claude Bernard's most famous works, included in the Grolier Club's 100 Books Famous in Medicine. The 28x22x4 cm volume is bound in original marbled paper covers with printed paper spine label. Three complete papers are included. Derbes & Solier:... Read More
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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood
by Bewick, Thomas
Newcastle upon Tyne: Edward Walker, 1807. Fifth edition. 1807 FINE COPY OF BEWICK'S QUADRUPEDS WITH HUNDREDS OF DETAILED WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 16X26 cm hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding, marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands and original gilt black leather label, marbled endpapers, bookplates of N.S.R. Maluf, surgeon, and Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down. i-x, 525 pp, [1], over 200 wood engravings of mammals and over 100 small, sharply observed, and often humorous vignettes known as tail-pieces. This is... Read More
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Fetus and Placenta - Plate 57 from Bidloo, Anatomia Humani Corpus
by Bidloo, Govard
1685 DRAMATIC LARGE ENGRAVED PLATE FROM BIDLOO'S FAMOUS ATLAS: STILLBORN 8-MONTH FETUS WITH PLACENTA. Copperplate engraving, 33x50 cm folio, plate mark 27.5x44 cm on heavy laid paper. Browning to page edges, not affecting image. Very good. Ovum, fetus, fetal membranes, placenta, and umbilical cord, shown in isolation, in seven numbered illustrations. 1 & 2. Ovum shown unfertilized and fertilized. 3. Fetus shown at 25 days gestation with placenta, membranes and umbilical cord. 4. Fetus shown at 40 days gestation. 5 &... Read More
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READY TO FRAME. Infant Skeleton - Plate 101 from Bidloo, Anatomia Humani Corpus
by Bidloo, Govard
Amsterdam: For the Widow of Joannes van Someren, the Heirs of Joannes va Dyk, Henry Boom and Widow of Theodore Boom, 1685. First edition. 1685 DRAMATIC LARGE ENGRAVED PLATE FROM BIDLOO'S FAMOUS ATLAS: A LIFELIKE CHILD'S SKELETON. Copperplate engraving, 33x50 cm folio, plate mark 27.5x44 cm on heavy laid paper. Browning to page edges, not affecting image. Very good. Originally published in 1685 (a later, Dutch edition, was published in 1690), Anatomia Humani Corporis features 105 copperplate engravings of the body,... Read More
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Fetus and Placenta - Plate 57 from Bidloo, Anatomia Humani Corpus
by Bidloo, Govard
Amsterdam: For the Widow of Joannes van Someren, the Heirs of Joannes va Dyk, Henry Boom and Widow of Theodore Boom, 1685. First edition. 1685 DRAMATIC LARGE ENGRAVED PLATE FROM BIDLOO'S FAMOUS ATLAS: STILLBORN 8-MONTH FETUS WITH PLACENTA. Copperplate engraving, 33x50 cm folio, plate mark 27.5x44 cm on heavy laid paper. Browning to page edges, not affecting image. Very good. Ovum, fetus, fetal membranes, placenta, and umbilical cord, shown in isolation, in seven numbered illustrations. 1 & 2. Ovum shown unfertilized... Read More
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Some implications of the genetical concept of race in terms of spatial analysis in Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, Vol. XV, pp 259-314
by Birdsell, Joseph B.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1950. First edition. 1950 POPULATION GENETICS STUDY BASED ON BLOOD GROUPS AND "RACE" BEFORE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches offprint in stapled printed gray wrappers, 56 pp, 16 figures. Light browning to covers, "B6" inscribed top of cover. From the library of Stephen Jay Gould, with his catalog number: "B", surname, and "6" the filing number. JOSEPH BENJAMIN BIRDSELL (1908-1994) of Harvard University and UCLA was an anthropologist who studied... Read More
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Tumours Innocent and Malignant
by Bland Sutton, John
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1893. First American edition. 1893 DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF CANCER AND MALFORMATIONS IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS. 13.5 x 22 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, colored frontispiece of fungating sebaceous cyst with tissue guard, i-xvi, 511 pp, 250 wood engravings and 9 plates (6 colored) with tissue guards. Light browning to pages, unmarked, a very good copy of this extraordinary collection of illlustrations of abnormal growths in humans and animals. SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON (1855... Read More
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Elements of Physiology translated from the Original Latin and interspersed with occasional notes by Charles Caldwell, to which is subjoined, by the translator, An Appendix, exhibiting a brief and compendious view of the existing discoveries relative to the Subject of Animal Electricity
by Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich and Caldwell, Charles
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1795. 1st American. 1795 AN EARLY MONOGRAPH ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY PROMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIAN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, two volumes in one, full leather binding, spine with gilt red leather label, ink signature of William H. Selby in contemporary script and his hand stamp on front endpapers, Vol. I, xvi, 229 pp; Vol. II, 247 pp. Covers and spine rubbed, back cover bowed, corners worn, hinges cracked but secure, browning... Read More
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A Practical Treatise on the Aetiology, Pathology, and Treatment of the Congenital Malformations of the Rectum and Anus
by Bodenhamer, William
New York: Samuel S. and William Wood, 1860. First edition. 1860 PIONEERING MONOGRAPH AND "A LANDMARK IN PEDIATRIC SURGERY". 15 x 23.5 cm hardcover, brown cloth binding, blindstamped decoratve pattern to covers, gilt title to spine, frontispiece lithograph of infant with imperforate anus, i-xvi, [2], 16 lithographic plates, 368 pp. Wear to corners and spine ends, small spots to back endpapers, light scattered foxing, browning to page edges. Text and plates unmarked, binding tight, very gook in custom archival mylar cover. WILLIAM... Read More
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EARLY MICROSCOPY Observationes Circa Viventia, Quae in Rebus Non Viventibus Reperiuntur. Cum Micrographia Curiosa Sive Rerum minutissimarum Observationibus, quae ope Microscopij reconitae ad vivum esperimuntur. His accesserunt aliquot Animalium Testaceorum Icones non antea in lucem editae. Omnia Curiosorum Naturae Exploratorum Utilitati & Iucunditati expressa & oblata
by Bonanni, Filippo
1691 MAGNIFICENT TREATISE ON EARLY MICROSCOPY, SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, AND NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS. 16 x 23 cm hardcover, 19th century binding with leather corner tips and spine with gilt black leather labels, marbled paper covered boards, elaborate copperplate frontispiece depicting angels on coast with sailboats and clouds, by Leonardi, engraved by Hubert Vincent dated 1691, i-xx includes index to Parts I and II; Part I pp 1-307; Part II 308-342 with p 308 containing second copperplate frontispiece depicting mermen... Read More
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Studies in the Evolution of Animals
by Bonavia, Emanuel
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. First edition. SCARCE EARLY BOOK ON EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION PUBLISHED JUST BEFORE KIPLING'S "HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS". 18x22.5 cm. Original dark red cloth, gilt title to cover and spine, top edge gilt, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste-down, ink signature of J Cloete Jan '06 versi front free endpaper, i-xxxiv, 362 pp, 128 figures, some full-page. Errata slip at p xvii. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Very good copy... Read More
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FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS. Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie
by Bonnaterre, Abbe Pierre Joseph
Paris: Panckoucke, 1788. First edition. 1788 ATLAS OF FISH WITH 102 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS BY FRENCH PRIEST-NATURALIST WHO DESCRIBED 25 NEW SPECIES OF FISH AND THE FIRST TO STUDY THE WILD CHILD OF AVEYRON. Two hardcover volumes 12 3/4 inches tall, recent green cloth covered boards with leather spines and gilt titles, new endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-down, pages uncut, Vol. I, lvi, 215 pp; Vol. II, 102 copper plate engravings numbered A, B, and... Read More
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DARWIN'S GUIDE ON THE BEAGLE. Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle
by Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B. , Audouin, J.V., Isidore Bourdon, J.B., Brogniart, A., de Candolle, A.P., Daudebard de Ferussac, J.B.L., Desmoulins, A., Drapiez, P.A.J., Edwards, W.F., Flourens, J.P., Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E., de Jussieu, A.L., Kunth, C.S.,
Paris: Rey et Gravier, Baudouin Freres, 1822-1831. First edition. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND 17-VOLUME ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATURAL HISTORY WITH BRILLIANT COLOR PLATES: COPY OF THIS EDITION INCLUDED IN DARWIN'S LIBRARY ON HIS VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. 17 hardcover volumes, 12.5x21.5 cm, full green calf binding, gilt rulings with dentelles, spines with raised bands, gilt titles and decorative compartments, marbled endpapers, small engraved book label bottom of each front paste-down of "Prof. W. Vrolik." vol.1, [2], xvi, 604 pp, double-sided folding table; Vol. 2, [4],... Read More
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Dissertation sur les Generalites de la Clinique Medicale, et Sur le Plan et la Methode a Suivre dans l’Enseigement de de Cette Science; Presentee au Concours Ouvert le 20 Juin 1831 Pour Une Chaire de Clinique Medicale, Vacante a la Faculte de Medecine de Paris TOGETHER WITH original lithograph of Dr. Bouillaud signed by him
by Bouillaud, Jean-Baptiste
Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1831. First edition. DISSERTATION ON MEDICAL PRACTICE BY NOTED FRENCH PHYSICIAN DR. BOUILLAUD, INSCRIBED TO HIS MENTOR, WHOSE AUTOGRAPH CRITIQUE IS INCLUDED, COPY OF PUBLISHER, JB BAILLIERE - PLUS ORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY LITHOGRAPH OF BOUILLAUD. 8 inches tall hardcover, period red cloth binding, decorative blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, 83 pp, signed association copy: top of title page: signed ink inscription to Professor Broussais, " de la part de l'auteur a son tres illustre maitre Mr le Professeur... Read More
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New Researches on Acute Articular Rheumatism in General; and especially on the law of coincidence of pericarditis and endocarditis with this disease, as well as the efficacy of the method of treating it by repeated blood-lettings at short intervals
by Bouillaud, Jean-Baptiste
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837. First English translation. LANDMARK DESCRIPTION OF RHEUMATIC ENDOCARDITIS. 14 x 23 cm hardcover, recent black cloth binding, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, new endpapers, i-iv, [10]-64 pp. Scattered light foxing, very good. GARRISON-MORTON No. 11556. "Nouvelles recherches sur le rhumatisme articulaire en général, et spécialement sur la loi de coincidence de la péricardite et de l'endocardite avec cette maladie, ainsi que sur l'efficacité de la formule des émissions sanguines coup sur coup... Read More
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![Pathologie Comparee de l'Osteomalacie Chez l'Homme et les Animaux Domestiques [Comparative Pathology of Osteomalacia in Humans and Domestic Animals]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/211/474/1573474211.0.l.jpg)
Pathologie Comparee de l'Osteomalacie Chez l'Homme et les Animaux Domestiques [Comparative Pathology of Osteomalacia in Humans and Domestic Animals]
by Bouley, Paul
Paris: P. Asselin, 1874. First edition. 1871 EARLY MONOGRAPH ON OSTEOMALACIA IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS INSCRIBED TO RANVIER. 16x25 cm softcover, blue paper covers, printed title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed in ink top of half-title page, "A mon cher Maitre, Mr Ranvier/ Temoignage de reconnaissance/ Dr Paul Bouley", 132 pp, Table of Contents, Legend to Plates, 4 lithographic plates. Handstamp "Histologie College de France" and ink inscription, "Mr Ranvier" top of cover, soiling to covers, light browning to... Read More
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A Treatise on Lesser Surgery; or the Minor Surgical Operations by D.M.P. Bourgery, Translated from the French with notes and an appendix by William C. Roberts and James B. Kissam
by Bourgery, D.M.P.
New York: Charles S. Francis, 1834. First American. FIRST AMERICAN TRANSLATION OF TREATISE ON MINOR SURGERY BY NOTED FRENCH ANATOMIST, COPY OF ALEXANDER H. BAYLY, DATED 1835 - YEAR OF HIS MD FROM UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, recent marbled paper covered boards cloth spine, new endpapers, pages untrimmed, light foxing throughout, overall very good-. Section of original free endpaper affixed to front paste-down, containing contemporary ink signature of Alexander H. Bayly, Cambridge Md, 1835, i-xvi... Read More
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A Monograph of the British Spongiadae
by Bowerbank, James Scott; and Norman, Alfred Merle
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1864, 1866, 1874, 1882. First edition. LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON SPONGES WITH 146 SUPERB PLATES BY MASTER LITHOGRAPHERS. Four hardcover volumes 9 inches tall, blue cloth binding, Ray Society gilt emblem to covers, top edge gilt, rebacked with original spines preserved. Vol. I, i-xx, 290 pp, 37 plates; Vol. II, I-XX, 388 PP; Vol. III, i-xvii, 367 pp, 92 plates; Vol. IV, i-xvii, 250 pp, 17 plates. Spines faded and spine ends worn, light browning to pages. In Vols.... Read More
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Renal Hypertension
by Braun-Menendez, Eduardo, Fasciolo, Juan Carlos, Leloir, Luis F., Munoz, Juan M. and Taquini, Alberto C.
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1946. First edition (stated). THE DISCOVERY OF ANGIOTENSIN IN ARGENTINA. 15x23 cm hardcover, black pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine. Bookplate of Noble S. R. Maluf to front paste-down, i-xxx, frontispiece portrait of Bernardo A. Houssay, 451 pp, 93 figures, bibliography of 1238 references. Scattered pencil notations, binding tight, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. EDUARDO BRAUN-MENENDEZ (1903-1959) studied at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, at the Institute of... Read More
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![COLOR PLATES. 170 Chromotafeln aus Brehms Tierleben. Säugetiere (Band I-III; 52 Tafeln); Vögel (Band IV-VI; 55 Tafeln); Niedere Tiere (Band VII-X; 63 Tafeln). 3 Bände. [170 chromolithographs from Brehm's Animal Life. Mammals (Volumes I-III; 52 plates); Birds (Volumes IV-VI; 55 plates); Lower Animals (Volumes VII-X; 63 plates). 3 volumes.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/731/156/1702156731.11.l.0.jpg)
COLOR PLATES. 170 Chromotafeln aus Brehms Tierleben. Säugetiere (Band I-III; 52 Tafeln); Vögel (Band IV-VI; 55 Tafeln); Niedere Tiere (Band VII-X; 63 Tafeln). 3 Bände. [170 chromolithographs from Brehm's Animal Life. Mammals (Volumes I-III; 52 plates); Birds (Volumes IV-VI; 55 plates); Lower Animals (Volumes VII-X; 63 plates). 3 volumes.]
by Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1885. First thus. 170 BRILLIANT CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS FROM BREHM'S THIERLEBEN--MANY COPIES INCLUDED IN BOOKS BY DARWIN AND E O WILSON. Scarce complete separate edition of the Chromolithographs for Brehms Thierleben. The beautiful colored plates here mounted on strong cardboard sheets unbound in three 24x33 cm hardcover folders in brown cloth linen binding with printed title and decorative borders to covers and folding card flaps, each folder containing title sheet with list of plates. FOLDER 1 (Mammals, Parts I-III; 52... Read More
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SIGNED. My Life in Science. As Told to Lewis Wolpert. Edited interview with additional material by Errol C. Friedberg and Eleanor Lawrence
by Brenner, Sydney
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... Read More
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The development and protection of the oyster in Maryland by W.K. Brooks, PhD. Being the report written by him as chairman of the Oyster commission of the state of Maryland, and presented to the General Assembly, February, 1884.
by Brooks, William Keith
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1884. First edition. 1884 SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF A DETAILED REPORT ON THE CHESAPEAKE OYSTER ILLUSTRATED WITH LITHOGRAPHED PLATES AND LARGE FOLDING MAPS. 11 1/2 inches tall folio hardcover, recent tan cloth binding, leather spine with gilt title, new endpapers, 193 pp, 13 plates, 4 large color maps (26 x 32 1/2, 16 3/4 x 34 1/2, 31 x 35, and 31 x 36 1/2 inches). Binding fine, small library handstamp verso title page, faint embossed library... Read More
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The Oyster: A Popular Summary of a Scientific Study
by Brooks, William K.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891. First edition. ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, JOHNS HOPKINS ZOOLOGIST W. K. BROOKS SHOWS HOW TO RECOVER FROM MARYLAND'S "OYSTER FAMINE." 11.5 x 19 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt image of oyster to cover, gilt title to spine, patterned endpapers, bookseller's label to bottom of front paste-down, i-viii, [2], 230 pp, 14 sepia lithographic plates, 3 wood engravings. Wear to cover corner tips and spine ends, front hinge starting, Plate I loose, binding tight, light... Read More
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Selected Morphological Monographs. Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University
by Brooks, W.K. and Wilson, E.B.
Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore, 1887. Offprints. 1880s SCARCE COLLECTION OF 4 MONOGRAPHS BY WK BROOKS AND EB WILSON, LUMINARIES OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE EMBRYOLOGY--WITH 39 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 11 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title and Johns Hopkins seal to cover, institutional library canceled bookplate to front paste-down, title page, followed by WILSON, E.B. The Development of Renilla, pp. 721-815, 16 plates (1883); and BROOKS, W.K. Lucifer: A Study in Morphology, pp. 55-137, 11 lithographic plates (1882);... Read More
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![1904 EDUCATION OF FREED ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS. l'Education des Negres aux Etats-Unis [The Education of Negroes in the United States]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/088/222/1591222088.0.l.jpg)
1904 EDUCATION OF FREED ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS. l'Education des Negres aux Etats-Unis [The Education of Negroes in the United States]
by Brousseau, Kate
Paris: Felix Alcan, 1904. First edition. BRILLIANT ANALYSIS OF THE CHALLENGE OF EDUCATING AFRICAN AMERICANS 40 YEARS AFTER THEIR FREEDOM--BY FRENCH U.S. PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, recent 3/4 black cloth binding, marbled paper covered boards, paper title label to spine, new endpapers, original printed paper cover bound before half title with stamp of handstamp of institutional library, i-xvi,396 pp, errata. Very good with light browning to page edges, French language. FROM THE INTRODUCTION (translated from the French):... Read More
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