Commentaries on some of the most Important Diseases of Children
by Clarke, John
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. First edition. 1815 LANDMARK ORIGINAL OBSERVATIONS ON DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, recent leather spine, gilt title to red leather label, marbled paper covers, new endpapers, i-x, 198 pp, [2]. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHN CLARKE (1761 - 1815) began practice in Chancery Lane, and at the same time lectured on midwifery in the private medical school founded by William Hunter. Clarke received a license in midwifery from... Read More
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Anatomie des Vers Intestinaux, Ascaride Lombricoide, et Echinorhynque Geant
by Cloquet, Jules
Paris: Crevot, 1824. First edition. 1824 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF ASCARIS--ITS LIFE CYCLE WOULD NOT BE DISCOVERED UNTIL A CENTURY LATER. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine with gilt title, decorative bookplate of Jean Theodorides to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front free endpaper, vii, 130 pp, 8 fine folding engraved plates. Light wear to spine, covers clean, binding tight, plates bright, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Large intestinal roundworms have been... Read More
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A Faithless World, reprinted by permission form The Contemporary Review; with additions and a preface
by Cobbe, Frances Power
London: Williams and Norgate, 1885. First edition thus. 1885 CONDEMNATION OF LOSS OF RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE (INCLUDING DARWINISM) BY PROMINENT BRITISH ANTIVIVISECTIONIST, INSCRIBED TO COLLEAGUE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, Author's inscription front flyleaf, "For Benjamin Bryan, With her very kind regards from his Friend & Colleague Frances Power Cobbe, June, 1885", institutional library handstamps to title page and last page, 41 pp, list of recent works by the... Read More
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Papers by Doctors Murie, Mivart, Flower, Cobbold, Etc.
by Cobbold, Thomas Spencer, Flower, William Henry, Huxley, Thomas Henry, Kirk, John, Mivart, St George Jackson and Murie, James
London: Zoological Society of London, 1860-1872. First editions. 44 OFFPRINTS COLLECTED BY PROMINENT BRITISH NATURALIST, AUTHORED AND INSCRIBED BY COLLEAGUES IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 14x21.5 cm 3/4 leather & burgundy cloth bound collection of offprints from Proc Zool Soc London, 1860-1872, presumably collected by JB Pettigrew, to whom a number of the papers is inscribed by the authors. The papers vary in length from 2 pages to substantial monographs, total size in the region of 400 pp.... Read More
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The Wings of Insects. An Exposition of the Uniform Terminology of the Wing-Veins of Insects and a Discussion of the More General Characteristics of the Wings of the Several Orders of Insects
by Comstock, John Henry
Ithaca: The Comstock Publishing Co., 1918. First edition. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF CO-AUTHOR OF THE COMSTOCK-NEEDHAM SYSTEM INSCRIBED TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND, CORNELL NEUROANATOMIST BURT WILDER. 17.5x25.5 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover gilt with gilt spider web , gilt black spine label, bookplate of N.S.R. Maluf to front paste-down, frontispiece plate of insect wing, ink inscription top of title page, "Dr. Burt G. Wilder/ with the affectionate regards of/ J. H. Comstock",i-xviii, 430 pp, 420 figures in... Read More
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Mitosis and amitosis in Biological Bulletin XXXIII (6):396-437, December 1917
by Conklin, Edwin G.
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1917. First edition. LANDMARK EARLY STUDY IN DEFENSE OF THE CHROMOSOME THEORY--SHOWING THAT APPARENT AMITOSIS IS "MERELY MODIFIED MITOSIS" 10 inches tall offprint, gray printed wraps, green cloth tape spine, handstamp inscription top cover, "With the Compliments of E G Conklin", and handstamp below of F. T. Baldwin Jr. pp396-437, including 10 plates with facing descriptive text. Wear to cover edges, light browning to pages that are unmarked. Very good in polypropylene envelope. Amitosis was first described in... Read More
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1. Effects of centrifugal force on the structure and development of Crepidula. Journal of Experimental Zoology Vol. 22 (2), pp 311-419, 23 plates, Feb 1917, TOGETHER WITH 2. Effects of centrifugal force on the polarity of the egg of Crepidula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 2 p 87, Feb 1916
by Conklin, Edwin G.
LANDMARK STUDIES REVEALING ROLE OF PHYSICAL FACTORS IN EMBRYONIC PATTERNING. Two 17.5x25 cm offprints in brown printed wraps, handstamp "With the Compliments of EG Conklin" to covers, handstamp of College de France Histologie Comparee to title pages. 1) 4pp with references by CM Child, EG Conklin, FR Lillie, and TH Morgan; 2) 60 pp, 23 plates with facing descriptive text. Browning to both offprints, covers and spine of 2nd offprint chipped: contents of both very good in mylar sleeve. Conklin's studies... Read More
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Mosaic Development in Ascidian Eggs
by Conklin, E.G.
Baltimore, 1905. First edition. E G CONKLIN'S CRUCIAL PAPER CONCLUSIVELY DEMONSTRATING EARLY EMBRYONIC MOSAIC DEVELOPMENT BY CELL FATE TRACKING-INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 17.5x25 cm offprint, gray printed paper covers, ink inscription top of cover, "Dr. R. W. Hall, With the Greetings of the Author." pp [145-223], 82 figures in text. Light wear to corners, browning to page edges, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Very good in archival folder with card covers and cloth spine. Reviewed in Gehring WJ. Precis of Edwin... Read More
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A Series of Lectures, on the Most Approved Principle and Practice of Modern Surgery: Principally Derived from the Lectures Delivered by Astley Cooper, Esq. F.R.S. etc. at the United Hospitals of Guy and St. Thomas, and in which will be found Some of the Opinions of the Most Celebrated Surgeons, from the Time of Hunter, to the Present Moment, Interspersed with Numerous Cases by Charles Williams Jones
by Cooper, Astley
Boston: Charles Ewer, 1823. First American from the Second London edition. 1821 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION LECTURES ON EARLY 19TH CENTURY SURGERY BY ASTLEY COOPER, SURGEON TO BRITISH ROYALTY. 10 inches tall hardcover recently rebound in red buckram with gilt title on spine, 456 pages uncut, age-toned, with scattered light foxing and occasional marginal pencil notes. Overall very good. TITLES OF LECTURES: Temperature of the blood; Inflammation; Ulcers; Furuncles; Wounds of veins, chest and gun-shot wounds; Poisons; Head injuries; Hydrocoele;... Read More
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![Les Bacteries et lur role dans l'Anatomie et l'Histologie Pathologiques des Maladies Infectieuses [The Bacteria and their role in the Pathologic Anatomy and Histology of Infectious Diseases]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/742/156/1702156742.0.l.jpg)
Les Bacteries et lur role dans l'Anatomie et l'Histologie Pathologiques des Maladies Infectieuses [The Bacteria and their role in the Pathologic Anatomy and Histology of Infectious Diseases]
by Cornil, Andre-Victor. and Babes, Victor
Paris: Felix Alcan, 1886. Second edition. EXPANDED ILLUSTRATED SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXT ON BACTERIOLOGY BY PIONEERING FRENCH AND ROMANIAN CO-AUTHORS. 14.5x24x6 cm 3/4 leather binding, black pebbled cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, marbled page edges, red endpapers, i-vi, [2], 839 pp, 348 chromolithographic figures intercalated in text, 1 frontispiece heliotype plate, 3 chromolithographic plates, Light wear to corners, hinges starting, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 2501... Read More
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Pathology. A Manual for Teachers and Students
by Councilman, W.T.
Boston: W.M. Leonard, 1912. First edition. MANUAL FOR HARVARD MEDICAL STUDENTS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD PATHOLOGIST W.T. COUNCILMAN-SIGNED BY HIM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, spine gilt, ink inscription front free endpaper to Dr. N.C. Foot ""with the kind regards of W.T. Councilman."" Edges lightly age-toned, otherwise very good+. Four 4x5 inch black & white photomicrographs laid in, with note dated 1913-18 Jan. PREFACE This manual has developed from the Syllabus of Pathology published by Councilman... Read More
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SIGNED The Medical Report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil
by Councilman, W.T. and Lambert, R.A.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1918. First edition. SIGNED COPY OF MEDICAL REPORT ON TROPICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY W. T. COUNCILMAN, DISCOVERER OF THE "COUNCILMAN BODY". 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, spine gilt, many black & white photographic illustrations, a map, and color plate. Inscribed on front free endpaper "To my good friend Miss Maude Patten with affectionate regards, W.T. Councilman".INTRODUCTION: The expedition, primarily undertaken for geographical research, was organized by Doctor A. Hamilton Rice, and... Read More
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Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease. A Clinical and Physiological Study in Infants and Children
by Cournand, Andre, Baldwin, Janet S. and Himmestein, Aaron.
New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1950. Second printing. FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION BY NOBEL LAUREATE PIONEER IN THE FIELD - SCARCE IN DUST JACKET. 11 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, title to cover and spine, i-viii, 108 pp, numerous illustrations. Corners bumped, "bubbling" of cloth over top cover corner, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked, very good in very good minus dust jacket with edge chips and what appear to be a series of 4 pencilled blood... Read More
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Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient. Reflections on Healing and Regeneration.
by Cousins, N. and Dubos, R.
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1979. First edition, 5th printing. SIGNED--BESTSELLING PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF DISEASE BY A PATIENT--FIRST PUBLISHED AS AN ARTICLE IN THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 14x21.5 cm hardcover, beige paper covered boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt title, inscribed on free front endpaper, "for Charles Manatt, Sincerely, Norman Cousins", 173 pp, near-fine in very good price-clipped jacket in protective mylar sleeve. NORMAN COUSINS (1915 - 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and... Read More
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FRANCIS CRICK TO ARTIST WIFE ODILE. That's the Way I See It
by [Crick, Francis], Hockney, David
HOCKNEY'S VISUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY INSCRIBED XMAS 1993 BY FRANCIS CRICK TO WIFE ODILE, THE ARTIST WHO DREW DNA DOUBLE HELIX FOR NATURE 1953 PAPER. 22x27 inch hardcover, blue cloth boards with yellow image stamped to cover, yellow spine title, color pictorial endpapers, 248 pp, 343 color and black & white images. Inscribed and signed by Francis Crick on half title, "To my darling Odile, for being so wonderful especially when things are difficult. All my love Francis Xmas '93".Very good in... Read More
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The Mongol in Our Midst. A Study of Man and His Three Faces
by Crookshank, Francis Graham
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1924. First edition. 1924 BRITISH PHYSICIAN'S POPULAR REVIEW OF DOWN SYNDROME BASED ON MID-19TH CENTURY RACIST THEORY--COPY OF CONTEMPORARY FILMMAKER. 11x16 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, maroon paper covered boards with printed paper title on cover and spine. Ink inscription front free endpaper, "Sidney Morgan, Trosnant Villa, Pontypool [Wales] Nov 5th, 1925," frontispiece photo of "Peter, a London child (Mongolian Imbecile)," 128 pages. 29 plates. Light browning to page edges, unmarked and very... Read More
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The intracranial tumors of preadolescence. Report of a clinic for the combined meeting of the Pediatric Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, and the New England Pediatric Society, Held at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Oct. 16 1926, reprinted from American Journal of Diseases of Children, Vol. 33, April 1927; TOGETHER WITH DJ Canale and LD Longo: Harvey Cushing and pediatric neurosurgery, reprinted from Neurosurgery, Vol. 27, No 4, 1990
by Cushing, Harvey
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1927. First edition. CUSHING'S PIONEERING MONOGRAPH ON PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMORS. 1) Offprint, 17.5x25.5 cm printed paper covers, black cloth spine, 34 pp, 20 figures, edges lightly browned, very good in archival preservation binder with folding flaps; 2) Offprint, 21x27.5 cm, stapled, 10 pp, 7 figures, ink inscribed presentation copy to Dr. Chevalier from DJ Canale. Very good. HARVEY WILLIAMS CUSHING (1869 - 1939) an American pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first... Read More
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Lecons d'Anatomie Comparee
by Cuvier, Georges
Paris: Crochard et Cie, 1846. Second expanded edition. PIONEERING ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Eight volumes in 9 bindings 8 1/2 inches tall (Vol. 4 is in 2 parts). Green quarter leather binding with gilt titles and compartments, marbled paper covered boards, patterned endpapers, bookplate of NSR Maluf to each volume, Vol. I, i-xxxiii, lithographic facsimile of letter from Cuvier, 587 pp, [1]; Vol. II, i-viii, 726 pp; Vol. III, [4], i-iv, 760 pp; Vol. IV pt 1, i-xxvii, 618... Read More
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MAGNIFICENT COLORED ENGRAVINGS. Rare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland,
by Dalyell, John Graham
London: John Van Voorst, 1847. First edition. 1847 MAGNIFICENT BIOLOGY OF MARINE LIFE OF SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS AFTER PAINTINGS BY NOTED LOCAL ARTISTS. Two 11 inches tall hardcover volumes, recent 3/4 calf, spine with raised bands and gilt leather title labels, green moire cloth covered boards, bookplate of Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow front paste-down, handstamp of Aquatic Research Institute to front free endpaper. Vol. I, xii, 270 pp, 53 colored engraved plates; Vol. II,... Read More
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![Recherches sur la Production Artificielle des Monstruosites [Research on the Artificial Production of Monstrosities or Experimental Teratogenic Trials]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/880/1678880262.0.l.jpg)
Recherches sur la Production Artificielle des Monstruosites [Research on the Artificial Production of Monstrosities or Experimental Teratogenic Trials]
by Dareste, Camille
Paris: C. Reinwald & Cie, 1891. Second edition, revised and expanded. LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EXPERIMENTAL TERATOLOGY. 15.5 x 24.5 cm hardcover, cloth binding, blindstamped decorative rulings to covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed in ink by author top of green free front endpaper, handstamps of "College de France" to half-title, i-xvi, 590 pp, 62 text figures, 16 chromolithograpic plates with facing descriptive text. Spine ends frayed, hinges starting, binding tight, light browning to pages, very good in custom... Read More
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CONTAINS DARWIN & LINCOLN--BORN SAME DAY. Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860
by Darwin, Charles and Gray, Asa
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First edition. 1860 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY JULY-DECEMBER 1860--CONTAINS 3 REVIEWS OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND AN EDITORIAL PROMOTING LINCOLN'S CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT (BOTH MEN WERE BORN FEBRUARY 12, 1809). 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, and gilt title and initials of previous owner (Fr. A. Bryan). Edges marbled, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Fr. A. Bryan to front paste-down, iv, 764 pp; joints... Read More
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Palaeontographical Society Monographs (London), Volumes 1 - 24
by Darwin, Charles Robert; Owen, Sir Richard; 25 additional authors
FIRST EDITION MAGNIFICENT SET OF THE INAUGURAL 24 VOLUMES PUBLISHED BY THE NEWPALAEONTOGRAPICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON100+ MONOGRAPHS, 1000+ PLATES, 7000+ PAGES,INCLUDING SEMINAL WORKS OF CHARLES DARWIN AND RICHARD OWEN. 24 quarto volumes 8 x 11 inches, later half leather, gilt-lettered on spine with gilt panel lines, over green textured cloth with gilt-rules, green patterned endpapers, each containing up to 7 monographs with lithographic or engraved plates (many folding) and some wood engravings in the text. The volumes appear to be unread... Read More
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Eugenics Record Office Bulletin No. 7. The Family-History Book, with sixteen figures in text and six plates
by Davenport, Charles B.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Eugenics Record Office, 1912. First edition. FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO DATA COLLECTION OF UNDESIRABLE "GENETIC" TRAITS OF AMERICANS. 15 x 23 cm gray paper printed covers, 101 pp. Light soiling of covers, cover corners chipped, embossed library stamp and "withdrawn" handstamp to title page, binding tight, text unmarked. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: I. The Record of Family Traits II. Genealogical Records III. Data Furnished by Biographies IV. The Record of Special Traits... Read More
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Experimental Morphology
by Davenport, Charles Benedict
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1897, 1899. First edition. LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON THE PROPERTIES OF PROTOPLASM AND REGULATION OF CELL AND TISSUE GROWTH--ASSOCIATION COPY. Two hardcover volumes, 15x22 cm, green cloth binding, blindstamped ruled margins to covers, bookplate of James Walter Wilson to front endpaper and small embossed library stamp ("cancelled") top of title page of each volume. Vol. I, i-xiv, 280 pp, 71 figures, 2 pp publisher's advertisements; Vol. II, i-xviii, [281-508] pp, 140 figures, errata & addenda page, publisher's... Read More
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EUGENICS CONGRESS 1923. Eugenics, Genetics and the Family, Vol I. ;Eugenics in Race and State, Vol II: Scientific Papers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics
by Davenport, Charles B.
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1923. First edition. SCARCE PROCEEDINGS OF SECOND INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS CONGRESS--ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL HONORARY PRESIDENT. Two hardcover volumes, 15x23 cm, blue cloth binding with gilt title to spine. Vol. I, frontispiece portrait of Alexander Graham Bell, "Honorary president of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, and pioneer investigator in the field of human heredity," i-x, 439 pp, 24 photgraphic plates, text figures; Vol. II, frontispiece portrait of Henry Fairfield Osborn, "President of the Second International Congress of Eugenics.... Read More
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