The Problem of Race-Regeneration
by Ellis, Havelock and Marchant, James (Introduction)
New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1911. First edition. 1911 EUGENICS AND SOCIAL REFORM BY A PROGRESSIVE EUGENICIST. 11.5 x 18.5 cm hardcover, olive green cloth binding, title to cover, [2], 67 pp, light wear to corners, light edge-browning to pages. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. HAVELOCK ELLIS (1859 – 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also... Read More
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Accidental and congenital atresia of the vagina with a mode of operating for successfully establishing the canal
by Emmet, Thomas Addis
New York: Bradstreet Press, 1866. First edition. 1866 REPORT OF 2 CASES OF VAGINAL ATRESIA AND THEIR SURGICAL CORRECTION BY NOTED IRISH-AMERICAN SURGEON AT NEW YORK STATE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall thin monograph in gray paper wraps, author's inscription to title page, his ink inscription and signature top of first page of text, "Fordham University Library Medical Department/ from/ Thos. Addis Emmet, M.D./ May 23rd 1906," [2], 17 pp. Edges of paper wraps browned and... Read More
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A Visit With G. B. S.
by Evans, Herbert M. and Evans, Dorothy A.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947. First edition (1 of 60 copies for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco). 1947 LIMITED EDITION OF A MEMOIR OF THE MEETING OF LEADING AMERICAN SCIENTIST AND BIBLIOPHILE WITH GEORGE BERNARD SHAW--COPY OF PROMINENT DIPLOMAT ACTIVE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DURING WW2. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red title label to cover with gilt silhouette of Shaw, ivory paper-covered boards with red cloth spine, frontis sepia photograph of George Bernard Shaw, [iv], 18 pp,... Read More
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Essays in Biology in Honor of Herbert M. Evans
by Evans, Herbert M., Fahrquhar, Samuel T., Leake, Chauncey D., Lyons, William R., Simpson, Miriam E., Allen, F.M., Althausen, T.L., Alvarez, W.C., Anderson, E.N., Purkinje, J.E., Bensley, R.R., Cole, H.H., Goss, H., de Graaf, R., Coward, K.H., Crowe, S.J.,
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of Calofornia Press, 1943. First edition.IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF 3 EMINENT BIBLIOPHILES OF SCIENCE IN THE BERKELEY CIRCLE: FESTSCHRIFT FOR HERBERT EVANS, COPY OF CHARLES SINGER AND MELVIN EDWARD JAHN. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of Dr. Charles Singer and Melvin Edward Jahn to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Herbert M. Evans, xxvii, 684 pp, many illustrations, plate with facing descriptive text; corners bumped, edges soiled,... Read More
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Symptoms and Physical Signs. A Formulary for Clinical Note-Taking, with examples
by Ewart, William
London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1892. First edition. 1892 THE NUTS-AND-BOLTS OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND RECORDING THE HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY ENGLAND. 7 inches tall slim hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with pebbled cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine, gray endpapers with red cloth tape to hinges, 1 inch diameter pewter (?) seal affixed to top verso of table of contents with decorative book-plate of D. Lafano below, containing woodcut silhouette of elegant woman. xiv,... Read More
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Res Medica, Res Publica. The Profession of Medicine, Its Future Work and Wage:
by Ewart, William
London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1907. First edition. BRITISH PHYSICIAN'S CONCERN OF THE GROWTH OF MEDICAL "SPECIALISM" INCLUDES SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HARVARD COLLEAGUE. 14x22 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover, Harvard Library bookplate to front paste-down, ALS tipped in front free endpaper, ink inscription top of title page, "To Profr. Harold Clarence Ernst M.D. etc with kind and grateful regards from the Author W.E. Nov 1907." 39 pp, residue from removal of library stickers to back paste-down.... Read More
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SIGNED. Kuru. Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek
by Farquhar, Judith and Gajdusek, D.Carleton
New York: Raven Press, 1981. First edition. LETTERS AND NOTES OF NOBELIST D C GAJDUSEK, DISCOVERER OF KURU, FIRST PRION DISEASE--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. 18x26 cm hardcover, maroon cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed in ink on front free endpaper: "To Harry Miller: in gratitude for your interest in Toni and in admiration of your efforts to help the students & children of Asia & Oceania. In friendship: D. Carlton Gajdusek, Jan. 1985" xxviii, 338 pp, 32... Read More
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Photograph of Nobel laureates Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs in a laboratory, signed by both scientists
by Fischer, Edmond and Krebs, Edwin G.
ca. 2000. SIGNED PHOTO OF EDMOND FISCHER AND EDWIN KREBS WHO SHARED THEIR LABS AND NOBEL PRIZE IN 1992: CLOSE FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ENJOYING A LAUGH TOGETHER. 5X7 inch glossy black & white photographs signed in gold ink by both Nobel laureates; label verso of photo, "Photo by Hideki Tomeoko,Seattle, WA." EDMOND FISCHER (1920-2021) died on August 27 at the age of 101, the oldest living Nobel laureate. Born in Shanghai, he was introduced to the work of Louis... Read More
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Report on National Vitality, Its Wastes and Conservation, prepared for the National Conservation Commission
by Fisher, Irving
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. First edition. COST ANALYSIS OF ESTABLISHING A FEDERAL PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY IN THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ADMINISTRATION. 14x23 cm hardcover, red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, original printed paper wraps bound in, i-viii, [2], 138 pp. Residue from removal of bookplate from front paste-down, repaired small hole and tear to lower right corner of cover wrap, light browning to pages. Very good minus. Cited by Comfort in The Science of Human Perfection 2012: "Under the Committee's auspices, in... Read More
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The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
by Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1930. First edition. FINE COPY OF FISHER'S LANDMARK MONOGRAPH LINKING GENETICS WITH EVOLUTION WELL BEFORE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 24 x 15 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt emblem of Oriel College, Oxford, to cover, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste-down, color frontispiece of butterflies with tissue guard, dedication to Major Leonard Darwin, i-xiv, 273 pp, second color plate facing p 156. Near-fine in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No.... Read More
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NOBEL. Recent Advances in Vaccine and Serum Therapy
by Fleming, Alexander and Petrie, George Ford
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1934. First edition. NOBELIST FLEMING ON VACCINE AND SERUM THERAPY ONE YEAR BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF SULPHONAMIDES. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bound-in ribbon bookmark with "Valuable Books" sold by publisher, i-x, 463 pp, 16 pp publisher's advertisements dated June, 1933. Embossed library stamp to front and back covers, small "withdrawn" handstamp to front paste-down, small library handstamp to bottom title page, bookplate of City of Liverpool Reference Library... Read More
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Lectures on General Pathology Delivered at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Univerity of Oxford
by Florey, Howard W., Abraham, E.P., Cameron, G.R., Gladstone, G.P., Harris, H., Macfarlane, R.G., Robb-Smith, A.H.T., Roberts, K.B., Sanders, F.K. and vanHeyningen, W.E.
London: Lloyd-Luke, 1954. First edition. PATHOLOGY LECTURES BY OXFORD SCHOLARS EDITED BY NOBELIST DEVELOPER OF PENICILLIN: HIS LIBRARY DONATION. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, ink inscription top of front paste-down, ""Ex dono Howard Gualteri Florey Equitis Aurati, honoris causa socy" [From the gift of Howard Walter Florey, honorary member, Knight of the Golden Horde]," i-xiii, 733 pp, many illustrations, color plates. Faint residue of library sticker bottom of spine, residue of removed bookplate from... Read More
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![Cours sur la Generation, l'Ovologie et l'Embryologie, [Course on Generation, Ovology and Embryology, given at the Natural History Museum in 1836, by Professor Flourens]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/272/880/1678880272.0.l.jpg)
Cours sur la Generation, l'Ovologie et l'Embryologie, [Course on Generation, Ovology and Embryology, given at the Natural History Museum in 1836, by Professor Flourens]
by Flourens, Marie Jean Pierre
Paris: Librairie Medicale de Trinquart, 1836. First edition. 1836 EARLY ILLUSTRATED COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY OF HUMAN AND VERTEBRATE REPRODUCTION. 20 x 25 cm hardcover, 3/4 dark green leather binding, green cloth-covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Surgeon General's Office Library ("withdrawn" handstamp) to front paste-down, [iv], 190, [2] pp. Errata; 10 lithographic plates (4 folding). Corners worn, light foxing, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. FRENCH LANGUAGE. This monograph is based on... Read More
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Recherches sur la structure de l'epiderme des cyclostomes et quelques mots sur les cellules olfactives de ces animaux, par M. Alexandre Foettinger, Etudiant a l'Universite de Liege
by Foettinger, Alexandre
Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 1876. First edition. 1876 EARLY MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE SKIN OF PRIMITIVE FISH BY A BELGIAN STUDENT REVEALED MANY CELL TYPES. 14x22 cm offprint, ink inscription top of title page, "A Monsieur le Professeur Lieberkuhn. Hommage d'auteur. Al. Foettinger". 83 pp, 3 folding color plates. Binding tight, blue paper wraps (handwritten ink title and handstamp of R. Harry Jr. to detached front cover; back cover lacking), minimal browning and occasional foxing, good+ in mylar sleeve. INSCRIBED... Read More
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SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery AND Time on the Cross. Evidence and Methods, A Supplement "TOGETHER WITH Reviews of Time on the Cross (Slavery: The Progressive Institution? AND The World Two Cliometricians Made)
by Fogel, Robert William, Engerman, Stanley L., David, Paul A., Temin, Peter and Gutman, Herbert G.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974, 1975. First edition. 1974 NOBELIST ROBERT FOGEL'S CONTROVERSIAL TIME ON THE CROSS INSCRIBED TO NOBELIST KUZNETS TOGETHER WITH REVIEWS OF ITS FALLOUT EXPLAINING SLAVERY IN AMERICA--ALSO SIGNED BY FOGEL. 1) Robert William Fogel & Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: two 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, brown cloth binding, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, inscribed on front flyleaf, "To Simon Kuznets: These volumes are given with continuing admiration from a steadfast... Read More
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A Monograph of the British Naked-Eyed Medusae with Figures of All the Species
by Forbes, Edward
London: Ray Society, 1848. First edition. FINE HAND-COLORED PLATES OF BRITISH JELLYFISH. 25x36 cm folio hardcover, brown card covers, green cloth spine, gilt title to spine, ink inscription front free endpaper, "Henry Norris/ Oct 1848", [i-viii], 104 pp, 13 hand-colored lithographed plates. Worn covers and spine, scattered light foxing, good+ in custom archival mylar cover. "Published by the Ray Society in 1848, 'British Naked-eyed Medusae' covers a group which was little-studied at the time. Much of the nomenclature has since changed,... Read More
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Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry into the Psychic Powers of these Animals with an Appendix on the Pecularities of their Olfactory Sense, translated from the German by Prof. William Morton Wheeler
by Forel, August
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1904. First English edition. TWO PAPERS ON ANT BEHAVIOR BY SWISS PREDECESSOR OF E. O. WILSON. 15x23 cm gray card covers, green cloth spine, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Merle E. Smith Jr., Ann Arbor, Michigan, April, 1947, to front paste-down, [2], 49 pp. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. AUGUSTE-HENRI FOREL (1848 – 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, and psychiatrist notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and... Read More
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Le Jardinier Fruitier: Principes Simplifies de la Taille des Arbres Fruitiers expliques a l'Aide de Nombreuses Figures Dessinees par l'Auteur, et augmentees d'une Etude sur les Bons Fruits
by Forney, Eugene
Paris: Author, 1862, 1863. First edition. 1862-63 TWO VOLUME ILLUSTRATED FRENCH GUIDE TO PRUNING FRUIT TREES BY PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF PARIS. Two 9 inches tall hardcover volumes, contemporary 1/2 red calf with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, over 300 wood engravings in text. Edges of covers rubbed, spines sunned, light foxing, dampstaining to preliminary pages of vol. 2. Overall good+. Vol. 1 contains chapters on pruning apple and pear trees; vol.... Read More
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A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver, translated by Charles Murchison
by Frerichs, Friedrich T.
New York: W. M. Wood & Co., 1879. First American edition. 1879 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 3-VOLUME TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE LIVER BY NOTED GERMAN PATHOLOGIST. Three 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover volumes, original publisher's brown blindstamped cloth, spines gilt, xxvi, 224; viii, 228; viii, 246 pages. Corners lightly bumped, small paper library labels bottom of spines, armorial book-plate of Dartmouth College Library, "Presented by Charles Bell Converse, M.A., M.D., of the class of 1863" (with "discard" handstamp) with... Read More
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Muscular Contraction and the Control of Reflex Movement
by Fulton, John F.
Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co., 1926. First edition. 1926 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY INSCRIBED BY JOHN FULTON TO FOUNDER OF THE FALLON CLINIC. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth boards, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, bookplate of NSR Maluf and hand stamp of Fallon Clinic Library on front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf "To John Fallon from the flattered author, J.F. Fulton/Oxford/March, 1929". Corners lightly bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 663,... Read More
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SIGNED TRAVELS OF PHYSICIAN NOBELIST. A Year in the Middle East: Expeditions in Iran and Afghanistan with Travels in Europe and North Africa, February 4, 1954 to December 22, 1954
by Gajdusek, D. Carleton
Bethesda, Maryland: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1991. Revised edition. 1954 JOURNAL OF NOBELIST GAJDUSEK'S YEAR IN MIDDLE EAST BEFORE HE DISCOVERED KURU--INSCRIBED TO HARVARD MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST JEFFREY WYMAN. 21x28 cm hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Jeff Wyman/ in our friendship by proxy through John Edsall/ & in lasting admiration/ D. Carleton Gajdusek/ March 1995." [2], map of Middle East, i-xiv,... Read More
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SIGNED. Journal of a Medical and Population Genetic Survey Expedition of the Research Vessel Alpha Helix to the Banks and Torres Islands of the New Hebrides, Southern Islands of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Pingelap Atoll, Eastern Caroline Islands, September 8, 1972 to November 26, 1972
by Gajdusek, D. Carleton
Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, 1985. Revised edition. ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF MEDICAL EXPEDITION TO PACIFIC ISLANDS BY NOBELIST CARLETON GAJDUSEK WITH TLS/ALS TO JAMES WYNGAARDEN, NIH DIRECTOR. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Jim Wyngaarden/ In homage to your wise direction of/ our complex Institutes, in gratitude for/ your support and encouragement, in/ awe and admiration of your prodigious/ scientific... Read More
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Acid-Base Physiology: A Direct Approach
by Gamble, James L., Jr.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY OF JOHNS HOPKINS PEDIATRICIAN'S BEST-SELLING ELUCIDATION OF ACID-BASE PHYSIOLOGY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, book plate of Noble S. R. Maluf to front paste-down, inscribed, "For Noble Maluf with best wishes from Jim Gamble Jr. '45". i-xv, [1], 125 pp, [1], acid-base nomogram affixed to back paste-down with an additional card copy laid in. Very good+ with scattered marginal pencil notes. JAMES LAWDER... Read More
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Causes and Curative Treatment of Sterility, with a Preliminary Statement of the Physiology of Generation. With Colored Lithographs and Numerous Wood Cut Illustrations
by Gardner, Augustus K.
New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1856. 1856 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON FEMALE STERILITY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES BY NOTED PHILADELPHIA LITHOGRAPHER. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original brown cloth boards, blindstamped design, bright gilt title to cover, viii, 170 pages. Spine dulled, spine ends lightly worn, only marks are handstamp of Cincinnati Academy of Medicine Library to title page and dedication page, which reads, "NOT TO THE INVENTOR OF THE CLAMP SUTURE, THE CROWNING SURGICAL APPLIANCE OF THE AGE;... Read More
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EXPANDED SECOND EDITION. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
by Garrod, Archibald E.
London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. Second edition. 1923 LANDMARK MONOGRAPH BY BRITISH PHYSICIAN SIR ARCHIBALD GARROD--THE FIRST TO ATTRIBUTE DISEASES RESULTING TO INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM--CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF "GARROD'S TETRAD." 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, title stamped on cover and gilt title to spine, [i-viii], 216 pp, spine faded, binding tight, light foxing to endpapers, pages clean and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON - MORTON No. 3921 for the first edition of... Read More
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