Search Results: Authors starting with J from Biomed Rare Books

Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1920. First edition. SUMPTUOUS MONOGRAPH FROM THE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE OF MONACO ON ANATOMY OF A DEEP SEA PARASITIC EEL--FINE DOUBLE-PAGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 14 inches tall folio volume, paper covers with title printed on tissue jacket with coat of arms of the Sovereign Prince of Monaco, handstamp of Ernest A. Lachner top of cover and half title, 76 pp, text printed on heavy rag paper, 5 double-page lithographed plates with tisue guards, Text in French. Cover edges age-toned, text clean and unmarked, plates bright and clean, very good. This monograph forms part of a series of scientific reports on marine life collected by Albert the 1st, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, collected from his yacht. The report was printed under the direction of Prince Albert, with the approval of Jules Richard, doctor of science, chief of zoologic studies. Simenchelys parasitica is also known as the snubnosed eel, is a species of deep-sea eel and the only member of its genus. It is found in… Read More

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1934. First edition. SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON LABOR PRACTICES AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. 11 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth publisher's binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis drawing of mother in rocking chair preparing for delivery; xvi, 175 pp, 129 illustrations. covers and corners worn, spine ends frayed, 1/2 inch abrasion to lower spine, hinges cracked exposing webbing, light foxing to first and last pages, text clean and unmarked. In custom archival mylar cover. JULIUS JARCHO (1882-1963) was a New York obstetrician and gynecologist. His efforts were fundamental in the establishment of Israel's National Medical Library when, in 1919, he learned that physicians in what was then Palestine were without medical literature. He devoted his personal and financial resources to collecting medical literature in the United States for a network of medical libraries, originally focused on the Jerusalem library as the central one, with branch… Read More

London: Royal Society of London, 1957. First edition. ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGIC CHALLENGES OF FILTER FEEDING IN FLAMINGOES. 12 inches tall monograph in brown printed paper covers, corners worn, pages [401]- 493 pp, 19 figures in text 4 photographic plates, typewritten page of Appendix Table 1. laid in. Very good. PENELOPE M. JENKIN (1902-1994) English zoologist, attended Newnham College, Cambridge, 1921–25, 1927–31; University of Glasgow, postgraduate studies, 1925–27. The 1st to conduct independent research (1931) at the Freshwater Biological Association's laboratory and the 1st person to use algae species to measure daily photosynthetic rates, held a teaching scholarship at University of Birmingham (1927–29); as a Percy Sladen expedition member, measured photosynthesis in Kenya's Lakes Nakuru and Naivasha (1929); employed as a University of Bristol zoology lecturer (1934–62); conducted significant work on the food web of Lake Nakuru germane to the role of the lesser… Read More

London: John Murray, 1838. New edition.
1838 EARLY WORK ON ANIMAL AND PLANT ECOLOGY--EDITION LISTED IN DARWIN'S READING NOTEBOOKS.
Two 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, 3/4 brown calf, rubbed, marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, gilt leather label, xi + (1 blank) + 352pp, with engraved title and frontispiece, 5 engravings (of trees) in text; v + (1 blank) + 283 + (1) pp. Very good in custom archival mylar covers. The author seeks to kindle a warmth rather than hostility towards the animal kingdom. with some 260 short entries of anecdotes and observations on the habits and characteristics of animals, birds, fish, and their relationships with each other, also plants and phenomena in nature, and naturalists and country workers. Also described are features in the parks surrounding London - Hampton Court, Richmond, Bushy, Windsor Great Park. This edition is listed in Charles Darwin's reading notebooks.
EDWARD JESSE (1780-1858) was an English writer on natural history, who became clerk in a… Read More

Strasbourg: Berger-Levrault, 1845. First edition. 1845 FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY AND ANATOMY OF THE GIRAFFE ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY TWO ZOOLOGISTS FROM TOULOUSE, FRANCE. 12 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine with gilt title, bookplate of NSR Maluf MD to front paste-down, marbled endpapers, [4], 124 pp, 17 lithographed plates. Light wear to cover edges, browning to title page and acknowledgment page, very light foxing of last 5 plates, very good in custom archival mylar cover. French language text. 14 copies Worldcat. NICOLAS JOLY (1812 - 1885) was a French zoologist from Toulouse. In 1830, he moved to Montpellier, where he taught German and earned a degree in Natural Sciences. In 1842, following the departure of Armand de Quatrefages to Paris, he was appointed to the Chair of Zoology of the Faculty of Sciences of Toulouse, where he taught for 36 years. In 1857 he became lecturer of anatomy and physiology at the Preparatory School of Medicine and… Read More

Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1904. First edition thus (published September 1904).
SCARCE ELEGANTLY PRINTED SPIRITUAL ALLEGORY BY CONTROVERSIAL FIRST PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY--SIGNED.
8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, decorative green paper covered boards with title to front and back covers, handstamp of Norton Clapp and colophon "In Luce Veritatis" to front paste-down, signature of David Starr Jordan top of title page, unpaginated (22 leaves), olive green decorative frame around each text page. Light browning to covers, corners bumped, text clean and unmarked. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
DAVID STARR JORDAN (1851 - 1931) was inspired by Louis Agassiz to pursue his studies in ichthyology. He was part of the first freshman class of undergraduates at Cornell University and graduated in 1872 with a master's degree in botany. Jordan initially taught natural history courses at several small Midwestern colleges and secondary schools, including at Indianapolis High School. While in… Read More

1896 - 1926. First editions. 1896 - 1926 COLLECTION OF 49 OFFPRINTS ON FISHES OF THE WORLD BY DAVID STARR JORDAN, FOUNDER OF AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERISTY. 49 offprints 9 1/2 - 11 inches tall, in self or printed wrappers, some with notations on covers, several with age-toning and edgewear, text unmarked, very good. Covers bear the handstamp of Herman Adair Fehlmann or Ernest A. Cachner, both curators at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington. The collection is housed in an archival document box with metal reinforced corners. HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.THE COLLECTION INCLUDES: 1) The history of ichthyology. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, 1902; 2) A review of the giant mackerel-like fishes, tunnies, spearfishes and swordfishes. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, September, 1926; 3) Notes on fishes, little known to science. Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, 1896; 4) On a… Read More

Chicago: American Medical Association, 1924. First edition. 1924 BRIEF REVIEW OF THE TURNING POINT IN DIABETES MANAGEMENT FOLLOWING DISCOVERY OF INSULIN, BY "THE DEAN OF DIABETES," ELLIOTT JOSLIN. 11 inches tall extract from JAMA including 3 papers on diabetes, unmarked and very good. The first by Joslin, who comments on the increasing life span of diabetics, and the increasing incidence of symptoms at later ages: an early recognition of the rise of type 2 diabetes. He comments on the importance of population studies comparing ethnic groups, and warns against assuming racial predispositions. Responding to the first use of insulin in 1922, he concludes that "insulin is better than any of us thought a year ago." He reports on status of his first 127 patients treated with insulin less than 2 years after its discovery. The patients received insulin an average of 18 months, and all for more than one year. 23 patients died, but "not one of the patients who died succumbed during the first year of the… Read More