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New York, Washington: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First English edition. 1924 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS IN EPIGENETICS BY PAUL KAMMERER, "ENIGMATIC AND TRAGIC FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY"8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, original red blindstamped cloth binding, gilt title to spine, deckled edges. 414 pages, 43 illustrations, including color and folding plates. DEDICATION: "To Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. Professor, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; the Highly Meritorious Disciple of the Doctrine that Acquired Characteristics are hereditary , and an Indefatigable Champion of the Truth, With an Expression of the Sincerest Admiration of the Author." [ERNEST WILLIAM MacBRIDE FRS(1866 - 1940) was a British/Irish marine biologist, one of the last supporters of Lamarckian evolution]. Corners bumped, light surface wear to covers and spine ends, occasional foxing, overall very good minus. PAUL KAMMERER (1880 - 1926) was an Austrian biologist who studied and… Read More

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. First edition. ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF ABOUT 200 KEY PAPERS IN TROPICAL MEDICINE COVERING 16TH TO 20TH CENTURIES. Two 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover volumes, red cloth bindings, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, xxiii, 286 pp; Vol. II, pp 287 - 677; institutional library handstamp to bottom edge and front flyleaf, index card and bar code back endpapers of each volume; covers clean, spines bright, bindings tight, text pages crisp and unmarked, good+. GARRISON-MORTON No. 2268.1 "About 200 key papers, reproduced in whole or in part, in English translation where necessary. Includes useful biographical notes." BENJAMIN HARRISON KEAN (1912 - 1993) Developed with Doctor Edward I. Goldsmith surgical procedure for extracorporeal hemofiltration; research in toxoplasmosis, malaria, amebiasis, diarrhea in travelers, other tropical diseases. Recipient Presidential award of Golden Heart Philippine Government, 1968; Egyptian Order of Merit, Government of United Arab Republic,… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Co. and Coupland, Southampton, 1837. A New Edition. SCARCE HISTORY OF POPULAR PHRASES AND NURSERY RHYMES BY ENGLISH BOTANIST. Two volumes, 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 red leather with marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt titles to spines; light soiling to covers, wear to spine ends, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, Vol. I, xi, 290 pp; Vol. II, v, 304 pp, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. JOHN BELLENDEN KER (1764 C. - 1842), originally John Gawler, was an English botanist. He is noted for having written Recensio Plantarum (1801), Select Orchideae (c.1816) and Iridearum Genera (1827). He edited Edward's Botanical Register from 1815 to 1824 and was famous as a wit and botanist as well as being the author of Archaeology of Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes (offered here).

Glasgow: Reprinted for the Author, 1893. First edition thus. SCARCE COMPILATION OF 6 REPRINTED PAPERS BY SCOTTISH OTOLOGIST WHO SPECIALIZED IN TREATMENT AND EDUCATION OF DEAF-MUTES, AND BECAME A FRIEND OF HELEN KELLER, 8 inches tall slim hardcover, printed paper covered boards, brown cloth spine, [iv], 9 pp, 10 pp, 11 pp, 22 pp, 29 pp, 1 plate, 17 pp, 1 plate. Covers rubbed and soiled, bookplate of Glasgow University Library (withdrawn) to front paste-down, no other library markings, browning to page edges, front hinge cracked, text unmarked, very good minus. CONTENTS: 1. The hearing power in deaf-mutes; being the results of the examination of 175 deaf-mute children. Archives of Otology, Vol. xxii, No. 2, 170-178, 1893; 2. The pathology of deaf-mutism. Archives of Otology, Vol. xxii, No. 3, 271-279, 1893; 3. Congenital deafness. Glasgow Medical Journal, October, 1893; 4. The education of the Deaf and (so-called) dumb. Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1893 (pp 1-11, Dr. Love's… Read More

London: William Pickering, 1833. First edition.
1833 FIRST EDITION OF ARGUMENT BY OXFORD PHYSICIAN THAT MAN'S EARTHLY ENVIRONMENT IS ADAPTED TO HIS USE--INSCRIBED TO LORD ASTON.
14x23 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, rebacked with recent paper title label to spine, new endpapers. 8 pp publisher's advertisements dated March, 1833, blank page containing author's ink inscription, "For the Right Honble & Reverend Lord Aston, from his sincere friend, the Author," i-xvi (dedication to the Archbishop of Canterbury, description of the Bridgewater Treatises, table of contents, 375 pp, Appendix (Aristotle and Cuvier compared). Bookplate of Phillips University Library to front paste-down, handstamp of K N McCash to front paste-down and bottom of title page, light scattered foxing, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
JOHN KIDD (1775 –1851) was an English physician, chemist and geologist who took a leading role in Oxford's "scientific awakening" in the early years of the nineteenth century. He became… Read More

London: Charles Knight and Co., ca. 1844.
MASSIVE 2-VOLUME VICTORIAN ATLAS OF THOUSANDS OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF WILD AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS--IN ORIGINAL BINDING.
Two folio volumes 14 inches tall, 3/4 green leather binding, marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt red and black leather labels, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-downs, Vol. I, color frontispiece, title page, contents, engraved title page, 400 pp; Vol. II, 432 pp; thousands of fine wood engravings and accompanying text. Abrasions top and bottom of spine leather, wear to corners, light foxing to first and last pages, very good in custom archival mylar covers.
CHARLES KNIGHT (1791–1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father. In 1823, in conjunction with friends he had made as publisher (1820–1821) of The Etonian, he started Knight's Quarterly Magazine. In 1827 Knight was forced to give up publishing, and became the superintendent of… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1894-1909. First editions. 1894-1909 THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGY: COLLECTION OF 14 ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS FROM HARVARD'S ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY INSCRIBED BY ITS DIRECTOR + 2 SIGNED LETTERS. Two hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, full black leather binding with raised bands, gilt title to covers and spines, gilt tooled leather interior borders with fine decorative paste-downs and free endpapers. Each volume contains 7 offprints retaining original wrappers, most published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, containing 71 lithographic plates, some folding and/or color. Volume I contains an engraved dedication "To Mrs. Virginia Barret Gibbs from The Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College." Each volume is inscribed in ink, "With the best wishes of E. L. Mark, March 15,1911," followed by a table of contents. Edges of the covers and spine ends are rubbed, 2 light spots to front… Read More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1930, 1932, 1933. First editions.
THREE ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS ON NEW SPECIES OF PROTOZOA FROM THE RUMEN OF INDIAN CATTLE BY MARINE CILIATE EXPERT C.A. KOFOID.
Three 18x27 cm paper bound volumes in gray printed wrappers, volumes I and III with handstamp to cover, "With the compliments of Charles A. Kofoid, and volume II with handstamp of "NYSL June 1932 duplicate". Vol. I, signature of J. E. Guberlet top of cover, pp 471-544, 17 figures in text, plates 49-52; Vol. II, pp 53-152, 10 figures in text, plates 4-7; Vol. III, pp 1-34, 5 figures in text, plate 1. Browning to cover edges, very good+ in custom archival card folder. The papers describe new species of the ciliate fauna of the stomach of herbivorous animals of Southern India and Ceylon based on collections by CA Kofoid. Rumen protozoa engulf and digest a wide range of bacteria and can reduce the shedding of potential pathogens from the animal, although the effect is highly dependent on the composition… Read More

American Physiological Society, 1924. First edition. 1924 PIONEERING REPORT OF FIRST RECORDING OF MOVING PHOTOMICROGRAPHS OF CAPILLARY FUNCTION IN THE FROG BY NOBEL LAUREATE AUGUST KROGH. 17.5x25 cm offprint in printed wraps, line and photographic illustrations, penciled numbers top of cover, staples rusted. age-toned pages, very good. AUGUST KROGH (1874-1949), professor at Copenhagen University, received the 1920 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the causes of capillary constriction and expansion. In 1922 Krogh published his classic Anatomy and Physiology of Capillaries, which showed that capillaries are regulated both by the nervous system and by hormonal secretions. "Many of the scientists who became the most prominent physiologists of the United States in succeeding decades participated in the studies that made up Krogh's famous monograph. His influence on American physiology cannot be overstated" (Magill, Nobel Prize Winners: Physiology or Medicine, p. 210). A very… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. First edition. FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF OSMORGULATION IN FISH BY NOBEL LAUREATE AUGUST KROGH. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, previous owner signature top of half-title, dated 8/4/49, [viii], 242 pp, 54 figures in text, Light wear to cover edges and corners, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. AUGUST KROGH (1874-1949), professor at Copenhagen University, received the 1920 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the causes of capillary constriction and expansion. In 1922 Krogh published his classic Anatomy and Physiology of Capillaries which showed that capillaries are regulated both by the nervous system and by hormonal secretions. A very distinguished physiologist, he studied gas exchange in living organisms, the effect of carbon dioxide on oxyhemoglobin dissociation in the blood, the quantitation of blood flow, the exchange of… Read More

Monaco: Monaco Press, 1912. First edition.
SCARCE LARGE FOLIO MONOGRAPH ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES COLLECTED IN 1885-1910, PUBLISHED BY ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHS.
Large folio, 11 x 14 inches tall printed transparent paper wraps over card covers which include the coat-of-arms of the Prince of Monaco. Text printed on heavy rag paper, (3), 38 pp, 2 very fine lithographed plates, one partially colored, by Werner & Winter, and a large folding map . Text in French. Spine sunned, handstamp of Frederick M. Bayer top front cover, text clean and unmarked, plates bright and clean. Very good, in custom archival folder. This monograph is a fine example of late 19th century marine biology, with detailed descriptions and magnificant lithographs. It forms part of a series of scientific reports on marine life collected by Albert the 1st, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, collected from his yacht, Hirondelle. The report was printed under the direction of Prince Albert, with the approval of… Read More

Leipzig: C. F. Winter'sche Verlagshandllmg, 1859. First edition. 1859 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INFANCY BY GERMAN PHYSICIAN FAMOUS FOR HIS EPONYMS. 9 inches tall offprint, original printed wrappers; 40pp. Spine neatly mended with clear tape, wrappers worn at edges, else very good with private library tamp on rear wrap (Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago). Kussmaul's doctoral thesis, on the psychology of infancy (German language). KUSSMAUL, ADOLF (1822-1902), a leading clinician of his time, studied at Heidelberg before moving to Würzburg to study for his doctorate under Virchow. He was subsequently Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg (1857), Erlangen (1859), Freiburg (1859) and Strassburg (1876). He was first to describe dyslexia in 1877, and first to describe the emotional symptoms of mercury exposure as a first stage preceding the physical effects. He is known for Kussmaul breathing (labored breathing in severe Diabetic ketoacidosis), Kussmaul's sign (Paradoxical… Read More