Search Results: Authors starting with V from Biomed Rare Books

Brno, Czechoslovakia: Universita J. E. Purkyne, 1984. First edition. 1984 SIGNED SCARCE HISTORIC ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LONG-TERM BOVINE SURVIVAL EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART AT PURKYNE UNIVERSITY, BRNO, 1979 - 1983. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, embossed title to cover and spine, pictorial endpapers. LAID IN 3 1/2 X 5 1/2 inch printed gold insert with printed text, "With compliments/ J.Vasku" with author's ink signature. 622 pp, 24 full-page color photographic plates with descriptive text of surgical placement of artificial heart in anesthetized calf. 491 black & white figures throughout text (many full-page), 301 references, 4- page summary of report in English, Czech, and Russian; 4- page summary of "recent results in 1983-1984. Unmarked covers, texts and plates, near fine in very good jacket with light edgewear, small chips top back jacket cover, in protective mylar cover. JAROMIR VASKU (born 1926) graduated in 1950 from Purkinje University (now Masaryk… Read More

Brussels: H. Dumont, 1834. Belgian reprint (1st Paris Bailliere 1833).
1834 SUPERB FOLIO ATLAS OF HUMAN FETAL DEVELOPMENT BY LEADING PARIS SURGEON-ANATOMIST.
26x36 cm folio hardcover, original boards recovered with marbled paper, new leather spine with gilt title, and new marbled endpapers. xx, 65 pp, [1] (table of contents), 15 fine lithographic plates depicting human fetuses from the first 2 weeks through the first 4 months, including twins. In addition to Velpeau's specimens, others were obtained from other noted embryologists, anatomists, and obstetricians and their publications.
ALFRED-ARMAND-LOUIS-MARIE VELPEAU (1795 – 1867) was a French anatomist and surgeon who worked as a hospital surgeon in Paris. Following the death of Alexis de Boyer in 1833, he was appointed chair of clinical surgery, a position he maintained until his death in 1867. Velpeau was a skilled surgeon and renowned for his knowledge of surgical anatomy. He was the author of over 340 titles on surgery, embryology, anatomy,… Read More

Paris: Louis Duprat-Duverger, 1813. New edition. 1813 ATLAS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN BY FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR, "THE GREATEST COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST OF THE 18TH CENTURY." 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper covered boards, recent black cloth spine with gilt leather label, decorative bookplate to front paste-down of Charles Atwood Kofoid; title page, frontispiece allegorical engraving depicting Anatomy revealing Medicine and Art by Girodet (after Alexandre Briceau), engraved by Robert De Launay, 35 copper plate engravings of the human brain (8 folding), 4 plates of comparative anatomy each containing multiple images. Covers soiled, light browning to page edges, scattered light foxing, fine plate impressions, very good. FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR (1748-1794) was a French physician and anatomist, the originator of comparative anatomy and discoverer of the theory of homology in biology. He graduated in medicine at the University of Paris and became a renowned and brilliant animal and human anatomist and… Read More

Toulouse: Jean-Jacques Robert, 1775. New edition.
MAGNIFICENT 18TH CENTURY EDITION OF VIEUSSENS' CELEBRATED ATLAS OF NEUROANATOMY WITH LARGE FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES.
20 x 26 cm quarto hardcover, contemporary marbled paper covered boards, vellum tips to corners, leather spine with gilt black leather title label, gilt compartments, xv, 217, [3], 30 plates, 19 of which are folding, 2 extending to 112 cm with multiple mounted leaves. Plate VII inscribed, "J.D. Coulet sculpsit a Toulouse les 30 planches," Plate IX: "J.D. Coulet Parisiens sculpsit." The plates are remarkably bold impressions on heavy paper. Covers clean with light wear, abrasion to leather of top spine compartment, light foxing to endpapers. Binding tight, text pages and plates are crisp and unmarked, a small ink hole in text leaves 119/120 and 127/128, browning to some page edges, water stain top corner of last pages. Overall very good in custom archival mylar cover.
RAYMOND VIEUSSENS (ca. 1635 – 1715) was a French anatomist from Le… Read More

Geneva, Switzerland: The International Journal of Health Education, 1973. First edition. SCARCE BIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING AMERICAN EDUCATOR WHO COINED "HEALTH EDUCATION" AND DEVELOPED HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Slim volume 9 1/2 inches tall; publisher's grey card wrappers printed in dark red, French flaps; xi,[1]. 115pp. Wrappers a bit worn with spine ends bumped and slightly chipped, textblock uniformly toned, later descriptive print-out of the book taped to rear free endpaper, very good. Autograph letter signed by the author on her personal letterhead (recipient unknown) taped inside wrapper, dated April 27, 1974: "This has been a long time in the preparation - first as a dissertation and then as this publication. So much has happened and so many changes in my life since Gertrude Robinson-Smith died - and the Gladstone in NY came down. I now go to Maine where I have a cottage a [sic] Pemaquid Point summers so no more Tanglewood." SALLY LUCAS JEAN (1878 – 1971) was an American… Read More

Basel, Berlin, 1940-1950. First editions.
FOUR OFFPRINTS BY ETHOLOGIST KARL von FRISCH WHO DISCOVERED THE COMMUNICATION BY THE DANCE OF BEES, INCLUDING ONE PAPER SIGNED BY HIM.
1) 20.5x29 cm offprint without covers, 12 pp, 20 figures in text, stapled, inscribed and signed in ink top right of cover by Karl von Frisch, ink singature and catalog number of archivist/collector top right, along with institutional library handstamp. Folded, lightly age-toned, very good. Experientia VI (6): 210-221, 1950. This paper is one of 10 papers listed by author as his "most important" in his Nobel autobiography; 2) 21.5x30 cm offprint without covers, 20 pp, 25 figures in text, signature of archivist/collector and institutional library handstamp to cover. Folded, paper age-toned, very good. Die Naturwissenschaften Heft 1: 1-23 pp & Heft 2:38-43, 1948; 3) 19x26.5 cm offprint without covers, 9 pp, 5 figures, 5 tables in text, instituional library stamp top of cover. Browning to page edges that are wrinkled, very good… Read More