Search Results: Authors starting with W from Biomed Rare Books

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1942. First edition.
BRILLIANT WARTIME DISCUSSION OF SCIENCE AND ETHICS BY MAJOR SCHOLARS, INSCRIBED TO "THE MASTER" AND SIGNED BY CH WADDINGTON.
13x20 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by Waddington to "The Master, with respectful compliments/ C. H. Waddington", 144 pp, very good in very good dust jacket, spine sunned.
REVIEW IN NATURE, June 12, 1943: "On September 6, 1941, NATURE printed an essay by Dr. C. H. Waddington on "Science and Ethics" (p. 270). This essay had previously been submitted to various men of science, philosophers and churchmen whose comments were published in the same number of NATURE (pp. 274-280). The discussion that had been opened in this way led to further communications between Waddington and authorities on the particular subjects to which he had referred, including psychology, anthropology, Marxism and logical positivism. The entire material has now been put together and published… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954. First printing (stated). THE DISCOVERY OF STREPTOMYCIN--THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SELMAN WAKSMAN, WHO RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE, AND 2 LETTERS FROM ALBERT SCHATZ, WHO CONTESTED HIS EXCLUSION FROM THE AWARD. 9 1/2 inches tall blue paper-covered boards, red cloth spine, author initials to cover, gilt title to spine, small dent top back cover, very good in price-clipped jacket with edge tears. LAID IN: 1. A.L.S. From Professor Albert Schatz, Philadelphia to Dr. Milton Wainwright, Sheffield, Jan 20, 1989, agreeing to meet with soon in Philadelphia; 2. T.L.S. from Albert Schatz to Dr. Douglas E. Eveleigh, Temple University, September 25, 1989, offering "more information on the streptomycin situation," and asking to meet with him in order to discuss a book he is planning to write on soil microbiology for the layman. He specifically requests references on soil microbiology and outlines of experiments for enrichment cultures for autotrophs, etc. The letter has been forwarded to Dr.… Read More

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955, 1958. First editions. 1950s LANDMARK PUBLICATIONS ON THE BIOLOGY OF VISION BY NOBELIST GEORGE WALD AND HIS COLLEAGUE AND SPOUSE RUTH HUBBARD--SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS. Visual Problems of Colour: two hardcover volumes 9 1/4 inches tall, printed green paper covered boards, green cloth spines, Vol. I, signature of Ruth Hubbard top of cover, frontis portrait of Selig Hecht, viii, 368 pp; Vol. II, signature of George Wald top of cover, [1], 369-749 pp. Browning to cover and page edges and light edge wear, binding tight, very good. Vol. I contains the Selig Hecht Commemorative Lecture by Professor George Wald, "Retinal Chemistry and the Physiology of Vision," pp 5-61, 23 figures, 104 references; and "On the Chromophores of the Visual Pigments" by Ruth Hubbard, pp 151-173. TOGETHER WITH offprint, "The Photoreceptor Process in Vision," American Journal of Ophthalmology, Vol. 40, No. 5, Part II, pp 18-41, November, 1955. GEORGE WALD (1906 - 1997) was a member of the… Read More

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1941. First edition. 1941 SCARCE LANDMARK CONTROLLED STUDY OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR IN BLACK TEENS BY FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO EARN A PHD FROM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 9 3/4 inches tall offprint; original grey printed staplebound card wrappers; [2], 18pp. Near Fine. Reprinted from the Journal of Negro Education, April, 1941. Dissertation presented to the faculty of the graduate school of University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prominent psychologist's first independently published piece, earning him the first PhD awarded to an African American from the University of Pennsylvania. FREDERICK PAYNE WATTS (1904-2007) was one of five biracial children, three of whom went on to be a physician, a dentist and of course a psychologist. Watts was educated in the Washington, D.C. public school system. Upon graduating from Dunbar High School in 1922, he attended Howard University, graduating in 1926… Read More

Dayton, Ohio: The Weaver Publishing House, 1911. 5th edition, revised and enlarged. 1911 CURIOUS ILLUSTRATED HOME HEALTH GUIDE INDEXED BY CHIEF COMPLAINT WITH HUNDREDS OF REMEDIES. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding with decorative title to cover, [5]-52 pp, CONTENTS: Physical Chart: Weights and Measures, Table of Doses for Children, Alimentatry Canal, Treatments [numbered 101 - 433, Index of Diseases, Diseases of Women, Diseases of Children]. Wear to corners and spine ends, hinges starting, ink notation verso of front flyleaf and inscription of patient names following several recipes (John Horner and Mrs. John Horner), titles of several recipes circled, ink blot margin of p 42; otherwise tightly bound with clean pages; good+. LAID IN: newspaper clippings taped to 8x11 inch Milk Wanted dairy card. An interesting early 20th century home health guide with recipes for treatment of every ailment from Impaction of ear-wax to St. Vitus Dance and Dropsy with Feeble Heart Action. This book is… Read More

London: H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1952. First edition. COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SYNDROMES BY NOTED BRITISH DERMATOLOGIST ASSOCIATED WITH NUMEROUS EPONYMS--SIGNED BY HIM, WTH ALS TO DR. JOHN KRAFCHUK. 10 inches tall hardcover, yellow paper covered boards, printed cover, with hand stamp lower right corner of John D. Krafchuk, M.D. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf "with kind regards and best wishes, F. Parkes Weber"; 72 pp with numerous photographic balck & white figures. Covers lightly browned, spine edges worn, binding tight, very good in custom archival mylar cover. LAID IN: ALS (dictated/signed) from author to Prof. Krafchuk, also return address and handwritten note indicating letter from FPW. Contents include: Osler's love for obscure diseases; The humming man; Death and doctors: Epigrams and art in regard to the relation of death to the medical sciences. FREDERICK PARKS WEBER (1863 – 1962) was an English dermatologist and author who practiced medicine in London. Weber was… Read More

London: H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1956. First edition. SMALL VOLUME OF MEDICAL CASE REPORTS BY 93 YEAR-OLD DR. F. PARKES WEBER, MASTER OF THE "INTERESTING CASE"--PRESENTATION COPY TO A COLLEAGUE WITH SIGNED LETTER. Slim hardcover, 9 inches tall, yellow paper covered boards, title to cover, autograph dictated signed letter from author to medical colleague affixed to front paste-down, salutation and author's initials to front free endpaper. Covers slightly worn, corners bumped, very good. The letter is written on Dr. F. Parkes Weber's stationary, dated August 10th 1956. "Dear Dr. Barnard, Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I am sending you a copy of my new little book [enclosed with this letter] which refers to the interesting case in question. I hope, some other portions of the book will also interest you. Believe me, with kind regards and best wishes, Yours sincerely, F. Parkes Weber," There is a notation at the top of the page indicating that the letter was dictated (Weber was 93 years old), and… Read More

Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 1952. First edition.
5 YEARS BEFORE SPUTNIK: SCARCE PROCEEDINGS OF FIRST US SYMPOSIUM ON PHYSICS AND MEDICINE OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE SIGNED BY PHYSICIAN EDITOR.
10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, maroon cloth bindint, gilt title to cover and spine, Inscribed on front free endpaper, "For Group Captain Stewart, Compliments of the Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Clayton S. White" and, "Dear Bill, Thought you might like this copy for your own library. My personal thanks for your support and hospitality. Best regards, Sam". Color frontis of painting of Douglas "Skyrocket," xxiv, 611 pp, 45 black & white photographic plates. Lacks dustjacket, light wear to edges of covers, age-toning of page edges, unmarked and very good in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: include chapters by Fred L. Whipple on meteorites, James A. Van Valen on cosmic radiation, Craig L. Taylor on human tolerance for temperature… Read More

London: W. E. Painter, [1854]. Fourth edition. SCARCE MID-19TH CENTURY HUMOROUS BRITISH ACCOUNT OF THE MIND-STOMACH RELATIONSHIP WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, cover blindstamped with gilt title,small embossed bookseller seal to front flyleaf, half-title page lacking, title page with fantasy wood engraving with verse from Love's Astronomy (the complete poem pp 89-91), xvi, 135 pp, [6 "Opinions of the Press"] LAID IN autograph letter, signed, "Dear Mrs. Danberry, I have the pleasure to send you by post a certain little work with a quaint title which you [illegible] a desire to peruse, but I firmly hope that in any case a perfect enjoyment of good health will always [illegible] with a thousand thanks for the charming afternoon of Monday last Believe me Dear Mrs. Danberry, Very sincerely yours, Sydney Whiting, Manor House, Westbourne Green, July 11th." Covers rubbed, corners and spine ends worn, top of front joint worn, binding tight, pages… Read More

London: The Cresset Press, 1949. First edition. 1949 AN EARLY ATTEMPT TO UNITE THE PHYSICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS--COPY OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Ink signature "Skempton/ 1949" on front flyleaf, x, 182 pp, covers clean, binding tight, pages age-toned with scattered marginal notations, presumably by Skempton, jacket darkened with crease and closed tear to bottom edge, overall very good in good+ jacket. LANCELOT LAW WHYTE (1896-1972) was a Scottish financier and industrial engineer. He claimed to have worked with Albert Einstein on the unified field theory. He further claimed that this work was based on the theory of the 18th century natural philosopher Roger Boscovich. Whyte proposed something he called "the unitary principle" to unify physics theories. Whyte was the author of the book Internal Factors in Evolution (1968). He proposed that Darwin's theory of natural selection is limited… Read More

Augsburg: Engelbrecht, 1796. First edition. 1796 FIRST EDITION OF INSECT VOLUME (MAINLY BEETLES) WITH 46 SPECTACULAR HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES BY RENOWNED AUGSBURG ENGRAVER. 6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 inches hardcover, green paper covered boards, green leather spine with red leather gilt title label, ink inscription by previous owner dated 3.4.1921 to front free endpaper, engraved title page depicting cherubs in the countryside collecting and mounting insects on a board. 376 pp, 46 hand-colored copper plates. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, gilt spine bright, scattered foxing and browning of text and plates, but colors are vivid and unmarked. Very good minus. Volume I (offered here) contains beetles, grasshoppers, mantises, cicadas, leafhoppers, aphids. GOTTLIEB TOBIAS WILHELM (1758 - 1811) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, probably best known for his monumental "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" ("Wilhelm's Discourses on Natural History"). This was issued in weekly instalments from… Read More

Augsburg: Engelbrecht, 1797. First edition. 1797 FIRST EDITION OF INSECT VOLUME (BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS) WITH 52 SPECTACULAR HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES BY RENOWNED AUGSBURG ENGRAVER. 6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 inches hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with brown paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled and tooled compartments, and tan leather label with gilt title. Lacking front free endpaper. Engraved title depicting cherub inscribing a memorial to Abraham Christian Wilhelms. 424 pp, 52 hand-colored copper plates. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, gilt spine bright, scattered foxing and browning of text and plates, but colors are vivid and unmarked. Very good minus. Volume 2 (offered here) contains butterflied and moths. GOTTLIEB TOBIAS WILHELM (1758 - 1811) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, probably best known for his monumental "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" ("Wilhelm's Discourses on Natural History"). This was issued in weekly instalments from his father's publishing… Read More

Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1950. First edition.
FIRST EDITION OF FOUNDATIONAL TEXTBOOK ESTABLISHING THE DISCIPLINE OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY--SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO AN EARLY TRAINEE AND COLLEAGUE.
21x28 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, inscribed and signed on front endpaper, "To my friend and coworker Robert Klein from Lawson Wilkins," i-xx, 385 pp, [1]. Wear to corners and spine ends, binding weak at first 2 signatures, browning to page edges and front endpapers. Good+ in very good minus dust jacket with edges chipped, in protective mylar sleeve.
LAWSON WILKINS (1894-1963) "was a pioneering pediatric endocrinologist. After serving in World War I and graduating from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he completed his pediatric residency at Yale and then returned to Baltimore to practice general pediatrics. However, he quickly distinguished himself from other practitioners by his insatiable curiosity and careful attention to measurable physical parameters and the information they provided… Read More

Edinburgh: University Press, 1805. First English edition. 1805 MONOGRAPH ON THE BIOLOGY OF PLANTS BY PIONEER IN THE STUDY OF THEIR GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE, ILLUSTRATED BY FINE ENGRAVED PLATES. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with brown paper boards, gilt title to spine, front paste-down with armorial bookplate of Jenner of Chislehurst, Kent, iv, 508 pp, 10 copper plate engravings by Daniel Lizars (1754–1812) (the last plate hand colored). Very good in custom archival mylar cover. CARL LUDWIG WILLDENOW (1765 - 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. Willdenow was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt one of the earliest and best known phytogeographers. He was a director of the Botanical garden of Berlin from 1801 until his death. There he studied many South American plants, brought back by the explorer Alexander von Humboldt.… Read More

New York: Macaulay Co., 1928. First edition. SIGNED COPY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS' FIRST NOVEL INSCRIBED TO GEORGE ZABRISKIE, A YOUNG POET together with ON THE BOARDS BY ZABRISKIE, SIGNED BY HIM. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, title to cover, incsribed front flyleaf, "George Zabriskie/ his book/ by the Grace of God & 5 cents/ William Carlos Williams/ 11/4/49." vi, 338. Lacks dust jacket, covers soiled, spine ends frayed, corners worn, endpapers browned, front hinge cracked, front joint sound, binding tight, text unmarked, good +. A scarce association copy of Williams' first novel inscribed to a young poet. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883 – 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His father was born in England but raised from the age of 5 in the Dominican Republic; his mother was from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and had French extraction. The Caribbean culture of the family home had an important influence on Williams. Williams… Read More

London: Macmillan Magazines, Ltd., 1997. First printing.
ARCHIVE OF 4 ISSUES OF NATURE (1997, 1998, 2007, AND 2016) DOCUMENTING THE FIRST 2 DECADES OF MAMMALIAN CLONING.
Included are the following issues of Nature, International weekly of science: 27 February 1997, 23 July 1998, 7 June 2007, and 30 June 2016, that chronicle Dolly, her history and her legacy. LEAD ARTICLE: Ian Wilmut, et al. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells. Nature 27 February 1997, 385, pp 810-813; EDITORIAL: Colin Stewart. An udder way of making lambs. Nature 27 February 1997, 385, pp769-771; MORE STUDIES OF DOLLY: Esther N Signer et al. DNA fingerprinting Dolly. Nature 23 July 1998, 394, pp 329-330; David Ashworth et al. DNA microsatellite analysis of Dolly. Nature 23 July 1998, 394, p 329; 20 YEARS LATER: Ewen Callaway. The story of the world's most famous sheep, from the people who brought her to life. Nature 30 June 2016, 534, pp 604-608; AFTER DOLLY: CUMULINA AND HER CLONES: T. Wakayama et al.… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First edition.
ILLUSTRATED STUDIES OF CELL DIVISION IN INVERTEBRATES BY THE FOUNDER OF AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGY.
9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, [6], 51 pp, 20 illustrations, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
EDMUND BEECHER WILSON (1856 – 1939) was a pioneering American geneticist, credited as America's first cell biologist. In 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogenetic relationships. By observing spiral cleavage in molluscs, flatworms and annelids he concluded that the same organs came from the same group of cells and that all these organisms must have a common ancestor. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902. He also discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905. Wilson adopted the title, The Physical Basis of Life, from that of a lecture by T. H. Huxley in 1868.

New York: Columbia University Press, Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition.
1895 FOLIO ATLAS OF FIRST PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHROMOSOMAL DIVISION BY LEADING AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGIST.
11x13 inch folio hardcover, dark blue cloth binding, gilt title, "Columbia University Biological Series" to cover, gilt title to spine, back cover blindstamped with Macmillan colophon, bookplate of University of London Library and "withdrawn" handstamp to front paste-down--no other marks. Wear to cover corners, text and plates clean and bright: very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: "It is the object of this work to place before teachers and students of biology a series of figures, photographed directly from nature, to illustrate some of the principal phenomena in the fertilization and early development of the animal ovum. In no branch of biological inquiry has knowledge advanced of late with such rapid strides as in the new science of cytology, which deals with the internal phenomena of cell-life.… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1973. First edition.
1973 LANDMARK COMPENDIUM OF THE PHYSIOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS OF FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES IN PEDIATRICS BY 25 LUMINARIES.
9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, i-xx, 715 pp, numerous illustrations. Corners bumped, otherwise near-fine in very good+jacket. In addition to Robert W. Winters, authors include Donald D. Van Slyke, John H. Laragh, John M. Driscoll, John C. Sinclair, Laurence Finberg, Chester M. Edelmann Jr, Donald E. Potter, Malcolm A. Holliday, In the Preface, Winters emphasizes that, "an understanding of the fundamental unity of the basic principles of chemistry and physiology, on the one hand, and their relationship to bedside care of sick patients, on the other hand, is obviously the only rational approach to diagnosis and treatment.

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas , 1960. First edition.
1960 UNIQUE LARGE ATLAS OF THE SKELETAL EMBRYOLOGY OF THE LABORATORY MOUSE PUBLISHED BEFORE THE EXPLOSION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY.
35.5x28.5 cm printed heavy board covers, spiral bound, i-xiii, 169 pp, many photographic illustrations of cleared specimens, developmental charts. Corners bumped, residue from label removed from top of cover, library hand stamp to half-title and title page, discard stamp back endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked, very good minus.
FROM THE PREFACE: "On the 14th day there is one bone, the clavicle, the first center of the ossification process. One day later, the 15th, there are more than 50 [compare pages 19 and 21!]. Only a serial progression of photographs together with the Chronological Table Index as evolved for this Atlas can convey the dramatic swiftness of augmentation and the beautiful exactitude of this structural process. ... A noteworthy addition is the recording and tabulatin of sex variations in the… Read More