Search Results: Titles starting with F from Biomed Rare Books

Paris: Panckoucke, 1788. First edition. 1788 ATLAS OF FISH WITH 102 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS BY FRENCH PRIEST-NATURALIST WHO DESCRIBED 25 NEW SPECIES OF FISH AND THE FIRST TO STUDY THE WILD CHILD OF AVEYRON. Two hardcover volumes 12 3/4 inches tall, recent green cloth covered boards with leather spines and gilt titles, new endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-down, pages uncut, Vol. I, lvi, 215 pp; Vol. II, 102 copper plate engravings numbered A, B, and 1 - 100. Bindings fine, Vol. I with light foxing to first pages, wormholes top corner of 5 leaves (pages 1-10) not affecting text; Vol. II with light browning/foxing to margins of plates engraved by Robert Benard. Overall very good. ABBE PIERRE JOSEPH PONNATERRE (1752-1804) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects to the Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique. Bonnaterre is credited with identifying about 25 new species of fish, and assembled… Read More

London: The Royal Society, Printed for John Clarke at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Austin's Church, 1701. First English edition, second issue.
1701 EARLY ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF FRENCH COMPARATIVE ANATOMY BEAUTIFULLY BOUND WITH A STUDY OF MEASURE OF THE EARTH ILLUSTRATED WITH 40 SUPERB COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS.
Folio (30.5 x 20 cm), full leather paneled binding with blind fillets, spine with raised bands decorative gilt panels, and gilt red leather title label. Engraved title "Englished by A. P. SRS" (Alexander Pifield), dated 1687, signed R Waller fec. (Richard Waller); title page in red and black dated 1701, [xvi], 3-267, 30 plates, [2] table of animals, [11] index; 5 plates; 40. Bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier to front paste-down and engraved armorial bookplate of William Gosselin to verso title page. Very good in very good binding.
CLAUDE PERRAULT (1613 – 1688) was a French physician and an amateur architect, best known for his participation in the design of the east façade… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. First edition. SUMPTUOUS MONOGRAPH ON BIRD BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO TERRITORY--BEAUTIFUL PLATES. 12 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xii, 136 pp, frontis and 10 lithographic plates on heavy stock with tissue guards by George E. Lodge, and 2 full page plans of territorial areas. Near fine in very good minus faded jacket with chipped edges in protective mylar cover. HENRY ELIOT HOWARD (1873 – 26 December 1940) was an English amateur ornithologist, noted for being one of the first to describe territoriality behaviours in birds in a detailed manner. He showed from his earliest childhood an intense love of natural history. It was not until 1914 that his first work, British Warblers, illustrated by Henrik Grönvold, was fully published, having been issued in parts since 1907. Continually working on the theory of territory, he published Territory in Bird Life, illustrated by George Edward Lodge and Henrik… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1945. First edition (stated).
"ONE OF THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT BOOKS OF 1945" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
First edition, 8 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, inscribed on front free endpaper, "For Dave with love from Paul--This memoire to a great man, Herman. Paul de Kruif, May 5, '45". [10], 243 pp. Light rubbing to covers, light page browning, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good in very good-minus jacket with small edge tears and browning, in protective mylar sleeve. The author's inscription refers to HERMAN NIELS BUNDESEN (1882 – 1960), a German-American medical professional, politician, and author. He served two tenures as the chief health official of the city of Chicago, holding this role for more than 34 years in total. He also was elected Cook County coronerIn addition, he also served as president of the American Public Health Association and as a senior surgeon with the United States Public Health Service. In 1914, Bundensen came to work for the… Read More

Paris: Academie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 1841. 1839 FINE FOLDING PLATES: EARLY PRINTING OF POISEUILLE'S FIRST PRIZE-WINNING EXPERIMENTS IN MICROCIRCULATION THAT LED TO HIS FAMOUS EQUATION. 11 inches tall hardcover, recent maroon cloth binding, gilt black leather label to spine, new endpapers, ink notes top of first page, 71 pp [105-175], 6 folding plates (text in French). Pages uncut with age toning to margins, Extract from Mem. pres. div. sav. Acad. Roy. Sci. Inst. France Sci. Math. phys. Vol. 7, pages 105-175, 1839. The first page of the paper states, "ce memoire a remporte le prix de physiologie experimentale, seance publique du 28 decembre, 1835" [this memoir earned the prize of experimental physiology, public session of December 28, 1835]. The plates depict the microcirculation of frog mesentery, salamander lung, neonatal rat bladder, webbed foot and mesentery of frog, and equipment used in the experiments. JEAN LEONARD MARIE POISEUILLE (1797-1869) studied at the École Polytechnique… Read More

London: Williams and Norgate, 1885. First edition thus. 1885 CONDEMNATION OF LOSS OF RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE (INCLUDING DARWINISM) BY PROMINENT BRITISH ANTIVIVISECTIONIST, INSCRIBED TO COLLEAGUE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, Author's inscription front flyleaf, "For Benjamin Bryan, With her very kind regards from his Friend & Colleague Frances Power Cobbe, June, 1885", institutional library handstamps to title page and last page, 41 pp, list of recent works by the author. Wear to cover edges, small library call numbers lower corner of cover, front flyleaf detached, hinges cracked but binding tight and text block unmarked and clean, residue from library pocket removed from back paste-down. Good. CONTENTS include, "I cannot but think that something is already lost to it when the reverent, tender, modest, and yet lofty spirit of a Kepler, a Newton, a Herschel, a Lyell, is exchanged for the arrogant one which we find pervading the newer… Read More

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1808. 1808 FAMILY HERBAL BY ENGLISH PHYSICIAN BOTANIST WITH 54 FINE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF PLANTS. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 calf binding with marbled boards, gilt lines to spine, gilt black leather title to spine, signature of Rd Clatterbuck, Colchester on front paste-down, Partial ink inscribed list of contents on front endpaper, title page with no date, but plate facing page 137 engraved, "Publd. by Brightly Bungay 1808", xl, 376 pp, 54 finely colored engraved plates containing multiple plants. Corners bumped, wear to covers, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, text unmarked, scattered pressed flowers inserted between pages, overall very good. In custom archival mylar cover. JOHN HILL (1714 – 1775), called because of his Swedish honors, "Sir" John Hill, was an English author and botanist. He was apprenticed to an apothecary and on the completion of his apprenticeship he set up in a small shop in St Martin's Lane, Westminster. He… Read More

New york: D. Appleton and Co., 1876. Second edition.
1876 BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED LITTLE BOOK BY EMINENT AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST WHO BROUGHT DARWIN TO JAPAN.
7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, salmon cloth covered boards, gilt illustration of hermit crab on cover, with embossed design, spine leather, with gilt snail design, all edges marbled, i-xiv, 190 pp, over 160 wood engravings in text, publisher's advertisements at back. Covers and spine bright, corners bumped and worn, binding tight, scattered light foxing of endpapers, pages crisp and clean, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
EDWARD SYLVESTER MORSE (1838 – 1925) was an American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist. He is considered the "Father of Japanese archaeology." He attended Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, where he came under the influence of Dr. Nathaniel True who encouraged Morse to pursue his interest in the study of nature. By the age of thirteen he had put together an impressive collection of shells, and despite his lack of… Read More

Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nachfolger - Adolf Spemann, 1943. First edition (stated). ASSOCIATION COPY OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GERMAN NOBELIST HANS SPEMANN INSCRIBED BY NOTED FINNISH EMBRYOLOGIST TO EMINENT SOUTH AFRICAN EMBRYOLOGIST LEWIS WOLPERT. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, printed title to cover, tan cloth spine with gilt title, pencil note to front paste-down, "Spemann was awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1935. Pres. copy to Lewis Wolpert." Inscribed in ink on half-title page: "To Lewis Wolpert/ with warmest thanks for a superb meeting and great hospitality/ Lauri Saxen" followed by, "and Marketta Karkinen-Jaaskelainen". 344 pp, photo portrait plates of Spemann in 1875, 1882, 1894, 1910, 1924, 1932, 1940, folding plate of "the handwriting of the seventy-year-old." Soiling to edges, lacking front flyleaf, binding tight, pages clean, unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. GERMAN LANGUAGE. HANS SPEMANN (1869 – 1941) was a German embryologist who was… Read More

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1934. First edition.
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHNS HOPKINS FIRST HEAD OF ANATOMY BY HIS MENTEE, FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES--COPY OF NOTED NY CARDIOLOGIST.
8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, decorative bookplate of Sidney P Swartz MD. to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Franklin Pain Mall, i-xiii, 342 pp, 8 photographic portraits of Mall from early chilhood to the year of his death. Light wear to cover edges, light browning to pages, clean and unmarked except for in underlining of one sentence on page 48: "the quality of the teacher is more important than the subject taught". Very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FLORENCE RENA SABIN (1871 – 1953) was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller… Read More

Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences, 1887. First edition. 1887 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON FRESH WATER SPONGES BY ARDENT PHILADELPHIA ZOOLOGIST WHO ASSEMBLED WORLD'S MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE OBSCURE ORGANISMS. Bound offprint from Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 green leather binding with marbled boards, spine with raised bands , gilt compartments and gilt title, marbled endpapers, decorative institutional bookplate to front paste-down, iv, [170] pp, plates V to XII. Small paper label bottom of spine, residue from removed label top of cover and back paste-down. Binding tight, text pages and plates unmarked; good+. EDWARD POTTS was a well-known Philadelphia zoologist, who donated his collection of fresh water sponges to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Described in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1890, as "without a doubt the most comprehensive collection of the kind in the world--it comprises… 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