Search Results: Titles starting with I from Biomed Rare Books

New York: The Galton Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. First edition.
1930 COMPILATION OF VIRULENT ANTI-IMMIGRATION ESSAYS WITH SELECTIONS FROM FOUNDING FATHERS INSCRIBED FROM ONE LEADING AMERICAN ANTI-IMMIGRATIONIST TO ANOTHER.
13x20.5 cm hardcover, green pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed on front free endpaper to "Mr. James K. Fisk, Chairman California Joint Immigration Committee--California's effective organization resisting asiatic invasion. from V.S McClatchy S.F. May 15/30", [7], 238 pp. Corners bumped, 3 small spots to cover, Masonic library stamp & previous owner's sticker on front pastedown, Masonic library stamp to back pastedown, minor browning to page edges, binding tight, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS include chapters by racists and eugenicists (including Madison Grant, V. S. McClatchy, Charles Davenport, Harry Laughlin, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Paul Popenoe, and Lothrop Stoddard) and by founding fathers (Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton,… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First edition.
INSCRIBED DURING WW2 TO NOBELIST OTTO LOEWI WHO ESCAPED NAZI GERMANY IN 1940--FELLOW RESEARCHERS IN WOODS HOLE.
14x20.5 cm hardcover, bugundy cloth binding, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To my dear friend and fellow idealist Dr. Otto Loewi with cordial thanks for his encouragement and inspiration. Edwin G. Conklin, Woods Hole, Mass. Aug. 21, 1944". i-xvii, [2], 247 pp. Spine faded, lacking dust jacket, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Light pencil notations on front paste-down (presumably by Otto Loewi) citing pages 187, 208, and 209. These correspond to pencilled marginal notations highlighting evolution, religion, and Darwin's own anguish over reconciling mechanistic evolution and morality. DEDICATION: "To my Students in Biology Of the past Fifty Years With whom I have discussed Many of the Topics in this Book, It is, with fond Memories DEDICATED." INTRODUCTION: "Mankind is now in the midst of one of the greatest… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952, 1959. First edition.
ANCIENT SCIENCE BY FOUNDER OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE GEORGE SARTON--INSCRIBED TO ABRAHAM FLEXNER, REFORMER OF AMERICAN MEDICAL EDUCATION.
Two 16x24.5 hardcover volumes, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spines. Vol 1, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Dr. Abraham Flexner/ in admiration & friendship/ George Sarton." i-xxvi, 646 pp, 103 figures, general bibliography, index; Vol 2, i-xxvi554 pp, 112 figures, general bibliography, index. Corners bumped, wear to spine ends, very good in very good minus dust jackets with edge tears and light soiling.
GEORGE SARTON (1884-1956) was a Belgian chemist and historian who is considered the founder of the discipline of history of science. Sarton's ultimate goal was to achieve an integrated philosophy of science that provided a connection between the sciences and the humanities, which he referred to as "the new humanism". Sarton intended to complete an exhaustive nine-volume history of science; By the… Read More

Paris: P. Asselin, 1874. First edition.
1871 EARLY MONOGRAPH ON OSTEOMALACIA IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS 50 YEARS BEFORE DISCOVERY OF VITAMIN D.
16x25 cm softcover, blue paper covers, printed title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed in ink top of half-title page, "A mon cher Maitre, Mr Ranvier/ Temoignage de reconnaissance/ Dr Paul Bouley", 132 pp, Table of Contents, Legend to Plates, 4 lithographic plates. Handstamp "Histologie College de France" and ink inscription, "Mr Ranvier" top of cover, soiling to covers, light browning to page edges, text pages and plates clean and unmarked, very good minus in archival case with folding flaps. CONTENTS: I. History; II. Pathologic anatomy; III. Etiologies--nature of the disease. Heredity, age, sex, pregnacy and nursing, hygiene, nutrition, skeletal softening in domestic animals, constitution--influence of diatheses, nature of the disease; IV. Symptoms. Duration, progression and outcomes, character of urine, senile form of osteomalacia, treatment. CONCLUSIONS:… Read More

Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1831. First edition. DISSERTATION ON MEDICAL PRACTICE, NOSOLOGY, AND EDUCATION BY PROMINENT FRENCH PHYSICIAN, INSCRIBED TO HIS MENTOR, WHOSE AUTOGRAPH CRITIQUE IS INCLUDED, COPY OF PREMIER MEDICAL PUBLISHER, JB BAILLIERE - PLUS LITHOGRAPH OF BOUILLAUD8 inches tall hardcover, period red cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, 83 pp, signed association copy. Front paste-down: Ink inscription (presumably by J.-B. Bailliere): "Ce volume contient: 1) Jugement de Bouillaud par M. Ph. J. Roux; 2) Dedicace a Broussais; 3) Jugement de Broussais, comme juge du concours ou M. Bouillaud a été nomme Professeur; 4) Jugement de M. A. Donne sur les travaux de M. Bouillaud" ["This volume contains: 1) Judgment of Bouillaud by M. Ph. J. Roux; 2) Dedication to Broussais; 3) Judgment of Broussais, as judge of the competition where Mr. Bouillaud was appointed Professor; 4) Judgment of MA Donne on the work of M. Bouillaud"]; Book-label of J.-B. Bailliere. Verso front free… 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

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1906.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MARINE MOLLUSKS INSCRIBED BY AMERICAN TO BRITISH MALACOLOGIST.
18.5x27.5 cm offprint, brown printed paper covers, inscription to cover, "Mr. Ernest Ruthven Sykes with the writer's compliments," pp 109-151, plates XVII-XXXI. Spine worn, otherwise very good in custom archival mylar cover.
FRANK MACE MACFARLAND (1869-1951) spent a long and productive career devoted to the study of nudibranch sea slugs, some of which are the most beautifully colored and ecologically complex of all invertebrate inhabitants of in-shore marine habitats. His studies, particularly of the species-rich communities of California, were considered to be among the most detailed and meticulous of the time, and at his death in 1951, he was broadly acknowledged to be a world expert on this ecologically diverse group of mollusks. MacFarland was born in Centralia, Illinois, and studied at DePauw University in Indiana. In 1892 he enrolled as an advanced… Read More

Chicago: American Medical Association, 1910. First edition. 1910 LECTURE BY PIONEERING AMERICAN PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL STUDENTS INSCRIBED TO NOTED ARTIST WHO WOULD LATER MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed on front free endpaper to Sergeant Kendall from C. A. Herter, Jan 27, 1910. 40 pp. Light wear to spine ends and cover corners, light foxing to endpapers, very good in custom archival mylar cover. The text is an address delivered to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, September 23, 1909, at the opening of the medical school. The lecture is an inspirational talk to the new medical school class regarding the importance of research in the advancements of medical practice, and reflects his training under William Welch at Johns Hopkins CHRISTIAN ARCHIBALD HERTER (1865 - 1910) was an American physician and pathologist noted for his work on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He was… Read More

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1973. First printing. Review copy. COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF ATTACHMENT BY LEADING U OF CHICAGO PSYCHOLOGIST--REVIEW COPY OF SIR PATRICK BATESON, CAMBRIDGE ETHOLOGIST. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, signed on front free endpaper, "Patrick Bateson/ Mar. 1973." xv, 472 pp, illustrations, scattered pencil notations, laid in notes. LAID IN review request from Science journal. Very good with small stain corner of bottom edge in very good minus jacket with sun-darkened spine, in mylar sleeve. ECKHARD HEINRICH HESS (1916 – 1986) was a German-born American psychologist and ethologist, known for his research on pupillometry and animal imprinting. He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago as an instructor in 1948. He became a full professor in the Department of Psychology in 1959, and served as its chairman from 1963 to 1968. Hess pioneered the study of animal… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1857. First edition.
1847 "ONE OF THE MOST EGREGIOUSLY RACIST PUBLICATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY"--GARRISON-MORTON.
16x25 cm publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, 2 large folding illustrated charts: "Ethnographic Tableau--Specimens of Various Races of Mankind", and "Chart Illustrative of the Geographical distribution of Monkeys, in their relation to that of some inferior Types of Men." 9 lithographic plates, including colored frontispiece. Prefatory remarks by George Gliddon, A. W. Habersham, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Leidy. xxii, 656 pp, including list of subscribers, many wood engravings throughout. Spine ends chipped, corners worn, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, plates and folding charts clean and intact, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. Copies of Indigenous Races of the Earth are scarce, particularly with well preserved folding charts.
SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON (1799-1851) was an American physician… Read More

Chicago: American Medical Association Press, 1906. First edition. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK BOOK ON INFECTION AND IMMUNITY INCLUDES "DISEASES OF DOUBTFUL OR UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY" (ALL NOW IDENTIFIED!) 8 inches tall hardcover, original black cloth boards, bright gilt title to spine, x, 600 pages. Minor edgewear, handstamp of Dept. of Bacteriology Medical College University of Cincinnati to front free endpaper and title page. Very good. LAID IN ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH of postmortem lungs inscribed on verso, "Lungs/ Joseph Mendoza/ Subacute plague/ ground squirrel infection/ Alameda Co. Calif 1909/ Aug, with handstamp of photographer, R.E. Wales. PREFACE: "Immunity, in its present state of development, with its manifold new terms and special methods of experimentation, is a subject which appears difficult to one who has not studied the newer literature assiduously and grown into a knowledge of the conditions through actual work in the laboratory. Much of the literature is technical in character… Read More

New York: The Science Press, 1912. First edition. 1912 LANDMARK STUDY OF MENTAL AND MOTOR EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE IN COCA-COLA, FIRST TO USE DOUBLE-BLIND CONDITIONS--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue buckram binding, iv, 166 pp, institutional library handstamp to edges and title page, embossed seal to title page, small library sticker bottom of last text page; signed and dated author inscription verso of table of contents, "This book is dedicated to my greatest fans. People who strive to be the best, become the best! Keep up the hard work and good luck in your future. Sincerely, H. L. Hollingworth 1912." Covers unmarked, binding tight, pages age-toned, edges friable with closed tears repaired with archival tape, upper corner missing from last page, not affecting text; good+. HARRY LEVI HOLLINGWORTH (1880 – 1956) was one of the first psychologists to bring psychology into the advertising world, as well as a pioneer in applied psychology. Following his earning a PhD from… Read More

London: H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1935. First edition. 1935 LANDMARK STUDIES ON TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA BY HYPERIMMUNE HORSE SERUM AND DURATION OF IMMUNITY IN FERRETS BY PIONEERING BRITISH VIROLOGISTS. 10 inches tall offprint in orange printed paper covers, stapled, two papers from The British Journal of Experimental Pathology, vol. XVI, pp 275 - 302. Previous owner pencil signature and handstamp number top of cover, very good with no internal markings. SIR PATRICK PLAYFAIR LAIDLAW (1881 - 1940) was a Scottish virologist. From 1920–23, he studied the properties of histamine at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories after which he went to Guy's Hospital as a lecturer in experimental pathology. As a virologist at the Medical Research Council in 1922 his researches on dog-distemper led to two ways of immunization against it, which achievement earned him the award of a Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1933. In 1927 he had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was one of the… Read More