Search Results: Titles starting with P from Biomed Rare Books

1928-1954. First editions.
1928-1954 ARCHIVE OF OFFPRINTS BY PIONEERING EPILEPTOLOGIST W. G. LENNOX COLLECTED BY HIS SUCCESSOR, C. T. LOMBROSO.
Archive of 21 offprints of papers by Dr. William G. Lennox, from the estate of dr. Cesare T. Lombroso, who succeeded Lennox as director of the Seizure Unit at the Children's Hospital, Boston.
WILLIAM GORDON LENNOX (1884-1960) first became interested in epilepsy when working as medical missionary in China. At the Harvard Medical School, he published many papers with Frederic Gibbs with whom he was jointly awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1951. From 1935 to 1949 Lennox was president of the International League Against Epilepsy, and from 1941 to 1952 editor of the Epilepsia. From 1936 to 1937 he served as first president of the American League Against Epilepsy, which later became the American Epilepsy Society. In 1951 he described a special epilepsy syndrome, later named after him and the French neurologist and epileptologist Henri… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1953. First edition, second printing.
SIGNED COPY--A UNIQUE VIEW OF WESTERN THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY BY THE "DEAN OF RENAL PHYSIOLOGY," HOMER W. SMITH, WITH PREFACE BY ALBERT EINSTEIN.
8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, author's inscription to front free endpaper, "For Elliot Levy/ With my warmet regards/ Homer W Smith/ March 24, 1955," foreword by Albert Einstein, x, 501 pp, very good, lacks dust jacket (but front and back flaps conserved and included), in custom archival mylar cover. Not only does this book begin with a preface by Albert Einstein, it ends with "The Story of This Book," a detailed autobiography of the author.
HOMER WILLIAM SMITH (1895-1962) not only became the dean of renal physiology but emerged as a truly polymathic figure whose writings and contributions encompassed evolution, philosophy, religion, and music. For him, science and philosophy were inseparable and he was preoccupied not only with the origin of life and its… Read More

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1893. First English edition (French 1891). 1893 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MALARIA BY NOBEL LAUREATE ALPHONSE LAVERAN. 9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt portrait of Sydenham to front cover, gilt title to spine, all edges stained red, xii, 197, 6 plates (4 chromolithographs by Nicolet after Lavern and 2 heliotypes by Racle), each with facing descriptive text; spine ends frayed, corners worn, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, very good. CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN (1845 - 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he joined the French Army. At… Read More

1865-1888. First editions. UNIQUE BOUND COLLECTION OF SIGNED OFFPRINTS BY ALPHEUS HYATT INSCRIBED TO HIS COLLEAGUE ALPHEUS PACKARD--BOTH LEADING NEO-LAMARCKIAN AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards, expertly rebacked in black cloth with black leather label title gilt, bookplate of Bowdoin College Library--withdrawn to front paste-down (no other library marks), hand-lettered title page, wood engraving of Prof. Alpheus Hyatt cut out from journal affixed to verso of Emerson obituary. Contains 23 key offprints by Alpheus Hyatt collected and bound in chronological order by Alpheus Spring Packard, his colleague. The volume is in very good condition with few scattered marginal pencil notations presumably by Packard. The first offprint is signed by AS Packard and 14 of the remaining ones are signed by the author. TITLES INCLUDE: Fresh water polyzoa occurring in Maine, Observations on polyzoa sub-order Phyloactolaemata, The fossil cephalopods… Read More

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

Boston: W.M. Leonard, 1912. First edition. MANUAL FOR HARVARD MEDICAL STUDENTS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD PATHOLOGIST W.T. COUNCILMAN-SIGNED BY HIM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, spine gilt, ink inscription front free endpaper to Dr. N.C. Foot ""with the kind regards of W.T. Councilman."" Edges lightly age-toned, otherwise very good+. Four 4x5 inch black & white photomicrographs laid in, with note dated 1913-18 Jan. PREFACE This manual has developed from the Syllabus of Pathology published by Councilman and Mallory in 1904, and is designed with special reference to the teaching of the subject. The work gives the plan which has been followed in teaching pathology in the Harvard Medical School, and which has proven to be successful. Illustrations were purposely omitted in the work. Excellent and accurate as are most of the illustrations in the current textbooks of Pathology, they still, when objective, represent areas carefully selected for the illustration of a point, more… Read More

ca. 2000. SIGNED PHOTO OF EDMOND FISCHER AND EDWIN KREBS WHO SHARED THEIR LABS AND NOBEL PRIZE IN 1992: CLOSE FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ENJOYING A LAUGH TOGETHER. 5X7 inch glossy black & white photographs signed in gold ink by both Nobel laureates; label verso of photo, "Photo by Hideki Tomeoko,Seattle, WA." EDMOND FISCHER (1920-2021) died on August 27 at the age of 101, the oldest living Nobel laureate. Born in Shanghai, he was introduced to the work of Louis Pasteur when his family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he earned his PhD in biochemistry in 1947. In 1953 he was recruited by Hans Neurath to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he spent his entire career. Shortly after arriving in Seattle, he met biochemist Edwin Krebs, the beginning of a lifelong collaboration and friendship. Known to colleagues as Eddy and Ed, they claimed that their success depended on "two Eds are better than one." EDWIN KREBS (1918-2009) was born in Lansing, Iowa, earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry… 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

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1919. First edition, first printing.
TH MORGAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE PIONEERING SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS BRIDGING EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY.
8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, title of the series (Monographs on Experimental Biology) embossed top of cover, gilt title to spine, signature of A. C. Redfield to front free endpaper, 305 pp, 117 illustrations. Light wear to cover corners and spine ends, binding tight, text bright and unmarked. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. EDITORS' ANNOUNCEMENT "The rapid increase of specialization makes it impossible for one anthor to cover satisfactorily the whole aeld of modern Biology. This situation, which exists in all the sciences, has induced English authors to issue series of monographs in Biochemistry, Physiology, and Physics. A number of American biologists have decided to provide the same opportunity for the study of Experimental Biology. Biology, which not long ago was purely descriptive… 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: D. Appleton & Co., 1867. First American edition (later printing). 1867 ILLUSTRATED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY FOR THE LAYPERSON BY TALENTED SELF-TAUGHT PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST AND ROMANTIC PARTNER OF GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS). Two hardcover volumes, 7 ½ inches tall, pebbled salmon cloth binding, blindstamped rules, gilt title to spines, each volume signed in pencil, "CW Gaylord 3/1872". Vol. I: xii, 368 pp, 4 pp publisher's ads; Vol. II: 410 pp, 10 pp publisher's ads. Wood engravings. Sunning to spines, small tear in fore edge of front free endpaper and a few marginal penciled notes in Vol. I; bindings tight, pages crisp and clean, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. CONTENTS: HUNGER AND THIRST, FOOD AND DRINK, DIGESTION AND INDIGESTION, THE STRUCTURE AND USES OF OUR BLOOD, CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD; ITS HISTORY, COURSE, AND CAUSES, RESPIRATION AND SUFFOCATION, WHY WE ARE WARM, AND HOW WE KEEP SO, FEELING AND THINKING, THE MIND AND THE BRAIN, OUR SENSES AND SENSATIONS, SLEEP AND… Read More

London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY BY LEGENDARY YALE PROFESSOR JOHN FULTON, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, book plate of David Crocker to front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf, "Signed for David Crocker with all good wishes John Fulton/ November 1939." xv, 675 pp, 94 illustrations. Covers clean, spine bright, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 1248 "includes excellent bibliography." JOHN FARQUHAR FULTON (1899 – 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. Starting in 1921, he studied neurophysiology at Magdalen College, Oxford as a… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874. Second edition. 1874 AUSTIN FLINT, JR. "THE MOST ELABORATE TREATISE UPON THE SUBJECT OF PHYSIOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE". Five volumes, 9 inches tall hardcovers, original brown pebbled cloth boards, wood engravings in text, institutional bookplate front paste-down of each volume, of each volume, signature of J. C. Mackenzie, front endpapers. Corners bumped, spine ends frayed, white library numbers bottom of spines, text unmarked and very good. Vol. 1. Introduction, blood, circulation, respiration, 502 pp, publisher's advertisements; Vol. 2. Alimentation, digestion, absorption, lymph and chyle, 556 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 3. Secretion, excretion, ductless glands, nutrition, animal heat, movements, voice and speech, 526 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 4. Nervous system, 470 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 5. Special senses, generation, 517, publisher's ads. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.AUSTIN FLINT II (1836 - 1915) was an American physician. He carried out… 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

New York: Newman & Ivison, 1853. First American edition. 1853 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MONOGRAPH ON BOTANY BY M. J. SCHLEIDEN, EVOLUTIONIST AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE CELL THEORY, ILLUSTRATED WITH LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES.7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's mauve cloth binding, blindstamped publisher's device to covers, gilt title to spine, xvii, (29-) 360 pp, 4 fine lithographed plates (2 partially colored), light wear to head of spine, spine faded, embosssed library stamps to pp 29 and 260, not affecting plates, light foxing to first few pages, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CHAPTERS INCLUDE: The Eye and the Microscope, The Internal Structure of Plants, On the Propagation of Plants, The Morphology of Plants, About the Weather, What Does Man Live Upon?, On the Milk-Sap of Plants, A Sketch of the Cactus Tribe, The Geography of Plants, or the Districution of Plants Upon the Surface of the Earth, History of the Vegetable World, The Aesthetics of the Vegetable World. MATTHIAS JAKOB SCHLEIDEN (1804… Read More

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1934. First edition. SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON LABOR PRACTICES AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. 11 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth publisher's binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis drawing of mother in rocking chair preparing for delivery; xvi, 175 pp, 129 illustrations. covers and corners worn, spine ends frayed, 1/2 inch abrasion to lower spine, hinges cracked exposing webbing, light foxing to first and last pages, text clean and unmarked. In custom archival mylar cover. JULIUS JARCHO (1882-1963) was a New York obstetrician and gynecologist. His efforts were fundamental in the establishment of Israel's National Medical Library when, in 1919, he learned that physicians in what was then Palestine were without medical literature. He devoted his personal and financial resources to collecting medical literature in the United States for a network of medical libraries, originally focused on the Jerusalem library as the central one, with branch… Read More

1987. SIGNED & FRAMED ORIGINAL CARTOON PRINT OF DR. B. CAREFUL SURROUNDED BY MALPRACTICE WORRIES, BY CARTOONIST TO THE STARS. Framed original hand-colored print, number 49 of 150 copies, signed by the artist, John DeAmicis. Image size 7x8 inches, matted size 11x14 inches, signed in pencil by the artist, fine in fine black metal frame with black matte and glass. John DeAmicis's drawings and illustrations have been compared to Charles Bragg and Daumier. He depicts his unusual interpretations of common situations and clichés creating complex and sophisticated satirical art pieces. Fanciful lines flow from his pens and pencils in an antic parade. A keen observer of life, John tends to zero-in on society's idiosyncratic elements in practicing his brand of work. A member of the National Cartoonists Society, DeAmicis has had work in galleries around the world. He has also been commissioned by many corporations and individuals to apply his unique style of artwork and creating to their needs. Some of the… Read More

Paris: Octave Doin, 1904. Fourth edition. 1904 UNIQUE FRENCH MANUAL OF HUMAN ANATOMY BY A PROMINENT BORDEAUX PROFESSOR, ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY A MEDICAL STUDENT. 7 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, embossed title to cover and spine, [4 publisher's ads], [6], 816 pp, covers worn, joints split but holding, handstamp of Jean Angles top of publisher's list, page edges browned, red and blue pencil underlinings throughout. LAID IN (most taped onto pages, some folding, several loose): 45 fine pencil or ink drawings, some with color, 5 lists, 1 folding table. Good in custom archival mylar cover. Testut's Precis d'Anatomie was first published in 1901 and was published until 1940 (15th edition). In his foreword, the author states that the book is simply an outline of gross anatomy for the medical student, and does not contain variations, anomalies, histology, or embryology. Illustrations are purposely omitted, because the book is written to promote committing… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor, 1831. First edition (later printing--1st 1830). 1831 EARLY PRINTING OF HERSCHEL'S LANDMARK GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION THAT STRONGLY INFLUENCED DARWIN IN CRAFTING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 11x18 cm red cloth boards, paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Jas. R. Holcome, Jes. Coll. Oxford, laid-in list of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library , Vol 1, and Advertisement future volumes; 12 pp publisher's advertisements, vii, 372 pp, [1], 12 pp publisher's advertisements dated January 1831. Cover edges faded, edges worn, corners bumped, spine faded. unopened, text clean and unmarked, very good minus. SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1792 - 1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, and botanist. His Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopedia set out methods of scientific investigation with an orderly relationship… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. First American from second London edition, greatly enlarged and improved. 1844 COMPREHENSIVE MID 19TH CENTURY MEDICAL TEXT BY HONORED ENGLISH PHYSICIAN LATER DISGRACED FOR FRAUDULENT PRACTICE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt black leather title label to spine, xvi, 1046 pp, publisher's adverts. Binding fine, new endpapers, browning to edges of first and last pages from exposure to original leather binding, bookplate of Dr. John A. Murphy, March 1900 to front endpaper, ink signature of previous owner top corner of title page, pages crisp and unmarked, with light scattered foxing, very good. JOHN ELLIOTSON (1791 – 1868), professor of the principles and practice of medicine at University College London, and senior physician to University College Hospital. He was a prolific and influential author, a respected teacher, always at the 'leading edge' of his profession (one of the first to use and promote the stethoscope, and one of the first in… Read More