Search Results: Titles starting with V from Biomed Rare Books

New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1959. First edition. 1959 COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES: THE DEFINITIVE 20TH CENTURY TREATISE ON VIRAL BIOLOGY PUBLISHED 6 YEARS AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF DNA, EDITED BY TWO NOBEL LAUREATES. Three hardcover volumes 9 1/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, xvi, 609; Vol. II, xvi, 408; Vol. III, xvii, 428. fine in very good+ dust jackets. FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET (1899 - 1985) was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and was best known for developing the theory of clonal selection. Burnet's major achievements in microbiology included discovering the causative agents of Q-fever and psittacosis; developing assays for the isolation, culture and detection of influenza virus; describing the recombination of influenza strains; demonstrating that the myxomatosis virus does not cause disease in humans. Modern methods for producing influenza… 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

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1927. First edition. 1927 EARLY ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY OF APHIBIA REFLECTING THE EARLY HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ("EVO-DEVO"). 9 1/2 inches tall offprint in brown printed paper wraps, pencil signature of Arthur Greenhall top of cover, pp 31-128, 30 black & white figures in text, 1 photographic plate, cover edges chipped, text pages lightly browned, binding sound, unmarked, very good minus. GLADWYN KINGSLEY NOBLE (1894 –1940) was an American zoologist who served as the head curator for the Department of Herpetology and the Department of Experimental Biology at the American Museum of Natural History. Noble received bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University in 1917 and 1918, respectively, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1922. He joined the herpetology department in 1922 as a research assistant and assistant curator in 1917, and became the chairman of the department in 1924. He later formed the… Read More