Recent Arrivals from Biomed Rare Books

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,… Read more about this item

1958-1965. First editions. ARCHIVE OF 6 OFFPRINTS BY FRENCH CO-DISCOVERER OF MESSENGER RNA--COPIES OF CALTECH GENETICIST STUDYING LIFE ON MARS. 1) Francois GROS, & Françoise GROS. "Role des Aminoacides dans la Synthese des Acides Nucléiques chez Escherichia Coli." Offprint from: Biochim. Biophys. Acta, vol. 22, 1956. 8vo. 200-201 pp. 2 figs. Single leaf. Ownership handstamp of Norman H. Horowitz; 2) Francois… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1917. First edition. LANDMARK EARLY STUDY IN DEFENSE OF THE CHROMOSOME THEORY--SHOWING THAT APPARENT AMITOSIS IS "MERELY MODIFIED MITOSIS"--SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 10 inches tall offprint, gray printed wraps, green cloth tape spine, inscribed top cover, "With the Compliments of E G Conklin", and handstamp below of F. T. Baldwin Jr. pp396-437, including 10 plates with facing… Read more about this item

Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 1876. First edition. 1876 EARLY MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE SKIN OF PRIMITIVE FISH BY A BELGIAN STUDENT REVEALED MANY CELL TYPES. 14x22 cm offprint, ink inscription top of title page, "A Monsieur le Professeur Lieberkuhn. Hommage d'auteur. Al. Foettinger". 83 pp, 3 folding color plates. Binding tight, blue paper wraps (handwritten ink title and handstamp of… Read more about this item

Paris: G. Masson, 1876. First edition. 1865 MONOGRAPH ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FISH SWIM BLADDER BY STUDENT OF CLAUDE BERNARD, INSCRIBED TO EMINENT EMBRYOLOGIST. 16x24.5 cm offprint from Annales des Sciences Naturelles in blue paper wraps, inscribed top of cover, "a Monsieur Felix Henneguy, amical et sympathique souvenir de laboratoire, Armand Moreau". Title page, 85 pp, 2 fine engraved plates… Read more about this item

Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1950. First edition. 1950 POPULATION GENETICS STUDY BASED ON BLOOD GROUPS AND "RACE" BEFORE DISCOVERY OF DNA. 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches offprint in stapled printed gray wrappers, 56 pp, 16 figures. Light browning to covers, "B6" inscribed top of cover. From the library of Stephen Jay Gould, with his catalog number:… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910. First edition. TWO VOLUME ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PHARMACY, INCLUDING DRUGS DESCRIBED BY ANCIENT WRITERS. Two hardcover volumes, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spines, top edge gilt, embossed "presentation copy" on title page. Vol. I, i-xii, 428 pp, 47 illustrations; Vol. II, [i-viii], 332 pp, 23 illustrations. Endpapers browned, pages age-toned, very good+ in… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. First edition, first printing. TWO RICHLY ILLUSTRATED FOLIO VOLUMES PROVIDE AN EXPANDED VIEW OF THE GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA. Two folio volumes 11 1/4 inches tall, color printed laminated covers, Vol. 1: i-ix, [2], 214 pp, illustrations; Vol 2: i-xxiii, [2], 384 pp, illustrations. Fine, like new. PETER M. LETOURNEAU is a research affiliate… Read more about this item

1980. SIGNED--NOBELIST MELVIN CALVIN, DISCOVERER OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY, PROPOSES GENERATING ENERGY FROM LIVING PLANTS TO REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING. 21x28 cm "preprint" (a version of a scientific paper that precedes formal peer review). Printed paper wraps, stapled, signed in ink on cover by Melvin Calvin. 31 pp, 13 B&W figures at rear. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Chemical Biodynamics Division,… Read more about this item

New York: Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 1959. First edition, first printing. UNIQUE MEDICAL DRAWINGS IN RARE HUMAN ANATOMY-PHYSIOLOGY TEXT ILLUSTRATED BY JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNED DURING WW2 WHO BECAME NOTED ARTIST--TOGETHER WITH EXHIBITION CATALOG. 9 3/4 inches tall volume, color printed paper covers, previous owner signature to inside front cover, i-xiii, 320 pp, 101 figures. Light edgewear to covers, light browning to… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1884. First edition. 1884 SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF A DETAILED REPORT ON THE CHESAPEAKE OYSTER ILLUSTRATED WITH LITHOGRAPHED PLATES AND LARGE FOLDING MAPS. 11 1/2 inches tall folio hardcover, recent tan cloth binding, leather spine with gilt title, new endpapers, 193 pp, 13 plates, 4 large color maps (26 x 32 1/2, 16 3/4 x 34 1/2,… Read more about this item

Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1901. First edition. SCARCE LARGE FOLIO MONOGRAPH ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES COLLECTED IN 1886-1888, PUBLISHED BY ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. Large folio, 11 x 14 inches tall printed transparent paper wraps over card covers which include the coat-of-arms of the Prince of Monaco and handstamp of the author, "Hommage de l'auteur". Text… Read more about this item

Tsingtao, China, 1947. 1947 ORIGINAL PHOTOS REVEAL CHALLENGES IN TRANSPORTING A US MARINE IN IRON LUNG FROM CHINA TO AMERICA. Archive of photographs documenting U.S. Navy transfer of marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in an iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China, 1947. Included are (3) official 4 X 5-inch sepia-toned photographs, showing Watts… Read more about this item

New York: Bailliere Brothers, 1867. First edition. 1867 LANDMARK COMPENDIUM OF POISONS WITH 78 FINE ENGRAVINGS BY AUTHOR'S WIFE ON 13 PLATES. 9 1/4 inches tall, 2 inches thick hardcover, publisher's pebbled brown cloth binding, gilt title to spine, ink signature second front free endpaper of A. E. Westbrook M.D., 1867, Ashley, Del. Co. O., i-xxxi, pp33-702, 13 steel engraved plates… Read more about this item

Monaco: Monaco Press, 1912. First edition. SCARCE LARGE FOLIO MONOGRAPH ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES COLLECTED IN 1885-1910, PUBLISHED BY ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHS. Large folio, 11 x 14 inches tall printed transparent paper wraps over card covers which include the coat-of-arms of the Prince of Monaco. Text printed on heavy rag paper, (3), 38 pp, 2 very… Read more about this item

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1947. First edition. SCARCE--AN EARLY HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION BY A POPULAR AMERICAN HEALTH WRITER. 8 1/2 inches tall staple-bound booklet, printed paper covers, 32 pp. Browning to covers and pages, unmarked, very good in mylar cover. Chapters include Non-sexual conception, Childbirth and coition not inevitably linked, Curious case reported in 1750 by London preacher, Early attemps… Read more about this item

1895-1905. 1895-1905 ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN TWO PROMINENT ENGLISH ZOOLOGISTS AND THEIR FAMILIES. Six letters and a postcard: 1) 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch postcard dated 9/4/95 to Rev. Stebbing from Mrs GB Howes regarding signature of a certificate; 2) 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inch folded letter dated 19/V/97 from GB Howes to Rev. Stebbing accepting an invitation to… Read more about this item