Publisher:
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. : 1926
Seller ID: 449
1926 BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD, DEAN OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, laid in newspaper clippings of author Gamaliel Bradford, frontis portrait of Darwin, 6 plates, 315 pages. Surface wear to covers, spine darkened, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, in custom archival mylar cover, very good-. CONTENTS: The Observer; The Thinker; The Discoverer; The Loser; The Lover; The Destroyer; The Scientific Spirit. GAMALIEL BRADFORD (1863 - 19... View More...
VOLUME 2 OF JANET BROWNE'S DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN EXPLORES THE YEARS FOLLOWING PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, salmon paper-covered boards, cloth spine with gilt title, 591 pp, very good in very good dust jacket. JANET BROWNE trained as a biologist, took her Ph.D. in history of science, and has served as associate editor of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. She is the author of several books and many scholarly papers. She is professor in the history of biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London an... View More...
BIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS SPANNING THE CAREER OF LEGENDARY SURGEON DENTON COOLEY FROM 1959 TO 1984--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown buckram binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed on front flyleaf, January 1985/ to Frankie Wolfson Cary/ with best wishses/ Denton A. Cooley MD. xviii, 5 leaves of black & white photographs, 240 pp with numerous photographic illustrations. Very good in very good jacket in mylar sleeve. DENTON A. COOLEY (1920-2016) was an American heart and cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial... View More...
Publisher:
New York, The Institute for Intercultural Studies : 1979
Seller ID: 1011
1979 ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET MEAD WITH LETTER BY HER ANTRHOPOLOGIST DAUGHTER THE YEAR AFTER HER MOTHER'S DEATH. 11 inches tall offprint from The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, brown paper cover with gilt title, tissue flyleaves, 23 pp including bibliography of works, LAID IN TLS, typed letter with letterhead of Institute for Intercultural Studies, Inc. dated January 5, 1979, to friends of the Institute signed Mary Catherine Bateson, President and daughter of Margaret Mead. MARGARET MEAD (1901 - 1978) was an American cultural anthrop... View More...
BIOGRAPHY OF DR. DENTON COOLEY, THE WORLD'S GREATEST SURGEON INSCRIBED BY FRIENDS TO GRATEFUL PATIENT--ALSO SIGNED BY DR. COOLEY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan paper covered boards, brown cloth spine with gilt title, inscribed on front flyleaf, Sept 6, 1984, Dear Joe--Glad to note your successful operation by this great man! Many years of good health is wished by all of us! All our love, Tom Mackey and family. Also dated the same day, signed by Denton A. Cooley M.D. on front paste-down. x, [1], 298 pp; appendix with 15 pages of drawings detailing the surgeon's operations. Very good in very ... View More...
Publisher:
Washington DC, Joseph Henry Press : 1995
Seller ID: 1197
SIGNED COPY: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY HARVARD SURGEON WHO PERFORMED THE FIRST IDENTICAL TWIN TRANSPLANT AND MADE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNDERSTANDING METABOLISM IN THE SURGICAL PATIENT. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, ray cloth binding, Inscribed and signed by author ffep, For Lucy Richarson with all best wishes for a good read, Francis D. Moore 6/15/95. xii, [1], 450 pp, photographic illustrations. Very good in very good jacket. Cited by Pickover in The Medical Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (2012). FRANCIS D. MOORE (1913-2001) graduated with an AB from Harvard College in 193... View More...
Publisher:
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. : 1935
Seller ID: 1209
1935 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CELEBRATED NEW YORK SURGEON INSCRIBED TO NEW ZEALAND ARTIST WITH ALS TO HER DISCUSSING HER LACK OF CHILDBEARING. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, navy blue cloth binding, top edge stained green, author's photographic portrait frontis, 347 pp, spine sunned, edges and corners heavily worn. binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, good +. Ink inscription to ffep by author: Dr. Robert T. Morris hopes that Betty Lewis Isaacs may approve of the description of 'beauty' in the chapter on the Red Gods even though more technical matters may safely be left to physicians. Stamford, Conn.... View More...
Publisher:
Canton, MA, Science History Publications : 2001
Seller ID: 1198
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING HARVARD SURGEON AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO ADVANCES IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed on front flyleaf To Rev. Gwen L. Buehrens with best wishes Dr Joe Murray, Joseph E. Murray M.D. Oct. 11, 2001. xxiii, 255 pp, many black & white phogographs throughout. Very good except wrinkling top edge of first 50 pages in very good jacket. JOSEPH E. MURRAY (1919-2012) performed the first successful human organ transplant from a living donor i... View More...
1896 EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN BY CHAMPION OF NATURAL SELECTION WELL BEFORE ITS GENERAL ACCEPTANCE. 7 1/2 inches hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis photo of Darwin's statue at British Museum of Natural History, signature of previous owner, front endpaper (dated 1899), viii, 224 pp. Spine sunned, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, no other marks; very good, in custom archival mylar cover. SIR EDWARD B. POULTON (1856 - 1943) was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection through a period in w... View More...
THIS LITTLE BOOK REPRESENTS DARWIN FOR EVERYBODY 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, beige paper-covered boards, black paper-covered spine with gilt title, 304 pp, fine in fine dust jacket. DAVID QUAMMEN (born 1948) is an American science, nature and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. He has been awarded an Academy Award in Literature form the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award, most recently for a cover story in National Geographic entitled, Was Darwin Wrong? View More...
Publisher:
Pittsburgh and London, University of Pittsburgh Press : 1992
Seller ID: 1199
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR--AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS STARZL, PIONEERING SURGEON, DEVELOPED MANY INNOVATIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine. Inscribed and signed in ink on title page "To Brians Grandma and Grandpa, Tom Starzl". x, 364 pp, black and white figures and photographs. Near fine in near fine jacket. LAID IN newspaper article from September 1, 1998 titled Transplant pioneer returns to scene of his early work (CU), describes the 35th anniversary of first liver transplant. THOMAS E. STARZL (1926-2017) w... View More...
Publisher:
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. : 1947
Seller ID: 1202
ASSOCIATION COPY: BIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH LISTER PRESENTED BY SURGEON GENERAL LEROY BURNEY TO SENATOR JOSEPH LISTER HILL, CO-AUTHOR OF THE HILL-BURTON ACT. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, inscribed in ink on front flyleaf, May 27, 1960. To Senator Lister Hill with the highest personal regards, Lee Burney, Surgeon General. Frontis photograph of Lister, 270 pp, photographic plates, corners worn, cover edges and endpapers browned, otherwise very good without jacket. RHODA TRUAX SILBERMAN 1901 - 2000), an American author. was a graduate of the Horace Mann School and Barnard College in New ... View More...
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