Category: Anatomy

A collection of offprints on experimental embryology and regeneration

Price: $500.00

Publisher: : 1909 - 1939

Seller ID: 1022

1909 - 1939 COLLECTION OF 124 OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH BIOLOGISTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY AND REGENERATION. Two hefty volumes, each 9 ½ inches tall, 3 inches thick, red buckram binding, gilt titles to spine, bookplates of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, typed table of contents. Vol. I contains 61 papers, Vol. II contains 63; there are many tables, figures, and plates. Light surface wear to covers, bindings tight, some covers signed by authors or recipient (N.S.R. Maluf), occasional marginal pencil notes, otherwise unmarked and very good. The o...
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The Renal Lesion in Bright's Disease

By: Addis, Thomas and Oliver, Jean

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Paul B. Hoeber : 1931

Seller ID: 610

SCARCE RICHLY ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE BY TWO GIANTS OF 20TH CENTURY NEPHROLOGY. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding with blind-stamped publisher's mark on the front and gilt lettering on spine, large fold-out chart of individual cases in pocket on front paste-down, institutional library bookplate to front endpaper (with discard handstamp), perforated library stamp to bottom of title page, xi + 628 pp. 170 full page plates (2 with color), 21 text illustrations. Corners bumped, wear to spine ends, library numbers bottom of spine, front ...
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General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures. A Text-Book for Students and Physicians

By: Billroth, Theodor

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co. : 1871

Seller ID: 658

1871 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LECTURES BY FAMED GERMAN SURGEON WHO MODERNIZED SURGICAL TRAINING. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown pebbled cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, leaf of publisher's ads laid in, xviii, 676 pp, 152 wood engravings in text, 2 pp publisher's ads, binder's label lower corner back paste-down. Corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, hinges starting, binding tight, text unmarked, pages age-toned, top corner of pages 266-406 creased, very good minus. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE: During the past ten years the microscope has greatly advanced onr knowledge of Patholo...
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The Medical Sciences in the German Universities. A Study in the History of Civlization, with an introduction by William H. Welch

By: Billroth, Theodor and Welch, William H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1924

Seller ID: 657

1924 MONOGRAPH ON MEDICAL EDUCATION BY LEADING GERMAN SURGEON WHO INFLUENCED WILLIAM WELCH IN ESTABLISHING JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, blindstamped, glilt title to spine, pictorial bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid to front paste-down, xiii,, 292 pp. Covers with minimal edgewear, spine title bright, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. THEODOR BILLROTH (1829-1894) was an Austrian surgeon. regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. In 1860, Billroth accepted an offer from the University of Zurich to beco...
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Image for Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

By: Browne J

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Medicina Rara Ltd. : 1697

Seller ID: 49

SUMPTUOUS DELUXE FOLIO FULL LEATHER BINDING OF FINE PRINTING FACSIMILE OF RARE 17TH CENTURY MUSCLE ANATOMY. 8 x 12 1/2 inches tall full leather binding, gilt border to cover, spine with raised bands, gilt title, top edge gilt, 109 pages, 37 plates, fine condition. In ivory paper covered slipcase lightly soiled with crayon mark on one side. Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., plates made from the original 1697 London edition. The paper is permanent, natural Curtis Rag, bearing the watermark of Medicina Rara. 300 copies bound in full leather numbered in roman numerals (deluxe binding) of which this is ...
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Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire et a l'Anatomie des Mollusques

By: Cuvier, Georges

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Paris, Deterville : 1817

Seller ID: 685

1817 LANDMARK TREATISE ON MOLLUSCS BY GEORGES CUVIER, LEADING FRENCH COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST--35 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVED PLATES. 10 inches tall hardcover, recent burgundy cloth binding, gilt title on black leather label to spine, new endpapers, viii, 496 pp, 35 plates. Binding fine, institutional handstamp to half title and title pages, scattered foxing, old water stain to lower corner of some pages, overall good+. Notably, the memoire on the barnacles is inserted between memoires XXI and XXII in the table of contents, but not listed therein. Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan T...
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A Text-Book of the Principles of Animal Histology

By: Dahlgren, Ulric and Kepner, William A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1908

Seller ID: 962

1908 CELLULAR ANATOMY ACROSS SPECIES ILLUSTRATED IN OVER 400 FINE PEN & INK DRAWINGS AND TEXT BY BIOLOGISTS FROM PRINCETON AND UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to spine, xiii, 515 pp, 415 text figures; small institutional library embossed stamp top of title page, library slip and pocket on back endpapers, text pages unmarked; good+. FROM THE PREFACE: This volume has been written to secure a work that covers the general field of histology and is not restricted in the main to human and mammalian forms. It is intended to be a work that teaches...
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Development of the Chick Heart

By: de la Cruz, Maria Victoria, Munoz-Armas, Simon and Munoz-Castellanos, Luis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins Press : 1972

Seller ID: 755

TALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS DETAILING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHICK HEART, KEY TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN CONGENITAL CARDIAC ANOMALIES. 14 inches tall hardcover, yellow printed boards, blindstamped outline of heart to cover, corners bumped, spine edge worn, ends frayed, covers soiled, institutional bookplate to front and back paste-down, binding tight, pages and plates clean and unmarked. Good+. FOREWORD For a long time embryologists and especially cardiologists have needed a concise but detailed and accurate description of the normal development of the vertebrate heart. This need is fulfilled with th...
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A Short Illustrated Guide to the Anophelines of Tropical and South Africa

By: Evans, Alwen M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, University Press of Liverpool, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. : 1927

Seller ID: 1001

1927 GUIDE TO AFRICAN MOSQUITO VECTORS OF MALARIA BY EXPERT BRITISH ENTOMOLOGIST WITH HER ILLUSTRATIONS--SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH LETTER TO A COLLEAGUE. 10 1/2 inches tall volume, olive green printed paper covers, inscribed To D. G. S. Carter with the author's Compliments on cover, 79 pp, 10 text-figures and 12 plates, corners bumped, light wear to covers, very good minus. Laid in, ALS from author to Dr. G. S. Carter, dated 5th March 1931, regarding lakes and swamps in Kenya compared to those in Paraguay. ALWEN MYFANWY EVANS (1895 - 1937) was the first female lecturer in Entomology at the Liverpo...
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The Growth and Gonad-Stimulating Hormones of the Anterior Hypopysis

By: Evans, Herbert M., Meyer, Karl, Simpson, Miriam E., Szarka, Alexaner J., Pencharz, Richard I., Cornish, Robert E. and Reichert, Frederick L.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press : 1933

Seller ID: 907

1933 ILLUSTRATED PIONEERING STUDIES OF GROWTH HORMONES IN RATS AND DOGS BY HERBERT EVANS, INSCRIBED TO NOBEL RECIPIENT RICHARD KUHN, 12 3/4 inches tall thick volume with printed paper covers, inscribed and signed on half-title page, To Prof. Richard Kuhn/ with highest regard/ Herbert M. Evans/ Berkeley Oct 8 1933; numerous plates, text-figures and tables, [9], 446 pp, light wear to cover edges, soiling to edges, binding tight, text and plates clean and bright, very good. HERBERT MCLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was an anatomist and embryologist at Johns Hopkins University. He moved back to Californ...
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The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Willaim Alexander Forbes

By: Forbes, William Alexander and Beddard, F. E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, R. H. Porter : 1885

Seller ID: 808

COLLECTION OF 68 PAPERS BY NOTED BRITISH COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST, WITH 25 ENGRAVED PLATES (15 COLORED)--BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, new endpapers, frontis portrait engraving of Forbes, xv, 496 pp; wear to cover and spine edges, binding tight, text pages and plates crisp and clean, very good. CONTENTS: include 68 papers, 43 relating to ornithology, several on insects, and the remainder on mammals. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS includes W. T. Blanford, G. E. Dobson, A. Gunther, Prof. [T.H.] Huxley, Ray Lankester, J. L...
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Image for Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

By: Goto, S., Pratt, H.S., Locy, W.A., Reighard, J., Kofoid, C.A., Davenport, C.B., Davenport, G.C., Bancroft, F.W., Eigenmann, C.H., Johnson, H.P., Linville, H.R., Ritter, W.E., Strong, R.M., Eastman, C.R., Neal, H.V., Jennings, H.S., Floyd, R., Yerkes, R.M

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Co. : 1903

Seller ID: 906

1903 SCARCE FESTSCHRIFT WITH 25 ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN HONOR OF EDWARD LAURENS MARK, DIRECTOR OF HARVARD'S ZOOLOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 12 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photogravure portrait of Mark with tissue guard, perforated library stamp to title page, xiii, 513 pp, 36 plates,some in color. Covers soiled, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. Large format festschrift in honor of Edward Laurens Mark (1847 ...
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Opera Omnia

By: Graaf, Regner de

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Leiden, Io. Ant. Hugetan : 1678

Seller ID: 429

1678 COLLECTED WORKS OF NOTED DUTCH ANATOMIST AND PHYSIOLOGIST, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS OF MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS. 7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments and gilt title to spine, expertly rebacked with original spine conserved, 8vo. xx, [4], 390pp. Engraved title, portrait, 41 copper plate engravings (most folding) of male and female genitourinary system, digestive system, clyster apparatus, and syringe. Includes images of ectopic human pregnancy and surgical preparation of a dog for physiologic study of digestive tr...
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Oysters and Disease. An account of certain Observations upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of the Oyster and other Shellfish

By: Herdman, W.A. and Boyce, Robert

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, George Philip & Son : 1899

Seller ID: 707

1899 MONOGRAPH ON DISEASES OF OYSTERS BY A ZOOLOGIST AND BACTERIOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL--ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. 11 inches tall volume, printed card covers, old pen inscription top edge of cover, cloth spine, [viii], 60 pp, 8 lithographic plates (4 in color), covers worn and browned, pages age-toned, plates bright and clean, very good. WILLIAM ABBOTT HERDMAN (1858 - 1924) was Secretary to the Challenger Expedition Commission: overseeing the deciphering of the huge catalogue of information found during this important exploration. In 1880 he became Demonstrator of Zo...
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Imagination and idealism in the Medical Sciences

By: Herter, Christian A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Chicago, American Medical Association : 1910

Seller ID: 1279

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...
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Image for Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc

Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc

By: Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von

Price: $300.00

Publisher: [Paris], : 1806

Seller ID: 1226

FIRST EDITION--HUMBOLDT'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF "HORSE FISHING" ELECTRIC EELS AT RASTRO DE ABAXO, BOUND WITH ENGRAVING DEMONSTRATING THE ELECTRIC ORGAN. 25x33 cm folio extract in gray paper wraps, ink inscribed title and small handstamp "Library or R. Harry, Jr." to cover. Memoire sur une Nouvelle Espece de Gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine by M. de Humboldt pp. (46-) 48, BOUND WITH Observations sur L'Anguille Electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, pp. (49-) 92 by M. de Humboldt, hand-colored engraved plate. Wrappers soiled; a corner creased; 2 marginal tears to wra...
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Atlas of Fetal Sectional Anatomy with Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, with 278 Illustrations

By: Isaacson, G., Mintz, M.C. and Crelin, E.S.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Springer-Verlag : 1986

Seller ID: 892

1986 FIRST EDITION ATLAS OF FETAL IMAGING BY ULTRASOUND AND MRI, COMPARING INTRAUTERINE AND POSTNATAL ANATOMY WITH POSTMORTEM SPECIMENS. 11 1/4 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, vii, [4] 184 pp, no dust jacket as issued, fine. PREFACE: The fetal period of human growth and development has become an area of intense study in recent years, due in large part to the development of diagnostic ultrasound. More than 2,000 articles have been published in the last five years describing anatomy and pathology in utero, as reflected in sonographic images. Yet, no standard reference exis...
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A collection of offprints on the biology and classification of fishes

By: Jordan, David Starr

Price: $300.00

Publisher: : 1896 - 1926

Seller ID: 1021

1896 - 1926 COLLECTION OF 49 OFFPRINTS ON FISHES OF THE WORLD BY DAVID STARR JORDAN, FOUNDER OF AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERISTY. 49 offprints 9 1/2 - 11 inches tall, in self or printed wrappers, some with notations on covers, several with age-toning and edgewear, text unmarked, very good. Covers bear the handstamp of Herman Adair Fehlmann or Ernest A. Cachner, both curators at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington. The collection is housed in an archival document box with metal reinforced corners. THE COLLECTION INCLUDES: 1) The history of ichthyol...
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Japanische Medusen IN Beitrage z. Naturgeschichte Ostasiens, [Japanese Medusae IN Contributions to Natural History of East Asia]

By: Maas, Otto

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Munich, K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften : 1909

Seller ID: 1231

MONOGRAPH BY GERMAN MARINE BIOLOGIST ILLUSTRATED WITH COLORED FOLDING PLATES. 21.5x27 cm offprint, printed paper covers stapled. 3 folding plates (2 colored; 2 upper corners missing; closely trimmed, but not affecting the images). 4to, pp. 52, offprint (2 handstamps to title; upper corner to title missing). OTTO MAAS (1869-1916) studied zoology and medicine in Munich, Strasbourg and Berlin, graduated 1880 and received his PhD in 1890. After the zoological institutes in Berlin and Giessen, he habilitated in Munich, 1894, in zoology and comparative anatomy; there he received in 1902 the title an...
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Sympathectomy. An Anatomical and physiological Study with Clinical Implications

By: Monro, P. A.G.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1959

Seller ID: 853

1958 MONOGRAPH ON EFFECTS OF SYMPATHECTOMY ON LONG-TERM PHYSIOLOGIC FOLLOW-UP OF OVER 50 PATIENTS, CORRELATED WITH POST-MORTEM FINDINGS. 10 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of physician owner to front paste-down, xx, 290 pp, 84 figures, folding table; near-fine in very good dust jacket. PETER ALEXANDER GEORGE MONRO (1919 - 2005) was anatomist, lecturer, and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. After the war, Monro worked at the EMS hospital at Harold Wood, Essex, before returning to the London Hospital Medical College in 1948 as Demonstrator in Anato...
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Category: Anatomy