1762 TWO LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVINGS FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - ARTERIES OF THE CHEST, BRONCHI, AND MAMMARY GLAND. Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), light water stain to corner of Plate XVI, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physic... View More...
Publisher:
Washington, D.C., National Academy of Sciences : 1966
Seller ID: 837
1966 PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM ON MECHANICAL DEVICES TO ASSIST THE FAILING HEART INCLUDING LUMINARIES IN THE FIELD. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, charcoal cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, xiv, 287 pp, wear to corners and spine ends, embossed library stamp and withdrawn handstamp to title page, library pocket to back paste-down; binding tight, no markings to text, good+. BEN EISEMAN (1917 - 2012) at Yale University (B.A. in 1939) and Harvard University (M.D. in 1943), and his residency in surgery was a... View More...
HISTORY OF THE ARTIFICIAL PACEMAKER BY PIONEER WHO DEVELOPED FIRST IMPLANTABLE DEVICE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, black paper covered boards, spine gilt, signed by author on front free endpaper; author's business card laid in; fine in fine dust jacket. WILSON GREATBATCH (1919 – 2011) was an American engineer and inventor. He held more than 350 patents and was a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lemelson–MIT Prize. Greatbatch was born in Buffalo, New York and attended public grade school at West Seneca High School West Seneca. He entered m... View More...
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LANDMARK 18TH CENTURY TREATISE ON ANEURISMS. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxxv, 362 pages, blue cloth binding with silver title on cover and spine, small dark spot on back cover, signature of O. Herman Dreskin, M.D. on front endpaper, inscription verso of half-title page 'To Herman straight from the Horse's mouth--Al Pearlman, apr 62', otherwise unmarked and very good (no dust jacket). GARRISON-MORTON No. 2973. Lancisi noted the frequency of cardiac aneurysm and showed the importance of syphilis, asthma, palpitation, violent emotions, and excess as causes of aneury... View More...
Publisher:
Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Col : 1960
Seller ID: 839
1960 CARDIAC LESIONS IN HUMAN RHEUMATIC FEVER COMPARED IN RABBIT MODEL ILLUSTRATED WITH 162 COLOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHS REVEALING EXQUISITE DETAIL--INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 10 inches tall hardcover, orange cloth binding, title to cover and spine, inscribed front flyleaf, To Rebecca--with admiration, gratitude, and affection/ George, pp 289-343, 18 color plates containing 162 photomicrographs. GEORGE E. MURPHY (1918 - 1987) was professor of pathology at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. This volume expands on his studies showing that cardiac lesions like those characteristic of rheumatic fev... View More...
Publisher:
Paris, Academie des Sciences de l'Institut de France : 1841
Seller ID: 587
1841 FINE FOLDING PLATES: EARLY PRINTING OF POISEUILLE'S FIRST PRIZE-WINNING EXPERIMENTS IN MICROCIRCULATION THAT LED TO HIS FAMOUS EQUATION. 11 inches tall hardcover, recent maroon cloth binding, gilt black leather label to spine, new endpapers, ink notes top of first page, 71 pp [105-175], 6 folding plates (text in French). Pages uncut with age toning to margins, Extract from Memoires des savants etrangers, Vol. 7, pages 105-175, 1841. The first page of the paper states, ce memoire a remporte le prix de physiologie experimentale, seance publique du 28 decembre, 1835 [this memoir earned the p... View More...
1934 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON CARDIOVASCULAR RADIOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt title to cover and spine, handstamp of physician previous owner to front flyleaf, xvii, 207 pp, 122 figures; light wear to covers, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. JACOB POLEVSKI was Cardiologist at Newark Beth Israel Hospital (now Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, and one of the Nation's top ten heart transplant centers). View More...
1898 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON RECORDING FOOT PULSATION, WITH 21 PLATES--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 red leather binding, red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, original paper wraps bound in, frontis photograph with tissue guard of author with apparatus for tracing foot pulsation, inscribed to Mr. Archer Huntington/ Hommage de l'auteur/ Silvio Tatti/ 1903, 44 pp, 21 plates with tissue guards of tracings of pulsations. Wear to edges of covers and spine, binding tight, text and plates crisp and unmarked, vrey good. TEXT IN FRENCH. DR. SILVIO TATTI was Director... View More...
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