Category: Neuroscience

The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York, Series 68

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, San Francisco and London, Academic Press : 1974

Seller ID: 87

KEY LECTURES IN NEUROSCIENCE BY WINNERS OF THE LASKER AWARD AND NOBEL PRIZE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 475 pages, red cloth binding, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is 'the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences'. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers which it publishes in book form at the end of the ye...
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The Mechanism of Synaptic Transmission, offprint from Ergebnisse der Physiologie Biologischen Chemie und Experimentellen Pharmakologie. Einundfunfzigste band [Results of Physiology, Biological Chemistry and Experimental Pharmacology. Volume 51]

By: Eccles, John C.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Berlin, Springer Verlag : 1961

Seller ID: 1032

1961 EARLY REVIEW OF SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION BY JOHN ECCLES PUBLISHED BEFORE HE WON NOBEL PRIZE--COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE GEORGE WALD WITH HIS NOTES ON ECCLES' PAPER. 9 3/4 inches tall offprint, printed paper covers, signature of George Wald with his inscription Eccles '61 top of cover, 132 pp (pagination 299-430) with 43 figures, very good, with LAID IN folded page of autograph notes in Wald's hand, titled, Eccles 1961-Neg. feedback. Listed on verso of leaf is a list of the individual volumes of Francis Parkman's monumental "France and England in North America" ?(1865-1892), with publication date...
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Neural Darwinism

By: Edelman GM;

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Basic Books : 1987

Seller ID: 189

1984 FIRST EDITION OF NOBEL LAUREATE'S APPLICATION OF DARWININAN SELECTION TO BRAIN FUNCTION. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxii, 371 pages, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, many illustrations, folding color plate. Fine/vg (dj in protective mylar sleeve). Edelman's central idea is that the nervous system in each individual operates as a selective system resembling natural selection in evolution, but operating by different mechanisms. Memory is considered a dynamic process of recategorization rather than a replicative store of attributes. The book focuses on key problems in developmental...
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The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness

By: Edelman, Gerald M.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books, Inc. : 1989

Seller ID: 1092

GROUNDBREAKING THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS BY NOBEL LAUREATE GERALD EDELMAN INSCRIBED TO NOBEL LAUREATE DONALD GLASER WHO SWITCHED FROM PARTICLE PHYSICS TO NEUROBIOLOGY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed on front flyleaf, For Don Glaser/ with warm regards/ Gerry Edelman, xxi, 346 pp, illustrations. Very good in very good dust jacket. GERALD M. EDELMAN (1929 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned...
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Die Electrischen Fische. Nach Neuen Untersuchungen Anatomisch-Zoologisch Dargestellt. Vol. I Malopterurus electricus; Vol. II Die Torpedineen

By: Fritsch, Gustav

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Veit & Comp. : 1887 1890

Seller ID: 714

1887-1890 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ELECTRIC FISH: TWO FOLIO VOLUMES WITH 32 LARGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY PIONEERING NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST GUSTAV FRITSCH2 volumes, 19 inches tall hardcover printed boards, cloth spine binding, Vol. I, vii, 90 pp, 4 wood engravings, 12 lithographic plates; Vol. II, vi, 146 pp, 30 wood engravings, 20 lithographic plates. Corners bumped, dampstains to 3 covers, wear to cover edges, pages mostly unopened & uncut, text and plates unmarked and fine. In custom archival mylar covers. GUSTAV THEODOR FRITSCH (1838 - 1927) was a German anatomist, anthropologist, traveller and physiol...
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The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York, Series 71

By: Gall JG;Guillemin RCL

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, San Francisco and London, Academic Press : 1978

Seller ID: 88

KEY LECTURES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE BY WINNERS OF THE LASKER AWARD AND NOBEL PRIZE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is 'the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences'. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers which it publishes in book form at the end of ...
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Memoires sur la Nature Sensible et Irritable des Parties du Corps Animal (Volumes I-IV, complete)

By: Haller, Albert von

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bosquet, Sigismond d'Arnay : 1756, 1760

Seller ID: 1246

FOUR-VOLUME PIONEERING TREATISE DISTINGUISHING NEURAL SENSIBILITY FROM MUSCULAR IRRITABILITY BY SWISS POLYMATH FATHER OF PHYSIOLOGY. Four 12mo hardcover volumes 6 1/2 inches tall, original full leather binding, gilt compartments to spine with gilt red and green leather labels, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers,. 12mo. x, 399; [vi], 500; [ii], 512, [4], 232 pp. Engraved frontis depicting vivisections, titles printed in red and black, small title vignettes, tailpieces, 2 engraved folding plates (Vol. II facing p. 432; Vol. III facing p.322). Wear to cover edges and spines, bindings tight,...
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The Harvey Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey Society of New York

By: Hubel DH;Gajdusek DC

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, San Franciso and London, Academic Press : 1978

Seller ID: 89

LANDMARK DISCOVERIES IN NEUROSCIENCE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY NOBEL LAUREATES. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xiv, 398 pages, red cloth binding, illustrated, corners bumped, university library bookplate to front paste-down, very good. THE HARVEY SOCIETY is a learned society based in New York City, Named after the British scientist William Harvey (1578-1657), its scope is the diffusion of knowledge of the medical sciences. Since its founding in 1905, the society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers which it publishes in book form at the end of the y...
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Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibres of cephalopods

By: Young, John Z.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Cambridge University Press : 1939

Seller ID: 704

1939 LANDMARK MONOGRAPH BY JZ YOUNG ON SQUID GIANT AXON STUDY THAT LED TO NERVE REGENERATION TECHNIQUES USED FOR WWII VETERANS. 12 inches tall slim volume, printed paper covers, pagination 465-503, 14 line figures, 7 full-page plates with facing pages of descriptive text. Light soiling of covers, ink catalog number upper corner of cover, corners bumped, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. JOHN ZACHARY YOUNG (1907-1997) was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century. Most of Young's scientific research was on the nerv...
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Category: Neuroscience