1877 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON DIABETES BY CLAUDE BERNARD, DEAN OF FRENCH PHYSIOLOGY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding, marbled paper covers, gilt title to spine, previous owner signature top of title page, viii, 576 pp. Corners bumped, spine ends worn, lower edge of cover paper chipped, lacking half-title, light foxing to front and back pages, circular ink stain pp 440-441, some pages dog-eared. A good copy of the first edition of an important book in the history of diabetes. GARRISON-MORTON No 3942. CLAUDE BERNARD (1813 – 1878) was a French physiologist. Histor... View More...
1886 HARVEIAN LECTURE TO ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS BY FREDERICK PAVY, PIONEER INVESTIGATOR OF DIABETES. 7 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue pebbled cloth binding, gilt title and ruling to cover, institutional bookplate to front paste-down, ink inscription top of title page, With Dr. Pavy's compts. institutional library handstamp to verso of title page, 51 pp, very good in custom archival mylar cover. THE HARVEIAN ORATION is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made... View More...
