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Atomic Medicine. The Atom Knocks at the Doctor's Door

By: Behrens, Charles F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1949

Seller ID: 373

SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF LANDMARK FIRST TEXT ON ATOMIC MEDICINE WRITTEN DURING THE ATOMIC AGE. Small Quarto black cloth boards, red images of atom and caduceus on cover, bookplates of E. Dale Trout front paste-down. Inscribed and signed by editor on ffep, Inscribed to E. Dale Trout with cordial regards & high esteem, Charles F BEhrens/14 Oct, 1949. Followed by inscription by recipient, I first met Behrens when we installed xray equipment in the first new buildings of the Naval Medical Center in Behtesda--really out in the country at that time. From that time to his death I ehjoyed knowing an...
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History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Series: Surgery

By: Cope, Zachary

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office: 1953

Seller ID: 785

1953 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGICAL MEDICINE DEVELOPED DURING WORLD WAR II--BY EMINENT BRITISH SURGEON. SIR ZACHARY COPE. 9 3/4 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, armorial bookplate to front flyleaf, xix, 772 pp, 92 plates, 14 figures. Corners bumped, abrasions to spine, bottom spine end frayed, page edges soiled, binding tight, pages unmarked, good+. FOREWORD: This volume of the Official Medical History of the War of 1939~45 chronicles the chief advances made in Surgery during that War. The History owes much to all those distinguished contrib...
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Image for We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

By: de Garis, Frederic, Sakai, Atsuharu and Yamaguchi, H.D.K.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Yokohama, Japan, Yamagata Press: 1947

Seller ID: 312

PUBLISHED 2 YEARS AFTER END OF WW2: HISTORY AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF JAPAN--2 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BINDINGS SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PRESIDENT OF FAMOUS HOTEL. Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall, silk-covered paper wrappers, traditional Japanese string binding with folded rice paper pages, decorative vertical paper label to covers. Volume 1 signed in ink on front endpaper by Alsuharu Sakai (collaborator) Tokyo, Xmas 1948, with Japanese characters; Volume 2 signed on pictorial frontis by K.M. Yamaguchi, President, Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, 20th Jan, 1949, with Japanese characters...
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The development of rat embryos in tissue culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. December, 1934. TOGETHER WITH 15 additional offprints

By: Nicholas, John Spangler

Price: $150.00

Publisher: 1934 - 1947

Seller ID: 1044

1930s and 1940s COLLECTION OF LANDMARK PAPERS BY EMINENT YALE EMBRYOLOGIST AND LEADER OF AMERICAN WARTIME SCIENCE MANAGEMENT. 16 offprints, 13 in printed paper covers and 3 (publshed in Science) without covers, as issued, all in very good condition. JOHN SPANGLER NICHOLAS (1895 - 1963) enlisted in the Army Medical Corps in 1918. His most important governmental contribution was his assistance in shaping the World War II policies governing the utilization of the nationâ€™s scientific human resources (documented in 4 offprints in collection). Upon leaving the Army at the end of World War I,...
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Science and War. An Address Delivered at the University of Leeds Medical School on October 1, 1915

By: Osler, William

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Oxford, The Clarendon Press: 1915

Seller ID: 543

OSLER'S THOUGHTS ON THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCIENCE TO MEDICINE AND TO THE GREAT WAR. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, 39 pp. Light wear to cover and spine edges, previous owner signature and bookseller handstamp to front endpaper, otherwise unmarked and very good in custom archival mylar cover. Only two years after Osler delivered this address, his only son, Revere, was killed by artillery in France. Osler never recovered from his grief, and died two years later.
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Was Justice Done? The Rosenberg-Sobell Case, with an introduction by Harold C. Urey

By: Sharp MP;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Monthly Review Press: 1956

Seller ID: 148

SIGNED 1956 COLD WAR ACCOUNT OF THE FAMOUS ROSENBERG SPY CASE BY MEMBER OF DEFENSE COUNSEL. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxxvi, 216 pages, original gray and blue binding, gilt title to spine, ink inscription and signature of author on front free endpaper. FROM THE DUST JACKET: 'since Professor Sharp was associated with defense counsel in the closing stages of the case, he has an intimate first-hand knowledge of the facts and many of the personalities involved. Professor Sharp describes the issues, weighs the evidence, pinpoints the weaknesses in the prosecution's case, and gives his own reason...
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Drill Regulations and Service Manual for Sanitary Troops, United States Army

By: Wood, Leonard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Government Printing Office: 1914

Seller ID: 725

1914 SMALL SERVICE MANUAL FOR SANITARY TROOPS, US ARMY--SIGNED COPY OF GENERAL JEFFERSON RANDOLPH KEAN, MD, GREAT GRANDSON OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. 6 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover, library numbers to spine, bookplate of University of Virginia Library (presented by General Jefferson R. Kean) front paste-down, signature of J.R. Kean/ Co. Med Corps to front endpaper, perforated stamp of University of Virginia to title page, withdrawn handstamp over library call numbers verso title page and bottom edge, 235 pp, many black and white illustrations; corners bumped, wear ...
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Category: War

Atomic Medicine. The Atom Knocks at the Doctor's Door

History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Series: Surgery

We Japanese, being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendry [sic], tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, manners besides numerous other subjects. Vol. I, 200 pages, 355 illustrations; Vol. II, 200 pages, 389 illustrations.

The development of rat embryos in tissue culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. December, 1934. TOGETHER WITH 15 additional offprints

Science and War. An Address Delivered at the University of Leeds Medical School on October 1, 1915

Was Justice Done? The Rosenberg-Sobell Case, with an introduction by Harold C. Urey

Drill Regulations and Service Manual for Sanitary Troops, United States Army