1864 ADDRESS OF ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS INVITED BY HARVARD LUMINARIES TO GRADUATING CLASS OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, EXTOLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MDs TO WAR EFFORT--INSCRIBED TO POPULAR CRITIC E P WHIPPLE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, gray printed wrappers, inscribed top cover, "E. P. Whipple Esq with regards of J. A. Andrew." iv, 28 pp. Soiling to covers, string binding perished, contents complete, pages unmarked, good+. JOHN ALBION ANDREW (1818 – 1867) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politican. He was elected in 1860 as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between... View More...
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... View More...
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... View More...
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 nation’s scientific human resources (documented in 4 offprints in collection). Upon leaving the Army at the end of World War I, Nich... View More...
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... View More...