Publisher:
London, British Medical Association : 1928
Seller ID: 11
AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN REPORTS ON SOVIET MEDICINE AT THE START OF THE FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black leatherette with gilt title to cover, 112 pages. Unmarked copy, very good. Reprinted from the British Medical Journal. TABLE OF CONTENTS: A Review of Medical Education in Soviet Russia; Hospitals and Health Conditions Scientific Work; Change in Type and Incidence of Disease; The Medical Profession, Soviet Science, and Soviet Sanitation ; Work of Pavlov, and Other Scientists. W. HORSLEY GANTT (1892-1980) was born in Wingina, Virginia. He received his B.S. in 1917 from th... View More...
1921 PIONEERING STUDY OF HUMANITY BY POLISH-AMERICAN SCHOLAR, RUSSIAN SPY IN WWI, AND CONSULTANT TO US ARMY IN WWII--INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO CALIFORNIA POET. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookplate of Fanny Hodges Newman to front paste-down, inscribed on front free endpaper, To Mrs H. P. Newman/ the compliments of/ Korzybski/ San Diego Febr. 16, 1922. xv, [1], 264 pp. Light wear to cover corners, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: This book is primarily a study of Man and ultimately embraces all the grea... View More...
Publisher:
Washington, DC, The American Institute of Biological Sciences : 1954
Seller ID: 686
1954 MONOGRAPH BY ARMEN TAKHTJAN, SOVIET BOTANIST AND PIONEER IN THE STUDY OF PLANT EVOLUTION, 10 3/4 inches tall paperbound volume, pale blue printed paper covers, 139 pp, 32 figures, signature of Aura Estelle Star top of front cover, very good in custom archival mylar cover. ARMEN LEONOVICH TAKHTAJAN (1910 - 2009), was a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests included morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus. Takhtajan worked at the Komarov Botanical In... View More...
