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- Statical Essays ... (containing Vegetable Statics; Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables ...; containing Haemastaticks, or, An Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments ...)
- ISBN: NA Price: $5,901.27
- Publisher: London: W. Innys (etc.) Date Published: 1731
- Description: 2 volumes; Vol. I. ... being An Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation ... The Second Edition, with Amendments. [6] (beginning with title, A1), viii, [4], 376 pp., 19 plates but in this copy Plate 11 is a well done facsimile + Vol. II. ... made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals, also An Account of some Experiments on Stones in the Kidneys and Bladder; with an Enquiry into the Nature these anomalous Concretions ... With an Index to both Volumes. xxii, [26] (Contents, Introduction), 361, [23] (errata, Index) pp.; matching contemporary calf darkening with crack line at front joints and hinges weak, modern book plate (a nephrologist), text and plates of the first volume age toned, the text of the second bright and both blocks well sewn. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: history of science and medicine, plants, comparative physiology, blood, kidneys, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Lecons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparee de l'homme et des animaux, faites a la Faculte de sciences de Paris. (Volumes 1-13)
- ISBN: NA Price: $658.86
- Publisher: Paris: Victor Masson, Date Published: 1857
- Description: Volumes 1 through 13 only (of 14); almost uniformly bound in red quarter leather with paper covered board sides (the first volume is visually very close but has no raised bands and no border on spine title); bindings rubbed with a few short peel marks, book plates of a modern private owner, hand stamp of a different owner on title of first volume and hand stamp of a library on tile of last (but no other library markings), a few light damp stains at text margins and one volume has red pencil marginalia in one section, sound and good+ copies. Volumes Included: 13
- Subject: history of science and medicine, comparative anatomy and physiology, MLL Big Sets Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 705375
- Lecons sur la physiologie comparee de la respiration professees au Museum d'histoire naturelle. Avec 150 figures intercalees dans le texte.
- ISBN: NA Price: $386.10
- Publisher: Paris (etc,): J.-B. Bailliere et fils (etc.), Date Published: 1870
- Description: first edition; xxv, [1], 588, 48 (ads) pp., illustrations in text; book plate of a modern private owner, red quarter morocco faded at spine, scattered light age staining but a bright, and probably washed, text; very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, respiration, comparative physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 803599
- Alberti v. Haller ... primae lineae physiologiae, in usum praelectionum academicarum, ad editionem tertio auctam & emendatam expressae. Accedit rerum index.
- ISBN: NA Price: $128.70
- Publisher: Edinburgi: Sumptibus G. Drummond nec non Kincaid & Bell Date Published: 1767
- Description: [12] (beginning with half title), 538 pp., the only illustration is the title vignette; library and private ownership markings, calf binding worn with front cover almost deatched, paper not fragile but age toned and block breaking into two segments, good- only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, human anatomy, physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 803443
- Die Wanderniere. Ein Beitrag zur Pathologie des intraabdominalen Gleichgewichtes. Experimentell-anatomische Studien.
- ISBN: NA Price: $79.24
- Publisher: Berlin: August Hirschwald, Date Published: 1899
- Description: first edition in German (from the Polish); quarto, xvi, [2], 350 pp., 35 plates at the end with a few folding, there is also an unnumbered one of a Kinematometer in the text section; general age toning, overall good+ in later cloth with book plate of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, movable kidneys, kidney. MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 841333
- Recherches sur les causes du mouvement du sang dans les vaisseaux capillaries. Par le Dr Poiseuille. Ce memoire a remporte le prix de physiologie experimentale, Academie des sciences, seance publique du 28 decembre 1835.
- ISBN: NA Price: $267.75
- Publisher: (Paris): Date Published: 1839
- Description: extract from Memoires des savants etrangers; large quarto, pages [105]-175, 6 folding plates; pen note on first page, general age toning with light age staining to plates, last leaf chipped at bottom margin with a short tear repaired with no loss, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, blood, capillaries, circulation, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 862583
- Zur Entwickelung Der Amphibienniere.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.94
- Publisher: Heidelberg: J. Horning Date Published: 1877
- Description: first edition; small octavo, viii, 124 pp., 3 folding plates; general light age toning, front free endpaper and one plate repaired (the plate neatly on verso), library and private ownership markings including the book plate and hand stamp of Richard Hartwig (probably the German zoologist, there is also the sticker of a Munich bookstore); sound and complete but good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, amphibians, kidney, kidneys, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 853929
- Vergleichende Physiologie. 6 Bande: 1. Sinnesphysiologie. 2. Nervenphysiologie. 3. Ernahrung, Wasserhaushalt und Mineralhaushalt der Tiere. 4. Hormone. 5. Physiologie der Erfolgsorgane. 6. Blut und Herz
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.54
- Publisher: Basel: Verlag Birkhauser Date Published: 1950
- Description: complete in 6 volumes: issued as Lehrbucher und Monographien aus dem Gebiete der exakten Wissenschaften. Reihe der experimentellen Biologie VI-XI; original green cloth bindings, library book plates and call numbers at tails of spines, overall very good. Volumes Included: 6
- Subject: comparative physiology, history of science Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 471839
- Carl Ludwig. Begrunder der messenden Experimentalphysiologie. 1816-1895. Mit 24 Abbildungen. (Grosse Naturforscher, Band 33)
- ISBN: NA Price: $83.44
- Publisher: Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Date Published: 1967
- Description: first edition; small octavo, [x], 340 pp., illustrations in text including a portrait; private book plate but a very good copy in jacket and original cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 858664
- Microscopic Innervation of the Heart and Blood Vessels in Vertebrates Including Man.
- ISBN: 0080123422 Price: $283.80
- Publisher: Oxford (etc.): Pergamon Press, Date Published: 1969
- Description: first edition in English; small quarto, xiii, [1], 433 pp., numerous illustrations in text with some color; blind stamp of Dr. Edward H. Bloch, pioneer in microcirculation, on title, book plate of another owner mounted on a sheet attached to front pastedown causing a warp to the front cover of original cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, comparative anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 858600
- The Mechanism of the Larynx. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Keith
- ISBN: NA Price: $277.66
- Publisher: St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company Date Published: 1940
- Description: St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1940; quarto, xxx, [2], 598 pp., 15 folding table sheets, illustrations in text; original cloth (hardcover), book plate to the front paste down, covers rubbed at extremities, lacks the front free endpaper, the tables section age toned with light fore edge fraying, overall good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, comparative anatomy, larynx, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 860299
- Die Cystenniere. Studien uber ihre pathologische Anatomie.
- ISBN: NA Price: $169.34
- Publisher: Jena: Gustav Fischer, Date Published: 1913
- Description: first edition; quarto, [8], iv, [2], 284, [1] pp., 43 plates with some color; original paper wrappers taped but still badly chipped at spine, heavy ink marginalia in early pages, good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, cystic diseases of the kidney, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 858592
- New Ways of Treating Uraemia. The Artificial Kidney, Peritoneal Lavage, Intestinal Lavage. With the cooperation of J. van Noordwijk, P. S. M. Kop, N. K. M. de Leeuw and A. M. Joekes.
- ISBN: NA Price: $738.54
- Publisher: London: J. & A. Churchill, Date Published: 1947
- Description: first edition; 112 pp., frontispiece and plates, 4 plans with one of them small folding for building his artificial kidney with a wood cylinder (there were no production models at the time), illustrations in text; original paper wrappers darkened at spine and margins, text age toned, private book plate, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, hemodialysis, dialysis, artificial kidney, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 858577
- Circulation in Skeletal Muscle. Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Smolenice, Czechoslovakia.
- ISBN: 0080124666 Price: $49.50
- Publisher: Oxford (etc.): Pergamon Press, Date Published: 1968
- Description: first edition; ix, [1], 356 pp., all articles are in English, some are illustrated; jacket frayed at margins, private book plate, still sound and good+ in original cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: physiology, anatomy, blood flow, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 858584
- A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-shot Wounds, by the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed, A Short Account of the Author's Life, by his Brother-in-Law, Everard Home.
- ISBN: NA Price: $5,906.85
- Publisher: London: Printed by John Richardson, for George Nicol ... Date Published: 1794
- Description: first edition, published posthumously but aside from the biography the work had been completed and the printing begun before Dr. Hunter?s death, possibly from complications of syphilis in a venereal disease experiment gone bad; large quarto (leaves 26.5 cm. tall), lxvii, [1], 575 pp., has all of the 8 engraved anatomical plates but lacks the portrait; contemporary calf sides with tips restored and professionally rebacked in a lighter but complimentary shade of calf, the old leather label laid on but chipped at one corner, new endpapers with minor residue from book plate removal on front pastedown, general light age toning with occasional light age staining, there is an overall pucker becoming more pronounced on late leaves but no damp staining, a few leaves shaken, still overall a good+ copy. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805508
- Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy. Second Edition.
- ISBN: NA Price: $875.86
- Publisher: London: Printed and sold at No 13, Castle-Street, Leicester-Square ... Date Published: 1792
- Description: London: Printed and sold at No 13, Castle-Street, Leicester-Square; and by Mr. G. Nicol; and Mr. J. Johnson, 1792; large quarto (leaves 26.5 cm. tall), [4] (title, dedication), ii (contents), [277] (including index) pp., has all 19 plates after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk and William Bell (including the two plates numbered as 2, the first is a key to the second); later cloth with the strait grain leather spine rubbed with peel marks at one corner but sound, new endpapers with private book plate on front pastedown, general light age toning with occasional light age staining to text, B1 has a narrow line of soiling at top margin, plates have damp and age staining, usually at margins and images never obscured, overall a good+ copy; "...including his papers on the foetal testes, the vesiculae seminales, and nine papers from the Philosophical Transactions, viz. on the free-martin (hermaphrodite cow), on a hen-pheasant with cockfeathers, on the organ of hearing in fishes, on the air receptacles of birds, on animal heat, on the recovery of the apparently drowned, on the structure of the placenta, on the Gillaroo trout; also a long paper on digestion, the colour of the eye-pigment in various animals, and the nerve of the organ of smell; 2nd edit., revised and enlarged, 1792. The principal addition is Hunter's Observations tending to show that the Wolf, Jackal, and Dog are all of the same species." ? DNB. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805509
- The Physiology of Plants. A Treatise on the Metabolism and Sources of Energy in Plants. Second Fully Revised Edition translated and edited by Alfred J. Ewart. With Many Illustrations. (Volumes 1 and 2)
- ISBN: NA Price: $145.47
- Publisher: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, Date Published: 1900
- Description: Volumes 1 and 2 only (of 3), quarto, Volume I. xii, 632 pp., erratum slip. a few small illustrations in text + Volume II. Growth, Reproduction and Maintenance. viii, 296 pp., a few small illustrations in text; original quarter leather lightened and rubbed at spines, private book plates, light general age toning, still sound and good+. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: plant physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 847082
- An Introduction to Human Physiology.
- ISBN: NA Price: $26.54
- Publisher: London (etc,): Longmans, Green, and Co., Date Published: 1896
- Description: Third Edition; xvi, 640 pp., illustrations in text; private book plate and signature of a different owner on title but a sound and good+ copy in later cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 844628
- Principles of General Physiology.
- ISBN: NA Price: $55.66
- Publisher: London (etc.): Longmans, Green, and Co., Date Published: 1920
- Description: Third Edition, Revised; small quarto, xxvi, 862 pp., 261 illustrations in text; original cloth smudged with spine faded, private book plate, light general age toning, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 858680
- Principles of General Physiology.
- ISBN: NA Price: $21.89
- Publisher: London (etc,): Longmans, Green, and Co., Date Published: 1931
- Description: London (etc,): Longmans, Green, and Co., 1931; Fourth Edition. New Impression.; small quarto, xxviii, 882 pp., portrait frontispiece, illustrations in text; original cloth very rubbed, private book plate, scattered pen marginalia, good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, physiology, MLL Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 858681
