The major medical book of the 17th-century, translated for the general public. The sixth edition of William Salmon's popular English translation of...

Early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist. First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions...

The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...

Early female surgeon advocates anaesthesia during labour. First edition of this important book on the use of 'twilight sleep' anaesthesia during la...

An excellent commemorative edition, published on the 300th anniversary of Culpeper's Complete Herbal, reproducing the exact text and plates in col...

First edition. The first edition of Darwin's second work of genius, containing his earliest published use of the term 'evolution'. A true sequel to...

Early tissue culture work by a prominent woman scientist. The rare offprint of the first major work by prominent cell biologist Honor B. Fell (1900...

Inscribed presentation copy of the most important medical biography. Fourth printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one great physicia...

Nobel awarded work. Second edition, fifth printing, uncommon in the dust jacket. Linus Pauling (1901-1994) is considered one of the most influentia...

Bell's palsy & the anatomy of the nervous system. Second edition and a handsomely bound copy of Bell's collected papers about the nerves that w...

A milestone in embryology. First edition, first printing of a foundational work in our understanding of how fertilised eggs develop cell-by-cell. T...

Rare popular anatomy by the neurologist who identified bell's palsy. First and only edition of this rare popular work by the anatomist, neurologist...

Preventing malaria by understanding its transmission. First edition of this comprehensive work on the epidemiology of malaria by the doctor who ide...

Signed by the artist. A very good example of this reflection on the academic scientific research publications that have inspired Hirst's work over ...

Paving the way for dorothy hodgkin and rosalind franklin. Three rare, early offprints by Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the first women elected to the R...

Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief of the European lizard species Lacerta agilis (the sand lizard). The publisher's archive copy, in e...

Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief plaque of the European frog species Rana esculenta (the common European water frog, or green frog)....

Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile abilities ensured his participatio...