Berlin: Reimer, 1842. First edition, a wonderful copy in completely original state, of the first critical review of the new field of plastic surgery, and the second comprehensive work on the subject, preceded only by Eduard Zeis’s Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie of 1838. Von Ammon was in fact Zeis’s teacher..... More
Item #4517
London: Macmillan, 1953. First edition of Watson & Crick’s paper which “records the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the main component of chromosomes and the material that transfers genetic characteristics in all life forms. Publication of this paper initiated the science of molecular biology. Forty years..... More
Item #4544
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London: Macmillan, 1953. First edition, in the form in which they first appeared, of six crucial papers documenting the discovery of the structure of DNA and the mechanism of the genetic code. The first is Watson & Crick’s paper ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’..... More
Item #4407
[London: Macmillan, 1953]. First edition, extremely rare separately-paginated offprint (journal pagination 759-762), in which Wilkins and his colleagues gave the first analytical demonstration of the general correctness of the double-helix structure of DNA put forward by Crick and Watson six months earlier. “After the publication in Nature by the two..... More
Item #5006
1951. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of this historic lecture by Wilkins which ignited the search by Crick and Watson for the structure of DNA. “The history of science is full of quirky minor accidents with major consequences. In 1951, Wilkins’s boss, Professor Randall, was invited to a conference on..... More
Item #5007
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1828. First edition, complete journal volume, of this foundation work of organic chemistry. “In 1828, Wöhler succeeded in effecting an artificial synthesis of urea by heating ammonium cyanate. This was the first time that an organic substance had ever been built up artificially from the constituents..... More
Item #4840