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Wenckert, Anders and Inga Marie Nilsson. THROMBOPASTIN AND RUSSELL VIPER VENUM - INVESTIGATION OF THE ACTIVATION OF PROTHROMBIN
Oslo. 1955 first edition. Scandinavan Journal of Clinical and lab Investigation vol 7 sup 15 octavo wraps. 97p. Snake venom. Good, light cover wear ; no owner marks. (a100405)
$39.00Titiev, Mischa. HOPI SNAKE HANDLING - article in one complete issue of SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY , July 1943
Washington DC 1943 first edition. sm4to wraps. Printed pale yellow cover. Titiev article pp. 44-51 with 5 photo illustrations. Other articles in issue as well. Good , institute name stamp on cover, cover a bit soiled and worn; text VG. (a100463)
$29.00Ludlum, S D W MD and E. Corson-White MD. SERUM REACTIONS IN CASES OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES - article in one complete issue of THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE, December, 1910
NY 1910 first edition. large octavo wraps. Ludlum article on pp. 721-733. Report on effectiveness of cobra venom and other serums on mental illness. other articles in issue as well. Monthly journal edited by Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe. Numerous illustrated ads for mental hospitals and sanitariums as well as for medicines. Good, cover edges frayed; 2 inch piece of backstrip gone. (a101872a)
$39.00Lockwood, Rev.Samuel. THE PINE SNAKE OF NEW JERSEY - article in one complete issue of THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, January 1875
Salem, Mass. 1875 first edition. Peabody Academy of Science. original printed octavo wraps. Lockwood article pp. 1-14 (no illus as issued.) Other articles in issue as well. Fairly good, worn, cover edges frayed, some page tips down. Backstrip reinforced. (a102061)
$25.00Keel, John. JADOO
London 1958 1st Allen. Much about snake charmers and Indian fakirs and mysteries of the east. Author travels from Egypt to Iraq to India, Tibet and Singapore. 8vo., 347pp., photo illustration frontis, hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a10349)
$22.00Stirling, M. W;. SNAKE BITES AND THE HOPI INDIAN SNAKE DANCE
Washington 1942 Smithsonian Report. Octavo, pp. 551-555, 1 plate, wraps. VG. (a20055)
$23.00Cochran, Doris M.. POISONOUS REPTILES OF THE WORLD: A WARTIME HANDBOOK
Washington 1943 Smithsonian Institution. War Background Studies No. 10. Octavo, 37pp., monochrome photo illustrations, wraps. Near Fine. (a25578)
$23.00(snakes). THE BOA CONSTRICTOR
NY 1845. In The Penny Magazine, republished in NY from the London edition of October 27, 1832 from the original plates. Sm.4to., 2pp., striking woodcut illustration of a boa on the front. Whole isssue is 8pp. Removed from bound volume, inserted in later wraps. VG, a bit of foxing. (a28907)
$23.00Pascuzzi, Robert M. (editor). DISORDERS OF NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION
NY 1990 Thieme Medicial Pub. Whole issue of Seminars in Neurology, Volume 10 Number 1, March 1990. 4to., pp.11-110, illustrations, wraps. Includes "Neurotoxic Snake Envenoming" by Sherman A. Minton at pp. 52-61. VG plus. (a38557)
$29.00Nowak, Dr. J.. ETUDE EXPERIMENTALE DES ALTERNATIONS HISTOROLIQUES PRODUITES DANS L'ORGANISME PAR LES VENINS DES SERPENTS VENIMEUX ET DES SCORPIONS
1898. Article in French at pp. 369-383 plus 2 color plates in Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Included in complete issue with several articles. Octavo, original printed wraps. VG. (a70431)
$42.00 Mackay, R. D.; Worrell, E. . A REVISION OF THE GENUS PSEUDECHIS; A NEW ELAPINE SNAKE FROM QUEENSLAND
Sydney 1955. Two separate articles on snakes, pp.15-23, text maps, one photo plate; pp.41-43, 1 photo plate, in a single issue of Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Included in a complete issue of this journal with several other articles. Octavo, original printed wraps. Institution stamp and blindstamp on front. Good plus, spine ends worn. (a79051b)
$30.00 Sato, Masakazu . ON THE STABILITY OF DIPEPTIDASE IN THE EXTRACT OF MUSCLE OF SNAKE NATRIX ANNULARIUS (HALLOWELL)
Formosa 1933. Offprint from Memoirs of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University. Sm.4to., 16p., (complete), original printed wraps. VG. (a84539)
$35.00 Sato, Masakazu and Tamotu Hirano . ENZYME CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF FORMOSAN SNAKE VENOMS
Formosa 1933. Offprint from Memoirs of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University. Sm.4to., 83-103 (complete), original printed wraps. VG. (a84540)
$75.00 Tsuchiya, Yoshio . ENZYME CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF FORMOSAN SNAKE VENOMS, IV
Formosa 1936. Offprint from Memoirs of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University. Sm.4to., 277-331 (complete), original printed wraps. Tiny library name stamp on upper left cover corner. VG. (a84542)
$75.00 Tsuchiya, Yoshio . ENZYME CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF FORMOSAN SNAKE VENOMS, III - STUDIES ON THE ACTIVATION OF PEPTIDASE BY THE SNAKE VENOMS
Formosa 1936. Offprint from Memoirs of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University. Sm.4to., 138-195 (complete), original printed wraps. Tiny library name stamp on upper left cover corner. VG. (a84543)
$75.00 Millard, W. S.; R. A. Spence and N. B. Kinnear (editors) . THE JOURNAL OF THE BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME 22 (XXII)
Bombay 1914 Printed at the Times Press. 21 April 1913 through 10 July 1914 bound in one volume. Hardcover. Large octavo, 823p., 12 chromolithograph plates , 59 lithographed photograph plates, diagrams and maps, 54 woodcuts, cxxxiv, green cloth with gilt spine label. Many wonderful articles including: Common Indian Snakes, Palms of British India and Ceylon by Blatter, Termites from British India, A Fight Between a Jackal and an Imperial Eagel, Flying Squirrels, Teeth of Snails, Voracity of Vultures, Occurrence of the Emerald Dove, Butterflies (color plate), Effect of Castration on a Black Buck, Habits of the Painted Spur Fowl, Rare Snakes, etc. Modest bookplate of a Natural History Library inside front cover but no other ownership marks, no spine numbers, no stamps, no pocket. Nice association: tipped in is typed slip of paper reading "Presented by the father of Pilot Officer Patrick Claude Nangle RAAF, killed on active service Octobr 20th 1941." VG plus, slight wear to corners. Binding secure. (a87955)
$200.00 Noguchi, Hideyo . THE PHOTODYNAMIC ACTION OF EOSIN AND ERYTHROSIN UPON SNAKE VENOM
1906 Journal of Experimental Medicine. pp. 252-267. Later wraps. Good. (a90262)
$25.00 Vellard, J . PROPRIETES DU VENIN DES PRINCIPALES ESPECES DE SERPENTS DU VENEZUELA (contained in one complete issue of Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, Mai 1938)
Paris 1938 first edition. Masson. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, T. 60. Mai no. 5. 1938. Original printed octavo wraps. Vellard article on pp. 511-548. In French. Other articles in issue as well. VG plus, no ownership marks. Largely unopened. (A91797)
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