Specializing in Books, offprints, prints, ephemera pertaining to medicine and life sciences, including natural history, biology, and evolution; books with notable plates, inscriptions, and/or signatures.

BioMed Rare Books, LLC

I established BioMed Rare Books in 2015 as an internet-based bookshop specializing in rare and antiquarian books and papers in medicine and the life sciences. I have been collecting and studying printed works in these fields for many years, an activity that has enhanced and informed my practice of medicine and my own biological research. In listing books and papers for sale, I try to describe the significance of their texts, to point out their cultural significance, and to highlight their value as physical objects reflecting the historical and geographical circumstances of their creation. I am particularly interested in annotated copies and inscribed copies.

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Robert L. Chevalier, MD

Charlottesville, VA 22903

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Signed First Edition

1930s SIGNED SCRIPT OF PLAY ON PURSUIT OF YELLOW FEVER. Yellow Jack: A History

by Howard, Sydney; de Kruif, Paul

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co. , 1934 (click for more details)

First Edition

"STRIKINGLY BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES." Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes [Studies in the Anatomy of the Nervous System and Connective Tissue]

by Key, Axel and Retzius, Gustaf

Stockholm : P.A. Norstedts & Soners Forlag , 1876 (click for more details)

First Edition

1598 600+ WOODCUTS OF FISH AND SERPENTS. Fischbuch : das ist aussfuhrliche Beschreibung vnd lebendige Conterfactur aller vnnd jeden Fischen, von dem kleinstein Fischlein [Translation of: De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura, book 4 of Historia animalium] BOUND WITH De serpentibus. Oder Schlangenbüch. Das ist, ein grundtliche und vollkommne Beschreibung aller Schlangen, so im Meer, süssen [Translation of De serpentibus, book 5 of Historia animalum]

by Gesner, Conrad

Frankfurt, Heidelberg : Johann Saur, Johan Lancellot , 1598, 1613 (click for more details)

2,000+ FINELY COLORED SPECIES. Index Entomologicus: or a Complete Illustrated Catalogue consisting of upwards of Two Thousand Accuratly Coloured Figures of the Lepdopterous Insects of Great Britain A New and Revised Edition with Supplement containing figures and notices of nearly two hundred newly discovered species, synoptic lists, etc.

by Wood, William and Westwood, John Obadiah

London : G. Willis , 1854 (click for more details)

LARGE COLOR PLATES. Traite des Maladies de la Peau

by Rayer, Pierre Francois Olive

Paris : J.B. Bailliere, Librairie de l'Academie Royale de Medecine , 1835 (click for more details)

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Biomed Rare Books ABAA Boston Book Fair List 2021 A list of items offered by Biomed Rare Books at the November 2021 ABAA Virtual Boston Book Fair.