Lot 222
Haemoglobin and protein structure.- Kendrew (John) and others. "A Three-Dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-Ray Analysis" in Nature, vol. 181; and 15 others (16)
Estimate: £500 - 700
Description
Haemoglobin and protein structure.- Kendrew (John) and others. "A Three-Dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-Ray Analysis" in Nature, vol. 181, pp. 662-666, illustrations, ink library stamp on title, library cloth, splitting to upper joint, fraying to extremities, 1958; "Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier synthesis at 2 Å Resolution" in Nature, vol. 185, pp.422-427, illustrations, ink library stamp to endpapers, libarary cloth, some bumping and fraying to spine tips and corners, 1960; and 14 others, issues of Nature, Scientific American and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and the Royal Society, 4to (16)
⁂ "Kendrew's discovery was one of the greatest landmarks in the history of molecular biology" - Jeremy Norman, History of Science.
An excellent group of periodicals containing papers by Kendrew, Linus Pauling, Max Perutz, Sir Lawrence Bragg and others, comprising the study of protein structure, haemoglobin and vitamin C which would lay the foundation for the breakthrough work on DNA by Crick, Watson, Franklin and Wilkins. A list of the most important papers contained in the lot is available upon request.
Description
Haemoglobin and protein structure.- Kendrew (John) and others. "A Three-Dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-Ray Analysis" in Nature, vol. 181, pp. 662-666, illustrations, ink library stamp on title, library cloth, splitting to upper joint, fraying to extremities, 1958; "Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier synthesis at 2 Å Resolution" in Nature, vol. 185, pp.422-427, illustrations, ink library stamp to endpapers, libarary cloth, some bumping and fraying to spine tips and corners, 1960; and 14 others, issues of Nature, Scientific American and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and the Royal Society, 4to (16)
⁂ "Kendrew's discovery was one of the greatest landmarks in the history of molecular biology" - Jeremy Norman, History of Science.
An excellent group of periodicals containing papers by Kendrew, Linus Pauling, Max Perutz, Sir Lawrence Bragg and others, comprising the study of protein structure, haemoglobin and vitamin C which would lay the foundation for the breakthrough work on DNA by Crick, Watson, Franklin and Wilkins. A list of the most important papers contained in the lot is available upon request.