[NUTRITION]. -- EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882-1971) and George Oswald BURR (b. 1896). The Antisterility Vitamine Fat Soluble E. Memoirs of the University of California. Volume 8. Berkeley: University of California, 1927. 4o. 12 heliotype plates. Original blue cloth, paper spine label. Provenance: Dr. Haskell F. Norman, with presentation inscription on front free endpaper: "To my friend Haskell F. Norman who knows that books record the life of man. Herbert M. Evans March 29 1961". FIRST EDITION. "The first lengthy report of Evan's researches on vitamin E, whose antisterility properties Evans and his associates had discovered in 1922" (Norman 742). -- DAM, Carl Pieter Henrik (1895-1976). Cholesterinstoffwechsel in Hhnereiern und Hhnchen. Offprint from: Biochemische Zeitschrift 215 (1929). Berlin: Julius Springer, 1929. 8o. Original white printed wrappers. Provenance: Herbert M. Evans (stamp on front wrapper). FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "Discovery of the dietary anti-haemorrhagic factor, vitamin K. Dam shared the Nobel Prize with E.A. Doisy in 1943" (Garrison-Morton 1062); Norman 577. -- DUFY, Raoul (1887-1953), illustrator, and DERYS, Gaston, text. Mon docteur le vin. [Paris: Dreager Frres, 1936]. 19 colored halftone reproductions of watercolors by Dufy. Original limp pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "A humorous book on wine and its enjoyment, illustrated by Dufy" (Norman 668). -- HASSALL, Arthur Hill (1817-1894). Food and its Adulterations; comprising the reports of the analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive. London: Longman & others, 1855. 8o. Numerous text illustrations. Contemporary red diced calf, gilt spine, green leather label. Provenance: Hugh, Duke of Westminster (engraved armorial bookplate dated 1884). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. A move against the widespread adulteration of foodstuffs by merchants in the early 19th-century, using chemical and microscopical analysis of samples. This report resulted in the appointment of a Select Parliamentary Commission to investigate food adulteration, and led to the 1860 First Food and Drug Act. Norman 1019. (4)

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[NUTRITION]. -- EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882-1971) and George Oswald BURR (b. 1896). The Antisterility Vitamine Fat Soluble E. Memoirs of the University of California. Volume 8. Berkeley: University of California, 1927. 4o. 12 heliotype plates. Original blue cloth, paper spine label. Provenance: Dr. Haskell F. Norman, with presentation inscription on front free endpaper: "To my friend Haskell F. Norman who knows that books record the life of man. Herbert M. Evans March 29 1961". FIRST EDITION. "The first lengthy report of Evan's researches on vitamin E, whose antisterility properties Evans and his associates had discovered in 1922" (Norman 742). -- DAM, Carl Pieter Henrik (1895-1976). Cholesterinstoffwechsel in Hhnereiern und Hhnchen. Offprint from: Biochemische Zeitschrift 215 (1929). Berlin: Julius Springer, 1929. 8o. Original white printed wrappers. Provenance: Herbert M. Evans (stamp on front wrapper). FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "Discovery of the dietary anti-haemorrhagic factor, vitamin K. Dam shared the Nobel Prize with E.A. Doisy in 1943" (Garrison-Morton 1062); Norman 577. -- DUFY, Raoul (1887-1953), illustrator, and DERYS, Gaston, text. Mon docteur le vin. [Paris: Dreager Frres, 1936]. 19 colored halftone reproductions of watercolors by Dufy. Original limp pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "A humorous book on wine and its enjoyment, illustrated by Dufy" (Norman 668). -- HASSALL, Arthur Hill (1817-1894). Food and its Adulterations; comprising the reports of the analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive. London: Longman & others, 1855. 8o. Numerous text illustrations. Contemporary red diced calf, gilt spine, green leather label. Provenance: Hugh, Duke of Westminster (engraved armorial bookplate dated 1884). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. A move against the widespread adulteration of foodstuffs by merchants in the early 19th-century, using chemical and microscopical analysis of samples. This report resulted in the appointment of a Select Parliamentary Commission to investigate food adulteration, and led to the 1860 First Food and Drug Act. Norman 1019. (4)