An archive of science related books, papers and ephemera fro...

Hammer

£600

An archive of science related books, papers and ephemera from the estate of Lord Alexander R. Todd (1907-1997), British biochemist who gained the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957 "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"and was President of the Royal Society, items include 7 mounted photographs depicting members of Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory for the years 1946-1950, 1953 & 1954, each with manuscript list of those members present in photographs, of which Professor A.R. Todd present in middle of front row of each photograph; Schuck, Sohlman & others: 'Nobel, The Man and his Prizes', Stockholm, Sohlmans Forlag for The Nobel Foundation, [1950], 1st edition, Todd's personal copy as Nobel Laureate, 1957, inscribed to FFEP "With the Compliments of The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Dec 10th, 1957.", original cloth gilt; Lord Hailsham: 'Science and Politics', Faber, 1963, 1st edition, Lord Todd's personal copy, signed & inscribed to him by the author on FFEP "Todd from Hailsham. In gratitude for much kindness and good advice. H. May 63", original cloth, dust wrapper; Sir Peter B. Medawar: 'Advice to a Young Scientist', New York, Harper & Row, 1979, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to Alexander Todd to FFEP by author "To Alex Todd who started all this by inviting me to give a Charles Snow Lecture at Chrisit's. With all good wishes from Peter Medawar Nov.1979", original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Butlerov, Couper, Kekulé & Markovnikov: 'Centenary of the theory of Chemical Structure', Moscow, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1961, orig. cloth gilt, ownership signature of Lord Todd to FFEP; Ernst Toller: 'Die Rache des Verhohnten Liebhabers', 1925, orig. cloth gilt, ownership signature to FFEP "Alexander R. Todd. Berlin. July 1925"; W. Watson: 'Intermediate Physics', 1923, 2nd edition, orig. cloth gilt, school prize bookplate Allan Glen's School 1923-24 awarded to Alexander Todd attached to FFEP; Norman H. Robinson: 'The Royal Society Catalogue of Portraits', L, The Royal Society, 1980, presentation card attached to FFEP inscribed "For Alex on his retirement as President of the Royal Society from his Officers November 1980" and signed John Mason, David Phillips, Michael Stoker & Morris Sugden, 4to, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; plus various other books with Todd's ownership signatures or signed & inscribed to him, good quantity of scientific papers and booklets, several copies of Todd's printed Nobel lecture 'Synthesis in the Study of Necleotides', Stockholm, 1958, royal Society related booklets, etc etc.