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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, IMMUNOLOGY]. METCHNIKOFF, Elie (1845-1916). L'immunit dans les maladies infectieuses. Paris: Masson, 1901. Large 8 o. Quarter brown morocco, original printed wrappers bound in (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Half-title, chromolithographic illustrations in the text. AN INTERESTING ASSOCIATION COPY, warmly inscribed by the author in ink to the widow of Louis Pasteur Metchnikoff, who spent 28 years at the Pasteur Institute, was the discoverer of phagocytes, which provided the first definite proof of the scientific basis of immunology and vaccination. The work is a review of the whole field of immunology: "In 1908 Metchnikoff and Ehrlich shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for their researches illuminating the understanding of immunity." Garrison-Morton 2555; Norman 1498. -- LEVERAN, Charles Louis Alphonse (1845-1922). Trait de Paludisme . Paris: Masson, 1898. Large 8 o. Original blue printed wrappers (portion of front wrapper cut away), uncut, cloth case. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in ink on half-title. Half-title, one chromolithographic plate. Laveran discovered the parasitie which causes malaria in 1880 and devoted his career to the study of malaria and other parasitic blood diseases; he received the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his investigation of pathogenic protozoans. GM 5248; Norman 1286. -- LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787-1872). Recherches anatomiques, pathologiques, et th/aerapeutiques sur la maladie connue sous les noms de gastro-entrie, fivre putride, dynamique, ataxique, typhode, etc. Paris: Bailliere, 1829. 2 vols., 8 o. Quarter purple morocco and paste-paper boards, gilt-lettered spines (spines slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. A treatise which clearly describes the clinical and pathological nature of typhoid. Garrison-Morton 5023; Norman 1396 -- RICORD, Philippe. Trait pratique des maladies vnriennes ou recherches critiques et exprimentales sur l'inoculation applique a l'tude des ces maladies . Brussels: J.-B. Tircher, 1838. 8vo. Half brown calf and marbled paper boards (extremities and joints quite rubbed, spine chipped). FIRST EDITION (the work was published simultaneously in Brussels and in Paris. Half-title. "Includes the description of 'Ricord's chancre,' the initial lesion in syphilis. Ricord re-demonstrated the specific character of syphilis and divided it into the three stages, primary, secondary, and tertiary...After Hunter, he was the greatest authority on venereal disease" (Garrison-Morton). Garrison-Morton 2381 & 5202; Norman 1831. -- [ROSS, Ronald]. PARTINGTON, Wilfred (b.1888). The War Against Malaria . With a Foreword by John Masefield. London: Propaganda Committee of the Ross Institute Fund, 1923. Large 8 o. Three-quarter dark green morocco gilt, uncut, original stiff blue wrappers bound in, by Ramage. FIRST EDITION, apparently a trial copy on special heavy paper (one of a dozen or so issued, according to the author's note), THE AUTHOR'S COPY, embellished with 1) a TNS of Partington with autograph addition, describing the book's publication, 2) an ALS of Ross, 2pp., thanking Partington for his work, 3) an ALS of Masefield, agreeing to provide a foreword, and 4) A clipped obituary of Ross, dated in ink by Partington. Ross proved conclusively that malaria was spread by the Anopheles mosquito. Norman 1648. -- TYNDALL, John (1820-1893). Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection . London: Longmans, 1881. 8 o. Original plum cloth, gilt-lettered spine. FIRST EDITION. In his reasearch on air-borne particles, Tyndall "demonstrated that only a small amount of atmospheric dust was required for contamination" and devised a method of discontinuous boiling ('Tyndallization') to render infusions completely sterile (Norman). Garrison-Morton 2495; Norman 2119. -- GOLGI, Camillo. Azione della chinina sui parasiti malarici e sui corrispondenti accessi febbrili . Offprint from: Gazetta medica di Pavia I (1892). Pavia: Bizzoni. Large 8 o. 20 leav