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70 FRANKLIN, Rosalind E., & R. G. Gosling. Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate. [In:] Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. Reprinted from Nature , Vol. 171, p. 737, April 25, 1953, pp. 9–14; [with] WATSON, J. D., & F. H. Crick , “A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid”; [and] WILKINS, M. H. F., A. R. Stokes, & H. R. Wilson , “Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids”. London: Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd, 1953 Octavo, pp. 13, [1]. Printed pamphlet, wire-stitched as issued. Housed in a black quarter morocco slipcase with chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. With 4 diagrams, including Gosling’s iconic X-Ray “Photograph 51” of crystallised DNA. A fine copy. The rare three-paper offprint issue of crystallographer Rosalind Franklin’s groundbreaking research paper contributing to the identification of the double helix structure of DNA , the most rev- olutionary discovery in the fields of molecular biology and all oth- er life sciences, appearing alongside equally landmark articles by James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. At the point of publication, the model that Watson and Crick had devised for the structure of DNA was only a theory. Working inde- pendently of the Cambridge-affiliated Watson and Crick, Franklin (1920–1958), assisted by her research student Raymond Gosling in John Randall’s laboratory at King’s College, London, confirmed their hypothesis, and her and Gosling’s second paper for Nature in July 1953 stands as the first analytical demonstration of the correct- ness of the Watson–Crick model. Franklin died four years before the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Watson, Crick, and Wilkins for their work on DNA, but without question “Franklin’s contributions, and indeed her actual X-ray data, were crucial to the total achievement . . . She will be remembered as one of the select few who made crucial contributions to one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century” ( ODNB ). Garrison & Morton 256.3 (Watson & Crick’s paper only); Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine , 99. £12,500 [126905] 71 GATTI DE GAMOND, [Zoé Charlotte]. Fourier et son système. Paris: L. Desessart, 1838 Octavo (201 × 127 mm). Contemporary dark green half calf, spine elaborate- ly lettered and tooled in gilt with intertwined floral and scrollwork motifs, marbled paper boards, later decorative endpapers. With the 3 pp. publisher’s advertisements to the rear, without the half-title. Spine ends and joints skil- fully repaired, gilt retouched, contents considerably foxed with some minor loss to top corner of last few gatherings. In all a very good copy.
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first edition of gamond’s most successful work, in- scribed “A Monsieur Alexandre Dumas, hommage de l’auteur” on the title page. Alexandre Dumas père (1802–1870), author of The Three Musketeers , and Gamond likely knew each other professionally through their shared publisher, Maurice Lachâtre. Gamond (1806–1854), an early Belgium women’s rights cam- paigner, spent her life advocating for serious intellectual education for girls in which religion did not play an essential role, and empha- sised professional training as crucial to elevating women’s civil sta- tus. An instigator of “the appearance of the first feminist movement in 1830” (Fraisse), she was appointed Belgium’s first female inspec- tor of nursery schools in 1847 and published a number of educa- tion manuals and feminist writings. The present work, Gamond’s explanation of Charles Fourier’s utopian socialist philosophy, was largely responsible for popularising his beliefs and established her as a “recognised commentator on his work” (Fauré, p. 303). Einaudi 2409; Goldsmiths’ 30738. See Fauré, Christine (ed.), Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women , Routledge, 2005; Fraisse, Geneviève, Reason’s Muse: Sexual Difference and the Birth of Democracy , University of Chicago Press, 1994. £850 [130408]
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