Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed

Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed
Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed
Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed
Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed
Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed

Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed

THE VOYAGE TO LOURDES [Signed by Lindbergh]. Author: Carrel, Alexis; Lindbergh, Charles [preface]; Peterson, Virginia [translator] Title: THE VOYAGE TO LOURDES [Signed by Lindbergh] Publication: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950 Edition: First American Edition, First Printing. Description: Octavo, viii, 52 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red with tanned white lettering.

Dust jacket with small closed tears along uppeer edge, light general shelfwear. Inscribed on the half-title: To Elizabeth Barthy With best fishes from Charles A. Charles Lindbergh was an aviation pioneer who piloted the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Alexis Carrel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump, which kept living organs alive outside of the body during surgery, with Charles Lindbergh, opening the way to organ transplantation and the artificial heart. Carrel was also a pioneer in tissue culture, transplantology and thoracic surgery. Together they co-authored a book, The Culture of Organs, first published in 1938.

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Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh / VOYAGE TO LOURDES Signed by Lindbergh 1st ed


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