FINSEN. NIELS R. (RED./EDIT.)

Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag ( F. Hegel & Søn ) 1899-1906. ca. 1500s.+ 53 plates.Sider. Privat halvlæder med rygtitel i guld. Øvre guldsnit Smukt sæt / Very nice set. Raised bands. Gilt top-edge First edition. The books are illustrated with b/w plates. NIELS R. FINSEN (15 December 1860 - 24 September 1904) was a physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE in Medicine and Physiology. In 1898 Finsen was given a professorship. The Finsen Institute [da] was founded in 1896, with Finsen serving as its first director. It was later merged into Copenhagen University Hospital and currently serves as a cancer research laboratory that specializes in proteolysis. His most important writings were Finsen Om Lysets Indvirkninger paa Huden (""On the effects of light on the skin""), published in 1893 and Om Anvendelse i Medicinen af koncentrerede kemiske Lysstraaler (""The use of concentrated chemical light rays in medicine""), published in 1896. All the volumes have belonged to ALEXANDRA of DENMARK and every book has a ROYAL EXLIBRIS and outside a ROYAL MONOGRAM in gold. Alexandra of Denmark (1. december1844 - 20 - November 1925) was QUEEN of the UNITED KINGDOM and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII. At the age of sixteen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son and heir apparent of Queen Victoria. The couple married eighteen months later in 1863, the year in which her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother William was appointed king of Greece as George I. Alexandra's family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the major European powers to succeed his second cousin Frederick VII as king of Denmark. At the age of sixteen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son and heir apparent of Queen Victoria. The couple married eighteen months later in 1863, the year in which her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother William was appointed king of Greece as George I. ASK for PHOTOGRAPHS of the books.