Lot 12: BANTING, FREDERICK. 1891-1941. Diabetes and Insulin. Nobel Lecture Delivered at Stockholm on September 15th, 1925. Stockholm: Imprimerie Royale. P.A. Norstedt & Fils, 1925.

BANTING, FREDERICK. 1891-1941.
Diabetes and Insulin. Nobel Lecture Delivered at Stockholm on September 15th, 1925. Stockholm: Imprimerie Royale. P.A. Norstedt & Fils, 1925. 8vo (246 x 164 mm). Publisher's printed wrappers, minor soiling. INSCRIBED by Banting;WITH: "Medical Research." [Offprint from:] The Canadian Medical Association Journal, XVI, 1926. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED by Banting.INSCRIBED COPY OF BANTING'S NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE, 1925, which he shared with J.J.R. Macleod for their discovery of insulin. "Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world," he said, when he sold the patent rights to his discovery to the University of Toronto. Accompanied by a contemporary photogravure of the iconic image of Banting holding a rabbit.