Search Results: Authors starting with D from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

No publisher. No date. Small oblong folio. . 10 albumen prints, mounted on card, 2 double-page, each photograph captioned below in manuscript. Original red cloth, the title in gilt on the front cover. Very good. *The bas-reliefs are by BONASSA, TAGLIAPIETRA, TORETTI (Canova's teacher) and MORLASTER. Most of the photographs are signed by J.D. and numbered, in the negative.

D. N. Smith, King Street, [New Brighton]. No date [c.1905]. Landscape format, [c.10 x 7.5 inches].. 20 fine photo-views, within original green pebbled paper boards, two small patches of abrasion, else a very good copy. *COPAC no copy.

For Benjamin White. London. 1776. 8vo.. pp. viii, iii-vi, 318, (i) Errata, (i) Advertisement. 7 folding, engraved plates. Two folding leaves containing tables signed U5 & U6, numbered as leaves 297-298, are inserted between pp.296-299. Modern half calf, some old and faded marginal staining at the top margin, one leaf folded vertically, one text leaf with a small lower margin tear without loss, the mispagination of the preliminary leaves is an error and there is no loss of text, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN. *FREEMAN BNHB #3555; ESTC T113814.

H.M. Stationery Office. London 1918. Fourth impression.. pp. xii, 133, (i), x Index, (ii). Printed paper wrappers, very good copy.

T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1925. Second impression.. pp. 166, (iv) Advertisements. Frontispiece, 35 illustrations. Original cloth much faded, rebacked with old spine relaid. *One of the earliest works dealing with television - chapter V : 'Picture Transmission and Television'.

HMSO. London. 1925.. pp. 27, (i), (iv) Publications. Original printed wrappers, stamp on front cover and title, a very good copy.

Wellcome Trust. London. 1965.. pp. xvi, 652, (iii). Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine copy. *First published by Pergamon Press in 1953.

Nicholson & Watson. London, Brussels. 1947.. pp. 359, (i). Frontispiece and illustration on final page drawn for this edition by Dali. Early binder's cloth, rear joint weak, brown spot on one page, else text clean.

Proceedings of the Royal Society. London. Series A, vol.355, no.1683. July 1977.. pp. 441-637, (i). Many figures, 1 plate. A very good copy in the original wraps. *The complete issue, 12 contributions.

Edward Arnold. London. 1923.. pp. xi, (i), 570, (ii). Frontispiece, 31 plates, 120 text figures. Original cloth, a very good copy.

John Churchill. London. 1852. Folio.. pp. (viii) [half-title, title, dedication, Introduction] + 36 lithographed plates [signed W[illiam]. B[agg]. after watercolours by KEARNY and LEONARD, from the collection of JOHN SCOTT] with hand-colouring, guard leaf and accompanying text leaf + pp. (ii) Conclusion. Contemporary morocco gilt, rebacked, all edges gilt, book-plate of WILLIAM EDMUND IMAGE FRCS, a tiny library stamp on each free end-paper, a little foxing of the blanks at the ends of the book, otherwise a clean and bright copy. *Very scarce and described by COLLINS History of Moorfields Hospital - '..... no illustrations of eye diseases ever surpassed or even equalled those in this Atlas............... The cost of production was nearly fifteen hundred pounds....'. COPAC records a number of copies in UK libraries but it is not listed in the catalogue of the BRITISH OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. It was preceded by his 'Anatomy of the Human Eye', 1834 - the first English work on ocular anatomy… Read More

John Weale, Architectural Library. High Holborn. London. 1842. Second edition [ALL PUBLISHED]. 8vo.. pp. vi, (ii), (i) Preface, (i) blank, 220. 4 engraved plates [numbered 1-4]. Original green-brown ribbed cloth with pink paper spine label, spine splitting at the front edge at the top, old tape marks at top and bottom of each board, faint marginal foxing of the first few leaves, else a very good copy. *SMYTH John Dalton, A Bibliography, #11, who does not mention the leaf with the Preface to the Second Edition. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION - 'The first Edition of this part of the work having been out of print for some years, the Author has been induced at the request of several of his friends to publish a second Edition, without making any material alteration in it.'

John Van Voorst. London. 1851-53-58. 3 volumes. 4to.. pp. (ii), iii, (iii), 286. 70 plates; xiii, (i) blank, 359, (i) blank. 46 plates; li, (i) blank, 111, (i) blank, (i) To the Binder, (i) blank. Fine engraved portrait of Dalyell and 28 [1 bis] plates. All 145 plates are engraved and hand-coloured. Later quarter calf over contemporary marbled boards, last nine leaves in v.I with some marginal dampstaining and the recto of the final leaf laid down with tissue (no text loss), very occasional foxing, overall very good copies. *FREEMAN BNHB #902

Facultdade de Medicina. Lisboa. 1973.. pp. XIX, (i), 391, (iii). 79 text figures. A very good copy, with presentation inscription from the author to MACDONALD CRITCHLEY.

Éditions du Botaniste. Paris. 1927.. pp. (iv), III, (i), (3)-422, (ii). 10 plates, 65 text figures. Printed paper wrappers, a very good copy. *TOGETHER WITH an undated autograph letter [2pp.], to GENERAL NOLLET, the Grand Chancelier de la Legion d'honneur, presenting this book to Mademoiselle Nollet, supporting her interest in the Protozoa and Protophyta.

Colburn. Paris et a Londres. 1817. Troisieme Edition, avec de Notices Historiques et Biographiques. . pp. vi, 130. BOUND WITH : CLÉRY, M. Journal de ce Qui s'Est Passé à la Tour du Temple, Pendant la Captivité de LOUIS XVI, Roi de France. [For the Author] by Baylis, Greville Street, À Londres. 1798. pp. (ii) Title, (xvi) Subscribers, 239, (ii) blank, (i) Nota. Engraved frontispiece, 1 plan, 1 facsimile. Early half calf and marbled boards, rebacked, a very good copy with the book-plate of WILLIAM AINGER WIGRAM. *William Ainger Wigram (16 May 1872 – 16 January 1953) English Church of England priest and author, notable for his work with and writings on the Assyrian Church of the East.

Thames and Hudson. London. 1986.. pp. 448. Many photographs. Dust wrapper, signed by Daniel on the title-page, a very good copy.

Thames and Hudson. London. 1972. Sm.4to.. pp. 64. 57 illustrations. Dust wrapper, with author's presentation inscription, 'Compliments' slip and TLS, dated 1974. *The Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture 1972.

Imprimerie M. Merkouscheff, perspective de Nevsky, No.8. Saint-Petersbourg. 1902. 4to.. pp. (ii), VII, (i) blank, 438, (ii) blank. 2 plates facsimiles of the Imperial Address of 1898, 12 plates showing the numerous congratulatory publications presented to the Academy. Original green cloth gilt over heavy bevelled boards, small snag at rear edge of the spine, small mark on the rear board and a very much smaller mark on the front board, elaborate floral gilt end-papers, loose printed presentation bifolium presenting the book to the REVEREND CRONIN, CAMBRIDGE, 1903 [ both Cronin, Oxford, and Mrs. Cronin, Cambridge, are listd amongst the foreign representatives at the celebration ], and subsequent ms. inscription presenting it to the Medical Department Library, Cambridge, 1923, faint browning at the page edges, else a very good copy. *The Preface and Historical Introduction are printed in parallel Cyrillic and French, pp. 135; the Letters of Address and of Felicitation from foreign dignitaries are in… Read More

Printed for S. Hooper. London. 1786. Folio. . pp. (ii), vi, 68. Engraved title-page, 6 plates, engraved vignette, folding plan, 98 marginal heraldic devices in ink, inserted leaf on the recto of which is a coloured plan of the castle bordered by 14 ms, heraldic shields, on the verso the arms of Lord Cobham, this signed by THOS. WM. KING, Rouge Dragon, College of Arms, 17th. March 1846. Perhaps he is also the writer of the marginal heraldic devices. LACKING plates 2 and 8. Contemporary calf with later rebacking, corners worn, book-plate of H. MARTYN MOWLL.