Search Results: Authors starting with H from Douglas Books

London: British Optical Association. 2nd Edition . Red Cloth. Good-VG. 18.5 Cms x 24.5 Cms. Complete volume: 413+(4)(contents), inc.86 col. plates & 1 b/w plate ill. Haab's Atlas, num. text figs in other papers; internally clean, tight & unmarked, fr.free endpaper has some thinning to top outer corner & is sl. browned; covers clean and minimally worn bar nicks to sp. ends & sl. rubbing of extremeties, but sp., fr. edges & back fore-edge faded. This volume also contains several historical papers by W.B.Barker (on Kepler, Newton and Pepys) and a note on Newton by R.A. Houston as well as other technical papers on glaucoma, strabismus, lenses etc. plus one on 'Optical Products of Minoan Civilisation' by H.L.Taylor. This new Haab Atlas translation appears in instalments throughout the volume and updated the earlier translation, re-printing col. ills. from original plates. 1st trans Ernest Clarke in 1895, same year as orig. German. Scarce, esp.in this original format.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Very Good. Green cloth, gilt-lettered sp., virtually pristine. viii + 221, 2 sm. text figs (I make it), top edge green, virtually pristine. unclipped jackeyt clean, sa few sl. touches of edge-rubbing only fault, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 15.5 cm x 23 cm

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. 1st Edition . Green Cloth. VG/Good+. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xi+303; dated ink sig.of eminent historian of science R.M.Young top fr.free endpaper + his pencilled underlining & occ.marginal comments mostly from cabout p.159-p.249, o/w clean and tight in clean minimally worn covers, v.sl.corner bumping only, top of text block sl.dust marked; unclipped covers sl.surface rubbed, a few edge nicks & top sp.v.sl.torn, back sl.dusty. A synoptic overview of the topic of relevance to contemporary creationism controversy.

Tubingen: J.C.B.Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. VG for age and genre. Yellow printed issue wrapper, several chips to spine, top back corners also chipped, edges tanned to brown and rubbed as overlapping text-block., nevertheless clean and better than average for German paper covers of this date. Small sig. 'Erich Roll' to top edge. ix+134; un-tanned, clean and unmarked, just a few slightly dog-eared top corners at end. Erich Roll was an eminent British economist a banker later given peerage as Lord Roll. A previous dealer's informative description of the work is slipped in. The authors first publication mathematically analyzing relationship between prices and welfare economics, laying the basis for value theory. 16.5 cm x 25 cm

Cambridge: Polity Press 'in association with Basil Blackwell', 1990. 1st English paperback (1st h/b 1987 ) . p/back. Fine. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xx+430; virtually as new. Includes discussion of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Adorno, Horkheimer and Derrida. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Dark blue cloth with gilt sp. lettering. pub. list verso half-title + viii + 454; would be as new but for small 2003-dated sig. of Clare Crellin (author of the 2016 'Jung's Theory of Personality: A modern reappraisal'). Unclipped jacket as new. will add protective sleeve when ordered. Contains 10 papers pub.1976-1985 on various theoretical, philosophical, psychological and linguistic aspects of the topic. 16 cm x 23.5 cm

London & New York: Verso Press, 1992. Revised & Enlarged Edition . Paperback. Fine-. 15 Cms x 23.5 Cms. viii+27; near pristine, some slight dustmarking to bottom of textblock of little consequence. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. 1st ed. . Dark Cloth. Fine/VG-Fine. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xvi+321; pristine unmarked copy in near similar jacket marred by fading from orange to yellow to spine and top edge. A detailed analysis of the evolution of some central themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Halifax U.K.: MIlner & Company, 1910. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Good+. 12.5 Cm x 19 .00 Cm. f/piece+x+126, 9 further plates, publisher's tipped in small blue & red flyer for 'The XXth Century Series' between vi./vii. Prev.owner's 1927-dated inscrip.front pastedown+1966-dated later owener's label, main problem is extensive consecutive marginal pencil numbering up to 121 seemingly of number of 'races' mentioned. Pub.date added below imprint on t.p. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Watts Thinker's Library, 1932. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First version of series brown cloth binding with black decorated front inc. 'Thinker' bottom centre, no obvious faults but spine a tad darkened. Series list+ f/piece+xii+244, numerous text ills and maps of various kinds, no obvious internal faults. This is an abridgment of the original 1901 edition. One of the products of the famous Torres Straits Expedition which Haddon led 1898-9. No.26 in the Thinker's Library series 11 cm x 16.5 cm

Oxford: Oxford University Press Clarendon Press, 1952. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. xi+235, 17 plates at chapter ends, num.figs; sm.sig.of previous owner (R.H.Knight) top fr.free endpapers, outward sides of endpapers browning, sm.brown spot recto rear endpaper, o/w internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn coevrs, sp.just a tad faded, typed sheet of tabulated radiation information + sheet with pencilled mathematical calculations slipped in. Inc.4 papers on genetic effects of radiation by Darlington, Mather, Catcheside and E.B.Ford.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952. 2nd Imp., 1st-1950 . Brown Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. 444 +(4, pub.list); internally remarkably clean, tight and unmarked bar top gutter of opening 48/49 where there some small rust marks and indentations from a slipped in paperclip and safety pin!, these have very faintly bled through to spots on adjoining pp.; covers clean and unworn though spine sunfaded with a tiny dent. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Reading MA, Palo Alto and London: Addison-Wesley, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Grey cloth with gilt-on-red sp. lettering, no obvious faults. xi + 484, numerous text figs numbered by chapter, clean tight and unmarked. Unclipped jacket clean and almost unworn, just slight rubbing to edges and sp. ends, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 16 cm x 23 cm

London: Macmillan, 1873. 1st ed. . Blue Library cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 13.5 cms x 22.5 Cms. vii+424; ex-Leeds Public Libraries with their heraldic plate to front pastedown, discard stamp front endpaper and colourless round impressed sstamp to top outer margins of first 4 leaves and last 5 or 6, blank loan sheet to back pastedown, trace of lib.numbering verso t.p., otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; the blue library binding is clean and unworn with gilt short title and lib. number to spine. Uncommon. An excellent reference/working copy. Covers a huge range of topics, mostly to do with history of language, esp. aspects of pronunciation and grammar but much else besides. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1905. 1st Edition . Grey Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. f/piece (w.tissue)+112, 3 plates. grey endpapers, text in Fraktur font. Royal College of Surgeons lib.stamps on half-title, verso f/piece, t.p. (also withdrawal stamp), above contents and various places throughout. Spine a bit grubby with ghost of small shelf-mark label at top, otherwise undamaged. Despite the stamps, which are rarely intrusive after prelims, this is a very clean tight copy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range. SALE PRICE

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. 1st English ed. (1st German-2000) . Red sp.& orange boards, cloth. Fine/Fine-. 14.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. unpag.prelims+309, central 8 pp.plate block of ills (1-4 per page); pristine copy in jacket marred only by top-clipping to fr.wrapaound. Haffner (1907-1999 was a famous German historian who published two books on the rise of Hitler, but this is an edition of persoanl unpublished manuscripts of his memoirs discovered after his death. This English edition contains new material discovered sinc the publication of the German edition. Scarce in the UK.

Stockholm: Svenska Lakaresallskaper, 1990. 1st Ed . Printed Boards. Fine/No Jacket (none Issued?). 19 cms x 28 cms. decorated endpapers, series t.p. of Svenska Lakaresallskapets Handlongar (Hygeia/Acta Societatis Medicorum Suecanae Volume 99, Part Two (with central engraving of building)+col.f/piece+main t.p. with centrral Adam & Eve engraving with branching Tree of Knowledge trunk shaped like a skeleton + 176 (inc.entire textblock, in roman to XI), illustrated throughout with images of t.p.s etc, 3 coloured.A virtually pristine copy with no obvious faults. Text in English.

Stockholm: Svenska Lakaresallskapet, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Pub.series t.p. with line engraving of house, issued as 'Hygiea/Acta Societatis Medicorum Suecanae Volume 98, Part Four, 19189 + col. f/piece+ t.p. with central ill.+ 176 (colophon engraving on last p.), copiously illustrated throughout inc. several further full page colour plates. Internally fine, white cloth covers with title and illustration centre front, main title in red, pub.name in red cemntre back, generally clean but a few small light surface marks, unworn bar hint of corner bumping.19 cm x 28 cm

London: William Heinemann, 1929. 1st U.K. edition same year as U.S. . Blue Cloth. Good-VG/No Jacket. 17 Cms x 24.5 Cms. f/piece+xxii+405+ Harpers pub. colophon, text ills. throughout, 15 further plates ex-pagination; slight edge-tanning throughout (probably common to all copies by now), otherwise internally excellent being clean, tight & unmarked with good end-gutters; covers clean and bright but slight rubbing to corners, spine ends & some edges reduces rating from unqualified VG. Fairly uncommon in UK, a nice copy of this deservedly highly successful popular history of medicine which covers virtually all topics from venereal disease tom vaccination.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1869. 1st ed. . Full Leather. VG. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. f/piece diagram w.tissue guard+xiv+544, marbled endpapers with gilt-dec.edges to pastedowns, all edges gilt; end-gutters opening inside endpapers, but remain secure and sound; covers clean, edges, joints and sp.panel ridges all surface rubbed but no structural damage or wear. A strange and curious work which spans logic and physics before turning to the title topics, and then shifts to showing how all this vindicates orthodox Christianity.