Search Results: Authors starting with K from Jeff Weber Rare Books

Lugduni Batavorum,: Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1738., 1738. 160 x 101 mm. Small 8vo. [xvi], 36, [4], 445, [2] pp. Title in red and black, printer's device on title, headpieces, floriated initials, corrigenda. Contemporary tan calf, raised bands, red leather spine label; rubbed, spine ends chipped, joints and hinges reinforced with kozo. Ex library rubber stamps of the National Library of Medicine. Very good. FIRST EDITION. In this work Kaau Boerhaave describes the process of the excretion of sweat from the sweat-glands of the skin and the motion of fluids within the body. The book also reprints his short lecture on the alchemists for which he received a gold medal from Leyden University. In this copy, the lecture on alchemy is bound at the front of the volume. There was a second edition (Lovanni, 1779). Stieda calls this "a brilliant work." Abraham Kaau Boerhaave, the prominent physician, studied medicine at Leyden under his uncle Hermann Boerhaave. After graduating and practicing medicine at The… Read More

[Washington, DC]:: The American Mathematical Monthly, 1947., 1947. 27 offprints. Original printed or self-printed wrappers. From the collection of Abraham Pais. Very good. INVENTORY: 1. KAC, Mark; Hurwitz, H. Statistical Analysis of Certain Types of Random Functions. Offprint from: The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. XV, No. 2, pp. 173-181, June, 1944. Signed by Pais. 2. KAC, Mark. On the Notion of Recurrence in Discrete Stochastic Processes. Offprint from: The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 53, No. 10, pp. 1002-1010, October, 1947. Signed by Pais. 3. KAC, Mark; Erdos, P. On the Number of Positive Sums of Independent Random Variables. Offprint from: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 53, No. 10, pp. 1011-1020, October, 1947. Original grey printed wrappers. Signed by Pais. 4. KAC, Mark; Siegert, J. F. An Explicit Representation of a Stationary Gaussian Process. Offprint from: The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, pp. 439-442,… Read More

[New York]:: Physics Letters, 1964., 1964. Offprint. Original wrappers. Very good. Kacser is presently Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Dept. of Physics. He also worked at CERN.

Berkeley:: University of California, 1977., 1977. 4to. 94 ff. Indexes. Orange printed wrappers. Rare. Seventeenth through twentieth century French journals.

Marburg:: R. Friedrich, 1887., 1887. Sm. 4to. 33 pp. Self-wraps. Very good. Scarce. World Cat.: Bibliotheque Nationale de France, UCB, CRL, Univ. Georgia, LC, Univ. Pennsylvania.

New York:: Charles Scribner's, 1924., 1924. Two volumes. Tall 8vo. xvi, 577; xiv, 457 pp. Portrait frontispiece, 500+ illustrations, index. Blind and gilt-stamped red cloth; rubbed, slightly bumped corners. Burndy bookplate, rubber ink stamped. Very good. First edition.

Paris:: Adolphe Delahays, 1858., 1858. 8vo. [4], vi, 522 pp. 10 plates (1 in color, 5 folding). Contemporary quarter blind- and gilt-stamped morocco, raised bands, maroon pebbled paper over boards; small waterstain on title, light foxing to early leaves, extremities worn. Binding with ownership stamp on foot of spine: G. Arena [and crown]. Good +. Ludwig Friedrich Kamtz was a German meteorologist who spent most of his life working in Russia, where he taught at the University of Dorpat.

Leipzig:: [Zentralantiquariat der DDR], [1970]., 1970. Series: Monographieen aus der Geschichte der Chemie, Heft 8. Facsimile of 1904 printing, issued in 1970. 8vo. 274 pp. 2 ports., index. Beige gilt-stamped cloth. Fine. Full title: Justus von Liebig und Friedrich Mohr in Ihren Briefen Von 1834 :: 1870; ein Zeitbild, herausgegeben und mit Glossen, Hinweisen und Erlauterungen versehen in Gemeinschaft mit Otto Merckens und W. I. Baragiola, von Georg W. A. Kahlbaum.

In:: Health guidelines for you, January, 1970., 1970. 214 x 137 mm. Pages 4-7. [Entire issue: 15 pp.] 2 ports. Printed wrappers. Very good. On an early lung transplant in dogs.

Offprint from: Mathematischen und Naturwissenschaftlichen Berichte aus Ungarn, Vol. XXI. Leipzig:: B. G. Teubner, 1904., 1904. 8vo. 24 pp. 8 tables. Original printed wrappers; spine over-stitched. Author's presentation copy. Rubber stamp and ms. notations on top cover. Good.

Berlin:: R. Gaertners, 1885., 1885. Series: Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum Programm des Konigstadtischen Gymnasiums. 1885. Sm. 4to. 32 pp. Self-wraps. Very good. Rare. World Cat.: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Heidelberg,: May 1, 1926., 1926. 21 x 28 cm. 1 page. Folded, a couple of marginal tears. Very good. Letterhead shows his address as Anatomisches Institut [Anatomical Institute], Heidelberg.

Amsterdam and New York:: Interscience, 1960., 1960. 8vo. xvi, 1195 pp. Numerous figs. and plates, index. Red cloth. Ownership stamp.

Sondershausen:: Hofbuchdr. von Fr. Aug. Eupel, 1891., 1891. Series: Zu der offentlichen Prufung der Furstlichen Realschule zu Sonderschausen . . . Sm. 4to. 28 pp. Self-wraps. Very good. Rare. World Cat.: Princeton, Univ. Marburg, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Detroit:: Wayne State University Press, (1992)., 1992. 8vo. 213 pp. Index. Peach cloth, dust-jacket. Ownership signature. Fine. ISBN: 081432164X

New York:: Prentice-Hall, 1938., 1938. Prentice-Hall Chemistry Series. 236 x 159 mm. 8vo. xiii, 304 pp. 47 figs., bibliog., tables, index. Blind-stamped red cloth, gilt spine. Ownership rubber stamp. Fine.

London:: Sold by J. Johnson, W. Richardson; Edinburgh: P. Hill, Manners and Miller; Hamburg: B. G. Hoffmann, 1797., 1797. 8vo. lxxx, 454, [ads 2] pp. Original quarter paper-backed blue drab boards; spine chipped, corners showing. Ex library bookplate. Very good. SCARCE. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of James Sigismund Beck's three-volume Erlauternder Auszug aus den critischen Schriften des Herrn Prof. Kant (Riga: Hartknock, 1793-1796), an important early introduction to Kant's thought. Beck's work stands far above the plane of the similar efforts of Kiesewetter, Snell, and others. Beck was extraordinary professor at the University of Halle. RARE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS.

Gottingen:: Kastner, 1894., 1894. Thesis/dissertation. 8vo. 50 pp. Printed self-wrappers. Very good. RARE. Relates to Immanuel Kant.

Giessen:: Nitschkowski, 1917., 1917. Thesis/dissertation: Giessen, Phil. Diss. v. 24. Juli 1917, Ref. Messer. 8vo. 62 pp. Printed self-wrappers. Very good.

Paris :: Quadrige/PUF, 1995., 1995. 19 cm. 248 pp. Red printed wrappers ; rubbed. Very good. ISBN: 9782130471271 Michel Meyer was a Belgian philosopher, founder of problematology and professor at the Universite libre de Bruxelles and at the University of Mons-Hainaut. In this book he studied Kent's metaphysical thinking.