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

New York:: Paul B. Hoeber, 1932-34, 1937-1942., 1932. Nine volumes (partial run). Thick 4to. Numerous figures, charts, photos and portraits, numerous contributors, indexes. Full gilt stamped brown cloth; extremities rubbed, early ex-library rubber stamps. Bookplates of Sinai Hospital Library. Very good. First editions. A GOLD-MINE OF MEDIAL HISTORY. Articles include: photographic reproduction of "Korte Aantekening wegens eene algemeene ziekte, doorgaans genaamd knokkel-koorts" David Bylon (Garrison and Morton 5469); an article on Rabanus Maurus's "De Sermonum Proprietate Sive Opus de Universo." By E. C. Jessup (Garrison and Morton 2190); "History of the Stomach Tube." Ralph K. Major. Other contributions are made by: Howard B. Adelmann, Leona Baumgartner, Sir Humphrey Rolleston, & Lynn Thorndike. Full of important contributions to the history of medicine.

New York:: Hafner; London: Collier Macmillan, (1973)., 1973. Two Volumes. 8vo. xxv, 656; xi, 659-1323 pp. 103 illus. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped spine titles. Reprint of the 1963 edition. Very good. "An authoritative source-book of the history of medicine in the United States." [Garrison & Morton 6590]. ISBN: 028500105.

Philadelphia and London:: W. B. Saunders, (1942). Reprint., 1942. 8vo. 807 pp. 334 illus., index. Black cloth. Very good, but an ex-library copy with spine lettering.

Chicago:: Microscope Pubs., 1975., 1975. Small 8vo. xi, 147, [1] pp. 69 figures, index. Original yellow gilt-stamped cloth. Fine copy. Contents: The Microscope in American before 1840; Charles A Spencer and his Successors; The Grunow Brothers of New Haven; Joseph Zentmayer of Philadelphia; Robert B. Tolles and the Boston Optical Works; Chicago Makers: Walter H. Bulloch -- Dr. Lyman D. McIntosh; Bausch and Lomb, Inc. of Rochester; Acme Optical Works of Lancaster PA and James W. Queen of Philadelphia; Other American makers, designers, dealers: Benjamin F. Allen, J. B. Allen, Jesse S. Cheyney & Co., Charles X. Dalton, John Ellis, Charles Fasoldt, John Green, Ezra H. Griffith, Ernst Gundlach, Laban Heath, William K. Kidder, C. B. Kleine, James H. Logan, McAllister & Brother & Thomas H. McAllister, Miller Brothers, Eusebius J. Molera & John C. Cebrian, John Phin, Benjamin Pike, Charles Potter, James Prentice, C. B. Richards, L. Schrauer, August Stendicke, C. M. Vorce, George Wale, William Wales, Yawman & Erbe.

Springfield (IL) & Baltimore:: Charles C. Thomas, (1937)., 1937. 8vo. xvii, 444 pp. Numerous figs., index. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped red spine label, dust jacket; jacket lightly chipped. Fine.

Stuttgart:: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1978., 1978. 4to. Fig. Printed wrappers; a few creases and small marginal tears. Inscribed. Very good.

Berlin:: S. Karger, 1915., 1915. Thick 8vo. (xvi), 616 pp. Index. Dark green cloth, red leather spine label, gilt spine; rubbed. Ex library ms. spine label, bookplate. Bookplate of H. P. Kraus. Very good. SECOND EDITION, edited by Karl Sudhoff.

Berlin:: S. Karger, 1905., 1905. 8vo. 112 pp. Index. Dark brown cloth. Signature of previous owner. Very good. Scarce. Outline of a system of the cultural history of medicine extracted from lectures given in the winter semester of 1904/05 at the University of Berlin by Pagel (1851-1912) who was a physician and noted medical historian. Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 884. See: Heirs of Hippocrates: 95.

New York:: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901., 1901. Fourth impression. 8vo. [xii], 438, [32] (ads) pp. Frontis., 9 plates (2 photogravure), index. Black gilt-stamped cloth. Inked gift inscription to Charles Drage . . . on title page dated "Aug. 28, 1902". Very good.

New York:: Macmillan, 1931., 1931. Reprint. 8vo. xi, 158 pp. Dark blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Ex-library bookplate with embossed stamp on title, spine call number painted over. Very good.

Oxford:: Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Samuel Collingwood, 1822., 1822. 8vo. 1039 pp. Paper lightly browned (causing edge painting to look browned). Original dark brown straight grained morocco elaborately stamped in blind, a.e.g.; neatly rebacked, edges scuffed, inner hinges re-enforced. Very good. Leather bookplate of Sydney Sanner. With fore-edge painting of "FOLKSTONE." An early painting (date unknown). PROVENANCE: Navy blue morocco bookplate of Sydney Sanner, possibly a freemason and, if so, this could be the copy of Judge James Sydney Sanner (1872-1956), Supreme Court of Montana. He was also involved with inventing mining machinery. He died in Los Angeles. Earlier inscription of "Emily C. Hammersley, [daughter of my] [and in another hand:] Great Aunt . . . Constance Maria Stopford, Ridgeway, 1920."

In:: The Rockefeller Institute Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, January - February 1965., 1965. 281 x 214 mm. 4to. Page 16. [Entire issue: 18 pp.] 1 fig. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.

In:: Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 33, No. 3, July, 1961., 1961. 272 x 202 mm. 4to. Pages 493-497. [Entire volume: [iv], 625 pp.] Full orange buckram, gilt spine. Ex library rubber stamps (those on edges obscured), spine label partially removed. Ownership name in gilt on top cover. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Abraham Pais and Murray Gell-Mann teamed together to work on the problem of strong and weak interactions. See: Pais, Inward bound, p. 520. Abraham Pais received the Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht in 1941 and was professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from 1950-1963. Pais' research and publications were on the physics of fundamental particles, high enery physics, and field theory.

[College Park, MD]:: The Physical Review, 1966., 1966. Offprint. pp. 1200-1202. Original wrappers. Hole-punched. Else good. Pakvasa was a professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa.

New York, Heidelberg & Berlin:: Springer-Verlag, 1974., 1974. 4to. xii, 348 pp. 267 text figs. Blue cloth, black- and yellow-stamped spine title, dust jacket; jacket torn, mended with cellophane tape. Ownership signature inside front cover. RARE. Very good.

St. Louis:: C. V. Mosby, 1967., 1967. Series: Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Vol. I. 29 cm. ix, 245 pp. 419 illus., index. Green and black cloth. Signature Jeff R. Moore. Contains a brief history of plastic surgery. Other chapters treat tetanus, tracheostomy, local anesthesia, facial fractures, hand injuries, bites, burns, etc. Original artwork by Elisabeth North.

[Upton, New York]:: Brookhaven National Laboratory. . . , (1967)., 1967. Brookhaven Lecture Series, No. 66, BNL 50059 (T-462) (Physics - TID-4500). 270 x 215 mm. 4to. iii, 13 pp. 21 figs. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Boston:: West and Richardson, 1815., 1815. 8vo. xxiv, 25-476 pp. Some foxing. Original full mottled calf, gilt spine rules, red leather spine label; rubbed. Signature of Rev. John Grosvenor Tarbell, 1819 (1793-1882) [Cambridge, Harvard College] – also inscribed to his grandson John Grosvenor Tarbell, March 15th, 1879. Very good.

(Budapest:: Medimpex), [1962]., 1962. Square 8vo. 143, [1] pp. Frontispiece, photographs; rear free end-leaf foxed. Cream cloth, front cover color pictorial, gilt-stamped black leather spine label; foxed. Bookplate. Very good.

Philadelphia:: Lea & Febiger, 1949., 1949. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 200 pp. Color plates, photos, tables, indexes. Black cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; extremities rubbed. Very good.