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

Charles Scribner. New York. 1863. Second edition. 8vo.. pp. x, 502. Frontispiece and 8 plates [3 wood engraved, remainder tinted lithographs] and 25 wood engraved text figures. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all edges scuffed, occasional dusty margin and the odd mark but overall a very good copy.

Ward Lock. London. 1961.. pp. (viii), 128. Dust wrapper, a very good copy.

. Later cloth, the first page laid down and the glue now browning, else a very good copy, ex-libris EDWIN CLARKE.

Edward Arnold. London. 1897.. pp. x, 92, (ii) blank, (ii) Advertisement. Original cloth, uncut and unopened, Paget's inscription to SIR CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, a couple of neat library stamps but a very good copy overall. *Paget was Lecturer in Public Health at Owens College, Manchester - this work is an examination of the value of having efficient, permanent public records in medicine.

The Scientific Press. London. 1904.. pp. (viii), 72. Original limp cloth, a very good copy. *With sections on PHYSIOLOGY - PATHOLOGY - BACTERIOLOGY - THERAPEUTICS [including malaria, yellow fever, cholera, rabies] - THE ACT RELATING TO EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS.

Messrs. Rendell & Symons. [Totnes & Newton Abbot]. 8th. September, 1886. Large folio [c.46 x 29 cms.].. 3 double-page folding lithographed plans with hand-colouring, within printed wrappers, the verso of the front wrap with text. A little foxing, horizontal centre-fold crease, small hold at the fold, else a very good copy. *31 lots were offered for sale - ' These Properties are well worth the attention of Capitalists for sound investment............ From the salubrity of the climate of Paignton, its unrivalled Beach, excellent Water Supply, and natural advantages, there cannot be found a more desirable locality for the Residence of Families.......... '.

The Riverside Press. Cambridge [Mass.]. 1925. 2 volumes.. pp. xiii, (i), 306. Frontispiece and 62 illustrations; ix, (i), 399, (iii). Frontispiece, 57 illustrations. Original cloth with gilt device on each front cover, the boards very slightly bowed and the spine ends slightly bruised, else very good copies.

Printed by J. Davis, for R. Faulder. London. 1790. 8vo.. pp. (iv), 426, (i) Contents, (i) Errata. Contemporary tree calf, marbled end-papers, spine rubbed and worn and lacking label, joints firm and contents clean, inscribed at the top of the title - 'John Lee From the Author' and on the verso of the front free end-paper 'From the Author'.

J. F. Dove. London. 1828. 5 volumes. 12mo.. pp. viii, 376; vii, (i), 336; viii, 296; xx, 384; xii, 304. All with additional engraved titles. Contemporary close-grained morocco, all edges gilt, a very good set. *SCARCE.

Knight and Co. London. [1877]. Second edition.. pp. ix, (iii), 44, (iv) Advertisements. Original cloth, a very good copy. *Although reprinted many times, the early editions appear to be scarce - COPAC gives the BL : NLS : Bodleian and Cambridge.

Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press in association with The Pilgrim Trust. London & Edinburgh. 1946-1949. 4 volumes. 4to.. pp. xi, (i), 222, (ii). 107 plates; viii, (ii), 218, (iv). 104 plates; viii, (ii), 226, (ii). 104 plates; viii, (ii), 237, (i). 106 plates. Many of the plates are in sepia or colour. Clean and bright copies in excellent state. *INTRODUCTION - '.... the outward aspect of Britain was changing all too quickly before the War at the sinister hands of improvers and despoilers' The plates were produced by the top contemporary artists, some 95 in all, listed in the Index to v.IV. These include JOHN PIPER - BARBARA JONES - MARTIN HARDIE - RUSSELL FLINT - MICHAEL ROTHENSTEIN - THOMAS HENNELL - LOUISA PULLER.

HMSO. London. 1928.. pp. 111, (i), viii. Original printed wrappers, stamp on front cover and title, a very good copy.

Germer-Ballière. Paris. 1877-1875. 2 parts in 1.. pp. (vi), VII, (i), 160, (iv), 72. 31 + 10 text woodcut figures, mostly instruments. Original purple cloth now faded, else a very good copy. *Each part has its own title and separate pagination.

V. Adrien Delahaye. Paris. 1877. First edition. 8vo.. pp. (iv), 224. 9 text figures. Contemporary cal-backed marbled boards, a bit rubbed, some foxing throughout, most noticeable at the ends, old French library stamp at foot of title inked out, another in text margin untouched, else a very good copy.

Folio Society. London. 2009. 2 volumes. No.363, LIMITED EDITION of 1180 copies for sale, 20 for presentation.. TEXT : pp. 144. 1 coloured plate; PLATES : 185 fully coloured leaves printed both sides. COLOPHON : The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours has been reproduced from the Fitzwilliam Museum MS 1058-1975 with: The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours : commentary by Stella Panayotova. It has been printed by Beacon Press, Sussex, on Furioso paper and bound by Smith Settle, West Yorks, in full silk brocade woven only for this edition by Stephen Walters and Sons, Suffolk. The edition is limited to 1180 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society, and 20 lettered copies which are not for sale. In excellent condition, plate volume all edges gilt, bound as above, the text in cloth-backed boards, both within a solander box.

Meridian Books. London. 1947.. pp. (viii), 338. Frontispiece, 8 plates, map end-papers. Publisher's white cloth now a bit dusty, else a very good copy.

University of Wales Press. Cardiff. 1963.. pp. 53, (iii). A very good copy in the original wraps.

George Routledge and Sons. London. 1880. New Edition.. pp. 242, (ix) Catalogue, (i). Folding lithographed map at the front, frontispiece and 15 plates, each with several views. Original decorated blue cloth, front joint weak, else a very good copy.

Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. London. 1831. First edition. 4to.. pp. xv, (i), 547, (i). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Davy, by Worthington, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, folding facsimile of manuscript, a number of text woodcuts. Original cloth rebacked with leather spine label, sides now much faded, portrait and plate foxed, occasional marginal foxing, two leaves once protruding now with dusty edges at top and side, contemporary signature on the front paste-down and on the title - ELIZA ANNE MADOCKS, TREGUNTER, 1831 - with book-plate of JOHN WEBB ROCHE. *The ROCHE family had an estate in Tregunter, Brecknockshire. The Estate papers are held by the National Library of Wales. Eliza Anne was the daughter of Samuel Hughes of Tregunter, Talgarth, and married twice, her second husband being WILLIAM ALEXANDER MADOCKS. Her daughter, also Eliza Anne, married John Webb Roche.

W. Phillips. London. 1823. 3 volumes. 8vo.. pp. (iv), l, xv, (i) Errata, 440; (iv), 472; (iv), 153, (i) blank, ii, 371, (i) blank. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, all with the book-label of J. W. CLARK, CAMBRIDGE, library cancel on the labels, all rebacked, a very good set.