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

Higashi Printing Co. Tokyo. 1949. Third edition.. pp. (ii), 313, (iii). More than 379 coloured figures of birds, 6 to a plate, 29 text figures. Japanese text. Original cloth, a very good copy.

Faber and Faber. London. 2002.. pp. xx, 588. 22 plates, mostly coloured, numerous text figures. A very good copy in dust wrapper. *The Lunar Society - Priestley : Erasmus Darwin : Wedgwood : Boulton : Watt et al.

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For J. Callow, Medical Bookseller. London. 1805. Fifth edition, revised and corrected. 3 volumes in one. 8vo.. pp. xx, 355, (i); x, (ii), xii, (13)-257, (i); viii, iii, (i), (5)-200, (viii) Catalogue. Folding table. Later half calf and marbled boards, rebacked, new end-papers, scattered foxing, lower margin of one leaf in v.2 a bit dusty, wanting the half-title to v.1 [the other two present], a very good copy. *GARRISON-MORTON #6326 - 'Underwood laid the foundations for modern paediatrics.' Also G-M #2734.4 - the second edition of 1789, in 2 volumes, in which congenital heart disease was noted for the first time; G-M #4015 for the first edition of 1784 which described Underwood's Disease, sclerema neonatorum, and thrush [G-M #5516].

Sztuka. Warszawa. 1956.. 12 loose, tinted plates with a separate Introductory text by Stanislaw R[ichard]. Dobrowolski, in Polish - French - Russian and English, pp. 25, (iii). Four of the plates are slightly browned from exposure to the light, else in very good condition within a printed portfolio and with an inscription, possibly from one of the contributors.

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Sydenham Society. London. 1851.. pp. XII, xv, (i), 463, (i). Green cloth gilt of the series, top edge gilt, spine faded but a good copy. Ex-libris Anatomy School, Cambridge with usual marks of provenance. *GARRISON-MORTON #1357 UNZER [First edition, 1771] and #1386 PROCHASKA [First edition, 1780-1784] - Unzer was the first to propose the use of the word 'reflex' in connection with sensory-motor reaction; Prochaska introduced the idea of a 'sensorium commune' in the central nervous system, a consistent and comprehensive theory of relex action.

Éditions de Muséum. Paris. 1946.. pp. 51, (i). 4 plates, including portrait. Original printed wrappers, Urbain's inscription to '... Directeur et des Professeurs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle....', a very good copy. *TOGETHER WITH : NEWTH, D. R Translated and Annotated. Lamarck in 1800. A Lecture on the Invertebrate Animals and a Note on Fossils Taken from the Systême des Animaux Vertèbres By J. B. LAMARCK. Offprint from Annals of Science, Vol.8, No.3, September 1952. pp. (229)-254. Stapled as issued, a very good copy.

Cassell. London. 1890.. pp. xxxii, 891, (i) blank, (xvi) Catalogue. Frontispiece, 836 illustrations in text. Original cloth. Very good. Original cloth, rebacked with old spine relaid, cloth dull with a little wear to the corners, else a very good copy. *A compendious study of the applications of electricty, including much on the ELECTRIC LIGHT - TELEPHONE -TELEGRAPH.

London. 1876. 16mo.. pp. (vi), 22, (iv). Albumen photograph frontispiece, signed by Ure in the negative Original black morocco, double gilt border on the front board, name within an inner border with Maltese cross ornaments at the corners, repeated on the rear board, spine ends and corners rubbed, all edges gilt, photograph faded and spotted, presentation inscription from Ure's daughter and signed KATHERINE URE MACKINLAY.

Sandymount Press. Dublin; Williams & Norgate. London. 1946.. pp. 70, (ii). Original printed wrappers, a rusty pin in the top edge of the front cover, a very good copy.

Aus der Medizinischen Abteilung IX, Ullevaal Krankenhaus, Oslo. Helsingfors. 1937.. pp. 737, (i). Binder's white linen with leather spine label, presentation copy to MACDONALD CRITCHLEY, with the original printed card front cover bound in, an excellent copy. *With lengthy Summaries in both French and English.