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1921987781921. JACOB Max. Dos d'Arlequin. Illustrated with colored woodcuts after drawings by Max Jacob. 8vo. original wrappers in a cloth folding box. Paris: Aux Editions du Sagittaire 1921. A scarce little book showing just how talented Max Jacob was as an artist; the poet was a close friend of Picasso. The total edition was 250 copies but this is one of the hors commerce issue on Vélin. hardcover books
1976200945New York: Rizzoli 1976. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Delvaux Paul. 97 illustrations throughout some in color. The tinted frontispiece and dust wrapper are original lithographs printed in Paris by Mourlot. 166pp. Thick 4to natural cloth d.w. New York: Rizzoli 1976. First American edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper and cardboard slipcase.<br/><br/> Rizzoli unknown books
1968387331968. <p>Jacob Francois 1920- ; Monod Jacques 1910-75; Lwoff Andre 1902-94; & Brenner Sydney 1927- . Group of 22 offprints mimeographs etc. on molecular biology and bacterial genetics together with 2 related papers by other authors. Various sizes. 1947-1968. Together in one volume cloth "Institut Pasteur" in gilt on the spine. Overall good to very good; see detailed condition descriptions below. From the library of G. G. and Elinor Meynell authors of Theory and Practice in Experimental Biology 1970 with their address label on the front endpaper and ownership signatures on several of the offprints.</p> <p>First / First Separate Editions. Jacob Monod and Lwoff all colleagues at the Institut Pasteur received the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology / medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis-discoveries that "opened up a new field of research that deserved to be called 'molecular biology'" Magill The Nobel Prize Winners: Physiology or Medicine II p. 921. Their work answered the fundamental question of how the hereditary information contained in DNA can be translated into the chemical processes that synthesize cellular proteins this question had been posed most succinctly and explicitly in Francis Crick's theoretical paper "On protein synthesis" 1957 which laid the groundwork for over a decade's worth of research in this area. Brenner another key figure in this field worked with Jacob and Matthew Meselson on providing experimental evidence for messenger RNA; he was awarded a share of the 2002 Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.</p> <p>The collection we are offering here focuses largely on the Nobel Prize-winning work done by the Institut Pasteur group-Lwoff Jacob and Monod-in the 1950s and 1960s. The work can be divided into four sections: </p> <p>1 lysogeny and bacterial conjugation</p> <p> 2 expression of the genetic material via messenger RNA</p> <p> 3 the regulation of the genetic activity of bacterial cells by operons</p> <p>4 the organization of bacterial genetic material.</p> <p> In the following paragraphs we will attempt to highlight the more important papers in this remarkable collection; however all the papers here touch upon these central questions of molecular biology.</p> <p>Lysogeny defined as the hereditary ability to produce the bacteriophage virus is a peculiar type of infection in which the phage becomes part of the genetic material of a bacterial cell; in this non-infective form prophage it can then be inherited by succeeding generations of cells becoming virulent only when some environmental stimulus causes the bacterium to produce and release phage.</p> <p> "Lysogeny brought a model for the interrelation between a virus and a cell. And also a model for the possible mode of action of carcinogenic agents which could disturb something in this balance" Judson p. 368. Lwoff studied this phenomenon intensively in the late 1940s and early 1950s successfully demonstrating the genetic nature of lysogeny which was disputed by several scientists including Delbruck and discovering how it is induced. In 1953 he published an important review of the subject "Lysogeny" Bacteriological Review 17; see no. 2 below. Lysogeny was also studied by Jacob and Elie Wollman whose paper "Induction of phage development in lysogenic bacteria" CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 18 1953; see no. 5 below summarizes what had been learned about lysogeny as of that date.</p> <p>Lwoff's work on lysogeny inspired Jacob and Wollman to investigate the phenomenon of bacterial conjugation the transfer of genetic information from a male donor bacterium to a female recipient resulting in genetic recombination to see if they could discover where in the bacterium's genetic material the prophage was located. In 1955 working with a highly recombinant strain of E. coli K12 discovered by William Hayes Jacob and Wollman performed what came to be known as their "coitus interruptus" experiment in which they used a Waring blender to interrupt the mating bacteria at various stages of their conjugation. They found that the donor cell's genetic characteristics were not transferred all at once but rather sequentially over time-a discovery of great importance. </p> <p>"Wollman and Jacob had stumbled upon a way to measure off the genes on the bacterial chromosome as directly and physically as a child squeezes toothpaste onto a brush or a carpenter unrolls a coiled steel tape measure. As they saw instantly and reported in a note in mid-June 1955 in the weekly Comptes rendus of the Academie des Sciences "Sur le mecanisme du transfert de materiel genetique au cours de la recombinaison chez E. coli K12"; see no. 6 below they had the means to make a genetic map of biochemical characteristics expressed in units of time" Judson p. 385.</p> <p> In 1956 Wollman and Jacob published the first albeit rudimentary timed map of the K12 strain of E. coli in a paper published in France. This map was printed again in their English-language paper "Conjugation and genetic recombination in E. coli K-12" CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 21 1956; see no. 8 below which also contained the first publication of Thomas Anderson's famous electron micrograph of two conjugated bacteria.</p> <p>In 1958 Jacob delivered his paper "Transfer and expression of genetic information in E. coli K12" see no. 9 below at a symposium in Brussels; this paper together with one given by Jacob's sometime colleague Arthur Pardee "ranged over the whole matter of transfer of genes between bacteria and the regulation of their expression" Judson p. 400. Jacob and Wollman had originally represented the hereditary material in linear form while stating that the genetic map could be formally represented as a circle. In 1963 at a Cold Spring Harbor conference the researcher J. Cairns provided physical evidence that the E. coli chromosome was circular; at this same conference Jacob Brenner and co-author Francois Cuzin presented their paper "On the regulation of DNA replication in bacteria" CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 28; see no. 16 below containing their "replicon model of chromosome replication in bacteria a model that almost required circularity of chromosomal and F factor DNA" Brock p. 103.</p> <p>Experimental proof of the existence of messenger RNA the substance responsible for coding protein synthesis was announced in Brenner Jacob and Meselson's landmark paper "An unstable intermediate carrying information from genes to ribosomes for protein synthesis" Nature 190 1961; see no. 1 below. The theoretical groundwork for messenger RNA had been laid in Crick's "On protein synthesis" 1957; demonstration of the substance's existence had been foreshadowed by Volkin and Astrachan's discovery of a high-turnover unstable RNA distinct from the ribosomal and transfer varieties 1956 and by the famous "PaJaMo" experiment demonstrating the negative control mechanism of enzyme induction 1958. However it was not until the spring of 1960 that these previous findings were combined by Brenner Jacob and Francis Crick into a biological model setting forth the exact means of communication between gene and cytoplasm while eliminating the various problems associated with earlier ribosome-based theories of gene expression. As Brock puts it the ribosome was now seen as "simply a nonspecific translation machine something like a computer whose behavior depended on what software it contained" Brock p. 306.</p> <p> Working with Matthew Meselson who had developed experimental techniques for tagging and separating ribosomes Brenner and Jacob performed the critical experiment described in their paper which provided direct evidence for the existence of an unstable rapidly turning over messenger RNA.</p> <p>The concept of the operon-a group of adjacent genes functioning as a unit under the control of another gene the operator gene-developed between 1958 and 1960 on the basis of work done by Monod and Jacob who were investigating the repressor model of gene regulation. Jacob developed the idea that gene regulation was based on a repression system that operated like an on-off switch and that "genetic units of a higher order existed . . . that contained several genes subject to unitary expression. . . . On the basis of these ideas and observations Jacob and Monod developed the concept of two kinds of genes structural which coded for the synthesis of proteins and regulatory which did not" Brock p. 300. In October 1959 Jacob and Monod published the theoretical basis for the operon in "Genes de structure et genes de regulation dans la biosynthese des proteines" C. r. Acad. Sci. 249; see no. 11 below. Their paper "established the sharp distinction between the familiar genes that determined protein structures and the new class of genes that regulated. It even looked to them then as though the product of the regulatory gene were not a protein by RNA. But the fact to be underlined they said was that in every known case when several structural genes had their expression controlled by the same regulatory gene-'that is to say in all probability by a unique repressor'-the structural genes were grouped tightly together. . . . The best fit to the evidence was that the group of genes had among them a single element: the operator target of the repressor" Judson p. 410. </p> <p>The Jacob/Monod operon model of gene expression was further explored in their 1961 paper "On the regulation of gene activity CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 26; see no. 14 below which presented a more detailed examination of the mechanics of protein synthesis. For further information see Judson The Eighth Day of Creation 2nd ed. and Brock The Emergence of Bacterial Genetics; specific references are given below.</p> <p>1. Brenner Sydney; Jacob Francois; & Meselson Matthew. An unstable intermediate carrying information from genes to ribosomes for protein synthesis. Offprint from Nature 190 May 13 1961. 576-581pp. Diagrams. Without wrappers as issued. Light toning. Ownership signature of E. W. Meynell on the first page. Garrson-Morton 256.10. Brock ch. 10.12. Judson pp. 414-27.</p> <p>2. Lwoff Andre. Lysogeny. Offprint from Bacteriological Review 17 1953. 269-337pp. Without wrappers. Small stamp on first page. Brock ch. 7.4.</p> <p>3. Monod Jacques. Inhibition de l'adaptation enzymatique chez une bacterie E. coli infectee par un bacteriophage. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 224 1947. 2 2 blankpp. Without wrappers. Light browning creased horizontally with small tear along crease. Ownership stamp and ms. annotations of A. A. Miles.</p> <p>4. Lwoff & Siminovitch Louis. Induction de la lyse d'une bacterie lysogene sans production de bactÈrophage. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 233 1951. 3pp. Fore-edge frayed marginal tear affecting a few words. A. A. Miles's signature.</p> <p>5. Jacob Francois & Wollman Elie. Induction of phage development in lysogenic bacteria. Offprint from CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 18 1953. 101-121pp. Without wrappers. Light soiling a few annotations. Owner's name on first page. Judson p. 382.</p> <p>6. Wollman & Jacob. Sur le mecanisme du transfert de materiel genetique au cours de la recombinaison chez E. coli K12. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 240 1955. 3pp. Without wrappers. Creased horizontally light toning. Ownership signature of Elinor Meynell. Brock ch. 5.7.</p> <p>7. Jacob; Alfoldi Lajos; & Wollman Elie. Zygose letale dans des croisements entre souches colicinogenes et non colicinogËnes d'E. coli. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 244 1957. 3pp. Without wrappers. Small marginal tears. Elinor Meynell signature.</p> <p>8. Wollman; Jacob & Hayes W. Conjugation and genetic recombination in E. coli K-12. Offprint from CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 21 1956. 141-162pp. Without wrappers. Brock ch. 5.11.</p> <p>9. Jacob. Transfer and expression of genetic information in E. coli K12. Manuscript for the Symposium of the Society for Cell Biology Brussels 1958. 29 3pp. Dittoed table. Mimeographed. Without wrappers. Edges a bit frayed. E. Meynell signature. Judson p. 400.</p> <p>10. Jacob & Fuerst Clarence R. The mechanism of lysis by phage studied with defective lysogenic bacteria. Offprint from J. Gen. Microbiol. 18 1958. 518-526pp. Without wrappers. E. Meynell signature.</p> <p>11. Jacob & Monod. Genes de structure et genes de regulation dans la biosynthese des proteines. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 249 1959. 3pp. Without wrappers. Creased horizontally. E. Meynell signature. Brock ch. 10.10. Judson p. 410.</p> <p>12. Changeux Jean-Pierre. Sur l'expression biochimique de determinants genetiques d'E. coli introduits chez Salmonella typhimurium. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 250 1960. 3pp. Creased horizontally. Meynell signature.</p> <p>13. Jacob. Comments. Offprint from Cancer Research 20 1960. 695-697pp. Without wrappers.</p> <p>14. Jacob & Monod. On the regulation of gene activity. Offprint from CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 26 1961. 193-211pp. Without wrappers. Meynell signature. Brock ch. 10.13.</p> <p>15. Jacob & Monod. Elements of regulatory circuits in bacteria. Unesco Symposium on Biological Organization. Paris 1962. Mimeographed. 27pp. plus tables and figures. Without wrappers. Light browning.</p> <p>16. Jacob; Brenner Sydney; & Cuzin Francois. On the regulation of DNA replication in bacteria. Offprint from CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 28 1963. 329-348pp. Without wrappers. Meynell signature. Brock ch. 5.11.</p> <p>17. Jacob & Ryter Antoinette. Etude au microscope Èlectronique des relations entre mÈsosomes et noyaux chez Bacillus subtilis. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 257 1963. 4pp. Plate. Without wrappers. Meynell signature.</p> <p>18. Lennox Edwin S. ; Novick Aaron; & Jacob. Relation between repression level and rate of enzyme synthesis. Offprint from Colloques Internationaux du Centre Nat. de la Recherche Scientifique. No. 124. Mecanismes de regulation des activites cellulaires chez les microorganisms 1965. 209-219pp. Orig. wrappers. Meynell signature.</p> <p>19. Sebald Madeleine & Schaeffer Pierre. Toxinogenese et sporulation chez Clostridium histolyticum. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 260 1965. 3pp. Without wrappers.</p> <p>20. Jacob & Ryter. Segregation des noyaux chez Bacillus subtilis au cours de la germination des spores. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 263 1966. 4pp. Plate. Without wrappers. Meynell signature.</p> <p>21. Jacob & Ryter. Segregation des noyaux pendant la croissance et la germination de B. subtilis. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 264 1967. 3pp. Plate. Without wrappers.</p> <p>22. Jacob. Genetics of the bacterial cell. Offprint from Science 152 1966. 9pp. Orig. printed self-wrappers. Nobel address. Meynell signature.</p> <p>23. Jacob; Pereira da Silva Luiz; & Eisen Harvey. Sur la rÈplication du bacteriophage l. Offprint from C. r. Acad. Sci. 266 1968. 3pp. Without wrappers.</p> <p>24. Ryter A.; Hirota Y.; & Jacob. DNA-Membrane complex and nuclear segregation in bacteria. Offprint from CSH Symposia on Quant. Biol. 33 1968. 669-676pp.</p> . unknown books
193510072New York: The Macmillan Company. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. lovely copy tight square and clean with no discernible wear attractive vintage bookplate on ffep; jacket has one small closed tear at top of front panel otherwise just a touch of edgewear here and there and some light soiling to the rear panel. Story of a young man who since childhood has hated the sight of pain and is considered a coward by his father. "When despite his loathing of suffering he is drawn into the War his taut nerves give way and he becomes obsessed with the conviction that he himself will never be killed but that he will be kept alive to watch others die around him. Ironically enough the Armistice is declared the day after he deserts from the Army. It is only then that life begins for Michael and his fear-ridden and sensitive youth retreats into the background before new experiences of great moment -- love and independence as a wage earner in post-War Italy." The British lesbian author Naomi Jacob 1889-1964 had been a teacher a suffragette a playwright and an actress but ultimately achieved her greatest success beginning in the mid-1920s as author of some 75 popular novels plus women's magazine series advice books and at least one biography. She moved to Italy where a significant portion of this book is set in 1930 and at one time reportedly had an unrequited crush on Una Troubridge longtime companion of Radclyffe Hall. In Diana Souhami's biography of Hall Ms. Jacob is described thusly: "She was Jewish large wore tweeds and clubbish ties and liked a drink." She is remembered today best as -- well actually she's barely remembered at all. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
193817840E1938. Original autograph signature of British author Naomi Jacob written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4†x 3†piece of paper and inscribed: “With all good wishes Naomi Jacob. Sirmione Italy 1938.†Fine. Naomi Jacob is the author of ‘Poor Straws’ ‘Honour Come Back’ ‘Barren Metel’ ‘Our Marie’ ‘Young Emmanuel’ etc. unknown books
19378956New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1937. Unstated ed. Hardcover. NOISBN . no dust jacket moderate external wear a bit of soiling to yellow cloth two previous owners' names on ffep. Novel about a family of Jewish immigrants in London which begins in 1880. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
195218273London: Hutchinson. Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. Good in chipped torn DJ; only front of DJ present . Hutchinson hardcover books
193911996New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good- in Fair dj. 1939. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . price-clipped ex-lending library book worn but intact markings confined to pocket on front pastedown and remnants of label on ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn moderately soiled top 1-1/2" of spine missing but not affecting spine text torn and ragged along top edge more so to rear panel; see note about wrap-around cover. "The author of the famous novels of Jewish life the Claudia and Gollantz books has this time written the story of a man who was not a Jew but who pretended to be one because he felt it would be an asset in business." NOTE that this copy has an interesting "bonus" feature namely a printed wrap-around paper cover sort of a dust jacket under the actual dust jacket that bears the name of the lending library Ramona Rental Library Los Angeles along with ads for a number of local businesses. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1948187585Hutchinson 1948-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket and book are clean with mild wear. Has a good binding no marks or notations. Front endpaper removed. Hutchinson hardcover books
197210283NP PESCHEL 1972 1972. SIGNED BY JACOB WITH INK DRAWING FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. F. NP, PESCHEL, 1972 unknown books
18792558331879. With watercolours photos etc. 4to. Quarter contemporary morocco gilt spine and marbled boards a.e.g. Minor rubbing some pages have been excised. With watercolours photos etc. 4to. Front free endpaper has charming small watercolour of house tipped in with legend in pencil "I believe this is the first dwelling after marriage Rainham Kent. G.T.N. ordained 1806 preached at Romsey.<br/><br/>2. Lumley Lodge Richmond pen and ink drawing. Laid in.<br/><br/>3. Watercolour : "House & chapel built by him of Dr César Malam Prè du Champs- Geneva<br/><br/>4. Pencil drawing "Birthplace of Phillip George de Grand Jacob: Roath Court was left for Somerton in 1808." Signed in picture "Roath Court Frant. July9-39."<br/><br/>5. 2. Lumley Lodge Richmond pencil drawing<br/><br/>6. Crawley Rectory 1832 by A.S.J. Pencil drawing<br/><br/>7. Crawley Rectory and grounds by ASJ<br/><br/>8. Wash drawing of "Abbey Close Winchester" identified lower left<br/><br/>From hence mostly photographs. unknown books
1858303557Paris Aldolphe Delahys 1858. 1858. First edition thus. 8vo. Small 8vo. French text. P.L. Jacob editor. 15 page introduction by Jacob. Foreword by Augustin Asselin. Contemporary 1/2 gilt stamped maroon morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. minor rubbing; marbled endpapers. Very good. 288 pages. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Aldolphe Delahys, 1858. hardcover books
186715458Paris: Veuve Jules Renouard 1867. Folio 35 cm 13.75". Add. engr. t.-p. 2 81 1 pp.; 22 plts. <br><br>Only the Bibliotheque Nationale copy is traced via any major database. Edited and contributed to by the prolific French author Paul Lacroix best known as "Bibliophile Jacob" this lovely collection of short stories poems and meditations by Lacroix Balzac Émile Délerot Charles Nodier et al. is illustrated with 22 large steel engravings done by J.C. Armytage W. Greatbach J.B. Allen J.T. Willmore F. Joubert and others after designs by artists including Turner Webster etc. Contemporary quarter morocco over paper-covered sides spine with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly rubbed over sides and extremities. Front pastedown with small armorial bookplate. Front free endpaper and first few leaves separated. Occasional faint pencilled vocabulary annotations in English. Scattered light spots of foxing with most plates clean and untouched a few showing some spotting in margins. Veuve Jules Renouard unknown books
1994128479Paris France: Éditions des Cendres 1994. stiff paper wrappers. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 51 3 pages. Text in French. Reprinted from 1840-1841 and limited to 500 copies. A collection of essays on old books. Éditions des Cendres unknown books
187421937Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1874. Edition limited to 750 copies 10 volumes in 4 small 8vo bound by Ritter in 3/4 citron morocco over marbled boards and endpapers black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines t.e.g.; 10 engraved plates by Garnier; very minor wear but generally a fine and sound set. <br/><br/> Librairie des Bibliophiles hardcover books
1878182793Paris: Firmin Didot et cie 1878. Hardcover. VG- overall bumping and wear to boards front end page is loose with previous owner's name on rear. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Red leather boards with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt tooling; all edge gilt; burgundy and gilt decorative end pages; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; xiii pp 560 pages 36 plates 16 in color including frontispiece. Text French. " Book illustrated with 16 chromolithographs and 250 wood engravings including 20 printed out of text after Watteau Vanloo Largillière Doucher Lancret Greuze Chardin Desportes Oudry Vernet La Tour Les Saint-Aubin Gravelot Cochin Eisen Moreau Marillier Debucourt Etc."- Translated from title page. Includes alphabetical list of painters sculptors architects draftsmen engravers ornamentalists etc. whose works are reproduced in the volume with references to pages or they appear and chronological note on each artist. Firmin Didot et cie hardcover books
1878182794Paris: Firmin Didot et cie 1878. Hardcover. VG- overall bumping and wear to boards soiling to rear of title page and following page. Tissue guard is torn and stuck to color illustration between pages 300-301. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Bound in half red leather and marble illustrated boards; five raised bands on spine with extensive gilt tooling and gilt lettering; burgundy decorative end pages; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; xiii pp 560 pages 36 plates 16 in color including frontispiece. Text French. " Book illustrated with 16 chromolithographs and 250 wood engravings including 20 printed out of text after Watteau Vanloo Largillière Doucher Lancret Greuze Chardin Desportes Oudry Vernet La Tour Les Saint-Aubin Gravelot Cochin Eisen Moreau Marillier Debucourt Etc."- Translated from title page. Includes alphabetical list of painters sculptors architects draftsmen engravers ornamentalists etc. whose works are reproduced in the volume with references to pages or they appear and chronological note on each artist. Firmin Didot et cie hardcover books
1982043325Weiden: Verlag K. Knauf 1982. iii 234p. b/w illus. original stiff printed wrappers Weidner heimatkundliche Arbeiten 19. Verlag K. Knauf unknown books
193776774London: George G. Harrap & Co. LTD. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardback in DJ. 9 by 6 inches in green cloth with gilt titlling corners bumped with foxing to the page edges. The dj is worn and stained but whole. . George G. Harrap & Co. LTD. hardcover books
1980M11610Bergen:: Universitetsforlaget 1980. 1980. Norwegian translation of Structure and Function in Man 3rd ed. 8vo. 640 pp. Illustrations glossary index. Red cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Fine. Signed presentation inscription by one of the authors Jacob. ISBN: 8200258408 Universitetsforlaget, (1980). hardcover books
191830227London: Country Life 1918. First Edition. 8vo pp. 59. Paper over boards. Cover little soiled and worn at edges o/w a VG tight copy. Poems. Country Life unknown books
191830195London: Country Life 1918. 8vo pp. 59. Paper over boards. Bookplate on pastedown little foxing at front and back o/w VG. Poems. Country Life unknown books
191830194London: Country Life 1918. First Edition. 8vo pp. 59. Paper over boards. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. Cover little bumped and stained o/w VG. Poems. Country Life unknown books
19828184Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press. Near Fine. 1982. Paperback. 0080284507 . Edited with an introduction by Ronald Garden. Illustrated. First paperback edition. Slight trace of foxing along top edge else fine in illustrated wraps. . Aberdeen University Press paperback books
183127979London: John Murray 1831. First edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. xvi 380; xi 1 415 1; later full speckled calf by Riviere red and green morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines marbled edges and endpapers; 19th century bookplate; slightest rubbing else near fine. William Jacob 1762-1851 was appointed to the comptrollership of corn returns in 1822. "On the suggestion of Huskisson Jacob undertook an inquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals. This work shows great research but is defective which may be attributed partly for the more recent periods to the insufficient historical information available then" Palgrave II 471. Goldsmiths' 26788; Kress C.2842. <br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
