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The very scarce second volume, "completing the extension of the late Professor [Andrew] Jamieson's Advanced Text - Book on Steam and Steam Engines to cover 'Heat and Heat Engines'." Rewritten / completed by Ewart Andrews. Red cloth boards show light wear; spine sunned somewhat, and bumped at head and tail. Correction fluid mark on FEP; some very light foxing. Contents otherwise clean and sound throughout. Eighteenth Edition TPW Used
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to spine ends and lower corners. 355pp. Aimed at 6th form students specialising in science.
Minor foxing to end papers and page edges. No added marks or inscriptions. A clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards, very clear gilt lettering to spine, dusty page edges and bumping to lower corners and spine ends. Tiny nicks to a few page edges. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with very slight marking and with rubbing/small nicks to spine ends. 798pp. A complete text book on organic chemistry as it was understood in the 1920s.
Very good cloth bound Hardback without dust jacket. Previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front board in an otherwise clean copy. x + 147p. (pages 355 - 502). Stated price is for the complete set. Individual volumes at £15 each
Very good cloth bound Hardback without dust jacket. There is a minor stain on the first page and the previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front board, otherwise nice clean copy. x + 157p. (pages 505 - 662). Stated price is for the complete set. Individual volumes at £15 each
Very good cloth bound Hardback without dust jacket. Previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front board in an otherwise very nice clean copy. x + 152p (pages 665 - 817). Stated price is for the complete set. Individual volumes at £15 each
Last owner's name on the inside of the cover, rubbing along the edges and ends of the cover and spine.
Signed 'Halliday Sutherland' to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, upper page edges dusty and with bumping to upper corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed and dusty. Dust jacket not price clipped with a few small marks, repaired tear to front, sunned spine and small pieces missing from top of spine. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 286pp. A second volume of reminiscences from the author following on from 'Arches of the Years' in which we visit his Highland childhood, his youth in Scotland, his medical life, yachting holidays, hospitals, law-courts, churches and race-courses. The last chapters tell of his reception into the Church of Rome, his famous law-suit with Dr Marie Stopes and his visit to Lourdes. Very scarce signed copy.
Signed C Edmondson (maybe the author's son) to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon boards, very clear gilt lettering to spine, slight softening to spine ends, light foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 295pp. A distillation of the author's thirty years of experience of worsted drawing and spinning providing the practical advice designed to assist the men responsible for the running of worsted machinery. It deals with the Bradford or 'Open' system. Illustrated. Scarce in the UK. A number of extracts are tucked in at the front - wool preparation advice from the Textile Mercury, a two-page flyer advertising the book, a review of the book in a Leeds newspaper cutting and the remains of the book's dust jacket.
Small hardcover without jacket. Item slightly cocked. Boards faintly marked; spine head and foot bumped; leading corners bent and a little worn. Leading edges a little worn, with the rear dented. Page block tanned, with scuffmarks on head. Hinges weakened at several points through volume and at rear, pages at these points are intact but brittle and beginning to detach. Endpapers / pastedowns a little grubby and foxed. Fold - out diagram at front is foxed with a few stains and a nick on leading edge. Title page creased, foxed and grubby. Taped repair on p.3. Small tear on leading edge of p.5. Pages thereafter are a little aged, with instances of light foxing and a few stains, but the majority are well - preserved, and all text and figures remain clear. TS Used
This in an ex-library book, so as to be expected, the ususal library markings to spine and stamping to inside title pages, is present. The pages are clean throughout and the hard cover is solid and show just some small signs of wear. Ex-Library
Large 8vo. Title-page, XIV, LXXII, 73-454, (10) pp. Contemporary calf with gilt-stamped red and green labels to richly gilt spine. Edges sprinkled red. Second edition of this gynaecological classic, in the year of the first printing. The Scotsman Smellie (1697-1763) “contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual. In his ‘Treatise’ he described more accurately than any previous writer the mechanism of parturition, stressing the importance of exact measurement of the pelvis. He was the first to lay down safe rules regarding the use of forceps, and himself introduced the steel-lock, the curved, and the double forceps” (Garrison/M.). - Binding slightly rubbed, but decorative; back hinge beginning to split at upper spine-end. Endpapers slight glue-stained; interior clean. Quire Q (pp. 225-240) is present twice. Title page with autogr. note of ownership by the surgeon Gallus Erasmus Florian Ritter von Hochberger (1803-1901; cf. DBA II 592, 385-393). Garrison/Morton 6154. Blake 421. Eimas 825. Waller 9013. Norman 1954. Hirsch V, 435. Grolier Medicine 43a. Heirs of Hippocrates 825.
Slightly shelfworn jacket, with slight bumps at corners, edges, and head and foot of spine. Minor scores on jacket front and rear. Hardcover is slightly bumped at corners, and head and foot of spine. FEP is slightly creased. Contents are clean and sound, text is clear. TH. Used
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 268pp. A record of what happens when unregulated development meets the opposition of 'ordinary people'.
G (no dj, lightly worn green cloth with gilt titles faded on spine, gilt advert for Dunlop and Ranken on back board, gilt title front board, neat ink inscription front free endpaper, pages clean and unmarked and binding firm) 12mo 218pp. Second edition. A practical work for installation engineers, contractors, plant engineers and works electricians. With 127 diagrams and photographs.
13765 AA. VV. AA. VV. Profilati a freddo. Cinisello Balsamo (MI), N. D. N. D. italiano, in ottavo pp.74 Volume di presentazione della ditta produttrice di profilati a freddo Brollo. Pagine leggermente ingiallite. Bordo della seconda pagina strappato. Timbri sulle prime pagine. Rilegato a spirale metallica.
Small folio (210 x 342 mm). 38, (2) pp. With engr. title vignette and 12 engr. plates by J. C. Berndt. Contemp. marbled boards. Only edition of this profusely illustrated collection of human malformations. "Achondroplasia is first described on page 30 and pictured on plate 11" (Garrison/M.). An English translation appeared in 1932 in R. H. Major's "Classic Descriptions of Disease". The versatile German anatomist S. T. von Soemmerring (1755-1830), one of the first members of the Senckenbergian Society, is hailed as the discoverer of the eye's Macula lutea, one of the earliest scholars to describe the Pterodactyl, and inventor of a telescope as well as of an electrical telegraph. He also was an early champion of smallpox vaccination. - Binding bumped at extremeties. Ms. inscription (c. 1820) on flyleaf: "Zum Beweise der reinsten Achtung | Aug. v. Tournier" [?]. Corners of flyleaf clipped; slight worming throughout (insignificant loss to text; more pronounced near beginning and end), otherwise fine. Extremely rare; last recorded on a German auction in 1964. Garrison/Morton 4306. VD 18, 14590689-001. E. Goldschmid, Entwicklung und Bibliographie der path.-anatom. Abbildung 78. OCLC 67960624.
XX, (2), 308, (28) SS. Mit gest. Porträtfrontispiz. Grüner Pappband der Zeit (stärker fleckig) mit goldgepr. Rückenschildchen. Dreiseitig gesprenkelter Rotschnitt. 8vo. Erste deutsche Ausgabe der wichtigen gynäkologischen Schrift. - Der Pappband am Vordergelenk oben eingerissen und mit stärkeren Wasserspuren; innen sauber und nur schwach wasserrandig. Blake 371. OCLC 257715666. Nicht bei Wellcome.
62, (2) SS. Halblederband der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit goldgepr. rotem Rückenschildchen. Dreiseitiger Rotschnitt. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe; von großer Seltenheit: Blake und Wellcome kennen nur die Neuausgabe von 1764 unter dem veränderten Titel "Sammlung merckwürdiger Abhandlungen vom Krebs worinnen die Ursachen desselben untersucht und zwey bisher geheim gehaltene Mittel zu dessen Heilung bekandt gemacht werden", die daher oft fälschlich als Erstausgabe bezeichnet wird. Hauptwerk des Darmstädter Pfarrerssohns J. P. Berchelmann (1718-83), der in Gießen Medizin studierte, wo er 1764 Amtsarzt und Hessen-Darmstädtischer Leibarzt wurde. Kein Exemplar auf deutschen Auktionen der letzten Jahrzehnte. - Am hinteren Vorsatzblatt zeitgenöss. hs. Inhaltsverzeichnis. Hinterer Innendeckel und hintere Vorsätze mit unbedeutender Wurmspur, sonst sehr ansprechendes Exemplar. Engelmann 52. Hirsch I, 403. Nicht bei Blake, Wellcome, Waller etc.
(12), 182, (2) SS. Mit einer mehrf. gefalt. gest. Tafel (ausgefaltet 35:42 cm). Broschur der Zeit. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe der balneologischen Schrift des in Hermannstadt gebürtigen Wiener Mediziners J. Wächter (1792-1880). - Etwas braunfleckig. Die Tafel zeigt die Konstruktion eines Dampfbads für eine Person. - Selten; zuletzt 1977 auf einer Auktion. Hamberger/Meusel XXI (DBA I 1320, 160). Trausch III, Nr. 3 (ebd., 161). Wurzbach LII (ebd., 165). Nicht bei Engelmann. Nicht bei Hirsch. Nicht in Slg. Waller.
XVI, 432 SS. Zeitgenössischer Pappband mit Rückenschildchen. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe des medizinischen Hauptwerks des mit Georg Christoph Lichtenberg befreundeten Arztes und Chemikers. "Erfolg hatte er mit seiner 'Abhandlung über die Krankheiten der Kinder [...]', wobei er eine anschauliche Schilderung des klinischen Krankheitsbildes mit scharfsinnigen differentialdiagnostischen Erwägungen und vernünftigen therapeutischen Ratschlägen verband" (NDB VI, 411). Hirsch/H. II, 764. Waller 3557. Wellcome II, 119. Blake 176. Engelmann 193.
Penguin image stamp to bottom of page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 316pp. An in-depth discussion of time by Professor of Natural Philosophy Paul Davies, setting out a fascinating theme of why Einstein's can't be the last word on the subject.
(46), 584 SS. Mit 4 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. Gespenkelter dunkelgrauer Pappband der Zeit mit goldgepr. rotem Rückenschildchen. Herald. Bibliotheksmarke am Vorderdeckel. Dreiseitiger Farbschnitt. 8vo. Zweite Ausgabe. - Das Werk des Abbé Jean Morin (1705-1764) enthält detaillierte Beschreibungen interessanter physikalischer Experimente, die er in seinen Kursen am Collège Royal in Chartres ausführte. Diese Experimente, die er zumeist selbst entwickelt hatte, wurden am Ende jeden Schuljahres öffentlich wiederholt. Die Tafeln zeigen verschiedene Laborinstrumente. - Für die "Landmarks of science"-Serie mikroverfilmt. - Letzte Bll. im Falz minimal wurmstichig und teils schwach gebräunt. Hübsches Exemplar aus der Bibliothek Schönborn-Buchheim. OCLC 53416259 (nur 1 Nachweis). Vgl. Poggendorff II, 206 (EA 1735).
XII, 78, (4) SS. Bedruckte Originalbroschur. 8vo. Unaufgeschnitten.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 168pp. How the concept of serendipity has brought us a wealth of useful and entertaining discoveries entirely by accicent.
