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

Springfield:: Charles C. Thomas, (1961)., 1961. 235 x 160 mm. 8vo. xii, 152 pp. Frontis., 78 figs. (some color), index. Blue cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket. Fine. FIRST EDITION. Ravinovitch was a member of the medical faculty at McGill University.

New York:: Interscience, (1968)., 1968. 8vo. xiii, 361 pp. Index. Red cloth. Ex-library copy (spine markings, rear pastedown rubber-stamped). Good. Complete in itself. Ten articles: Diuretics by Sprague; Importance of Turnover Rate Measurements to Elucidate the function of neuronal monoamines, by Costa & Neff; Phenothiazine Drugs by Maxwell Gordon; Drugs Affecting Blood Coagulation and Clot Lysis by Rodman; Drugs Used in Alcohol Research and Treatment, by Koppanyi & Maengwyn-Davies, etc.

Paris & Nice :: Editions de L'Image Litteraire, 1948-1949., 1948. 4 volumes. 22x18 cm. Large 8vo. [7]-271, [3]; [7]-202; [7]-293, [1]; [7]-298 pp. Each title with a vignette of the author. 64 plates in the edition (16 by each of four different artists). Original printed wrappers with titles in dark red. With all the four green slip-cases present and well preserved. Very good. Limited edition of 700 copies, this copy unnumbered, but specially designated for Marcel Poupian, whose name is imprinted on the colophon. Contains an extra suite of the plates for each volume. / The edition was illustrated by four artists, including French illustrator and printmaker, Raoul Serres (1881–1971), a member de la Societe des artistes francais, since 1906. His illustrations for this edition were on wood. Vol. II was illustrated by Mario Prassinos (1916-1985), actually born in Turkey, Prassinos was of Greek-Italian descent, though he is known as a French modernist painter. Vol. III was illustrated by Pierre Leroy… Read More

Los Angeles:: Hilprand Press, 1951., 1951. 234 x 157 mm. 8vo. xii, 40 pp. Frontis. consists of Samuel Radbill's bookplate tipped-in, 40 plates. Original orange cloth, gilt spine. Bookseller's bookplate (of F.M. O'Brien) on front paste-down. RARE. Printed by the Anthoensen Press.

London:: George Routledge and Sons, 1911., 1911. Two volumes in one. Large 8vo. xxii, 148; xii, 183 pp. Two color frontispieces based on original painting by Cuthbert Bradley, an additional pictorial title, red and black titles, 10 steel engraved plates colored by hand, 35 wood engravings by such artists as E. Landells, Thomas Landseer, J.W. Archer, E. Hacker, and Jas. Wesley, appendix, index. Early half gilt-stamped red calf over red cloth, t.e.g, ribbon bookmark; extremities scuffed. Very good. Scarce. Fine fox-hunting treatise with handsome color plates.

Bristol:: John Wright & Sons, 1967., 1967. 8vo. x, 110 pp. 7 figs., 8 plates, index. Taupe gilt-stamped cloth; slight bump to corner. Very good. Foreword by David Brown. An excellent copy of a classic work on obstetrics and midwifery, from the 16th century to about 1950.

Berlin:: Julius Springer, 1926., 1926. Series: Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Heft 44. 8vo. 340, ads. [2] pp. Illustrations. Printed wrappers; a bit worn. Ex-library bookplate with embossed stamp on title, cover call number painted over. Small ownership signature on front cover. Very good.

Berlin:: Julius Springer, 1926., 1926. Series: Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie, No. 44. 8vo. v, 340 pp. 212 illustrations/photos. Printed wrappers; front cover detached, extremities and spine extremely worn. Previous owner's inked signature on front cover. AS IS. SCARCE.

Offprint from: L'Encephale, Journal de Neurologie et de Psychiatrie, No. 1. Paris:: G. Doin, 1934., 1934. 262 x 182 mm. 8vo. 17 pp. 5 figs. (including two photographic figs. on one plate). Original printed wrappers; extremities brittle, else very good.

Paris:: Masson & Co., 1935., 1935. 8vo. viii, 262, 48 (ads.). 124 figs., bibliography, index. Black and red printed wrappers. Fine copy. FIRST EDITION. On the ear and equilibrium. W. Storm van Leeuwen, "Levensbericht Van Gijsbertus Godefriedus Johannes Rademaker", in: Jaarboek, 1956-1957, Amsterdam, pp. 238-243. [Obituary for Rademaker], Huygens Institute - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Dr. Rademaker was a famous Dutch physiologist turned neurologist at the Rijks Universiteit in Leiden. He was considered a "master of experimental neurophysiology." [Hogenhuis]. He was the most talented student of Rudolf Magnus, and later "recognized as a genius by his peers worldwide." See: Leon A. H. Hogenhuis, Cognition and Recognition: On the Origin of Movement : Rademaker (1887-1957), a Biography, BRILL, 2009.

Cleveland:: The Burrows Brothers, 1899., 1899. 8vo. 175, [1] pp. Portrait frontis., tissue overlay, two illus., index, bibliography, appendix; tissue and title page foxing. Blue cloth with paper spine label, t.e.g.; corner bumped. Burndy bookplate, gift of Bern Dibner, ink signature of "T. Otis Fuller" [Timothy Otis Fuller (1845-1916)] [of Needham, Massachusetts, known for his studies of ornithology and botany] with date, "Oct. 17. 1899." Very good. Rare. One of only 250 numbered copies. This copy is a "Review Copy". Rafinesque "was a nineteenth-century polymath who made notable contributions to botany, zoology, the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America and Mesoamerican ancient linguistics. Rafinesque was eccentric, and is often portrayed as an "erratic genius." He was an autodidact who excelled in various fields of knowledge, as a zoologist, botanist, writer and polyglot. He wrote prolifically on such diverse topics as anthropology, biology, geology, and linguistics, but was honored in… Read More

Urbana:: University of Illinois Press, 1997., 1997. 8vo. xi, [3], 284, [2] pp. Index. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN: 0252022378 Winner of the Hervey B. Wilbur Historic Preservation Award given by the American Association on Mental Retardation, 1999. "Genetic screening, new reproductive technologies, gene therapies, and the reality of cloning all make biological solutions to human social problems seem possible. Creating Born Criminals shows how history can guide us in our response to the reemergence of eugenics. The first social history of biological theories of crime in sixty years, it examines those theories' origins and content, showing their undue influence on crime control in the United States." – Johns Hopkins University Press.

Cambridge, MA & London:: MIT Press, (1976)., 1976. 233 x 158 mm. 8vo. viii, 161 pp. 65 figs., bibliog., index. Yellow cloth, dust-jacket; jacket spine faded. Very good. FIRST MIT PRESS EDITION. Originally published as Vol. 13, No. 3, August, 1975 of the Neurosciences Research Program Bulletin.

New York:: Macmillan, 1962., 1962. 8vo. xvi, 567 pp. 75 figs., 9 tables, indexes. Navy cloth; inner hinge cracked. Ownership signature. Very good.

Lausanne:: G. Rouge, 1888., 1888. Small 8vo. 15 cm. v, [3], 255, [1] pp. Early quarter gilt-stamped red morocco, raised bands, marbled boards; extremities rubbed. Good. Preface by Henri Warnery.

Paris:: Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1874., 1874. Small 4to. 15 cm. VIII, [2], 282, [2] pp. Contemporary full blind- and gilt-stamped red morocco, raised bands. Ownership signature of M.J.E. Dulon, 1874. Very good.

Paris:: Firmin Didot, 1869., 1869. 8vo. [iv], vii, [1], 408 pp. 2 chromolithographic plates [frontis. + facing p.70], 90 figs.; foxing. Original quarter tan blind- and gilt-stamped calf, marbled boards; rear joint reinforced with kozo. Very good.

Paris:: Firmin-Didot, 1871., 1871. Tall 8vo. [viii], 420 pp. 186 figs. Black blind and gilt-stamped morocco; rubbed. Very good. This is a very attractively illustrated introduction to the world of plants, their legends, uses and curious specimens: palms, the agaric mushroom, cocoa tree, coffee tree, sugar cane, cedar, tobacco, tea, fruit trees, forget-me-nots, the water lily, pine trees, carnation, olive tree, oranges, opium, pepper tree, buttercup, etc. The author, a teacher, and classic populist of learning and the sciences, also wrote on astronomy, meteors, women's education, origins of spoken languages (from when the time when words were not formed), history of musical instruments, and the prolongation of life.

Offprint from:: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. LI, No. 5, 1891., 1891. 8vo. [i], 316-330 pp. 4 figs., tables. Original plain wrappers, ms. top cover title. Ms. notations on top cover. Very good. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Arthur Rambout was astronomical Director of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford. Poggendorf, IV.

(Milan):: Edizioni il Polifilo, (1991)., 1991. 360 x 248 mm. Large 4to. xl, 338, xlvii-lxxxviii pp. Illus., figs. Green cloth, dust jacket, slip case; lower case extremity split. Very good.