Search Results: Titles starting with C from Jeff Weber Rare Books

Philadelphia:: Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1849., 1849. 8vo. iv, (5)-304 pp. Latin and English. 4 folding plates or maps, index; heavy foxing, some stains. Original full American calf, gilt-stamped spine label; heavily rubbed, corners showing wear. Good. Ownership signature of Frank H. Koons, Neuville, VA. Plates by Jean Godouin (1620-1700).

London & New York:: Macmillan, 1889., 1889. 227 x 160 mm. 8vo. x, 251, [ads, 4] pp. Index. Original green cloth, gilt spine; rubbed, spine ends frayed. Very good.

Lugduni [Lyon]:: Seb. Gryphium, 1556., 1556. Small 8vo. Pagination: 473, [23] pp. Signatures: a-z8, A-H8. Printer’s device on the title page, woodcut initials, printed marginalia; editor's name on title and p. 2 are lined out in ink, three small worm holes from title-page. Nineteenth century quarter gilt-ruled calf, red paper board boards. Early ink name on title of "Carolus . . ." and occasional marginalia (pp. 58, 61, 62, 80-83 [heavy notes] - in the same hand. Very good. Beautifully printed early pocket edition printed by Sebastianus Gryphius (1493-1556), of Suetonius' most famous work and one of the few of his texts that survive, with excellent annotations by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, the work contains a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Roman Empire [Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian]. It is a primary source for the study of Roman history.… Read More

Boston:: Little, Brown, (1957)., 1957. 210 x 142 mm. 8vo. xii, 327 pp. 124 figs., tables, indexes. Blue cloth, dust-jacket; jacket soiled, else fine.

Princeton:: Princeton University Press, 1980., 1980. 8vo. xi, [1], 430, [2] pp. Index. Crimson silver-stamped cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. ISBN: 0691053014

Oxford, et al.:: Pergamon Press, 1966., 1966. 8vo. 111-157 pp. Plates, figs., tables. Printed wrappers; spine frayed. Library stamp on front cover. Good.

Australia:: ANZJS, 1971., 1971. The Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, Vol. 40 no. 3 (197102), Feb. 1971, pp. 239-248. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, to George Kaplan, with kind regards . . . 10/7/74?. Stephens proposed a classification system based on the features of the affected ureteral orifice. / ?There are some scientists who have an encyclopaedic knowledge of a subject, or who systematize a body of existing knowledge, but, valuable as this may be, they do not necessarily advance that science. Frank Douglas Stephens was one who broke through barriers and made such original observations that our understanding was advanced into new directions. He was a master of the patho-embryology of developmental processes in congenital abnormalities. In the areas of the urinary, genital and ano-rectal systems, he was the most prolific and significant contributor in the world.? - Durham Smith. See: Frank Douglas Stephens (1913–2011), Journal of Pediatric Urology 8(3): 224-225 (2012). Durham Smith,… Read More

Argentorati, [Strasbourg]:: Philippi Mulbii, 1647., 1647. 4to. [x], 352; [120], 587, [1], 150 pp. Elaborate added engraved title, title printed in red & black. Original full vellum. Ownership signature on title of F. P. Wilcken, Lubecensis [Lubeck, Germany]. Very good. Rare. Includes the extensive annotations of scholar Isaac Casaubon, as well as a long dissertation on Suetonius by Boeckler. The elaborate half-title is drawn by I. Schef and engraved by Pierre Aubry (1610-1686). Gaius Suetonius Tranquilius was a Roman historian and biographer, whose most significant contribution was his biographies of 12 Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Suetonius wrote The Twelve Caesars while serving as the personal secretary of the emperor Hadrian.

[Upton, New York]:: Brookhaven National Laboratory. . ., 1972., 1972. Brookhaven Lecture Series, No. 109, BNL 50345 (Biology and Medicine - TID-4500). 274 x 215 mm. 4to. iv, 11 pp. 9 figs., 3 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Paris:: Gauthier-Villars, (1923)., 1923. 8vo. ix, 425 pp. Figs., index; browned. Black cloth, gilt spine; top edge nicked, else fine.

Paris:: Dunod, 1954., 1954. 240 x 155 mm. 8vo. xix, 397 pp. Figs., tables. Maroon cloth, gilt spine; end-leaves browned. Ownership blind stamp. Very good.

New York:: John Wiley & Sons; London: Chapman & Hall, 1938., 1938. 235 x 157 mm. viii, 174 pp. 16 tables, index; inked and penciled throughout. Dark red cloth; freckled, corners bumped. AS IS.

St. Petersburg:: Akademiia nauk SSSR, Memoires, 1892., 1892. 4to. iii, 60 pp. Original printed wrappers; chipped at extremities, but generally very good. Series: 7. ser., v. 38, no. 8; v.41, no. 3; v. 41, no. 7. Backlund was a Swedish-Soviet astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics. He earned the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1909) and the Bruce Medal in 1914.

Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press, 1998., 1998. FIRST EDITION. 4to. 828 pp. Index. Navy cloth, silver stamped cover and spine titles. Fine. ISBN: 0521631491. "This volume provides for the first time summaries, descriptions, and documentation for 14,815 letters written by or sent to Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Herschel's numerous contributions to astronomy as well as to mathematics, physics, chemistry (especially photochemistry and photography), meteorology, philosophy of science, and scientific organization, led his British contemporaries to regard him as the most prominent scientist of his era. Because Herschel corresponded on a remarkable array of topics and with leading figures both in Britain and beyond, this volume gives scholars access to a wealth of revealing new information. The many new uses of the volume are enhanced by its Biographical Register, which indentifies about 1500 of Herschel's correspondents, and its Index, which supplies 30,000 references. This volume is far and away… Read More

London:: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1995., 1995. 4to. 152 pp. Index. Pictorial wrappers; corners bumped. Very good. ISBN: 085484063x

New York and London:: Garland, 1985., 1985. Series: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 369. 4to. 690 pp. Port. of Darwin, index; small tick-mark in one margin, otherwise clean. Red cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. ISBN: 0824092244 First edition, noting that a 46-page supplement, with a reprinting the original, was issued in 1994. Frederick Burkhardt was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

(San Francisco):: California Medical Association, (1950)., 1950. 4to. xi, 130 pp. Graphs, figures. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. Ephemera laid-in, including a TLS from Lillian P. Randall of the American Chemical Society to the Randall Medical Laboratory, advertising a blood sera bio-chemical determination test for cancer. Very good.

New York:: St. Martin's, 1959., 1959. Second printing. 219 x 145 mm. 8vo. 320 pp. Figs., index. Beige cloth. Very good.

London:: Printed, and sold by W. Feales, 1733., 1733. 16 cm. [xxii], [7]-144 pp. Decorative wood engravings at the beginning of each book. Later marbled wrappers; first few corners turned. Good +. Translated from: Callipaedia, seu, De pulchrae prolis habendae ratione. This copy contains the complete four ?books? or parts, of this poem. Also contains a life of the author by Bayle. This poetic work was originally written in Latin and satirized Mazarin; but on account of the latter's kindness, the satire was changed to eulogy in a second edition. / WorldCat shows this printing with 4 plates and two appendices, none present in this copy. There should be 162 pages, 4 leaves of plates. Thereby lacking are: Quillet's Epistle to Eudoxus (p. 145-153)--and his Elegy on the death of Gassendus (p. 155-162). / Claude Quillet [also known as Calvidius Laetus] (1602-1661), French physician, born in Touraine, is respectfully given the position of being 'one of the best modern Latin poets.? Biographie Universelle,… Read More

Amsterdam:: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002., 2002. Series: History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, Vol. I. Large 8vo. x, 433 pp. Bibliography, index. Paper-backed boards. Near fine. Scarce. ISBN: 9069843404