Search Results: Titles starting with E from Alembic Rare Books

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1951. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and publisher's roundel to upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Diagrams, charts, and illustrations from photographs within the text. Ownership signature and ink stamp of Henry Guze on the front free endpaper. An excellent, fresh copy in the jacket that is very lightly rubbed with a few shallow scuffs affecting the upper panel. First edition, first impression. A beautiful copy and rare in such nice condition in the dust jacket. Author Mary Brazier (1904-1995) was an internationally recognised neurophysiologist who also became a respected historian of science in later life. She was educated at Bedford College in London, and did important research on the nervous system, including electrical activity in thyroid disease, nerve injuries, "war neuroses", and the effects of anaesthesia on the brain. Following the Second World War she worked with Norbert Weiner at MIT, where they developed an analog correlator to… Read More

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1932 & 1933. 2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt, borders to boards blocked in blind. Bookplate of John Hubley Schall, Jr. in volume I. Light rubbing to the extremities, a few small spots to the cloth of volume I. An excellent, fresh set. A very attractive set of this uncommon mathematical textbook by the first woman to receive tenure in the University of Chicago mathematics department, Mayme Irwin Logsdon (1881-?). "Mayme Logsdon returned to school after the death of her husband and earned all of her degrees from the University of Chicago. After teaching for four years at Hastings College, she returned to Chicago, where she advanced to associate professor. She remained at that rank for sixteen years without being promoted to professor. In 1946, she took a job as professor at the University of Miami and remained there until retirement [in 1961]. She was a dean of the College of Chicago from 1922 to 1925 and was an… Read More

Bethesda, Maryland: privately published, 1988. Comb-bound photocopy, text on both the rectos and versos. Title on yellow paper. Original brown paper covers, the upper cover with a plastic window for the title and "BK Dynamics" embossed in gold. The author's Directed Technologies business card, with the address corrected by hand, is stapled to the upper cover. Illustrations, charts and graphs throughout, one coloured by hand. The author's name and address in pencil partially erased from the title. Occasional additions and corrections made by taping or pasting in new slips of paper. The "second edition" of this rare and unusual self-published text proposing to correct the entire field of modern physics by reframing it metaphysically. Described as a "not-for-sale" edition "limited to 100 copies", this copy was sent to Allan R. Sandage, the astronomer who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble Constant and the age of the universe and was considered "the greatest and most… Read More

[England, 1982]. Poster (420mm x 580mm). Professionally mounted, framed and glazed using archival materials. White text and graphic of a missile caught in a spider's web superimposed over a grey and red photograph of the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. Marker pen notes at the bottom of the poster give contact details and instructions for travelling to the camp by bus from Birmingham. Light creases from old folds into four, some slight surface scuffs. Very good condition. A rare poster advertising Embrace the Base, one of the key mass actions at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. We have been able to locate only two other copies in institutional collections, at the LSE Women's Library and the Glasgow Women's Library. The Greenham Common protest was established in September of 1981 by the Welsh group Women for Life on Earth, who were opposed to the deployment of nuclear tipped Cruise missiles at the site. What was initially planned as a single march became a permanent protest camp in place until… Read More

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 1935. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white. Frontispiece and 7 plates from photographs by the author. Ownership signature of E. H. Stevenson to the title. Spine tanned and rolled, some small marks and bumps to the cloth, text block shaken and with spotting on the edges, light offsetting to the title. Very good condition. First edition, first impression. A rare guide to gardening and managing outdoor spaces for wild birds, by the pioneering wildlife photographer and conservationist Emma Louise Turner. The prominent American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) reviewed this volume for the journal Bird Banding in July, 1936, writing that, "The title of this book is an inspiration in itself. In this sane, readable little volume, Miss Turner, well-known bird photographer and student of life-history of birds, gives excellent advice, not only for garden sanctuaries, but also for woodland and marsh sanctuaries. She points out the ruthless advance… Read More

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 1935. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 plates from photographs by the author. Plate II detached and loosely inserted. Spine rolled and partially faded, shallow dents affecting the upper board and spine, edges of the boards a little rubbed and faded, spotting to contents and edges of text block. A very good copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket with chips from the head and tail of the tanned spine panel and ink gift inscription to the upper panel. Second impression, published the year after the first. A rare guide to gardening and managing outdoor spaces for wild birds, by the pioneering bird photographer and conservationist Emma Louise Turner. The prominent American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) reviewed this volume for the journal Bird Banding in July, 1936, writing that, "The title of this book is an inspiration in itself. In this sane, readable little volume, Miss Turner, well-known… Read More

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1977. 17-page pamphlet. Original cream wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched. Wrappers very lightly toned around the edges. An excellent copy. First and only edition of this uncommon talk by one of the giants of neuroscience. "There are very few scientists whose discoveries have marked the advent of a new discipline. Berta Scharrer was one of these pioneers. Her scientific career was crowned with great success. The concept of neurosecretion (the storage, synthesis and release of hormones from neurons) developed by Ernst and Berta Scharrer between 1928 and 1937 formed the foundation for contemporary neuroendocrinology... Today we know that secretory nerve cells are widely distributed over the whole nervous system" and "serve to maintain the organism and preserve the species" (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, p. 1158).

London & New York: Dorling Kinderseley, Ltd. & Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989. 2 volumes, tall quarto. Original glossy white boards illustrated with photos, dinosaur-patterned endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. The London printing has faint toning of the front free endpaper, the New York printing is lightly rubbed at the tips. An excellent, fresh set. First edition, first impression of Dinosaur, one of the earliest titles in the best-selling Eyewitness Books series, together with the first printing of the American edition, published in the same year. Copies of the first printings of the 1980s Eyewitness books are scarce, particularly in such beautiful condition. The publisher Dorling Kindersley was founded in London 1974, and in the 1980s began taking advantage of new design technologies to radically revise the traditional page layouts of children's books. As they described to Children's Software Review in 1997, the goal was to "slow down the pictures and speed up the text", allowing children… Read More