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

Toronto:: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1934., 1934. 8vo. ix, [1], 251, [1] pp. Navy gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket; jacket a remnant. Else very good. 'Dr. Shepherd fills a large place in Canadian medical history because he was a man of unusual character and abilities. Not [too] many in our profession is it given to be a surgeon of international repute, an anatomist of the first rank, and a dermatologist of authority.' - H.E.M. [Obituary]. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1934 Nov.; 31(5): p. 549.

Lugduni Batavorum:: Cornelium Boutesteyn, 1687., 1687. 5 works in one volume. Sm. 4to. [ii], [iv], 3-78; 258; [viii], 124; [viii], 568, [xiv]; [ii], 192, [viii] pp. Page numbers 231-232 repeated in pagination [first section]. Numerous engraved plates (many folding); occasional light foxing. Original vellum backed with quarter calf with elaborate gilt-stamped spine; some wear to joints. [Spine title: "LEEUWENHOCK – OPUSCULA VARIA"]. Bookplates of Pierre Lambert and Pierre Amalric; three rubber-stamps on title (scribbled), final leaf with two additional stamps (not scribbled) Bibliotheca Mellicensis. First or early collected printings of Leeuwenhoek's letters – THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC USE OF THE MICROSCOPE. "To Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, of Delft, belongs the high merit of having been the first to use the microscope systematically and having brought the construction of the simple microscope in his own hands to a high degree of perfection. . . Self-taught and never having attended a university, ignorant… Read More

[no place],: vol. 32, 1993. ., 1993. 4to. 178 pp. Text in Japanese (mostly) and English. Illus. Printed wrappers.

New York:: Tudor, 1935., 1935. New edition. 4to. viii, 271 pp. Tipped-in color frontis., 11 further tipped-in color plates. Gilt stamped pictorial green cloth. Early ownership signature of Lillian U. Whiting. FINE.

New York:: Harper Torchbooks, (1965)., 1965. 8vo. 285, 12 pp. Figs., index. Printed wrappers. Very good.

Barcelona:: Librería de Francisco Puig, 1928., 1928. Third edition. 8vo. 143, [ads 1] pp. 32 figures. Original printed wrappers; torn, spine missing pieces. RARE. Good. About the history of bricks, tiles, abobe, and the making of building products.

Paris:: Textuel, 2004., 2004. Series: Conversations pour demain, 25. 8vo. 216 pp. Wrappers. Very good. "L'Islam est-il conciliable avec la Republique L'Islam est-il rebelle a la pensee critique L'Europe est-elle islamophobe Contempteur de l'islamime et excellent guide dans la "foret d'Islam". Abdelwahab Meddeb adorde ces questions sans jamais reduire leur complexite." [publisher] / [English:] Can Islam be reconciled with the Republic Is Islam rebellious to critical thinking? Is Europe Islamophobic Contemplator of Islamime and excellent guide in the "forest of Islam". Abdelwahab Meddeb addresses these questions without ever reducing their complexity. [publisher] / Abdelwahab Meddeb was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.

Offprint from:: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 94, No. 8, 1966., 1966. 254 x 175 mm. 8vo. 1085-1091 pp. 6 tables, 6 figs. Self-wraps; two holes punched along spine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Ownership rubber stamp. Very good.

Venezuela:: Maracaibo, 1961., 1961. 230 x 162 mm. 8vo. 265 pp. Numerous plates, 2 folding tables, bibliog., index. Black-stamped brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Fine.

Ann Arbor:: University Microfilms, [no date].. Photocopy facsimile. 8vo. 230 pp. Blue card wrappers. Very good. Signature of David Lindberg. Facsimile of the rare first edition. "He did not invent the camera obscura, but he is the first to report adding a concave lens to the aperture. He also juxtaposed concave and convex lenses and reports various experiments with them. His comparison of the lens in the camera obscura to the pupil in the human eye did provide an easily understandable demonstration that the source of visual images lay outside the eye as well as outside the darkened room." DSB, vol. XI, p. 97.

Dordrecht, Boston & London:: Kluwer Academic, (1999)., 1999. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 205. 8vo. xvi, 454 pp. Color frontispiece, 57 figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Very good +. Scarce in jacket. ISBN: 0792357744

Madison:: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994., 1994. 8vo. ix, [3], 277, [1] pp. Index. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN: 0299143546 "In his famous lecture on "The Two Cultures," C.P. Snow argued that the modern intellectual gulf between writers and artists on the one hand, scientists and engineers on the other, had its roots in the nineteenth century. Jonathan Smith challenges that view by examining the cultural debate about scientific method in nineteenth-century Britain. Focusing on the status of Francis Bacon and his inductive methodology, Smith shows that literary figures were involved, both directly and indirectly, in the effort to construct a methodology that would serve both science and literature by bringing together fact and feeling, reason and imagination. Smith opens with a historical overview of the debate that includes such figures as Samuel Coleridge, John Herschel, William Whewell, J.S. Mill, Thomas Macaulay, G.H. Lewes, John Tyndall, Stanley Jevons, and Karl Pearson. Then, in a… Read More

Altenburg:: Oskar Bonde, 1880., 1880. 253 x 205 mm. 4to. 28 pp. Tables. Original printed wrappers; edges brittle and chipped. Ownership signature on top cover: "Eisenberg, 1880." Very good.

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday, 1972., 1972. 8vo. Siena cloth, dust jacket. Rubber-stamp: "Damaged" [but I do not see any damage whatsoever]. Very good. McHargue was an editor at Doubleday. She wrote 35 books centering mostly on her favorite topics: "oddities and unusual lore, from monsters and mythology to mediums." [jacket]. "Her book Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement (1972) was a skeptical study of spiritualism. The book exposed fraudulent mediums and was described in one review as a "well researched and intriguing case study in human gullibility."" [Kirkus Reviews].

Philadelphia:: Hickman & Hazzard, 1820., 1820. 8vo. xiv, [2], 158 pp. Original boards, printed paper spine label; corners showing. Waterstained throughout, occasional foxing. Early bookplate of Thomas A. Brayton. Very good. First American edition, having first been issued in London in 1814, the fourth London edition in 1820 (its introduction included in this volume). PROVENANCE: Thomas A. Brayton was an American physician (fl. 1820-33). His papers are preserved at the New York Public Library (acquired in 1935). REFERENCES: Austin 753; Cushing F19; Wellcome III, p. 6 (2nd London ed., 1815). Heirs of Hippocrates 1091.

Prague:: Charles University, (1987)., 1987. Tall 8vo. 35, [1] pp. Loose leaves, as issued, in folding printed wrappers; rear cover foxed, else near fine. SCARCE.

Bologna:: University of Bologna, 1950., 1950. 246 x 172 mm. 8vo. 47 pp. Figs., index; extremities yellowed. Printed wrappers; extremities yellowed. Good.

Linthicum, Maryland:: American Urological Association, 2004., 2004. 4to. 18 pp. Figs. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. Sponsored by Lilly [Pharmaceuticals].

Baltimore:: Williams & Wilkins, 1936., 1936. Reprint (1936). 8vo. xii, 396 pp. Indices. Blue gilt-stamped cloth. Very good +. "The book contains an enormous amount of information, much of which is based upon Dr. Harrison's own observations. The style is clear and the presentation log ideal. The monograph is heartily recommended to all who are interested in the study of the circulation. It can be read with profit, and, it is fair to add, with pleasure, both by investigator and practitioner." – Robert L. Levy, American Heart Journal, 1940, Vol. 19, Issue 1 [review of the second edition]. As for the author, "Tinsley (1900–1978) would graduate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1922 — where he was a classmate, roommate and tennis doubles partner of Johns Hopkins' future surgeon-in-chief Alfred Blalock — and ultimately become "one of the most important and pivotal medical doctors in U.S. history," according to his biographer and protege, James Pittman Jr. (1927–2014).… Read More

Oxford:: Blackwell Publishers, 1986., 1986. First edition. 8vo. x, 226 pp. Illustrated, index. Gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket. Very good +. ISBN: 0631146857 Subtitle: Fraud and error in science and medicine. "Did Newton fudge his figures? Who counted Mendel's peas? What lay behind Cyril Burt's disturbing statistics on race and intelligence? Fraud can take many forms. Plagiarism, forgery, suppression of the truth :: all these can be conscious and calculating, inspired by ambition, prejudice, even greed. Or it can be clumsy and negligent . . . Whatever the reasons, the stories of the frauds and errors that punctuate the history of science make fascinating reading. FALSE PROPHETS chronicles the famous frauds - from Piltdown man to the Hitler diaries - and unearths some lesser-known incidents buried in the scientific literature. Taking examples from all areas of science and medicine as well as anthropology, archaeology and psychology the author explores the deceivers' motives and discusses the… Read More