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

Paris:: Gauthier-Villars, 1934., 1934. 4to. [iv], 143 pp. Illus.; top corners faintly bumped. White self-printed wrappers; top bumped corner, spine tail and front hinge repaired. Very good.

Amsterdam :: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1734., 1734. Two volumes. 12mo. [20], 396; [2], 419, [1] pp. Text in both Latin and French. Title printed in red & black. 21 engraved plates (1 folding, being a genealogical tree St. Francis at the foot of the cross bearing the forty relations of Saint Francis with Christ). Original full gilt-stamped calf; joints worn, corners showing. Very good. First Illustrated edition. A vicious attack on Catholicism. / "Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire. In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule. This drew reactions from Catholic scholars such as Henricus Sedulius, who published… Read More

Lausanne:: Editions La Source, 1977., 1977. Small 8vo. 170, [6] pp. Numerous illustrations. Printed wrappers. Very good. Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. / Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), on vacation in France, was mobilized on August 1, 1914 and worked at the drawing of the wounded arriving at the Lyon train station, then at the Hotel-Dieu of this city where he was confronted with the dreaded problem of the old infected wound, generator of so many ineffective amputations and deaths. See: Reggiani, A. H., Alexis Carrel . . . Surgery, Science, and Man, the Unknown. (2002).

Paris:: Albin Michel, 1951., 1951. 8vo. 239, [5] pp. Original printed wrappers. Very good.

Paris:: V. Adrien Delahaye, 1877., 1877. Sm. 8vo. iv, 283, [4] pp. Frontis., figs.; foxing. Early quarter dark chocolate hard grained morocco, marbled paper over boards, five raised bands, gilt compartments and title. Bookplate of A. Garrigues. Scarce.

Paris:: Librairie Garnier Freres, [1935]., 1935. Small 8vo. VIII, 228, [32] pp. 78 illus. of TAROT CARDS, ads; largely unopened. Original printed wrappers with colorful picture showing the Tarot Card Reader seated at a table with the much younger female client, the cards on the table (signed in the corner with the artist's name of Robert Salles (1871-1929)). Well preserved copy. Containing two parts : L'art de tirer les cartes par les jeux ordinaires. II : Signification des 78 cartes du Tarot.

Paris,: chez l'auteur & Michel Lambert, 1759., 1759. 16mo. 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine gilt; upper joint split, worn. Bookplate of Leon Leroy. Very good. All editions very scarce. First edition of the author's first work. How to manage and regulate clocks and watches: for those who have no knowledge of horology. The work is a technical manual for watchmakers and clock-makers trained as tradesmen, rather than philosophers or mathematicians. The beautiful engraved plates depict clock works, watch works, pendulums, and sun-dials. Berthoud's popular work went through six editions through 1836. / Berthoud, scientist, inventor and horologist, was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, near the center of the famous Swiss watch and clock making industry. He became watchmaker to the King of France, having been named a Master of the craft in Paris, 1753. His father was a burgher of Neuchatel and Couvet, and his wife was also born in Couvet. PROVENANCE: Leon Leroy. Inscribed: "Ce volume a… Read More

Milan:: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1980., 1980. Series: Libri Rari; Collezioni di ristampe con nuovi apparati, IV. 8vo. lxvii, 114, lxxxvii-xcviii pp. Illus. (1 double-page), glossary, index. Boards, green printed dust-jacket; jacket extremities chipped. Burndy bookplate, gift of Bern Dibner. Very good. ISBN: 8870504042 Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Facsimile of this Florentine classic on the art of glass making; with supporting essay (Italian and English, translated by Mirella Pellegrini).

Chambery,: 1888., 1888. Photographic facsimile of the rare 1888 printing. 8vo. 58 ff. Maroon library buckram. Very good.

Offprint from: Atti della Marca e dello Studio Firmano, 1963. Fermo:: Stabilimento Tipografico Sociale, 1963., 1963. 4to. 293-295 pp. Printed wrappers. Rubber stamp of Crainz on cover. FINE. PROVENANCE: Professor Franco Crainz (1913-2004) Obstetrics and gynecology, university professor, took his medical degree in 1936 at the University Rome, the Italian Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; he was Head obstetrics-gynecology Department, University Novara, Italy, 1956-1964, later becoming head obstetrics-gynecology Department, University Rome, 1972-1988. Crainz wrote on the history of medicine including a monograph: The Life and Works of Matthew Baillie MD, FRS L&E, FRCP, Etc. (1761-1823), [1995], and, An Obstetric tragedy: the case of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta : some unpublished documents of 1817, [1977], collected books & papers (mostly Italian & European) in the history of gynecology. Posthumously published was a paper with John Dewhurst, "Dr John Sims. A mystery solved",… Read More

Paris:: Plon, 1941., 1941. 12mo. 313pp. Later library red buckram. Very good.

Paris:: Adrien Delahaye, 1875., 1875. Original Latin edition published in 1650 (this is the French translation). 8vo. xv, 136 pp. Quarter red paper spine with marbled paper sides; spine replaced with kozo. Very good.

Moscow:: Editions en Langues Etrangeres, 1956., 1956. 201 x 136 mm. Small 8vo. 533 pp. 211 figs., bibliog. Blue cloth; inner hinge cracked, else very good. FIRST FRENCH EDITION of Bykov's The cerebral cortex and the internal organs.

Offprint from:: Revue Canadienne de Biologie, vol. 5, no. 1, 1946., 1946. 8vo. 9-47 pp. Figs. Self-wraps. Ownership signature of Norman Horowitz. FINE.

Paris:: Masson & Cie., 1959., 1959. 8vo. 161 pp. 41 figs., bibliog.; partially unopened. Printed orange wrappers. Ink stamps of Dr. Albert M. Potts. Fine.

Paris:: Masson & Cie, 1964., 1964. At head of title: Collection de Medecine Legale et de Toxicologie Medicale. 240 x 158 mm. 8vo. 494, [2] pp. 179 figs., bibliog., index. Original printed wrappers; spine faded, heart-shaped blind-stamp through rear cover and last 11 leaves. "Service de Presse" rubber stamp on title. Very good.

Paris :: Firman-Didot et cie, 1894., 1894. Large 8vo. [4], XV, [1], 600 pp. Title-vignette, 2 plates, 198 figures, index; lightly foxed. Bound later by A. Schweighauser-Probst, Bern, in quarter vellum, gilt-stamped spine title, marbled boards; marbled board bottom edge scuffed (meaning the vellum is later and in near-fine condition). Rubber ownership stamp on title of G. [Guy] Loumyer. Das homerische Epos, aus den Denkmalern erlautert (The Homeric epic, explained from the monuments), was first issued in Leipzig 1884, with a second edition in 1887. This is a first French translation of Helbig's study of the Homeric monuments. / Wolfgang Helbig was a German classical archaeologist born in Dresden. He is known for his studies involving the wall paintings of Campania (Pompeii). PROVENANCE: Guy Loumyer, with his rubber-stamp, wrote a book, Les traditions techniques de la peinture medievale, (1914). And : Un traite de peinture du Moyen-Age: l'Anonymus Bernensis, (1908). I believe he was a resident of Bern.

(Saluzzo):: Minerva Medica, (1963)., 1963. 239 x 170 mm. 8vo. 85 pp. Black-stamped brown cloth, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Ownership rubber stamp on top cover. Fine.

Paris:: Ernst Flammarion, 1914., 1914. 19 cm. 363 pp. Index. Original printed wrappers; worn. Ownership signature of D. Cauney[?]. Very good.

Paris:: Hermann, (1967)., 1967. Series: Collection Histoire de la Pensee, XVI. 8vo. 263 pp. Figures, illustrations. Printed wrappers; covers rubbed. Ownership signature. Good.