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

Coloniae:: Burchardum Kuickium; Joannem Kinckium sub Monocerote [Johannes Kinckius], 1612; 1613., 1612. Two works bound in 1 volume. 12mo. 258, [6 blank]; [xxiv], 522, [16] pp. Title vignettes; minor worming at rear margins, light waterstaining. Original vellum; a few small worm-holes at spine edges/gutter, edges discolored. Early ownership signatures [ex libris Christophori Redii [?]; . . . 1657], single College of the Sacred Heart rubberstamp on ffep. Very good. Rare. "Four years [after the publication of De justitia et jure] a work of quite a different nature was written by Lessius under the title, "Quae fides et religio sit capessenda" (Antwerp, 1609). It is a short book of some 150 pages, on controversy and apologetics, which brought about a great many conversions, among them that of John of Nassau. The book was often reprinted and was translated into Flemish, German, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, and French." – The Catholic Encyclopedia. / The second work is written by Alvarez de Paz and… Read More

In: Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Vol. 28, 1940. New York:: Institute of Radio Engineers, 1940., 1940. 280 x 217 mm. 4to. Pages 343-350; 351-360; 368-374; 203-212; 450-458; 458-468 pp. [Entire volume: [vi], 586, [4] pp.] 16 figs; 22 figs.; 3 figs.; 9 figs., 1 table; 25 figs.; 10 figs. Navy buckram, gilt spine. Ex library blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. FIRST EDITION of a series of papers on television engineering at a time of rapid development in the field. Peter Goldmark, born in Budapest, Hungary, built his first simple television receiver in 1929 with a postage stamp-sized screen while he was a student at the University of Vienna. His work had a profound influence in at least two major areas which blossomed into giant industries in the 1950s and 60s. The first practical color television system was developed at CBS Laboratories under Goldmark's direction, and the first color broadcast in history was transmitted from CBS's… Read More

Minneapolis & Des Plaines:: DoAll Company, 1945., 1945. Third edition. 8vo. 140, [2] pp. Numerous figs. Black gilt-stamped pebbled cloth and pictorial mounted pl. on upper cover. Very good. Copyright by Robert J. Wilkie and John A. Harrington. DoAll made gauge weights and this brochure supports the use of precision instruments during war time.

New York:: Prentice-Hall, 1938., 1938. Prentice-Hall Chemistry Series. 236 x 159 mm. 8vo. xiii, 304 pp. 47 figs., bibliog., tables, index. Blind-stamped red cloth, gilt spine. Ownership rubber stamp. Fine.

Kiel:: Schmidt und Klaunig, 1907., 1907. 8vo. 39, (1) pp. Self-wraps. Very good.

London:: Edward Arnold, 1966., 1966. Reprint. 8vo. viii, 183 pp. Figs., index. Green cloth, dust-jacket; jacket rubbed, a few minor nicks. Ownership rubberstamp of Monroe W. Strickberger. Very good.

Cambridge, MA & London:: Harvard University, (1993)., 1993. 236 x 159 mm. 8vo. x, 206 pp. Illus., bibliog., index. Gray cloth, dust-jacket. Fine.

In:: American Journal of Physics, Vol. XX, XXII, 1952, 1954., 1952. Two volumes. 268 x 197 mm. Tall 8vo. Pages 353-358; 82-87. [Both volumes: [ii], 610; [ii], 654 pp.] Green buckram, gilt spine. Blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. Beginning with the continuity postulate of thermodynamics, Lande showed that quantum theory in its general outline is obtained by simple reasoning. Vol. XX contains (at pages 32-35) a description of the construction and operation of a replica of a coil first described by Nicola Tesla in 1891.

Cambridge:: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009., 2009. Sm. 8vo. vi, 230 pp. Index. Quarter black silver-stamped red boards, dust-jacket. ISBN: 9780674035416

New York:: Prentice-Hall, (1954)., 1954. Series: Prentice-Hall Chemistry Series. 8vo. x, 529 pp. Figs., 24 appendixes, 2 indexes. Gilt- and black-stamped gray cloth. Ownership signature of Richard T. Hall. Very good.

New York:: W. A. Benjamin, 1962., 1962. Second printing. 8vo. xi, 198 pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine; spine ends frayed, inner hinges badly cracked. Good. RARE CLOTH ISSUE. Rare cloth issue of this important work.

London:: Oxford University Press, 1933., 1933. New Series: no. 302, vol. 76, pt. II, October, 1933. 8vo. pp. 175-329, 5] pp. Original printed green wrappers. Very good. Contents: W. N. F. WOODLAND, On the Anatomy of some Fish Cestodes described by Diesing from the Amazon 11 plates]; J. A. MOY-THOMAS, Notes on the Development of the Chondrocranium of Polypterus senegalus 16 figures]; WILFRED FERNANDO, The Development and Homologies of the Mouth-parts of the Head-Louse 10 figures]; KRISHNA BEHARI LAL, Cytoplasmic Inclusions in the Eggs of certain Indian Snakes Plate 17]; V. V. HICKMAN, On a new Prorhynchid Turbellarian from Tasmania, plate 18, 2 figs.]; V. B. WIGGLESWORTH, The Physiology of the Cuticle and of Ecdysis in Rhodnius prolixus (Triatomidae, Hemiptera); with special reference to the function of the oenocytes and of the dermal glands 15 figures]; EDWIN S. GOODRICH, Notes on Odontosyllis 12 figures]. Also: This title becomes: Journal of Cell Science.

Grand Rapids, MI:: Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society, 1922., 1922. [reprint]. 3 pp. Self-wraps.

[no place]:: American Journal of Electrotherapeutics and Radiology, 1922., 1922. [reprint]. 4 pp. Self-wraps. Vol. XL, December 1922.

London:: The Observatory, 1978., 1978. Offprint. pp. 210-223. Original wrappers. Very good. Rees is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995, and served as President of the Royal Society from 2005 to 2010. The author of over 500 research papers, Rees has won numerous awards for physics and astronomy. He has spent most of his academic career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Master of Trinity College from 2004 to 2012.

Middletown:: Wesleyan University Press, 1975., 1975. 25 cm. 112 pp. Illustrated, index. Gilt-stamped black cloth, dust jacket. Fine. ISBN: 0819540889 These naval pictures are from the National Maritime Museum collections. Basil GREENHILL was director of the museum (196-1983). CONTENTS: Introduction; - The First Photographs; - Docks and Harbours; - Paddle Steamers; - Packet Ships and Liners; - Cargo Steamers; - Steam Tugs; - Square-rigged Merchant Sailing Ships; - The Great American Schooner; - The Face of the Seaman; - The Shipbuilders; - Appledore Quay; - Fishermen; - Yachting; - Wrecks; - Warships; - Index.

Newport:: Yelf Brothers, 1937., 1937. 8vo. 25 pp. 24 plates. Printed wrappers; rubbed. Very good.

Bern; Stuttgart:: Hans Huber, 1966., 1966. Series: Hubers Klassiker der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Band 7. 8vo. 164 pp. Figs., index. Blue gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket; light wear to extremities of jacket. Ownership signature. Very good. Sources on the history of paediatrics. Albrecht Peiper was a son of the dermatologist, pioneer pediatrician and director of the University Children's Hospital Greifswald Erich Peiper (1856-1938). Albrecht Peiper studied at Greifswald, Freiburg i. Br. and Munich Medicine. After graduation in 1914, and serving in the World War I, Peiper received his pediatric training at the Children's Hospital of the University of Berlin. From 1924 he was working at this clinic as a senior physician. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP. In 1943 he became the chair of paediatrics at the University of Greifswald and Deputy Director of the University Children's Hospital. After the end of World War II he was first scientific assistant at the University Children's Hospital Greifswald… Read More

Leipzig:: Johannes Barth, 1911., 1911. 278 x 191 mm. (479)-488 pp. 1 fig. Original printed wrappers; extremities stained, faded, and insect damaged. Good. Offprint from: Journal fur Psychologie und Neurologie, Band 18, 1911.

Paris:: Hachette, 1924., 1924. 168 mm. [16] ff. 12 color plates, figures, pictorial endleaves; some foxing. Original pictorial boards; joints broken. As is.