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

[Oxford]:: Progress of Theoretical Physics, 1951., 1951. Series: Progress of Theoretical Physics, vol. 5, no. 5. Offprint. pp. 893-894. Original wrappers. SIGNED & INSCRIBED WITH AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTS. Very good. "H. Suura considered the possibility that the V01-particle is a composite particle made up of a proton and a negative pion." Andrzej K. Wróblewski, "Hypernuclei (and Strange Particles) — how it all began?" Vol. 35 (2004), Acta Physica Polonica B, No 3. /BIOGRAPHY: Hiroshima University, Ph.D., 1954. Institute for Advanced Study member: Math/NS, 9/1955–6/1957. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota. See: Jonathan L. Rosner, Particles in Loops - From Electrons to Top Quarks.

New York:: Professional Communications, 2008., 2008. Small 8vo. xii, 13-512 pp. Index. Maroon gilt-stamped wrappers. Fine. Vaccination

Tokyo:: 1954., 1954. Small 8vo. 481 pp. Color plates, photos, illustrations, bilingual index. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles, price slip. Housed in printed paper slipcase; slipcase a bit worn. Near Fine. Printed almost entirely in Japanese.

Leipzig:: F. C. W. Vogel, 1911., 1911. 228 x 159 mm. 8vo. x, 201, [ads, 6] pp. Index. Gilt-stamped navy cloth, all edges red; foot of spine bumped, spine ends lightly frayed. Bookplate of Alfred Heacock Whittaker. Very good.

Springfield, IL:: Charles C. Thomas, (1963)., 1963. American Lecture Series, No. 562. SECOND EDITION. 235 x 158 mm. 8vo. xi, 228 pp. 58 figs., bibliog., index; tacky material on pages viii-xi. Green cloth, gilt spine. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Fine.

Oxford:: Clarendon Press, 1952., 1952. 222 x 150 mm. 8vo. vii, 338 pp. 31 tables, illus., indexes; pencil underlining and marginalia. Navy cloth; rubbed. Ownership signatures. Very good.

Roma:: E. Cossidente, 1968., 1968. 244 x 172 mm. 8vo. 13 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine.

London:: J. & A. Churchill, 1903., 1903. 8vo. ix, 219, ads. (16) pp. 14 plates (some color), 43 figs. Original two-tone navy or blue gilt-stamped cloth; foot of spine lightly worn; rubbed. Ownership signature on title. Very good. Edwin Hurry Fenwick (1856-1944), British urologist, early adopter of cystoscopic and x-ray technologies. A consultant surgeon at the London and St Peter's Hospitals, he also contributed greatly to the formation of urology as a specialty in Great Britain. Fenwick was elected joint president of the International Society of Urology and chaired its second meeting in London in 1911. See: The British Association of Urological Surgeons.

Washington, D.C.:: Government Printing Office, 1881., 1881. First edition. 4to. 43 pp. Tables. Original printed wrappers; small stain to front wrapper, spine worn. Early ownership signatures on cover & title of George Davidson. Very good. WITH: HALL, Asaph. Observations and Orbits of the Satellites of Mars with Data for Ephemerides in 1879. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1878. 4to. 51 pp. 11 tables. Printed wrappers; rear cover loose. Early ownership signature on cover. Good. Hall, professor of astronomy at Harvard, was an expert computer of orbits and was the first to discover satellites of Mars, which he named Deimos and Phobos. Includes an early photographic portrait of Hall extracted from an unknown source. Davidson founded the observatory of his name in San Francisco and from 1876-1886 had charge of the main triangulation and astronomical work on the western coast. DSB VI.

Cambridge, Mass.:: Robert Bentley, 1967., 1967. 8vo. xvi, 216 pp. 51 plates, numerous figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket edge worn and spine faded. Ownership signature of Allen Bishop. Very good. Scarce in jacket. First edition. For automobile engineering.

No place:: Sky & Telescope, 1987., 1987. 4to. (Article): p. 149. (Whole issue): 123-230 pp. Articles, photos, star maps, figs. Pictorial wrappers. FINE.

In:: Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. XVI, No. 104, (1868)., 1868. 8vo. Pages 483-525. [Entire issue: 483-534, lxxix-lxxxi, x pp.] 1 folding table, 10 figs., index for the entire volume. Original printed wrappers; wrappers torn and partially missing. Good. This extensive study of the human musculature is by John Wood, surgeon. He entered the Medical department of King's College, London in 1846 where he excelled as a student. He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 30 July 1849 and became house surgeon at King's College Hospital in 1850. From 1850 to 1870 Wood almost lived in the dissecting-rooms at King's College, though he was appointed assistant surgeon to King College Hospital in 1856. In 1877 he became a lecturer on clinical surgery jointly with Lord Lister, and in 1889 he was appointed emeritus professor of clinical surgery. Wood ranks as one of the last English surgeons who owed their position to a most thorough knowledge of anatomy. He was an acknowledged… Read More

London:: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1955., 1955. 8vo. viii, [2], 155, [1] pp. 9 figs., index. Navy blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; rubbed. Ownership inscription of Richard Weiss. Very good. Dedicated to the memory of Max Planck.

New York:: Dover, 1976., 1976. 305 x 228 mm. Large 8vo. 604 pp. Frontis., 195 illus., figs., bibliog., index. Cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine. Cloth issue.

Stockholm:: Hugo Gebers, (1924)., 1924. 8vo. xiv, 291 pp. Photos, 68 illus., 2 Mars maps; pages uncut. Gilt stamped gray cloth; inner hinge starting, extremities slightly rubbed. Very good. A much expanded edition of this work.

New York:: Macmillan, 1936., 1936. 228 x 154 mm. 8vo. xi, 111 pp. 5 figs., index. Red cloth, gilt spine. Ownership rubber stamps. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "A most useful account." DSB, VIII, p. 295.

St. Louis:: Mosby, 1996., 1996. Third edition. Small 4to. xxii, [2], 312 pp. Frontis., iIllustrations, index. Burgundy blind- and white & blue-stamped cloth. INSCRIBED by the author: "22 May 1996, For Mike Kennedy with great appreciation! Eric Wilson". Fine. ISBN: 0815192266 Samuel Eric Wilson, MD, is Professor — Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. His laboratory "research activities focus on arterial prostheses and the problem of anastomotic intimal hyperplasia at the biologic-material interface. Two approaches investigated are the design of the prosthesis and methods for reducing the intimal hyperplastic reaction. Clinical trials are conducted at UCIMC on antimicrobials for surgical infectious disease as claudication. Dr. Wilson chairs a national cooperative study (ADAM) on the management of small aortic aneurysms." [Author]. [MK]

Berlin:: Akademie, 1966., 1966. 8vo. x, 197 pp. 90 figs. Light blue cloth, silver-stamped cover and spine title. Very good.

Berlin & Leipzig:: Walter de Gruyter, 1931., 1931. 235 x 160 mm. 8vo. ix, 300, [ads, 4] pp. 19 tables, 260 figs., index. Cloth, folding table inserted in pocket on rear paste-down. Very good.

Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997., 1997. 8vo. ix, [3], 370 pp. Illus., index. Quarter green cloth over black cloth. Very good. ISBN: 0801857635 "Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections—the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part of American culture. In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to the present. Drawing on a wide array of sources—personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides—Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems." – Johns Hopkins University Press.