Search Results: Titles starting with V from Bull's Head Rare Books

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, (1958). First edition. 8vo. Illustrated. xix, [1], 372 pp. Publisher's tan cloth; fine in slightly shelfworn dust-jacket

Edinburgh: John Bell and J. Murray, 1778. First edition. 4to. [iii]-xx, 433, [1], [1, errata], [1] pp., lacking half-title. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards; worn, joints cracked, front hinge reinforced, rear cover holding by cords, occasional light foxing, horizontal tear across pp. xix-xx First edition of what is "regarded as [Stuart's] most important historical work ... The concept of property, as it developed from an object of communal to private interest, formed the framework from which Stuart considered such topics as the roles of the sexes, the place of religion, and the state of manners in medieval European society. In part Stuart wrote the View of Society in opposition to the introductory volume of William Robertson's popular History of Charles V. Where Robertson emphasized the gradual improvement of society, Stuart marked out the gradual corruption of feudal institutions, pessimistically attributing this decline to man's inability to alter his destiny" (Zachs, ODNB).PROVENANCE:… Read More

Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. First edition. 8vo. [6], 27, [1] pp. Publisher's printed yellow glazed boards; spine chipped with loss, covers rubbed, front board tender, small dampstain to front cover and flyleaf, in custom green cloth slipcase and chemise First edition of Lowell's "greatly popular" (ANB) Authurian tale, derived from Malory and, as Lowell indicates in his Preface, indebted to Tennyson.PROVENANCE: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label)REFERENCE: BAL 13069

Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1922. First American edition and first edition in English. 8vo. Illustrated. 502 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spien titled in gilt; spine darkened, ex-library with markings and tape residue to spine, stamps to pastedown and contents leaf, book-plate "Funk coined the term vitamin and discovered thiamine, the first vitamin to be isolated. In addition to his pioneering work in vitaminology, he investigated male and female hormones, gonadotropic hormones, antagonistic substances in the diet, deficiency diseases in cattle, and the importance of oncotine and oncostimuline in the treatment and prevention of cancer. Funk first published the present work in 1914 and deferred publication of this second edition because of World War I. By the time this greatly revised edition was published, much of the basic work on the role of vitamin B, in beriberi, vitamin C in scurvy, and vitamin D in rickets had been completed" (Heirs of Hippocrates).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 1051;… Read More