Recent Arrivals from Jeff Weber Rare Books

Paris :: Societe Francaise de Physique, 1892., 1892. 8vo. pp. 62-128. 33 figures (showing Tesla's electric bulbs and schematics for other electrical devices). Whole volume: 4 issues bound together. 466, 63, [1] pp. Contemporary green calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine; rubbed. Very good. First printing in French. This work begins (in French) "Gentlemen, some time ago I had… Read more about this item

Washington:: GPO, 1873., 1873. 8vo. [x], 345, [1] pp. Figs. (p. 159). Original red blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; soiled, head of upper joint showing some wear, spine ends weakened. Very good. Ten papers within dealing with problems of public health: naval hygiene, gunshot wounds, yellow fever, sanitary conditions, diabetes, English hospitals, diseases in Peru. / CONTENTS: Practical suggestions… Read more about this item

New York:: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959., 1959. Edited by James T. Culbertson. Tall 8vo. x, 292 pp. Illustrated throughout. Black cloth with gilt-stamp spine title; rubbed. Former ownership sticker of Robt. & Khajohn Batzinger, Thailand; signature of E.M. Foster. Very good. Lectures delivered by 16 medical and biological scientists in U.S. medical schools in 1959, under the sponsorship… Read more about this item

London, New York:: Oxford University Press, 1931., 1931. 8vo. ix, [1], 299, [1] pp. 8 plates with 10 figs. Original full gilt-stamped brown cloth. Old bookseller's ticket, Boston. Pages 174-5 with bookmark offsetting. Very good.

Ventnor, NJ:: Ventnor Pubs., 1978., 1978. 4to. ix, [1], 134 pp. 49 plates (with the supplemental plate correction for Benjamin Rush's portrait (p. 89, laid in)). Original blue cloth with white-stamping. Very good. The first proper history of the American Naval and maritime during the American Revolution. Reviewer Robert J. T. Joy writes this in light of some… Read more about this item

Wiesbaden:: Verlag von J. F. Bergmann, 1881., 1881. Small 8vo. [IV], 124 pp. 2 figs. (lithographic). Cover is disbound, a remnant; chipped cover. As is. RARE. 'The pupillary movement in physiological and pathological relations. ' On pathology of the eyes.

Baltimore & London:: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989., 1989. 8vo. x, 182 pp. Brown hardcover. Ownership signature of Arthur L. Frank. Fine. CONTENTS: CONTENTS: Editors' Column, Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi and Robert W. Daly – Lu Hsun and Maxine Hong Kingston: Medicine as a Symbol in Chinese and Chinese American Literature Alfred S. Wang – Emile Zola's Lourdes: Land… Read more about this item

New York:: Oxford University Press, 1967., 1967. Second printing (printed in Switzerland). Large sq. 4to. [xii], 94 pp. With 765 color photomicrographs. Red cloth; rubbed. Ownership signatures of Leslie R. Copulsky and Arthur L. Frank, NYC. Good. The first edition was issued in 1966; this is the second printing. An expensive undertaking, this work became a classic histopathological… Read more about this item

New York:: Paul B. Hoeber, 1935., 1935. 8vo. xix, [1], 572 pp. Frontispiece, 18 figures, index. Original full black blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; corners mended with kozo. Ex-library copy (bookplate obscured with black marking pen), inner joint mended with kozo. Good. First printing. Warbasse wrote many books throughout his career, including a three volume text on surgical practices… Read more about this item

New York:: Marcel Dekker, 1981., 1981. 8vo. xii, [2], 214 pp. Index. White hard cover bds. with red and blue-stamping. Rare.

New York:: Stein and Day, 1983., 1983. 8vo. 220 pp. Quarter cloth, boards, dust-jacket; jacket torn at flap-fold. Good+. Gordon's book contains a pithy comment from Rudyard Kipling, one to which leads to the examples in this book of tragic treatments: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same .… Read more about this item

Stamford, CT:: Barrett Book Co., 1977., 1977. 8vo. 352 pp. Original two-tone cloth with gilt-stamping. Laid in: author's flier advertising this book. Ownership signature of Arthur L. Frank. Very good.

London:: Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1901., 1901. Delivered before the Harveian Society of London, November 1, 8, and 15, 1900. Small 8vo. 48 pp. 2 figs. Original maroon gilt-stamped cloth; somewhat rubbed. Lacks front free endsheet. Small bookseller's label, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia; gift annotation of Dr. Landis. Three lectures, delivered in November and published Dec.… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor:: University of Michigan, Institute of Industrial Health, 1956., 1956. 4to. xvii,[3], 1243, [1] pp. Numerous figures. Blue gilt-stamped cloth; inner joints repaired. Former ownership signature. Very good. Dohrman H. Byers Chemist, Industrial Hygienist, Public Health Professional, Editor, and Educator. – See: Hecker, Lawrence H., American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal; Akron Vol. 55, Issue 9, Sept. 1994.… Read more about this item

Washington:: US Government Printing Office, 1963., 1963. Series: Public health service publication, No. 1076. 8vo. xviii, 238 pp. Figs. Original printed wrappers. Small ownership rubber-stamp to cover. Very good. CONTENTS: Background, methodology, references – Summary, conclusions and recommendations – Review of past studies – The environmental study – Part A. Field investigation– Part B. History of dust sampling… Read more about this item

Cambridge:: Harvard University Press, 1949., 1949. Series: Papers Presented at a Series of Public Health Forums Held by the Harvard School of Public Health, 1947-48. 8vo. xviii, 332 pp. illustrations. Cloth, dust-jacket (jacket partly missing at spine). Book: very good in a poor jacket. Mild ex-library copy with spine label on jacket. Book jacket: "From the commonplace of… Read more about this item

Lugduni Batavorum,: Apud Petrum vander Aa, 1683 [-1685]., 1683. 12mo. [24], 84; [4], 44; [24], 44, [8], 39, [1]; 94, [2] pp. 1 figure (showing the eyes, p. 52, pt. I). Complete with all five parts (seldom found together). With added engraved title pages showing a contemporary surgical scene (repeated). Modern full brown morocco, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine, edges… Read more about this item

[West Virginia]:: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, [ca. 1953]., 1953. 4to. 244 pp. Illustrated throughout (mostly in colors). Quarter black and brick-red cloth hardcovers (the black is not cloth); spine gently mended, gutter pulled at title. Good. A typographic sample book with many artist pieces contributed, including photographers, illustrations, corporate advertising contributions, specimens of typefaces. Among the… Read more about this item

Paris :: Bernard, an XI, 1802., 1802. 3 volumes. 8vo. xiv, (15)-654 ; 760 ; 272, 8 pp. All tables and plates are bound into the third volume: 7 folding tables, 23 engraved plates drawn by Girard and engraved by Sellier, ads.; volume II waterstained throughout, with brown staining. Original plain wrappers, printed paper spine labels; labels worn, yet… Read more about this item

Paris :: Garnier freres, [n.d.]. [1910?]., 1910. 12mo. [4], VI, 517, [1] pp. Lightly foxed throughout. Original full gilt-stamped vellum, « Sofia » on upper cover, raised bands, highly decorative endsheets; kozo applied to front upper joint, cords holding. Italian bookseller's ticket (Milan). Good+. [227] First issued in 1865. 'Toilet of a Roman in the time of Augustus… Read more about this item