Search Results: Authors starting with F from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

1860.. A fine watercolour of this ancient building [SIZE : c.40 x 30 cms. ], interestingly, with a number of smoking factory chimneys in the background. *TONG HALL, Bradford, West Yorkshire [ despite the contemporary title of this watercolour ], built by a junior member of the Tempest family and which stayed in the family from at least the late sixteenth century. Sir John Tempest (d.1693) 1st baronet was born there as was his younger brother, Pierce Tempest (1653-1712), the printseller and publisher of the Strand. It was rebuilt by Sir George Tempest in 1702 to the designs of Theophilus Shelton, after a fire had destroyed the earlier building. It's early history records that at the Domesday Survey, it was the property of Ilbert de Lacy. It passed into the ownership of Richard de Tang in the twelfth century. The Tempest holdings remained intact until 1941. Tong Hall is now a Grade I listed building. It's construction of red brick and local gritstone is unusual for the Bradford area and is visible… Read More

. Printed on silk, map in black with red border, c.42 x 80 cms., folded into 8 squares, one of the horizontal folds shows wear with three small holes, otherwise in very nice condition.

J. & A. Churchill. London. 1871. . pp. 247-342. 18 text figures. Modern cloth, uncut and partially unopened, a very good copy of the complete volume, with 21 other papers. *GARRISON-MORTON #2771 - 'Important and exhaustive account of presystolic murmurs. Fagge's paper also includes many clinical observations relating to the rhythm of heart murmurs and the state of the sounds of the heart in 67 cases at Guy's Hospital.' See WILLIUS & DRY A History of the Heart and the Circulation, pp. 175 &391 for an appraisal of Fagge's work.

Allen & Unwin. London. 1969. Thiird impression.. pp. xvi, 955, (v). Map end-papers and 46 maps and charts. Very good copy in dust wrapper.

Humphrey Milford. OUP. London. 1928. . pp. xii, 434, (ii). Many illustrations. Original cloth, rebacked with old spine relaid, good copy. *24 contributions by the top orthopaedic specialists of the day - includes GARRISON-MORTON #4395 - MARK JANSEN Dissociation of Bone Growth (Exostoses and enchondromata of Ollier's dyschondroplasia and associated phenomena.).

Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1970. Second printing.. pp. x, 416, (ii). Double-page map at the front, 1 text map. Dust wrapper torn at the foot of the spine, a very good copy.

Duckworth. London. 1912. New edition, reprint.. pp. ix, (i), 121, (iii). Coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, all with printed tissue guards. Original cloth a trifle faded, front cover gilt decorated, top edge gilt, a very good copy.

Printed by J. Dixwell, No. 148, St. Martin's Lane, near Charing Cross. London. 1777. 8vo.. pp. 8,168, (i),182-250. Text is continuous despite erratic pagination. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards though now with a later cloth spine, occasional foxing more especially at the front, ex-libris with stamps and book-label on the front paste-down, neat oval stamp on verso of title and in margin of last page, overall a very good copy. *MAGNUS FALCONAR ( not in Munk or Plarr ), was a friend and colleague of William Hewson, surgeon, anatomist and physiologist; in 1772 Hewson established and ran an anatomy school at 36 Craven Street, where Franklin lodged in London (now the Benjamin Franklin House museum). In 1998, workmen restoring this building dug up the remains of six children and four adults hidden below the home. The Times reported on 11 February 1998: 'Initial estimates are that the bones are about 200 years old and were buried at the time Franklin was living in the house, which was his home… Read More

Hutchinson. London. 1934.. p[p. 306, (x) Catalogue. Pictorial title, 8 plates by FRANK C. PAPÉ, 24 plates. No dust wrapper, a very good copy.

Edward Arnold. London. [1920]. Popular edition.. pp. (vi), 305, (i) blank. Publisher's red cloth faded, some foxing, an early leaf with the lower corner torn with marginal loss, one other leaf with a marginal tear but no loss, a good copy. *COPAC records the copy at Trinity College Dublin only. An ownership inscription on the front free end-paper dated April 17th. 1920, confirms the publication date.

Westminster Press. London. [1933]. Second edition. . pp. 79, (iii). Green paper wrappers with paper label on front cover, a ring mark affecting the title and 7 following leaves though diminishing to the end of that series, otherwise a very good copy. *This is the second edition with green wrappers, LIMITED to 500 copies.

John Murray. London. 1842. Third Edition, Revised. . pp. xiii, (i), 664, 12 Catalogue. Original cloth faded, rebacked with new spine, library stamps on title and in occasional margin, a good copy.

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Bardfield Press. Essex. 2004.. pp. 511, (i). Profuse illustration in colour. A very good copy.

[Privately Printed]. 1987.. ff. [4]. Stapled into original wrappers, presentation inscription from the author, a very good copy.

Longmans, Green. London. 1912. . pp. iv, 214. Occasional figure. New paper wrappers, a very good copy. *FARRAR (1861-1922), son of Dean Farrar, had been selected as British Representative to the International Plague Commission Report in Manchuria. He had been medical officer for plague and famine duty in India in 1899, and had studied public health administration in England under Dr. Allan on his return. Although he retired in 1921, he volunteered to go to Russia to help Nansen with the health of refugees; he died there of typhus fever. This volume also has papers by J. E. SANDILANDS Small-pox in London, 1885 to 1935 (sic); R. J. REECE Poliomyelitis in Devon and Cornwall;

Victor Gollancz. London. 1941. 4to.. pp. 160. 48 text drawings. Dust wrapper, excellent copy.

No date [c.1850s?].. A fine letter-press paper handbill with engraved address vignette at the head and a cursive account below within a window mount, faint shadows of a mount verso in the corners, in very good order, framed and glazed, plus VAT.

Printed for Subscribers Only. London. 1856. 4to.. pp. (iv), lvi, 230, (vi) Subscribers, (iv) Advertisements. Fine portrait frontispiece of Mayer by LeKeux, map of Saxon England, 20 plates [7 lithographs handcoloured, 10 engraved plates, 3 in aquatint], numerous text wood engravings including a number of fine engraved chapter head pieces. Original blue cloth, rebacked, book-plate removed from front paste-down, the remaining glue has adhered to the opposing free end-paper and caused some loss, plates foxed, damp mark in the fore-margin of the portrait, else a good copy. *Faussett began his Journal in 1757 and ended it in 1773, two years before his death. Since that time they had been in family hands and despite attempts to buy them, the collection remained in obscurity and the manuscript unpublished. A number of letters are reprinted above in the final Appendix, one from Thomas Godfrey Faussett, great-grandson, giving valuable biographical information and some from the Rev. James Douglas, outlining… Read More

George Bell and Sons. London. 1899. Large folio.. pp. xv, (i), 108. 75 collotype plates. Publisher's vellum-backed cloth, top edge gilt, the front joint weak and the frontispiece now loose, a touch of wear to the lower corners, else a very good copy. *LIMITED EDITION of 360 copies, of which 100 to America and 10 not for sale, this is an out-of-series copy.