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

Saunders, Otley. London. 1860. Second edition.. pp. xii, 520. 5 tinted, sepia lithographs. Binder's cloth, small stamp on title and verso of the plates, a good copy.

Saunders, Otley, & Co. London. 1868.. pp. (viii), 294, (ii), 32 Catalogue. Many text illustrations, some full-page. Original cloth gilt, uncut, spine faded and a trifle worn at the ends, joints intact, contents clean.

Saunders, Otley. London. 1868.. pp. (viii), 294. Many text wood cuts, some full-page Contemporary half calf, an early rebacking with the old spine relaid, with the book-plates of Bibliotheca Piscatoria [Robert Clarke], William Scott Curtis, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with the latter's impressed and perforated stamps on the title, top edge gilt, a nice copy with interesting provenance.

Orphans' Press. Rochdale. 1903. Second edition. 12mo.. pp. 104. Original cloth, old paper label on the foot of the spine, a very good copy. *Scarce title, only the copyright libraries have copies. A moral tale of Ireland, religion, hard work, murder and finally, the Australian goldfields.

J. F. Lehmann. München. 1904. First edition; 1906. Third edition. 2 volumes.. pp. XVI, 399, (i), 16 Catalogue. 30 chromolithographs, 154 text figures; XV, (i), 247, (i), (xvi) Catalogue. 46 chromolithographs, 13 text figures. Green decorative cloth of the Hand-Atlanten series, both with book-plate of the Institute of Ophthalmology, London, no other library mark, a few early margins in the second title with the odd dust mark, otherwise very good copies. *The volume on Operations has some exceptionally striking plates of operations in progress, with instruments well figured. This title is rather scarce.

Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. [1924].. pp. vii, [8]-428. Frontispiece and 7 plates by MURRAY URQUHART, 1923. A very good copy in the original pictorial cloth.

S. W. Partridge. London. [1908].. pp. vi, (8)-339, (i). Tinted frontispiece and 10 black and white plates. Pictorial cloth, dust wrapper with a few little marginal tears, the top of the spine and the upper and lower margins of the rear panel torn with a little loss, paper very slightly toned, scarce in a dust wrapper.

Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. [1893].. pp. 1-127, (i). 15 Tables, 20 folding plates. New cloth, a very good copy. *HADFIELD (1858-1940), metallurgist from Sheffield, took over his father's steel foundry in 1888; he had discovered the properties of manganese steel in 1882 but had not published his findings until 1888. From that time until around 1892, Hadfield's was the only firm producing this hardened steel, for use in the manufacture of tram wheels, railway rails and 'burglar-proof'safes. The expansion of the railways boosted Hadfield's trade until the beginning of WWI when the demand for manganese steel for helmets, tank treads and armour plate and shells, stimulated production. By 1919, it was the largest manufaturer of special alloy steel in the country and Sheffield's biggest employer. Alloying iron with chromium had first been tried by Faraday and Stobart in 1820 - they had experimentally combined iron with a number of other elements and had demonstrated that chromiun and iron… Read More

Watts & Co. London. 1908.. p. 80 Contained in : pp. 80. Disbound without wrappers, else a very good copy. *Includes articles by JOHN COLLIER Home Life of Huxley; JOSEPH MCCABE The Lesson of Evolution; LEONARD HUXLEY Some Ethics and a Moral; ANTHONY W. BENN Address to Liberal Theologians, and 11 others.

Smith, Elder. London. 1887. First edition.. pp. viii, 336, (iv) Catalogue. Original cloth a bit dull with spine a little faded, a bit foxed at the ends but otherwise a very good copy, uncut.

Ivor Nicholson & Watson. London. 1935. . pp. xv, (i), 182, (ii) blank. Coloured frontispiece, 12 plates and numerous text line drawings. Original white hessioan with a central vignette on the front board, a very good copy.

For Joseph Butterworth and Son. London. 1826. 8vo.. pp. (iv), 99, (i) Errata. Original paper boards, uncut, new spine with label, front lower corner repaired, presentation inscription at the head of the title 'Revd.W: Hale From the Editor.', a very good copy. *SCARCE. COPAC lists copies in the Wellcome and the British Library, plus 6 other locations. An interesting medical item on two counts. The case involved the claim against the will of ELY STOTT, by his daughter, Mrs. Dew, on the grounds that Stott was insane at the time that the will was made. Stott had practised as a medical electrician, inspired originally by his meeting JOHN BIRCH, surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital. Birch is here described as a 'celebrated medical electrician', though Astley Cooper is quoted in PARSONS History of St. Thomas's Hospital, v.III, with a rather more subdued opinion - 'He was a sensual man; clever, but a bad surgeon. He had neglected Anatomy, and was therefore afraid in all operations which required a knowledge… Read More

William Morrow. New York. 1954. Second edition.. pp. xii, 356. Coloured frontispiece, 1 coloured plate, many text line illustrations. Original cloth, very good copy.

Royal United Services Institution. [Journal, Volume 102, 1957 - Issue 608.]. 1956. Folio.. pp. 34. Rectos only, typescript. Original cloth, faded and marked, joints firm and contents clean. *Original typescript for Gold Medal Prize Essay. RUSI - 'Dating back to 1874, the Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize reflects and reinforces the Institute's status as a uniquely placed platform for free thinking debate on defence and security. Previous winners have discussed the challenge of integrating civilian and military efforts in stabilisation operations, an assessment of the methodology of modern insurgents and redefining warfare.'

Merlin Press. London. 1976.. pp. 220. A very good copy in dust wrapper. *Sort of science fiction.

Yale University Press. New Haven. 1917. First edition. . pp. xi, (i), 138, (ii). Publisher's cloth, a very good copy.

No date. Oblong folio.. pp. 30. Lithographed illustrations, some in colour. Stapled into coloured, pictorial wrappers, a very good copy.

George Routledge & Sons. London. 1931.. pp. (xii), 272. Portrait frontispiece, 3 plates. Original cloth a little faded, otherwise a very good copy.

Archibald Constable. Edinburgh; Hurst, Robinson. London. 1826. 12mo. 2 volumes [II & III] in 1.. pp. x, 313, (i) blank; x, 311, (i) blank. Engraved frontispiece. Early half calf and marbled boards, spine rubbed and worn at the ends, without the half-title to the first volume *This title is complete in itself though originally issued with vol.I, Voyage to Loo Choo..........

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