Bookseller Catalogs
San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century
San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century A selection of colorful and highly decorative maps produced for industry advertising, tourism, education and propaganda purposes
E-List #2: New Arrivals Our second e-list has a little bit of this, a little bit of that: Books on Native Americans, the stage, an 1833 broadside from London's Drury Lane Theater, a tiny signed photograph of General Tom Thumb's competitor....
203: Materia Medica & Pharmacology; Selections mostly from the Library of Arthur TELLER, MD
By Jeff Weber Rare Books
203: Materia Medica & Pharmacology; Selections mostly from the Library of Arthur TELLER, MD JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #203: Collection of ca. 95 books or pamphlets relating to the history of PHARMACY, PHARMACEUTICALS, DRUGS, & MATERIA MEDICA. Mostly from the library of Dr. Arthur Teller, with additions. Highlights include: Al-Kindi's Medical Formulary, some histories of medicine, Boerhaave's treatise on the illnesses of children (1759), Cowperthwaite's Materia medica (1882), Cullen's work from 1812, Fouquet's Secrets (1702), Hawaiian medicinal plants, by June Gutmanis (1977), Rene Hazard's Actualites Pharmacologiques (1949), with an autograph letter from the author, Hoffer & Osmond, The Hallucinogens (1967), two treatises by Francis Home, about a half-dozen French classics translated into English (all issued by NY Walker and Company), Meyer & Gottlieb, Die experimentelle
Pharmakologie als Grundlage der Arzneibehandlung; [Experimental pharmacology as the basis of
drug treatment] (1920), The Pharmacopoeia of the United
States of America (1831), several of Wolfgang Schneider's studies on pharmacology, Robert Smith, Disputatio medica (1817), Waring's Bibliotheca Therapeutica (1878), etc.
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202: FINE PRINTING & HISTORY OF THE BOOK JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #202: 318 items, continuing from part I of this catalogue (Jeff Weber Rare Books catalog 189), contains many specimens of fine printing, (especially from California: Plantin Press, etc.), books on collecting, printing history, binding history, design, librarianship, leaf books, Limited Editions Club, Nonesuch Press, Bruce Rogers, etc. Highlights include: Grabhorn Press, Powell's Santa Fe Trail to California 1849-1852 [#628], a specially signed copy of The Malibu by Lawrence Clark Powell, signed books by Kenneth Rexroth, a leaf book for the Doves Press [#687] - including a leaf printed on vellum. My favorite item is the Thomas J. Wise edition of the Ashley Library catalogue in 10 volumes, this copy inscribed by Wise to Alice Millard, the noted Pasadena bookseller, being one of just 50 sets on English hand-made paper.
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Catalog #3 A collection of our recent acquisitions, featuring a broad range of literature, poetry and non-fiction. Highlights include rarities from Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Kahlil Gibran, and one of The Brothers Grimm.
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LIST 314: GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY 147 books and pamphlets containing genealogies, family history, and reference techniques for creating a genealogy, and although families in the South predominate, other regions are represented as well.
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