American & English Opera, Operetta, & Vocal Music Summer 2017
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American & English Opera, Operetta, & Vocal Music Summer 2017
Maritime Books Books on Pirates, Sailing Ships, Navies and Naval Officers, Merchants, Whaling, Shipwrecks and more!
Catalogue 86 Book Arts & Fine Printing
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185-A: Advances in Science Optics & Microscopy JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #185-A: We have recently acquired the optics & microscopy library of a private collector. This the second catalogue offering more highlights from this collection. [66 items]
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172: MEDICAL CABINET JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #172: THIS is the first of a two-part catalogue featuring both recent acquisitions and highlights from stock. Many excellent bargains can be had with this selection. Item 6 is the first French work on the ophthalmoscope [Anagnostakis, 1854], Baillou [10] is an early study of rheumatism and arthritis, [13] Beddoes is a beautiful copy as is [25] Bernard. Anesthesia from 1847 is found in Bigelow [30], Blackmore [32] treats tuberculosis in 1724, [33] Blanco is the first description of the flora of the Philippines (owned by Howard Sprague Reed). Cesalpino [57] gives an important account of the discovery of blood circulation in 1571/1593. One of the great rarities in medicine is the first edition of Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, 1722 [73]. Glisson [107] is the first printing of childhood Rickets in 1650. There is more medicine in the cabinet… [197 items]
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171: FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS [FAUST] JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #171: Early printed books, bibliography, fine printing, Californiana, economics, Law, military, literature, Americana, philosophy, religion, poetry, bookbindings.
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173: The Dance of Books Another in my “Bookseller Cabinet” series where I feature a wider range of books. In this case the catalogue is a two-part (nos. 171 + 172) effort. Available from our stock of remarkable art is a superb collection of the work of the fantastical Mexican artist SERGIO BUSTAMANTE. We have about 33 pieces for sale at present. We have some fine Californiana pieces (11-13, 40, 121, 157), some extraordinary specimens of fine printing lead by Landacre’s California Hills (40), LIME KILN PRESS American Bard (40) and the PLANTIN PRESS Shakespeare Sonnets (122). Theodore Roosevelt’s African Trails with a signed card (147), two GRANGERIZED BOOKS – “extra illustrated” – (19, 158), and a remarkable 17th century Persian manuscript of Rumi’s greatest work (154). Interested in tales of early travels (both fiction and some fact) there is Stirling-Maxwell’s copy of Struys (182). 219 items.
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174: Visions of Scientific Imagination JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #174: THIS IS THE FIRST OF A MULTI-PART CATALOGUE on the sciences. Special among recent purchases are: Boyer’s copy of Bouguer’s Optics [118]. Lewis Carroll’s Game of Logic [159]. Cavendish’s work on electricity was J.J. Thomson’s copy [168] Computing history is present with Boole [116] (“From the author” and Cooley & Tukey’s paper on FFT [195]. Ralph Rutherford’s copy of Darwin’s Origin [228]. Einstein papers [268-277]. Faraday autograph letter [288]. Item [47] offers three late nineteenth century manuscript Persian astronomical calendars. So much more astronomical is found throughout…. [303i tems]
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175: Medical Cabinet IT GIVES GREAT PLEASURE to offer fine, unusual and rare books and manuscripts such as those contained within this selection. There are many highlights: foremost is the signed copy of John Snow [109], a large private collection of medical portraiture [33], a stunning copy of Spigelius [115], Philip Hench’s personal copy of Osler’s Principles [61] with holograph inscription (mounted) to his son who attended the Nobel Prize ceremony that honored his father, several fine letters of Sir William Osler [53, 54, 55, 56], Cushing [2] and Halsted [3] – all unusual to see in one catalogue. The cover piece, a prize in itself, also comes from the Philip Hench library. [152 items].
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