Authors starting with M from Jeff Weber Rare Books

Offprint from:: Physical Review, Vol. 62, Nos. 9 and 10. 1942. hardcover. 2. pp. 403-411. (265 x 200 mm). 9 pp. Stapled pages. Ownership signature of noted scientific historian Abraham Pais. Very good. . Ma was part of the Department of Physics, National University of Peking, Kunming, China. ... more information

Offprint from:: Physical Review, Vol. 87, Nos. 4, August 15. 1952. paperback. 2. pp. 652-655. (265 x 200 mm). 4 pp. Self-wraps. Ownership signature of noted scientific historian Abraham Pais. Very good. . This item includes a draft of additional remarks prepared by the author that was presumably given to historian and physicist of Rockefeller University Abraham Pais (1918-2000). ... more information

Oxford:: Clarendon Press. 1967. hardcover. 1. Small 8vo. 59 pp. Navy cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Ownership signature on ffep. Fine. . Reprinted. ... more information

Berlin:: Springer-Verlag. 1967. hardcover. 1. 8vo. viii, 160 pp. 60 illus., index. Navy blue cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ... more information

Springfield (IL):: Charles C. Thomas. 1961. hardcover. 1. Thin 8vo. viii, 69 pp. 14 figs., refs. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Fine. ... more information

Glasgow:: Maclehose, Jackson. 1922. hardcover. 1. 221 x 150 mm. 8vo. xxvi, 619 pp. 535 figs., index; page 366 lightly penciled. Green cloth, gilt spine. Gift inscription on front paste-down. Fine. . FIRST EDITION. This comprehensive text book is based on the author's lectures at the University of Glasgow presenting all that the surgical student might be expected to know. It is divided into four parts on 1) Surgical affections and principles in general; 2) Surgical affections of the various tissues, incl... more information

Glasgow:: James Maclehose and Sons. 1912. hardcover. 2. 221 x 146 mm. 8vo. 210 pp. 61 figs. on numerous plates, index; occasional marginal penciling. Dark green cloth, gilt spine; re-backed with original spine laid down. Ownership signature. Ex library rubber stamp. Very good. RARE. . FIRST EDITION. Throughout his life Macewen devoted much time to the study of bone growth. Macewen became interested in the biology of bone and carried out a long and critical series of experiments on animals in order to determ... more information

London:: Macmillan. 1885. hardcover. 2. 8vo. ix, 357, [ads. ] 32 pp. Engraved text figs. , index. Original green cloth, gilt spine; spine head nicked, corners frayed, ex-library rubber stamps on edges & endleaves only. Bookplate. Very good. . FIRST EDITION. Macfarlane studied under Tait, and was an active participant in the debate on systems of vector analysis. ... more information

Bristol/ London:: John Wright/ Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. 1912. hardcover. 2. 8vo. vi, 302, ads. (2) pp. Gray cloth, brown stamped cover and spine titles; extremities soiled, library number painted on spine, library sticker on front pastedown, and publisher’s blind stamp on title. Very good. Rare. ... more information

Cambridge:: Silent Books. 1989. paperback. 1. 8vo. 57 pp. Reproduced engravings by four artists. Pictorial wrappers. Bookplate of Vance Gerry. Fine. . Reprint. Artists featured are: Miriam Macgregor, Cordelia Jones, Betty Pennell, & Yvonne Skargon. ... more information

New York and Oxford:: Oxford University Press. 2000. hardcover. 1. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. x, 278 pp. Illustrations, figs., tables, index. Dark blue paper boards, silver stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. . ISBN: 0195119878 ... more information

[Geneva]:: [Pierre Aubert], 1550 [i.e. afte. 1649]. hardcover. 1. 4to. [4], 351, [1 blank, 4], 116, 14, [2 blank], 304, 168, 170 pp. Woodcut portrait of Machiavelli on the title-page, double-page woodcut; occasional spotting and toning, small wormhole in lower margin. Later half brown levant over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine title, t.e.g.; minor repairs. Early ink marginalia on endleaves and title-page. Bookplate, ink signature and notations by Charles Eliot Norton, exlib ink stamps, monogram ownershi... more information

London, etc.:: Longmans, Green. 1925. hardcover. 2. 224 x 147 mm. 8vo. xix, 325 pp. Tables. Navy blue cloth. Ownership signature of Hyman L. Hymson. Very good. ... more information

(Laguna Beach, CA:: Laguna Verde Imprenta, Novembe. 1975. paperback. 1. PROOF COPY [wr 2] 8vo. (236 X147 mm) Unpaginated, [16] pp.; lacks only the blank endleaves. Unbound. Cover illustration shows a 10-leaf branch. Pencil placement notation on p. 5. Printed wrappers, 260 mm tall. Fine. ... more information

(Laguna Beach, CA:: Laguna Verde Imprenta, Christma. 1975. paperback. 1. PROOF COPY [wr 2] 8vo. (236 X147 mm) Unpaginated, [16] pp. Cover illustration shows a maple leaf and two other multi-lobed leaves; stray blue spot on p. [14/15], corner of p [5/6] bent. Printed wrappers, 251 mm tall. Fine. ... more information

(Sydney):: Historic Houses Trust. 2006. hardcover. 1. Oblong 4to. 288 pp. Hundreds of photos (many in color), index. Grey cloth, silver-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Fine. . ISBN: 1876991224 ... more information

London:: V & A Publications. 2001. hardcover. 1. 4to. 360 pp. Color frontis. and illustrations, index. Black cloth, gilt- stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. . ISBN: 0810965798 ... more information

Berlin:: Julius Springer. 1923. hardcover. 2. 8vo. xx, 551, ads. [4] pp. 327 illustrations, index. Beige cloth, brown stamped cover and spine titles; spine torn. Interior very good. . SECOND GERMAN EDITION of this monumental treatise on cardiology, Diseases of the Heart. Mackenzie was a pioneer in the graphic study of heart disease and was the first to measure arterial and venous pulses simultaneously. With some irony, Mackenzie (1853-1925) died of angina pectoris. Major pp. 946-949; Garrison pp. 687-688; S... more information

London: Oxford University Press, 1908; Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library. 1988. hardcover. 1. 25 cm. 8vo. xix, 386 pp. 264 figs., 5 folding plates, bibliog., index. Full blue-green gilt-stamped pigskin, with endleaves designed by Richard J. Wolfe, a.e.g. Bookplate. Top edge rubbed, else fine. . Special edition. Evan Bedford states of this work, "This book revolutionised cardiology in English speaking countries, and gained for Mackenzie an international reputation." See: Willius & Keys,... more information

Boston:: Carter, Hendee. 1833. hardcover. 11. 262 x 163 mm. 4to. xii, 719, [1, blank] pp. Index; foxed. Original quarter cloth, boards, printed paper spine label; re-backed with original spine neatly laid down, spine darkened. Rubber stamp of Jos. William, Apothecary, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Very good. . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. First edition, 1830. "In this book, Mackenzie, one of the foremost ophthalmologists of his time, included a classical description of the symptomatology of glaucoma, and was ... more information