Authors starting with V from Jeff Weber Rare Books

Paris:: Vecchi. 1975. paperback. 2. 207 x 145 mm. 8vo. 190 pp. Figs., 6 color plates. Printed wrappers. Very good. ... more information

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday, Doran. 1941. hardcover. .. FIRST EDITION. Series: The American Museum of Natural History Science Series. 8vo. xxii, 340 pp. 64 plates, text figs., tables, index. Beige cloth, brown and yellow stamped cover illustration and spine title. Bookplates of the Burndy Library and Ann Sheridan. ... more information

Middlesex:: Penguin Books. 1950. paperback. 2. 8vo. 333 pp. 64 plates, text figs., tables, index. Rebound in quarter red morocco with marbled paper boards and original wraps bound in; spine sunned, some light wear to edges, else very good. Burndy bookplate. ... more information

New York:: McGraw-Hill Book Co.. 1928. hardcover. 2. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. xiii, 215 pp. 122 text figs., index. Dark green ribbed cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Ownership signature on front endpaper. Very good. ... more information

Bethesda:: National Cancer Institute. 1965. hardcover. 1. 8vo. xv, 354 pp. Articles, photos, figs. Gilt stamped brown cloth. Ownership rubber stamp of M. W. Strickberger. Fine. RARE. ... more information

New York:: Basic Books. 2002. hardcover. 1. 8vo. viii, 388 pp. 16 plates. Black cloth, silver-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. . ISBN: 0465089860 ... more information

Garden City:: Doubleday, Page. 1914. paperback. 2. 244 x 162 mm. 8vo. xx, 251 pp. Plates. Black cloth-backed gray wrappers; spine extremities worn. Very good. ... more information

Breslau:: Eduard Trewendt. 1901. hardcover. 3. Series: Encyklopædie der Naturwissenschaften. 8vo. xi, 611 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts. Glossy green paper boards, gilt-stamped spine title; extremities severely chipped. Former library copy with the usual markings and defects. Good +. . Articles of special interest for reference include: “Sonne” by N. Herz; “Sternbilder” by Valentiner, which includes lists of double stars, nebula, star clusters, and variable stars with some cart... more information

[Mexico]:: Instituto Nacional de Energía Nuclear. [1977]. paperback. 1. Oblong 8vo. Not paginated. Photos (some color), testimonies, biog., bibliog. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. . WITH: LEE, Lulú Vargas Vila de. Homenaje a un Hombre de Ciencia Dr. Manuel Sandoval Vallarta. Tribute to a Great Scientist. (Hamburgo): Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, A. C., no date [ca. 1977]. 8vo. 22 pp. Photos, bibliog. Pictorial wrappers. Name neatly inked on cover. Very good. ... more information

Los Angeles:: (Richard J. Hoffman). 1988. paperback. 1. 230 x 153 mm. 21 pp. Frontis. port., illus. Hand-stitched wrappers. Fine. . Sixth and concluding essay in a series on medicine in Spanish and Mexican California. ... more information

No place:: Pergamon Press. 1964. paperback. 1. 8vo. 157-188 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. INSCRIBED BY VALLENTYNE to Norman Horowitz. Fine. . Vallentyne was associated with the Dept. of Zoology, Cornell University. WITH: VALLENTYNE. "Thermal Reaction Kinetics of the Glutamic Acid-Pyroglutamic Acid System in Water." Offprint from: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 28, 1964. 8vo. 731-734 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. ... more information

New York...:: Academic Press. 1979. hardcover. 1. 8vo. xiv, 497 pp. Numerous figs. and charts, bibliog., index. Gilt-stamped brown cloth. Fine. . ISBN: 0127105506 ... more information

Paris & Bruxelles:: Librarie Scientifique et Industrielle & l’Auteur. 1843. hardcover. 2. Text and atlas volumes. 8vo. & oblong 4to. (248 x 161; 339 x 448 mm) xiv, (15)-560 pp. Atlas volume has 34 engraved plates (1 folding); occasional light foxing. A mis-matched set, but complete. Quarter green morocco over pebbled boards, quarter brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine title; joints rubbed on atlas volume. Bookplate and a few perforated library stamps from Franklin Institute i... more information

Cambridge:: Harvard University Press. 1965. hardcover. 2. Large 8vo. 131 pp. 59 figs., index. Navy blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, dust jacket; front jacket missing pieces and repaired with Scotch tape. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author. Better than very good in good jacket. ... more information

Granada:: Universidad de Granada. 1980. paperback. 1. 8vo. xiii, 130 pp. List of 759 books, index. Printed wrappers; spine head bumped, else fine. ... more information

No place:: no publisher. 1954. paperback. 1. 8vo. 73-89 pp. Figs. Self wraps. Fine. . Dantzig was a Dutch mathematician who had a chair at the University of Amsterdam after WWII. His most important work was in topological algebra, but he wrote valuable papers on probability and statistics also. He studied metrisation of groups, rings, and fields and in one paper classified with a locally compact topology. WITH: VAN DANTZIG. "On the Thermo-Hydrodynamics of Perfectly Perfect Fluids. I." Offprint fro... more information

Philadelphia:: American Philosophical Society. 1944. hardcover. 1. 4to. (Article): 372-374 pp. (Whole volume): iii, 536 pp. Articles, photos, figs., tables. Green boards, gilt spine. Blind stamp of Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. . Van de Kamp was a Pennsylvania astronomer who devoted most of his life to the study of stars, and in the analysis of photographs from 1916-1962 mistakenly identified a new planet in relation to his work on Barnard's star. ... more information

Offprint:: Popular Astronomy, vol. LIX, nos. 2-5. 1951. paperback. 1. 8vo. 52 pp. Illus. Wrappers. FINE. ... more information

Utrecht:: Elinkwijk. 1966. paperback. 2. 240 x 169 mm. 8vo. [vi], 153 pp. Numerous figs. and tables, bibliog.; ink inscription on rear blank. Original printed wrappers; two small stains on rear cover, else very good. ... more information

No place:: Nuclear Physics. 1964. paperback. 1. 8vo. 686-693 pp. Self wraps. Fine. . Van Der Spuy was associated with the Atomic Energy Board, Pelindaba, Republic of South Africa. ... more information