Authors starting with V from Edwin V Glaser Rare Books

Paris: Germer Baillière. 1865. Spine edges a bit rubbed. Very good.. Contemp. quarter calf over marbled boards 205 pp. ... more information

Small inoffensive rubberstamp at the top of the first page, not. affecting text.. Neat photocopy of the original, printed on one side only with each page laminated, stapled. pp. (543)-553. 4to. Published under the auspices of the Division of Infantile Surgery at the Maggiore Hospital in Milan. -- Not in Grulee. ... more information

Amsterdam. 1772. Some foxing to first and last few leaves; else a fine copy of the. first edition.. Contemp. mottled calf, spine gilt, with red leather spine label. (4), 319, (1) pp. 12mo. Valentin, considered a skilled surgeon by Hirsch, here criticizes the methods employed by a number of his prominent contemporaries, such as Pechlin, Gilguer, Garenget, and Louis. A substantial portion of the text, ( pp.219-319), is devoted to his attacks on Louis, whom he accuses of incompetence and falsification of tex... more information

Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn. 1847-51. Complete with the Nachtrage zur zweiten Auflage vom Lehrbuche der. Physiologie bound in. A near fine set of the second, enlarged edition.. Later half calf viii, 863, (3); 420, 731; 316, (4), 101 pp., with three plates and 439 illustrations in the text. Tall 8vo, three volumes. The best edition of Valentin's great text, complete with the Nachtrage, which was published a year later and is often lacking. Valentin, Purkyne's prize student, was a research... more information

Leipzig & Heidelberg: C, F. Winter'sche. 1863. A fine copy of the first edition.. Later quarter morocco over marbled boards. vi, 141 pp., with 20 woodcut figures in the text. 8vo. ... more information

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1904. Spine ends frayed; else a very good copy of the first edition, with a. signed presentation from the author.. Orig. cloth vii, 171 pp., illustrated, and with a photo frontispiece. 8vo. Cordasco 00-6452. ... more information

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1900. A very good copy.. Orig. blue cloth Sixth edition. 257 pp., with 96 figures in the text. 8vo. ... more information

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. 1919. A very good, untrimmed copy.. Contemp. gilt-ruled 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, four raised spine bands (4), 692 pp., 8vo. See Garrison-Morton 83. ... more information

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co.. n.d. Library stamps on front and back pastedowns and title. A very good ex-. library copy.. Orig. cloth xxi, 484 pp., with frontis. portrait, 8vo. Translated fron the French by Mrs. R.L. Devonshire. ... more information

(Paris): Expansion Scientifique Français. 1970. Slightly soiledcovers. A very good copy.. Orig. soft covers 272pp., with twenty figures, 8vo. ... more information

Luzern: Benno Konegen. 1930. A fine copy.. Orig. cloth xx, 305 pp., with the frontis. portrait, and a suite of eight plates, two folding, bound at the end. 8vo, . First published in 1926, Van de Velde's book on marriage went through many editions in many languages and was considered the authoritative book of its kind in its time. ... more information

San Francisco: by the Academy. Jan. 17,1912. A very good, partially unopened ,copy.. Orig. stiff printed paper wrapps. pp. 323-374., with one fold out chart and eight plates. 4to. ... more information

San Francisco: by the Academy. Apr. 16,1912. Some browning on covers and title page. A very good partially. unopened copy.. Orig. stiff printed paper wrapps. pp. 405-430. 4to. ... more information

by the Academy. 1907. Slightly browned. A very good copy.. Orig. stiff paper wrapps. pp. 1-6. Sm. 4to. ... more information

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1936). Library bookplate with withdrawal stamp on front pastedown, remnants. of paper pasted to front free endpaper. A very good copy of the first. edition.. Orig. cloth, xvii, 577 pp. 8vo. Garrison-Morton 1172. ... more information

Paris: Imprimerie de Valade. 1807. Title-page and first few leaves somewhat foxed. A near fine copy of. the first edition.. Modern boards, hand-printed paper spine label vi, (7)-78, (1 errata) pp. 8vo. Only five copies located worldwide, and not in Grulee or the usual collection catalogues generally consulted. ... more information

Paris: Rueff. 1890. Binding and cords broken, signatures loose and lacking back cover. .. A good copy of the first edition.. Orig. printed wrapps. 235 pp., with eleven engraved plates from contemporary sources. 4to. This thesis for the Doctorate in Medicine remains the principal source for the history of Nicholas Habicot, (1550- 1624), a pioneer surgeon who performed several successful bronchotomies and laryngotomies. See Garrison-Morton 3244.1. Wright, History of Laryngology and Rhinology, pp. 158-9. Hi... more information

St. Louis,: Mosby. 1957. With an additional biography, extracted from the March, 1978 issue of. MD (p. 13), laid-in. With an ownership signature, dated 1957, on the. front free endpaper. Head of spine a bit bumped. A fine copy of the. first edition.. Orig. blue cloth 267 pp., with a photographic portrait for each of the 30 biographies, and a number of other illustrations in the text. 4to. Thirty biographies of the men who played important roles in the amazing development of pediatrics in the United States ... more information

John B. deC. M. Saunders' copy, with his bookplate. A fine copy, with. a signed presentation by Veith.. Orig. printed wrapps., stapled as issued Offprint from "History of Religions", Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter, 1966. pp. 239-249, illustrated. 8vo. ... more information

Paris,: J.B. Baillière,. 1832-39.. The wrappers are soiled and chipped, backstrip perished. Fore-edge. curled and soiled. Some foxing in text, but a good, partially opened. copy.. four volumes in early three-quarter morocco over marbled boards. Atlas is Folio, orig. printed wrapps. The text volumes are the second, enlarged edition of 1839 and are in near fine condition. The atlas is from the 1832 first edition. xl, 718; 764; 743; 858, (2 errata) pp., with 191 illustrations in the text, Plus the Atl... more information