JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #182: IT IS WITH GREAT PRIDE that I issue this catalogue devoted to my wife. From the first time that I met her I became interested in the history, literature and culture of ancient Persia, or modern day Iran. My college degree from UCLA focused on this field, studying under Dr. Amin Banani. My first serious book collection was on Persian literature in translation. My grandfather even wrote a bibliography on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Thus applying my bibliographic zeal to the history of Persia, including language, travel, art, and the interaction between the east and west results in this offering. Persian culture is rich with history and lessons, art, design, story-telling and tradition. I know that those who know Iranians know they are a proud and remarkable people who bring much to this world and whose history is often much deeper than one imagines. [48 items]
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #183: We have recently acquired the optics & microscopy library of a private collector. The collection has enough highlights to establish the importance of this collection as noteworthy in the history of science. Here is a selection – more to come. Enjoy!
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #184: THIS IS THE SECOND OF A SERIES OF CATALOGUES THAT ARE TOPICALLY ‘ORIENTALIA,’ inclusive of all Asia, with special emphasis on the Middle East and the Persian race, in particular the history, literature, culture, exploration, history, art, achievements, and accounts of Persians.. This catalogue contains a private collection of Burton, widely famous for his accounts of travel, his mastery of a myriad of languages, and his themes of Sufism, religion, myths, sexology, and anthropology, etc. Highlighted are such books as his Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, or Doughty’s Arabia Deserta, both excellent copies of the first editions in original cloth bindings.
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #185: 241 Books important in Medical History: CATALOGUES CELEBRATING MEDICAL HISTORY entail a concerted effort to create the right mix of books. This compilation comes from several different sources, including the libraries of Robert Sonnenschein, Philip Showalter Hench & P. Kahler Hench, and others. Among the great items offered, quite a few show their prior ownership to these men of medicine. Still, I have certain favorites: Descartes on music, Short on Mineral Waters, and especially Hippolyte MORESTIN [#158] which is an extensive archive of original material from his clinical work relating to cosmetic (plastic) surgery as it was prior to WWI.
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #177: Offering 202 antiquarian books in: Americana; books on books; dictionaries & encyclopedias; early printed books (pre-1800); fine printing; literature & manuscripts; New Orientalism & Middle Eastern Studies; Philosophy & Classics; Religion; Voyages & Travel, especially to Africa and Persia.
