Catalogue Search Results for Jeff Weber Rare Books

A selection of 51 fore-edge painted books.

90 books in the history of science and astronomy. The books are supplemented with a fine collection of signed papers by Percival Lowell on Mars, Venus, Jupiter, etc., other colleagues as well.

Contains antiquarian and secondhand books from the 17th-20th centuries. The catalogue has a mixed content, but stronger in botany, flowers, gardens, decorative arts, ornamentation, specimens of bookbindings, illustrated books, albums with original photographs (including Egypt), religious works, the history of Switzerland (and surrounding countries), etc.

Approximately 75 books on the hsitory of science, astronomy, many signed by George E. Hale.

Approximately 64 fore-edge paintings, from a private collection. Fully illustrated.

34 specimens of fore-edge painting, fully illustrated

31 books with fore-edge paintings, mostly from a private collection. Special attention is paid to illustrating every item, noting their histories and how to understand their histories.

76 books from a private collection. The library is strong in the natural sciences, natural history, insects, flowers, birds, animals. Featured are both inexpensive books and important contributions to these fields of science. Many of the books are difficult to find in today's market, giving the catalogue strength in unusual items.

74 books in the field of historical chemistry, from the 18th century to the early 20th century.

85 books arrangedin 3 parts: The catalogue opens with 5 great science books. What follows is a long selection of Einstein papers. The third part contains a wide variety of scientific items: Biochemistry, Genetics, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics

61 rare and secondhand medical books, mostly on the history of medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics. Mostly from two private collections.

176 books in the medical sciences, especially the history of medicine

65 books in the history of science, many being from the personal collection og American astronomer, solar-studies, and administrator of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena. Including: Alexander AGASSIZ, (1835-1910). – American Foundations Information Service ; Geneva SEYBOLD (1900-2004). – American Philosophical Society. – Roger BACON, (1214-1292)] Malgorzata FRANKOWSKA. – Carl Anton BJERKNES, (1825-1903) Vilhelm BJERKNES (1862-). – Herbert BUTTERFIELD (1900-1979). – [Thomas CHALMERS (1780-1847)], Mrs. Margaret OLIPHANT WILSON (1828-1897). – [Ethan Samuel CHAPIN, (1814-1889)] Mrs. Louisa Burns CHAPIN. – Nicolaus COPERNICUS, (1473-1543); Angus ARMITAGE (1902-1976). – [COPERNICUS] Sir Harold SPENCER JONES (1890-1960). – [COPERNICUS] Hermann KESTEN (1900-1996). – [COPERNICUS] San Diego State University. – Crawford Library, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; James LUDOVIC [LINDSAY] (1847-1913) [Bibliotheca Lindesiana catalogues]. – John Crerar Library, Chicago. – James Gerald CROWTHER (1899-1983). – [John DONNE (1572-1631)] Charles Monroe COFFIN (1904-1956). – DRAPER, John William (1811-1882). – [James DUNLOP (1793-1848)] Ex-Bailie Archibald DUNLOP. – [James DUNLOP (1793-1848)] John SERVICE (1815-1916). – [Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955)] Leopold INFELD (1898-1968). – [Joseph FOURIER] François ARAGO (1783-1853). – Joseph Paul GAIMARD (1793-1858). – [Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Sophus FRIEDERICHSEN (1841-1915)] Johannes Adolf REPSOLD (1838-1919). – [David GILL (1843-1914)] George FORBES (1849-1936). – Élie HALÉVY (1870-1937). – Sir James JEANS (1877-1946). – Lord KELVIN [1st Baron] (1824-1907); Silvanus P. THOMPSON (1851-1916). – [John LUBBOCK (1834-1913)] Horace Gordon HUTCHINSON – Alexander MACFARLANE, (1851-1913). – [Ebenezer Porter MASON (1819-1840)] Denison OLMSTED (1791-1859). – [James Clerk MAXWELL (1831-1879)] R.T. GLAZEBROOK (1854-1935). – [James NASMYTH (1808-1890)] Samuel SMILES (1812-1904). – NEUGEBAUER, Otto (1899-1990). – [Isaac NEWTON (1643-1727)] Frank E. MANUEL (1910-2003). – [NEWTON] Herbert Westren TURNBULL (1885-1961). – [Nobel Prizes, 1904-05-06]. – Observatoire de Paris ; André DANJON (1890-1967). – [Philadelphia] Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company; Carroll FREY. – Max PLANCK (1858-1947). – [Henri POINCARÉ (1854-1912)] Vito VOLTERRA (1860-1940) (and others). – [Henry S. PRITCHETT (1857-1939)] Abraham FLEXNER (1866-1959). – Richard A. PROCTOR (1837-1888). – Reale Biblioteca Estense, Modena; Umberto ORLANDINI (1879-1931). – Arnold REYMOND, (1874-1958). – [Ole ROMER, (1644-1710)] Elis STROMGREN (1870-1947). – Josiah Thomas SLUGG (1814-1888). – Sir Henry Enfield ROSCOE, (1833-1915). – Royal Society (Great Britain), British Empire Exhibition. – George SARTON (1884-1956). – Society of Indexers; G. Norman KNIGHT (ed.). – Henri VAN HEURCK (1838-1909). – [William WHEWELL (1794-1866)] Mrs. Stair [Janet Mary] DOUGLAS (c.1830-1922). – William WHEWELL (1794-1866) ; Isaac TODHUNTER (1820-1884). – Edmund T. WHITTAKER (1873-1956) Sc.D., F.R.S.; George ROBINSON M.A., B.Sc. – Edward Livingston YOUMANS (1821-1887); John FISKE (1842-1901). – Zoological Society of London; Henry SCHERREN (1843-1911).

56 books, mostly French and many from before 1900. All are recent acquisitions. Topics include religion, classics, freemasonry, language, philosophy, Switzerland, travel, mathematics, politics (how to act as an Ambassador), military tactics, an archive of 5 1898-1910 Swiss Hotel registry albums with signatures of the guests as they signed in, along with an album detailing all the various categories of expenses and services to run a fine hotel in those days, WWI soldier songs, French poetry, the work of Jean Racine, fables, chronology, Paris Guide book from 1846, the subterranean archeological sites in Rome, mountain climbing (Les Alpes), etc.

30 books, fully illustrated, each a fore-edge painting.

93 items offered, from various private collections.

Approximately 80 books in the field of medical history, with an emphasis on pediatrics, gynecology.

81 books in the history of science. Arranged in two parts: The first offers a selection from a private collection of early books on mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, the teaching of science, some early Latin classics, 19th century literature. Part II offers books on the life sciences, genetics, microbiology, philosophy, history of science, all from various private collections.