Search Results: Authors starting with L from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

For J. Dodsley. London. 1784. 8vo.. pp. xx, 374. Half title discarded by binder. Later morocco rubbed at the edges, some foxing at the ends and in the occasional margin, else a very good copy.

Gauthier-Villars. Paris. 1888. 4to.. pp. 323, (i). 20 fine chromolithographs. The entire volume, in the original paper wrappers, covers dusty and a bit torn with loss, the rear cover detached, uncut and unopened, a very good copy. *This volume also contains 4 preliminary biographical memoirs including BERTHELOT on Lavoisier, and a French translation of a posthumous geometrical work by Descartes - De Solidorum Elementis.

Exeter College of Art. 1972. Folio.. ff. [10]. With 6 text etchings. Original maroon cloth, a very good copy.

Weldon's Ltd. London. 1935.. pp. 31, (i). Fully illustrated. Original silver and pictorial wrappers, lower corners a touch creased, front cover a little scuffed and creased at the edges, otherwise a very good copy.

Ex officina Elzeviriana. Lvgdvni Batavorvm [Leiden]. 1629. [Second edition]. 16mo.. pp. (xii), 443, (i). Engraved title and initials. Modern calf by MALTBY'S of OXFORD, boards blind-ruled, a very good copy. *COPINGER #1324; WILLEMS #311. This edition, published in the same year as the first, corrects a number of the earlier errors. It appears to be somewhat scarcer than the first edition.

Fannin & Co. Dublin; Longmans a.o. London; Maclachlan & Stewart. Edinburgh. 1887.. pp. viii, 385, (i) blank. Original cloth with gilt device in the centre of the front board, spine faded, else a very good copy.

Editions Centrex. Eindhoven. 1964.. pp. XII, 235, (i). 28 text figures. Very good copy in dust wrapper, from the library of MACDONALD CRITCHLEY.

A.-B. Stockholm. 1945. 8vo.. pp. (ii), 5-62. Irregular pagination, no defect. Profuse illustration of primarily English and American warplanes. Cloth backed pictorial boards with a lovely book-plate of Carl-Erik Ravander, top corner of the front board bumped, else a very good copy.

George Carré. Paris. 1891.. pp. XXXI, (i), 297, (i). Binder's cloth, an ex-library copy with WITHDRAWN stamp on the original paper cover bound in, a much smaller stamp on the title, plus usual labels on the front end-papers, paper browning a little at the edges, yet a good plus copy.

Editions Claude Alzieu. Albertville - Grenoble - Paris. 1993. Small folio.. pp. 320. Facsimile title-page, 112 coloured plates, a number of black and white portraits and other illustrations. Dust wrapper, a very nice copy. *A selection of plates and a number of essays, the plates taken from the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopédie Méthodique.

Société Belge de Libriairie. Bruxelles. 1838. 12mo. 4 volumes in 2.. pp. XI, (12)-301, (i); 366; 341, (i); 303, (i). 3 folding maps. Half calf and marbled boards by SMYTH of LIVERPOOL, the top edge of the last leaf in the second volume and the top of the first map in that volume, at one time torn with the pieces detached, now repaired without loss of text, half titles discarded by binder, all corners rubbed, good copies.

C. and J. Ollier. London. 1818. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo.. pp. ix, (i), 291, (i); (vi), 259, (i) Imprint of Reynell, Printer, (ii) Advertisement leaf for June 1818. Later three-quarters morocco and cloth sides, all edges gilt, some marginal foxing in v.I and scarcely any in v.II, two of the raised bands in v.II with a tiny nick, a lovely set, complete with the Advertisement leaf in v.II, often discarded by the binder, a silk bookmark in each volume.

Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Calcutta. 1905. 2 parts. 4to. . pp. (ii), 18; (ii), 15, (i). Original cloth-backed boards, a bit dusty, good copies. *Nos. 16 and 17, NEW SERIES, Scientific Memoirs.

University Press. Cambridge. 1879. First edition. . pp. (ii), x, 258, (ii), 32 Catalogue. Occasional text figure. Original cloth, wear to corners and spine ends, joints intact, one gathering coming a bit loose, else text clean. *LAMB (1849-1934), born in Stockport, educated in mathematics at Queen's College, Cambridge, at the time of publishing the above, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is described in DSB as 'One of the world's greatest mathematicians, best known for work in fluid mechanics....'.

Virtue and Company. London. 1936. First edition 4to.. pp. xv, (i), 308, (viii) Advertisements. Portrait, 20 coloured plates, profuse black & white illustration. Elaborate thirties decorated cloth, a touch of wear to the edges of the spine ends, the edges of the book block showing signs of use, two leaves with some loosely inserted flower petals which has caused a tiny adherent point on the opposing plate, but overall a good copy. *Much reprinted, the first edition is rather scarce.

Astragal Books. London. 1980.. pp. (iv), 218. 256 illustrations. A very good copy in dust wrapper.

G. Doin. Paris. 1948. 3rd. edition.. pp. 240. 106 figures. Original wrappers, uncut and partially unopened, head of backstrip worn, else a good copy.

Horizon Press. New York. 1969.. pp. 221, (i). Coloured portrait frontispiece, 14 photographic illustrations. A very good copy in the original cloth.

Hurst and Blackett. London. 1861.. pp. xii, (ii), 312, 13, (iii). Frontispiece, 6 plates and folding map. Original cloth gilt, the top of the front cover marked by the removal of a label, the edge of the lower margin of the map at the end and the preceding six leaves a bit ragged, heraldic book-plate of JOHN CROFT DEVERELL, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, Darwin scholar with a few of his notes at the front, a good copy. *SEE FREEMAN Charles Darwin A Companion, pp.184-5 : 'Lamont sent Charles Darwin a copy [of Seasons....]; CD replied about whales and bears. The book, p.17, contains an important statement about the relationship between British red grouse and Scandinavian willow grouse, and, at p.277, quotes whale-bear story, from 1st. edition of Origin p.184, in full, the only reproduction of it in CD's lifetime except in 1860 USA editions of the Origin.' ALSO FREEMAN Works of Charles Darwin : p.78, 'The second edition [of the Origin].... published in 1860. Three thousand copies were printed..... the… Read More

Williams and Wilkins. Baltimore. 1968. . pp. x, 231. (iii). 78 illustrations. Very good copy.