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

[For The Hospital]. N.p. [1952]. 8vo.. pp. 12. Stapled as issued in paper wrappers, a very good copy. *Christ's Hospital (CH) is one of the famous Royal Hospitals of London, whose foundation marked the beginning of the social services in Tudor England. Inspired by a sermon by Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, the young King Edward VI instructed the Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Dobbs, to appoint a committee of leading citizens to consider remedies and relief for the City's homeless poor. Their work, and subsequently their philanthropy, led to the founding of the five great Hospitals all supporting different needs. CH, established in the monastery of the Grey Friars in Newgate Street, embraced the task of educating and nourishing the destitute children of the City and took children of all social backgrounds and ages. In November 1552, CH opened its doors to 380 pupils and, within a year, the number had increased to over 500. Christ's Hospital's name derives from being founded in the parish of… Read More

Blades, East and Blades. London. 1902. . pp. x, (ii), 340. 16 plates (1 in colour). Original cloth gilt, presentation book-plate from the Skinners' Company. Very good.

Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. London. 1841. . pp. vii, (i), 700. 239 text figures. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, recased, with new end-papers and spine label, a good copy.

Franz Schneider Verlag. Berlin u. Leipzig. 1921. . pp. 125, (iii). Title vignette and 7 plates in silhouette. Original decorated boards by WOLFF now somewhat foxed around the edges, four leaves with a cut at the lower margin without loss, a couple of margins slightly marked.

For Thomas Waide. Leeds. No date [c.1950s?]. 4to.. 85 numbered sheets of 16 labels per sheet, printed rectos only. Cloth-backed paper covers, 3 sheets only have been partially used, a few lower corners turned over, else in very good condition. *Divided into 8 sections - B.P. & B.P.C. - BLANKS - B.P. & B.P.C POISON - BLANK POISON - N.F. - N.F. POISON - DUPLEX; S.4; CORROSIVE ACIDS; HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE; D.D.A.; T.S.A.; CAUTION THIS SUBSTANCE IS CAUSTIC; SLIP LABELS; SIMPLEX & CONC. LABELS.

For Harvey and Darton. London. 1829. Thirteenth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. . pp. iv, 477, (i) blank, (xiv) Notes & Itinerary, (viii) Advertisement. Hand-coloured folding map. Contemporary quarter calf, worn at ends and edges, front joint strengthened, otherwise both joints firm, contents clean, a good copy.

For C. C. Wakefield and Co. London. No date [c.1930s]. 4to.. pp. 135, (i). 163 text figures. Stiff card covers with a splendid modernist design of a piece of machinery inset to the front cover, occasional marginal foxing, a very good copy. *The Wakefield Company were specialists in all forms of lubrication - COPAC gives 'Aero Engines and their Lubrication, 1938' at the National Aerospace Library; 'Gear Lubrication, no date', at the British Library; and '1899-1949 : 50 years of progress in scientific lubrication / [Wakefield, C. C., and Co., Ltd], 1949' at the Science Museum Library. The above title offered is not listed.

University of California Press. Berkeley. 1966.. pp. (xiv), 276, (ii). 2 maps, 4 figures, 5 tables. Some light pencil lines in the margins, a very good copy in dust wrapper.

Jonathan Cape. London. 1962. First edition.. pp. (x), 11-79, (i). Price-clipped dust wrapper over paper boards, the wrapper has been damped and the green colouring has faintly bled onto the boards beneath, this has also affected the fore-edge of the rear free end-paper and the lower corner margins of the last half-dozen leaves, the wrapper is slightly worn at spine ends and corners, else text clean, with the signature of M. A. L. HENDRIKS, Jamaican poet [1922-1992]. *This collection was the first of Walcott's poems to be issued in England. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

J. F. Bergmann. Wiesbaden. 1903-1905. 2 parts in 1.. pp. (651)-912; (1223)-1288. In later cloth with the original wrappers bound in, very good copies. *Offprints from MERKEL and BONNET Ergebnisse der Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte.

. TOGETHER WITH : WALDIE, David. Journal of a Voyage from England to Calcutta by the Overland Route. Edited with notes by ALAN G. YOUNG. Linlithgow Heritage Trust. 2013. pp. vi, 196. 18 full page coloured illustrations and a few text figures. Pictorial paper wrappers, very good copy. *DAVID WALDIE, 1813-1889, born in Linlithgow, died in Kolkata [Calcutta]. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, qualifying in 1831 when he returned to Linlithgow, practising as surgeon and apothecary. In 1839 or 1840 he gave up medicine and moved to Liverpool, where he took the post of Chemist to the Apothecaries' Company of Liverpool. Waldie came across chloroform in its then known form, 'chloric ether', first introduced into Britain, in Liverpool, from America in 1838-39. The make-up of the ether appeared to Waldie to be inconsistent and he therefore developed the process of purifying and standardising chloroform. He was thus familiar and knowledgeable about its properties and on a return to Scotland, and in a meeting… Read More

Walter Scott. London. 1893.. pp. xxiii, (i), 460, (xxiv) Advertisements. 112 illustrations (1 folding). Original cloth, spine a bit faded, else a very good copy. *CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES #21.

1968-1978. 33 issues in 2 folders.. v.30, 2/3/4; v.31, 2/3; v.32, 1-4; v.33, 1-4; v.34, 1-4; v.35, 1-4; v.36, 2,3,4; v.37, 1,2,3; v.38, 1,2,3; v.39, 1,2; v.40, 1. All very good copies in the original wrappers, loosely held in an Easibind folder, aroma of tobacco, probably clay-pipe. Publication was erratic, with sometimes 4 issues per volume, latterly with only three.

The Wellcome Historical Medical Library. London. [1963].. pp. 39, (i). Original printed wrappers, a very good copy.

Seeley Service. London. 1955.. pp. 159, (i). Frontispiece and 7 plates. Original cloth without dust wrapper, a very good copy.

Longman, Hurst a.o. London. 1809. 3 volumes.. pp. xv, (i), 471, (i) blank, (xii) Index; xii, 528, (ix) Index, (i) blank; xvi, 531, (i) blank, (xii) Index. Later half calf gilt and marbled boards, spine ends and edges worn, all joints intact and contents clean.

Talbot. London. No date [c.1920s].. pp. xv, (i), 247, (i). Coloured frontispiece, 3 plates, 96 text illustrations. A very good copy in the original cloth.

Macmillan. London. 1890. Second edition reprint.. pp. (iv), xvi, 494, (ii) Advertisements. Frontispiece portrait, folding map, 37 illustrations. Original cloth, rear joint cracked through the end-paper but holding, a little wear to the spine ends, the top blank margin from page 450 to page 480 shows some crushing diminishing towards each end and not affecting text, old ink mark on the front board, withal a decent copy but offered in working condition, with the book-plate of CLINTON EDWARD DAWKINS KCB. *SIR EDWARD DAWKINS KCB (2 November 1859[1] – 2 December 1905) was a British businessman and civil servant. Dawkins was born in London, the son of Clinton George Dawkins, one time Consul-General in Venice and was educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford. He succeeded Alfred Milner as private secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Goschen in 1889. He later served overseas as undersecretary for finance in Egypt from 1895 to 1899. His final role was as financial advisor to… Read More

Ward, Lock & Co. London. 1916. First edition.. pp. 303, (i) blank, 16 Advertisements. Frontispiece, with tissue guard. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering, spine rubbed at ends and edges and with a tiny puncture, corners a little bumped, front joint with a small tear through the end-paper at the lower edge, early signature on front free end-paper, a few corners creased, one margin with a dust mark at the top, overall a good copy of this very elusive title.

. *Thomas Sims (floruit 1860s) had married Frances, Wallace's sister, in c.1851. He had been an early experimenter with the daguerreotype process and in 1847 began working with Fox Talbot's calotype technique. In 1852 he exhibited examples of his work at the first British photographic exhibition organised by the Society of Arts in London. He and Fanny shared a house at 44, Upper Albany Street, Regents Park, with Wallace, and established a photographic studio there c. 1852. Shortly afterwards he became involved in a legal dispute with Talbot. Refusing to pay Talbot for a license, an injunction was served forcing him to close his studios [see British Journal of Photography, June 13, 1930, pp. 353-355 - also Lacock Collection MS LA56.33]. After the Talbot v. Laroche case in 1854, against Talbot, Sims re-opened his studio in Regents Park, and in 1862 [see WALLACE My Life, v.I, p.385], moved it to Westbourne Grove, remaining in business in London until 1868. He then moved to Tunbridge Wells where he… Read More