Search Results: Titles starting with R from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

. All in original pictorial wrappers, staples rusted, else very good copies.

Oxford University Press. London. 1941.. pp. 24. Front cover a little marked, else a very good copy in the original printed wrappers.

Photographed from the Original Picture and Printed in Permanent Inks by the Autotype Mechanical Process [Woodburytype]. c.1879.. The photograph, measuring c.12.5 x 5.5 cms., is mounted on card size c.16.5 x 11 cms. It is bordered by a single line, with a fleur-de-lys at the top and the title below, with the legend at the lower edge of the card. The card is accompanied by a folded lithographed key identifying some 209 of the 300 figures delineated. The photograph card in excellent condition, the Key has been folded twice and is clean and bright but with a tear in the horizontal fold at each side, though without loss, one corner folded over. *'A Royal Garden party at Chiswick' was the subject of the very large painting by Louis William Desanges. Measuring 16ft by 7ft, it included 300 figures, with Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales and their children in the centre foreground. Desanges began the picture in 1875, but it was not completed for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1876. It was… Read More

Faber and Faber. London. 1944.. pp. 247, (i). 3 folding maps. Original cloth, without dust wrapper, spine slightly faded, inscribed and initialled by Elspeth Huxley - 'To Vivian Harlow with the author's kindest regards & admiration E.H. 10/5/44'. This inscription has been scribbled over in ink, in other ways a very good copy.

Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago. 1934.. pp. 44. Nine photogravure plates. Original printed wrappers, a very good copy. *Anthropology Leaflet 30, Second Edition.

. The original ms. and the letters are laid onto heavy paper, followed by the article extracted from the Journal, now bound in new cloth by Dr. Franklin, in excellent order. *WILLIAM INGE, 1860-1954, English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Inge was a prolific author. In addition to scores of articles, lectures and sermons, he also wrote over 35 books. He is best known for his works on Plotinus and neoplatonic philosophy, and on Christian mysticism. He was a strong proponent of the spiritual type of religion—"that autonomous faith which rests upon experience and individual inspiration"—as opposed to one of coercive authority. He was therefore outspoken in his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church. His thought, on the whole, represents a blending of traditional Christian theology with elements of… Read More

Fernhurst Books. West Sussex. 2002-2003. 2 volumes.. pp. 254;128. Many illustrations in each volume. Each with dust wrapper, very good copies SIGNED, with inscription on each title by BRIAN HAMMETT.

Blackwell Scientific. Oxford. 1985. 4to.. pp. viii, 151, (i). many illusttrations. Dust wrapper, a very good copy.

Vanity Fair. London. 1904.. - RADIOACTIVITY - CHEMISTRY - RADIUM - *An original coloured lithograph from 'Vanity Fair' by IMP [name unknown].

Railway Street Association, Durham. 1979. A4 sheets.. pp. 21, (i). 3 folding maps, occasional text map, diagram and photograph. Printed wrappers within a plastic folder, a very good copy. *A heartening example of communitarian creativity - INTRODUCTION. 'In this report, the Association hopes to provide a strong case for the preservation and improvement of both the houses and the general environment of Railway Street, on the grounds of economy, historical importance of the street and the strong community spirit existing among its residents.'

Birlinn. Edinburgh. 2015. L4to.. pp. xv, (i), 240. 181 topographical and railway maps. Dust wrapper, a very good copy.

Raleigh Press. Exmouth, Devon. 1949. . pp. 96, (ii) Advertisements. Portrait frontispiece, map end-papers. Contemporary full calf, the spine rubbed at the ends and with a split at one side at the top, author's presentation inscription, a good copy.

Chatto & Windus. London. 1903.. pp. viii, 298. Old, shabby library binding, a good reading copy.

Simpkin, Marshall. London. 1854.. pp. (iv), 187, (i). Title in black and red within a red border, all text within a decorated border with elaborate initials and some tail-pieces. Original cloth, faded and worn at spine ends and corners, book-plate of C. J. PEACOCK, joints intact, text clean.

No publisher, no place. No date [c.1920].. pp. 12. Original printed wraps, a very good copy. *Included is a letter to the Editor of the Journal [Round the Fountain] 1930, discussing the reprinting of some of his medical verse. Garratt mentions 'The Ballad of the Surgery', to be reprinted but points out an error in the original, presumably the St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal, Round the Fountain. This collection includes - 'The [Medical] Orderly Volunteer [in the South African Wars]' - 'In Memoriam Sir James Paget' with the ms. comment that though approved of by Stephen Paget, it was nonetheless rejected by the Journal - 'A Lay of the British Nurses Association', with the ms. comment that he was Sir Dyce Duckworth's Hospital Physician at the time of writing and that Duckworth was the hero of this parody. In the original, printed in the SBHJ, Duckworth appeared as 'Duckworthius', altered in this collection to 'Polonius'. Garratt is recorded by COPAC as co-author of a paper in the BMJ, 1899, on… Read More

1894-1900. 15 items in 2 volumes. . TOGETHER WITH : L'Aphasie Amnésique et ses Variétés Cliniques. Leçons Faites a l'Hopital St-André de Bordeaux. Recueillies par J. ABADIE. Félix Alcan. Paris. 1898. pp. 94. Front wrapper present only. TOGETHER WITH : Étude sur les Paraphasies. Revue de Médecine. Félix Alcan. Paris. 1899. pp. 337-360; 442-551. Original wrappers. TOGETHER WITH : Discours Prononcé du Septième Congrès des Médecins Aliénistes et Neurologistes etc. 1896. pp. 7, (i). TOGETHER WITH : Discours Prononcé a l'ouverture du Congrès Français de Médecine, 1896. pp. 9-19, (i). TOGETHER WITH : Les Signes Physiques des Épanchements Pleuraux. Leçons Faites a l'Hopital St-André de Bordeaux. Recueillies par L. PRIOLEAU. G. Gounouilhou. Bordeaux. 1900. pp. (iv), 212. 35 figures. Original wrappers. Period quarter cloth over marbled boards, a collection of offprints, paper tending to brown at the edges in some cases, overall in very good condition, with leather spine labels,… Read More

Charles C. Thomas. Springfield. 1967. . pp. xxviii, 290. Dust wrapper, a very nice copy.

William Miller, London; Manners and Miller, and Archibald Constable, Edinburgh. Letter Press by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh. 1805. 4to. . pp. (iv), iii, (i) 197, (i). Engraved frontispiece, 3 plates, vignette headpiece to page 1. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, all edges gilt, rebacked with the original spine relaid, marbled end-papers, on heavy paper with wide margins, an old and much-faded dampmark to the top corner of text and a little rubbing to the board edges, despite which a nice copy.

George Newnes. London. 1954.. pp. 160. 20 plates. Without dust wrapper, one page with faded marginal mark, else a very good copy.

Sussex Academic Press. Brighton. 2013. . pp. XXX, 509, (iii). A very good copy in dust wrapper.