Search Results: Titles starting with U from Bibiliophilia Books

Franckfurt am Mayn: Peter Schmidt In verlegung Sigmund Feyerabendts, 1581. Hardcover. Very Good. Jost Amman and the monogrammists ME and MB. Large quarto (34x21.5 cm). - [6] 382, {7}, blank, leaves. - Contemporary limp full vellum, with manuscript title 'Ungerische Cronic" on front cover, and "Ungerische Cronic Bonfinij " on spine, in old ink. - A 19 cm closed crack between front cover and spine (due to dryness?), some soiling of binding. - Interior very fine. - The final blank page, before the back free end-paper, is present. - Title page printed in red-and-black, with historical illustration (9x15.5 cm) within borders. - Printed marginalia. - With 45 historical woodcuts (9x15.5 cmm) by Jost Amman and the Monogrammists MB and ME (uncredited, as they were taken over from earlier publications of Feyerabend - though, according to Apponyi, some of them were created specifically for this work). - The Italian humanist Antonio Bonfini [Bonfinius] (1434-1503)… Read More

Wien: Tendler und v. Manstein, in Commission, 1825. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. (22x14 cm). -- 143,[3] pages, uncut. (The last leaf , on recto: "Inhalt", and on verso: "Verbesserungen", is 2 cm shorter; probably pasted in after the completion of printing.) - Original printed and decorated gray wrappers; (somewhat soiled, with a closed 2.5 cm tear of back cover; lacks top (3 cm) of spine). - With 2 multiply folded plates (56.5x 46.5 cm each) on heavy stock, containing altogether 10 engraved astronomical illustrations. - First and only edition. - Adam von Kaldy [Felsokethely, Hungary (now Neumarkt im Tauchental, Burgenland, Austria),1763 - Ober-Hautzentlal, N.O., Austria, 1825] was an Austro-Hungarian monk and scientist, active mostly in the Vienna monastery of the Augustine Brothers; and also as a pastor in Gross-Wetzdorf, and later in Hautzenthal. - In his scientific work, he initially concentrated, using his wide knowledge of chemistry, physics, geology and… Read More

Toledo: J. de Cea, 1842. Hardcover. Near Fine. 16mo. - 478,(2) pp. - Contemporary full leather, spine with 3 bands and title in gilt on leather label. - Marbled endpapers. - With "Fe de algunas erratas mas principales" on last page. - With engraved bookplate, in red and black, of Armando Colarelo Valledor. - Very fine. - The Spanish astronomer and mathematician Jose REGUERO ARGUELLES (1803-1853) of Asturias established his fame with the present work, and later he also published a three-volume "Astronomia fisca" (1850-51). - Armando Colarelo Valledor (1879-1850) was a prolific Spanish playwright and literary critic. - Very rare: WorldCat gives only two locations [Biblioteca Nacional de Espana, Madrid and Red de LecturaPublica de Euskadi. Vitoria -gazteiz

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1937. Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. Imperial octavo (29x20.5 cm), folded. - pp.157-161, blank. - In publisher's printed yellow wrapper, front cover almost detached. - Inscribed in ink: "Herrn Prof Dr. Karl Stumpff ... von Verf.". - With 7 illustrations. - Bekesy (1899- 1972) won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ. - He started his prize-winning research while working for the Hungarian Post Office (which operated the phone system of Hungary) in Budapest, where he worked until 1946,. His main research topic was the study of the ear as the main component of the phone transmission system. - During the World War II bombing of Hungary his laboratory was demolished, and in the 1944-45 siege of Budapest bis research records were destroyed. - After the war, he worked first at the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, and after that at Harvard. As he later… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: Syrinx Presse, 1961. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine/not applicable. PETER STAECHELIN. (22.5x22.5 cm). - [8] leaves, 5 full-page color plates. - Publisher's color illusMrated boards are very fine. - Quite rare: WorldCat locates only 4 copies: [Munchen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Iowa City]. Link to photos available on request.

St.-Petersbourg - Riga - Leipzig: Academie Imperiale des sciences, 1868. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Imperial octavo (29x22.5 cm) - VI, 127 pages. - Original printed wrappers with ornamental frame, lacks back cover. - With 19 illustrations on 3 plates. - A detailed monograph on the anatomy of the hyrax, a hooved, round and well-furred mammal of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Middle East.

Budapest: Vilagossag Nyomda, 1908. Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. With an 8 page essay, entitled "A symbolumrol (About the symbol}" by VARJAS SANDOR. - In Hungarian.) - 4to (30x23.5 cm). -- 24 leaves, with 14 illustrations, 10 of them full-page. - Original illustrated semi- hard boards, with four dark blue silk bands, with blue-and-white decorated paste-downs (23x10 cm) on the interior of both covers. Some darkening of the covers, due to age, else very fine. - With a three-line hand-written dedication, in ink, on verso of Leaf 2: "Herrn Prof. Koloman/ Moser in Liebe / Ludwig Kozma. - FIRST BOOK. - LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 numbered copies. - Kozma was one of the most prominent artists of the Hungarian Art Nouveau, as a designer, graphic artist, and - especially - as an architect. His early work is strongly related to that of the Wiener Werkstatte. - This first book of his, combining the style of Hungarian folk art and Wiener Secession, was published… Read More

n.p. (Chicago?), 1996. Hardcover. As New. 4to. - (6),222 pp. - Typescript (photocopied). - Full black cloth, title pressed in gilt on front cover and spine. - Excellent. - Parsons (1911- 1993) was the first African-American to serve as a United States federal judge. He was appointed by President Kennedy in August 1961. - The interviews were conducted by Collins P. Fitzpatrick, Circuit Executive for the Seventh Circuit. "Judge Parsons died before the interviews were finished or the transcripts reviewed by him." - EXTREMELY RARE: WorldCat locates only a single copy (University of Chicago).