Search Results: Authors starting with H from Denominator Books (IOBA)

Allentown, PA: Academical Bookstore, 1836. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition, from the British translation of the Fourth German edition, with improvements and additions from the Fifth at the request of Hahnemann. xxiii, 212 p. The German 1st edition is Garrison-Morton #1966. Skilfully rebound in tan cloth with a new hand-letterpressed spine label designed after the original label (the original spine is laid down on a rear endpaper) and original Wesselhoft bookseller's label preserved. Text block is good with light foxing and some top corners have been folded. * 004861

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Ex-library, good+. Pages clean, binding tight, corners square. Dust jacket is laminated to cover. The definitive work of the modern era on Night Climbing / buildering. 104129

Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Leipzig: Leopold Voss 1867. First Edition. Rebound in modern black cloth faux leather with red and gilt spine label, new endpapers and rear pocket for the plates. xiv (i - blank, ii - series half-title), 874, [1] pp. 11 plates, loose, stored in pocket; first 5 are paper, last 6 are thin board. All plates clean and complete except plate 1 is in 2 pieces with small loss at center, and plate 4 is lacking and reproduced in facsimile. The group also contains the original title page for the Atlas, volume 2, laid down on paper with loss at the right margin affecting the 'IK' in 'OPTIK' with fraying. Pages clean and in good state except for very marginal dampstaining to the book's top edge, only touching a few lines of the text in the last 150 pages or so. Trimmed when rebound, inner margins a bit tight but readable. Previous owner's bookplate, and autograph note pasted onto one of the new endpapers. Garrison/Morton 1513 notes that the first… Read More

London: HMSO, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Scarce (only 3 copies in WorldCat, none in COPAC, this is the first copy of the complete set listed online in 20 years). The complete theory of anti-aircraft gunnery worked out during World War I (the Great War) by Hill's Brigands, an illustrious team of physicists, mathematicians, and scientists, including Douglas Hartree, Karl Pearson, and Horace Darwin, who developed the new, three-dimensional gunnery to the sophistication level of established artillery (William Thomas, _Rational Action_, 2015). "Artillery schools" stamps to title pages and number stamped on front cover of volume 1 and spine of volume 2.Volume 1: 867 pages, original red cloth binding with gilt titles. Corners bumped, rear lower corner especially. Front hinge carefully reinforced with archival tape. All plates present including 14 large fold-outs.Volume 2: 271 pages. 5 fold-outs. Good+ condition, wear to joints, foxing to endpapers. All fold-outs excellent. 104200

London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1761. Leather_bound. Very Good. Modern black leather octavo, gilt date at spine base, red leather spine label laid down from previous binding. [title leaf], [i]-xvi, [1]-295, 298-461, Index [11] pp. Lower corner of title has repair on verso. Library rubber stamps to several pages. Otherwise very good. ESTC N3590. Uncommon. Hillary, an able pupil of Boerhaave, was a physician in Barbados and London and specialist in tropical diseases. "Of particular interest to the medical historian...an eighteenth century hstory of medicine...that illustrates the very extensive knowledge and wide reading of the writer." -- C. C. Booth * 004908

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. First edition. Leather_bound. Good. Unique presentation copy to Professor Otto Loewi, discoverer of acetylcholine and Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1936, as the 11th Hughlings Jackson Memorial Lecturer at the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1946. Two volumes bound as one in red full leather with raised bands, gilt title on spine, Loewi's name gilt on front cover. Presentation page bound at front, and at rear is a mimeographed list of the distinguished previous lecturers including Penfield, Cannon, Adrian, with Loewi's name pencilled in as the 11th.Good. Spine is worn and flaking and hinges somewhat weak, however covers are very good, and pages clean and bright. pp. xiv+500, viii+510. Heirs of Hippocrates 2001. * 002223

London: Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First (and only) edition of Huxley's complete scientific works, previously only available in the original scientific journals. 1898-1903. Complete in 5 volumes: 4 plus the supplementary volume. Numerous plates, many folding. A good ex-reference library set in the original red cloth gilt. Library plate to front pastedown of each volume, no other library markings apparent. Externally clean with some sun fading and minor scuffing to cloth boards. Vol. 1 backstrip split and reaffixed. Vol. 2 and the supplementary volume rebacked with new endpapers but retaining original backstrips. Text blocks of each volume are tight with no loose or missing pages, all plates present. Internally the volumes are overall clean and unmarked with very occasional small foxing spots and evidence of handling on a few pages of each volume. Overall a clean tight copy of this cornerstone of 19th Century biological thought. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), known as… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Very good+, tight, bright, clean and strong. Light foxing to endpapers. First edition, third impression (same year as first). Previous owner's small name stamp.