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

National 'Safety First' Association on the occasion of the renewal of your driving licence. London. [1937].. pp. 15, (iii). 32 text figures by Fougasse. Pictorial paper covers, staples rusted otherwise a very good copy. *COPAC records copies at the BL - NLW - LSE - V&A - BODLEIAN.

1895.. Bronze medallion, DIAMETER c.5.9 cms., within card case, the lower section splitting away from the rim but in overall lovely condition, both medallion and case. *LEOPOLD RITTER VON DITTEL [1815-1898], an Austrian urologist, born in Fulnek, now in the Czech Republic. He graduated from the University of Vienna in 1840 and worked as a physician in Trentschin-Teplitz, and from 1853 until 1857, was assistant to Johann von Dumreicher. He subsequently became chief surgeon at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus, and in 1865, was appointed associate professor. He developed a number of innovatory techniques and surgical practices in genito-urinary medicine, especially with the use of the newly invented cyctoscope. In addition, he published a treatise on club-foot, in 1851, and scoliosis in 1853. His last works were monographs on Operations for Bladder Stones [1880] and Kidney Calculus [1881].

University Press, Cambridge; Academic Press, London. 1953-1968. 11 volumes.. All in the original cloth, later volumes substantial, very good copies. Ex-libris Anatomy School, Cambridge with usual marks of provenance.

. All stitched as issued, title-pages a bit dusty, otherwise very good copies.

The Richards Press. London. 1929.. pp. vii, (i), 207, (i) blank, (xxviii) Catalogue. Original cloth without a dust wrapper, excellent copy of a scarce title.

A. Wheaton. Exeter. 1939.. pp. 36. Original printed wrappers, some pencil notes on the blank verso of title and on the first page, otherwise a very good copy. *This is one of Blyton's rarer publications, only one copy, at UCL, on COPAC.

Robert Culley. London. [1908]. 8vo. . pp. 158. Frontispiece and 13 coloured plates with an additional plate laid onto the front board. Original cloth gilt with coloured plate inset to front board, spine ends and corners with very slight rubbing, author's presentation inscription to DORA MARTYN, subsequent ink address of Syon Abbey, a very good copy.

Houghton, Mifflin. New York. 1899. First edition, second impression.. pp. iv, (ii), 344, (ii). Frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt title and device on the front cover, top edge gilt, uncut, spine slightly faded, front joint weak and a few top corners turned over, otherwise a very good copy.

Methuen. London. 1929.. pp. xiii, (i), 159, (i), 8 Catalogue. Frontispiece and 3 plates. Original cloth with library stamp on the front end-paper, no other stamps, a very good copy.

Robert Hale. London. 1988. First edition.. pp. 224. A very nice copy in unclipped dust wrapper. *'When I met Maria Rasputin in Los Angeles in 1969 - after I had written a book about her father - she told me some of the real facts about him. These I have tried to present in this story.'

London. Stevens and Sons, Sweet and Maxwell. 1913. Tenth edition. . pp. cxiii, (i), 1501, (i). Original cloth, spine faded, scattered marginal foxing, else a very good copy.

Bloomsbury. London, Berlin and New York. 2009.. pp. viii, (ii), 326. Many illustrations, some in colour.

Macmillan. London. 1879. First edition. 3 volumes.. pp. iv, 314; iv, (315)-636; iv, (637)-956, (ii) Ads. Original cloth, a couple of joints just breaking through the paper but perfectly tight, stitching in v.III weak between a few gatherings, overall a good-very good set. * When Dr. Joseph Brownlow dies, his wife struggles to deal with his professional legacy, a mysterious remedy dubbed magnum bonum.

. Original black morocco album, all edges gilt, large landscape folio, rebacked with matching black spine, the top edge of the front board badly worn, though now repaired, scuffed and a little worn at the edges, white moiré silk end-papers laid to card, the margins of the cards are a bit dusty and marked, the original publication above contained within a pocket on the rear board. *I have not been able to find any biographical data on J. Stanley. He/she is recorded as having been the illustrator for BURNS The Cottar's Saturday Night : London; printed in Germany : J. Nisbet & Co., [1888.]; and as the author and illustrator of - Crowning Mercies. A textbook for every day in the month. Arranged and illustrated by J. Stanley. [1887].

Valentine & Sons. Dundee and London. 1926.. pp. 36. Frontispiece, 14 text vignettes. Original card covers, tartan dust wrapper with illustration by LAWSON WOOD laid onto front wrap [this is slightly torn at the edges with a little loss], else a very good copy. *The frontispiece shows a crowded street in Aberdeen on 'the house-to-house collection day'.

Faber and Faber. London. 1945. 3rd. impression.. pp. 256. Original cloth without dust wrapper, covers a bit dull, else a very good copy.

The Stratford Press. London. 1954. First edition.. pp. (iv), 34, (ii). Portrait frontispiece. Original printed wrappers, a very good copy inscribed by the author : 'To a big artist from a little author with gratitude W. Leonard Hill'.

Printed by R. Meredith, Silver Street, Wood Street; Published and Sold by James Sowerby, 2, Mead Place, Lambeth. London; Bernard Quaritch. London. 1815-1820; 1875. 19 parts in 1. Pts. 1-17 Folio, pts.18-19 Imp.4to. [LARGE PAPER].. TEXT: ff. 64. Of which 2 leaves are in facsimile. 52 of 54 handcoloured engraved plates LACKING plates 9B and 10, [PLATES 18, 24, 30 and 35 are folding], PLATE 24 is mis-numbered XXXIV. With the original blue paper wrappers of the 19 part issues bound at the rear, the front wrapper of part 1 and the rear wrapper of part 16 torn with loss and repaired, LACKING the wrappers for part 17. Later blue morocco gilt, spine with five raised and gilt panels, top edge gilt, uncut, a LARGE PAPER COPY, one text leaf and 2 plates with the top corners creased, 2 plates with repaired fore-edge tears without loss or affecting the images, slip-case in marbled paper over card, the edges of the opening in matching blue morocco, overall a lovely copy from the library of the Darwin scholar,… Read More

J.-B. Baillière. Paris. c.1910.. pp. 383, (i), (xii) Catalogue. 52 figures. New cloth, a very good copy. *This title forms v.35 of the series and is complete in itself.

Aux Bureaux du Progrès. Paris. 1889. First French edition.. pp. (iv), 424. New cloth, ex-library copy with a couple of neat stamps on the title, else a very good copy.