Search Results: Titles starting with O from P & B Rowan

first edition 2 vols. tall 8vo. xx, 392; xxvi, [2], 627, [1]pp, 6 maps (5 coloured, of which 1 folding), 1 folding chart, 11 plates, original red cloth, spines gilt lettered, vol.1 largely unopened, spines a shade faded, vol. 2 with a couple of nicks in front joint, some light damp mottling to cloth at fore edge of vol.1 and joint of vol.2, else very good.
Endpaper with the attractive pictorial linocut? bookplate of James Small, Brechin, sometime Prof. of Botany at Queen's University and with his signature.
A major and pioneering work.Guppy (1854-1926), English surgeon, geologist, botanist and photographer, after serving as a naval surgeon 1876-1885 partly in the Pacific (especially in the Solomon Islands) returned to the Pacific to undertake extensive geological and botanical research, including investigations of the coral reefs at the Keeling Islands and other work at Java, Hawaii and Fiji. "From 1906 to 1914 he made studies in the West Indies and the Azores. The First World War curtailed travel… Read More

WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR tall 8vo. [2 (title)], 510, [2 (list of plates & blank)]pp., 10 engraved plates, modern half light tan calf, spine panelled by raised bands and with black morocco labels, marbled sides, title page slightly dust marked, else very good. Garrison Morton 405 and 3055 (first edition of 1811) Burns (1781-1813) "was the first to suggest [in the 1811 printing] ligature of the innominate artery. His book describes 'Burns's space, the fascial space at the suprasternal notch" [G. & M., 405] and the book also contained the "first recorded case of chloroma" [G. & M., 3055]. An edition was published in Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1823. Allan Burns (1781-1813), Scottish surgeon and physician, established himself as a lecturer on anatomy and surgery at Glasgow, vivid in illustration and accurate knowledge brought him considerable success. He published numerous medical papers and "his work on vascular pressure systems and on heart disease were seen as pioneering and were long in print"… Read More

RARE VIENNA-PRINTED BREVIARY IN ORANGE VELLUMATTRACTIVELY PRINTED IN RED & BLACK 12mo. 322pp. ("312" in error), attractively printed in red and black throughout, 2 large woodcut designs, numerous large initial letters in red, contemporary orange vellum with narrow yapp fore-edges, lacks ties at fore edges, else a very nice fresh copy. Rare.Contemporary inscription "Monasterij Admonte" on title page.Not located by OCLC. KVK locates only in Österreichischen Landesbibliotheken. Both OCLC and KVK locate a single copy of another edition by the same Vienna printer in 1659."From a bibliographical point of view some of the early printed Breviaries are among the rarest of literary curiosities, being merely local. The copies were not spread far, and were soon worn out by the daily use made of them. Doubtless many editions have perished without leaving a trace of their existence, while others are known by unique copies" [Wikipedia article on the Roman Breviary].Admont Abbey is a Benedictine monastery… Read More

FIRST USE OF THE TERM 'EVOLUTION' - IN THIS DARWIN'S LAST LIFETIME EDITION 8vo. xxii, 458pp., folding diagram, original green cloth, sides with a blind-blocked border, spine gilt lettered, neatly recased, new end papers close match to the originals and with the original binder's ticket 'W. Bone & Son' on rear end paper, old stamps of Belfast Association of Spiritualists on half-title, title page and head of contents leaf, half title a little dust marked and rubbed at edges, cloth a little marked, else very good. FREEMAN Darwin Bibliography, 398 The sixth issue of the sixth edition. Darwin's last lifetime edition and the first to use the term "evolution".

THE BASIS OF OUR MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR SENSE OF HEARING
first edition in English tall 8vo. xxiv, 824pp., numerous wood-engraved illustrations and figures, contemporary half dark green leather, marbled paper on sides, some scattered minor pen sidelines and a few trivial marks, neatly rebacked with the original spine relaid and with a new maroon title label, new endpapers, corners and board edges scuffed. A very good copy.
Very unobtrusive and rather attractive contemporary blind stamp of Queen's College Belfast on title page, their small and attractive gilt-blocked arms in top spine panel.
Helmholtz (1821-1894) exerted incalculable influence on nineteenth century science both through his seminal researches in the fields of energetics, physiological acoustics, physiological optics, hydrodynamics, and electrodynamics as well as through his brilliant popular lectures and his activities as a great teacher and important scientific administrator.When Helmholtz, who "belonged to that brilliant and… Read More

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WARS - IRISH SOLDIER'S IMPORTANT FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTfirst edition tall 8vo. iv, xxiv, (5)-294, 293-438pp. (complete), 1 plate (letterpress order of battle), list of subscribers on p.ix-xxix, contemporary tree calf, smooth spine paneled by gilt fillets and with red morocco label gilt, free endpapers sometime neatly removed, contemporary small outline drawing of a boat on both paste-down endpapers, contemporary owner's name at head of (slightly dusty) title page crossed out, headband of spine just a trifle chipped and joints slightly cracked at head, but overall a very good and handsome copy. Despite the minor flaws a much better copy than is usually encountered.SABIN 38724 HOWES U.S.iana, L36One of the best personal narratives by a soldier in the American Revolution. Lamb (Dublin, 1756–1830), soldier and writer, after somehow receiving an excellent education in English composition "at the age of seventeen he entered the army, joining the 9th regiment of foot at… Read More