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

THE 'NEURON' NAMED first edition tall 8vo. 64pp., figures through text, original tan wrappers with title page repeated on front panel, few fox spots at fore margin of the last few leaves, else a nice copy. Signed on front wrapper "Connolly Norman". Garrison & Morton 1369 Jeremy Norman 2173On its appearance this was regarded as "an authoritative summary of what was known about the structure of nerve cells and nerve fibres. It gave clear expression to the point of view that all fibres arise directly from cells, and that a cell and its fibres form a unit, so that nervous transmission must take place from unit to unit. But the greatest influence of this review came from the new term 'neuron' introduced for the unit. It was a quintessential example of the power of a word in science: a symbol for a new concept. Waldeyer forced his readers to judge not only the accumulated evidence for the varieties of nerve cells and their fibres as independent interacting units, but also whether the term… Read More

RARE FIRST EDITION OF A POPULAR HERBAL first edition, first? issue without dedication 8vo. liv, 404pp., 8 engraved plates (each with multiple images), contemporary sprinkled calf, without the blank leaf c4 (at the end of the preliminaries, following p.liv), joints and ends of spine very neatly refurbished and with a new and sympathetic russet morocco label gilt. A fresh and attractive copy. Neat early signature at head of title page "William W. Fleming" and small and the unobtrusive twentieth century stamp of David Grant of Waterford in its lower margin. Henrey British Botanical & Horticultural Literature before 1800, 1446 cf. ESTC t62620 issue with dedicationThis first and anonymous edition was issued both without a dedication as here and with one and with a slightly different pagination (vide Henrey 1447).Hill (1716?-1775), apothecary and writer on botany, gardening and farming, was in 1750 awarded on the basis of his publications the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the University of S.… Read More