John fulton preface (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Octavo, xvi, 290 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is brown with gold print on black banner. Boards in brown cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners, cocked spine. Text block has light spotting to edges and endpapers, name in ink on front and rear flyleaves. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates. "Copyright 1945"-- title page verso. Inscribed in ink by the author on tipped in label at front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column DD. 1415069. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [1st ed.] ; 885 p. ill. ; Series: Yale University. School of Medicine. Dept. of the History of Science and Medicine. Publication, no. 40 ; LCCN: 61-17786 ; LC: Z6659; Dewey: 016.61; NLM: W1; OCLC: 710107 ; blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; extremely important bibliography of historical medical publications in the Americas ; Contents: Introduction : Books and pamphlets -- Broadsides -- Official publications -- Almanacs -- Periodical publications -- The scientific value of this literature and its contributions to medicine, surgery, public health, forensic medicine, psychiatry, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine -- Part I Books, pamphlets and broadsides -- Part II Almanacs -- Part III Periodical publications, magazines and newspapers -- Part IV Illustrations -- Part V Section: Table of abbreviations -- Reference symbols -- Location symbols -- Pseudonyms -- Table of authors -- Table of almanacs -- Table of periodical publications -- Colonial American official publications -- American reprints of Colonial American medical publications -- Facsimile editions of Colonial American medical publications -- COlonial American reprints of European medical publications -- European reprints of Colonial American medical publications -- Colonial American medical manuscripts printed in America after 1783 -- Medical publications by Colonial American authors printed abroad before 1784 -- Bibliography of bibliographies and references -- Part VI List of illustrations -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names. ; presentation by previous owners on front endpaper; huge, thick volume ; FINE. Book. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of the bibliography, with the supplement, of the works of the renowned French nobleman and "father of modern chemistry" Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. The first edition of this two volume work in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. As called for, both volumes feature a facsimile of Lavoisier's bookplate, engraved by de la Gardette, to the front pastedown. The bibliography is illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-two plates. The supplement is illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates. Collated, complete. Lavoisier was a renowned French chemist and leading figure in the eighteenth-century chemical revolution, best known for developing an experimentally based theory of the chemical reactivity of oxygen. This bibliography, along with the supplement, details Lavoisier's contributions to the fields of economics, finance, agriculture, political science, sociology, education, and chemistry. These are organised into the following sections: A. Contributions to Periodical Works; B. Major Separate Works; C. Minor Separate Works and Contributions to Separate Works; D. Miscellanea in other Works; E. Reports by Lavoisier to the Academie on other Works; F. Collected Works; E. Addenda. Compiled by the renowned chemical historians Denis I. Duveen and Herbert S. Klickstein, with a preface by the notable American neurophysiologist and science writer John Farquhar Fulton. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, very bright and smart, with minor shelf wear to the tail of the spine to the bibliography. The spine to the bibliography is slightly cocked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrappers are generally smart, with a scattering of handling marks. Light chipping to the head and tail of the spine of the wrap to the bibliography. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

6. London, Dawson & Sons, 1954, in-8°, 491 pp, some ills. of title pages, blue publisher's cloth with original dustjacket (some soiling and wear at binding and jacket, but still a clean copy with a fine interior.). First original edition (without a supplement which was published some years later).