haskell library science medicine von hook norman (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. HARDBACKS original two-tone cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine, pages: lxxvii, [i], 511; xvi, 513-1005, [i], figures: 221; 222-396, colour plates: xvii; xviii-xxxiii, heads, tails and corners lightly bumped, light mark on rear covers, otherwise very fine. This is a heavy set and may incur additional postage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 2 volumes, 4to (28.5 cm), frontispiece, LXXX, 511 pp, 17 plates; XVI, pp. 513-1007 pp, 15 plates. Publisher's black and red cloth (edges slightly foxed, minor wear to extremities). Limited to 500 copies. The catalogue of the collection formed by a psychiatrist Haskell F. Norman from San Francisco, encompassing descriptions of 2,595 medical, mathematical, and scientific works collected over four decades. "This catalogue is intended both as a record of the library and as detailed bibliographical guide to many first editions of classic of science and medicine for collectors, librarians and booksellers. While numerous individual authors and scientific and medical subjects represented in this catalogue have previously received detailed bibliographical treatment, this is the first catalogue to provide complete annotated descriptions, with full collations, for a very wide range of the classics in the history of science and medicine." (from the preface by Jeremy Norman). Included two insightful essays: "My education as a bibliophile" by Haskell Norman and "This catalogue and its predecessors" by Jeremy Norman.

2 vols., 4to. Deluxe edition of the first bibliographical catalogue to offer complete annotated descriptions, with full collations, paginations, and plate counts for the first editions of the great classics of science and medicine from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. More than six years in the writing, this catalogue provides the most authoritative descriptions of the 2,595 works collected by Haskell F. Norman over four decades. Special attention has been paid to bibliographical variants and states, to association and presentation copies, and to bindings. There are comprehensive indexes to authors, subjects, artists, binders and provenance. Hand-bound in full two-tone Nigerian goatskin, all edges gilt, in cloth drop-back box. Limitation page signed by the collector, catalogue authors, designer, and binder. Subscribers list. Limited to 30 sets. Extra material documenting the history of the catalogue's creation and publication (1984-91) added only to the special edition, as follows: 1. 5-1/4 inch floppy disk containing cataloguer's introduction 2. Manuscript notes and collations 3. Typewritten descriptions 4. Word-processed descriptions 5. Early laser-printed page proofs 6. Later laser-printed page proofs 7. Linotronic pages 8. Original photograph 9. First design ideas 10. Pages from publisher's dummy 11. Final boards (prospectus) 12. The Haskell F. Norman Collection of Science & Medicine. ILAB exhibition catalogue, 1985 13. Sigmund Freud: An exhibition of original editions, autograph letters and portraits from the library of Haskell F. Norman. Stanford University Libraries exhibition catalogue, 1991 .

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