Jeff Weber Rare Books (6 risultati)

8vo. 116 pp. Index. Printed wrappers; spine base worn. Very good. On the origins of medical terminology.

Codice articolo M9282

Series: Collection Histoire Biographique de l'Enseignement. At head of title: Service d'histoire de l'education, Institut national de recherche pedagogique. 8vo. 700 pp. Pictorial printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 2222037689 The Inspectors General of Public Instruction, a biographical dictionary 1802-1914.

Codice articolo BL3810

8vo. 309 pp. Text figs. Green cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine.

Codice articolo S11557

Three vols. ONLY. 4to. xlvii, [1], 392; 417, [1]; 428 pp. Engraved title-page vignettes; Vol. II p. 11 lower right corner torn (not affecting text). Contemporary tree calf, spines re-backed in polished calf with original spine fragments laid down; extremities worn. Hartford Seminary Foundation/Case Memorial Library bookplates, Theological Institute of Connecticut blind-stamps to first and last few pages. RARE. Very good. FIRST EDITION of the first 3 volumes of Villanova's encyclopedia of the Italian language. The five volumes Alberti compiled were published from 1797-1800. He "was seized with his last illness while preparing a new edition of this work for the press, and he confided the superintendence of it to Francisco Federighi, who published a sixth volume in 1805" (Jones, p. 684). Alberti was born at Nice. "Nothing is recorded of his life, except that he prosecuted his studies with success in his youth, and devoted himself to literature" (Jones, p. 684). Jones, J. Winter, "Alberti di Villanova, Francesco," The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. I., Pt. II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842.

Codice articolo LV1859

2 volumes. 4to. 965, [3]; x, [2], 1566 pp. Double columns, includes appendix and addenda & corrigenda. Early half-calf, marbled boards; neatly re-backed preserving original spines, rubbed, new endpapers. Very good. First and only edition; this is the most comprehensive study of Persian languages with translation into Latin. Beautifully printed with the Persian words and letters printed in the Tauchnitz-type, as well as Sanskrit and Zend in Lichtenberger-type. This is an exhaustive work âÂÂ" a culmination of many years devoted to the study of Persian languages. This Lexicon is one of the major works of the orientalist Johann August Vullers, who pioneered the methodic study and historical record of ancient Persian languages including Zend and Sanskrit. He was familiar with contributions from European scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (such as John Richardson (1741-1811?), Francois Mesgnien Meninski (1623/1620-1698), Thesaurus Linguarum Orientalium, 1680). Vullers came from a school of young orientalists headed by Baron Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), who emerged as the founder of scientific Arabic studies in Europe. This lexicon was originally issued in fascicules beginning in 1853. The form of this two-volume set is the completed work issued between 1855 and 1864. A supplement was issued in 1867, not present here (vi, 136 pp.). In 1962 a reprint was issued. Johann August Vullers (1803-1880), born in Bonn, was professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Ludoviciana [now called the University of Giessen], Giessen, from 1833 till retirement, where he also passed away. He regarded Orientalism as a separate science. He was a versatile teacher, and served for almost half a century in GieÃÂen. His main interests were Persian language and literature. His works include: Fragmente uber die Religion des Zoroaster (Bonn, 1831); Institutiones Linguae Persicae cum Sanscrita et Zendica Lingua Comparatae (GieÃÂen, 1840-50, 2 vols.); Grammatica Linguae Persica (GieÃÂen, 1870); Ferdawsi, Shah-nama, ed. J. A. Vullers as Firdusii Liber Regum., 3 vols., Leiden, 1877-84 âÂÂ" see: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature ., Volume 2, by John McClintock, James Strong, p. 879-880; Ehsan Yar-Shater (ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume 13, Page 261. REFERENCES: Locations: British Library, Cardiff, University of Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford, St. Andrews, School of Oriental & African Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

Codice articolo LV1878

Complete set of 60 volumes. 127 engraved plates, list of subscribers in the index volume, 10 folding charts; occasional foxing, ink and water-stains. Modern quarter green spines over original marbled boards, gilt-stamped black leather spine labels; re-backed. Ex-lib bookplates and ink stamps of the Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society, early ownership inscription of Hudson Gurney. Fine. FIRST EDITION. [19th Century French Medical Encyclopedia] Possibly one of the most important encyclopedia/dictionaries of medicine ever assembled, and certainly the earliest. As Diderot's encyclopedia became the model for assembling scientific knowledge, this massive set brings together all that was known about medicine in the post-Napoleonic era. Included here are numerous engraved plates of surgical instruments of the period. Also illustrated are facial expressions and signs of mental abnormality, many in the style of Esquirol's work. A smaller set, Dictionnaire abrege? des sciences medicales. . . was concurrently published, however that set is only 15 volumes. In 1821-25, Panckoucke published Dictionnaire des sciences medicales Biographie medicale. . . which includes biographies of medical luminaries. Nicolas Philibert Adelon (1782-1862) and Francois Victor Merat (1780-1851) were two of the prominent contributors to this medical encyclopedia. This compendious work was not included amongst the items exhibited by the Library of Congress in their Circle of Knowledge exhibition of the history of the encyclopedia. Panckoucke (1736-1798) was involved with issuing various encyclopedias, beginning with Diderot's Encyclopedie, which, ". . . was an immediate success: a new edition was called for even before the first had been completed. C.J. Panckoucke proposed such a new edition in 1761, and bought the rights to the first seven volumes. He approached Diderot to edit a new, revised edition and, when Diderot refused, began to reissue the original volumes. The government intervened in 1770 and seized the three which had appeared. After the death of the last of the original proprietors, in 1775, Panckoucke published a five-volume supplement to the Encyclopedie and later, in 1780, a two-volume index. The complete first edition comprises Diderot's twenty-eight volumes plus Panckoucke's seven; its publication spanned the years 1751-80." [Circle of Knowledge, (1979) p. 8]. Provenance: Hudson Gurney (1775-1864) was an antiquary and verse-writer of Norwich. He became an M.P. for Newtown in 1816 and sat in six successive parliaments. In 1835 he was high-sheriff of Norfolk, and was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1819), was vice-president from 1822-46, a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the British Archaeological Association. As such, Gurney may have been the donor of this set to the Norwich & Norfolk Library. [DNB Vol. VIII, pp. 803-4]. Circle of Knowledge, 1968, 1979; Wellcome II, p. 465.

Codice articolo M12282