Search Results: Authors starting with W 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

AIR POLLUTION ADDRESSED - PIONEERING VENTILATION & HEATING SYSTEM first (sole) edition 8vo. (in fours) [2], ii, [43], [1 (blank)]pp., 2 folding plates, contemporary tree calf, one plate backed with archival tissue, rebacked with a new spine, black morocco label, modern end papers, very good. ESTC t6689 locating copies in Aberdeen Univ., British Architectural Libr., B.L., Cambridge, Congregational Libr., Oxford and Royal Institute of British Architects, and 7 in institutions in U.S.A.Adam Walker (Patterdale, Westmorland, 1730/31 - 1821), itinerant lecturer and writer, was largely self-taught and developed a considerable mechanical skill, constructing models of the milling machinery employed in the local mills. At fifteen he became assistant master at Ledham School, Yorkshire, and at eighteen was appointed writing master at Macclesfield free School where he studied mathematics and issued his first publication 'A System of Family Bookkeeping', 1758. From 1762 to 1766 he ran a school in Manchester… Read More

FRESH & HANDSOME COPYEXPOSITION OF SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES[Full title] A System of Familiar Philosophy in Twelve Lectures being the Course usually read by Mr. A. Walker. Containing the Elements and the Practical Uses to be Drawn from the Chemical Properties of Matter the Principles and Application of Mechanics; of Hydrostatics; of Hydraulics; of Pneumatics; of Magnetism; of Electricity; of Optics; and of Astronomy. Including every Material Modern Discovery and Improvement to the Present Time. Illustrated by Forty-nine Copper-Plates, neatly and accurately Engraved. A New Edition; in Two Volumes.second edition 2 vols. 4to. (iii)-xvi, 354; iv, 251, [25 (index)], [1 (blank)], [2 (advts.)]pp., 49 folding plates, contemporary full polished tan calf, sides with a double blind fillet border, spines panelled by broad raised bands which are decorated in blind and highlighted in gilt, large blind tool in panel centres, black morocco title and volume labels lettered and highlighted in gilt,… Read More

MINOR SCIENTIFIC CLASSIC HANDSOMELY BOUND first edition tall 8vo. xx, 672pp., 20 coloured maps (most folding), numerous wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary dark blue polished calf prize binding, double gilt fillet border on sides, spine panelled by gilt decorated raised bands with the panels very richly gilt tooled, maroon morocco title label, gilt blocked arms of St. Columba's College on sides, marbled end papers, edges marbled to match, spine trifle rubbed at ends, else a nice copy. Engraved prize label of St. Columb's College, Dublin, on front endpaper completed in manuscript as a prize to Edmund Knox in 1878. Ferguson Bibliography of Australia 18146Minor classic by one of the era's leading scientists and naturalists whose researches in the region covered by this book were a central his work.Wallace (1823 - 1913), co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of natural selection as the mechanism for the evolution of species, had in 1858 announced his discovery of an important zoogeographical… Read More

A PLEA FOR LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE - A LEADING MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IRISH CATHOLIC first (sole) edition 8vo. [8], 310pp., contemporary mottled calf, front free endpaper renewed, neatly refurbished at ends of spine and front board edge, very good. Later bookplate of the Augustinian Monastery Ramsgate loosely inset at rear. WING W627 ESTC r17873Published surreptitiously without naming place of publication, the author or the printer, but authorship is usually ascribed to Walsh. Peter Walsh (Mooretown, Co. Kilkenny, ca.1618 - 1688), a Francisan priest, on his return from Louvain in 1646 wrote against the Papal Nuncio Rinucinni, and allied himself with the pro-Ormonde party. He thenceforth was a leading actor in the controversies, intrigues, and negotiations between the Catholic Church and the government, especially in those periods when Ormond was in power. He argued that the Pope had power in religious matters only and not in matters of secular politics. He was loathed by large sections of… Read More

FINE ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS & DETAILS first edition large folio (59 x 44 cms.) [4 (lithographed title & engraved dedication)], 63 lithographed plates (1 double page) of which 9 are coloured or have some coloured elements, some of the views of buildings printed in sepia and black, plus bound in at front the separately published 4-page folio 'Prospectus' with a one-page introduction and a list of the plates, original blown cloth, title in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine, double-spread plate with repairs to the margins, title page and some other plates with some smoke marking at edges, cloth bit smoke and water marked and bit worn at edges. The separately published, and rare, 'Prospectus' shows that the book was £5. 5s. 0d. when new.Waring (1823–1875), English architect and artist, in 1843 obtained a silver medal at the Society of Arts for designs in architectural adornments and after periods both travelling and working as an architect, "with Thomas R. Macquoid, .. went to Italy and… Read More

THE RARE COLONIAL ISSUE first edition, colonial issue 8vo. [2 (blank)], x, 219, [1 (blank), [1 (author's note)], [1 (printer's slug)], [1 (advts. for 'The Time Machine')], [1 (blank)], [8 (Heinemann's advts.)]pp., publisher's red cloth, black lettered on front cover and spine, small publisher's device in black on rear cover, Heinemann's advertisements on endpapers (both paste-down and free), spine a bit faded, a very good copy. The rare colonial issue. This 'Colonial Library' issue, published in the same year as the first, is rare. OCLC locates it only in Pierpont Morgan Library and National Library of New Zealand.In this issue the half-title reads across head "Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction/ Volue LII" and at foot "Issued for sale in the British Colonies and India, and not to be imported into Europe or the United States of America". For this issue the yellow pictorial cloth of the first issue has been substituted by a plainer red cloth. The front end papers list… Read More

THREE RARE EARLY WILDE POEMS 8vo. [4 (collective volume title page & half-title)], [2 (corrigenda)], ii, 344 plus bound in at the beginning of each of the 12 issues 2 leaves with the original issue title page and its list of contributors, contemporary half brown morocco, brown cloth on sides, very neatly rebacked with the original spine relaid, very good. Signed on front free end paper "T. W. Rolleston" and with quite a number of manuscript corrections throughout. This magazine was first issued, three issues per year, as wrappered magazines. At the completion of the volume (12 issues) the remaining stock was issued as a bound volumes in cloth with a general title page. However in the publisher's cloth issue the title pages and contributors lists for the individual issues were discarded as the pagination is continuous without them. Here these have, most unusually, been retained.This volume contains in the Trinity and Michaelmas 1876 and Hilary 1877 some of the very earliest of Oscar Wilde's… Read More

RARE 18th CENTURY IRISH PICARESQUE NOVELfirst edition 8vo. [2 (title)], v, [1 ('advertisement' explaining the lack of a subscribers list)], 540pp., contemporary calf, double gilt fillet border on sides, sympathetically rebacked, spine panelled by raised bands highlighted by double gilt fillets and gilt rolled on the band, head and foot of spine gilt tooled, black morocco title label gilt, original endpapers reused, lacks (as usual) terminal leaf of advertisements, faint damp stain at gutter of first few gatherings and at top outer corner of last few, front joint refurbished, sympathetic new morocco title label, very good.Early name scored out at head of title page, armorial bookplate of the Lord Power and Curraghmore and inscribed on front free endpaper "Ex Libris/ Gulielmi Domi Power/ Baronis de Curraghmore/ Ballydine".ESTC t70274 (most lacking the terminal advertisement leaf). Loeber Irish Fiction, W117 Collation [pi]4, B-Ll8, Mm4, Nn2.The hero of this rare picaresque novel spends his… Read More

A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND COPY first edition 3 vols. 12mo. xx, 372; x, 378; x, 352pp., folding frontispiece plate of facsimile autographs in each volume, contemporary half tan calf, spines panelled by gilt decorated raised bands with the panels richly decorated in gilt and with red and black morocco labels gilt, marbled sides, clean tear (no loss) in one facsimile else a beautiful fine bright copy. Armorial bookplate of Lord Farnham, Co. Cavan, in each volume. Mary Anne Everett Wood (Mrs. Green), (1818-1895), spent her childhood in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and moved to London in 1841. There in the British Museum reading room she systematically began the work that was to absorb her life, The Lives of the Princesses of England and The Letters of Illustrious Ladies. She continued her work after her marriage and the birth of her children. Her meticulous work and her skill at deciphering old manuscripts resulted in her appointment by the Government as clerk in the State Paper Office, the only… Read More