Virchow Prof Rudolph (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Facsimile Edition. Facsimile of 1860 editions. Bound in full green leather, with gilt decorated spine & covers, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, 510pp+ads. (sm. white speckles/spray to rear board). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Condition: Very Good. Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1978. Special edition. Sm 4to hardcover. Green leather with raised spine bands; embossed cover; gilt lettering and edges; and silk endpapers and bookmark. 511pp. Illustrated. Very Good book. Edges of endpages slightly faded. (Histology, cellular pathology) Inquire if you need further information.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Large quarto; early binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine (the first two items retaining their original wrappers); top corner snipped from the front free endpaper; occasional light foxing to the last work; overall, in excellent condition, with a manuscript list of contents bound in before the first publication. Full details of each item are as follows. (1) VIRCHOW, Prof. Dr. Rudolph: Australier. 20 ethnographische und anthropologische Tafeln, ausgefuhrt nach Anweisungen und Zeichnungen. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Heft X. Hamburg, 1902. Large quarto, [vi], 13 pages plus 20 plates (10 photogravures, 9 tinted lithographs and a chromolithograph). (2) LUSCHAU, Dr. v.: Das Wurfholz [throwing-stick] in Neu-Holland und in Oceanien. Sonder-Abdruck aus der Bastian-Festschrift. Berlin, 1896. Large octavo, [27] pages with some illustrations plus 3 plates (with relevant marginal pencilling). (3) HOWITT, A.W.: On the Organisation of Australian Tribes. Quarto, pages [96]-136 plus a folding map (captioned in a margin 'Transactions of the R. S. of Victoria, 1889'). Provenance: Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), Australian anthropologist and the first professor of physiology at the University of Adelaide, with his armorial bookplate ('Gang Forward') on the front pastedown. The list of contents and the pencilling are in his hand. The later bookplate of Noel Lothian, Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 1948-1980, is mounted adjacent to it.