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Webber, R. B. (Introduction by).  A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE GRACE K. BABSON COLLECTION  OF THE  WORKS  OF  SIR   ISAAC  NEWTON. $65.

Cloth, Octavo. pp.xiv.229.  New York: Herbert Reichner, 1950.

This important collection of the works of Newton is published in conjunction with our republication of Gray’s Bibliography of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton. The Babson Collection contains 606 works. Included are not only Newton’s complete opera, but works edited by Newton, biographies, portraits, medals and coins relating to Newton. Each item is meticulously described. Bindings are described, and there are notes on the historical significance of the book, and other annotations very useful to the antiquarian book trade. Please note we are not publishing the supplement published in 1955.

Weber, Shirley Howard. VOYAGES & TRAVELS IN GREECE THE NEAR EAST, AND ADJACENT REGIONS, Made Previous To The Year 1801; Being A Part Of A Larger Catalogue Of Works On Geography, Cartography, Voyages And Travels, In The Gennadius Library In Athens. $55.00
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. vii, 208 p. Princeton, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1953.

This bibliography is the second in the Gennadius series of bibliographies on travels to Greece. It describes 860 published books published prior to 1801. Included are travel accounts, voyages, descriptive and topographic works and guide books. Full collations are provided, as are frequent annotations. There is also an index of travelers and authors, as well as a general index.
This is the first Martino Publishing reprint of this work as a separate book. In 1997 we published this volume, along with its companion, together in one book. That edition is now out of print.
A basic reference in the field, and notoriously hard to find in the original edition. Though published in the U.S., it was printed in Europe, and relatively few copies seemed to have made it back into the marketplace. Sheehy D51 and Besterman 574.

Weber, Shirley Howard. VOYAGES & TRAVELS IN THE NEAR EAST: Made During the XIX Century Being A Part Of A Larger Catalogue Of Works On Geography, Cartography, Voyages And Travels, In The Gennadius Library In Athens. $55.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. X, 252pp. Princeton, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1952.
This bibliography is the first in the Gennadius series of bibliographies on travels to Greece and the Near East. It describes 1206 published nineteenth century travel books. Not only travel and voyages are included. The bibliography also covers topographic works and guide books. Full collations are provided, as are frequent annotations. There is also an index of travelers and authors, as well as a general index.
This is the first Martino Publishing reprint of this work as a separate book. In 1997 we published this volume, along with its companion, together in one book. That edition is now out of print.
A basic reference in the field, and notoriously hard to find in the original edition. Though published in the U.S., it was printed in Europe, and relatively few copies seemed to have made it back into the marketplace. Sheehy D50 and Besterman 574.

Weil, Dr. Ernst. THE COLLECTED CATALOGUES OF ERNST WEIL, BOOKSELLER. COMPILED BY DR. ERNST WEIL. NEW COMPREHENSIVE AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX.    $195.

8vo. 33 parts in two vols. Approx. 2000 pp. Cloth. Illustrated. London, 1943-1965. Reprint 1996.  ISBN 1 -57898-033-X.

Considered among the most scholarly of booksellers’ catalogues issued in the post-war period. More than 8,500 significant works in the fields of science & medicine are catalogue. A new comprehensive author-title index allows easy access to the valuable information contained in these catalogues.

Weinberger, Wolf Bernhard (Compiled by). DENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: A REFERENCE INDEX TO THE LITERATURE OF DENTAL SCIENCE. $65.

Cloth, Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. New York: 1929-1932.  183 + [ii], 185-263. ISBN 1-57898-085-2.

Though far from a complete dental bibliography, this international reference work contains every important dental publication that has been published. In all, 4,500 works in the field are described. It is the most comprehensive catalogue covering antiquarian books on dentistry listed in Besterman.

Photo Weinberger, Bernhard Wolf. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF DENTISTRY, WITH MEDICAL & DENTAL CHRONOLOGY & BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA . $145.00
Oversized octavo.  2 volumes.  Profusely illustrated, ports., facsims. St. Louis, C.V. Mosby Co., 1948.

Still a definitive work on the subject.  Two Volumes.  The first volume covers the history to 1800; the second deals solely with the history of dentistry in America.” Garrison and Morton 3703. This work represents an attempt to portray the many steps in the origin, evolution and growth of our knowledge of dentistry from the time of prehistoric man until the 19th century. All aspects of the subject are covered, with chapters including:

The Teeth of Prehistoric Man
Ancient Medical Concept of Disease
Mesopotamian and Oriental Dentistry
Ancient Egyptian Medicine % Dentistry
Dentistry of the People of Israel
Dental Art of the Phoenicians
Golden Age of Roman Dentistry
And many more….

Weinberger also treats the literature of dentistry, providing an extended bibliography on the subject, as well as a treatment of histories written on the subject.
Volume Two is devoted entirely to the history of dentistry in the United States.  There is also considerable attention given to prominent individuals throughout the history of dentistry.

Weitenkampf, Frank. ENO COLLECTION OF NEW YORK CITY VIEWS. $45.

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. Illustrated. 82 pages. New York, New York: New York Public Library, 1925.

The New York Public Library purchased the Amos F. Eno Collection of New York City Views after Eno's death in 1915.
In a stroke, the NYPL added 450 items to its store of prints illustrating the growth of the City and its aspect at different times and in various places. The Eno Collection, one of the most important of its kind, adds richly to the NYPL's mass of material on the subject. The prints are arranged chronologically, the first dating from 1650. Each print has a small annotation, the location, a description of the printing process used, and relevant information concerning artist, attribution, or location in books or periodicals. Besides Manhattan, there are sections on Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New York State. Weitenkampf also provides a valuable and very thorough artist-title-subject index.

Wellcome Catalogue…Revised edition. A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS IN THE WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY. VOL. I: BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 1641. VOL. II: BOOKS PRINTED FROM 1641 TO 1850 A-E.   Each Volume: $100.

4to. Two volumes, xv, 407: xi, 540 pp.  London & New York: Wellcome Institute & Martino Publishing, 1996. ISBN 1-888262-04-04 (Set).

Martino Publishing is proud to offer the revised edition of one of the most important medical bibliographies currently in use. This exemplary catalogue, still in progress, of a superb collection is the finest general repertory for medical books of the period. Although the reprint volumes will match the originals in format and binding, their contents are superior, for the text has been reproduced from the libraries own annotated copies, with thousands of corrections and additions. The previous edition of these volumes has been out of print for some years, and sets have fetched up to $350.00 in the antiquarian trade.

Wellcome Institute. A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS IN THE WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY VOL III:  BOOKS PRINTED FROM 1641 TO 1850  F-L. $100.

Hardbound. 4to. Cloth. xvi. 565pp. London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1976.

Wellcome Institute. A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS IN WELLCOME  HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY  VOL IV: BOOKS PRINTED FROM 1641 TO 1850 M-R.   $100.

ISBN I 869835 75 I. Hardbound. 4to. Cloth. xiii. 603pp.  London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1995.

Wellcome Institute.A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Volume. 5. Books printed from 1641 to 1850, R-Z. WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY. $150.00

The fifth and final volume of this set, over forty years in the making. First Edition, 4to, orig. cloth.

Catalogue of one of the World's finest collections of medical literature, an indispensable work of reference. Inventory # 1271

Weller, Charles Frederick with one chapter by Eugenia Winston Weller. Neglected Neighbors : Stories of Life In The Alleys, Tenements, and Shanties of the National Capital. $75.00

Octavo. Hardcover. xi, 342 p. 96 photographic illustrations. Philadelphia : J.C. Winston, 1909.

In the summer of 1905, Weller u ndertook a study of 248 dwellings in the D.C. area. In fifteen alleys, 177 dwellings were exhaustively studied, while five other alleys were carefully inspected. For the study of shacks and shanties, 58 dwellings were investigated. The study divi des itself into four parts: The Alleys; The Tenements: the Shanties; and Remedial Measures. An important book with numerous black and white photographs of slum conditions in and around Washington D.C. at the turn of the 20th century. Noted child la bor abuse photographer Lewis Wickes Hine contributed several photos to this extraordinary and absolutely compelling documentation of living conditions of the poor in and around the Capital of the United States just a century ago. Scarce in the orig inal.

Welsh, Doris Varner, Compiler. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINIATURE BOOKS (1470-1965).  $175. 

Quarto, 250pp. Fine in dust jacket. Cobleskill, New York: Kathryne I. Richard, 1989.

The standard bibliography on miniature books, now of out print.  7271 miniature books are described. The arrangement is alphabetical by title.  There is also a useful short title index. 

Wenckstern, Von Friedrich. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE: BEING A CLASSIFIED LIST OF ALL BOOKS, ESSAYS AND MAPS IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES...FROM 1859-1906…$95.

Cloth, 8vo. Two vols in One. Leiden: Brill, 1895 & Tokyo: Maruya, 1907; xiv.338; iii-ivi, 487.28.23. ISBN 1-57898-071-2.

This important bibliography is by far the most comprehensive bibliography of the early printed matter on Japan. In all, over 16,000 titles are listed, far eclipsing the 3,500 titles described in Cordier’s Biblioteca Japonica. Together Wenckstern and Cordier comprise two of the most important references on the subject.