Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Photographs and Scientific Instruments Fully Described and Offered for Sale by Ernst Weil 1943-1965. Original Thirty Three Catalogues Bound in Two Volumes. Volume One: Catalogues 1-21 [and] Volume Two Catalogues 22-33.With a Biographical Memoir by Hanna Weil. Full Author-Title Index compiled by Stephen Pober. [ Ernst Weil, Bookseller's catalogues, 1943-1965 ]. [ 2 vols, complete set, reproducing 33 catalogues ]

Reprint limited to 300 sets. 2 vols, cloth, 8vo, approximately 2000 pp, ills. Over 8,500 entries. This is a most useful reprint (in 2 volumes) of 33 bookseller's catalogues issued by Ernst Weil, together describing over 8,500 works (including many rarities) in the fields of science and medicine. The inclusion of a new comprehensive author-title index, which runs to some 287 pages, makes this reprint more useful than a set of the original catalogues, which would in any case be extremely difficult to put together. Weil was respected as one of the most scholarly of post-war booksellers - his bibliography of Albert Einstein remains sought-after - and the catalogues are valuable reference tools for anyone collecting or dealing in his fields. Arnold Hunt has recently written that "Weil joined [ the distinguished bookseller E.P.Goldschmidt & Co.] in 1933 to develop a .specialism in the history of science and medicine, in which he proved so successful that he eventually set up on his own and, in financial terms, did far better than Goldschmidt himself." As New. …