Judith Overmier (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. 1st Edition. Fairly clean ex-library, with stampings only at front and rear of book. Most chapters on mystery and detective fiction, including one on "The Arthur Conan Doyle COllection at the Toronto Public Library" and another on "Building the Sherlock Holmes Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries".…

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Bakken: a history of electricity and its relationship with the life sciences. This catalog is arranged in four groupings: Early Works, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century. Oversized hardcover, no dust jacket, 512 pages. Very good condition.…

Hardcover. Exceptionally clean, bright copy w/scant wear; pgs unmarked. Cover bright. .

Hardcover. Condition: New. No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Metuchen, New Jersey & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. Just removed from the publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap so we could write this description. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. 1992. First Edition. This bibliography describes 6,000 rare books, journals, and manuscripts on electricity, magnetism, and their medical applications, mostly from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Also included are incunabula, examples of scientific quackery, classics from the libraries of Horblitt and Honeyman, a first edition of Shelley's Frankenstein, etc. Illustrated here are titlepage facsimiles, binding photos, and other reproductions, some in full color. Earl Bakken, inventor of the first wearable heart pacemaker, began this collection while he was CEO of Medtronics, a bio-medical firm in Minnesota. From the introduction: "The collections of The Bakken: A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life are firmly in in the traditions of electrical and scientific rare book collecting established by Josiah Latimer Clark and Francis Ronalds Herbert M. Evans, Everette Lee DeGolyer, Bern Dibner, Harrison D. Horbitt As The Bakken omnivorously collected around the theme of electricity in life, it emphasized the biological and health-sciences aspects of electricity more than any previous science collectors. Each entry contains standard bibliographic information, including author's full name with birth and death dates. full title, city, publisher, and date of publication. Collations are given and include paging, illustrations, and size of the book. Early works have been provided with signatures, colophons, and incipits where appropriate. The catalog is lightly annotated. based on notes in rare book dealers' catalogues, bibliographies, and on articles and books in the history of several fields." Provenance, when known, is also noted. Entries are cross referenced to Ronalds, Wheeler, Gartrell. From the foreword by Willem Hackmann: "Earl Bakken has followed in the footsteps of the few other great collectors and bibliophiles in the field of electricity and magnetism, such as Francis Ronald, S.S. Wheeler, and more recently, Bern Dibner. Unusually, he is one of the few to have concentrated on both books and the associated instruments." Index. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in shiny gold over black panels on the spine and front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.75" thick. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. xvii, 512pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

cloth. 4to. cloth. xvii, 512 pages. A bibliographic record of the collection of the Bakken, a Library and Museum of Electricity in Life. A fine copy. Contains descriptions of hundreds of books from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries dealing with science and medicine. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Appears to be an unread sample copy. NO jacket, as issued, with the art printed on the boards.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

FIRST EDITION. 4to. xvii, 512 pp. 4 full color plates, 28 full page illustrations, index. Red cloth, gilt-stamped black cover and spine labels; label a bit rubbed. Near fine. Includes full collations. ISBN: 0810825708.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1989 1st edition, Garland Publishing, 8vo., xvii,157pp., very good, cloth.

512p. Index. Earl Bakken's collection on the history of science included manuscripts from the 12th and 13th centuries (illustrated in full color is his Beauvais Speculum Naturale) as well as rare 19th century items and, of course, the best editions of Franklin. Bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt over black.…

Reprint. 287 x 220 mm. 4to. xvii, 512 pp. Illus. (including 4 color plates), index. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. FINE. NEW. Traces the history of electricity and its relationship with the life sciences through more than 6,000 published and unpublished works, with collations.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: Fine. - Quarto, red cloth. 512 pp. Illustrated in B&W with 4 full-page color illustrations. Near fine. First edition.The Bakken is "a library and museum of electricity in life".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 0810825708. Scarecrow Press 1992, bright clean copy, no markings, no dustjacket,Professional booksellers since 1981.

1st ed. Numerous illustr., XVII, 512 p. As new. Alphabetical index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 4°, original cloth-binding with gold embossing.

4°. XVII,512 S. OLn. Wertvolles Bibliotheksverzeichnis zur Elektrizität, Elektrophysiologie und Elektrotherapie. Mit Kollationen und bibliographischen Hinweisen.

Condition: New. Takes readers through the process starting from creating a mystery story to getting it to the library bookshelf and the patrons. This book features contributions by authors, readers, critics, scholars, and librarians, who give an inside look at the production and collection of one of the most popular genres in literature, the mystery. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: GLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544. . 2006. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Books and Manuscripts of the Bakken by Judith A. Overmier; John Edward Senior. Scarecrow Press, 1992. 525pp. Language: English. Condition Notes: Author inscription inside cover.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. 238.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New. pp. 238.

Condition: New. Takes readers through the process starting from creating a mystery story to getting it to the library bookshelf and the patrons. This book features contributions by authors, readers, critics, scholars, and librarians, who give an inside look at the production and collection of one of the most popular genres in literature, the mystery. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: GLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544. . 2006. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Mit 4 farb. Tafel-Seiten und 26 ganzseit. Abbildungen. XVII, 512 S. 4to. Orig.-Leinen. * Ca. 6000 Titel umfassende Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Elekrizität, Elektrotherapie, Magnetismus u. ä. insbes. in der Medizin. "A Library and Museum of Eletricity in Life beban in 1969 as private collection on the history of electricity and its relationship with the life sciences . The collection include early manuscripts, printed books, journals, archival and manuscript materials, instruments, original works of art, ephemera . (Vorw.). - Nach Epochen angeordnet (Early Works, 18th, 19th 20th century), mit genauen Titelangaben mit Kollationen und weiterführenden Bibliographien. - Sehr gut erhalten. Aufgrund der neuen PPWR-Regelung zur Zeit kein Versand in EU-Länder. Due to PPWR no delivery to EU-countries.…