>[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 1-42 [Stock catalogues, hors série] Scientific and medical portraits, &c § 10ème Foire Internationale du Livre Ancien § Scientific and medical portraits § Summer catalogue § Recent purchases. December 1990
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Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Warboys)
[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 1-42 [Stock catalogues, hors série] Scientific and medical portraits, &c § 10ème Foire Internationale du Livre Ancien § Scientific and medical portraits § Summer catalogue § Recent purchases. December 1990
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 1990-2010
Forty-seven volumes (mostly 21 × 20 cm), as issued, in publisher’s wrappers. - A fine, unbroken run of Gaskell’s catalogues 1-42, plus five stock catalogues issued hors série. Cf. “Roger Gaskell, in conversation with Sheila Markham” in The Book Collector, volume 61 (2012), pp.408-414. ¶ Very good, unmarked copies. ● Catalogues hors série are not shown in our photograph.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 4] Catalogue Four : including books from the library of Sir Joseph Larmor
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 1991
(21 × 20 cm), [52] pp., illustrations. 110 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contents: Part I: 1476-1953; Part II: Mathematical physics from the library of Sir Joseph Larmor (1857-1942).
(21 × 20 cm), [60] pp., illustrations. 72 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - In a postscript “Note on new symbols and terminology” the compiler explains his formula for recording the collation of books illustrated by engraved plates. The subject is elaborated in Gaskell’s “Printing House and Engraving Shop. A Mysterious Collaboration” in The Book Collector, volume 53 (2004), pp.213-251.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 28] Chemistry, mineralogy & geology. Books from the McKie Collection
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2001
(21 × 20 cm), [132] pp., illustrations. 299 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Selection from the libraries of Douglas (1896-1967) and Duncan McKie (1930-1999).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 33] Chemists and revolutionaries: books from the collection of William A. Smeaton
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2003
(21 × 20 cm), [96] pp., illustrations. 171 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Selection from the library of William (Bill) A. Smeaton (1925-2001), an authority on Fourcroy and Lavoisier, emeritus reader in the History and Philosophy of Science, University College, London. Noticed in The Book Collector, Winter 2003, p.545.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 35] Catalogue 35 : including a first selection of books from the library of Dr Edwin Clarke, 1919-1996
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2004
(21 × 20 cm), [72] pp., illustrations. 75 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A selection from the library of Dr Edwin Clarke (1919-1996), former director of the Wellcome Institute; further selections are offered in Gaskell’s catalogues 36 and 37.
(21 × 20 cm), [72] pp., illustrations. 75 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “About a third of the books in this catalogue are from the library of the medical historian Edwin Clarke (1919-1996)” (Preface).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 41] Books from the library of Walter Pagel (1896-1983) : Part I: 1483-1600
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2009
(21 × 20 cm), [140] pp., illustrations. 130 items. Price list inserted (”books omitted from this list have already been sold”). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - These books had been given by Water Pagel to his son, the astrophysicist Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel FRS (1930-2007). Many had been collected by Walter Pagel in the Dyson Perrin sales of the 1940s.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 42] Books from the library of Walter Pagel (1896-1983) : Part II
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2010
(21 × 20 cm), [176] pp., illustrations. 195 items. Price list inserted (”books omitted from this list have already been sold”). Publisher’s printed wrappers.
[Stock catalogues, hors série] Scientific and medical portraits, &c
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 1995
(21 × 20 cm), [16] pp., illustrations. 79 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - From the collection of I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003), Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University.
[Stock catalogues, hors série] 10ème Foire Internationale du Livre Ancien
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 1998
(21 × 20 cm), [20] pp., illustrations. 88 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue to accompany an exhibition of stock (Stand 30A), Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, 14-17 May 1998.
[Stock catalogues, hors série] Scientific and medical portraits
Warboys, Roger Gaskell Rare Books, 2007
(21 × 20 cm), [54] pp., illustrations. 119 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contains prints from the I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) collection (unsold from Gaskell’s previous catalogue, 1995), mixed prints with from the collection of Jean-Luc Verley (1939-2007) and from other sources. Compiled by Deborah Coltham; introduction by Patricia Fara. Noticed in The Book Collector, Summer 2007, p.251.