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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1949 .. First edition, with illustrated dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.280 . Coloured dustwrapper with wear to folds and small chips and tears to edges. Now protected by a removeable clear plastic cover. Clean blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, edges lightly rubbed. Light spotting to endpapers, otherwise clean text and illustrations throughout.… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1962.. Unabridged and unaltered republication of the original McGraw-Hill edition of 1931. "For almost half a century, Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snow flakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. In 1931, the American Meteorological Society gathered together the… Read more about this item

Sheffield : Thos. Firth & Sons, Ltd., Norfolk Works, 1924 .. A very good original binding. Beige cloth spine over beige boards. Spine with rubbed paper label. Front board with gilt crest and titles. Corners rubbed and bumped, otherwise a good tight binding. [10pp.]pp.112 . Well illustrated with black & white portraits and pictures. VG. ** "Firth… Read more about this item

London : Printed and Published for the Mining Association of Great Britain by Fleetway Press [ c.1924 ] .. First edition. A very good and tight binding. Thick 8vo. 8.75" x 6.0" x 2.75". pp.xv / pp.377 / pp. 86 + 1 folding diagram & 23 black & white plates. Black cloth boards with blind stamp titles to both… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.. Penguin Classics series. Lucretius (c.100-c.55 B.C). "This poet's view of the scientific attitude of his time towards matter, atoms, the workings of the mind, cosmology, and geology, inter alia, can be read today as it was intended two thousand years ago: as an appeal to a disillusioned age to tke comfort from the sanity of science."… Read more about this item

Bath: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution & William Herschel Society, 2008.. 1st edition. "Remember that from the time of King Charles II to that of Queen Victoria science and invention were seen as part of a broad and integrated culture, and that in Bath drawing-room or in the Pump Room you could have heard conversations about planets, fossils,… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1945.. 2nd impression. An Introduction to the Meanings of Time in Physics, Astronomy, and Philosophy, and the Relativities of Einstein and of Milne. Pp.189, black & white frontispiece + 1 figure illustration. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, spine sunned. G+.

London: Souvenir Press (E&A) Ltd, 1991.. 1st edition. The first scientific evaluation of a controversial theory of human evolution. "Derived from the first international symposium on the subject, held ar Valkenburg in the Netherlands in 1987. The first serious discussion for and against the theory which claims, among others, that our ancestors stood up on two legs to wade… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1850 .. Eighth And Entirely Revised Edition." A very good original binding with all engravings. Thick 8vo. 22.9cm x 15.2cm x 5.9cm. pp.16/pp.811/[1p. - Colophon]. + 12 plates (some folding) . Publisher's original green cloth binding. Gilt image to front board and gilt titles to spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine… Read more about this item

Hitchin: Hitchin & District Regional Survey Association, 1934.. 1st edition. The region selected for study in this book has Hitchin for its centre and ten miles of country round about. Contains information on Geology, Meteorology, Botany, Zoology, and Archaeology, with contributions fromE.FD.Bloom, Miss G.B.Howells, J.E.Little, Ray Palmer, A.H.Foster, F.W.Edwards, and W.H.Lane. Pp.256, colour frontispiece + many black… Read more about this item

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press,1885.. 1st edition. Natural History of Pliny. Contents: I.Dedication; II.An Account of the World and the Elements; III.Man, His Birth and His Organization; IV.The Nature of Terrestrial Animals; V.Domestic Animals; VI.The Natural History of Fishes; VII.The Natural History of Birds;VIII.The Various Kinds of Insects; IX.The Natural History of Metals. Pp.xxvi/326/6(publisher's catalogue), frontispiece +… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971.. Originally published in 1898 and 1904 by The Colliery Gaurdian Company Ltd. The Work has been universally accepted as one of the finest technical histories of any British industry and almost all later writers on coal mining have been indebted to it. Volume One includes many of the famous milestones of mining history,… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co.Ltd, 1937.. 1st edition. Contents: Part One. Analysis: I.Psychology; II.Physics; III.Logic; IV.Metaphysics - Kant; V.Metaphysics - Bergson; VI.Metaphysics - Alexander; VII.Metaphysics - McTaggart; VIII.Metaphysics - Dunne. Part Two. Synthesis. IX.Prediction; X.Irreversibility; XI."Becoming"; XII.Contingency; XIII.Reality. Pp.308, occasional minor spotting. Dark blue cloth, dustwrapper toned to spine and edges with old clear tape repairs to top… Read more about this item

ottingham: W.H.Knapp Limited, 1974.. Exhibition organised for the 1974 Nottingham Festival. "All the pictures in this exhibition were produced in the first place to reveal or to demonstrate an aspect of nature, or of a technological enterprise. They have not been chosen to illustrate the history of science, but to make more familiar some of the most visually striking… Read more about this item

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1910.. 1st edition. Lecture delivered as one of a series of "Science Lectures for the People". Mendelism is the biological theory of heredity first propounded by Gregor Mendel. Pp.31, portrait frontispiece + 4 further black & white photo plates and numerous figure illustrations, slight toning to pages, cracking to inner hinges but holding. Blue… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930.. The Library of New Ideas No.2. Contents: I.Introduction; II.The Size of Things; III.Love and Psychology; IV.Doctors and Medicine; V.Warfare and Politics; VI.Crime and Imprisonment; VII.Amusement; VIII.Spiritualism; IX.Women and Sex; X.Food and Drink; XI.Clothes; XII.Invention; XIII.Synthetic Materials; XIV.Radio and Television; XV.Religion; XVI.The Future; XVII.The Law and Socialism. Pp.172/4(publisher's catalogue), toning to endpapers. Red… Read more about this item

London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd, 1894.. 5th edition. A Practical Guide to the Working of the Optical (or Magic) Lantern. With Full and Precise Directions for Making and Colouring Lantern Pictures. Pp.`xii/286/xviii(ads), frontispiece example of a lantern slide + 87 figure illustrations, ads to endpapers, endpapers browned. Blue bevelled cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and… Read more about this item

Manchester: Kirkham & Pratt Ltd, 1910.. A Practical Treatise on the Sizing of Cotton Yarns, Practical Size Mixing, Tape Sizing, Ball or Warp Sizing, and Hank Sizing. Warp Bleaching and Tinting, Hank Bleaching, Mildew and Iron Stains, Cloth Bleaching,the Ventilating and Humidifying of Weaving Sheds. Pp.xx/641/xii(index)/xliv(advertisements), black & white plates and many figure illustrations, owner's name to half-title page,… Read more about this item

London: The Natural Rubber Development Board, 1956.. 3rd impression."The author is of the opinion that engineers should know not only how rubber components are used but also how they are made". Pp.128, 145 figure illustrations, owner's name to front free endpaper. Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slight fading to spine title. VG.

London: Concrete Publications Limited, 1950.. 12th edition. "Concrete Series" Books on Concrete. "The object of this book is to provide the practical man and the student with an elementary guide to reinforced concrete which will afford a clear understanding of the principles of design." Pp.viii/88, 78 figure illustrations, owner's inkstamp (Armstongs Cork & Rubber Products) to inside front… Read more about this item