THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTISTS BIOLOGISTS

By: Abbott, David. [edItor]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Blond Educational.: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: BB562

182pp, This book is a clear reference guide to the development of knowledge in biology.The information in the main text is presented through alphabetical arrangment of some 200 biopgraphies.Glossary 141-157pp. A nice fresh copy, top spine edge a little bumped. View more info

ASPHALTS AND ALLIED SUBSTANCES,

By: Abraham, Herbert,

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Crosby, Lockwood and Son, London, 1929,: 1929

Edition: 3rd edition

Seller ID: B825

rewritten, xviii, 891pp., index, 253 illustrations, 60 tables, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, fine condition except ex-libris marks/ stamps. The occurrence, modes of the production, uses in the arts and methods of testing. View more info

A PATHFINDER

By: Anon.,

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, The Press Scrap Book: 1910

Seller ID: B917

143pp, frontis.portrait of Acheson, octavo, orig. boards, gilt, fine condition. Printed on laid wove paper. The first in a series of educational , biographical sketches of eminent inventors, this is a biography of Edward G. Acheson. View more info

ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS OR NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

By: Arnott, Neil.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company,: 1882

Edition: Seventh Edition

Seller ID: BB603

xix, 880pp. Frontispiece. Table of Contents from vii-xix. Edited by Alexander Bain and Alfred Swaine Taylor. Title page loose. Top edge brown. View more info

SCIENTIST IN RUSSIA

By: Ashby, Eric

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Pelican Books: 1947

Edition: 1st Pelican Edition

Seller ID: Z053

216pp [A186]. No inscriptions or fading. View more info

GREAT FACTS A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Prese

By: Bakewell, Frederick C.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1860

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: P140

307,[iv]pp. Frontis plate of the "Great Eastern". A popular science book of the mid-nineteenth century with chapters of the latest inventions including chapters on Steam Navigation, The Air Engine, Photography, Gas Lighting, The Stereoscope, The Magic Disc,Electro Magnetic Clocks etc. etc. Original patterned cloth with attractive blind-stamped bordersand gilt decorated spine. A love unworn copy. No marks or wear. View more info

STAR-LAND: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens

By: Ball, Sir Robert Stawell

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Company, Limited: 1890

Edition: Tenth thousand

Seller ID: TT135

xii, 376, [xvi pub. cat. dated 8.90] pp. Frontis. portrait of the author and 92 text figures.Blue cloth, gilt. The author was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. No fading. Gift inscription dated 1895 to the end-paper. View more info

Canyon Country Geology for the Layman and Rockhound

By: Barnes, F.A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., Treasure Chest Pubns: 1978

Edition: 1st paperback edition

Seller ID: Z020

160pp. Pictorial card wrappers. View more info

THE MICROSCOPE The British Journal of Microscopy and Photomicrography May 1938 Vol. II No 4

By: Barron, Arthur L.E.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Arthur Barron Ltd.: 1938

Edition: Original Edition

Seller ID: Pa410

85-112pp.vi pp adverts. Blue card covers. Nice illus. adverts. A scarce publication. The British Journal of Microscophy and Photomicrography was first published in August 1937 until 1982. We have several early issues for sale. Please email. View more info

THEORIES OF EVERYTHING: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation

By: Barrow, John D.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, QPD/ OUP: 1991

Edition: re-issue

Seller ID: T092

223pp. Blue card wrappers View more info

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE WITH AN EXPLANATION OF CERTAIN DIFFICULTIESOCCURING IN THE ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE

By: Beddoes, Thomas

Price: £1,300.00

Publisher: London, J.Johnson 72 St Paul's Church Yard: 1793

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: TS130

xii, 130pp; 131-172pp [errata at foot of p172] ; Appendix I. The Dutch etymologists. On the system of the Greek language proposed by Schultens, Hemsterhuis, their disciples, and by Lord Monboddo -- II. Mr. Tooke's discoveries. On the spirit and tendency of the doctrines of the epea pteroenta, and on the merit of the author as a discoverer. Some text in Greek and Latin. Half-calf contemporary binding with marbled boards, five raised bands with gilt dec. and a black moro... View more info

FAMOUS PROBLEMS OF ELEMENTARY GEOMENTRY.

By: Beman,Wooster Woodruff and Smtih, David Eugene.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Ginn & Company: 1897

Edition: Reprint of First Edition

Seller ID: BB604

ix, 86pp.Advertisements from 81-86pp. An authorized translation of F, Klein's, on the duplication of the cube, the trisection of an angle,and the quadrature of the circle. A nice copy. View more info

THE BEGINNING AND THE END

By: Berdyaev, Nicolas

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Geoffrey Bles: 1952

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: Z171

xi, 256pp. Red cloth, black titles fine. D.j. spine darkened a little. Red borders to the cover and spine. View more info

ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

By: Bird, Golding

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, John Churchill:

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: E237

xxiv, 407pp, elements of natural philosophy, being and experimental introduction to the study of the physical sciences, illustrations throughout. Skilfully re-backed with new end-papers View more info

THE DOCTOR AT HOME AND NURSES GUIDE,

By: Black, George,

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd,: 1930

Edition: New Edition

Seller ID: B714

ND c1930, 512pp., octavo, original olive cloth, black lettering, fine, edges a little foxed. A typical example of a between the wars home medicine book. View more info

THE DECIMAL SYSTEM In Numbers, Coke, and Accounts Especially With Reference To The Decimalisation Of The Currency And Accountancy Of The United Kingdom. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty Engravings Of Coins, Ancient And Modern

By: Bowring LL.D, Sir John

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Nathanielo Cooke: 1854

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: Pa469

errata pp, 245pp. Frontis. portrait of Bowring. 7 portraits, 16 plates of coins. several text illus. Gilt and blind stamped binding.Trifle rubbed to the head of the spine. An attractive copy. View more info

THE PRESIDENT'S SCIENTISTS

By: Bromley, D. Allan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 1994

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: E387

xiv, 273pp, b&w illustrations throughout, 'reminiscences of a white house science advisor' View more info

THE ASCENT OF MAN

By: Bronowski, J.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, BBC/BCA: 1980

Edition: re-issue

Seller ID: K132

448pp 219 Illustrations. Pictorial d.j. Neat owners signature. View more info

STATE OF THE WORLD 1991

By: Brown, Lester.R.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Eathscan Publications Ltd.: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: BB1446

xvii, 254pp. A Worldwatch Institute report on progress View more info

ICE AND IT'S NATURAL HISTORY

By: Buchanan, John Young

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, William Clowes & Sons Ltd: 1908

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: TH119

34pp. Paper wrappers with stapled binding. Royal Institution of Great Britain Evening Meeting Friday, May 8, 1908. Illustrated with 7 photographic plates. Bo inscriptions or markings. overs a trifle dusty but a sound and nice copy. View more info