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(NASA) Corliss, William R. | Putting Satellites to Work
£25.00
Overview & Condition First edition and a beautiful copy of this early NASA publication on satellites and their applications, written for high school aged students. The contents include sections...
(Natural History) | A Dictionary of Natural History;
£350.00
Overview & Condition First edition of this charming dictionary of natural history which describes "all the animated beings in nature... and also the fabulous animals of antiquity", and is...
Aikin, John | The Calendar of Nature
£350.00
Overview & Condition Third edition of this charming little book on the changing of the seasons from month to month by the “physician and man of letters” John Aiken...
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Armstrong, C. C. [Mary Ann] | New Zealand Ferns
£2,500.00
Overview & Condition A rare, sixteen-page album of artistically arrayed and scientifically labeled New Zealand ferns by the award-winning botanical artist and entrepreneur Mary Ann Armstrong, known commercially as...
Buick, Thomas Lindsay | The Mystery of the Moa: New Zealand's Avian Giant.
£100.00
Notes & Condition First edition, first impression. An unusually attractive copy in the scarce dust jacket. The Mystery of the Moa is a scientific and historical narrative of the...
Coupin, H. & John Lea | The Romance of Animal Arts & Crafts
£45.00
Overview & Condition A handsomely bound copy of this illustrated book on structures built by animals, including insect and bird nests, burrows and tunnels, homes bored into rock and...
Coward, T. A., Clifford Webb, & Enid Blyton | Birds of the Wayside and Woodland.
£35.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impressions of this charming book on birds with the dust jacket designed by illustrator and author Clifford Webb and an introduction by the...
Day, Lewis F. | Nature and Ornament
£100.00
Overview & Condition First editions, first printings of this uncommon two-volume set on designing from nature by Lewis F. Day (1845-1910). "Day took from his early training a special...
Emanuel, Harry | Diamonds and Precious Stones
£300.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this delightful book on precious stones. Included in the text are a lovely chromolithographic title page and other lithographic illustrations, chapters...
Georgian Era Halley's Comet Brooch with Almandine Garnets
£650.00
Overview & Condition A lovely, late-18th century almandine garnet brooch celebrating the 1759 passage of Halley’s Comet. During 1680 astronomer Edmund Halley travelled through France and Italy. While in...
Gibson, Charles R. | Our Good Slave Electricity
£45.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With the author's best wishes, December 1916, Chas. R. Gibson". This charming volume...
Gibson, Charles R. | The Romance of Modern Photography
£35.00
Overview & Condition An uncommon early printing of this popular work on photography, originally published in 1908. Dr. Charles R. Gibson (1870-1931) of Glasgow was a prolific author of...
Gould, Stephen Jay | Ontogeny and Phylogeny
£350.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing of the author’s first book. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His theory...
Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life | The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
£150.00
Overview & Condition First UK edition in the oversized jacket proof, from the Harvard office library of the author, with his posthumous bookplate. Wonderful Life was originally published in...
Hildebrandt, A. | Airships Past and Present. Together with Chapters on the Use of Balloons in Connection with Meteorology, Photography and the Carrier Pigeon
£125.00
Overview & Condition First English language edition, first impression of this uncommon early work on airships by the Prussian Balloon Corps Captain A. Hildebrandt, originally published in Germany in...
Jeans, James | The Mysterious Universe
£125.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this elegant Art Deco style volume on cosmology, uncommon in the dust jacket. Author James Jeans (1877-1946) was a respected Cambridge...
Kent, Elizabeth | Flora Domestica, or The Portable Flower-Garden
£150.00
Overview & Condition The uncommon first edition of this “engaging book about container-gardening” that was “addressed to town-dwelling 'lovers of nature'” (ODNB). “Although she had only a dame-school education,...
Martius, Ernst Wilhelm | Neueste Anweisung, Pflanzen nach dem Leben abzudruken
£3,250.00
Overview & Condition First edition of this rare work on nature printing, an unsophisticated copy in the original wrappers, with four delicately produced plates, an unusually high number. Of...
Mid-Century British Matchbox Charm
£250.00
Overview & Condition A delightful mid-century gold matchbox charm that opens to reveal 7 tiny matches. Hallmarks for London, 1968. London, 1968. Enamel charm designed as a matchbox, including...
Mid-century teaching collection of cooking ingredients
£550.00
Overview & Condition A remarkable, home-made collection of 160 samples of cooking ingredients housed in individual glass vials in a portable case, together with a binder of typed notes...
Moore, Harold | Metals and Alloys
£25.00
Overview & Condition First edition of this uncommon mid-century children’s book, stylishly illustrated throughout with diagrams depicting atoms and molecules, the microscopic structure of metals and alloys, and industrial...
Moss, Norman | Men Who Play God The Story of the Hydrogen Bomb and How the World Came to Live with It
£65.00
Overview & Condition First US edition, first printing, originally published in the UK in the same year. A bright, fresh copy in an unusually nice example of the dust...
Nansen, Fridtjof | Farthest North
£400.00
Overview & Condition Second English language edition, the first to appear in the famous gilt-blocked publisher’s cloth. A lovely set, the cloth bright and fresh. Born in Christiana (Oslo)...
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | Science in Orbit
£35.00
Overview & Condition First edition and a beautiful copy of this book celebrating the Space Shuttle’s scientific mission and laboratory capabilities, copiously illustrated in full colour. Among the topics...
NASA | From Here, Where? A Source Book in Space Oriented Mathematics
£45.00
Overview & Condition First edition and an excellent copy of this book of space-related mathematics for high school teachers. This volume was published as part of NASA’s drive to...
Pagé, Victor W. (ed.) | Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying
£100.00
Overview & Condition First UK edition, originally published in the US in the previous year. An attractive copy and uncommon in the jacket. The earliest successful glider was created...
Rockstroh, Heinrich | Das Mikroskop
£575.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition of this charming and early book on microscopy for young people, including advice on how to use microscopes and how to collect...
Simpson, M. | The Fossils of the Yorkshire Lias
£675.00
Overview & Condition First edition of this rare and significant work describing the fossils of the Yorkshire coast, written by one of the region’s most significant semi-professional palaeontologists, and...
Skinner, Elsie T. | Collection of Flowers Classified According to Natural Orders
£350.00
Overview & Condition An attractive and carefully organised herbarium, probably produced during the 1930s as a advanced student project. It contains 151 carefully mounted specimens, presenting a remarkable 121...
Skloot, Rebecca | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
£350.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. A superb copy, signed and dated “3/29/10” by the author on the half title. In 1951 Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old African American...
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Thomas, H. H. [Harry Higgot] | Rock Gardening for Amateurs
£75.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this lovely book on alpine rock gardens by Kew Gardens President and prolific horticultural writer Harry Higgot Thomas. Written for beginners,...
Turner, Richard | An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences
£250.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of this charming educational book with the contemporary or near contemporary ownership signatures of three different young women, an excellent material representation of 18th...
Vos, George H. | Birds and Their Nests and Eggs
£95.00
Overview & Condition A handsomely bound copy of a later impression, originally published in 1907. This lovely little book is "an attempt to describe by camera and pen the...
Willis, J. H. | The World's Time at a Glance. The Willis Indicator.
£45.00
Overview & Condition A delightful world time calculator produced by J. H. Willis & Company, probably during the 1930s to complement the world time clocks that the firm produced...
Wood, J. G. | Insects at Home
£95.00
Overview & Condition An attractively bound and copiously illustrated work on British insects by the naturalist John George Wood (1827-1889), originally published in 1872. Wood began his career in...
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[Fioravanti, Leonardo] Falloppio, Gabriele | Secreti Diversi & Miracolosi
£3,500.00
Overview & Condition A rare early edition, likely the fifth in the original Italian, of a significant book of secrets first published in 1563 and attributed to the anatomist...
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[Woodhead, Joseph] | Catalogue or Guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy.
£500.00
Overview & Condition The rare catalogue of the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, describing in detail the Museum’s contents and policies, and illustrating its interior by an engraving on the...
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