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(Natural History) | A Dictionary of Natural History;
£450.00
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...
A. S. B. L. Atomium | Atomium Brussels 58
£35.00
Overview & Condition Original pamphlet on the Atomium published for visitors to the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Atomium was designed to promote the peaceful applications of atomic age...
Baker, J. A. | The Peregrine
£500.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this masterpiece of 20th century nature writing, cited by Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion, Werner Herzog, and many others, as one of...
Breuil, Alphonse du | The Scientific and Profitable Culture of Fruit Trees
£45.00
Overview & Condition English language translation of a treatise on fruit trees by the French horticulturist Alphonse du Breuil (1811-1890). Du Breuil wrote several books on fruit trees that...
Buckley, Arabella | The Fairy-Land of Science. Illustrated. Fifth Edition.
£85.00
Overview & Condition Fifth edition, handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf. Author Arabella Buckley (1840-1929) was an authoritative popularizer of science and secretary to the zoologist Sir Charles Lyell....
Buckley, Arabella | Through Magic Glasses
£150.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of Arabella Buckley’s sequel to her popular children’s book The Fairy-Land of Science. An attractive copy with the gilt design on the...
Buick, Thomas Lindsay | The Mystery of the Moa: New Zealand's Avian Giant.
£150.00
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...
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...
Earle, Alice Morse | Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday
£100.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing and a lovely copy. This charming and comprehensively illustrated volume discuses all manner of sundials and their history and symbolism, including garden...
Einstein, Albert | Relativity: The Special & The General Theory
£875.00
Overview & Condition First English language edition, first impression of Einstein's first popular treatment of relativity. Einstein's general theory of relativity, "one of history's most imaginative and dramatic revisions...
Feynman, Richard | "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!"
£1,200.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing and a beautiful copy in excellent condition. The orange dust jackets and boards of this book are notoriously prone to fading, but...
Figuier, Louis | The Insect World
£45.00
Overview & Condition An attractive, late 19th-century prize-bound copy of this popular and copiously illustrated work on insects, originally published in 1868. The author, Louis Figuier, was a prominent...
Francis, J. G. | Beach Rambles in Search of Seaside Pebbles and Crystals
£40.00
Overview & Condition A new edition of this charming illustrated work on mineralogy, originally published in 1859. With Some Observations on the Origin of the Diamond and Other Precious...
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...
Graham, P. Anderson | Country Pastimes for Boys. With 252 Illustrations. New Edition.
£50.00
Overview & Condition Possibly second edition, originally published in 1895. A nicely bound copy of this comprehensive and well-illustrated guide to outdoor activities for late-Victorian boys. Included are chapters...
Hildebrandt, A. | Airships Past and Present. Together with Chapters on the Use of Balloons in Connection with Meteorology, Photography and the Carrier Pigeon
£175.00
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...
Holder, Charles Frederick | Living Lights: A Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables
£300.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this uncommon and evocative volume on bioluminescence. Charles Frederick Holder (1851-1915) was a naturalist and curator at the American Museum of...
Jeans, James | The Mysterious Universe
£175.00
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...
Mitton, G. E. | The Children's Book of Stars
£75.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of this charming children's book on astronomy, originally published the previous year, with unusual and attractive boards depicting constellations. The contents cover the solar...
Nansen, Fridtjof | Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96
£500.00
Overview & Condition First edition, preceding the first Norwegian edition of the same year. The official account of the Fram expedition, “a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration” (PMM) led...
Parkinson, James | The Chemical Pocket-Book or Memoranda Chemica
£150.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of this chemical handbook designed in part for students and amateur chemists. A fresh and wide-margined copy.The text provides an introduction to chemistry and...
Parkinson, James | The Chemical Pocket-Book or Memoranda Chemica
£250.00
Overview & Condition Third edition of this chemical handbook designed for students and amateur chemists. This copy from the library of Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly (1771-1839) of Titley Court,...
Pink, Alfred | Gardening for the Million
£75.00
Overview & Condition A very handsomely designed turn-of-the-century gardening encyclopedia comprising entries on all types of plants, equipment, and pests. London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1904]. Octavo. Original blue cloth...
Pratt, Anne | Wild Flowers
£40.00
Overview & Condition A charming, early-twentieth century edition of this popular illustrated book on flowers by the Victorian botanist Anne Pratt (1806-1893), originally published in 1852. Pratt was a...
Ritter, Alfred | Die Elektricität
£50.00
Overview & Condition Fourth edition of this charming guide to electricity, “A brief and comprehensible presentation of the basic laws as well as the applications of electricity for power...
Sennett, A. R. | "Carriages Without Horses Shall Go"
£1,500.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of one of the earliest books on the automobile. "Efforts to invent a 'horseless carriage' had proliferated in Europe and America since...
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Stonehenge [Henry Walsh] & George Armatage | The Dog
£40.00
Overview & Condition A charming reissue of this book on dogs, first published in 1874, in the original publisher's cloth featuring a photographic image of a terrier. The contents...
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Thomas, H. H. [Harry Higgot] | Rock Gardening for Amateurs
Sold Out - £65.00
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
£375.00
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...
Vevers, Gwynne | Animals of the Arctic
£50.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression. A superb copy of this gorgeously illustrated children's book on Arctic wildlife by the fascinating British biologist, broadcaster, author, and intelligence agent...
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...
Wakefield, Priscilla | An Introduction to Botany
£250.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of "the first botany book written by a woman to provide s systematic introduction to the subject" (Shteir, Cultivating Women, p. 83), by the...
Weinberg, Steven | The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
Sold Out - £275.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. A beautiful copy of this science classic, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "With best wishes, Steven Weinberg". Weinberg is one...
White, Gilbert | The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
£250.00
Overview & Condition A very beautiful and handsomely bound copy of White's Selborne, one of the great classics of nature writing, originally published in 1789. White was a parson,...
White, Gilbert | The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
£95.00
Overview & Condition A very attractive late 19th-century edition of one of the great classics of nature writing, originally published in 1789. The text used here is the version...
Williams, Archibald | The Romance of Modern Mechanism
Sold Out - £65.00
Overview & Condition Later printing of this charming Victorian book on engineering originally published in 1906. A very attractive copy, the publisher's binding fresh and bright. This fascinating volume...
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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Wright, Mrs. [Anne] | Our World: Its Rocks and Fossils
£35.00
Overview & Condition Later edition of this popular geology book, originally published in 1859 and proceeded by The Globe Prepared for Man; A Guide to Geology (1853). Anne Wright...
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[Einstein, Albert] Lorentz, Hendrik | The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Concise Statement
£150.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression. A lovely copy of this popular work on Einstein's relativity by one of his scientific heroes, Hendrik Lorentz. From the 1870s onward...
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[Gosse, Philip Henry] | Wanderings Through the Conservatories at Kew
£95.00
Overview & Condition A charming volume on Kew Gardens published in 1857, only seventeen years after their incorporation as a national botanical garden open to the public. The book...
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