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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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