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Air Ministry | Signal Book for Use in Air Navigation
£75.00
Overview & Condition First edition, an uncommon second World War aircraft signal book published at the beginning of the second World War in February 1940, this copy with three...
Clerke, Agnes M. | Modern Cosmogonies
£50.00
Overview & Condition First edition of this work on cosmogony by one of the “great popularisers of science of the Victorian period” (Ogilvie, p. 270). Agnes Mary Clerke was...
Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies | Fifty Years of "Via Eastern"
Sold Out - £30.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition. This copy with a collection of material connected with Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies, including a typed letter signed forwarding this copy to...
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...
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Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd. | Design Handbook Volume I General [&] A.300B Supplement
£750.00
Overview & Condition Due to this item's weight, extra shipping costs will apply. A rare copy of the Hawker Siddeley Design Handbook, published in 1969 in preparation for work...
Hibbert, Samuel | History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied
£950.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition of this rare work on the effect of volcanic activity on the development of the Rhine Valley, in the original cloth. WorldCat...
Kahn, Herman | Applications of Monte Carlo
£350.00
Overview & Condition First edition in the original wrappers. Though described as “revised”, this refers only to a shorter version presented at a meeting in 1954, and we can...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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,...
Watson, Hewett Cottrell | Topographical Botany
£400.00
Overview & Condition First edition, presentation set inscribed by the author on each title, “Mary Edmonds from the Author, H. C. W. 1873” and “Mary Edmonds from the Author,...
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