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Dalton, John | A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. Second Edition
£6,250.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of Dalton’s major statement on the constitution of matter, presentation copy inscribed by him to his engravers on the front free endpaper, “To Bradshaw...
Fermi, Enrico | Collected Papers (Note e Memorie)
£350.00
Overview & Condition First editions, first impressions of the collected papers of Nobel Prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), the creator of the worlds first nuclear reactor and a...
Frisch, Otto Robert | Order of service for Frisch's memorial & card depicting his "hippopotamouse"
£125.00
Overview & Condition An original order of service for physicist Otto Robert Frisch’s memorial at Trinity College Chapel, with a card from his wife, Ulla reproducing Frisch’s charming, Learesque...
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...
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...
Human Genome Project | The human genome sequence published in Nature, volume 409, issue 6822, 15 February, 2001
£750.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing of the initial sequencing of the human genome. An unusually nice copy in the original wrappers, complete with the original Human Genome...
Kahn, Herman | Applications of Monte Carlo
Sold Out - £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...
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,...
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Labarraque, [Antoine Germaine]. Note sur une Asphyxie
£200.00
Overview & Condition Rare self-published pamphlet on asphyxiation caused by cesspit fumes and “experiments on the means of disinfection to prevent such accidents”, based on the author’s presentation to...
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Leyel, Mrs. C. F. [Hilda Winifred Ivy] | Herbal Delights
£100.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this charming illustrated herbal describing plants for culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses. Rare in the jacket. Author Hilda Leyel (1880-1957) was...
Lorentz, Hendrik A. & G. L. de Haas-Lorentz (ed.) | Impressions of His Life and Work
£150.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. A very attractive copy in the uncommon glassine jacket. Hendrik Lorentz (1853-1928) was a theoretical physicist at the University of Leiden who...
Mairan, Jean Jacques D'otous de | Traite Physique et Historique de l'Aurore Bore'ale
£1,750.00
Overview & Condition First edition of de Mairan’s significant treatise on the aurora borealis, including both a scientific analysis of the aurora he viewed in the vicinity of Paris...
Newton, Isaac. Alexandre Koyré, I. Bernard Cohen & Anne Whitman (ed.) | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The Third Edition (1726) with Variant Readings.
£350.00
Overview & Condition First printing of the definitive modern critical edition of Newton’s magnum opus, an uncommonly lovely and fresh set in the jackets. Co-editors I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003)...
Rideal, Samuel | Sewage and the Bacterial Purification of Sewage
£100.00
Overview & Condition The uncommon first edition of this comprehensive book on sewage treatment which focuses on natural, bacterial methods. Author Samuel Rideal (1863-1929) was a prominent analytical and...
Robinson, Henry. An Accurate Representation of the Meteor which was seen on August 18th 1783...
£1,500.00
Overview & Condition A rare and historically significant mezzotint depicting the great meteor seen over Britain on August 18th, 1783, “one of the most riveting astronomical events of the...
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...
Smyth, Charles Piazzi | The Great Comet of 1843 as seen at the Cape of Good Hope...
£5,000.00
Overview & Condition A rare and evocative lithograph of the Great Comet of 1843 as seen from the Cape of Good Hope, observed and, most unusually, also lithographed by...
Smyth, Charles Piazzi | The Zodiacal Light as Seen on the Breede River at the Cape of Good Hope...
£5,000.00
Overview & Condition A rare and evocative lithograph of the zodiacal light as seen from the Breede River in South Africa, observed and, most unusually, lithographed by the Astronomer...
Wilks, S. S. | Mathematical Statistics
£175.00
Overview & Condition Probable second printing of this mimeographed text produced for students in Wilks’s Princeton course. The first printing was likely 1943, the copyright date on the verso...
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Wyatt, [Matthew Coates] | A Representation of the Meteor seen at Paddington...
£6,500.00
Overview & Condition A dramatic and uncommon mezzotint depicting the spectacular meteor seen in London on February 11th, 1850, by the prominent court artist Matthew Coates Wyatt (1777-1862). One...
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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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