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(Album amicorum) | The Family Tree or, the Hoax-o-Graph.
£500.00
Overview & Condition An unusual, early-20th century version of an album amicorum or autograph book in which participants place a drop ink onto a page and then blow on...
(European Space Agency) Bjurstedt, Hilding | Biology and Medicine in Space
£100.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition of this uncommon volume on the biological research opportunities offered by Spacelab, the modular laboratory planned for the Space Shuttle as a...
(Gould, Stephen Jay) Bush, Vannevar | Science: The Endless Frontier
£350.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this rare and important plan for US federal investment in science and technology following the Second World War. From the library...
(Gould, Stephen Jay) Mandelbrot, Benoit B. | Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension
£375.00
Overview & Condition First English language edition, first printing of the work that introduced Mandelbrot's revolutionary fractal mathematics to the world. Originally published in French in 1975 under the...
(Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp) Page, Raissa | Set of 13 postcards depicting Greenham Common
£100.00
Overview & Condition A set of thirteen postcards (two of which are duplicates) dating from the 1980s and early 1990s depicting the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, many from...
(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...
(NASA) Steinberg, Florence S. | Aboard the Space Shuttle
£25.00
Overview & Condition First edition of this delightful and copiously illustrated book on life aboard the Space Shuttle for classrooms with older children. Published in 1980, the year before...
(Paper flowers) W&S, Bavaria | Papieren Bloemen. Sneeuwbal, Appelbloesem, Kersebloesem
£150.00
Overview & Condition A charming toy flower making kit featuring snowball hydrangea, apple blossom, and cherry blossom, produced in Bavaria around 1900. Paper flower making was, throughout the 19th-century,...
Applin, Esther Richards | "Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Coastal Plain of Texas and Louisiana"
£150.00
Overview & Condition Offprint of the paper proving that microfossils could be used to date the layers of the Earth’s crust and identify potential oil-bearing zones, a key insight...
Applin, Paul L. & Esther R. | "Regional Subsurface Stratigraphy and Structure of Florida and Southern Georgia"
£75.00
Overview & Condition Offprint. Presentation copy inscribed on the upper wrapper, “Compliments of the authors”, one of whom was responsible for a key insight of modern geology, that microfossils...
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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...
Audios | Early-20th century telescoping ear trumpet in faux tortiseshell
£500.00
Overview & Condition An elegant telescoping ear trumpet produced by the French firm Audios, which specialised in hearing aids during the first half of the 20th century. Like many...
Beight, Mary Catherine Grady | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Archive
£2,500.00
Overview & Condition Due to this archive's size and weight, additional shipping costs will apply. Please contact us for details.An incredible archive documenting the work of NASA’s Jet Propulsion...
Bellamy, H. S. | Moon, Myths and Man. A Reinterpretation.
£75.00
Overview & Condition Second edition, revised and augmented. Originally published in 1936. An attractive copy in the striking jacket.Hans Schindler Bellamy (1901-1982) was a populariser of the unorthodox “Glazial-Kosmogonie”...
Bonnevie, Kristine | "Chromosomenstudien III
£250.00
Overview & Condition Offprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper, “Schrader, with kind regards of the author”. Cell biologist Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1949) was Norway’s first...
Boole, Mary Everest | The Mathematical Psychology of Gatry and Boole
£175.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. Author Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was the daughter of a rector who encouraged her interest in mathematics. At eighteen the logician George...
Boos, C. Maynard & Margaret Fuller | "Tectonics of Eastern Flank and Foothills of Front Range, Colorado"
£150.00
Overview & Condition Offprint inscribed by Margaret Boos on the title, “To Sherman Wengerd, with appreciation for his prompt and careful editing of the manuscript, Margaret and Maynard Boos”....
Bowman, Martie | Calendar for 1936 depicting pilot Martie Bowman in her WACO INF biplane.
£650.00
Overview & Condition A remarkable piece of early aviation ephemera, this calendar was produced as a Christmas greeting by the early female aviator Marguerite (Martie) Bowman (1901-1985) and her...
English, Douglas | The Douglas English Nature Books No. 1. The Shrew-mouse, Dormouse...
£50.00
Overview & Condition Probable first edition of this early work of nature photography published in a more well-known version by Cassell & Co. in 1909 as One Hundred Photographs...
European Space Agency | METEOSAT Users’ Guide
£100.00
Overview & Condition An uncommon, early user’s guide to METEOSAT, the European Space Agency’s meteorological satellite network, published in 1976 or early 1977, just before the system’s first satellite...
Feynman, Richard & Steven Weinberg | Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics
£500.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression. Signed by Steven Weinberg on the title page, and with the ownership signature of NASA astrophysicist Dr. Patricia (Padi) Boyd. These two...
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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...
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...
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...
NASA | Space Science and the Physics Teacher
£150.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition of this uncommon early pamphlet on the American space programme for high school and university science teachers, published only five years after...
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New Luna Conveyance Company. [New Omnibus Company — Capital £12.00.000.000.]
£150.00
Overview & Condition An imaginative lithographic cartoon depicting a “New Luna Conveyance Company” omnibus carrying passengers “to the Moon” and advertising routes “to the Seven Stars” and “the Milky...
Rutherford, Ernest | Radio-Activity
£550.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of "the first textbook on radioactivity, surveying contemporary knowledge of the entire field" (Dibner 51), by Ernest Rutherford, the scientist who discovered...
Shetterly, Margot Lee | Hidden Figures
£250.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. Signed and dated “3.25.18” by the author on the title. Beginning during the Second World War, around four dozen African American women...
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...
Suryaninov, Ruben. Greenham Common — Peace
£750.00
Overview & Condition A stylish and uncommon Soviet agitprop poster celebrating the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. During the early 1980s, in response to Soviet arms stockpiling in Eastern...
The American Products Company | Zanol. The Better Way to Buy. Catalog No. 20
£450.00
Overview & Condition A beautiful, 78 page chromolithographic catalogue for the American Products Company’s Zanol line of cosmetics, food products, and home goods, including 16 pages in full colour....
War Manpower Commission | Women in the War—We Can't Win Without Them
£1,750.00
Overview & Condition An original Second World War poster promoting women in the wartime workforce, produced in 1942 by the War Manpower Commission. At the time, “Women in the...
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[Embrace the Base] Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Invite Women to Take Part in an International Action
£1,750.00
Overview & Condition A rare poster advertising Embrace the Base, one of the key mass actions at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. We have been able to locate...
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