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A TREATISE ON THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 39768More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
Alexander von Humboldt: Bibliographie seiner ab 1860 in deutscher Sprache herausgegebenen Werke und der seit 1900 erschienenen Veröffentlichungen über ihn;
Leipzig: Deutsche Bucherei, 1959. Card covers with flaps. pp (47). Tipped in colour portrait. Damp stain and short tear to lower outer corner of front cover; creases to fore corners throughout; bit of wear to head of spine; a good, clean copy otherwise. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Quarto
Book ID: 51054More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
AN ESSAY ON DEW, and several appearances connected with it. (Along with 10 other meterological pamphlets)
Edition: First US Edition
Book ID: 38416More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
AN ESSAY ON THE DISORDERS OF OLD AGE and on the means for prolonging human life
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 33625More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY. In a Series of Letters from a Preceptor to his Pupil....Illustrated with Copper-Plates. The Second Edition, Corrected and Improved.
London: J. Johnson, 1787. Second edition, enlarged (first edition was in 1786). Old brown calf sides with more recent rebacking in tan calf with two labels. pp (viii), (438), (2, ads), (2, blank) + frontispiece and 19 folding plates (complete). No half-title leaf. Surface of sides rubbed away, leaving the leather like reverse calf; outer corners worn; inner hinges neatly repaired with rice paper; misfolding to many of the plates, some with a bit of wear & darkening to fore margins but images unaffected; VG otherwise, tight in the binding. Bonnycastle was Mathematical Master and Lecturer in Geography and Philosophy at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He also published instructional books of arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. The present title was reprinted a number of times.
Book ID: 8915More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
ESSAYS ON LIFE, ART AND SCIENCE. Edited by R.A. Streatfeild
Edition: First Edition
London: Grant Richards, 1904. Paper issue of the Colonial Library issue. Octavo, light green card covers printed in black. pp (xii), (340). Bit of fading to spine and margins of covers; spine has very small chips at head; endpapers are brown and brittle; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; yellowing to page edges; in all, a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. The present book is the last title in the list of Grant Richards's Colonial Library on rear cover. A posthumously published collection of 9 essays, the last of which is "The Deadlock in Darwinism" (pp 234-340). An uncommon title in a particularly uncommon issue.
Book ID: 42660More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
EVOLUTION: Its Science and Doctrine. Symposium Presented to the Royal Society of Canada in 1959. L'Evolution: Colloque présenté à la Société Royale du Canada en 1959.
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1960. Red cloth. (xii), 242, [2] pp. One folding chart, diagrams in text. VG copy, no previous owner marks. Dust jacket has large chips, damp stains; fair. A symposium organized to commemorate the centenary of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 20 articles (one in French), including "Samuel Butler and Evolution" by Claude Bissell.
Book ID: 15502More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
FRANCIS BACON AND THE RHETORIC OF NATURE
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 43655More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
New York: Harmony, c1996. 6th printing. Fine in fine jacket. 0517703947
Book ID: 47103More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
GEOLOGY, HISTORY AND POTENTIAL OF VANCOUVER ISLAND COAL DEPOSITS (Report and 17 figures)
Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, 1971. (viii), 49 pp + folding map in pouch at rear. VG clean copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location. ; Octavo
Book ID: 25705More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
HEREDITARY GENIUS: An inquiry into its laws and consequences
Book ID: 35908More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
Histoire de l'astronomie moderne depuis la fondation de l’école d’Alexandrie, jusqu’a le l’époque de M.D.CC.XXX. Nouvelle édition. (3 volume set)
Book ID: 33183More details Price: USD $1,500.00 USD $1,350.00
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HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SCIENCE
Edition: First printing
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970. Grey cloth. pp xx, 384. Index. Minor foxing to the top page edges, else fine, no owner marks, in a VG jacket. Volume V, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. ; Octavo 0816605920
Book ID: 53616More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
HOURS OF EXERCISE INTHE ALPS
New York: Appleton, 1896. Later printing. Original brown decorated cloth stamped in black and blind, spine gilt lettered. pp (xii), 473, [5] + 7 full-page woodcut illustrations. Cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; faint spotting on rear cover; else a nearly fine, bright, tight and unworn copy, no owner names.; Octavo
Book ID: 27013More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Edition: First printing
New York: Knopf, 2005. Octavo, cloth & boards. pp (561). Notes, bibliography, index. Fine in fine jacket. 0679426086
Book ID: 46258More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
INVENTORS AT WORK. With chapters on discovery
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. Second (?) printing (first was in 1906). Green cloth. pp (xxiv), 503, [3] + frontispiece portrait of Alexander Graham Bell, with tissue guard and many other plates and text illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers and tissue guard, yellowing to page edges, four word rubber stamp to blank recto of frontispiece, small rubber stamped date on front free endpaper; else a fine, bright copy. Iles was a Canadian. This title not in Watters, but others by him are. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 39828More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
John William Dawson: Faith, Hope and Science
Edition: First printing
Montreal & Kingston: McGill - Queens University Press, 1996. Octavo, black cloth. pp (22), 274. Photos, notes, index. Fine in fine jacket. Biography of J.W. Dawson, 1820-99, the great Canadian geologist, principal of McGill for forty years, tireless promoter of science in Canada. 077351368X
Book ID: 45533More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
LIBELLUS DE RE HERBARIA 1538. THE NAMES OF HERBES 1548. Facsimiles with introductory matter by James Britten, D. Dayton Jackson, & W. T. Stearn
Edition: First Edition
London: The Ray Society, 1965. Octavo, dark blue cloth. pp (x), (277). Small private owner name rubber stamped on front free endpaper; book has a musty odour (will disappear over time), but no damp stains; else fine. Dust jacket has edge nicks, VG. Reprints "the first two printed books relating to the British flora which have any claim to originality." Turner, a clergyman, physician, herbalist, and naturalist "has long been honoured as the 'father of British botany' ".
Book ID: 35222More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
LUCK, OR CUNNING, as the main means of organic modification? An attempt to throw additional light upon Darwin's theory of natural selection
London: Fifield, 1920. Second edition, re-set, with the author's corrections and additions to index. Octavo, blue cloth. pp 282, (2, ads). Light damp spotting to front and rear cover; yellowing and light foxing to endpapers; yellowing to page edges; rubber stamped private owner name at front, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy.
Book ID: 33486More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: a bibliographical catalogue of historical and rare books from the 15th to the 20th century. Catalogue no. 91
London: Wm. Dawson & Sons, 1956. Card covers. pp 610, (4, ads) + 68 plates on 34 leaves, some illustrations in text. Covers have been laminated; just a few red ink notes in text margins; VG otherwise. An extensive and useful reference by a distinguished antiquarian bookseller. 1.1 kg parcel. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51106More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96