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A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY IN THE 16TH & 17TH CENTURIES...Second edition, prepared by Douglas McKie
New York: Harper, 1959. Two volumes, octavo, card covers. Illustrated. Remainder stripe to bottom page edge, else a VG clean and unworn pair, no owner marks. Reprint of the 1950 second edition.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 46319More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY IN THE 18TH CENTURY. Second edition, revised by D.McKie
New York: Harper, 1961. Two volumes, octavo, card covers. Illustrated. Remainder stripes to bottom page edge, bruise to lower outer corners of first half of volume I, else a VG clean and unworn pair, no owner marks. Reprint of the 1952 second edition.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 46320More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A TREATISE ON THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
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
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 8915More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
Conceptual Revolutions
Edition: First printing
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. Black cloth. pp 285, index. Fine in fine jacket. Draws on history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutions.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49993More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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 essay, the last of which is "The Deadlock in Darwinism" (pp 234-340). An uncommon title in a particularly uncommon issue.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15502More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
FRANCIS BACON AND THE RHETORIC OF NATURE
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
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.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 25705More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
HEREDITARY GENIUS: An inquiry into its laws and consequences
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
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)
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 33183More details Price: USD $1,500.00 USD $1,350.00 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 27013More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
HOW TO BUILD A PERSON: a prolegomenon
Edition: First printing
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. Black cloth. pp (xiv), 189. Index. Fine in fine jacket. "Pollock describes an exciting theory of rationality and its partial implementation in OSCAR, a computer system who descendents will literally be persons." - jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43668More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
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.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46258More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
IDEAS IN EXILE: a history of Canadian invention
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40708More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
IN JOY STILL FELT: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov 1954-1978
Edition: First printing
New York: Doubleday, 1980. Cloth & boards. pp (xii), 828 + photos; index. Rubber stamp inside front cover; covers a little bowed; slight yellowing to page edges; corner crease to some leaves at rear; else a VG unworn copy. Price-clipped jacket has small tears, VG generally. His second volume of autobiography, readable, as usual with Asimov. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50251More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96