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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 -
MIND AND COSMOS: essays in contemporary science and philosophy
Edition: First printing
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1966. Black cloth. pp xviii, 362. Small soft corner bump to front cover, else fine in VG jacket. Eight lectures given in 1963-1964 by Herbert Simon, Dudley Shapere, Sylvain Bromberger, Carl Hempel, Wesley Salmon, Joseph Clark, Thomas Gold and Henry Margenau ; Octavo
Book ID: 53610More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Mission To Abisko: Stories and Myths In The Creation Of Scientific "Truth"
Edition: First printing
Reading, MA: Perseus, 1998. pp (x), 194. Fine in fine jacket. 0738200026
Book ID: 46930More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
OPERE DI FRANCESCO REDI e Accadedmico della Crusca. Seconda Edizione Napoletana corrette e migliorata ( VOLUME ONE ONLY) (ESPERIENZE INTORNO ALL GENERAZIONE DE GL' INSETTI)
Book ID: 34181More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50
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PHYSICS AND EXPERIENCE: The Henry Sidgwick Lecture Delivered at Newham College, Cambridge 10 November 1945
Edition: First Edition
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1946. Stapled in buff card covers. Ink name to upper margin of front cover, soft crease to rear cover, VG otherwise. ; Octavo; (26), [2] pages
Book ID: 56022More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
PIONEERS OF CANADIAN SCIENCE. Symposium presented to the Royal Society of Canada in 1964.
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1966. (xiv), 146 pp, red cloth stamped in gilt. Fine copy. Articles in English and French on L'Abbé Léon Provancher, George Lawson, Rev. Dr. James Bovell, J.W. Dawson, and more. Number 9 in the Royal Society of Canada's "Studia Varia" series.; Octavo.
Book ID: 55881More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
PIONEERS OF CANADIAN SCIENCE. Symposium presented to the Royal Society of Canada in 1964.
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1966. (xiv), 146 pp, red cloth stamped in gilt. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, very light rubbing to corners and spine tips, otherwise fine. Dust jacket with minor edge chips and small closed tears, light surface rubbing increasing at flap folds and spine, else very good. Articles in English and French on L'Abbé Léon Provancher, George Lawson, Rev. Dr. James Bovell, J.W. Dawson, and more. Number 9 in the Royal Society of Canada's "Studia Varia" series.; Octavo.
Book ID: 20897More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON PERMAFROST, 17 and 18 April 1962. Technical Memorandum No. 76. [With] A REVIEW OF PERMAFROST INVESTIGATIONS IN CANADA. Technical Paper No. 146 of the Division of Building Research
Edition: First Edition
Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada Associate Committee on Soil and Snow Mechanics, January, 1963. Quarto, grey printed card covers, navy blue cloth spine, stapled binding, pp. 231 + 9 (Appendix), richly illustrated throughout with maps, charts, graphs, and black & white photos. Light fraying to spine ends with a 1 cm tear at both head & heel, staple puncture at top edge of upper cover, else a very good, clean, tight copy. Loosely inserted is A REVIEW OF PERMAFROST INVESTIGATIONS IN CANADA by R.J.E. Brown. Published in Ottawa, December 1962. Reprinted from The Canadian Geographer vol. VI, nos. 3-4, pp. 162-165. Cream printed wrappers, stapled binding, Fine, clean copy.
Book ID: 29391More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
RADIUM and other radio-active elements. A popular account treated experimentally
Edition: Fiist edition
London: Percival Marshall, no date (1904). Octavo, maroon cloth gilt lettered. pp 105, (7) + 20 plates. Numerous text illustrations. Slight rubbing to spine ends, offset yellowing to enpapers, else a fine, bright and tight copy, no owner names. Popular science, an early book on the subject. The Curies only discovered radium in 1898.
Book ID: 36980More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
RESEARCH IN THE ANTARCTIC. A Symposium Presented at the Dallas Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - December, 1968.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 12749More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
Edition: First printing
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Brown cloth. pp (xx), 412. Illustrated, index. Fine in fine jacket. 0297645978
Book ID: 46932More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
New York: HarperCollins. c2002. Third printing. Octavo, pp (xx), 380 + photos. Index. Fine in fine jacket. 0060184078
Book ID: 47185More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
SCIENCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA: a documentary history
Edition: First Edition
London: Macmillan, 1966. Blue-green cloth. Index. Text paper and page edges lightly yellowed; light damp stains to covers; VG clean & unworn copy otherwise. Price-clipped jacket is stained, with red lettering on spine faded away; fair. ; Octavo; xii, 339 pages
Book ID: 55895More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
Science, technology, and Canadian history. Les sciences, la technologie et l'histoire canadienne : the first Conference on the study of the history of Canadian science and technology. Kingston, Ontario
Edition: First Edition
Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980. Octavo, card covers. pp (xviii), 246. Spine has nicks and rubbing to ends, corner crease to front cover, VG otherwise. Text in English and French.
Book ID: 45591More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
SCIENTIFIC BOOKS, LIBRARIES AND COLLECTORS: a study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to science
Edition: Third Edition, revised
London: The Library Association, 1971. Brown cloth. pp x, 508 plus 17 plates; bibliography, index. Five digit number rubber stamped at front; damp spotting to top page edges, else fine. Jacket has nicks, light spine yellowing, external tape repairs at foot of spine, VG otherwise. 1 kg parcel; Octavo
Book ID: 54754More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON: his life and letters
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 49361More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
Springs of Scientific Creativity: Essays on Founders of Modern Science
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. Red cloth, pp 342. Fine, jacketless copy, no owner marks.; Octavo 0816610878
Book ID: 47335More details Price: USD $17.50 USD $15.75 -
TELEVISION
Edition: First printing
London: Pitman, 1926. 12mo, buff boards printed in black. pp 62. 12 photos & illustrations in text. Spine a little darkened, lightly rubbed, with a very small chip at foot; covers lightly dust soiled; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON TELEVISION.
Book ID: 38451More details Price: USD $650.00 USD $585.00 -
The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science
Toronto: Viking, c1998. Second printing. pp (xiv), 271, [3]. Illustrations. Very small soft corner crease to first few leaves, else a fine copy. Jacket has a small corner crease to front flap, else fine. Most interesting essays on some oddities of general science. 067087146x
Book ID: 46887More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96