Scienza e natura

Butterflies and Moths of the United Kingdom.

KIRBY, EGMONT W. · 1928 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.49 | $37.07 | ¥5,924)

London: George Routledge and Sons Ltd, nd. (c.1928). Third edition. With a Systematic Arrangement of Families and Genera, Indexes of Scientific and Popular Names, and 70 Coloured Plates. Pp.lii/468, 70 coloured plates, occasional minor spotting mainly affecting closed page edg...

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny. Being Parts of Pliny's "Natural History" Edited for Boys and Girls, with an Introduction.

WHITE, JOHN S. (EDITOR). · 1885 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.84 | $52.96 | ¥8,463)

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press,1885. 1st edition. Natural History of Pliny. Contents: I.Dedication; II.An Account of the World and the Elements; III.Man, His Birth and His Organization; IV.The Nature of Terrestrial Animals; V.Domestic Animals; VI.The Natur...

Round the Year with Enid Blyton: Winter Book.

BLYTON, ENID. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£8.50 (€10.17 | $11.25 | ¥1,798)

London: Evans Brothers Ltd, nd. (c.1934). A Year's Nature Study in Four Books of which this is the fourth. 19.5cms x 13.5cms. Pp.96, many black & white photos and figure illustrations, endpapers browned, top corner of front free endpaper clipped. Green illustrated card covers ...

Round the Year with Enid Blyton: Summer Book.

BLYTON, ENID. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.96 | $13.24 | ¥2,116)

London: Evans Brothers Ltd, nd. (c.1934). A Year's Nature Study in Four Books of which this is the second. 19.5cms x 13.5cms. Pp.96, many black & white photos and figure illustrations, endpapers browned, top corner of front free endpaper clipped. Fawn illustrated card covers (...

The First Men in the Moon.

WELLS, H.G. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.98 | $6.62 | ¥1,058)

London: Transworld / Corgi, 1960. "The prophetic triumph of man over Nature's ultimate frontier." 16cms x 10.5cms. Pp. 188, pages toned. Paperback, edges rubbed, crease to top front corner. G+.

Lime Creek Odyssey.

MEYERS, STEVEN J. · 2016 · Chilton Books

£6.50 (€7.77 | $8.61 | ¥1,375)

Portland: Westwinds Press, 2016. 9780871083258. "First drawn to Lime Ceek for its fly fishing, this stream serves as Meyers's muse in seven transcendent essays that explore journeys in the discovery of self, of home, and what it means to be human. The essays also explore loss ...

Atlas of Mammals in Britain.

ARNOLD, H.R. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.95 | $16.55 | ¥2,645)

London: HMSO, 1994. 0117016675. ITE Research Publication No.6. "Over 115,000 sightings records of British mammals have been collected between 1959 and 1991..Each mammal species is described individually, a table provides basic record details, and a clear map illustrates the ma...

A Flora of Suffolk.

SANFORD, MARTIN AND FISK, RICHARD. · 2010 · Chilton Books

£90.00 (€107.63 | $119.16 | ¥19,043)

Ipswich: D.K and M.N. Sanford, 2010. 980956458407. 1st edition. "Attractively illustrated throughout, with a lively text, useful identification tips, historicl notes and anecdotal information on past uses. Covers over 2,500 species and hybrids of plants and 400 mosses recorded...

A Manual Of Qualitative Analysis. By Robert Galloway, F.C.S., Fourth Edition. Revised and Enlarged.

GALLOWAY, ROBERT . · 1810 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.68 | $105.92 | ¥16,927)

London: John Churchill And Sons, New Burlington Street, MDCCCLXIV. A very good tight binding. 8vo. pp.16/pp.331 . Original cloth binding rebacked at some time in the past. Original yellow endpapers. Library label to the verso of the front board: "Worcestershire Medical Society...

A New Model of the Universe.

OUSPENSKY, P.D. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.94 | $19.86 | ¥3,174)

New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1948. Reprint of the second, revised edition. Contents include: I.Esotericism and Modern Thought; II.The Fourth Dimension;III.Superman; IV.Christianity and the New Testament; V.The Symbolism of the Tarot; VI.What is Yoga? VII.On the Study of Dreams an...

Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade. (2 Volume set).

GALLOWAY, ROBERT L. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.86 | $46.34 | ¥7,405)

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. Originally published in 1898 and 1904 by The Colliery Gaurdian Company Ltd. The Work has been universally accepted as one of the finest technical histories of any British industry and almost all later writers on coal mining have been indebt...

The Age of Electricity: From Amber-Soul to Telephone

PARK, BENJAMIN . · 1886 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.41 | $63.55 | ¥10,156)

London: Published by Cassell and Company, Limited, (no date c.1886) . 0. First edition. [Publication from date from 'Preface' - 1886]. pp.8/pp.381/[16pp. - Adverts] Modern red cloth binding. Briight gilt titles to spine: "The Age of Electricity - Benjamin". Later black endpape...

A Practical View of the Amendments Needful in the existing Weights And Measures of the United Kingdom. (Being an Article from No. 31 of the Westminster Review) .

CLARK, PROFESSOR THOMAS (1801- 1867) - SIGNED LETTER. · 1833 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.68 | $105.92 | ¥16,927)

Glasgow : Printed and Published at the Glasgow Argus Office, D. Robertson, Glasgow; Wm. Tait, Edinburgh, 1833 . 0. An original 19th century pamphlet . Inside the front cover (and on the recto of the last leaf) is the original postal cover with an intact red wax seal and the ad...

Time and its Importance in Modern Thought.

CLEUGH, M.F. · 1937 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.88 | $39.72 | ¥6,348)

London: Methuen & Co.Ltd, 1937. 1st edition. Contents: Part One. Analysis: I.Psychology; II.Physics; III.Logic; IV.Metaphysics - Kant; V.Metaphysics - Bergson; VI.Metaphysics - Alexander; VII.Metaphysics - McTaggart; VIII.Metaphysics - Dunne. Part Two. Synthesis. IX.Prediction...

It's Like This...500 Years of Pictures for Science.

CITY OF NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.57 | $10.59 | ¥1,693)

ottingham: W.H.Knapp Limited, 1974. Exhibition organised for the 1974 Nottingham Festival. "All the pictures in this exhibition were produced in the first place to reveal or to demonstrate an aspect of nature, or of a technological enterprise. They have not been chosen to illu...

Kearton's Nature Pictures Beautifully Reproduced In Photogravure, Colour, and Black and White from photographs By Richard and Cherry Kearton.

KEARTON, RICHARD (1862-1928) / KEARTON, CHERRY (1871-1940) . · 1910 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.68 | $105.92 | ¥16,927)

London: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1910 . 0. Deluxe half leather binding. First edition. 30cm x 23.0cm x 3.3cm. Matching black leather spine and corners over green buckram covered bords. Each spine 5 raised bands, gilt volume number and original red leather title label: "Ke...

Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary. With a Prefatory Note by Her Grace The Duchess of Bedford.

PATTERSON, ARTHUR H. · 1907 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.41 | $63.55 | ¥10,156)

London: Methuen & Co, 36 Essex Street, 1907 . 0. First edition. A good tight binding. pp.15/1p.]/pp.352/pp.40 [Catalogue of books]. Original blue cloth with bright gilt titles to front board. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine dulled with gilt titles and small white blemis...

A Lecture on Mendelism.

DRINKWATER, H. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.96 | $13.24 | ¥2,116)

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1910. 1st edition. Lecture delivered as one of a series of "Science Lectures for the People". Mendelism is the biological theory of heredity first propounded by Gregor Mendel. Pp.31, portrait frontispiece + 4 further black & white photo plates and ...

Guide to the Sun.

PHILLIPS, KENNETH J.H. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.90 | $33.10 | ¥5,290)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 052139788X. "With the minimum of technicalities, the author describes our present understanding of the sun's surface and atmosphere, its interior, and its interaction with the rest of the solar system, in particular with the earth."...

I Watch and Listen. A Book About Birds.

PRICE, NANCY. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.94 | $19.86 | ¥3,174)

London: The Bodley Head, 1957. 1st edition. Nancy Price's love of Birds, inherited from her parents who had a bird sanctuary in the grounds of their home, has developed through a long life of watching and listening. In this book she writes not for the expert ornithologist but ...