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The Selfish Gene. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

DAWKINS Richard · 1976

£720.00 (€862.37 | $968.45 | ¥153,014)

Oxford University Press, 1976. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright, clean copy of the true first edition of the one of the most important scientific works of the twentieth century. The first edition was followed shortl...

Horology in Provincial and Rural Museums. NEAR FINE COPY

STEVENS John C. · 1974

£8.00 (€9.58 | $10.76 | ¥1,700)

Antiquarian Horological Society, 1974. 8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Antiquarian Horological Society, Monograph No. 7.

Lectures on Diseases of the Spinal Cord. Translated by Montagu Lubbock.

MARIE Pierre · 1895

£172.00 (€206.01 | $231.35 | ¥36,553)

New Sydenham Society, 1895. 8vo., First English Edition, with 244 woodcut illustrations in the text; original cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, red edges, upper hinge cracked (but binding wholly sound) an unusually bright, clean copy. Dedicated to Marie's fellow prac...

Atoms, Molecules and Ether Waves [in] Longman's Magazine. Volume 1, November 1882. FIRST PUBLICATION OF TYNDALL'S SEMINAL ESSAY

TYNDALL John · 1882

£95.00 (€113.78 | $127.78 | ¥20,189)

Longman's Magazine, 1882. 12pp., 8vo., First Edition; modern grey boards, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. First publication of Tyndall's essay. Here he describes the bulding blocks of matter, introduces the concept of luminiferous ether, and promotes th...

A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments, depending in the Relations of Air to Heat and Moisture. SYDNEY ROSS'S COPY OF LESLIE ON AIR, HEAT AND MOISTURE

LESLIE John · 1813

£700.00 (€838.42 | $941.54 | ¥148,763)

William Blackwood [and others], Edinburgh and London, 1813. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved plate of instruments; strongly bound in twentieth-century navy cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, patterned endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With the bookpl...

Survey of the Moon. NEAR FINE COPY WITH POSTCARD AND FDC SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

MOORE Patrick · 1963

£140.00 (€167.68 | $188.31 | ¥29,753)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and diagrams in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper laminated to book. WITH T.PC.s MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A FINE COPY OF THE OFF...

Engineering Distributors and Steel Stockholders. Catalogue 1961. A RARE SURVIVAL. NEAR FINE COPY WITH SUPPLEMENT

H.S.S. Ltd. · 0

£46.00 (€55.10 | $61.87 | ¥9,776)

H.S.S. Ltd., Teddington, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations throughout; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. With the separately printed Surcharges and Discounts applicable to 1961 Catalogue List Price...

Principles of Ignition. A Description of the main Facts and Theories relating to the Ignition of inflammable Gas Mixtures by Sparks, Flames, Incandescent Solids and other Sources. NEAR FINE COPY

MORGAN J. D. · 1944

£30.00 (€35.93 | $40.35 | ¥6,376)

Pitman, 1944. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

The Services' Textbook of Electrical Engineering. [Complete set.]. THE SERVICES' ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPLETE

SERVICES' TEXTBOOK OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING · 19561976

£220.00 (€263.50 | $295.91 | ¥46,754)

HMSO, 1956 [-1976]. 5 vols., in 6, 8vo., with very numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout; original blue buckram, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, first volume sunned at backstrip else a near fine set. The set comprises: Vol. 1: Electrical Fundamentals (19...

Elementary Principles of Continuous-Current Dynamo Design. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

HOBART H. M. · 0

£98.00 (€117.38 | $131.82 | ¥20,827)

Whittaker, n.d.. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous charts (a number folding) and tables throughout, neat uniform contemporary signature on front free endpaper and title; navy cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, primrose endpapers, covers lightly a...

Statics. Including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY

LAMB Horace · 1924

£28.00 (€33.54 | $37.66 | ¥5,951)

University Press, Cambridge, 1924. 8vo., Second Edition, with diagrams throughout, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

Optics. Second Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

FINCHAM W. H. A. · 1936

£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)

Hatton Press, 1936. 8vo., Second Edition, with plates, illustrations and diagrams throughout, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, pencilled annotation on rear endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.

The Heat-Treatment and Annealing of Aluminium and its Alloys. With a Foreword by D. Hanson. NEAR FINE COPY

BUDGEN N. F. · 1932

£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)

Chapman & Hall, 1932. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and diagrams throughout, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, upper board blocked in blind, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Aluminium. The Metal and its Alloys. (A Critical Descriptive Treatise). Including Chapter on 'Structurography' prepared in collaboration with J.R. Vilella. NEAR FINE COPY

CORSON M. G. · 1926

£70.00 (€83.84 | $94.15 | ¥14,876)

Van Nostrand, New York, 1926. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and diagrams throughout, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; maroon buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.

Aluminium Facts and Figures. Section I: Sheet Coiled Strip and Circles [with] Section II: Extrusions [with] Section III: Tubes [with] Section IV: Casting Alloys and Hardeners. [Complete set.] FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDNG

BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY Ltd. · 1955555550

£80.00 (€95.82 | $107.61 | ¥17,002)

British Aluminium Company, Ltd., 1955-55-55-50. 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams and tables throughout; original blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in silver, a fine set. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

William Osler. A Life in Medicine. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BLISS Michael · 1999

£36.00 (€43.12 | $48.42 | ¥7,651)

Oxford University Press, [New York], 1999. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece and plates; pale green boards, grey cloth back lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Cosmic Rays and Mesotrons. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

BRADDICK H. J. J. · 1939

£12.00 (€14.37 | $16.14 | ¥2,550)

University Press, Cambridge, 1939. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; printed wrappers, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.

Chemical Manipulation. Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry on the Methods of performing Experiments of Demonstration, or of Research, with Accuracy and Success. [Second Edition.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION

FARADAY Michael · 1829

£440.00 (€527.00 | $591.83 | ¥93,508)

John Murray, 1829. 8vo., Second Edition, with small illustrations in the text, faint bookplate scar on front paste-down, [signature] erasure on front free endpaper leaving three-inch tear (but endpaper wholly sound); strongly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, ba...

A Treatise on Mine-Surveying. Thirteenth Edition, Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

BROUGH Bennett H. · 1913

£106.00 (€126.96 | $142.58 | ¥22,527)

Charles Griffin, 1913. 8vo., Thirteenth Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout, contemporary name on front free endpaper verso; original red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly rebacked with o...

Iron and Steel. A Treatise on the Smelting, Refining and Mechanical Processes of the Iron and Steel Industry. Second Printing. NEAR FINE COPY

OBERG Erik · 1920

£40.00 (€47.91 | $53.80 | ¥8,501)

Industrial Press, New York NY, 1920. 8vo., Second Impression, with photographs nin the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, chocolate endpapers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.