Bombay: Hind Kitabs, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. vi + 74pp. Original cloth lettered on spine & front board. B/w frontis. & plates. The author, Prof. Shriman Narayan Agarwal, was an ardent supporter of Gandhi, who wrote a number of books, such as this, which promoted Gandhian thought as... More about The Two Worlds
München: Georg Müller, 1913. First editions thus. Hardcovers. Two volume set. Octavos, Vol. I: (x) liv + 322pp., Vol. II: viii + 294pp. Original half leather over marbled paper boards, gilt decorations to spines, leather labels with gilt titles. A German translation of Agrippa's De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et..... More about Die Eitelkeit Und Unsicherheit Der Wissenschaften Und Die Verteidigungsschrift Herausgegeben Von...
Melbourne, Australia: Ford & Son, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 108pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. B/w frontis. portrait & numerous b/w plates, many with photographic portraits of Medical School people. This book celebrates the 1914 Jubilee of the University of melbourne Medical School... More about University of Melbourne, Medical School Jubilee, 1914
Chicago, IL: The Hood Medical Book Co., (1901). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large, thick octavo. xxxii + 1072pp. Green decorated cloth, with titling in red and black to spine and front boards. Patterned edges. Line drawings in text. A massive work on diseases, their causes, cure, and management, with some... More about The Practical Family Physician: A Complete Treatise on the Human System - the Habits of Men and...
Liverpool: Cope Brothers & Co, 1892. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. [viii], 59pp, [v: adverts]. Original colour illustrated wrappers, b&w and duo-tone adverts and illustrations, b&w frontis, title page printed in red and black. A short history of amber - concentrating heavily on amber in myth and literature - apparently..... More about Amber. All About It; Cope's Smokeroom Booklets no. 7
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 422pp. Charcoal cloth with silver titling to spine, b&w illustrations, extensive List of Sources, index. "A surprisingly detailed work.. drawing on forty years of knowledge and experience, Henry N. Andrews examines the history of paleobotany with an eye for..... More about The Fossil Hunters. In Search of Ancient Plants
Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xcii +134pp. Printed wrappers, glossary, indexes and bibliography. FRENCH text. A critical edition, with commentaries and parallel French language text, of "Le Rosier Alchimique de Montpellier" a fourteenth century alchemical written in the Occitan lanuage in Languedoc. The work... More about Le Rosier Alchimique de Montpellier, Lo Rosari: (XIVe siecle). Textes, Traduction, notes et...
London: George Routledge, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii + 200pp. + 8pp. [reviews of the author's 'The Reign of Law']. Purple cloth gilt-lettered on spine, gilt face profile design on front board. Refutation of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, which had featured in his 'Origin of Species' in... More about Primeval Man: An Examination of some Recent Speculations
Venice: Alfieri Editore / La Biennale di Venezia, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 236pp. Stiff wrappers with original glassine dust jacket overwrap, illustrated in black and titled in red. Well illustrated in b&w. ENGLISH and ITALIAN parallel text. Exhibition held at Magazzini del Sale alle Zattere, Venezia, 6 settembre -... More about Le Macchine Celibi / The Bachelor Machines. La Biennale di Venezia Magazzini del Sale alle Zattere
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii + 409pp. Black cloth with gilt titling to spine; frontis, index. A major recent study of Bacon, scientist, historian and natural philosopher. Fine condition in Near Fine dust jacket. (Just a hint of rubbing to jacket). More about Francis Bacon: History, Politics & Science, 1562-1626
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv + 372pp. Full leather library binding, raised bands, gilt rules & lettering on spine. Both the front and rear boards have the seal of "The Society of Writers to the Signet" - a prestigious private society... More about Natural Evidence of a Future Life, derived from the Properties and Actions of Animate and...
London: Isbister, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 372pp. Gilt-lettered black cloth spine, blue cloth boards with gilt astronomical design on front board. All-edges-gilt. B/w frontis. & several plates. Index. Spine frayed at bottom, top of spine chafed, wear to edges of boards. boards marked & discolored, previous owner name... More about In Starry Realms
London: Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1906. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Large octavo. Eccentrically paginated (Approx. 190). Original printed wrappers, b&w illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the front cover: "To the S.R.I.A. with the author's compliments" thus from the library of the Society Rosicruciana in Anglia with their bookplate on..... More about William Harvey, Physician and Biologist: His Precursors, Opponents and Successors. - Parts I - V...
Hildesheim: Olm-Weidmann, 2002. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. Eccentrically paginated [ Approx. 550pp ]. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and to spine. GERMAN TEXT A nicely produced facsimile of the 1680 Frankfurt edition of "Experimentum Chymicum Novum" by the German alchemist and scientist Johann Joachim Becher (1635... More about Experimentum Chymicum Novum oder Neue Chymische Prob, worinnen die künstliche gleich-darstellige...
London / Birmingham: Ward & Lock / Showell, 1856 / 1842. Hardcover. Small octavo. 58 + 108pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. B/w frontis. Two early works on the blind, bound together. A contemporary leaflet advertising a public lecture by John Bird has been... More about The Autobiography Of The Blind James Wilson. With a Preliminary Essay On His Life, Character...
Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi + 82pp. Cloth. 'Sovietica' series. Index. Top-edge a little dusty, otherwise a clean VG+ copy in Good + dust jacket (Dust jacket slightly darkened & rubbed, pencil annotation on front panel). More about Soviet Philosophy: A General Introduction to Contemporary Soviet Thought
New York: W. W. Norton, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 102pp. + 2pp. ads. Original blue cloth lettered in red on spine, red device on upper board. B/w text illustrations. An unusual study of the mechanics of memory, by William Robert Bousfield (1854 – 1943), a Cambridge-educated scientist who... More about The Basis of Memory
New York: W. W. Norton, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 102pp. + 2pp. ads. Original blue cloth lettered in red on spine, red device on upper board. B/w text illustrations. An unusual study of the mechanics of memory, by William Robert Bousfield (1854 – 1943), a Cambridge-educated scientist who... More about The Basis of Memory
New York: Hafner Pub. Co, 1972. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxviii +186pp. Beige cloth with black title etc printed to spine and front board. Robert Boyle ( 1627 – 1691) was an Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor who is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist... More about An Essay About the Origine and Virtues of Gems; ( Contributions to the History of Geology series...
London: Richard Phillips, 1807. Fourth edition, 'With additional practical observations.'. Hardcover, 8vo. xxiv + 376 (last three pages un-numbered adverts). Contemporary tree calf, gilt tooled on edges of boards. An important early study of asthma, drawn at least in part from the author/physician's personal experience. Chipped patch on spine where... More about A Practical Inquiry Into Disordered Respiration; Distinguishing the Species of Convulsive Asthma,...
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 100 pp. B&W illustrations. Ambix is the beautifully-produced journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC). "Founded in 1937, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all... More about AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXVIII, No....
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 70 pp. B&W illustrations. Ambix is the beautifully-produced journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC). "Founded in 1937, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all... More about AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Vol. XXIX, No. 2....
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 60pp. Ambix is the beautifully-produced journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC). "Founded in 1937, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all aspects of the... More about AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXVIII, No. 2....
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 64 pp. Ambix is the beautifully-produced journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC). "Founded in 1937, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all aspects of... More about AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXVI, Number...
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 88 pp. Ambix is the beautifully-produced journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC). "Founded in 1937, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all aspects of... More about AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry. Vol. XIX,...
