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
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
Berkeley CA: Thames and Hudson, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick Large Quarto (12 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches). xx + 320pp. Fine two toned cloth - green spine over black boards, color illustratied photo-panel inset into upper board, white titling to spine, colour and b&w illustrations, index. A massive, lavishly-illustrated..... More
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
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 text written in the Occitan lanuage in Languedoc. The..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 166 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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 84 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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 68 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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 78 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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 104 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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 72pp. 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
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 76 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
New York: The Julian Press, 1972. First US Edition. Hard cover. Octavo. xxiv + 142pp. Original cloth gilt-lettered on spine, gilt device on front board. An advanced theorem of Boolean calculus. Minor foxing to top-edge, page ix (one page only) has pen annotations in margins & underlining to three lines..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 358pp. Gilt-lettered black cloth spine, brown papered boards. Index. Several b/w illustrations. An explanation of the claim by geneticists that they have traced mankind to one common ancestor, a woman who lived in sub-Saharan Africa 200,000 years..... More
