Paris: Firmin Didot, 1803. viii, 543p: 555p. Contemporary full brown mottled calf. Red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Housed in a customs cloth chemises and half red morocco slipcases. First edition of Berthollet's important work on chemical composition. Claude Berthollet (1748-1822) was one of the key members of.....
Calcutta: Photo-Litho Office Survey of India, 1912. 26p. Publishers paper covered boards with a cloth spine. This paper is an amplification of the lecture given at a meeting of the Astronomical Society of India in Calcutta on February 9th, 1912. Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, (1860 - 1943) was a British.....
Philadelphia & New York: J. W. Moore, 1847. lviii, 270p. Contemporary brown cloth over boards decorated in blind. William Darlington (1782-1863) was an American botanist, physician, politician and a member of the US House of Representatives. Sabin 18593. Small round stamp of an old Swedish bookseller, Quiding Antiqvariat, Lund on.....
London: John Murray, 1892. Hardcover. viii, 394p. Contemporary calf with richly gilt spine and gilt ruled boards. Marbled end papers and foredge. Title label missing from spine. Binding signed Bickers & Sons on the inside front blank The 11th edition edited by Francis Darwin (1848-1925). Internally a fresh clean copy.....
London: C. Hitch, L. Hawes and J. Hodges, 1757. Engr. front, (2), IX, (5), 200p. Contemporary full calf. English translation of Fontanelles famous work ?Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes?, published in 1686.The fourth edition. Corners bumped and rear hinge cracked but holding. Small brown ink spot on the title.....
New York: J & J Harper, 1832. Frontispiece, vii, 248p; 62p; 100p. Contemporary sheep over boards with a gilt ruled spine and red spine label. Complete with 14 foldout plates. Robert Gibson was the Deputy Surveyor General of Ireland, 1752-1760. This work ran through numerous reprints. This edition was greatly.....
Printed for the Author. vi, 155p, vi, [2], 112p. Contemporary boards 19th century cloth spine and marbled boards. Complete with 11 foldout plates. Bound with vol II printed in 1789. Large quarto with untrimmed edges. Front board expertly rebacked preserving the original cloth spine. John Landen (1719-1790) was a celebrated.....
London: Taylor & Walton, 1842. vi, 409p. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with marbled end papers. Second edition. Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German scientist who made significant contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry. Sotheran #2617. From the Library of Baron Rangemore with bookplate covering up an earlier.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1856. 274p. Publishers original blindstamped cloth over boards. Second edition. Nicely illustrated. John Lindley 1799 ? 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Covers a little soiled and headband rubbed. Internally clean.
London: Published by Philosophical Transactions, 1667. Frontispiece, 433-448p. Disbound. An early issue of the Philosophical Transactions dealing with navigation. Partly stained on rear leaf and scattered foxing. Sir Robert Moray (1608-1673) was a Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy, and natural philosopher. Scarce.
Ioh. Fridericum Gleditsch. Hardcover. 746p, [30]. Volume XV in the series with four parts bound in one volume with separate title pages dated 1768, 1769, 1769 and 1770. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbelised boards. A one inch tear in the spine and some wear to the headband otherwise internally a......
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 1st Edition. Audio Book (CD). viii, 387p, [4]. Contemporary calf over speckled boards with marbled end papers. 1st edition of Louis Pasteur's (1822-1895) work on fermentation of beer. Contemporary booksellers label of Jacques LeChevalier, Paris on the inside front board. Complete with 12 engraved plates. Morton #2485.....
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1912. 23p. Marbled paper covered boards with marbled end papers. Old library sticker at the foot and two rubber stamps with Arabic text otherwise internally clean.
Paris: Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1675. xvi, [4], 624p, [4], ten foldout plates. Contemporary calf with richly gilt spine and marbled end papers. Second edition. Sigaud de Lafond (1730-1810) began his education by studying for the priesthood, but later he decided to become a physician instead. Sigaud attended a course.....
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1813. Frontispiece, xii, 439: Frontispiece, x, 281p, 213p. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Complete with two frontispieces and nine plates in addition to tables and charts. Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835) was a Scottish politician, military officer and writer. Lowndes Volume V. p2404. This copy made its.....
London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford Printers to the Royal Society, 1695. No Binding. 41-78p. One plate. Articles include A most compendium and facile Method for Constructing the Logarithms, exemplified and demonstrated from the Nature of Numbers, without any regards to the Hyperbola; with a speedy Method for.....
London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford Printers to the Royal Society, 1696. No Binding. Engraved frontispiece, 221-264p. Includes among "An Account of an Extraordinary Meteor, or kind of Dew resembling Butter, that fell last WInter and Spring, in the Provinces of Minster and Leinster, in Ireland. Also includes.....
London: Printed for S. Smith, and B. Walford Printers to the Royal Society, 1696. No Binding. Engraved frontispiece, 265-296p. Articles include an early account of the 'SUPERCENTENARIAN' Henry Jenkins. "A Letter giving an Account of one Henry Jenkins, a Yorkshire Man, who Attained the Age of 169 Years. Communicated by.....
Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford Printers to the Royal Society, 1697. No Binding. 525-560p. Includes a Letter from Dr. Richardson containing a Relation of Subterranean Trees, Dug up at Youl in Yorkshire. A couple of spots in the text affecting a few letters. Top margin a little closely.....
London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford Printers to the Royal Society, 1697. No Binding. Engraved frontispiece, 557-592p. Includes an Extract of all Persons that did, in 1695, in Frankfurt on the Maine consummate Matrimony receive Baptism, and were Buried Communicated by Dr. Fred Slare. Engraved frontispiece is detached.....
London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford Printers to the Royal Society, 1697. No Binding. Engraved frontispiece, 673-736p. Articles includes A Catalogue of some Guinea Plants, with their Native Names and Virtues. Some light marginal browning. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford Printers to the Royal Society, 1697. No Binding. Engraved frontispiece, 737-776p. Includes an article about Roman Antiquities found in Yorkshire. Marginal staining throughout. Last leaf detached. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New Brunswick: J. Simpson and Co. 411p. Contemporary sheep over boards. Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751-1819) was an early defender of the unity of mankind. He was also the seventh President of Princeton University 1795-1812. The significantly revised second edition of Smith's essay on the genetic unity of man. First published.....
New Brunswick: J. Simpson and Co, 1810. 411p. Contemporary boards. Spine covered in binders tape. Untrimmed edges. Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751-1819) was an early defender of the unity of mankind. He was also the seventh President of Princeton University 1795-1812. The significantly revised second edition of Smith's essay on the.....
New York: Smith & Forman, 1812. 1st Edition. viii, 512p. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Scattered foxing. A well preserved early American science book.