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Robert Boyle. Father of Chemistry.

PILKINGTON Roger · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

John Murray, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and illustrations and diagrams in the text; tallow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition.

Biological Aspects of Cancer.

HUXLEY Julian · 0 · Island Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

Allen & Unwin, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front paste-down; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at folds-ins and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at he...

Psyche's Task. A Discourse concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, to which is added The Scope of Social Anthropology. An Inaugural Lecture. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE BEST EDITION

FRAZER James George · 1913 · Island Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Macmillan, 1913. 8vo., Second and Best Edition, endpapers lightly browned; green cloth, gilt back, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With bookplate on front paste-down, and 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Frazer'...

Mid-Nineteenth Barometers. Being a Reprint of Manual of the Mercurial and Aneroid Barometers (1858) to which is appended The Aneroid Barometer, how to buy and use it (1849). [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY

BELVILLE John Henry · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Turner & Devereux, [1975]. 2 works in 1 vol., sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and tables in the text; original cream wrappers, front wrapper lettered in black, a near fine copy. High quality facsimile reissue of the second edition of the first work and the fir...

James Watt and the Steam Revolution. A Documentary History.

ROBINSON E. · 1969 · Island Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

Adams & Dart, 1969. 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations and facsimiles throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Comprehensive and detailed study

Intermediate Physics [Second Edition]. IN SIGNED WELLINGTON COLLEGE BINDING

SMITH C.J. · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Edward Arnold, [1935]. 8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous diagrams throughout; strongly bound BY SMITH AND SON in the Wellington College prize style of oatmeal full buckram, upper board with college arms blocked in gilt, backs with brown leather labels lettered and ruled...

Matthew Boulton.

DICKINSON H.W. · 1937 · Island Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

University Press, Cambridge, 1937. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 14 plates, 7 illustrations in the text and a large folding plan; original terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly ag...

The Flow Capacity of Glazed Vitrified Clay Pipelines. NEAR FINE COPY

WALTON John H. · 0 · Island Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

National Salt Glazed Pipe Manufacturers' Association, [1965]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with large folding colour chart; original diagrammatic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

Sound Waves and their Uses. Six Lectures delivered before a 'Juvenile Auditory' under the Auspices of The Royal Institution, Christmas, 1928, [Second Impression].

WOOD Alexander · 0 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Blackie, [1931]. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original grey cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in ...

High Vacua. REMARKABLY BRIGHT COPY

KAYE George William Clarkson · 1927 · Island Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Longmans Green & Co., 1927. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 8 plates on 3 and very numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. K...

Onslow Park Steam Engine Rally 2002. 40th Anniversary. Souvenir Programme. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

COUNTY OF SALOP STEAM ENGINE SOCIETY · 2002 · Island Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

County of Salop Steam Engine Society, [Telford], 2002. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and a double-page plan in the text, some underlining; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Contains full details of all vehicles, ...

Doctor [Erasmus] Darwin. octor [Erasmus] Darwin.

PEARSON Hesketh · 0 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Dent, [1930]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 11 plates; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. This life of Erasmus Darwin is the first biography from the pen of Hesketh Pearson, who rose over the next thirty years to become the most popul...

The Rhetoric of Pascal. A Study of his Art of Persuasion in the 'Provencales' and the 'Pensees'.

TOPLISS Patricia · 1966 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Leicester University Press, 1966. 8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned and with small loss at one corner.

The Siege Perilous. Essays in Biblical Anthropology and Kindred Subjects.

HOOKE S.H. · 1956 · Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

SCM Press, 1956. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

English Exercises, Orthographical and Grammatical; in Two Parts: being a Selection of Choice Pieces, in Prose and Verse. With many original Reflections, etc. designed to improve the juvenile Mind in Spelling and Grammar. Sixth Edition.

HORNSEY J. · 1843 · Island Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

Longman Brown Green and Longmans, 1843. 12mo., Sixth Edition, endpapers mildly browned, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and small sketch on rear paste-down; original dark green ribbed cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in blind; sprinkled edges, a very good...

Invention and Discovery.

TEMPLE R. · 1892 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 13 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, patterned endpapers, upper hinge starting (but...

The Unknown World of the Child. A Book for Parents. Translated by Robin Scutt from the French Edition.

ARTHUS A. · 1947 · Island Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Paul Elek, 1947. 8vo., First English Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip a little dusty else a very good, clean copy.

Souvenir of the Centenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1800-1900.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS · 1900 · Island Books

£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,705)

Ballantyne Hanson, 1900. 4to., First Edition, with a fine frontispiece in sepia-toned photogravure (original tissue guard present), engraved title-vignette, title in red and brown, 8 fine plates in sepia-toned photogravure (all original tissue guards present) and an engraved t...

Timbering and Mining: A Treatise on Practical American Methods

Storms, W,H. · 1909 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

McGraw-Hill Book Company New York vii, 279, 125 text figs. . HB. 8vo orig. cloth, wear to foot of spine. Good ex-lib: Withdrawn from the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Department of Geology, University Museum, Oxford.. 1st edition, 6th impression. A practical handbook of early...

Saturniidae Mundi. Saturniid Moths of the World. Vol. 2

d'Abrera, B. · 2012 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Hill House Melbourne 178, 101 col plates. 350x260mm. HB. NEW. . Covers mostly African species. [9780947352240]