History Of Science from Wykeham Books

Sotheby & Co., unillustrated auction cataloguefor the sale held on 16th to 18th July 1951. Yellow printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. 72 pp. 867 lots. ... comprising a selection from the extensive scientific library of the late Professor Sir D'Arcy Thompson, C.B., F.R.S. (sold by order of the executors) including rare and curious books on mathematics, navigation, medicine… Read more about this item

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1926. Original linen-backed boards, large 4to,. v-vii, 67 pp, XII plates some in red and black. 86 entries. Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs No. XX. Covers the 15th and 16th century editions. The author was led to collect and study these works by "the beauty of some of the books, and by the interest attaching… Read more about this item

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited, London, 1986. 2 vols, cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 6, xiii, 240 + 241-497 pp, maps. From the introduction to volumes two and three: "This, Darwin's first book, originally appeared, with the subtitle Journal and Remarks. 1832-1836. as the third volume of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages. the whole edited by FitzRoy (Freeman… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1986. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xvi, 207 pp, ills. From the blurb - "Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their… Read more about this item

Arkana-Verlag, Ulm/Donau, 1959 reprint of 1832 edition. Cloth, gilt cover-title within border, 8vo, 21 cm,. xii, 612 pp. Very Good in a fingersoiled and slightly chipped dustwrapper.

Williams and Norgate, London, first edition, 1910. Cloth-backed boards, folio, 50 cm,. v, 312 p, 10 folding tables. Scarce. Effectively a huge encyclopedia of Chinese civilization providing a mass of carefully selected material not readily available elsewhere and now of interest both for its content and its significance in the history of western studies of China. From… Read more about this item

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th April, 2005. Cloth, 4to, mounted cover illustration, 28 cm,. 339 pp, plates, ills. Lots 1091-1571. The introduction describes the relations of Isaac Newton with John Collins and William Jones and the Catalogue includes some 22 Newton lots. Ccorners slightly bumped, library label pasted on half-title, otherwise Very Good.… Read more about this item

Privately printed [variously 'for the Subscribers' and ''for the author'], Oxford, first editions, 1923 to 1967. Cloth, 8vo,. various paginations, plates. A near complete set of Gunther's highly regarded history of early science in Oxford, lacking just volume 12 but including the biography of Gunther published posthumously to complete the set. (This volume 15 is slightly non-uniform with… Read more about this item

Actes Sud, Arles, first edition, 2005. Laminated pictorial boards, 4to, 29 cm,. 320, [5] pp, colour ills. 176 entries. Text in French. Near Fine.

Royal Society, London, fourth edition, 1980 and supplement to fourth edition, 1987. Cloth, gilt cover device, folio, (and supplement in printed wrappers, folio),. ix, 128 pp, facs (with supplement of 12 pp). The main volume provides facsimiles of signatures of founders, patrons and fellows from 1660 to 1979. From the introduction: "Since the appearance of the third edition… Read more about this item

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, first UK edition, 1970. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xii, 381, [2] pp, 12 ills. Name and date on front free endpaper, slightly rubbed, top edge slightly dust-stained, otherwise Good.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library [UCLA], Los Angeles, first edition, 1983. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. xiv, 123, [2] pp. 12 figs., 10 tables, index. Stamped number and manuscript date on front wrapper, otherwise Very Good.

Antiquarian Horological Society,. 43 issues, laminated illustrated wrappers, small 4to,. typically around 100-150 pages per issue, numerous ills. A complete unbroken run of this high-quality journal for the period March 2000-September 2010 ( Volume 25 No. 3 -Volume 32 No. 3 inclusive). . Each issue contains a number of articles by experts in the field, the AHS programme,… Read more about this item

VUB Brussels University Press, Brussels, first edition, 2001. Illustrated boards, large 8vo, 31 cm,. 367 pp, ills (some colour), maps. From the publisher's description: "On 16 August 1897, captain Adrien de Gerlache left Antwerp for the Antarctic with an international crew on a robust three-master, the Belgica. This expedition was the first Antarctic expedition of a purely scientific… Read more about this item

1979 reprint (printed by Floch) of the 1958 Albert Blanchard edition. . Later cloth, gilt spine-titles, original wrappers bound in, 8vo,. xxxiv, 520, [1] pp, diagrams. Front board a little marked, otherwise Fine.

Printed for Deighton and Sons, Cambridge, second edition, improved and enlarged, 1826. Contemporary boards, neatly rebacked in modern cloth, paper spine-label, 8vo, 22 cm. [iii]-iv, [5]-183 pp, numerous diagrams on 6 folding plates. One of a number of explanatory texts for students issued in the first half of the 19th century. Boards rubbed and marked, plates somewhat… Read more about this item

Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, second edition, 1976. Cloth, 8vo,. xvi, 336 pp. [T]he narrative that follows... is devoted primarily to an exploration of the forms which serial publication took in the period covered. After a discussion of the historical background and the antecedents of the scientific periodical, the emphasis in this study will be solely on the formal aspects… Read more about this item

F. C. W. Vogel, Leipzig, offprint, 1929. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 13 pp. Wrappers age-toned and chipped and torn at edges with some loss, otherwise Good.

Leo S. Olschki, Firenze, first edition, 1954. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. vii, 394, [1] pp,16 plates, 89 ills. Copy No. 217. Elegant booklabel on front inside wrapper, rear wrapper chipped with some edge-loss, contents agetoned, otherwise Good. Tipped-in at the front is the front panel and blurb of a dustwrapper from the hardcover version… Read more about this item

Verlag der Munchner Drucke, München, first edition, 1926. Illustrated printed wrappers, 8vo, 24 cm,. 96 pp, ills, facs. A biographical and bibliographical study of the author famous for his De Re Metallica. Ex-library, wrappers detached and torn with loss at corners, lacking most of backstrip; library stamps and marks, a reading copy.