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Blue cloth boards, a little worn, bumped at upper right corners and top and tail of spine. Gilt titles. Outside edge of page block a little foxed, endpapers slightly discoloured; contents otherwise clean and sound throughout. TPW Used
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. Ex-library. Edgeworn boards and spine. Sticker to spine, plate on FEP. Stamps on page block and at one or two points inside. Pages clean, bright and tight. Used
Book appears in unread fine condition. 90pp. A biographical account of the pioneer chemist Joseph Priestley who spent seven years of his life in the Wiltshire town of Calne. The book gives a full appreciation of an important 18th century figure in science, religion and politics who turns out to be as fickle and fallible as the rest of us.
Paperback. Covers are marked and scored. Spine is creased. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn. Nicks on spine foot. A few marks on page block. Previous owner's name penned on title page. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Used
A source book for scientists, engineers and students, includes Addenda. Book condition: ex - library. Library emblem stickers and ink stamps on inset page. No other discernible flaws; strong intact binding. Ex - Library
Oviedo, Gráficas Summa, 1977-79, 2 tomos, 21,5 x 15,5 cm., tela editorial, 2 h. + IV págs. + 1 h. + 266 págs. + 1 h. = 2 h. + IV págs. + págs. 267 a 536 + 1 h.
Oviedo, Gráficas Summa, 1973, 21'5 x 15'5 cm., tela original, firma del autor, 331 págs. - 1 h.
8vo. XX, (4), 227, (1) pp. With engraved frontispiece (N. Le Sueur inv. / R. Brunet fec.) and 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled calf with giltstamped label to gilt spine. Blindstamped cover fillets; leading edges gilt. Edges in red. Rare first edition. - Nollet, the discoverer of diffusion, taught physics at Turin and Paris and instructed the royal children. “Nollet’s repertoire always included electricity [... and he] became the chief of European electricians [...] France had no electrician of stature again before Coulomb” (DSB). - The plates show experiments and the operation of generators. Attractive, almost spotless copy from the library of the American scientist and collector Albert Edgar Lownes (1899-1978; up to 1917: A. E. Löwenstein) with his exlibris on the front pastedown. DSB X, 146-147. Ekelöf 246. Roller-G. II, 248. Wheeler Gift 329. Cf. Poggendorf II, 295 (“1747”). Cf. Ronalds 370 (2nd ed. 1750).
... Softcover, fair condition, with lightly rubbed wraps, some light marks. But some spots on r. some light soil, some light tanning at edges. Marking at top fr. somewhat tanned, slanted sp. somewhat tanned p. edges, some light soil. Glue loosening at ins
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright red cloth boards, scuffing to rear board and no bumping to corners. Apart from the scuffing, the book would be 'fine'. Price clipped dust jacket with tiny nick to upper edge and minor creasing to edges. 217pp. O.S.Nock, author of over 100 railway books, tells of his 60 years of direct involvement with railway engineering development. He also delightfully relates 75 years of railway and travel recollections - the most vividly changing three-quarter century in the history of transport.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 49 plates on 30 and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, faint tape marks on free endpapers; cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley 2441.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to spine ends and lower corners. 355pp. Aimed at 6th form students specialising in science.
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to lower corner of front cover and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 340pp. Hard SF novel with fantasy and adventure from two of the subject's most successful writers.
Light water damage to edges Clean Copy
Very good, clean copy, unread, despatched today! Used
Very good, clean copy, unread, despatched today! Used
4to (200 x 264 mm). IX, (3), 187, (1) pp. With 13 folding engraved plans and maps, 3 folding tables. Publisher's original cloth with giltstamped spine title, bound by Edmonds & Remnants with their label to lower pastedown. Author's presentation copy of the third edition, inscribed on the day of publication to the influential London architect and journalist George Godwin (1813-88) on the title-page: "Geo. Godwin Esq. / in gratitude for the services he has / rendered to the cause of good / sanitary construction / Florence Nightingale / London, Dec. 14 1863". - When 'Notes on Hospitals' first appeared in 1859, in much briefer form than here, it was "immediately greeted by George Godwin as essential reading for architects, who were advised to 'obtain the volume and master it'" (Mark Bostridge, Florence Nightingale, p. 337f.). As editor of 'The Builder', Godwin expanded its scope to include sanitation, social issues, and other subjects. He wrote on slums and promoted the use of public baths, wash-houses, charitable housing trusts, and pavilion-styled hospitals. His architectural works, centred around Kensington and Chelsea, include The Boltons, Elm Park Gardens, and St. Luke's Kensington. The 1863 edition of "Notes on Hospitals" was "massively augmented and rewritten that it is effectively a new book" (McDonald). - Spine and joints professionally restored. Old paper label on spine. - Provenance: 1) George Godwin (presentation inscription); 2) front pastedown has bookplate of James O'Byrne (1835-97), the Liverpool-based architect whose library was dispersed at Christie's in 1987. Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform (2012), p. 79. Cf. Garrison/Morton 1611 (citing the 1859 first edition).
University stamp to lower page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and bumping to lower corners. 264pp. A thesis suggesting we are entering a period of dramatic change in science because of the new tools available via the internet as we carry out the science in a networked fashion.
Ink scribble to the top page block. Otherwise clean and unmarked copy. 460 pp.
VG+ hardcover. Ink scribble along bottom and top page block. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy. 412 pp.
Published on behalf of the institute of ceramics. Usual library labels and stamps. Price sticker on rear board. Board covers lightly rubbed and worn, otherwise good with all contents clean, tight and bright. Ex-Library
Rear cover crease, else as new. ...
8vo. VI, 160 pp. - (Bound with) II: Johnson, James. The Influence of Civic Life, Sedentary Habits, and Intellectual Refinement, on Human Health, and Human Happiness, Including an Estimate of the Balance of Enjoyment and Suffering in the Different Gradations of Society. London, (W. Thorne for) T. & G. Underwood et al., 1818. VIII, 93, (1) pp. Contemporary full green straight morocco (bound by Charles Hering, Jr., of London) with gilt spine title and the gilt arms of the Earls of Harrington on both covers. Leading edges gilt; gilt inner dentelle. Matching green endpapers. Green silk ribbon. All edges gilt. First edition of this rare and early vegetarian work. J. F. Newton (1767-1837) sought to popularise the vegetable and distilled water diet of the physician and veganism pioneer William Lambe, whose patient he was. In his book, Newton promoted his own "regimen of distilled water and vegetable diet" (p. 66), believing vegetables to be the natural food of man and animal flesh unhealthy and unnatural. It was Newton who converted Percy B. Shelley to a vegetarian lifestyle, and his book influenced the poet's 1813 pamphlet on vegetarianism and animal rights, "A Vindication of Natural Diet". - Bound with this is a rare hygienic work by the surgeon J. Johnson (1777-1845), physician to the Duke of Clarence (afterward King William IV). - Interior very slightly browned, but a fine specimen, beautifully bound by Charles Hering for the library of Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham and afterwards the 4th Earl of Harrington (1780-1851). Known as "Beau" Petersham, the eccentric but much-imitated gentleman was a close friend of the Prince Regent George, who emulated his mannerisms in clothing, tea mixes, and consumption of snuff. Lord Petersham designed many of his own clothes and his fashions were quickly copied; he made famous the "Harrington" hat and the "Petersham" overcoat. The final pages of the present volume contain contemporary handwritten annotations about the poisonous effects of a fruitarian diet of (quoted from Jacques de Sade's "Mémoires pour la vie de Pétrarque") and about the high regard in which Galen and Hippocrates held water and abstinence, very likely in Petersham's own hand.
Paperback. Very few minor imperfections on exterior. Previous owner's name penned on first page. A very good copy with clear text throughout. TS Used
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark green boards, foxing/dustiness to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 440pp. In-depth study of world geography aimed at upper froms at school. Illustrated. Quite scarce.
