82 pages. Stamped brown cloth with chipping to head of spine. Gilt title faded on spine. Leaves evenly tanned; a few unobtrusive stains. Hinges secure; no loose pages. One of the volumes in Chambers's Educational Course. First issued 1849; author (not credited in this volume) is the noted Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain. View More...
Two works bound in one, both issued by Cavelier, Paris. The earliest [Materie Medica, 1720] is bound second: [x], 186, [42] pages. The Aphorismi [1728] title page is a cancel; [xii], 277, [33], with page 277 misnumbered. Sound contemporary binding unrestored; all edges red, marbled endpapers, with heraldic shield (?) painted over paper on front pastedown. Light toning and foxing throughout. One the property of one Petrus Bonifax D.M with signatures to first title page and pencil notation to first blank at rear. View More...
v, 147pp. These reminiscences were posthumously published by the daughter of Edgar Harper (1877-1960), a British radio engineer, active during the First World War and later in Ceylon, the Middle East and the Bahamas. View More...
x, 184 pages. Jacket spine sunned; signature top right first leaf. Library pocket at rear with unused card - no other library indications. 9 x 6.25 inches. View More...
111 pp. in plain gray wraps, spine sunned, foxing and one water stain to edges throughout. ".. Nach einem am 14 December 1870 in der General-Versammlung Der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin Gehalten Vortrage von Aug. Wilh.Hofmann". Mit portrait und facsimile. View More...
iv, 883pp. Marbeled boards rubbed but firm, small hole in last page of index not affecting text; binding square and tight, leather spine supple and scuffed; hinges sound. View More...
574 pages plus advert leaf at rear. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Covers show general modest wear with rubbing to head and foot of spine, paper along rear inner hinge split to webbing but binding and hinges are sound. Tiny former owner marks to front pastedown and endpaper; foxing along hinge of half-title only, else a clean unmarked interior. View More...
The 7 papers of Meldrum that appeared 1910-1911 in "Manchester Memoirs" under the title The Development of the Atomic Theory . Not to be confused with the 13-page work of the same title published 1920 at Oxford by Humphrey Milford. Early photocopies, each well stapled and made sturdy by each internal leaf being composed of one folded sheet. The papers run from 1 February 1910 [Vol. liv, No. 7] to 12 June, 1911 [Vol. lv, No. 22]. The titles are: (1) Berthollet's Doctrine of Variable Proportions pp. 16 / (2) The Various Accounts of the Origin of Dalton's Theory pp. 12 / (3) Newton's Theory, and ... View More...
26 pages. A review of Marc Dechevrens' books The Typhoons of the Chinese Seas in the year[s] 1881 and 1882. Reprinted from the Hongkong Telegraph, and printed at their office, 1882. Bookseller's stamp to front cover and title page: G. Falconer & Co. Hong Kong. Tideline to wrapper; first leaf somewhat grubby; a few marginal ticks in pencil. View More...
xxxix, 496pp. Jacket slightly darkened at spine, one " tear at top. A short personal note from Reingold to assistant editor Stuart Pierson is laid in. View More...