Biography from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

British Museum, 1970 8vo (22 cm), 32 pp, 18 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear, bookseller's ticket and ownership signature in pencil verso of half-title). Over five hundred years ago Johann Gutenberg of Mainz invented printing and began to produce books using movable types. Victor Scholderer's account of the inventor of printing shows how the printed book did… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1990 8vo (24 cm), XIII, 518 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities and stained).

Liverpool University Press, 2018 8vo (24.5 cm), XVII, 269 pp. Laminated boards. This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941 8vo (23.5 cm), front., XIX, 492 pp, plates. Later cloth, black gilt-lettered label (deckled fore- and bottom-edge). Second printing. Probably the author’s copy. The author's name pasted over with a strip of paper with the author’s complete name, a printed note bellow: “Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1981 8vo (24 cm), XVIII, 1178 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket (clipped dj little rubbed at extremities, few pencil notes inside).

Macmillan, 1989 8vo (24 cm), IX, 570 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear, few pencil marks inside). Written to coincide with Channel 4 series on Thatcher, this biography is based on intimate conversations between the Prime Minister and the major politicians of the period and Hugo Young. It traces her life from being an apprentice under Harold… Read more about this item

Private Libraries Association, 1967 8vo (22 cm), 45 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear).

Oxford University Press, 1971 8vo (24 cm), XXVI, 1150, [2] pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities and dusted). Loosely inserted DNB Supplement 1951-1960: Facts and Figures (8 pp).

Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1927 8vo (24 cm), XXVI, 624 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed at extremities and lightly dusted, top edge and back end-papers little stained, internally fine).

W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 8vo (24 cm), XXII, 810 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers (little rubbed at the back).

Library Association, 1963 8vo (22 cm), front., 240 pp, 8 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj clipped and little frayed at extremities, ownership signature on the frond free end-paper). A biography of Edward Edwards, who was largely responsible for the Public Library in the form which it has assumed in Great Britain.

Harvard University Press, 1998 2 volumes 12mo (17 cm), VIII, 509 pp; VIII, 548 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplates). "Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119–121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1953 2 volumes 12mo (18 cm), XIV, 322 pp; PP. XVII-XXV, 323-646. Printed wrappers (spines little sunned, paper slightly browned). Biographies of Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, Lobachevsky, Abel. Hamilton, Bool, Riemann and other famous mathematicians of history.

Macmillan , 1999 8vo (24 cm), XII, 416 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, was born in 1815, and died aged 36. She was connected with some of the most influential and colorful characters of the age: Charles Dickens, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin and Charles Babbage. It was her work with Babbage that… Read more about this item

London: Robert Sutton, 1912 8vo (22 cm), front., XVI, 202, [6] pp, 15 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front board (light foxing to edges and first leaves, name inscribed on the front free end-paper). 15 biographies of scientists (Lavoisier, Cuvier, Cavendish, Priestly, Linnaeus, Owen, Liebig, Lyell, Dalton, Mendeleev, Buffon, Berthelot, Davy, Gay-Lussac, Kelvin).

John Wiley & Sons, 2000 8vo (22.7 cm), XX, 540 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Carl Sagan was one of the most celebrated scientists of his time - the leading visionary of the Space Age. He was also a highly controversial figure who inspired wildly opposed opinions. His enthusiasm and eloquence about the wonders of space, the marvels of the human brain,… Read more about this item

Bantam Press, 2005 8vo (24 cm), XIII, 482 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Wendy Moore unveils John Hunter's extraordinary world -- a world characterized by hangings at the Tyburn Tree, by gruesome expeditions to dank churchyards, and by countless human dissections in attic rooms. Meticulously researched, vividly drawn, this is also a fascinating portrait of a remarkable pioneer… Read more about this item

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1967 8vo (21,5 cm), 192 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. A biography of the eighteenth century French scientist who is known as the father of chemistry for his work on combustion, oxygen and respiration.

J. M. Dent & Co, 1906 12mo (19 cm), engr. front., VIII, 191, [1] pp. Publisher's cloth, spine gilt, deckled edges, teg (binding little rubbed and stained). A biography of English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist Sir William Henry Flower (1831-1899), who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain.

Chapman & Hal, 1965 8vo (24 cm), front., XVI, 531 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (price clipped). The product of years of research and preparation, the book is a major biography of a distinguished British scientist, which remains standard work on the subject.