Search Results: Authors starting with E from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

The history of chemistry including alchemy, the scientific revolution, and 19th-20th century chemistry as told with the instruments used and the experiments conducted

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. First edition. Blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine still bright, although the spine is sun fades otherwise. Very good. Deals with fishing with artificial flies (illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches), baits, etc. A chapter on "Piscatorial Physiology" by Erasmus Wilson in included as a separate chapter. Some wear at the top and bottom of the spine and a small chip out of the edge where the front cover meets the spine. The pages are all there, although they have grown stiff from age (easy to read, no foxing or discoloring). Binding is secure, but the cloth on the spine is parting from the front cover

Awarded a prize for scientific writing, this book deals clearly with three kinds of activities of mathematics--calculating the movements of planets, recognition of randomness and order in crystals, and the theory of sudden deviations, called catastrophe theory.

The voyages of the early explorers from Leif Ericsson and John Cabot to the explorations of Sir Walter Raleigh, including the legends as well as the true histories. Written with warmth and humor as well as great stortelling

Little, Brown and Company, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Award-winning first novel (with a vampire theme).

From Anne Bradstreet through Sylvia Plath

This copy had been part of a Harcourt library of their published titles but along with much of the rest of library was offered to employees when Harcourt moved to a different building.

Boston: Prindle, Weber, & Schmidt, 1969, 1971, & 1972. First edition. hardcover cloth. Fine/Revisited and Squared have original boxes in fine condition. Three of the four "Mathematical Circles" collections of the best and most interesting stories from the history of mathematics (regrettably missing volume 2 of the first collection. An indispensable collection for anyone writing about this history of mathematics, but a delight for anyone who is mathematically inclined In addition to missing volume 2 of the first set, volume 1 is missing a slipcase.