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Topographical Botany. Being Local and Personal Records Towards Shewing the Distribution of...
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Topographical Botany. Being Local and Personal Records Towards Shewing the Distribution of British Plants Traced Through the 112 Counties and Vice-Counties of England and Scotland.

by Watson, Hewett Cottrell

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Thames Ditton: for private distribution, 1873 & 74. 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Map. Corners and edges bumped, dampstains to both lower boards, small area of dampstain to edge of upper board of volume II, occasional light spotting to contents and edges of text block of volume II. A very good set. First edition, presentation set inscribed by the author on each title, "Mary Edmonds from the Author, H. C. W. 1873" and "Mary Edmonds from the Author, June 24th 1874". Inspired by the work of Alexander von Humboldt, Hewett Cottrell Watson (1804-1881) became Victorian Britain's leading phytogeographer, and his research contributed to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. "Watson's major botanical endeavour was producing several versions of a work first entitled Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of British Plants (1832); it reached its most extensive form as Cybele Britannica, or, British Plants, and their Geographical… Read More
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Three uncommon imprints by NASA administrator James E. Webb. Man Must Take Environment into...
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Three uncommon imprints by NASA administrator James E. Webb. "Man Must Take Environment into Space, Project Gemini.", "Administration and Management of Space Exploration, Project Apollo", and "From Runnymede to Ganymede" in Speaking of Space and Aeronautics Vol. IV, No. 1.

by Webb, James E.

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Washington D. C.: NASA, 1962 & 1967. 3 16-page, wire-stitched pamphlets. The first two in white self-wraps printed in blue. The third in yellow wrappers printed in black and grey. Illustrations from photos within the texts of the first and second pamphlets. Just a little creasing and rubbing. Excellent condition. James E. Webb (1906-1996) was NASA's second administrator and one of its most significant, seeing the agency through the Mercury and Gemini programs and the preparation for the Apollo missions. To Webb, "the space program was more than a political race. He believed that NASA had to strike a balance between human space flight and science because such a combination would serve as a catalyst for strengthening the nation's universities and aerospace industry... Webb's vision of a balanced program resulted in a decade of space science research that remains unparalleled today. During his tenure, NASA invested in the development of robotic spacecraft, which explored the lunar environment so that… Read More
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The Discovery of the Elements I-XVII. [from] the Journal of Chemical Education volume 9, number 1...
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The Discovery of the Elements I-XVII. [from] the Journal of Chemical Education volume 9, number 1 - volume 9, number 12.

by Weeks, Mary Elvira

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Journal of Chemical Education, 1932-33. 17 articles removed from the Journal of Chemical Education and bound together in green cloth ready-made binder by Baschaga. Paper label to the upper board with manuscript title in an early-twentieth century hand. Illustrations throughout the text. Endpapers a little toned, binder lightly rubbed at the extremities. Excellent condition. A rare and unusual set of the first seventeen parts of the classic The Discovery of the Elements, published as twenty-one articles in the Journal of Chemical Education in 1932 and 33 before it was republished in book form. Here collected and bound together in a contemporary, ready-made cloth binder with manuscript label. Author Mary Elvira Weeks (1892 - ?) was a physical and analytical chemist at the University of Kansas. "She worked on the atmospheric oxidation of solutions of sodium sulfite in ultraviolet light, the role of hydrogen ion concentration in the precipitation of calcium and magnesium carbonates and the use of… Read More
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The Discovery of Subatomic Particles.
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The Discovery of Subatomic Particles.

by Weinberg, Steven

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New York & San Francisco: Scientific American Library, an imprint of W. H. Freeman and Company, 1983. Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Double-page frontispiece and illustrations throughout the text. An excellent copy – the cloth and contents fresh – in the jacket that is lightly toned with minor creasing and short splits at the edges, some scratches primarily affecting the upper panel, and a small dark spot on the illustration on the upper panel. First edition, first printing of this important popular history of particle physics by "the preeminent public intellectual of fundamental physics", Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) (Arkani-Hamad, "How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists, Quanta magazine, August 11, 2021). Uncommon in nice condition in the dust jacket. Weinberg was one of the most important physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for the electroweak theory, which unified two of… Read More
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The Dinosauria.
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The Dinosauria.

by Weishampel, David B., Peter Dodson & Halszka Osmólska

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. Folio. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, dinosaur design blocked to upper board in blind, mottled cream endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations and diagrams throughout the text. Ink ownership inscription to the half-title and occasional, neat annotations and underlining within the text. A little finger-soiling to the fore-edge, spotting to the top edge of the text block. A very good copy in the jacket that is lightly rubbed and scuffed with some small marks, creasing, and short closed tears. First edition, first printing of this key reference work described by reviewers as "monumental" and an "instant classic" (Padian, K. "The Dinosauria", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 11, number 2, June 1991). Though later printings are commonly available online, it is difficult to find first printings in nice condition. The Dinosauria was "a comprehensive, authoritative review of current knowledge and theory about the dinosaurs" that… Read More
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British Mammals. Illustrated by Doris Meyer.
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British Mammals. Illustrated by Doris Meyer.

by Westell, W. Percival

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London: Chapman & Dodd, Ltd., [1920s]. Quarto. Original grey cloth blocked in dark blue with illustrations of various animals. Colour frontispiece and 1 plate, illustrations throughout the text. Prize bookplate of the Aldeborough School dated 1927, bookseller's ticket of W. E. Harrison of Ipswich. Spine tanned and rolled, cloth spotted and a little worn at the extremities, light spotting to contents and edges of text block, damage to the edges of pages 105-112 caused by an attempt to open the leaves which were accidentally left closed during production, small pieces of excess paper on the edges of pages 123 and 127. Very good condition. A charming, illustrated children's book by the prolific natural history author William Percival Westell (1874-1943). Westell was a self-educated naturalist who served as the curator of the Lechworth Museum for three decades and "strove to make his publications accessible to all by eschewing technical language" (Moore, "William Percival Westell", Archives of Natural… Read More
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A Preliminary Study of the Luminescence of the Uranyl Salts under Cathode Ray Excitation [in] The...
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A Preliminary Study of the Luminescence of the Uranyl Salts under Cathode Ray Excitation" [in] The Physical Review, volume XI, number 6.

by Wick, Frances G. & Louise S. McDowell

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Lancaster, PA & Ithaca, NY: The American Physical Society, June 1918. Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in black. 1 plate, 3 leaves of ads at rear. Spine and edges of wrappers tanned, wear along the spine with a closed tear in the upper wrapper near the tail and loss from the head of the spine. Very good condition. First edition, the journal issue in original wrappers, of a significant paper by two early professional female chemists. Frances Wick (1875-1941) became interested in physics after teaching a high school course in the subject. In 1904 she enrolled at Cornell where her mentors, Edward L. Nichols and Ernest Merrit, were supportive of women students and introduced her to what would become her primary interest, the study of luminescence. After graduating she taught in women's colleges, did research at General Electric, Harvard, Cornell, Cambridge, Berlin, and Vienna, and worked on gun sights and radio during the First World War. Wick "took part in comprehensive studies of the… Read More
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The Dinosaur Artist. Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy.
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The Dinosaur Artist. Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy.

by Williams, Paige

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New York: Hachette, 2018. Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine in copper. With the dust jacket. Corners very slightly bumped. An excellent copy in the fresh jacket with a little rubbing at the tips. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title, "Paige Williams, Tucson Book Festival, March 2, 2019". This best-selling true-crime tale centers on the remarkable 2013 legal case The United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton, in which the court decided the fate of a skeleton smuggled to the US from Mongolia by fossil dealer Eric Prokopi. Author Paige Williams, of the New Yorker, explores important questions that have surrounded the practice of palaeontology since its earliest days — who gets credit for, and benefits from, fossil discoveries, and is it ever ethical to sell fossils on the open market? An important contribution to the public's understanding of the history and ethics of fossil hunting.
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Insects at Home. Being a Popular Account of British Insects, their Structure, Habits, and...
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Insects at Home. Being a Popular Account of British Insects, their Structure, Habits, and Transformations. With Upwards of 700 Figures by E. A. Smith and J. B. Zwecker, Engraved by G. Pearson. New Edition.

by Wood, J. G.

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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large octavo (215 x 140 mm). Contemporary tan calf prize binding, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, black morocco label, double lines rules to boards and Hanley Castle Grammar School Crest to upper board gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, turn-overs ruled in blind. Colour frontispiece and 20 engraved plates, engravings throughout the text. Contemporary presentation inscription to the front blank. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, small gouge from top edge of lower board, blank piece of paper pasted over an inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper, light spotting to contents. A very good copy. An attractively bound and copiously illustrated work on British insects by the naturalist John George Wood (1827-1889), originally published in 1872. Wood began his career in the Church of England, but from the early 1850s "was developing a career as a natural historian; his first book, The Illustrated… Read More
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Catalogue or Guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy. 29, Paradise Street. This superb...
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Liverpool: Matthews Brothers, Printers, [c. 1870s]. 64 page pamphlet. Original light blue wrappers printed in black. Engraving depicting the museum on the lower wrapper, 1 engraving within the text. Wrappers rubbed, dulled, and spotted, minor crease to the upper corner slightly affecting the contents. Very good condition. The rare catalogue of the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, describing in detail the Museum's contents and policies, and illustrating its interior by an engraving on the lower cover. The Liverpool Museum of Anatomy was one of a number of such museums in the UK and US that specialised in wax anatomical models and, unlike many of the museums of professional medical organisations, were open to the public. Though the stated goal was always education, particularly regarding reproduction and the dangers of sexual vice, these museums also traded on the shock or titillation value of their exhibits and some were targeted by the medical establishment as purveyors of vice and quackery. The… Read More
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In a World I Never Made. Autobiographical Reflections.
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In a World I Never Made. Autobiographical Reflections.

by Wootton, Barbara

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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on black ground, With the dust jacket. Small black mark to the cloth of the upper board, a few light spots to the edges of the text block. A very good copy in the rubbed, creased, and price-clipped jacket with a few small spots on the lower panel and an over-price sticker on the front flap. Second impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Ted Willis, with love, B. W., December 1976" and additionally signed by the author on the title. Wootton (1897-1988) was a prominent, left-leaning London University sociologist and economist who, in addition to her respected academic work, "served on four royal commissions and innumerable committees, was a governor of the BBC, and was a magistrate for forty years" (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, p. 1400). "One of her most important academic works was published in 1959 and resulted from five years of research. In… Read More
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(Uncorrected Proof Copy) The Invention of Nature. The Adventures of Alexander Humboldt, the Lost...
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(Uncorrected Proof Copy) The Invention of Nature. The Adventures of Alexander Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science.

by Wulf, Andrea

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London: John Murray, 2015. Perfect bound. Original wrappers printed in colour. Wrappers a little rubbed, a few light marks to the lower cover. Very good condition. Uncorrected proof copy of the best-seller that reintroduced naturalist Alexander von Humboldt to the English-speaking world and explored his contributions to the ideas of figures such as Thoreau, Darwin, and Muir. The Invention of Nature was awarded the Royal Society's Insight Investment Science Book Prize in 2016. This uncorrected proof is marked "not for sale or quotation" and contains blank pages in place of the index.
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A Representation of the Meteor seen at Paddington About 12 Minutes before 11 O'Clock, on the...
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London: Lloyd Bros. & Leggatt, Hayward & Leggatt, May 1, 1850. Mezzotint (print 280 x 425 mm, sheet 320 x 445 mm). Professionally conserved and cleaned. Mounted, framed and glazed using archival materials. Pencilled note "Astronomy" to the sheet. Some minor creases affecting the image, paper lightly toned. Very good condition. A dramatic and uncommon mezzotint depicting the spectacular meteor seen in London on February 11th, 1850, by the prominent court artist Matthew Coates Wyatt (1777-1862). One other copy of this print appears in recent auction records, sold at Galerie Bassenge in 2016, and institutional copies are held at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, Museum Bojmans in Rotterdam, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the British Museum, which has George Cruikshank's copy, presented to him by the artist. "In 1850 a huge meteor appeared over England and was visible in London. It was captured dramatically by Matthew Coates Wyatt over Paddington in a mezzotint that suggests, due to the… Read More
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