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KINETIC RELATIVITY
A Sequel to Relativity, Gravitation and World Structure
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948. First edition, 8vo., pp.238, blue cloth, gilt; light toning to endpapers and edges, neat ink ownership inscriptionn to front free endpaper, faint marking to front board, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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LOGIC, SIGNS AND NATURE IN THE RENAISSANCE.
The Case of Learned Medicine.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xvi,407, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece, b/w figures; a very good, fresh copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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MAGISTRI SALERNITANI NONDUM COGNITI.
A Contribution to the History of the Medical School of Salerno. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum London, Research Studies in Medical History, No.2.
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd, 1923. Large 8vo., pp.(viii),68, pictorial blue cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece and 27 b/w plates; sellotape stain to inner margins of frontispiece/title, handwritten ownership markings throughout (including to all plates and to lower edge), ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, paper title labels pasted to spine, light sunning to spine, a good copy.
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Manuals of Chemical Technology, 1: DYESTUFFS AND COAL-TAR PRODUCTS.
Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application. Including Chapters on Modern Inks, Photographic Chemicals, Synthetic Drugs, Sweetening Chemicals, and other Products derived from Coal Tar.
London: Crosby, Lockwood and Son, 1915. Large 8vo., pp.vii,156,(ii), cloth, gilt; folding frontispiece only half present, pencilling to prelims and rear endpapers, partial sunning to cloth, some marking to boards, light wear to extremities, a good copy.
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MODERN COSMOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF GOD.
Being the Edward Cadbury Lectures in the University of Birmingham for 1950.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1952. First editon, 8vo.,pp. 160, navy cloth, gilt; toning to endpapers, off setting to front and rear free endpapers and toning to margins, occasional light pencilling to margins, otherwise very good, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and rubbed to spine and extremities, with wear to corners.
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NATURAL SOURCES OF POWER.
The ‘Westminster’ Series.
London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, 1908. 8vo., pp.xvi,348,(8)adverts, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, including folding plate; front free endpaper cropped, with owner’s handwritten catalogue number to half title, upper corner of front board bumped, else very good.
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ON THE LOSS OF TEETH; And on the Best Means of Restoring Them.
London: Simpkin And Marshall, 1856. Small 8vo.,pp. 59, brown cloth, gilt lettering to front board, monochrome frontispiece; light toning to margins, soiling and scuff mark to front paste down endpaper, rubbed and toned to extremities, webbing becoming slightly visible to inner hinge, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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ORIGINS OF THE SEXUAL IMPULSE.
London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1963. First edition, 8vo., pp.263, green hardcover, gilt, top edges red; slight foxing to fore-edges, a near-fine copy, in vg+ complete and unclipped dust-jacket.
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POWER FROM THE EARTH.
Deep Earth Gas - Energy for the Future.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1987. 8vo., pp.vii,208, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light marking to front board, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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RELATIVITY
The Special & the General Theory, A Popular Exposition. Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson. With five diagrams and a portrait of the author.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1920. Second English edition, 8vo., publisher’s red cloth, gilt, pp.xiii,(3),138,(2),8(adverts), frontispiece portrait;neat signature to front free endpaper, light foxing to fore-edges and prelims, otherwise a very attractive, bright, clean copy.
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RELATIVITY.
A Very Elementary Exposition.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First US edition, pocket 8vo., pp.45, turquoise cloth, navy lettering; light toning to endpapers, very light foxing to prelims and edges, not affecting margins, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy in clipped dust-jacket, which s worn to extremities, with closed tears, chipping, and small areas of loss - now in a protective cover.
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RELATIVITY GRAVITATION AND WORLD-STRUCTURE.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. 8vo.,pp. viii,365, dark green cloth, gilt, b/w figures, b/w frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, light sunning to spine and light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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ROBERT BOYLE BY HIMSELF AND HIS FRIENDS.
With a fragment of William Wotton’s lost Life of Boyle.
London: William Pickering, 1994. 8vo.,pp. cvii,188, navy cloth, red title band and gilt lettering to spine, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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SYNTONY AND SPARK - THE ORIGINS OF RADIO.
Princeton University Press, 1985. 8vo., pp.xvi,347, purple cloth with stamped title label to spine; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy indeed, without dust-jacket.
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SYRIAN ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS, OR ‘THE BOOK OF MEDICINES’. The Syriac Text, Edited from a Rare Manuscript, with an English Translation. [Set of Two Volumes:]
Volume I. Introduction; Syriac Text. Volume II. English Translation and Index
London: Published under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913. 8vo., pp.clxxviii,614;xxv,804 red cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are lightly worn to extremities, with possible light worming to front lower margin of jacket to Volume I, and with foxing/mottling to spines - now in protective covers and otherwise very good.
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TELLING LIVES IN SCIENCE.
Essays on Scientific Biography.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xiv,295, hardcover with stamped title label in blue, gilt; slight tone to edges, a couple of small bumps to edges of boards, else clean and very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has cm closed tear to front upper edge, small nick to headband, and removed sticker to rear of jacket, else vg.
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THE ANTHROPOCENE AS A GEOLOGICAL TIME UNIT.
A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 8vo.,pp. xiv,361, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. 8vo., pp.ix,276, black hardcover, gilt; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has closed tear to rear upper margin, and light creasing to edges, else vg.
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THE COPERNICAN ACHIEVEMENT.
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Contributions: VII.
Los Angeles/London: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, 1975. 8vo., pp.xvi,405, blue cloth lettered in silver; a very good, clean copy, in good(+) unclipped dust-jacket, which is worn and torn to extremities, and now in a protective cover.
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THE COPERNICAN ACHIEVEMENT.
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Contributions: VII.
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: Published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, 1975. 8vo., pp.xvi,405, blue cloth lettered in silver; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket which is rubbed and with closed tears to edges - now in protective cover.
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