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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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INVESTIGATION OF THE MOTION OF HALLEY’S COMET FROM 1759 TO 1910.
Edinburgh: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Neill and Co., Limited, 1910. Folio, pp.84, cloth with printed paper title label to spine; crease and large closed tear to lower margin of final leaf, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy.
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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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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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FORCE IN NEWTON'S PHYSICS.
The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeeth Century.
London: Macdonald & Co, 1971. 8vo.,pp. xii,579, green hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light foxing to upper edge, slight spotting to front board, otherwise very good in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, toned to spine with slight soiling, with some wear to corners and to upper rear corner of spine.
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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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TREATISES OF FISTULA IN ANO.
Haemorrhoids, and Clysters. From an Early Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Translation.
London: Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1968. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xxxvii,156, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 4 further b/w plates (one of which reprises frontispiece; one folding plate); ex publisher’s Printer’s Library, with small plate to front paste-down endpaper, and inkstamp to title verso, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (AACHEN) AS A HEALTH RESORT.
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1899. Second impression, 8vo., pp.viii,323, green cloth, gilt, decorative endpapers, ribbon bookmark, speckled edges; ex libris Dr. James Rutherford, Glasgow, with ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, further (other) ownership blindstamp to front free endpaper, toning to edges/margins, light sunning to inner margin of front board, a little rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE PSCYCHOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS.
Reprinted from the “Bulletin of the John Rylands Library”, Vol.24, No.I, April, 1940.
Manchester University Press. 8vo.,pp.22, printed wrappers; lightly rubbed and toned to extremities, ownerhsip autograph to front wrappers, a very good copy.
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ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE.
London: Charles Gilpin; John Churchill; Edinburgh: A. & C. Black; Dublin: J.B.Gilpin. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxiv,283,(iv)adverts, decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, gilt; ‘Independent Order of Good Templars’ pictorial bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, contemporary neat ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing to contents, front inner hinge cracked but firm, spine sunned and slightly rubbed, water stain to front cover, a good copy.
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