On Our Shelves | Rare Science Books
Our new Science Specialist has curated a selection of 11 Rare Science Books available for sale at our new Flagship Store in London Mayfair.
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Three rare offprints from the early career of x-ray crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale.
[LONSDALE] YARDLEY, Kathleen.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Paving the way for dorothy hodgkin and rosalind franklin. Three rare, early offprints by Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the first women elected to the R...
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Lunar Excursion Module Familiarization Manual.
[NASA].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Getting to the moon & back. A rare, early technical manual for the Apollo Lunar Module, the craft that ferried astronauts between the moon's or...
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A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
SMYTH, Henry DeWolf.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00The rare first account of the manhattan project, with secret page. The rare lithoprint edition, the first obtainable edition of the official accoun...
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
[PHILOSOPHY]. NEWTON, Sir Isaac, WRIGHT, John (editor).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The best of the 'jesuits' editions. The highly regarded first Glasgow edition of the 'Jesuits' text. This set handsomely bound with the gilt arms o...
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An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.
[NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...
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Opere di Galileo Galilei
GALILEI, Galileo.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...
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Summa de arithmetica.
PACIOLI, Luca.Original price £135,000.00 - Original price £135,000.00Original price £0.00£135,000.00£135,000.00 - £135,000.00Current price £135,000.00The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...
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