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  • Recollections and Reflections.

    THOMSON, J.J.
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    Discoverer of the electron. First edition of the memoirs of Nobel Prize-winning physicist J.J. Thomson (1856-1940).Discoverer of the electron J.J. ...

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  • Radiations from Radioactive Substances.

    Rutherford, Ernest; CHADWICK, James; ELLIS, C.D.
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    The third and final version of rutherford's great textbook on radioactivity. First edition, Rutherford's third version of 'the first textbook on ra...

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  • The Evolution of Physics.

    EINSTEIN, Albert; INFELD, Leopold.
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    First UK edition, published in the US in the same year.The present work is a popular account of Einstein's relativity theories, with historical ba...

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  • A Darwin Centenary.

    [DARWIN, Charles] WANSTALL, P. J. [ed.]
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    First edition and a fine copy.This volume is the proceedings of a conference on botany held to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Darwi...

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  • Radio-Activity.

    Rutherford, Ernest.
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    Enlarged by fifty percent from the first edition. Second edition of 'the first textbook on radioactivity, surveying contemporary knowledge of the e...

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  • The Constitution of Sugars.

    HAWORTH, Walter Norman.
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    Publisher's file copy. First edition, the publisher's file copy, of this significant work by Nobel Prize winning chemist Sir Walter Norman Haworth ...

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  • Nine Chains to the Moon.

    FULLER, R. Buckminster.
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    First edition, first printing of Fuller's first book, a nice copy in the jacket.Nine Chains to the Moon is a collection of forty-four essays on va...

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  • The Question of Lay Analysis.

    FREUD, Sigmund.
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    First edition in English. The first edition in English of Freud's work defending the right of non-medics to practice psychoanalysis.The Question of...

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  • The Moon:

    NASMYTH, James; CARPENTER, James.
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    Third edition, originally published in 1874, of this remarkable astronomical work by the Scottish engineer James Nasmyth (1808-1890).Nasmyth made ...

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  • Chemical Essays.

    WATSON, R[ichard].
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    A charming mixed set in contemporary bindings, comprising the second edition of volumes 1-3, the third edition of volume 4, and the second edition...

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  • Excursions.

    THOREAU, Henry David.
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    Art nouveau publisher's cloth. A lovely copy of this 1910s edition of Thoreau's Excursions (originally published in 1863) with elaborate Art Nouvea...

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  • Inside the Atom.

    NEURATH, Marie.
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    A woman design pioneer. First edition, first impression of this important work by data-visualisation pioneer Marie Neurath (1898-1986), rare in the...

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  • Outlines of Astronomy.

    HERSCHEL, John.
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    Handsome prize binding. Ninth edition one of the most influential books by astronomer John Herschel, in a handsome red red calf prize binding. This...

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  • The Tee-Square Magazine Christmas 1918 [and] Christmas 1919.

    VICKERS AIRSHIP DRAWING OFFICE.
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    Rare in-house publication. A remarkable survival, two issues of a magazine created in-house by staff of the Vickers Airship Drawing Office at Barro...

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  • Die Infantile Cerebrallähmung.

    FREUD, Sigmund.
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    Presentation copy to rudolph reitler. The rare first edition of this significant work on cerebral palsy, Freud's final neurological treatise before...

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  • Observationes Medicae circa Morborum Acutorum Historiam et Curationem.

    SYDENHAM, Thomas.
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    A landmark in the science of disease. First edition of the founding text of epidemiology. 'Although technically the third edition of his Methodus c...

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  • A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects;

    [ETOMOLOGY]. NEWMAN, Edward.
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    Beautifully bound Victorian book on insects. Second edition, an expanded and improved version of the text originally published in 1835 as the Gramm...

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