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Pierre–Simon Laplace, 1749 – 1827: A Life in Exact Science.
xii 322 hardback dark blue gilt title to spine, solid copy, as new, pages fresh and clean, no signs ...
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Dr John Lee of Hartwell, 1783 - 1866.
34p stapled booklet, brown cover with portrait, very good condition, spine sunned, otherwise free ...
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Jacob Berzelius: The Emergence of His Chemical System.
357p large hardback, fresh green dustjacket, nice tight copy, no names or stamps, ex excellent ...
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Autobiography of Dr Karl Ernst von Baer.
xvi 389p hardback, light green dustjacket with black lettering, with frontispiece, nice clean copy ...
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Lavoisier: Mémoires d'une Révolution.
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 52.
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George Francis Fitzgerald.
vii 148p paperback, pale yellow cover with b&w portrait, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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The John Curtin School of Medical Research. The First Fifty Years 1948 - 1998.
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Antoine Lavoisier. Science, Administration and Revolution.
xvi 351p large paperback, blue and white covers with portrait, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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Un Homme et les Microbes - Une Vie de Pasteur pour la Jeunesse.
94p very fresh and well preserved paperback, illustrated cover, woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, ...
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The Starship and the Canoe.
270p paperback, colourfully illustrated cover, very good condition, a little light wear to cover ...
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John Ray, FRS (1627 - 1705).
6p memoir obiturary offprint, blue cover, well preserved, author note, fresh and clean
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The Essential Galileo.
viii 379p fresh paperback bright black cover with GG portrait, as new copy, without names or stamps ...
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Leonardo da Vinci. Der Denker, Forscher und Poet. Nach den veröffentlichten Handschriften. Zweite vermehrte Auflage.
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The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
178p black paperback, newspaper clipping inserted, with plates, nice clean and tight copy
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B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.
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Copernicus und seine Welt. Biographie.
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Professor Aleksandr Chaianov, 1888 - 1937. (Professor Alexander Chayanov)
304p hardback grey boards with black lettering to front, with many plates, very well preserved, ...
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Newton Tercentenary Celebrations. 15 - 19th July 1946.
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How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship.
160p red paperback, as new, bright and clean, related essay inserted
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Ernest Rutherford.
xi 374p hardback, attractive maroon cover with gilt border and crest, binding firm, one or two very ...
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The Founders of Geology. Second Edition.
xi 486p paperback, yellow and white laminated cover, good condition, light wear commensurate with ...
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Statesmen of Science.
xiii 391p hardback, red cloth without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, binding strong, ...
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone.
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Genius. Richard Feynman and Modern Physics.
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Max Perutz and the Secret of Life.
xii 352p hardback, black cloth with jacket, very good condition, some very light wear to jacket ...
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The Great Mathematicians.
vii 128p hardback, turquoise cloth, fair condition, light wear to cover edges and spine, binding ...
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The Strangest Man. The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius.
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How to Win the Nobel Prize. An Unexpected Life in Science.
xiii 271p hardback, grey and black cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, like new, ...
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Sage. A Life of J D Bernal.
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A Passion for DNA. Genes, Genomes and Society.
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Rosalind Franklin. The Dark Lady of DNA.
xix 380p hardback in white cloth with orange jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to edges and ...
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Darwin's Moon. A Biography of Alfred Russel Wallace.
x 261p hardback with illustrated jacket, jacket spine has sticker trace/scuff, front pastedown has ...
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Avoid Boring People. Lessons from a Life in Science.
xi 347p white paperback, very good condition, almost as new
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The Operon.
449p hardback first edition, red cloth without jacket, very good condition, light pencil and ink ...
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Vernadsky.
318p original hardback with illustrated cover, cloth spine, binding a little soft, especially at ...
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Kesf-el-zunun. Volume 1 ONLY.
This is a very large and heavy volume (only one of a set of six volumes) bound in half calf, tight ...
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Wetten van het Leven. Historische Grondslagen van de Biologie 1750 - 1950.
378p thick paperback, colour illustrated cover, with illustrations in the text, very good
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Einstein on the Beach. Der Physiker als Phänomen.
326p white paperback, excellent condition, new and unread, German language
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L'Oeuvre de Paul Bertrand, Paleobotaniste, 1879 - 1944.
12p offprint, stapled, with extensive bibliography, front cover missing, paper yellowing, un-cut, ...
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin. Izdanie Tret'e, Dopolnennoe.
144p white paperback, spine a little worn, frontispiece, extensive bibliography
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Ivan" Mikhailovich" Sechenov". Nekrolog".
44p pamphlet, original paper cover, frontispiece with tissueguard, excellent condition, notes on ...
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Charles Darwin.
xi 290p hardback, red dustjacket present, text clean throughout, book has been very well cared for
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The Mercurial Chemist: A Life of Sir Humphry Davy.
xvi 264p hardback, dustjacket, first edition, excellent copy, private bookplate
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Nobels. Nobel Laureates photographed by Peter Badge.
620p enormous hardback, very good purple dustjacket with the lightest signes of use, almost as new, ...
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Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger et la Science de son Temps.
205p large grey paperback, original printed card cover very well preserved, pages unread and uncut, ...
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Science, Medicine and Dissent: Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804) Papers celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley.
105p large purple paperback, very good condition, little used
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Six Wings. Men of Science in the Renaissance.
xiv 318p hardback, illustrated, moss-green jacket with some wear to top edge, clean and fresh ...
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The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell by Mrs Stair Douglas.
xv 591p green cloth fresh, gilt lettering to front and spine, binding expertly repaired with new ...
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