Books on History of Science

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266p white paperback with illustrated card cover, large format, pages clean with double columned ...

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A Bold Experiment. The Story of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

large format, oblong, grey cloth, striking photographs, preface by Aaron Klug, as new

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xvi 279p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 'scientific' poems including Blake: "Men and ...

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xvi 256p cloth embossed in blue, bevelled edges, top edge gilt, title printed in red and black, ...

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A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821 - 1882.

690p original red cloth, very good, unmarked copy, clean and fresh

£38.00

A Case of Child Murder. Law and Science in Nineteenth Century Tuscany.

x 210p hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy without names, stamps or signs of use

£18.00

A Celebration of 100 Years of Materials Research at the National Physical Laboratory.

large format hardback, with dustjacket, nice clean copy, illustrated throughout, as new

£16.00

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47p white/blue paperback, many b&w illustrations, very good condition

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A Century of Technology, 1851 - 1951.

ix 346p blue cloth fresh, index, tables, photographic plates, rather worn but still very usable ...

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large format, xvi 226p original paper cover with tape along spine: Rain making science, many ...

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192p red and white vintage paperback, slight wear to top of spine, otherwise remarkably fresh copy, ...

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xxviii 580p bright blue cloth with large original leather label to spine, gilt lettering, very ...

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26p vii 108p blue cloth fresh with gilt monogram to front, bright and fresh copy

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18p stapled pamphlet, very well preserved, clean and tight

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56p stapled booklet, nice fresh copy, contains "Information" by J M Smith; "Parity" by R ...

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568p maroon cloth, rubbed corners, hinges cracked, good condition

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A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, 24th Ed. with a new Appendix of Questions without Answers.

vi 488p small format original cloth, inner front hinge soft and some yielding, minor spotting, ...

£14.00

A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.

£6.00

218p brown paperback, diagrams, bibliography, indices, a clean and very good copy

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viii 524p hardback with dustjacket (jacket with old adhesive tape repair to spine, many ...

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£64.00

xv 812p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, first edition, without name or ...

£64.00

A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. Second Edition. Volume 3 ONLY.

461p bound in plain blue boards with brown paper spine, perhaps covering a previous binding, all ...

£88.00

A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. Second Edition. Volume 4 ONLY.

682p bound in plain blue boards with brown paper spine, perhaps covering a previous binding, all ...

£88.00

254p cloth with blue dustjacket, some shelfwear, stain to boards, pages unmarked, binding firm, ...

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172p white cloth, frontispiece with tissue guard, spine rubbed, pages unmarked, good condition

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complete in 5 volumes, approx 1000p each, large heavy cloth with illustrations, indices, each ...

£136.00

xxxviii 888p navy cloth, many plates in the back, colour frontispiece, a very large and heavy ...

£46.00

very large and heavy volume, from a Cambridge college library, unused, excellent

£46.00

18p essay in a single issue of Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for sale is ...

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A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents. Two Volumes.

xx 527p viii 611p two large volumes in original cloth, spines are absent, "Nullius in Verba" emblem ...

£88.00

A Hundred Years of Cambridge Physics, 1874 - 1974.

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36p stapled pamphlet, A4 format, partly from typescript, with local adverts, nice item

£12.00

A Hundred Years of Cambridge Physics. Second Edition.

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46p tall booklet with white cover, contains adverts, very good indeed

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352p green/white paperback, minor shelfwear to the extremities, corners with light wear, pages ...

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91p paperback with blue cover, very good condition, as new, Portuguese translation

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iii 160p large paperback, cover dusty, frontispiece, b&w illustrations some with tissue guards, ...

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380p yellow paperback, very good condition, some creasing to bottom page corners, Portuguese ...

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this is a 10p essay in the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, for ...

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A Memoir of the Life and Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, Inventor of the Power Loom. (1843)

11p 372p hardback with dustjacket, very good, Introduction by K Ponting, excellent copy

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30p essay in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, well preserved, many plates, ...

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xvi 403p red cloth a little aged but holding well, frontispiece with tissueguard, nice copy, first ...

£28.00

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250p hardback with black pictorial jacket, as new, pages clean with index, very good

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A Passion for DNA. Genes, Genomes and Society.

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250p hardback with black pictorial jacket, good condition, minimal wear to cover and sides, pages ...

£8.00

(No Author)

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32p square stapled booklet, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding firm, pages very clean ...

£24.00

10 page article, for sale is the complete issue of Discovery (December 1956) with numerous plates, ...

£8.00

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vii 607p, half leather, scuffed mrbled boards, five raised bands, front hinge cracked, preliminary ...

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