Books on History of Science
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History of Botany. (Papers Read at the Clark Library Seminar, 1963)
70p stapled booklet, grey card cover, notes, bibliography, fresh and clean copy
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Universities in Politics. Case Studies from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
137p cloth, brown dustjacket fresh, a very good and clean copy: Hyde on Bologna, Verger on Paris, ...
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Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830 - 1930.
xiii 581p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket (minor tear to back), else a virtually new copy, ...
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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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A Primer of the History of Mathematics.
150p small format green cloth fresh, dustjacket present, name to endpaper, very good
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Fifth Cooley's Anemia Symposium = Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 445.
470p red paperback, very good with inscription
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The Sociology of Science.
viii 662p green cloth, from a Cambridge college library but very good condition, a very important ...
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The Sociology of Science.
viii 662p green cloth, very good condition, a very important collection: Merton to Weber
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Chemistry: A Brief Outline of Its History and Development. Part 1: Historical Review.
74p brown paperback, minor shelfwear, yellowing to edges, index, very good condition
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Pure Chemistry. A Brief Outline of its History and Development. Part 1: Historical Review. Part 2: Descriptive Catalogue.
75p 75p paper cover, many plates, index, very good set
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Saponarin, a New Glucoside Coloured Blue with Iodine. (Author's Presentation Copy).
15p essay on the isolation of saponarin by Barger, an important figures in turn-of-the-century ...
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Visual Communication in Science: Learning Through Sharing Images.
122p cream paperback, pages clean and unmarked, some pages dog-eared including front cover, binding ...
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Greek Physics. (Encyclopaedia Metropolitana)
pp 329 - 368, slim booklet, paperback, front cover missing, text clean
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El Arbol de la Ciencia.
250p black/white paperback, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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A Continuous Record of Atmospheric Nucleation.
large format, xvi 226p original paper cover with tape along spine: Rain making science, many ...
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The House of Intellect.
276p hardback, black cloth spine and brown boards, fresh clean copy, no name or stamps, well ...
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Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa.
xv 304p hardback with colourful dustjacket, as new, never used
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Science and Society. The Meaning and Importance of Scientific Method.
96p paperback, unused, pages clean and unmarked, excellent condition
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The Utilisation of the Nile Waters.
pp523 - 558 blue stapled offprint with card cover, library stamp, hardly used, pages clean with ...
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Letteratura e Scienza.
234p paperback with "bed of type" illustration to front, nice fresh copy, no names or stamps, spine ...
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IX Internationalen Congress für Radiologie 1959 in München.
43p white cloth, gilt lettering & decoration to cover, plastic slipcase (damaged), 9 colour plates, ...
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Muscular Work. A Metabolic Study with Special Reference to the Efficiency of the Human Body as Machine.
vii 176p large format paperback, front and back cover detached, spine largely missing, first ...
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Weighing the Risks: Stalemate in the Classical / Balance Controvesy.
30p stapled offprint, very good: Dobzhanzky vs Muller
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Social Thought From Lore to Science. Volume Three. Third Edition.
xii 793-1178p cxciii paperback, turquoise and yellow covers, good condition, a bit slanted, binding ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Vorschläge des Ausschusses zur Abänderung des Abschnittes Kakao und Schokolade der 'Vereinbarungen'. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 12, 15 Juli 1906)
50p essay removed from binding, very good
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Recherches Expérimentales sur l'Action du Sel dans la Végétation, et sur son emploi en Agriculture.
35p booklet, together with: Recueil de Mémoires relatifs a l'Emploi du sel marin en Agriculture ...
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Harvey's Third Circulation: De Circulo Sanguinis in Corde. The Harveian Oration of 1968.
15p red cloth with gilt lettering, slightly sunned, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, ...
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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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Charles Darwin. Evolution by Natural Selection.
xi 290p green cloth fresh, index, many plates, first edition, very good indeed
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Bell Manuscript.
Unnumbered pages, brown slipcase containing Bell Manuscript facsimile and 10p pamphlet essay ...
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Rising of the Land Around Hudson Bay. Geological Survey of Canada.
8p removed from bound volume: Annual Report of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to July ...
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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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Walter B Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist.
xiv 520p large format hardback, grey cloth, light markings from a Cambridge library, very good, ...
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Social Change and Scientific Organisation. The Royal Institution 1799 - 1844.
xxv 223p hardback, well preserved dustjacket, a fresh copy, clean pages, a very good copy
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Science and Human Welfare: The Proceedings of a Conference held in London on 15th - 17th Feb 1946.
72p stapled paper cover, various contributors, in excellent condition
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The Extension of Man: A History of Physics before 1900.
317p green hardback, dustjacket with tear, text clean, very good copy, minor flaws
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 1010: Medicine, Science, Technology.
112p printed on art paper, many illustrations, very good
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 1018: Medicine, Science, Technology.
68p illustrated card cover, many illustrations, very good
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 996: Books on Medicine, Science, and Technology.
48p illustrated card cover, 201 items, very good
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 999. Australian, New Zealand, The Pacific.
58p illustrated card cover, 210 items, many illustrations, very good
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and her Research Stations in Kristineberg, Abisko and the Canary Islands.
40p, 40p, 64p, 48p 20cm square paperbacks with blue slipcase, first volume embossed card cover with ...
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Through France with Berzelius. Live Scholars and Dead Volcanoes.
viii 199p large hardback, dustjacket, many polates, some in colour, author inscription addressed to ...
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Science, Life and Christian Belief. A Survey and Assessment.
305p paperback with pictorial cover, hardly used, pages clean and unmarked, bibliography, index, a ...
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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy.
xii 439p green cloth fresh, tight copy, but introduction annotated and underlined in ink
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Memories and Musings of an Octogenarian Biologist.
248p hardback, dustjacket, as new, signed copy
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Über die Beurteilung von Radauplätzchen, Liliputmunition und ähnlichen Knallkörpern. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 33, Heft 8, 15 April 1917)
14p essay removed from binding, tables, very good
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