Books on History of Science

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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 38 (1965 - 1966).

xvii 180p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...

£26.00

Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 31 (1957 - 1958 and 1958 - 1959).

xvii 356p large format paperback, double volume, white card cover with arms to front, many plates ...

£46.00

Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 34 (1961 - 1962).

xvi 186p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...

£26.00

Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 45 (1972 - 1973).

xvi 273p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...

£26.00

Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 44 (1971 - 1972).

xvi 165p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...

£18.00

B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.

£124.00

x 115p hardback, purple jacket, many plates throughout, printed on art paper, author dedication to ...

£124.00

The Library of the late Kenneth K Knight, Esq on the History of Science and Economics. Wednesday, October 31, 1979.

£16.00

122p frontispiece, mauve card cover, 391 lots, ink notes indicating prices fetched to the margin on ...

£16.00

Nietzsche's Naturalism. Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Nineteenth Century.

x 254p paperback, turquoise cover, very good condition, little to no wear, binding tight, pages ...

£24.00

Early Printed Books. Books on the History of Science, Economics, Literature and Theology, which will be Sold on Wednesday 1 April 1981.

£14.00

64p large format paperback, old rose frame to cover, some illustrations, a few notes in ink, list ...

£14.00

Printed Books and Maps. Important Historical Autographs, Natural History and Early Printed Books. 5 November 2008.

137p large format paperback with Baxter print to front 745 items, illustrated in colour throughout, ...

£20.00

Copernicus und seine Welt. Biographie.

£32.00

510p grey cloth fresh, corners sharp, clean copy, neat initials to endpaper, early or first edition ...

£32.00

Science in Russian Culture. Volume 2 - 1861-1917.

575p hardback, black cloth, clean and tight copy, a few faint pencil marks to initial pages, ...

£30.00

Professor Aleksandr Chaianov, 1888 - 1937. (Professor Alexander Chayanov)

304p hardback grey boards with black lettering to front, with many plates, very well preserved, ...

£46.00

The Order of Things. An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.

xxiii 307p large paperback, black cover, very good condition, little to no wear, binding firm, ...

£24.00

Petition of John H Sargent, of Charleston, South Carolina, in Relation to the Patent Laws, January 11, 1843.

single sheet (2 pages) petition by John H Sargent outlining a patent system where the United States ...

£46.00

Explosion of Steam Boilers. Memorial of Thomas S. Easton, in Relation to Explosions of Steam Boilers. January 13, 1843.

£46.00

11p removed from binding, disbound, this item could easily be housed in a new cover, (= 27th ...

£46.00

Harvesting the Air. Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England.

£20.00

xiii 307p hardback, turquoise cloth with jacket, very good condition, little to no wear, binding ...

£20.00

Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

xxx 40p hardback, large format, dustjacket present, a clean and tight copy, reprint of the 1754 ...

£20.00

Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London. John Gast and his Times.

xi 418p hardback, fresh red dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, no names or stamps, no traces of use

£32.00

Science and the Human Condition in India and Pakistan.

£24.00

xxii 229p large format hardback, cloth spine, many plates, very well preserved, no names or stamps

£24.00

Greek Science.

£8.00

v 163p paperback, turquoise and yellow cover, very good condition, binding tight, minimal wear, ...

£8.00

The Limits of Matter: Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment.

£38.00

241p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent fresh copy without name or stamps, as new

£38.00

Newton Tercentenary Celebrations. 15 - 19th July 1946.
(No Author)

£20.00

92p hardback, scarlet cloth with crest and gilt lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, some ...

£20.00

Cradle of Life. The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils.

xiv 367p large format paperback, grey-brown cover, very good condition, minimal wear, front cover ...

£20.00

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

£64.00

xxvii 678p thick hardback, fresh green cloth with black title panel, green dustjacket excellent, a ...

£64.00

Inventing Chemistry. Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts.

£32.00

viii 260p hardback, fresh dustjacket, as new, never used, not names or stamps, no signs of use

£32.00

The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States.

£18.00

xix 416p large format paperback, yellow card cover, a fresh and clean copy, first paperback edition

£18.00

Hearth and Home: History of Material Culture.

£20.00

437p large paperback, illustrated throughout, excellent clean and tight copy, never used, no names ...

£20.00

The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class, and Political Culture.

£48.00

ix 197p hardback, fresh dustjacket, illustrated throughout, excellent clean and tight copy, no name ...

£48.00

Science and Society in Seventeenth-Century England.

£24.00

xxix 278p large paperback, red cover, a tight and clean copy, no traces of use, faint foxing to ...

£24.00

Operation Orca. Springer, Luna and the Struggle to Save West Coast Killer Whales.

280p hardback with excellent dustjacket, very well preserved first edition copy.

£48.00

Health, 'Race' and Empire: Popular-Scientific Spectacles and National Identity in Imperial Germany 1871 - 1914

£16.00

x 294p second hand copy of blue paperback cheaply produced by Amazon, reprint of dissertation with ...

£16.00

The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey.

736p tight and square and clean paperback, black cover with lettering fresh, excellent copy, as ...

£18.00

Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America.

viii 285p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent clean copy, no names or stamps

£28.00

Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830 - 1930.

£46.00

xiii 581p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket (minor tear to back), else a virtually new copy, ...

£46.00

Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture.

£18.00

xviii 340p large paperback, excellent fresh copy, no names or stamps, as new

£18.00

Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage.

£30.00

331p hardback with dustjacket, excellent copy with just a few faint pencil marks to margin, a very ...

£30.00

The Dark Abyss of Time. The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico.

£18.00

xvi 337p large paperback, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, no traces of use

£18.00

Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.

£12.00

302p large format paperback, a few faint pencil marks to the text, still very useful and little used

£12.00

Sympathetic Attractions

£30.00

326p hardback with fresh dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, without name or stamps, a few very ...

£30.00

The Soviet Industrialization Debate, 1924 - 1928.

xxiii 214p hardback, red dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, name to endpaper, very little used, ...

£26.00

Positivism in Mexico.

£36.00

xxiii 241p hardback with fresh dustjacket, a clean and very tight copy, name to endpaper, marginal ...

£36.00

Correspondance - Sciences et Techniques. Volume 3: Les Correspondants Britanniques.

xliv 667p ivory hardback, a fresh and clean copy, Volume 3 ONLY

£46.00

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