ANTHOLOGY.

Frontier Crossings> a Souvenir of the 45th World Science Fiction Convention, Conspiracy '87, held in Brighton, Great Britain, from August 27th to September 1st 1987.

Science Fiction Conventions Ltd., 1987. Fine in dust wrapper with a small nick. The official souvenir book, signed by over 40 authors and illustrators including: Terry Pratchett, Ian Watson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ray Harryhausen, Brian Aldiss, William Gibson, Katherine Kurtz, Doris Lessing, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Moorcock, Jim Burns, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Bob Shaw, Larry Niven, etc.

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Book number: 43422

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: Science Fiction Science Fiction

BOULENGER, G.A.

The Tailless Batrachians of Europe.

Ray Society, 1897 - 8. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. iii, 210: 211 - 376> illustrations, folding maps, fine colour lithographs. Original cloth, Very Good. Ex-Worcester public library with labels and stamps but not too obtrusive.

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Book number: 31167

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OLIVER BYRNE

The First Six Book of the Elements of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners.

William Pickering, 1847. 1st Edition. Square 8vo. pp. xxix, 268> colour printed diagrams throughout. Original cloth, cleverly restored on the spine preserving the original binding> lightly foxed throughout as usual with this title, with some light damp staining to lower inner margins. This innovative educational work covered the first six books of Euclid's elements which were standard fare on the mathematics curriculum of the time. Byrne's innovative approach to the representation of the formulae is now considered a precursor to the graphic modernist experiments from the Bauhaus movement.

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Book number: 44766

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EDWARD M. CLARKE

List of Prices of Mathematical, Philosophical, Optical, and Chemical Instruments and Apparatus.

Taylor and Walton for E.M. Clarke, c. 1843. 8vo. pp. 82> illustration. Wrappers, rear wrapper defective. With a detailed description E.M. Clarke's Magnetic Electrical Machine, a crank turned device for generating electricity [8 pages]. Among the items offered are articles for the nascent art of photography.

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Book number: 45077

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GIBSON, William

Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Gollancz, 1988. Fine in dust wrapper. Anthony Roberts' copy with name and date.

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Book number: 43171

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GIBSON, William

Virtual Light.

Viking, 1993. 1st Edition. Almost fine with a little wear to the corners of the dust wrapper.

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Book number: 43172

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GUALTIERI, Nicolai

Index Testarum Conchyliorum Quae Adservantur in Museo...

Florence: Caietani Albizzini, 1742. Folio. pp. xxiii, portrait, engraved title page, 110 full page plates each with accompanying page of text, 16 sectional titles with engravings> the title and sectional titles printed in red and black. Library blind stamp on top corner of first four and last five pages, not encroaching onto the printed area> small ink stamp on verso of title page. Modern quarter morocco, internally a fine, fresh, unpressed and uncut copy. A beautifully engraved book.

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Book number: 34786

Catalogue: Natural History and Science

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DOCTOR GUILLIÉ

An Essay on the Instruction and Amusements of the Blind.

Sampson Low, Marston and Company Ltd, 1894. 8vo. pp. xii, [2], 154> 21 illustrations. Original cloth, Very Good. A facsimile reprint of the scarce 1st English edition of 1819, uncommon in itself. Guillié was a pioneer in education for the blind, though a controversial figure who was accused of only promoting policies which made him look good. Nevertheless his manual for activities for the blind was adopted in France at the Royal Institution for the Blind of which he was Director-General and many of his ideas crossed the Channel to be incorporated into British education for the blind. "In Paris, the original of this interesting work, which is calculated to resue from the misery of idleness the most helpless of human beings, was printed at the institution for the Blind, by the blind themselves> thereby serving as a practical illustration of the efficacy and value of the labours of the benevolent Author." [from the translator's introduction]

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Book number: 42861

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HILL, John

The Construction of Timber, from its Early Growth> Explained by the Microscope, and proved from experiments...

Printed for the Author, 1770. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. 170, [8, index], [2, directions to the binder]> 44 plates [ 2 numbered 33]. Contemporary speckled calf, hinges cracked but sound. A pioneering work on the use of the microscope made possible by the invention of Alexander Cumming's section cutter to obtain the specimens.

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Book number: 40025

Catalogue: Natural History and Science

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JENKYN INGRAM Editor

The Fireman. Volume I, no.1 - no. 12. [Complete Year]

June 1877 - May 1878. Large 4to. pp. iv, 228> illustrations. Original red cloth, joints repaired> page 177/8 with a long horizontal closed tear. A rare periodical for working firemen, perhaps the first of its kind, with articles on the latest techniques and equipment and 'notes on provincial fires of the month', which are reports, rather than a beauty pageant of the best fires.

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Book number: 44874

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Three Day Conference at Imperial College London.

The British Computer Society, 1 - 3 September 1971. Folio. pp. xiv, 658> charts and diagrams. Front wrapper a little spotted otherwise a nice clean copy. Advance papers of the Conference by the leading experts. Rare in commerce and institutions, the Library Hub lists 4 academic library holdings only.

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Book number: 41524

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JOHN CURR, of Sheffield

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion.

Sheffield: Printed for the Author by John Northall, 1797. 4to. pp. 96> 5 folding plates. Contemporary boards, later sheep spine and corners, coloured leather spine label. Clean and fresh internally. With the bookplate of The Society for Promoting Arts and Commerce, Instituted London, 1753.

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Book number: 43982

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KEITH, Sir Arthur

The Religion of a Darwinist. [Conway Memorial Lecture]

Watts & Co., 1925. Small 8vo. pp. 76. Very Good in original cloth.

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Book number: 38656

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JOHANN KRAFT

Pomona Austriaca, ou Arbres Fruitiers d'Autriche, Représentés en Figures, Dessinées et Peintes d'Apres Nature. [Fruit Trees of Austria Represented by figures, drawn and painted from Nature.] Abhandlung von den Obstaumen worinn ihre Gestalt, Erziehung und Pflege angezeigt und beschreiben wird mit 100 sehr feinen Abbildungen in Kupfer gestochen und nach der Natur in Farben dargestellt. [Treatise on Fruit Trees wherein their form, growth and tending will be shown and described, with 100 very fine illustrations engraved in copper, and depicted in their natural colours.]

Vienne [Vien]: A. Baumer and Rudolph Graffer, 1796 - 7 [and 1816?] 2 volumes. Folio. [365 x 240 mm] pp. 24 [gFrench text], xvi, 45 [35 numbered 8 times] [German text]> hand painted frontispiece of garland of flowers heightened in gilt> 100 hand coloured plates: 20 [French text], [2], 46 [German text]> 100 hand coloured plates. The deluxe edition in folio with the coloured hand painted frontispiece> list of 37 subscribers. Contemporary tree calf with early reback, spines gilt, margin repair to page 7/8 of Volume 1 French text. The final 20 illustrations of volume 2 are laid down onto what appears to be different versions of the plates. These final plates bear captions in both German and French whereas the first 180 plates bear German captions only. The pastedowns bear a shelf ticket and pencil note "(coll) Metternich", possibly from the library of Prince Klemens von Metternich [1773 – 1859], Austrian politician and statesman. A Fine copy of perhaps the rarest of pomological works. The genesis of this copy is curious and complex having both the French and German texts. The French title page of Volume 1 bears the date MDCCCXVI, although the last four digits have been inserted in ink over a scratched out date [probably 1796 or 7]. The German title page is dated 1816, but again the last three digits have been replaced. The imprints read as follows: Volume 1. French. Vienne: A. Blumauer, MDCCCXVI. [but probably 1796 or 1797] Volume 1. German. Vien: Rudolph Graffer, 1816. [but probably 1796 or 1797] Volume 2. French. Vienne: A. Blumauer, MDCCLXXXXVII. Volume 2. German. Vien : A Blumauer, 1796. According to all the best authorities the German edition preceded the French, but they date it to 1797. It is reasonable to speculate that early in the life of this copy, perhaps in 1816, the German edition was rebound to include the French text before the German presumably to avoid breaking the existing text block. This French text would have been supplied either directly from the publisher who scratched out the dates, or from a defective or incomplete copy of the French issue. It is certain that the French text had at some time been separate from the rest of this copy, as the inner margins of the text bear damp staining, which is not present on the frontispiece, German text or the plates. Genuinely rare both in commerce and in institutional collections> no other copy is recorded with both the French and German texts. Nissen 1097> Plesch p. 292 [defective copy] > Janson pp. 289/91> An Oak Spring Pomona 50.

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Book number: 42563

Catalogue: Natural History and Science

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