ALLIX Charles

Carriage Clocks. Their History and Development. Illustrated by Peter Bonnert. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Antique Collectors' Club, [Woodbridge],, [1974]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with many hundreds of photographs and illustrations in the text; blue buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, buff endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Near fine copy of a standard reference.

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Book number: 33310

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Keywords: science, technology, clocks, horology, timekeeping, carriage clocks, charles allix

'ARISTOTLE' [pseud].

Aristotle's Works: containing the Master-Piece, Directions for Midwives. and Counsel and Advice to Child-Bearing Women. With various useful Remedies. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY.

The Booksellers, [John Smith], n.d. [c.1855]. 16mo., with with coloured frontispiece, illustrated and printed titles, 6 pages of coloured plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, boards framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, red edges, primrose endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. The attribution to Aristotle is fictitious. BLPC and COPAC give the likely date of this edition as 1855. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 32283

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Keywords: science, medicine, midwives, midwifery, childbirth, obstetrics

ARTHUS A.

The Unknown World of the Child. A Book for Parents. Translated by Robin Scutt from the French Edition.

Paul Elek,, 1947. 8vo., First English Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip a little dusty else a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 12444

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Keywords: science, medicine, psycology, sociology, a. arthus, science, medicine, unknown, world, child

BAKER E.C.

Preece and those who followed. Consulting Engineers in the Twentieth Century. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Reprographic Centre, Brighton,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter just a trifle browned at backstrip.

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Book number: 23012

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Keywords: science, engineering, william preece, e.c. baker, science, medicine, preece, those, who, followed

BARTON David K.

Radar System Analysis. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ,, [1964]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous diagrams throughout, small personal stamp on front paste-down; black cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in gilt and white, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

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Book number: 25325

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Keywords: science, radar, raytheon, d.k. barton, science, medicine, radar, system, analysis

BELL W.J.

Early American Science. Needs and Opportunities for Study.

Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg VA,, 1955. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original green boards, terracotta cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 23032

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Keywords: science, american scientists, w.j. bell, science, medicine, early, american, science

BELL J.

The Telegraphists' Guide to the Departmental; and City and Guilds Examinations in Telegraphy. Seventh Edition (New Impression). NEAR FINE COPY

Rentell,, [1911]. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams (a number folding) in the text; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL

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Book number: 22969

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Keywords: science, wireless telegraphy, telegraphists, j. bell, s. wilson, science, medicine, telegraphists', guide, departmental, city, guilds, examinations, telegraphy

BELVILLE John Henry

Mid-Nineteenth Barometers. Being a Reprint of Manual of the Mercurial and Aneroid Barometers (1858) to which is appended The Aneroid Barometer, how to buy and use it (1849). [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY

Turner & Devereux,, [1975]. 2 works in 1 vol., sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and tables in the text; original cream wrappers, front wrapper lettered in black, a near fine copy. High quality facsimile reissue of the second edition of the first work and the first edition of the second work. SCARCE.

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Book number: 17341

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Keywords: science, barometers, scientific instruments, john henry belville

BLISS Michael

William Osler. A Life in Medicine. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press, [New York],, 1999. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece and plates; pale green boards, grey cloth back lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 47194

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Keywords: science, medicine, osler, william osler, michael bliss

BRABAZON Lord

The Brabazon Story. NEAR FINE COPY

Heinemann,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 25930

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Keywords: science, transport, cars, automobiles, brabazon, aviation, lord brabazon, science, medicine, brabazon, story

BRADDICK H. J. J.

Cosmic Rays and Mesotrons. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

University Press, Cambridge,, 1939. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; printed wrappers, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 45143

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Keywords: science, technology, astronomy, cosmology, braddick, cosmic rays, mesotrons

BRAITHWAITE David

Savage of King's Lynn. Inventor of Machines and Merry-Go-Rounds. NEAR FINE COPY

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1978]. 4to., First Paperback Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original wrappers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Includes detailed engine register and bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 33656

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BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY Ltd.

Aluminium Facts and Figures. Section I: Sheet Coiled Strip and Circles [with] Section II: Extrusions [with] Section III: Tubes [with] Section IV: Casting Alloys and Hardeners. [Complete set.] FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDNG

British Aluminium Company, Ltd.,, 1955-55-55-50. 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams and tables throughout; original blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in silver, a fine set. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 47379

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Keywords: science, technology, engineering, british aluminium, aluminium

BROADBENT Sir William

Selections from the Writings of Sir William Broadbent. Medical and Neurological. Edited by Walter Broadbent. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY

Oxford University Press,, 1908. 8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; original red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, a very good bright, clean copy. Collects a large number of papers and articles, excluding those used as the basis of his books on 'The Pulse' and 'Heart Disease'. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 30600

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Keywords: science, medicine, broadbent, william broadbent, walter broadbent

BROUGH Bennett H.

A Treatise on Mine-Surveying. Thirteenth Edition, Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Charles Griffin,, 1913. 8vo., Thirteenth Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout, contemporary name on front free endpaper verso; original red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 74pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The signature is that of a member of the world-famous School of Mines, Camborne. Published in Griffin's Mining Series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 43592

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Keywords: science, mining, mines, surveying, bennett brough, charles griffin