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	"A.K.K." Science of Gambling Pendulum Publications Ltd, U.K. 1945. First Issued, Hard Cover, Illustrated by: Walker Jos. Near Fine/Good Plus Plus. viii, 164 pages, size 7 inches tall by 5 inches. Illustrated with black and white line cartoon drawings by Jos Walker. ' It is with mixed feelings that I approach this subject. For some reason or other gambling has been regarded as a vice and not a fit subject for study and research. I am endeavouring here to dispel this idea, and in case the reader finds me too earnest and serious, he will find the atmosphere brightened by a few drawings by that well-known Cartoonist to whom I am greatly indebted-Mr, Jos. Walker. Those who frown upon gambling will find plenty to criticise in my remark's. Others will find the study of the mechanism of the various sports and gambles a useful eye-opener to them. Yet if you are merely amused at these attempts to put gambling upon a really scientific basis, this book will have served at least some useful purpose .' A. K. K. Contents : Chapter I. Introductory Remarks-The Essence Of A Wager Chapter II. Mathematics And Systems-The Oddities Of Odds Chapter III. Roulette And Systems Chapter IV. Horse-Racing And Systems Chapter V. Greyhound Racing-The Forecast Chapter VI. Totes, Sweeps And Pools Chapter VII. The Stock Exchange And Share Markets Chapter VIII. Insurance, Or When Not To Gamble Chapter IX. Some Card Games Bridge, Poked And Baccarat Chapter X. The Professional-Some Eminent Gamblers. Book - in Near Fine tan boards with blue lettering - light bumping to the extreme ends of the spine and extreme corners, minor marking to the spine. Contents, previous owner's inscription to the free front endpaper otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - Good Plus Plus - a nice bright colourful cartoon to the front of the jacket, some loss to the top of the spine, small amounts of loss to the corners, repairs to verso. fading to the red colouring to the spine, some grubbiness to the white background of the jacket. A Rare Title Especially With Its Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Walker Jos. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Mathematics Inventory No: 003083. GBP 28.50 [Appr.: EURO 32 US$ 47.48 \| JP¥ 4224] Book number: 003083 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	AGRICOLA GEORGIUS [TRANSLATED BY HERBERT CLARK HOOVER AND LOU HENRY HOOVER] De Re Metallica : Translated From The First Latin Edition Of 1556 Dover Publications, US, 1950. First Thus, Hard Cover. Fine/Near Very Good. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE UK. Biographical Introduction, Annotations, And Appendices Upon The Development Of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law From The Earliest Times To The 16th Century. ii, 640 pages, size 11 inches tall by 6.75 inches. 289 illustrattions and 4 facsimile pages from the Latin original. 'Originally published in 1556, Agricola's De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation-what today would be called the "scientific approach." It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various specialized techniques of the many branches of Mining, and the first to provide a realistic history of mining from antiquity to its day. For almost 200 years, Agricola remained the only authoritative work in this area and by modern times it had become one of the most highly respected scientific classics of all time. A book more often referred to in literature on mining and metallurgy than any other, its Latin text prevented it from being as widely used as it might have been. In 1912, the book was translated by former President Herbert Clark Hoover and his wife. Printed in a limited edition, the work was quickly bought up by book collectors, historians, and medievalists, who had found that there was much to be learned from its pages. Out of print, this edition has sold for up to $150 to collectors and libraries. The book contains an unprecedented wealth of material on alluvial mining, alchemy, silver refining, smelting, surveying, timbering, nitric acid making, and hundreds of other phases of the medieval art of metallurgy. The text even covers the legal aspects of mining-the use of boundary stones, forfeitures of titles, the specific safety requirements of tunnel building in the 1500's, and so on. But the plates, perhaps more than anything else, are what is responsible for Agricola's continued importance. Brilliantly executed drawings, richly detailed, reveal a whole medieval world of machinery, industrial technique, tools, even costume and architecture. All 289 of the original drawings are reproduced in this reprint of the 1912 edition, offering students of the period, commercial artists, Ternary Systems: Introduction to the T1. engineers, metallurgists, and even curious general readers an unforgettable picture of the first age of technology. Unaltered, unabridged reprint of the 1912 edition. Three appendices: Bibliography, Ancient Authors, Weights and Measures. Biographical and Introduction. Author's and translator's prefaces. Four facsimile pages from the Latin original. 289 illustrations. ii, 640pp. 63/4 x 11. Book - in Fine [much better than Very Good] blue grey boards with gilt lettering. Contents, clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - [SEE SCAN] - Near Very Good bright colourful wrapper - small amounts of loss to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine, some surface abrasion to the lamination. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science Inventory No: 004775. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 48.50 [Appr.: EURO 54.5 US$ 80.8 \| JP¥ 7188] Book number: 004775 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	ALLEN TOM The Quest : A Report on Extraterrestrial Life Chilton Company, US, 1965. First Edition, Hard Cover. Fine [Better Than Very Good]/Very Good. 323 pages with an index. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams."Since man first looked up, he has wondered about the possibility of life existing beyond Earth. For centuries, such speculation was based upon myths and superstition. And, for decades, scientists scorned suggestions that serious consideration be given these speculations. Today, however, distinguished scientists, including Nobel Laureates, are proposing that extra terrestrial life almost certainly does exist. "In a few short years," says a recent National Academy of Sciences report, "this topic-at one time merely science fiction- has been lifted from the category of escape reading and whimsical speculation and now stands as a serious objective of the international space race. What caused this dramatic change of scientific attitude ? What evidence is there to support the theory that life exists beyond Earth? In a thoroughly documented report, the author tells what the scientists know, and what they hope to learn in the very near future. As The Quest reveals, scientists have been discussing fantastic possibilities-including a proposal that extraterrestrial beings have already discovered us ! But this scientific dialogue has largely been restricted to journals and seminars unknown or little known to non-scientists. Here, for the first time, the scientists' speculations, and their offers of proof, are brought together in a single book. Here, reported at length, are the findings of a confidential meeting on ways to communicate with extraterrestrial societies. Here is the full report on a fascinating debate over the discovery of strange forms found in meteorites-forms that may well be fossils from another world. Here, too, is an examination of life as we know it on Earth. By understanding the vastness of life on Earth, the author believes, we can better appreciate the probability of life's existence elsewhere in the universe. The Quest also looks toward man's future in space, both as a searcher for life and as a terrestrial being turned extraterrestrial. This book's view of man in space is disturbing and vastly different from the usual view of the astronaut as the conquerer of the cosmos. The author raises doubts and questions about the sustained existence of man in space ... at least man as we know man. And, similarly, the author offers a hard look at what man may meet in space-a creature we now can only describe as The Alien. This is not "escape reading" or "whimsical speculation " This is significant, solid reporting, on a subject as fresh as tomorrow's headlines, yet as old as man's pondering about other realms of life." Book - Fine - in bright red boards with white lettering. Dust Jacket - SEE SCAN - Very Good - some tears and wear to top edge, repairs to verso, abrasion to spine wear price label clumsily removed. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910892. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99910892 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	AVEBURY THE RIGHT HON LORD Notes on the Life History of British Flowering Plants Macmillan, U.K. 1905. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING RATES. 450 pages with an index. Illustrated profusely with line drawings throughout the text. Chapters on Flower, Fruits And Seeds, Leaves, Stem' Sense Organs, Dicotyledons, Coniferae, and Monocotyledons. Book - SEE SCAN - Very Good - in green boards with gilt decoration and minor markings, browned front and rear free endpaper, slight bumping and rubbing to corners, roughcut page edges. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science Biology Inventory No: 99911241. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99911241 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BAKER R ST BARBE Reader's Guide Trees Cambridge University Press, U.K. 1948. First Edition, Paper Covers. Good/No Jacket. One of the Reader's Guide Series. 12 pages, size 8.5 inches tall by 5.5 inches, in paper covers. Booklet - Good - some closed tears and creasing to the edges and corners, top right hand corner of the front cover missing, original staples removed and now stitched, some associated marking where the staples once were and rusted, slight creasing to the edges, otherwise pages are clean and tight and this is good reading or working copy. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science trees Inventory No: 99911800. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 99911800 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BANNISTER F A So-called 'thermokalite' and the Existence of Sodium Bicarbonate as a Mineral UK. Paper Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author. Reprinted from the Mineralogical Magazine March 1929, Vol XXII, No 124, pp 53-64. Book - Very Good - in grey paper covers. Signed 'With the author's compliments'. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Signed by Author. Inventory No: 000146. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 000146 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BARBER THOMAS WALTER Engineer's Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances, and Details E & F N Spon, U.K. 1890. Second Edition, Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. Employed In the Design And Construction of Machinery For Every Purpose. Classified And Arranged For Reference For The Use Of Engineers, Mechnical Draughtsmen, Managers, Mechanics, Inventors, Patent Agents, And All Engaged In The Mechanical Arts. With nearly Two Thousand Illustrations, Descriptive Notes and Memoranda. 243 pages, size approximately 9 inches tall by 6 inches. "Every successful engineer is a born inventor; indeed the daily work of an engineer in practice largely consists in scheming and devising from previous experience new and improved processes, methods, and details for accomplishing them, and for simplifying or cheapening old forms of machinery and the work they produce, to enable him to successfully compete with others, who are perhaps as ingenious and enterprising as himself. In the work of designing machinery the draughtsman has to rely mainly on his memory for inspiration; and, for lack of an idea, has frequently to wade through numerous volumes to find a detail or move ment to effect a particular purpose. Hence, as a rule, every man's work runs in a groove, his productions generally having the stamp of his particular experience and training clearly marked upon them. In the course of twenty-five years of such experience, I have found the want of such a volume as the present, and endeavoured to supply the deficiency in my own practice by private notes and sketches, gathered promiscuously, until the difficulty of selection and arrangement became so apparent that I began to classify them, as they exist in the following pages. A few weeks of unusual leisure have enabled me to complete this work and amplify it by numerous additions, and it is now presented in the hope that it will be found of equal service to others engaged in the head-splitting, exhausting work of scheming and devising machinery, than which I can conceive of no head-work more wearing and anxious. Several valuable works have already found numerous users, and there is no lack of admirable collections of memoranda, rules, and data for designing and proportioning the various constructive details of machinery; but, as far as I am aware, there is no work in existence which aims at the same purpose as is attempted in the following pages, viz. to provide side by side suggestive sketches of the various methods in use for accomplishing any particular mechanical movement or work, in a form easily referred to, and devoid of needless detail and elaboration. A sketch, properly executed, is-to a practical man-worth a folio of description; and it is to such that these pages are addressed. For the same reason it has been deemed undesirable to add to the various sketches any rules or tables relating to strengths or dimensions, which may be found in numerous well-known volumes. Any suggestions or additions will be entertained and gratefully I acknowledged. HASTINGS, 1890. THOMAS WALTER BARBER." Book - in Good brown boards with gilt lettering and decoration to the front board and spine - some marking to the boards and some bumping and wearing to the corners and extreme ends of spine. Contents, some marking to the top edges of the pictorial and advertising front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns and to the last inch of the page edges, slight spotting to the introductory pages, otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Engineering Inventory No: 99912496. GBP 36.58 [Appr.: EURO 41 US$ 60.94 \| JP¥ 5421] Book number: 99912496 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BARNETT S A Instinct and Intelligence - Science of Behaviour in Animals and Man MacGibbon & Kee, U.K. 1967. First Edition, Hard Cover. Near Fine /Very Good ++/Very Good. 250 pages with an index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Since 1945, the science of animal behaviour has suddenly grown. The fascination of the ways in which animals behave remains the same, but new methods of study are now widely used. In this major new work, S.A. Barnett has drawn upon a vast reservoir of little-known research to give an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of a subject in which controversy still rages. The author covers not only the whole animal kingdom but also the sources of human behavoiur. He makes a significant contribution to the current debate on territorial behaviour and the ownership of property. Book - Near Fine - slight bumping to top of spine. Dust Jacket - Very Good - some tearing to protective laminated covering to back edge, slight wearing to top of spine, slight grubbiness to back, price clipped. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Biology Inventory No: 9995481. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 9995481 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BELFORD ADAM J R Isometric Drawing at Various Angles Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1961. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1960-61. 13 pages in card covers with a 4 page catalogue to the rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Mathematics Inventory No: 99910851. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99910851 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BELFORD A J R Theory and Application of the Differential Gear Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1963. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1962-63. 35 pages in card covers with a 3 page catalogue to the rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910857. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 99910857 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BENTLEY ROBERT Student's Guide to Structural Morphological and Physiological Botany J & A Churchill, U.K. 1883. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 482 pages with an index and 16 pages of advertisements to rear. Well illustrated with line drawings throughout the text. Size approximately 6 inches tall by 4 inches. "The present volume has been prepared in accordance with a desire expressed for some years past, by many old pupils and others, to have a guide which should not be too elementary, but which might serve as an introduction to the author's ' Manual of Botany,' and other larger and more comprehensive works. The author has, therefore, endeavoured to condense within a moderate compass all that is essential as a foundation for future study, and thus to form a convenient and trust worthy guide on Structural and Physiological Botany for Medical and Pharmaceutical Students, and also for use in colleges and schools where Botany is now largely taught. The author's experience for more than thirty years as a Professor of Botany has shown him the necessity of explaining every detail in simple language, and of arranging the subjects treated of in such a manner as to facilitate their systematic study. He has, therefore, taken his own successful ' Manual of Botany' as his guide in these respects, but has altered it wherever necessary, so as to adapt the present work to a less advanced class of students. A comparison of the present volume, however, with his larger work will show that, although it has been grounded upon it, it cannot be regarded as a simple abstract or epitome of that volume, but that every page exhibits evidence of very careful revision, and much that is new in the treatment of details. Indeed, great pains have been taken to bring the different subjects treated of down to the present state of science ; and much care has also been exercised in condensing the numerous details in each department, and in arranging them for systematic study. The author trusts, therefore, that he has succeeded in the object he had in view, and has satisfied those who expressed a desire for such a volume. The present work will be succeeded, as early as possible, by another small volume, ' The Student's Guide to Systematic Botany,' uniform with it in design and execution. June 1883". Book - SEE SCAN - in Good Plus green boards with some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners but gilt lettering on spine still bright. Very Good text with slight speckling to page edges, previous owner's inscription to free front endpaper and pastedown. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany Inventory No: 99911195. GBP 30.88 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 US$ 51.45 \| JP¥ 4576] Book number: 99911195 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BHATT PREM J Fundamentals of Servo Control Engineering Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1961. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1960-61. 59 pages in card covers with a 5 page catalogue to ther rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910853. GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 14.16 \| JP¥ 1260] Book number: 99910853 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BOYDEN C.R. CROTHERS J.H. LITTLE C. & METTAM C. Intertidal Invertebrate Fauna of the Severn Estuary FSC Publication Field Studies, U.K. 1977. First Thus, Card Covers. Fine [Better Than Very Good]/No Jacket. An offprint from 'Field Studies' (1977),4,477-554. 77 pages including extensive index complete with fold-out chart of the Severn Estuary (UK) in illustrated Card Covers. Book Fine - save slight mark to front cover. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science zoology Inventory No: 9994468. GBP 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 19.25 US$ 28.32 \| JP¥ 2519] Book number: 9994468 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BRAGG SIR WILLIAM An Introduction to Crystal Analysis G Bell, U.K. 1928. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. vii, 168 pages with an index. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams. ' This book was founded on a course of lectures which was given at the University College, Aberystwyth, in the autumn of 1926. The lectures were intended for a general audience ; and consisted, accordingly, of a series of simple illustrations of the main features of crystal analysis '. Chapter headings, Reflection By The Crystal Lattice, Methods Of Analysis, Simple Inorganic Crystals, Space Groups Or Crystal Arrangements, Some Complex Crystals, Metals. Book - Very Good - in blue boards with gilt lettering - slight marking to the boards, slight wearing and bumping to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine, slight marking and slight browning to the front and rear free endpapers, previous owner's name to the top edge of the front pastedown and a small label to the bottom edge. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 000296. GBP 27.08 [Appr.: EURO 30.5 US$ 45.12 \| JP¥ 4013] Book number: 000296 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BREDDY NORMAN C An Introduction to Refrigeration Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1962. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1961-62. 53 pages in card covers with a 7 page catalogue to the rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910856. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99910856 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY Aluminium Facts & Figures 3 Books British Aluminium Company, U.K. 1950. First Edition, Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book One : Sheet, Coiled Strip And Circles 45 pages, size 10 inches tall by 7.25 inches. Book Two : Extrusions 22 pages. Book Three : Tubes 26 pages. Books - in Very Good bright blue boards with silver lettering, light fading to the board edges of books one and two, light bumping to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine. Contents, book two has some light marking and abrasion to the front pastedown and free front endpaper and light marking to a couple of pages, the other two books have faint spotting and light marking to their endpapers, previous owner's name to book two, otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Rare To Be Found In All Three Books. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Chemistry Inventory No: 003028. GBP 38.50 [Appr.: EURO 43.25 US$ 64.14 \| JP¥ 5706] Book number: 003028 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BROWN, G SPENCER Probability And Scientific Inference Longmans, Green And Co, UK, 1958. Second impression by Photolithography, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Very Good/Good Plus Plus. Size: 7.5 inches tall by 5 inches. ix, 154 pages with an index. ‘This is a book which has been eagerly awaited since its author first suggested, three years ago, that something was amiss in our scientific statistical calculations. Now he gives in detail the analysis of what is wrong and the remedies to put it right, dealing also with the wider issues of scientific knowledge. The scientific attitude is regarded as a powerful metaphysical system, but by no means the only valid one. The use of the calculus of probabilities, first devised as a means for deciding betting policies, is traced to its association with modern science. How it came by this association is carefully described, and the analysis of the first principles of its use here fills an all too frequent gap in the subject-matter of standard text-books. Although this is primarily a book of theory, it is written from a strictly practical point of view. The chapters which deal with the workings of chance machines and the mathematical consequences of rejecting unrandom series contain methodological criticisms which the practising scientists cannot ignore. The problem of luck is seriously treated for the first time, and the author has tackled the question of the well-known, or at least loudly-attested, phenomenon of runs of luck. He argues that such runs of luck do occur in a manner which classical theory forbids. The application of his work to the card-guessing results of Professor Rhine and Dr Soal leads to some interesting and unexpected conclusions.’ Book - in Very Good black boards with silver lettering - minor marking to the boards. Contents, light marking to the front pastedown and free front endpaper, some browning (where a paper clip once was and rusted) to the top edges of the title pages, a neat library stamp to the publication detail page but no other evidence of an ex library copy otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - Good Plus Plus - some browning and marking, some surface abrasion to the back cover and a library reference number to the spine. Shipped Weight: 251-750 grams. Category: Science Inventory No: 5165. GBP 28.50 [Appr.: EURO 32 US$ 47.48 \| JP¥ 4224] Book number: 5165 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BROWN H P, PANSHIN A J, FORSAITH C C Textbook of Wood Technology : The Physical, Mechanical, and Chemical Properties of the Commercial Woods of the United States In Two Volumes McGraw-hill Book Company, US, 1949. Third Impression, Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING RATES. EX LIBRARY COPIES - Reference?, certainly do not appear to have been handled much. Clean, Bright, Contents Tightly Bound in Matching Bindings. Volume 1 is a third impression of the first edition and dated 1949 with 652 pages and has Structure, Identification, Defects, and Uses of the Commercial Woods of the United States. Volume 2 is a first edition and dated 1952 has 783 pages with an index and has the Physical, Mechanical, and Chemical Properties of the Commercial Woods of the United States. Both volumes are in maroon bindings with gilt and black lettering and illustrated with black and white plates - Volume One has remainders of a bookplate to front paste down and front free endpaper but this is still quite neatly done, also a library stamp to front pastedown and one to page edges, previous owner's name to top edge of front free endpaper. Volume Two also has remainders of a bookplate to front paste down and very slight to front free endpaper, same library stamps as in volume one but an extra one in volume two to bottom corner of page 452 not affecting text, slight bumping and rubbings to all corners, otherwise clean, tight and tightly bound. A nice set of this important work. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science Inventory No: 99911266. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.25 US$ 166.6 \| JP¥ 14820] Book number: 99911266 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BUCKLEY ROBERT BURTON Irrigation Pocket Book : Or Facts, Figures and Formulae for Irrigation Engineers E & F N Spon, U.K. 1928. Fourth Edition, Hard Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Being A Series Of Notes On Miscellaneous Subjects Connected With Irrigation Compiled With The Kind Help Of Others. x, 678 pages, size 7.5 inches tall by 5 inches, with an index. With 120 Illustrations and Diagrams. 'This book is simply a compilation of facts, figures and formulae bearing on the everyday work of an Irrigation Engineer. It had its origin in a note-book in which I recorded, during thirty-three years' work in India, various data, facts, statistics, opinions, and formulae which came to my notice. To a large extent the matter in the following pages is extracted, bodily, from Government Reports, and from the Proceedings of Engineering Societies in England, Ireland, and the United States. This third edition has been enlarged by contributions kindly sent by several Irrigation Engineers in India and Egypt purposely for the book. Some of these have been specially written, and they have been inserted with the names of the authors. My thanks are due to them, and particularly to the Inspector-General of Irrigation in India, who has given me much help and encouragement. The notes often proved useful to me in my service on Indian Irrigation Works, and I hope they may be useful to others. An endeavour has been made to quote the sources, as far as possible, from which the information is drawn. First, in order to acknowledge the rights of the original writers, and, secondly, because an Engineer may often find that a reference to the authorities which are quoted, in any particular case, will lead him to the full information he needs, if, as may well be, it is found wanting in this volume '. Book - in Good Plus Plus green boards with blind stamped lettering to the front board and gilt to the spine - some marking/fading to the boards and light bumping to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine. Contents, clean, bright and tightly bound, previous owner's name to the top corner of the free front endpaper. A RARE Title. R. B. BUCKLEY. July, 1920. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Asian History Inventory No: 002116. GBP 49.50 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 82.47 \| JP¥ 7336] Book number: 002116 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	CAMPBELL DOUGLAS HOUGHTON Lectures on the Evolution of Plants Macmillan, U.K. 1899. Hard Cover. Near Fine [Better Than Very Go/No Jacket. 319 pages with an index. Illustrated with drawings throughout the text. "In the present volume I have endeavored to present in as untechnical a manner as seemed feasible the more striking facts bearing upon the evolution of plant forms. While there are numerous excellent text-books in which most of the statements here given are clearly presented, there is none, at least in English, so far as I am aware, where a connected account of the development of the plant kingdom from an evolutionary stand point has been attempted. Of course every modern system of classification is based upon the assumption of a genetic connection between the different groups, and must take into account the origin of plant forms; but these phylogenetic problems are necessarily subordinated in the general text-books. Moreover, these text books are, for the most part, avowedly prepared for the use of botanical students alone. It seemed to the writer that an accurate, if some what general, and not strictly technical, statement of our present knowledge concerning the data from which the genealogical history of the vegetable kingdom may be traced, might be of interest not only to such botanists as have not concerned themselves specially with this phase of the science, but also to zoologists, and those general readers who are interested in biological problems. The substance of the following chapters was presented in the form of a course of lectures at Stanford University during the past year. These lectures have been carefully revised, and a number of drawings prepared, which it is hoped will be helpful in elucidating the text. Very little originality can be claimed for the matter presented, beyond its arrangement. The writer has availed himself freely of the materials accumulated through the labors of botanists during the past fifty years, which have made possible such a general presentation of the subject as has been here attempted. It was intended, at first, to prepare a bibliography of the more important works bearing on the subject; but it was soon evident that the magnitude of a bibliography, which would be in any way complete, rendered this impracticable. Most of the drawings have been made by the author from nature. Where these have been borrowed, due acknowledgment has been made. Special thanks are due my colleague, Dr. G. J Peirce, for most valuable assistance in the reading of the proofs". DOUGrLAS HOUGHTON CAMPBELL. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, November, 1898. CONTENTS : CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER II THE CONDITIONS OF PLANT LIFE, CHAPTER III THE SIMPLEST FORMS OF LIFE, CHAPTER IV ALGAE, CHAPTER V FUNGI, CHAPTER VI MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS (BRYOPHYTA), CHAPTER VII THE FERNS (PTERIDOPHYTA), CHAPTER VIII PTERIDOPHYTA, CHAPTER IX SEED PLANTS (SPERMATOPHYTA) GYMNOSPERMAE), CHAPTER X ANGIOSPERMAE (MONOCOTYLEDONS), CHAPTER XI DICOTYLEDONS, CHAPTER XII GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, CHAPTER XIII ANIMALS AND PLANTS, CHAPTER XIV INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT, CHAPTER XV SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. Book- SEE SCAN - Near Fine - small patch of browning to bottom edges of free front endpapers. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany Inventory No: 99911204. GBP 19.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 US$ 31.65 \| JP¥ 2816] Book number: 99911204 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	CHAUVENET WILLIAM Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy J B Lippincott, U.K. 1893. Fifth Edition Revised and Corrected, Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. PLEASE EMAIL FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING RATES. COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES. University Edition. Volume One - Spherical Astronomy. Volume Two - Theory and Use of Astronomical Instruments. Embracing The General Problems of Spherical Astronomy, The Special Applications to Nautical Astronomy, and the Theory and Use of Fixed and Portable Astronomical Instruments. With An Appendix on the Method of Least Squares. 708 and 632 pages, size 9.5 inches tall by 6 inches. Illustrated with 15 black and white line diagrams which includes 3 fold outs. Books - in Good Plus brown chamfered boards with gilt lettering - light marking to the boards, some rubbing/wearing to bottom edges, corners and ends of the spines. Contents, light browning and neat, scholarly looking annotation to couple (3) pages, otherwise clean and tightly bound. AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science Astronomy Inventory No: 001652. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 237.50 [Appr.: EURO 266.25 US$ 395.68 \| JP¥ 35197] Book number: 001652 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	COLE GARRY T AND SAMSON ROBERT A Patterns of Development in Conidial Fungi Pitman, US, 1979. First Edition, Hard Cover. Fine [Better Than Very Good]/Near Fine /Very Good ++. xi, 190 large (11.0 x 9.0 inch) pages with an index. Illustrated profusely with black and white plates and diagrams. ' This book is a comprehensive analysis of the various modes of asexual reproduction (conidium formation) in this important group of fungi. The taxonomy of conidial fungi is complex and often ambiguous. The application of developmental characters described in this book to the taxonomy of conidial fungi is discussed. It is thus an up-to-date [at the time of publication] treatment of aspects of conidiogenesis and application of developmental characters to the systematics of the Deuteromycetes. Conidial fungi cause the majority of animal and human mycoses (fungal diseases) and include many of the important plant pathogens of cultivated crops. They play significant roles in food spoilage and biodeterioration and produce toxins which are potentially dangerous to 'our health (eg. aflatoxins demonstrated to be carcinogenic). They have also been used in biological control of certain pests (plants and animals) and provide developmental biologists with unusual orphogenetic systems to investigate which may yield new insight into our understanding of eukaryotic cells. The authors suggest an interesting classification of developmental processes of the conidial fungi based on micrographs and text) which can effectively be applied to the systematics of imperfect fungi. Suitable for specialists, postgraduate and undergraduate students of mycology, microbiology and applied biology. Of interest to developmental and structural cytologists and electron microscopists, and biologists working on applications in agriculture and phytopathology.' Book - Fine [better than Very Good] - in black boards with silver lettering - previous owner's inscription to the top right hand corner of the front endpaper. Dust Jacket - Near Fine - light creasing to extreme edges & a little wear to the extreme top of the spine and top corners, slight creasing to the top edges, small chip to the front fold-over edge. A VERY ATTRACTIVE Copy of this SCARCE & Important Work Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany ISBN: 0273084070 Inventory No: 99911222. GBP 82.50 [Appr.: EURO 92.5 US$ 137.45 \| JP¥ 12226] Book number: 99911222 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	COOK J GORDON Your Guide to Plastics Merrow Publishing, U.K. 1964. First Edition, Hard Cover. Near Fine [Better Than Very Go/Very Good. A Science For Everyman Book. 272 pages which includes an index. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams. ' The intrusion of plastics into our everyday lives has been a phenomenon of modern times. In " Your Guide to Plastics," Dr. J. Gordon Cook explains why plastics have achieved such tremendous importance during the last decade or two, and describes the different types of plastics that have taken part in this technical revolution. The ease with which plastics can be moulded into complex shapes is the most important characteristic of these extraordinary materials, and it is this that has enabled them to take pride of place in our mass-production age. Dr. Cook shows how this "shapability" of plastics derives from their unusual thread-like molecules. Our growing understanding of the behaviour of these thread-molecules, and the discovery of new methods of building them from smaller units, have made possible the rapid expansion of the modern plastics industry. In " Your Guide to Plastics," Dr. Cook traces the development of this understanding, from the early plastics such as celluloid and casein, to the silicones, nylons and other plastics of modern times. In common with the other books of the Science for Everyman Series, this book is written for the man-in-the-street who is interested in knowing about the influence of scientific developments on everyday life. At the end of the book, there is a Reference Section in which the student, or the reader employed in a branch of the plastics industry, will find additional technical information about important modern plastics '. Book - Near Fine - in green boards with white lettering - light marking to the boards but only in certain lights. Dust Jacket - Very Good - some loss to the top of the spine and minor wear to the extreme bottom of the spine and corners, repair and strengthened to the verso. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Chemistry Inventory No: 99912292. GBP 30.88 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 US$ 51.45 \| JP¥ 4576] Book number: 99912292 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	COULSON J M AND WARNER F E [REVISED AND PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY] Problem In Chemical Engineering Design : The Manufacture Of Mononitrotoluene Institution of Chemical Engineers, U.K. 1949. Paper Covered Boards. Good Plus Plus/No Jacket. 55 pages, size 10.75 inches tall by 8.5 inches with an index in paper covered boards with a blue cloth spine. Fold out flow sheet to rear and Diagrammatic Lay-Out in pocket to rear cover. Book - in Good Plus Plus paper covered boards with some marking to the covers and spine, small amounts of loss to the extreme ends of the spine. Contents, previous owner's inscription otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Shipped Weight: 251-750 grams. Category: Science Inventory No: 004885. GBP 28.50 [Appr.: EURO 32 US$ 47.48 \| JP¥ 4224] Book number: 004885 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	CRAWFORD J H Wild Flowers T N Foulis, U.K. 1912. New and Cheaper Edition, Hard Cover, Illustrated by: Alexander Edwin and Williamson John. Very Good/No Jacket. 232 pages which includes an index. Containing 16 illustrations in colour by Edwin Alexander and text illustrations by John Williamson. Book - Very Good - in grey boards with one of Edwin Alexander's illustrations to the front board and gilt lettering - slight marking to the boards and some bumping and wearing to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine. Contents, the front and rear free endpapers are browned, lesser to the rear pastedown, slight browning to the occasional page, otherwise clean and tightly bound. A Charming Book With Its Beautiful Illustrations. Illustrator: Alexander Edwin and Williamson John. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany Inventory No: 000428. GBP 23.75 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 US$ 39.57 \| JP¥ 3520] Book number: 000428 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.

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	"A.K.K." Science of Gambling Pendulum Publications Ltd, U.K. 1945. First Issued, Hard Cover, Illustrated by: Walker Jos. Near Fine/Good Plus Plus. viii, 164 pages, size 7 inches tall by 5 inches. Illustrated with black and white line cartoon drawings by Jos Walker. ' It is with mixed feelings that I approach this subject. For some reason or other gambling has been regarded as a vice and not a fit subject for study and research. I am endeavouring here to dispel this idea, and in case the reader finds me too earnest and serious, he will find the atmosphere brightened by a few drawings by that well-known Cartoonist to whom I am greatly indebted-Mr, Jos. Walker. Those who frown upon gambling will find plenty to criticise in my remark's. Others will find the study of the mechanism of the various sports and gambles a useful eye-opener to them. Yet if you are merely amused at these attempts to put gambling upon a really scientific basis, this book will have served at least some useful purpose .' A. K. K. Contents : Chapter I. Introductory Remarks-The Essence Of A Wager Chapter II. Mathematics And Systems-The Oddities Of Odds Chapter III. Roulette And Systems Chapter IV. Horse-Racing And Systems Chapter V. Greyhound Racing-The Forecast Chapter VI. Totes, Sweeps And Pools Chapter VII. The Stock Exchange And Share Markets Chapter VIII. Insurance, Or When Not To Gamble Chapter IX. Some Card Games Bridge, Poked And Baccarat Chapter X. The Professional-Some Eminent Gamblers. Book - in Near Fine tan boards with blue lettering - light bumping to the extreme ends of the spine and extreme corners, minor marking to the spine. Contents, previous owner's inscription to the free front endpaper otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - Good Plus Plus - a nice bright colourful cartoon to the front of the jacket, some loss to the top of the spine, small amounts of loss to the corners, repairs to verso. fading to the red colouring to the spine, some grubbiness to the white background of the jacket. A Rare Title Especially With Its Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Walker Jos. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Mathematics Inventory No: 003083. GBP 28.50 [Appr.: EURO 32 US$ 47.48 \| JP¥ 4224] Book number: 003083 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	AGRICOLA GEORGIUS [TRANSLATED BY HERBERT CLARK HOOVER AND LOU HENRY HOOVER] De Re Metallica : Translated From The First Latin Edition Of 1556 Dover Publications, US, 1950. First Thus, Hard Cover. Fine/Near Very Good. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE UK. Biographical Introduction, Annotations, And Appendices Upon The Development Of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law From The Earliest Times To The 16th Century. ii, 640 pages, size 11 inches tall by 6.75 inches. 289 illustrattions and 4 facsimile pages from the Latin original. 'Originally published in 1556, Agricola's De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation-what today would be called the "scientific approach." It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various specialized techniques of the many branches of Mining, and the first to provide a realistic history of mining from antiquity to its day. For almost 200 years, Agricola remained the only authoritative work in this area and by modern times it had become one of the most highly respected scientific classics of all time. A book more often referred to in literature on mining and metallurgy than any other, its Latin text prevented it from being as widely used as it might have been. In 1912, the book was translated by former President Herbert Clark Hoover and his wife. Printed in a limited edition, the work was quickly bought up by book collectors, historians, and medievalists, who had found that there was much to be learned from its pages. Out of print, this edition has sold for up to $150 to collectors and libraries. The book contains an unprecedented wealth of material on alluvial mining, alchemy, silver refining, smelting, surveying, timbering, nitric acid making, and hundreds of other phases of the medieval art of metallurgy. The text even covers the legal aspects of mining-the use of boundary stones, forfeitures of titles, the specific safety requirements of tunnel building in the 1500's, and so on. But the plates, perhaps more than anything else, are what is responsible for Agricola's continued importance. Brilliantly executed drawings, richly detailed, reveal a whole medieval world of machinery, industrial technique, tools, even costume and architecture. All 289 of the original drawings are reproduced in this reprint of the 1912 edition, offering students of the period, commercial artists, Ternary Systems: Introduction to the T1. engineers, metallurgists, and even curious general readers an unforgettable picture of the first age of technology. Unaltered, unabridged reprint of the 1912 edition. Three appendices: Bibliography, Ancient Authors, Weights and Measures. Biographical and Introduction. Author's and translator's prefaces. Four facsimile pages from the Latin original. 289 illustrations. ii, 640pp. 63/4 x 11. Book - in Fine [much better than Very Good] blue grey boards with gilt lettering. Contents, clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - [SEE SCAN] - Near Very Good bright colourful wrapper - small amounts of loss to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine, some surface abrasion to the lamination. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science Inventory No: 004775. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 48.50 [Appr.: EURO 54.5 US$ 80.8 \| JP¥ 7188] Book number: 004775 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	ALLEN TOM The Quest : A Report on Extraterrestrial Life Chilton Company, US, 1965. First Edition, Hard Cover. Fine [Better Than Very Good]/Very Good. 323 pages with an index. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams."Since man first looked up, he has wondered about the possibility of life existing beyond Earth. For centuries, such speculation was based upon myths and superstition. And, for decades, scientists scorned suggestions that serious consideration be given these speculations. Today, however, distinguished scientists, including Nobel Laureates, are proposing that extra terrestrial life almost certainly does exist. "In a few short years," says a recent National Academy of Sciences report, "this topic-at one time merely science fiction- has been lifted from the category of escape reading and whimsical speculation and now stands as a serious objective of the international space race. What caused this dramatic change of scientific attitude ? What evidence is there to support the theory that life exists beyond Earth? In a thoroughly documented report, the author tells what the scientists know, and what they hope to learn in the very near future. As The Quest reveals, scientists have been discussing fantastic possibilities-including a proposal that extraterrestrial beings have already discovered us ! But this scientific dialogue has largely been restricted to journals and seminars unknown or little known to non-scientists. Here, for the first time, the scientists' speculations, and their offers of proof, are brought together in a single book. Here, reported at length, are the findings of a confidential meeting on ways to communicate with extraterrestrial societies. Here is the full report on a fascinating debate over the discovery of strange forms found in meteorites-forms that may well be fossils from another world. Here, too, is an examination of life as we know it on Earth. By understanding the vastness of life on Earth, the author believes, we can better appreciate the probability of life's existence elsewhere in the universe. The Quest also looks toward man's future in space, both as a searcher for life and as a terrestrial being turned extraterrestrial. This book's view of man in space is disturbing and vastly different from the usual view of the astronaut as the conquerer of the cosmos. The author raises doubts and questions about the sustained existence of man in space ... at least man as we know man. And, similarly, the author offers a hard look at what man may meet in space-a creature we now can only describe as The Alien. This is not "escape reading" or "whimsical speculation " This is significant, solid reporting, on a subject as fresh as tomorrow's headlines, yet as old as man's pondering about other realms of life." Book - Fine - in bright red boards with white lettering. Dust Jacket - SEE SCAN - Very Good - some tears and wear to top edge, repairs to verso, abrasion to spine wear price label clumsily removed. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910892. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99910892 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	AVEBURY THE RIGHT HON LORD Notes on the Life History of British Flowering Plants Macmillan, U.K. 1905. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING RATES. 450 pages with an index. Illustrated profusely with line drawings throughout the text. Chapters on Flower, Fruits And Seeds, Leaves, Stem' Sense Organs, Dicotyledons, Coniferae, and Monocotyledons. Book - SEE SCAN - Very Good - in green boards with gilt decoration and minor markings, browned front and rear free endpaper, slight bumping and rubbing to corners, roughcut page edges. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science Biology Inventory No: 99911241. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99911241 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BAKER R ST BARBE Reader's Guide Trees Cambridge University Press, U.K. 1948. First Edition, Paper Covers. Good/No Jacket. One of the Reader's Guide Series. 12 pages, size 8.5 inches tall by 5.5 inches, in paper covers. Booklet - Good - some closed tears and creasing to the edges and corners, top right hand corner of the front cover missing, original staples removed and now stitched, some associated marking where the staples once were and rusted, slight creasing to the edges, otherwise pages are clean and tight and this is good reading or working copy. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science trees Inventory No: 99911800. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 99911800 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BANNISTER F A So-called 'thermokalite' and the Existence of Sodium Bicarbonate as a Mineral UK. Paper Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author. Reprinted from the Mineralogical Magazine March 1929, Vol XXII, No 124, pp 53-64. Book - Very Good - in grey paper covers. Signed 'With the author's compliments'. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Signed by Author. Inventory No: 000146. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 000146 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BARBER THOMAS WALTER Engineer's Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances, and Details E & F N Spon, U.K. 1890. Second Edition, Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. Employed In the Design And Construction of Machinery For Every Purpose. Classified And Arranged For Reference For The Use Of Engineers, Mechnical Draughtsmen, Managers, Mechanics, Inventors, Patent Agents, And All Engaged In The Mechanical Arts. With nearly Two Thousand Illustrations, Descriptive Notes and Memoranda. 243 pages, size approximately 9 inches tall by 6 inches. "Every successful engineer is a born inventor; indeed the daily work of an engineer in practice largely consists in scheming and devising from previous experience new and improved processes, methods, and details for accomplishing them, and for simplifying or cheapening old forms of machinery and the work they produce, to enable him to successfully compete with others, who are perhaps as ingenious and enterprising as himself. In the work of designing machinery the draughtsman has to rely mainly on his memory for inspiration; and, for lack of an idea, has frequently to wade through numerous volumes to find a detail or move ment to effect a particular purpose. Hence, as a rule, every man's work runs in a groove, his productions generally having the stamp of his particular experience and training clearly marked upon them. In the course of twenty-five years of such experience, I have found the want of such a volume as the present, and endeavoured to supply the deficiency in my own practice by private notes and sketches, gathered promiscuously, until the difficulty of selection and arrangement became so apparent that I began to classify them, as they exist in the following pages. A few weeks of unusual leisure have enabled me to complete this work and amplify it by numerous additions, and it is now presented in the hope that it will be found of equal service to others engaged in the head-splitting, exhausting work of scheming and devising machinery, than which I can conceive of no head-work more wearing and anxious. Several valuable works have already found numerous users, and there is no lack of admirable collections of memoranda, rules, and data for designing and proportioning the various constructive details of machinery; but, as far as I am aware, there is no work in existence which aims at the same purpose as is attempted in the following pages, viz. to provide side by side suggestive sketches of the various methods in use for accomplishing any particular mechanical movement or work, in a form easily referred to, and devoid of needless detail and elaboration. A sketch, properly executed, is-to a practical man-worth a folio of description; and it is to such that these pages are addressed. For the same reason it has been deemed undesirable to add to the various sketches any rules or tables relating to strengths or dimensions, which may be found in numerous well-known volumes. Any suggestions or additions will be entertained and gratefully I acknowledged. HASTINGS, 1890. THOMAS WALTER BARBER." Book - in Good brown boards with gilt lettering and decoration to the front board and spine - some marking to the boards and some bumping and wearing to the corners and extreme ends of spine. Contents, some marking to the top edges of the pictorial and advertising front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns and to the last inch of the page edges, slight spotting to the introductory pages, otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Engineering Inventory No: 99912496. GBP 36.58 [Appr.: EURO 41 US$ 60.94 \| JP¥ 5421] Book number: 99912496 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BARNETT S A Instinct and Intelligence - Science of Behaviour in Animals and Man MacGibbon & Kee, U.K. 1967. First Edition, Hard Cover. Near Fine /Very Good ++/Very Good. 250 pages with an index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Since 1945, the science of animal behaviour has suddenly grown. The fascination of the ways in which animals behave remains the same, but new methods of study are now widely used. In this major new work, S.A. Barnett has drawn upon a vast reservoir of little-known research to give an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of a subject in which controversy still rages. The author covers not only the whole animal kingdom but also the sources of human behavoiur. He makes a significant contribution to the current debate on territorial behaviour and the ownership of property. Book - Near Fine - slight bumping to top of spine. Dust Jacket - Very Good - some tearing to protective laminated covering to back edge, slight wearing to top of spine, slight grubbiness to back, price clipped. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Biology Inventory No: 9995481. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 9995481 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BELFORD ADAM J R Isometric Drawing at Various Angles Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1961. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1960-61. 13 pages in card covers with a 4 page catalogue to the rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Mathematics Inventory No: 99910851. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99910851 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BELFORD A J R Theory and Application of the Differential Gear Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1963. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1962-63. 35 pages in card covers with a 3 page catalogue to the rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910857. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 99910857 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BENTLEY ROBERT Student's Guide to Structural Morphological and Physiological Botany J & A Churchill, U.K. 1883. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 482 pages with an index and 16 pages of advertisements to rear. Well illustrated with line drawings throughout the text. Size approximately 6 inches tall by 4 inches. "The present volume has been prepared in accordance with a desire expressed for some years past, by many old pupils and others, to have a guide which should not be too elementary, but which might serve as an introduction to the author's ' Manual of Botany,' and other larger and more comprehensive works. The author has, therefore, endeavoured to condense within a moderate compass all that is essential as a foundation for future study, and thus to form a convenient and trust worthy guide on Structural and Physiological Botany for Medical and Pharmaceutical Students, and also for use in colleges and schools where Botany is now largely taught. The author's experience for more than thirty years as a Professor of Botany has shown him the necessity of explaining every detail in simple language, and of arranging the subjects treated of in such a manner as to facilitate their systematic study. He has, therefore, taken his own successful ' Manual of Botany' as his guide in these respects, but has altered it wherever necessary, so as to adapt the present work to a less advanced class of students. A comparison of the present volume, however, with his larger work will show that, although it has been grounded upon it, it cannot be regarded as a simple abstract or epitome of that volume, but that every page exhibits evidence of very careful revision, and much that is new in the treatment of details. Indeed, great pains have been taken to bring the different subjects treated of down to the present state of science ; and much care has also been exercised in condensing the numerous details in each department, and in arranging them for systematic study. The author trusts, therefore, that he has succeeded in the object he had in view, and has satisfied those who expressed a desire for such a volume. The present work will be succeeded, as early as possible, by another small volume, ' The Student's Guide to Systematic Botany,' uniform with it in design and execution. June 1883". Book - SEE SCAN - in Good Plus green boards with some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners but gilt lettering on spine still bright. Very Good text with slight speckling to page edges, previous owner's inscription to free front endpaper and pastedown. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany Inventory No: 99911195. GBP 30.88 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 US$ 51.45 \| JP¥ 4576] Book number: 99911195 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BHATT PREM J Fundamentals of Servo Control Engineering Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1961. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1960-61. 59 pages in card covers with a 5 page catalogue to ther rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910853. GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 14.16 \| JP¥ 1260] Book number: 99910853 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BOYDEN C.R. CROTHERS J.H. LITTLE C. & METTAM C. Intertidal Invertebrate Fauna of the Severn Estuary FSC Publication Field Studies, U.K. 1977. First Thus, Card Covers. Fine [Better Than Very Good]/No Jacket. An offprint from 'Field Studies' (1977),4,477-554. 77 pages including extensive index complete with fold-out chart of the Severn Estuary (UK) in illustrated Card Covers. Book Fine - save slight mark to front cover. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science zoology Inventory No: 9994468. GBP 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 19.25 US$ 28.32 \| JP¥ 2519] Book number: 9994468 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BRAGG SIR WILLIAM An Introduction to Crystal Analysis G Bell, U.K. 1928. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. vii, 168 pages with an index. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams. ' This book was founded on a course of lectures which was given at the University College, Aberystwyth, in the autumn of 1926. The lectures were intended for a general audience ; and consisted, accordingly, of a series of simple illustrations of the main features of crystal analysis '. Chapter headings, Reflection By The Crystal Lattice, Methods Of Analysis, Simple Inorganic Crystals, Space Groups Or Crystal Arrangements, Some Complex Crystals, Metals. Book - Very Good - in blue boards with gilt lettering - slight marking to the boards, slight wearing and bumping to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine, slight marking and slight browning to the front and rear free endpapers, previous owner's name to the top edge of the front pastedown and a small label to the bottom edge. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 000296. GBP 27.08 [Appr.: EURO 30.5 US$ 45.12 \| JP¥ 4013] Book number: 000296 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BREDDY NORMAN C An Introduction to Refrigeration Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, U.K. 1962. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Session 1961-62. 53 pages in card covers with a 7 page catalogue to the rear. Illustrated with diagrams. Book - Very Good. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Inventory No: 99910856. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 US$ 18.33 \| JP¥ 1630] Book number: 99910856 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY Aluminium Facts & Figures 3 Books British Aluminium Company, U.K. 1950. First Edition, Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book One : Sheet, Coiled Strip And Circles 45 pages, size 10 inches tall by 7.25 inches. Book Two : Extrusions 22 pages. Book Three : Tubes 26 pages. Books - in Very Good bright blue boards with silver lettering, light fading to the board edges of books one and two, light bumping to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine. Contents, book two has some light marking and abrasion to the front pastedown and free front endpaper and light marking to a couple of pages, the other two books have faint spotting and light marking to their endpapers, previous owner's name to book two, otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Rare To Be Found In All Three Books. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Chemistry Inventory No: 003028. GBP 38.50 [Appr.: EURO 43.25 US$ 64.14 \| JP¥ 5706] Book number: 003028 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BROWN, G SPENCER Probability And Scientific Inference Longmans, Green And Co, UK, 1958. Second impression by Photolithography, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Very Good/Good Plus Plus. Size: 7.5 inches tall by 5 inches. ix, 154 pages with an index. ‘This is a book which has been eagerly awaited since its author first suggested, three years ago, that something was amiss in our scientific statistical calculations. Now he gives in detail the analysis of what is wrong and the remedies to put it right, dealing also with the wider issues of scientific knowledge. The scientific attitude is regarded as a powerful metaphysical system, but by no means the only valid one. The use of the calculus of probabilities, first devised as a means for deciding betting policies, is traced to its association with modern science. How it came by this association is carefully described, and the analysis of the first principles of its use here fills an all too frequent gap in the subject-matter of standard text-books. Although this is primarily a book of theory, it is written from a strictly practical point of view. The chapters which deal with the workings of chance machines and the mathematical consequences of rejecting unrandom series contain methodological criticisms which the practising scientists cannot ignore. The problem of luck is seriously treated for the first time, and the author has tackled the question of the well-known, or at least loudly-attested, phenomenon of runs of luck. He argues that such runs of luck do occur in a manner which classical theory forbids. The application of his work to the card-guessing results of Professor Rhine and Dr Soal leads to some interesting and unexpected conclusions.’ Book - in Very Good black boards with silver lettering - minor marking to the boards. Contents, light marking to the front pastedown and free front endpaper, some browning (where a paper clip once was and rusted) to the top edges of the title pages, a neat library stamp to the publication detail page but no other evidence of an ex library copy otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - Good Plus Plus - some browning and marking, some surface abrasion to the back cover and a library reference number to the spine. Shipped Weight: 251-750 grams. Category: Science Inventory No: 5165. GBP 28.50 [Appr.: EURO 32 US$ 47.48 \| JP¥ 4224] Book number: 5165 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BROWN H P, PANSHIN A J, FORSAITH C C Textbook of Wood Technology : The Physical, Mechanical, and Chemical Properties of the Commercial Woods of the United States In Two Volumes McGraw-hill Book Company, US, 1949. Third Impression, Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING RATES. EX LIBRARY COPIES - Reference?, certainly do not appear to have been handled much. Clean, Bright, Contents Tightly Bound in Matching Bindings. Volume 1 is a third impression of the first edition and dated 1949 with 652 pages and has Structure, Identification, Defects, and Uses of the Commercial Woods of the United States. Volume 2 is a first edition and dated 1952 has 783 pages with an index and has the Physical, Mechanical, and Chemical Properties of the Commercial Woods of the United States. Both volumes are in maroon bindings with gilt and black lettering and illustrated with black and white plates - Volume One has remainders of a bookplate to front paste down and front free endpaper but this is still quite neatly done, also a library stamp to front pastedown and one to page edges, previous owner's name to top edge of front free endpaper. Volume Two also has remainders of a bookplate to front paste down and very slight to front free endpaper, same library stamps as in volume one but an extra one in volume two to bottom corner of page 452 not affecting text, slight bumping and rubbings to all corners, otherwise clean, tight and tightly bound. A nice set of this important work. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science Inventory No: 99911266. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.25 US$ 166.6 \| JP¥ 14820] Book number: 99911266 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	BUCKLEY ROBERT BURTON Irrigation Pocket Book : Or Facts, Figures and Formulae for Irrigation Engineers E & F N Spon, U.K. 1928. Fourth Edition, Hard Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Being A Series Of Notes On Miscellaneous Subjects Connected With Irrigation Compiled With The Kind Help Of Others. x, 678 pages, size 7.5 inches tall by 5 inches, with an index. With 120 Illustrations and Diagrams. 'This book is simply a compilation of facts, figures and formulae bearing on the everyday work of an Irrigation Engineer. It had its origin in a note-book in which I recorded, during thirty-three years' work in India, various data, facts, statistics, opinions, and formulae which came to my notice. To a large extent the matter in the following pages is extracted, bodily, from Government Reports, and from the Proceedings of Engineering Societies in England, Ireland, and the United States. This third edition has been enlarged by contributions kindly sent by several Irrigation Engineers in India and Egypt purposely for the book. Some of these have been specially written, and they have been inserted with the names of the authors. My thanks are due to them, and particularly to the Inspector-General of Irrigation in India, who has given me much help and encouragement. The notes often proved useful to me in my service on Indian Irrigation Works, and I hope they may be useful to others. An endeavour has been made to quote the sources, as far as possible, from which the information is drawn. First, in order to acknowledge the rights of the original writers, and, secondly, because an Engineer may often find that a reference to the authorities which are quoted, in any particular case, will lead him to the full information he needs, if, as may well be, it is found wanting in this volume '. Book - in Good Plus Plus green boards with blind stamped lettering to the front board and gilt to the spine - some marking/fading to the boards and light bumping to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine. Contents, clean, bright and tightly bound, previous owner's name to the top corner of the free front endpaper. A RARE Title. R. B. BUCKLEY. July, 1920. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Asian History Inventory No: 002116. GBP 49.50 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 82.47 \| JP¥ 7336] Book number: 002116 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	CAMPBELL DOUGLAS HOUGHTON Lectures on the Evolution of Plants Macmillan, U.K. 1899. Hard Cover. Near Fine [Better Than Very Go/No Jacket. 319 pages with an index. Illustrated with drawings throughout the text. "In the present volume I have endeavored to present in as untechnical a manner as seemed feasible the more striking facts bearing upon the evolution of plant forms. While there are numerous excellent text-books in which most of the statements here given are clearly presented, there is none, at least in English, so far as I am aware, where a connected account of the development of the plant kingdom from an evolutionary stand point has been attempted. Of course every modern system of classification is based upon the assumption of a genetic connection between the different groups, and must take into account the origin of plant forms; but these phylogenetic problems are necessarily subordinated in the general text-books. Moreover, these text books are, for the most part, avowedly prepared for the use of botanical students alone. It seemed to the writer that an accurate, if some what general, and not strictly technical, statement of our present knowledge concerning the data from which the genealogical history of the vegetable kingdom may be traced, might be of interest not only to such botanists as have not concerned themselves specially with this phase of the science, but also to zoologists, and those general readers who are interested in biological problems. The substance of the following chapters was presented in the form of a course of lectures at Stanford University during the past year. These lectures have been carefully revised, and a number of drawings prepared, which it is hoped will be helpful in elucidating the text. Very little originality can be claimed for the matter presented, beyond its arrangement. The writer has availed himself freely of the materials accumulated through the labors of botanists during the past fifty years, which have made possible such a general presentation of the subject as has been here attempted. It was intended, at first, to prepare a bibliography of the more important works bearing on the subject; but it was soon evident that the magnitude of a bibliography, which would be in any way complete, rendered this impracticable. Most of the drawings have been made by the author from nature. Where these have been borrowed, due acknowledgment has been made. Special thanks are due my colleague, Dr. G. J Peirce, for most valuable assistance in the reading of the proofs". DOUGrLAS HOUGHTON CAMPBELL. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, November, 1898. CONTENTS : CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER II THE CONDITIONS OF PLANT LIFE, CHAPTER III THE SIMPLEST FORMS OF LIFE, CHAPTER IV ALGAE, CHAPTER V FUNGI, CHAPTER VI MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS (BRYOPHYTA), CHAPTER VII THE FERNS (PTERIDOPHYTA), CHAPTER VIII PTERIDOPHYTA, CHAPTER IX SEED PLANTS (SPERMATOPHYTA) GYMNOSPERMAE), CHAPTER X ANGIOSPERMAE (MONOCOTYLEDONS), CHAPTER XI DICOTYLEDONS, CHAPTER XII GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, CHAPTER XIII ANIMALS AND PLANTS, CHAPTER XIV INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT, CHAPTER XV SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. Book- SEE SCAN - Near Fine - small patch of browning to bottom edges of free front endpapers. Dust Jacket - None. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany Inventory No: 99911204. GBP 19.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 US$ 31.65 \| JP¥ 2816] Book number: 99911204 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	CHAUVENET WILLIAM Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy J B Lippincott, U.K. 1893. Fifth Edition Revised and Corrected, Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. PLEASE EMAIL FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING RATES. COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES. University Edition. Volume One - Spherical Astronomy. Volume Two - Theory and Use of Astronomical Instruments. Embracing The General Problems of Spherical Astronomy, The Special Applications to Nautical Astronomy, and the Theory and Use of Fixed and Portable Astronomical Instruments. With An Appendix on the Method of Least Squares. 708 and 632 pages, size 9.5 inches tall by 6 inches. Illustrated with 15 black and white line diagrams which includes 3 fold outs. Books - in Good Plus brown chamfered boards with gilt lettering - light marking to the boards, some rubbing/wearing to bottom edges, corners and ends of the spines. Contents, light browning and neat, scholarly looking annotation to couple (3) pages, otherwise clean and tightly bound. AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science Astronomy Inventory No: 001652. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K.. GBP 237.50 [Appr.: EURO 266.25 US$ 395.68 \| JP¥ 35197] Book number: 001652 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	COLE GARRY T AND SAMSON ROBERT A Patterns of Development in Conidial Fungi Pitman, US, 1979. First Edition, Hard Cover. Fine [Better Than Very Good]/Near Fine /Very Good ++. xi, 190 large (11.0 x 9.0 inch) pages with an index. Illustrated profusely with black and white plates and diagrams. ' This book is a comprehensive analysis of the various modes of asexual reproduction (conidium formation) in this important group of fungi. The taxonomy of conidial fungi is complex and often ambiguous. The application of developmental characters described in this book to the taxonomy of conidial fungi is discussed. It is thus an up-to-date [at the time of publication] treatment of aspects of conidiogenesis and application of developmental characters to the systematics of the Deuteromycetes. Conidial fungi cause the majority of animal and human mycoses (fungal diseases) and include many of the important plant pathogens of cultivated crops. They play significant roles in food spoilage and biodeterioration and produce toxins which are potentially dangerous to 'our health (eg. aflatoxins demonstrated to be carcinogenic). They have also been used in biological control of certain pests (plants and animals) and provide developmental biologists with unusual orphogenetic systems to investigate which may yield new insight into our understanding of eukaryotic cells. The authors suggest an interesting classification of developmental processes of the conidial fungi based on micrographs and text) which can effectively be applied to the systematics of imperfect fungi. Suitable for specialists, postgraduate and undergraduate students of mycology, microbiology and applied biology. Of interest to developmental and structural cytologists and electron microscopists, and biologists working on applications in agriculture and phytopathology.' Book - Fine [better than Very Good] - in black boards with silver lettering - previous owner's inscription to the top right hand corner of the front endpaper. Dust Jacket - Near Fine - light creasing to extreme edges & a little wear to the extreme top of the spine and top corners, slight creasing to the top edges, small chip to the front fold-over edge. A VERY ATTRACTIVE Copy of this SCARCE & Important Work Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany ISBN: 0273084070 Inventory No: 99911222. GBP 82.50 [Appr.: EURO 92.5 US$ 137.45 \| JP¥ 12226] Book number: 99911222 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	COOK J GORDON Your Guide to Plastics Merrow Publishing, U.K. 1964. First Edition, Hard Cover. Near Fine [Better Than Very Go/Very Good. A Science For Everyman Book. 272 pages which includes an index. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams. ' The intrusion of plastics into our everyday lives has been a phenomenon of modern times. In " Your Guide to Plastics," Dr. J. Gordon Cook explains why plastics have achieved such tremendous importance during the last decade or two, and describes the different types of plastics that have taken part in this technical revolution. The ease with which plastics can be moulded into complex shapes is the most important characteristic of these extraordinary materials, and it is this that has enabled them to take pride of place in our mass-production age. Dr. Cook shows how this "shapability" of plastics derives from their unusual thread-like molecules. Our growing understanding of the behaviour of these thread-molecules, and the discovery of new methods of building them from smaller units, have made possible the rapid expansion of the modern plastics industry. In " Your Guide to Plastics," Dr. Cook traces the development of this understanding, from the early plastics such as celluloid and casein, to the silicones, nylons and other plastics of modern times. In common with the other books of the Science for Everyman Series, this book is written for the man-in-the-street who is interested in knowing about the influence of scientific developments on everyday life. At the end of the book, there is a Reference Section in which the student, or the reader employed in a branch of the plastics industry, will find additional technical information about important modern plastics '. Book - Near Fine - in green boards with white lettering - light marking to the boards but only in certain lights. Dust Jacket - Very Good - some loss to the top of the spine and minor wear to the extreme bottom of the spine and corners, repair and strengthened to the verso. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Chemistry Inventory No: 99912292. GBP 30.88 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 US$ 51.45 \| JP¥ 4576] Book number: 99912292 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	COULSON J M AND WARNER F E [REVISED AND PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY] Problem In Chemical Engineering Design : The Manufacture Of Mononitrotoluene Institution of Chemical Engineers, U.K. 1949. Paper Covered Boards. Good Plus Plus/No Jacket. 55 pages, size 10.75 inches tall by 8.5 inches with an index in paper covered boards with a blue cloth spine. Fold out flow sheet to rear and Diagrammatic Lay-Out in pocket to rear cover. Book - in Good Plus Plus paper covered boards with some marking to the covers and spine, small amounts of loss to the extreme ends of the spine. Contents, previous owner's inscription otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Shipped Weight: 251-750 grams. Category: Science Inventory No: 004885. GBP 28.50 [Appr.: EURO 32 US$ 47.48 \| JP¥ 4224] Book number: 004885 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.
	CRAWFORD J H Wild Flowers T N Foulis, U.K. 1912. New and Cheaper Edition, Hard Cover, Illustrated by: Alexander Edwin and Williamson John. Very Good/No Jacket. 232 pages which includes an index. Containing 16 illustrations in colour by Edwin Alexander and text illustrations by John Williamson. Book - Very Good - in grey boards with one of Edwin Alexander's illustrations to the front board and gilt lettering - slight marking to the boards and some bumping and wearing to the extreme corners and extreme ends of the spine. Contents, the front and rear free endpapers are browned, lesser to the rear pastedown, slight browning to the occasional page, otherwise clean and tightly bound. A Charming Book With Its Beautiful Illustrations. Illustrator: Alexander Edwin and Williamson John. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Science Botany Inventory No: 000428. GBP 23.75 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 US$ 39.57 \| JP¥ 3520] Book number: 000428 Click here to order or inquire at John T. & Pearl Lewis.