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| This selection contains 29 title(s) on 2 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| Science News (no. 8) London, Penguin. 1948. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, Includes contributions on nullarbor, glass, viscosity, psychoterapy, scientific prehistory. Illustrated. No previous owner name. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002357 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| Science News (no. 7) London, Penguin. 1948. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, Includes contributions on anti-vitamins, uses of phtography, speed of sound and calcuating machines.Illustrated. No previous owner name. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002358 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| Science News (no. 1) London, Penguin. 1946. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, Includes contributions on how photography works, japanese character, electron microscope .Illustrated. No previous owner name. Hinge slightly cracked but book tight. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002359 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| Science News (no. 6) London, Penguin. 1948. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, Includes contributions on penicillin, nuclear physics, glaciers(the author of this article on glaciers (22pages) was a member of the Jungfraujoch Research Party) and a report on Antarctica by Rabel (28 pages) .Illustrated. No previous owner name. Spine has been glued but back hinge cracked; book otherwise tight. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002360 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| Science News (no. 5) London, Penguin. 1947. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, Includes contributions on mental illness, meteors, cave science .Illustrated. No previous owner name. Light fading to cover. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002361 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| Science News (no. 4) London, Penguin. 1947. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, Includes contributions on high pressure, jet locomotive, science and crime detection, de-icing of ships and cosmic rays.Illustrated. No previous owner name. Light fading to cover. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002362 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| Science News (no. 3) London, Penguin. 1947. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, Includes contributions on the testing of intelligence, blood transfusion, the arrival of colour photography, the compass .Illustrated. No previous owner name. Light fading to cover. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002363 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| BEN BOVA The New Astronomies London, J. M. Dent. 1973, First UK Edition. (ISBN: 0 460 04102 9) , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fascinating survey of the new astronomies of the Third era in astronomy. With illustrations. No previous owner name or other marking. Fine/Fine. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 001904 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| BRIAN BOWERS Michael Faraday and the Modern World E.P.A. Press. 1991. (ISBN: 0 9517362 0 5) , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback, Biography of Faraday and his discoveries around electricity. Illustrated. Clean paperback. Fine. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.32 | JP¥ 293] Book number: 003158 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| SPR CHARTER Man on Earth Sausalito, California, Contact Edition. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author to a friend. With an introduction by Aldous Huxley. A preliminary evaluation of the ecology of man- of the inter-relationship of man, as a total human geing, with his total environment..Aldous Hucley finds this book as significant to our century as thomas Paine's Common Sense was to his. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 | JP¥ 2935] Book number: 001305 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| MICHAEL DISNEY The Hidden Universe London, J. M. Dent. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-460-04441-9) , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the first book devoted to the missing mass. With illustrations. No previous owner name or other markings. Fine/Fine. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP¥ 1467] Book number: 001894 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| RENE DUBOS So Human an Animal N. Y. Charles Scribner. 1968, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. How we are shaped by surroundings and events, written by an authority, Dr. Dubos of the Rockefeller University. Explains why science is indispensable but not omnicompetent. Previous owner name on free endpaper; some light wear to dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 001718 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| BRIAN M. FAGAN The Journey from Eden - the Peopling of Our World London, Thames and Hudson. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0 500 05057 0) , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fascinating look at the African Eve hypothesis. Illustrated. No previous owner name or markings. Fine/Fine. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 002835 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| ERNST HAECKEL The Riddle of the Universe London, Watts & Co. 1931. Clothette, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Rationalist Press Association Limited republished in its popular series of the Thinker's Library works of great thinkers. This is no. 3 in The Thinker's Library. No previous owner name. Light wear to bottom of spine and light fading to cover. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002386 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| STEPHEN W. HAWKING A Brief History of Time London, Bantam. 1988. (ISBN: 0 593 01518 5) , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback, Clean hardback of this seminal work. Fine/Fine. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 003156 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| W. STANLEY JEVONS Logic London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. Decorative Boards, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Jevons improved on Boole's remarkable new symbolic logic by reducing it to a mainly mechanical procedure. This approach to logic lead eventually to computer programming. First edition in 1876; 1889 reprint. Part of the Science Primers series edited by Professors Huxley, Roscoe and Balfour Stewart. Terracotta cloth with title and decoration in black. With previous owner's name on free endpaper. Page 30 loose but not damaged; book otherwise very tight and clean, unmarked. Very Good. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 | JP¥ 2201] Book number: 001274 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| C. E. M. JOAD Liberty To-day London, Watts & Co. 1938. Clothette, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Rationalist Press Association Limited republished in its popular series of the Thinker's Library works of great thinkers. This is no. 68 in The Thinker's Library. No previous owner name. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002383 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| DONALD JOHANSON AND JAMES SHREEVE Lucy's Child - the Discovery of a Human Ancestor London, Viking. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0 670 83366 5) , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1986 the author found the famous Lucy skeleton and a major reinterpretation of the early stages of human evolution followed. A decade later he returned to Africa to look for fossils and finds another skeleton which generates more surprises. Well written and illustrated. No previous owner name or markings. Price clipped. Fine/Fine. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 002850 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| STEPHANIE JONES The Biotechnologists and the Evolution of Biotech Enterprises in the USA and Europe London, Macmillan. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333550218) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover, The lively study of entrepreneurship in this high-risk - but highly profitable - industry. Clean hardback. Fine/Fine. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 003419 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| GINA KOLATA Clone - the Road t Dolly and the Path Ahead London, Allen Lane. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0713992212) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover, The gripping account of this scientific breakthrough. Clean hardback; no markings. Price not clipped. Fine/Fine. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 003412 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| SIR E. RAY LANKESTER Fireside Science London, Watts & Co. 1936. Clothette, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Rationalist Press Association Limited republished in its popular series of the Thinker's Library works of great thinkers. This is no. 41 in The Thinker's Library. No previous owner name. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002391 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| H. LEVY The Universe of Science London, Watts & Co. 1938. Clothette, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Rationalist Press Association Limited republished in its popular series of the Thinker's Library works of great thinkers. This is no. 67 in The Thinker's Library. No previous owner name. Revised and expanded edition. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 002385 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| BERNARD LOVELL in the Centre of Immensities Granada. 1980. (ISBN: 0 586 08362 6) , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, The history of the quest to understand the cosmos through astronomy, with an examination of the roles of religion and philosophy. Clean paperback. Fine. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 4.98 | JP¥ 440] Book number: 003118 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| DESMOND MORRIS The Human Zoo London, Jonathan Cape. 1969, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. After the success of the Naked Ape, the author looks objectively at the human animal. This is an authoritative and brilliant book, written in a very entertaining fashion. Price clipped. No previous owner name or other marking. Fine/Fine. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.75 US$ 26.58 | JP¥ 2348] Book number: 001505 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. | ||
| W.W. SAWYER Mathematician's Delight Baltimore, Pelican. 1969. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback, The main object of this book is to dispel the fear of mathematics; the author turns it into an attractive mental excercise. Light foxing to free endpapers. No markings. Published in the "Pelican Original"series. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 001715 Click here to order or inquire at Walter-Saxena Rare Books. |
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