SHAW W.N.

Forecasting Weather. IN FULL MOROCCO

Constable,, 1911. 8vo., First Edition, with folding chart as frontispiece and very numerous maps, charts and diagrams (a number folding) throughout, small blind stamp on title; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frames, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Lovely copy of this early and immensely detailed work of the science of meteorological prediction, published just a decade before Richardson's first numerical weather prediction experiment. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 25626

Catalogue: Science & Medicine0

Keywords: science, meteorology, weather, climate, forecasting, w.n. shaw, science, medicine, forecasting, weather

SHELTON William

Soviet Space Exploration. The First Decade. Introduction by Cosmonaut Gherman Titov. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Arthur Barker,, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 35033

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Keywords: science, technology, space exploration, space race, soviet space exploration, william shelton

SMITH C.J.

Intermediate Physics [Second Edition]. IN SIGNED WELLINGTON COLLEGE BINDING

Edward Arnold,, [1935]. 8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous diagrams throughout; strongly bound BY SMITH AND SON in the Wellington College prize style of oatmeal full buckram, upper board with college arms blocked in gilt, backs with brown leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1932. The binding is signed on rear paste-down. WITH THE WELLINGTON COLLEGE ARMORIAL PRIZE BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The bookplate awards the Pentland Prize for Progress in Research to K G Newton in June 1935. The plate is completed and signed by F B Malim, Master. WELLINGTON COLLEGE PRIZE BINDINGS ARE VERY SCARCE

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Book number: 16262

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Keywords: bookbinding, bindings, prize bindings, armorial bindings, bookplates, wellington college, science, c.j. smith, science, medicine, intermediate, physics, second, edition

STEVENS John C.

Horology in Provincial and Rural Museums. NEAR FINE COPY

Antiquarian Horological Society,, 1974. 8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Antiquarian Horological Society, Monograph No. 7.

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Book number: 9153

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Keywords: science, technology, clocks, watches, clockmaking, horology, john stevens, charles aked,

STOIKO Michael

Soviet Rocketry. The First Decade of Achievement. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER

David & Charles, Newton Abbot,, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the Russian edition.

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Book number: 34993

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Keywords: science, rocketry, rockets, soviet union, ussr, space race, space exploration

TEMPLE R.

Invention and Discovery.

Hodder & Stoughton,, 1892. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 13 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, patterned endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's original pictorial binding. Engaging accounts of over 120 major inventions and discoveries told with characteristic late Victorian aplomb. Scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 12642

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Keywords: science, technology, invention, inventors, discoveries, medicine, r. temple, c. temple, science, medicine, invention, discovery

THANGARAJ (ed.) R.H.

A Manual of Leprosy. [Third Edition].

Leprosy Mission, New Delhi,, [1983]. 8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; burgundy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright clean copy. Very scarce

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Book number: 21834

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Keywords: science, medicine, leprosy, disease, r.h. thangaraj, science, medicine, manual, leprosy

TOPLISS Patricia

The Rhetoric of Pascal. A Study of his Art of Persuasion in the 'Provencales' and the 'Pensees'.

Leicester University Press,, 1966. 8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned and with small loss at one corner.

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Book number: 13441

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Keywords: science, philosophy, literature, literary criticism, pascal, provencales, pensees, patricia topliss, science, medicine, rhetoric, pascal

VUILLIER Joseph-Bonaventure

L'Arithmetique decouverte par un Enfant de Dix Ans. ou Maniere d'enseigner l'Arithmetique aux Enfans. ARITHMETIC: A RARE PRIMER

[For the Author and colleagues], Paris,, 1804. 8vo., [First? Edition], text in French, only the most minimal age-staining; handsomely bound in contemporary full roan, boards with elaborate decorative triple frame border in gilt, back with flat bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt lattice, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. A rare arithmetic primer constructed on the mother-son principle, with 'Adolphe' pursuing his learning through structured conversations with 'La Mere'. EXTREMELY SCARCE, THE MORE SO IN THIS CONDITION. Fourcroy 1801.

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Book number: 28841

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WALTON John H.

The Flow Capacity of Glazed Vitrified Clay Pipelines. NEAR FINE COPY

National Salt Glazed Pipe Manufacturers' Association,, [1965]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with large folding colour chart; original diagrammatic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 15544

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Keywords: science, pipes, pipelines, clay, john walton

WILLIAMSON G.

Memorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education, and Development of the Genius of James Watt.

Thomas Constable for the Watt Club, [Edinburgh],, 1856. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved portraits, 6 plates (1 double-page, 3 tinted and 2 folding), 7 facsimiles (3 double-page and 1 folding) and a large folding engraved map, neat contemporary signature on title and front paste-down, some occasional light spotting; contemporary boards, very neatly rebacked in cloth to style, paper label, a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. Neatly bound in before frontispiece is a double-page letter in facsimile from the Honourable Charles Grey acknowledging, on behalf of HRH Prince Albert, receipt of a copy of the book for the Royal Library. The letter repeats complimentary made by Queen Victoria in respect of the work. A printed slip transcribing the letter is bound in at end. With two relevant cuttings neatly affixed to front paste-down. A spare printed label is laid in at end. The Watt Club was formed after the inventor's death in 1819. Lowndes IV, 2858.

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Book number: 3990

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Keywords: science, technology, engineering, inventors, scotland, watt, g. williamson, science, medicine, memorials, lineage, early, life, education, development, genius, james, watt

WOOD Alexander

Sound Waves and their Uses. Six Lectures delivered before a 'Juvenile Auditory' under the Auspices of The Royal Institution, Christmas, 1928, [Second Impression].

Blackie,, [1931]. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original grey cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip, and browned at backstrip and rear panel. First published in the previous year. Wood was at this time Lecturer in Experimental Physics at Cambridge. The lectures comprise I: Waves; II: Signalling in Air and Water; III: Notes and Noises; IV: How Sounds are Analysed; V: The Ear and What it Does; VI: How Sounds are Recorded and Reproduced. Scarce in the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 15541

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