BOON, J M.

Down to a Sunless Sea.

1977, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Stalactite Press, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1977. Hardback, large 8vo, 105p. 4 folding plans of cave systems. Fine copy in original black cloth gilt. SIGNED by Mike Boon on the title page. Epic caving and cave diving in the UK, Ireland, Slovenia & Jamaica by 'one of the best-known cave divers of modern times'. Scarce. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 002129

BOURNE, JOHN

A Treatise on the Steam Engine in its application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation and Railways by the Artizan Club

1846, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longman, London, 1846. 4to, 259p. 30 plates & 349 engravings on wood. Nicely rebound in recent 1/4 cloth, paper label, marbled boards & edges. A very good copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 001619

Catalogue: History of Science

BOWMAN, W E.

The Ascent of Rum Doodle.

1956, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Max Parrish, London, 1956. Hardback, 8vo, 141p, 16 plates. Small neat inscription. Slight wear else near fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate X39, Perret 675. A modern classic of mountaineering fiction with a fine cast of expedition members. Fine.

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Book number: 002150

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BOWMAN, F H

The Structure of the Wool Fibre, in its Relation to the Use of Wool for Technical Purposes

1885, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Palmer & Howe, Manchester, 1885. 8vo, xviii, 366p, 10p catalogue. Complete with 33 plates, 8 in colour. Inscr. Spine slightly faded and minor writing & light foxing to endpapers else a VG clean copy in original cloth gilt. Very Good.

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Book number: 001629

Catalogue: History of Science

BOYLE, ROBERT F.R.S.

Tracts containing I. Suspicions about some Hidden Qualities of the Air with an Appendix touching Celestial Magnets . II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo. III. A Discourse of the Cause of Attraction by Suction.

London, M. Pitt, 1674. 1674. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, M. Pitt, 1674. Title page (in good facsimile?), [4]p Preface & Errata; [4]p Preface, and Six completeTracts: Suspicions 72p, Observations 26p; Some additional Experiments 14p, Animadversions upon Hobbes 94p, Cause of Suction 68p, New Experiments 18p; with the 2p alternative Cause of Suction title bound in at p20. Sm 8vo, 10.5 x 16.5 cm, small bkplt, old 1/2 calf marbled boards, gilt label. Slight wear, upper hinge cracking. The six tracts are complete and in VG condition. Six rare tracts by Robert Boyle, the 'Father of Modern Chemistry'. Fulton 119 'Hidden Qualities of the Air' - the first enunciation of the modern theory of oxidation'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001956

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THE BRITISH AND COLONIAL DRUGGIST

The Manual of Formulae containing over 1000 Recipes 1892

1892, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, the British and Colonial Druggist, 1892. 8vo, vii ads, iv, 289p, viii-xvii ads. A well-read volume with finger marks mainly in the margins, edge of one page repaired, some pages dusty, covers & lettering dull, a good copy in original cloth. For the use of pharmacists & chemists 'many of the formulae have been collected from the published volumes of 'the British and Colonial Druggist'. Scarce - only 3 copies on COPAC. Good.

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Book number: 000844

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Keywords: Chemistry Pharmacy

BROCKBANK, E M & DALTON, JOHN

John Dalton some unpublished Letters of Personal and Scientific Interest with additional information about his Colour Vision & Atomic Theories

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Manchester Uni Press, 1944. 8vo, 62p. Frontispiece & plates. Minor light browning to endpapers, VG clean copy in original cloth gilt. SIGNED by the Author. Very Good.

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Book number: 001588

Catalogue: History of Science

DALZIEL BROTHERS

A Round of Days. Described in original poems by some of our most celebrated poets, and in pictures by eminent artists, engraved by the brothers Dalziel

1866, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Routledge, London, 1866. 4to, [vi], 93p, 2p cat. Engravings. Bkplt. Neatly re-cased at some time with new endpapers. One page has a small cut to one corner. Minor light foxing, slight wear internally. In the fine green, red, blue and gilt original attractive Sixties binding by John Leighton, 'Dalziel's Fine-Art Gift Book'. McLean, Victorian Book Design. p218; Victorian Publishers Book-Bindings p130. A nice copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 001863

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BROWN, T GRAHAM

Brenva [ Mont Blanc ]

1944, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Dent, 1944. 8vo, xvi, 228p. 73 plates. Bkplt. Nr fine nice copy in school prize binding of black half-morocco gilt. Neate B188 Brown did three new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001249

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps

BROWN, T.GRAHAM & DE BEER, GAVIN

The First Ascent of Mont Blanc

1957, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, OUP, 1957. 8vo, x, 460p. Map, plates & figures. Slight even fade to spine, else nr fine copy in original red cloth. Important work with manuscripts (including that of Dr Paccard) published in full for the first time. Neate B189 ' this scholarly examination of the first ascent proved Dr Paccard's claims beyond doubt and provided a definitive history of the early ascents of Mont Blanc'. Perret 0346. Very Good.

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Book number: 001451

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

BROWN, T.GRAHAM & DE BEER, SIR GAVIN

The First Ascent of Mont Blanc

1957, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, OUP, 1957. 8vo, x, 460p. Map, plates (some in colour) & figures. With several Appendixes and a bibliography. Nr fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Important work with manuscripts (including that of Dr Paccard) published in full for the first time. Neate B189 ' This scholarly examination of the first ascent proved Dr Paccard's claims beyond doubt and provided a definitive history of the early ascents of Mont Blanc'. Perret 0346 'Recherché et peu courant'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001771

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BROWN, JOE

The Hard Years

1967, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Gollancz, 1967. 8vo, 256p. Plates. Small inscr. Nr fine in VG unclipped dw. Neate B185. Classic autobiography. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001250

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

BROWNE, REV G F

Ice Caves of France & Switzerland a Narrative of Subterranean Exploration

1865. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans, Green, London, 1865. 8vo, x, 315p. Engravings in the text. Inscr (Threipland) on title, nr fine copy in original cloth gilt. Not in Neate or Perret. The author was President of the Alpine Club. Very Good.

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Book number: 001694

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

BROWNRIGG, WILLIAM M.D., F.R.S.

The Art of making Common Salt as now practised in most parts of the world.

1748, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Davis et al, 1748. 8vo, xxiv, 295p. Six engraved plates. Contemporary full calf rebacked, gilt label and gilt bands. Slight wear, some browning, else VG. Brownrigg engaged in a range of scientific enquiries with practical import. His illustrated book covers both processes and economics, and calls on government to build and manage salt works and to regulate salt quality. An abridgement was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and an edition came out in the American colonies in 1776.& ODNB. Brownrigg's chemical researches in many ways paralleled those of Priestley, Cavendish, and Black and he came very near to being a chemical discoverer of the first rank. According to the Bowyer ledgers 500 copies were printed. Duveen, p. 104 ;A valuable book.& Partington, III, pp. 124-27. Scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 002100

Catalogue: History of Science

BRUCE, BRIG. GEN. HON. C. G.

Himalayan Wanderer.

1934, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Maclehose, 1934. 8vo, 309p. Plates. Spine evenly faded else VG in original cloth. Neate B197. Reminiscences by the well-known Himalayan explorer and leader of the 1922 and 1924 Everest expeditions. Very Good.

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Book number: 002131

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel