LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT.

Elements of Chemistry in a new sytematic order containing all the modern discoveries.

1799. Hardcover. Book, Fourth edn with considerable additions, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1799. Translated by Robert Kerr. 8vo, 592p, 2 folding tables and 13 folding plates. VG in contemporary polished full calf, neatly rebacked with lighter calf, original gilt label. Endpapers slightly browned with some neat old manuscript at rear. Lavoisier's great accomplishments in chemistry include his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), and opposed the phlogiston theory. He helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. At the height of the French Revolution, he was charged with tax fraud and was guillotined. Very Good.

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Book number: 002121

Catalogue: History of Science

LAWDER, K M (ED).

Climbing Guide to Dartmoor and south west Devon.

1957, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, Royal Navy Ski & Mountaineering Club, n.d. [1957]. Sm 8vo, viii, 70p. Frontispiece & text diagrams. Signed by Sub/Lt Nigel Davies, HMS Agincourt. Slight wear, VG in original lettered cloth. A scarce pocket guide. Neate Q92. Very Good.

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Book number: 002110

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

LAWSON, WILLIAM; HUNTER, C & OTHERS

Ten Years of Gentleman Farming at Blennerhasset with co-operative Objects

1874, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Longmans Green, 1874. 8vo, viii, 408p. Colour plans. Nr fine in original decorative brown cloth gilt. INSCRIBED, SIGNED & DATED by the author (W Lawson). A scarce early experimental farming work set in West Cumberland, with the first steam plough etc. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 002026

Catalogue: History of Science

LEIGH, SAMUEL

Leigh's Guide to the Lakes and Mountains of Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire

1835. Hardcover. Book, 3rd ed, London, Leigh, 1835. 8vo, viii, 160p. Folding hand-coloured map and 4 attractive hand-coloured map plates. Slight wear, VG in original cloth gilt, paper illustration on front board. Bicknell 109.1, scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 001736

Catalogue: Lake District

LEPINEY, JACQUES & TOM

Climbs on Mont Blanc.

1930, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, 1930. 8vo, xii, 179p. Plates. Small inscr. Fine bright copy in original pictorial cloth. Neate L37 'The brothers made many fine climbs in the 1920s, including the North Face of the Aiguille du Plan and the Pointe de Lepiney'. Fine.

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Book number: 001895

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps Chamonix

LEPINEY, J DE; CHARLET, AR; DAVIES, L; GERMAIN, F; PERRET, R

Guide Vallot Les Aiguilles Rouges de Chamonix

1946. Hardcover. Book, First edn thus, Paris, Fischbacher, 1946. Sm 8vo, 101p + table, many text diagrams. Near fine copy in similar dustwrapper. Scarce climbing guide. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001924

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

LEWIS, C A ORGANISER OF PROGRAMMES BBC

Broadcasting from Within BBC

1924, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edition, Newnes, n.d. [Jan 1924]. 8vo, 176p. 17 plates. Minor browning else VG copy in original red cloth. The first book on the early history of the BBC. Very Good.

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Book number: 001047

Catalogue: History of Science

Keywords: Wireless

LEWIS, WILLIAM F.R.S.

Commercium Philosophico-Technicum; or, The Philosophical Commerce of Arts: designed as an attempt to improve Arts, Trades and Manufactures

1765, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, for the Author, 1765. [Vol 1 on title - but all published]. [i], x, 646p, 12p index]. No imprimatur leaf. 6 plates including the fine frontispiece of a chemical laboratory, equipped with an array of Lewis's portable furnaces. With the bookplate of US Senator Samuel Powel. Some browning, text generally VG. Binding chipped & worn, hinges cracked, original full-calf gilt. Thornton & Tully p158 ' William Lewis has been neglected by historians. (This) his most important publication is mainly a description of the laboratory of an experimental chemist, and a comprehensive account of physics and chemistry'. Very Good.

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Book number: 002137

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LEWIS, WILLIAM F.R.S.

An Experimental History of the Materia Medica, or of the Natural and Artificial Substances made use of in Medicine: containing a compendious view of their Natural History, an account of their Pharmaceutic Properties, and an Estimate of their Medicinal Powers.

1761, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, for the Author, 1761. 4to, xxii, [ii], 591p, [32p index]. Slight browning throughout, VG in fine recent half-calf binding, raised bands, gilt lettered. Bookplate of Francis Rigby Brodbelt M.D. with his signature on title. Thornton & Tully p158 ' William Lewis has been neglected by historians. he taught chemistry and was a pharmacologist, and with Alexander Chisholm issued the New Dispensatory in 1753'. His materia medica includes the heavy metals as well as natural substances. Very Good.

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Book number: 002135

Catalogue: History of Science

LEWIS, H C AND CROSSKEY, H W.

Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland.

1894, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Longmans Green, 1894. 8vo, lxxxii, 4669p. Illustrations and 10 folding coloured maps. Bkplt of R G West. Spine slightly worn, VG in half brown leather, marbled endpapers and two gilt labels. Very Good.

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Book number: 002181

Catalogue: History of Science

Keywords: Glaciology.

M. L'ABBÉ DE LILLE.

Les Jardins ou l'Art d'Embellir les Paysages Poeme par M. L'Abbé de Lille de l'Academie Francoise.

1782. Hardcover. Book, V Edition. A Paris, Chez Valade. Cazin a Reims, 1782. Sm 12mo, 8x12 cm, 144p. Engraved vignette on title, one full-page engraving by Laurent. Part of front free endpaper cut away. Nice copy in contemp full straight-grained red calf gilt, marbled endpapers. Only 1 later copy (1803) on Copac. Very Good.

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Book number: 002177

LINTON, E LYNN.

The Lake Country.

1864, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Smith Elder, 1864. 4to, xl, 351p. Map and engravings of Cumbria, some signed W J Linton. Inscr. Slight wear, near fine copy in attractive gilt pictorial binding on blue grained cloth, signed JL, all edges gilt. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002097

Catalogue: Lake District

SIR OLIVER LODGE, APPLETON, ECKERSLEY, FLEMING ET AL

Harmsworth's Wireless Encyclopedia written for Amateurs and Experimenters by Experts in all branches of Wireless Science, Containing Upwards of 5000 Illustrations

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, 3 vols, first edn, London, Fleetway House, n.d. [1923 - 1924]. Sm 4to, xxxii, 736p; 737-1504p; 1505 - 2272p. Many fldg plates & diagrams, some in colour. Slight wear, neat private address stamp on pastedowns, a VG clean set in original blue cloth gilt. A scarce and important key text on early wireless science. A heavy set - please inquire for overseas shipping cost before ordering. Very Good.

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Book number: 001665

Catalogue: History of Science

LONGSTAFF, TOM.

This my Voyage.

1950, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Murray, London, 1950. 8vo, [xii], 324p. Plates. Near fine in similar dustwrapper. Neate L48 'Longstaff was one of the greatest early Himalayan climber-explorers'. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001882

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

LOVETT, WILLIAM.

Elementary Anatomy & Physiology for Schools & Private Instruction, with Lessons on Diet, Intoxicating Drinks, Tobacco & Disease.

1851, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Darton & Co, 1851. Tall 8vo, xx, 159p. With 10 coloured litho plates by Ford & George, Hatton Garden. The text is divided into Elementary, Advanced & Additional Lessons. Slight wear to head & tail of spine, inner hinge strengthened else generally VG in original blind-stamped cloth. William Lovett 1800-1877 was a British activist & Leader of the Chartist Political Movement. DNB 'Member of the council of the Anti-Slavery League 1846. Published school books on elementary science'. Scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 002140

Catalogue: History of Science