ACCUM, FREDRICK.

A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light; Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-gas.

1815. Hardcover. Book, Second edition, London, for R. Ackermann, 1815. Tall 8vo, 194p, 6p cat. Complete with 7 coloured plates of factory, light fittings & gas apparatus (one neatly repaired). Uncut copy with large margins. Nr fine in recent 1/4 calf, paper boards, lettered in gilt. DNB: 'Accum advocated the introduction of gas for lighting and was Engineer to the London Gaslight Company in 1810'. Near Fine.

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ADAMS, GEORGE

A Treatise Describing the Construction, and Explaining the Use of New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes.

1782. Hardcover. Book, 5th edn, London for the Author, 1782. 8vo, xvi, viii, 345p plus 16p instrument catalogue with some prices marked in manuscript. Complete with 14 engraved plates, some folding. Inscr 'Eliza Smith', some light foxing, full polished contemporary calf, very neatly rebacked in matching calf, gilt bands. VG nice copy. George Adams (ca 1709-1773) was one of the most famous English microscope and globe makers of the mid-eighteenth century. Very Good.

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ANON, FORBES, J D, FORBES, E.

Guide to the Island of Skye accompanied by the Geology of the Cuchullin Hills and of Loch Staffin.

1854, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Book, First edn, Edinburgh, A & C Black, 1854. Sm 8vo, viii, 79p, 48p cat. Engraved frontispiece, folding map, fldg panorama, 4 engraved plates, text engravings. Slight wear, VG in original blind-stamped & gilt boards. With 18p of 'Notes on the Topography and Geology of the Cuchullin Hills in Skye, and on the Traces of Ancient Glaciers which they present' by Professor J D Forbes (read to the Roy Soc Edinburgh Dec 1845). Very Good.

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ANSTED, DAVID T, F.R.S.

Geology Introductory, Descriptive and Practical.

1844, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, 2 vols, London, Van Voorst, 1844. 8vo, xxiv, 506p; xvi, 572p. Attractive engravings in text. Slight wear to edges, neat inscr on both titles. Original gilt decorative full-morocco boards neatly rebacked, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers and edges. Near fine attractive set. Not in Challinor. Ansted was an English professor of geology and author of numerous books on geology. Near Fine.

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BARTHOLOMEW, J G & HERBERSON, A J. ED: BUCHAN, A (FRS)

Atlas of Meteorology a Series of Over 400 Maps

1899, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Bartholomew's Physical Atlas, vol III, Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh Geographical Institute, Constable, 1899. Large folio, [xii], 40p text, 34 fine folding maps, [ii], xiv (including a bibliography). Solid old half-morocco binding, school library bookplate & small old label on spine. Minor wear to binding else a near fine clean copy of an impressive work. Near Fine.

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BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION BBC

Broadcasts to Schools Vol IV (Autumn 1928)

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, BBC, London, approx 508p, plates. Programme Sept1928 - June 1929, Syllabus Sept 21 - Dec 14 1928. An early bound collection of pamphlets with texts to accompany wireless and television broadcasts to schools. 8vo, spine slightly darkened, VG in original cloth, original gilt label. Scarce & important collection of some 16 pamphlets covering early BBC educational broadcasting. Very Good.

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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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BOUSSINGAULT, J. B. LAW, GEORGE (TRANS).

Rural Economy in its relations with Chemistry, Physics and Meteorology.

. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Ballliere, 1845. 8vo, xxiv, 691p, 22p cat. Some annotation. New endpapers. VG in original blind-stamped boards, neatly rebacked in matching gilt- lettered cloth. Boussingault was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Very Good.

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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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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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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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Sonstige Stichworte: 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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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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BUCKLAND, REV WILLIAM.

Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology.

1836, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Pickering, London, 1836. 2 vols, xvi, 599p, errata; 2p ads, viii, 87 plates including large coloured folding plate of strata by Thomas Webster. New endpapers in vol 1 and backstrip very neatly laid down on matching cloth, VG in original cloth, worn paper labels. Contemporary signature of Sir Richard Hunter. Very Good.

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CUMBERLAND EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

Cumberland Education Committee Minutes of Committee and sub-committees, Volume 3, 1905-6.

. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Beaty & Sons, Carlisle, 1905-6. 8vo, 623 p, plus 6 Appendices (approx 140p) including Ninth Annual report of the Cumberland & Westmorland Farm School, Newton Rigg, Penrith, with six plates. Slight wear, VG in original red roan, gilt lettering on front board, neatly rebacked in matching red cloth. The records of Cumberland and Westmorland Education in 1905. Scarce - only one copy on Library Hub. Very Good.

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