A G Cram Rare Books: History of Science
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A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico Printing
1874, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, Longmans, London, 1874. 8vo, xvi, 731p, 24p cat. Eleven plates, 47 attractive coloured mounted specimens of dyed and printed fabrics, 38 woodcuts. Inscr, recased at some time in matching cloth with rather worn old gilt spine laid down & new endpapers, internally VG. Crookes was an important chemist who edited 'Chemical News'. Knight p236 'His 'Chemical Analysis' became a standard work'. See also DNB - he discovered thallium and was President of the Royal Society. Very Good.
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Catalogue: History of Science
A Text-book on Paper Making
1907. Hardcover. Book, Third edn, Spon, 1907. Folding plates & text illustrations. Near fine copy in original dark-green cloth gilt. Near Fine.
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Catalogue: History of Science
Handbook of Lithography a practical treatise.
1904, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, A&C Black, London, 1904. 8vo, frontispiece, xii, 243p, 10p cat. 14 colour plates. Pencil inscr, Slight wear, VG in original cloth gilt. Some pencil annotation. Cumming was lecturer in Edinburgh at Heriot-Watt and some of the plates show Edinburgh Castle. Very Good.
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Catalogue: History of Science
Oeuvres de Fourier publiées par les soins de M. Gaston Darboux, sous les auspices du Ministere de l'Instruction Publique Tome Second
1890. Hardcover. Book, Volume two only, memoires publiées dans divers recueils, Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1890. 4to, xii, errata leaf, 636p. Large paper copy, no frontispiece. Small amount of annotation. A VG clean copy in plain brown card covers. Scarce. Very Good.
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GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 99 US$ 105.88 | JP¥ 16399]
Catalogue: History of Science
Keywords: Fourier Mathematics
Elements of Chemical Philosophy Part I. Vol I. (All published)
1812, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, for Johnson & Co, 1812. 8vo, xvi, 511p, 12 engraved plates (some folding). With the Appendix leaf with figures by Berzelius. Full calf, rubbed, hinges cracking, with gilt Coat of Arms of 'The Society of Writers to the Signet' with their small withdrawal stamp and original manuscript accession details. Many books from the famous Signet Library in Edinburgh were sold by Sotheby's in 1979. DNB: Davy was Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution & demonstrated the existence of potassium, sodium, chlorine & others, as well as inventing the safety lamp. Very Good.
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Catalogue: History of Science
Book of Practical Television.
1935, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Amalgamated Press, 1935. 320p, 63 plates & many text illustrations. A near fine bright copy in original cloth gilt. Very Good.
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GBP 55.25 [Appr.: EURO 64.5 US$ 68.82 | JP¥ 10659]
Catalogue: History of Science
New and Conclusive Physical Demonstrations both of the Fact and Period of the Mosaic Deluge...
1840. Hardcover. Book, Second edn, London, Ridgway, 1840. 8vo, xx, 443p, errata leaf. 41 engravings, including frontispiece, one folding. Slight wear and some discoloration to spine, two small tears, bookplate of Richard G West, VG clean copy in original cloth gilt. Fairholme was a land owner, banker, traveller, naturalist and scriptural geologist. A scarce work arguing against 'the latest geological theories of the age of the earth'. Very Good.
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GBP 425.00 [Appr.: EURO 494.75 US$ 529.39 | JP¥ 81994]
Catalogue: History of Science
Keywords: Geology.
Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers.
1843, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, A&C Black, Edinburgh, 1843. x, 424p. 9 tinted litho plates, 2 maps & 4 further plates of coloured sketches of glaciers. Including the large folding map of the Mer de Glace. Minor light browning to frontispiece, slight wear, VG in blind decorated old half-calf, gilt label. An important book on early mountaineering and early glaciology. Perret 1707 'ouvrage fondamental'. Neate F45 'the first English account of systematic Alpine exploration'. DNB 'he was the first to study scientifically the phenomena of glaciers'. Very Good.
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GBP 850.00 [Appr.: EURO 989.25 US$ 1058.78 | JP¥ 163989]
Catalogue: History of Science
Keywords: Glaciology
A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, theoretical and Practical.
1858. Hardcover. Book, 7th edn, [First edn revised & corrected by Bence Jones and Hofmann], Churchill, London, 1858. [ Fownes died in 1849]. Sm 8vo, xvi, 756p, text illustrations. Full calf gilt, with large gilt emblem of the Queen's University of Belfast, bookplate of Professor Leebody, Londonderry. Slight wear, loss to label not affecting lettering, VG in contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Introduction "Throughout all the Organic Chemistry improvements have been made". Very Good.
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Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony Without Wires
1914, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Seeley, Service & Co Ltd, London, 1914. 8vo, 156p, 4p cat, 16p cat. 9 plates (provided by the Marconi Co) & text illustrations. Minor browning & inscription to endpapers else VG clean copy in original pictorial cloth. A scarce and early work on the evolution & development of wireless telegraphy. Very Good.
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Catalogue: History of Science
Carburetted Water Gas and Carbon Monoxide
1897, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Humphreys & Glasgow, London & New York, [1897]. Tall 8vo, 95p. Endpapers slightly browned, VG in original gilt card covers. No 7 in a Series by Humphreys & Glasgow. Report on gas used for lighting & heating. With a letter on calorific power from Leeds Gas Department, 1915. Scarce. Very Good.
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GBP 63.75 [Appr.: EURO 74.25 US$ 79.41 | JP¥ 12299]
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A Manual of Metallurgy
1889. Hardcover. Book, 2nd edn, Collins Advanced Science, London & Glasgow, n.d.[ca 1889]. 2 vols, sm 8vo, 344p; 371p. Text engravings. Portsmouth Yard prize label & small neat Lords of Admiralty stamp. Slight wear. VG clean copies in contemporary half-calf. Very Good.
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Catalogue: History of Science
A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second with Popular Treatises on Science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman & English
. Hardcover. Book, 2 vols in one, 124p, 140p. Reprint of 1841 text, Dawsons, 1965. The whole of the publications of the first History of Science Society ever formed. Nr fine copy in original black cloth gilt. Very Good.
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Catalogue: History of Science
Kant's Cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens. With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham
1900, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Glasgow, Maclehose, 1900. 8vo, cix, 205p, 2p cat. University bookplate, neat stamps on endpaper & title page, & faint chalk mark on spine, eps browned else VG clean copy in original blue cloth. With 25 pages on Thomas Wright of Durham. Very Good.
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Manual of Brewing Scientific and Technical.
1891. Hardcover. Book, 4th edn, Sheppard & St John, London, 1891. 8vo, 6p ads, xviii, 366p, indexes, 8p ads. includes 110p Addendum. Slight wear, inner hinges strengthened, some light pencil annotation, VG in original cloth gilt. Very Good.
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Catalogue: History of Science
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