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Nine Chains to the Moon.
FULLER, R. Buckminster.Original price £425.00 - Original price £425.00Original price £0.00£425.00£425.00 - £425.00Current price £425.00| /First edition, first printing of Fuller's first book, a nice copy in the jacket.Nine Chains to the Moon is a collection of forty-four essays on va...
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The Question of Lay Analysis.
FREUD, Sigmund.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /First edition in English. The first edition in English of Freud's work defending the right of non-medics to practice psychoanalysis.The Question of...
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The Moon:
NASMYTH, James; CARPENTER, James.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /Third edition, originally published in 1874, of this remarkable astronomical work by the Scottish engineer James Nasmyth (1808-1890).Nasmyth made ...
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Chemical Essays.
WATSON, R[ichard].Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00| /A charming mixed set in contemporary bindings, comprising the second edition of volumes 1-3, the third edition of volume 4, and the second edition...
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Excursions.
THOREAU, Henry David.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Art nouveau publisher's cloth. A lovely copy of this 1910s edition of Thoreau's Excursions (originally published in 1863) with elaborate Art Nouvea...
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Reaching for the Moon.
ALDRIN, Buzz & MINOR, Wendell (illustrator).Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Signed by Buzz Aldrin. First edition, first printing of this picture book autobiography of Buzz Aldrin, signed by both Aldrin and illustrator Wende...
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Outlines of Astronomy.
HERSCHEL, John.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /Handsome prize binding. Ninth edition one of the most influential books by astronomer John Herschel, in a handsome red red calf prize binding. This...
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The Tee-Square Magazine Christmas 1918 [and] Christmas 1919.
VICKERS AIRSHIP DRAWING OFFICE.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Rare in-house publication. A remarkable survival, two issues of a magazine created in-house by staff of the Vickers Airship Drawing Office at Barro...
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Observationes Medicae circa Morborum Acutorum Historiam et Curationem.
SYDENHAM, Thomas.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /A landmark in the science of disease. First edition of the founding text of epidemiology. 'Although technically the third edition of his Methodus c...
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A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects;
[ETOMOLOGY]. NEWMAN, Edward.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Beautifully bound Victorian book on insects. Second edition, an expanded and improved version of the text originally published in 1835 as the Gramm...
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Three rare offprints from the early career of x-ray crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale.
[LONSDALE] YARDLEY, Kathleen.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Paving the way for dorothy hodgkin and rosalind franklin. Three rare, early offprints by Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the first women elected to the R...
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Our Wandering Continents.
DU TOIT, ALEX. L.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /The first comprehensive evidence for continental drift, in the rare dust jacket. First edition, first impression, an attractive copy in the rare du...
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Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.
HELMHOLTZ, Hermann L.F.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /From the library of oliver sacks. First English language edition, from the library of neurologist Oliver Sacks, with his octopus bookplate.This Eng...
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Palaeontology or
OWEN, Richard.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...
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A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System.
PRICHARD, J.C.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Important early account of epilepsy. First edition of this volume on mental illness that contains 'the best early account of epilepsy after [Thomas...
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