Science And Medicine from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Methuen & Co 1920. Small 8vo. xiii, 188, 8 pp. Red hardback in dust jacket; gold lettering to spine, blind title and borders to front board. Foxing to edges, and a little offsetting to front endpaper, otherwise generally clean internally and externally. Spine of jacket has come off with loss, and there is slight wear and a few very… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971. Large 8vo. Two volumes. xii, 538 ; viii, 539-1079 pp. Publisher's cloth with red title label and gilt lettering to spine in jacket. Light rubbing to jackets. Internally clean. Volume 1 covers 1812-1848 and volume 2 covers 1849-1866. Edited on behalf of the Royal Institution by L. Pearce Williams. This is a heavy set and… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz 1965. 8vo. 1st UK edition review copy with band. 176 pp. Brown hardback in dust jacket, not price clipped. Slight discolouration to spine and rubbing to head of spine; small tear to back panel. Internally clean. B/W frontispiece illustration of author. Includes review slip. . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. 1965.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1905. Large 8vo. Two volumes. xx, 506; xv, 642, [2] pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Minimal bumping and rubbing to extremities and ink name to pastedown, otherwise internally clean. Covering all aspects of woodland management, the author was formely Conservator of Forests in Burma. . Very Good.… Read more about this item

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons c. 1908. Large 8vo. Volume one only. xxviii, 541 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to extremities, though internally clean, save ink name to pastedown. The fifth edition was revised and largely rewritten by the author who was Secretary of The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. Volume one… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989. 8vo. xii, 358 pp. Hardcover in jacket. Light spotting to top and fore edges, otherwise internally clean. Through a study on Cambridge, Gascoigne investigates the diffusion of the chief characteristics of the Engligtenment in English society, including the Establishment and the Church of England. Review copy. VG to NF. 0521351391 . Very Good. Hardcover. First… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, W. Lowndes and J. Barker [1801]. 12mo. [xii], 348 pp. Rebound in brown half calf over marbled boards; red title label and gilt lettering and devices to spine with raised bands. Light spotting to text throughout. Short biography of Culpeper (spelt Culpepper on title page) written in ink at prelims. This work covers… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Chapman 1970. 8vo. First Edition. [v], 147 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped jacket. Wear to jacket edges, including area of loss at top edge. Internally clean. 0225489295 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1970.

Essex: 5M Books Ltd 2024. 8vo. xii, 348 pp. Illustrated softcover with photographic paste-downs. 'How has it come to this point in history that we hardly value the food we eat and the soil that it's grown in?' This book addresses the ecological costs of industrial farming: how it has impacted animals, the environment, farmers and the way we eat.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co. 1872. Small 8vo. Fourth edition. xvi, 653 pp. Half green morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering to spine with raised bands; endpapers and all edges marbled. Minor rubbing to spine's extremities. Some scattered foxing throughout, mostly confined to page edges. Two fold-out colour maps (the first with 4 folds and the second with 2) showing Wallace's… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and W. Ruddimans 1734. 8vo. First Edition. xii, 276 pp. Contemporary full calf with raised bands, red title label and gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and minor wear to extremities. Ink ownership mark at prelims and light and infrequent foxing, though overall quite clean. 18 cms tall, 12 cms wide, though technically a… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1912. Tall 8vo. xi, 340 pp. Green calf prize binding by Howell of Liverpool. Emblem of Liverpool Collegiate School to front board with gilt ruling, floral devices and an embossed decorative border. Raised bands, gilt decorative tooled design and red title label with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bookplate of award to front pastedown from… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001. 8vo. x, 201 pp. Black hardback in pictorial jacket. Small dent to tail of spine end and some creasing to top edge of jacket. Internally as new. A bold corrective to scientism in the modern world - the exaggerated conception of what science can do for us. John Dupre is a Professor of Philosophy of Science… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin Books Ltd 1971. 12mo. 317 pp. Paperback. Fading and creasing to spine, with minor rubbing to covers. Internally clean. Introduction by Lord Shackleton and a preface by Julian Huxley. Carson's great challenging work on insecticides and environmental protection. . Good. Paperback. Reprint. 1971.

London: John Harris 1835. Small Square 8vo. frontis., [4], 252 pp. Leather spine over cloth board, with gilt lettering to spine. Some wear to extremities, including loss at top of spine. Light scattered foxing and ink ownership mark to ffep. Includes a number of engraved plates of various machines and structures. 14 cms tall. . Good. Leather Spine. 1835.

London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1850. Small 8vo. xii, 305 pp. Hand coloured folding map frontis, and chart at rear, with wood engravings throughout. Cloth with blind stamped decoration to boards and gilt lettering to spine. Wear and bumping to extremities, particularly at spine, which has darkened. Light marking to binding. Folding pages have wear to fore-edges. Pencil… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson 1804. 8vo. First UK edition, following the first edition published in the United States in 1803. xii, [ii], 344, 35, plates. 30 hand-coloured plates, including frontis. Contemporary binding of half morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and wear, bumping to corners. Offsetting to ffep. from previous owner's bookplate. Occasional light foxing… Read more about this item

Oxford: Old Ashmolean Reprints 1930. 8vo. [iii], viii, 50 pp. Green cloth in a pictorial jacket. Chipping to jacket extremities. Boards clean, light spotting to fore-edge and prelims but otherwise internally clean. A facsimile of a work originally published in 1661 about the air pollution in London, still considered a milestone in the science. . Very Good. Cloth. 1930.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1883. 8vo. xiii, 1005 pp. Full brown calf prize binding with raised bands, brown title label, gilt lettering and decorations to spine and gilt borders and device to boards; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Rubbing to extremities, and marks to boards and spine. Light spotting throughout. Black & white illustrations and diagrams throughout, colour frontispiece… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd 1933. Small 4to. xx, 498 pp. Hardcover with bevelled edges, gilt portrait to board and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Blue page ribbon. Boards have patches of light wear, though they are clean. Sunning to spine. Gilt bright. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise internally clean. High quality paper. A comprehensive biography of… Read more about this item