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London: Souvenir Press, 1963. Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. A clean very tight copy with tape-marked black cloth boards, missing front end paper and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to top of sunned spine. 167pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (+)/Very Good (+). 8.75 x 5.5 inches.
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Albert Einstein : The Man and His Theories
by Cuny, Hilaire
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Apes, Angels & Victorians
by Irvine, William
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London: Readers Union, 1956. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to very sharp corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing/nicks to upper edge. 278pp. A joint biography of Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, the latter known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Darwin's theory of evolution.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
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Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
by Housley, Herbert
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Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press, 1998. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to upper corner of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 174pp. Autobiography of Bert Housley, partner in the family cutlery manufacturing firm of H Housley & Sons of Sheffield. Includes much in general about cutlery manufacturing in Sheffield and the author's views on why Sheffield stopped being at the forefront of this industry. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 9.25 x 6.25 inches.
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists
by Millar, Ian; Millar, Margaret; Millar, David; Millar, John
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 387pp. Authoritative reference guide to the world's leading scientists past and present. Biographical details and clear descriptions of scientific contributions. Explanations of named scientific laws, units and effects. Illustrated to enhance clarity of information. . Soft Cover. Fine. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
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The Darbys of Coalbrookdale
by Trinder, Barrie
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Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1991. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to lower part of rear edge, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 76pp. A straightforward and accurate account of the role of the Darby family in the industrial history of Shropshire. Illustrated.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.25 inches.
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God's Architect : Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain
by Hill, Rosemary
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London: Allen Lane, 2007. Neat inscription to title page. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creasedwith minor traces of storage. 602pp. Biography of Augustus Pugin, one of Britain's greatest architects, who died insane in 1852 aged forty, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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Home is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life
by Fred Hoyle
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California: University Science Books,U.S., 1994. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with single small nick to top of spine. 443pp. Fascinating autobiography of one of the most significant scientists and cosmologists of the 20th century full of humourous anecdotes. Sir Fred Hoyle was the scientist who coined the phrase 'Big Bang' for the start of the universe.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
by Jones, Robin
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Horncastle, Lincolnshire: Mortons Media Group Ltd, 2006. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 130pp. Beginning with a lengthy article on his father Marc, this study of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (who was cast in the same mould), gives a very well illustrated account of his life, his achievements - rail, ship, engineering, tunnels, bridges and more.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 11.75 x 8.25 inches.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel : A Biography
by Rolt, L. T. C.
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London: BCA/Longman, 1972. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 345pp. A well researched account of possibly the greatest engineer of the 19th century. It includes the conflict between Brunel and John Scott Russell over the Great Eastern which venture was directly responsible for Brunel's financial ruin and his early death at age of fifty-two.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+). 9 x 6 inches.
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Joseph Priestley in Calne
by Norman Beale
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Salisbury, Wiltshire: Hobnob Press, 2008. Book appears in unread fine condition. 90pp. A biographical account of the pioneer chemist Joseph Priestley who spent seven years of his life in the Wiltshire town of Calne. The book gives a full appreciation of an important 18th century figure in science, religion and politics who turns out to be as fickle and fallible as the rest of us.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
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Land of Nicholas Copernicus
by Rusinek, Michal
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New York: Twayne Publishers Inc, 1973. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight rubbing to rear and minor bumping to one corner and lower edge. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. 235pp. The life of the great Polish astronomer Copernicus against the background of the times (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries), the world in which he lived and the planet he launched on its orbit round the sun, thus initiating the Copernican era and a revolution in man's concept of the universe. With a number of tipped-in coloured plates, sixty pages of text and around 170 pages of captioned black & white photographs. . Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+). Illus. by Magdalena Rusinek-Kwilecka (photographs). 10.75 x 8.75 inches.
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Leonardo's Machines
by Domenico Laurenza
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Milan, Italy: Giunti Editore, 2005. Appears to be in as new unread condition. 239pp. Secrets and inventions of the (Leonardo) Da Vinci Codices. Superb images and descriptions of Leonardo's scientific and engineering works.. Soft Cover with Self-Wraps. Fine. 10.5 x 8.75 inches.
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Leonardo : The Artist and the Man
by Bramly, Serge
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London: Michael Joseph, 1992. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 493pp. An in-depth study of the life and the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, artist and inventor in the 15th and 16th centuries.. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 9.25 x 6 inches.
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Manchester Memoirs : Special Commemorative Dalton Edition : Vol 142 2003-2004
by The Editor
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Manchester: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 2005. Book in mint unread condition. 155pp. Special edition of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Journal to commemorate the bicentenary of John Dalton's famous paper entitled 'New Theory of Chemical Philosophy' in which he described his table of Atomic Weights and revolutionised chemistry.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8.25 x 5.25 inches.
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Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World
by Balchin, Jon
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Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2003. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 208pp. This study covers the spectrum of scientific endeavour, from Copernicus and Galieo, through Hippocrates and Galen to Newton and Einstein, covering physics, biology, chemistry and genetics.. Soft Cover. Fine. 11.5 x 8.25 inches.
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Six Wings : Men of Science in the Renaissance
by Sarton, George
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London: The Bodley Head, 1958. Tape marks inside boards and to spine. (NB not a library book) No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to some page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks to edges and light creasing and rubbing. 318pp. The founders of modern science come alive in this book - Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Paracelsus, Leonardo and many more.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good (-). 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
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Stieglitz: A Memoir / Biography
by Sue Davidson Lowe
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London: Quartet Books, 1983. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very minor dustiness to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with light rubbing to upper and lower page edges and minor traces of storage. 456pp. A biography of the founding father of modern photography and gregarious entrepreneur, Alfred Stieglitz. Illustrated.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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