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De Bononiensi Scientiarum et Artium Instituto atque Academia.
Book ID: 3382More details Price: £2,200.00
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Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier:
et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu: suivie de recherches sur la hauteur à laquelle est parvenu le ballon du Champ-de-Mars
Book ID: 1849More details Price: £600.00
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Early nineteenth century glass technology in Austria and Germany.
Professor B. Scholz and Factory Superintendent Kirn. Translated by Michael Cable.
Sheffield: The Society of Glass Technology, 2004. Very scarce. First Edition. Paperback in original yellow covers. Translations of important - but strangely neglected - papers on glass making written by two authors between 1820 and 1837. These deserve to be studied by anyone wishing to understand and emulate the most efficient operation of wood-fired glass-melting furnaces. In very good clean condition. x, 286 pp. 205 x 150 mm (8 by 6 inches).
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Book ID: 4025More details Price: £50.00 -
Engineering Apprenticeship
Book ID: 3594More details Price: £30.00
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, augmentes des Dialogues des morts. Nouvelle edition.
Book ID: 3487More details Price: £125.00
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Grimm's Law: a study
or hints towards an explanation of the so-called "Lautverschiebung" to which are added some remarks on the primitive Indo-European K and several appendices.
London and Strassburg: Trübner & Co, 1876. Ex-library, in green cloth hardback binding. The cloth has split to the front hinge, for the entire length, but as this is a surface split, the binding is holding well. There are the usual library stamps inside, plus a bookplate to the front which says it was donated to the library by the executors of the late W. J. Ashdown Esq. Overall an interesting, in generally good condition, and scarce. xvi, 231 pp. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3973More details Price: £80.00 -
Handbook of Engraved Gems.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. Second edition. A sound copy of this edition. Ex-library copy. Rebound in brown library cloth with gilt titles to spine. Complete, including neatly folded frontispiece, and all woodcut plates, including one other folding. A little bumping to binding. Internally clean, with just a little darkening to some page edges. Usual library stamps - including to title page. Overall an good copy. ix [iii] 288 LXXXVII plates pp. 250 x 170 mm (9¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3980More details Price: £40.00 -
Harvey S. Firestone 1868 - 1938
Book ID: 4326More details Price: £70.00
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History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Massachusetts: Horticultural Society, 1929. First edition. Original navy blue buckram with gilt title to front board and spine. ix, 553 pp. (including index). Frontispiece of Horticultural Hall, several portraits, details of exhibitions. 235 x 165 mm (9¼ x 6½ inches). In a good condition. Lightly bumped to edges. Neat owner's name to front pastedown.
Book ID: 2051More details Price: £15.00 -
Injuries of the Jaws and Face. With Special Reference to War Casualties.
With 194 illustrations.
Book ID: 4115More details Price: £200.00
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L'Apoticaire Charitable.
Book ID: 3486More details Price: £250.00
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L'intrus
- Satirical French illustration - Hand coloured lithograph
Book ID: 4278More details Price: £125.00
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La Jambe artificielle "La Française"
Book ID: 3239More details Price: £25.00
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La Vie des Insectes.
Book ID: 3254More details Price: £75.00
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Le Grand Ballon Captif a Vapeur de M. Henry Giffard
Cour des Tuileries, Paris 1878
Book ID: 4220More details Price: £170.00
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Lecons de Medecine Legale - Planches
Book ID: 2739More details Price: £110.00
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Leonardo da Vinci, Codex Leicester: a masterpiece of science.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1996. After the acquisition of the "Codex Leicester" by Bill Gates in 1994, it was first shown in an exhibition held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Named after Thomas Coke - once Earl of Leicester who purchased it in 1717 - this became the most expensive manuscript ever sold. 178 pages - including numerous facsimiles. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap so has never been opened. 280 x 250 mm (11 x 9¾ inches).
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Book ID: 4042More details Price: £50.00 -
Leonardo Da Vinci, the Anatomist (1452-1519).
Book ID: 3320More details Price: £80.00
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Les Albums du "Petit Mécano" - L'AutoPour faire connaître à la jeunesse tous les secrets de l'automobile
Book ID: 4270More details Price: £55.00
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Les Harmonies providentielles.
Bibliothèque des Merveilles.
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1884. Fourth edition. Hardback book, dark brown half leather with green mottled boards. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece of a starry night, with tissue guard.
x-304 pp. plates. 185 x 120 mm (7¼ x4¾ inches).. 4e édition, revue et augmentée. Livre relié, demi-cuir marron foncé, plats marbrés verts. Frontispice gravé d'une nuit étoilée, avec protège-tissu. x-304 pp. plates. 185 x 120 mm.
Book ID: 4008More details Price: £35.00