California Book Fair List 2021 from Christian White Rare Books Ltd.

Archive of letters, photographs, drawings, published books and articles of Percy A Wells (1867-1956), a cabinet maker and disciple of William Morris, who lectured, taught and wrote extensively during the later phase of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain. Wells, whose typescript autobiography is included in the archive followed an apprenticeship in London's City Road with early practice as… Ler mais sobre este item

J J Thomson announces the discovery of the first sub-atomic particle, the electron, in this journal article published in the Philosophical Magazine in October 1897. Bound together as Volume XLIV, 44 - Fifth Series - for the period July-Decembe 1897, this volume has been deaccessioned from the library of Venice's Istituto Veneto Scienze Lettere e DArti - small oval stamp at… Ler mais sobre este item

Beautifully extra-illustrated edition with five full-page original pen and ink drawings by the New Zealand artist, Richard de Bohun Lovell Smith interpreting Huxley's Leda poem. Expensively bound in half crushed dark green morocco over light green buckram by the London bindery, Sangorski and Sutcliffe. A little rubbing only to outer hinges; a very attractive binding. Light offsetting to the handmade paper… Ler mais sobre este item