Science & Scientists (Bibliographies) from Wykeham Books

Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for sales held on 10th and 11th January 2001. Laminated wrappers, 4to,. 478 pp, many plates, some colour. 569 lots. With a short introduction by Jonathan A Hill, who was closely involved in assembling the collection: he describes it as "particularly rich in mineralogy, geology, metallurgy, and gemology". Entries are carefully described and often… Ler mais sobre este item

S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, London,auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th to 29th June, 1861. Later brown paper wrappers, typescript cover-label, 8vo, 26 cm,. 76 pp. 969 lots. Scarce. Among the items mentioned from Charles Meigh's library were: "Rapin and Tindal's History of England, profusely illustrated with three thousand Historical Prints and Rare Portraits, divided… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford Bibliographical Society Proceedings and Papers, original journal issue, 1935. Later quarter cloth and marbled boards (original printed wrappers not retained), 4to,. 62 pp, facs. Bookplate of Arno B. Luckhardt (Chicago physiologist, 1885-19570on front pastedown endpaper, Tape with manuscript title around spine, otherwise Good. With a clipping of a short review or bookseller's catalogue entry on… Ler mais sobre este item

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogues for the sales held on 10th-11th June and 11th November, 1974. 2 vols, cloth, cover devices, large 8vo,. Unpaginated, plates and illustrations throughout. 502 lots. Elegantly produced catalogues of a splendid collection on science, navigation and travel, especially rich in English books of the 16th and 17th centuries. It had been intended that… Ler mais sobre este item

Jeremy Norman & Co., San Francisco, first edition, 1991. Regular edition, limited to 465 copies. 2 vols, two-tone cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 100 pp. 24 colour plates & 396 black & white text illustrations. A luxurious fully annotated catalogue, with collations, paginations and plate counts, describing some 2,285 significant first editions in the history… Ler mais sobre este item

Thames & Hudson, London, first edition, 1956. Cloth, gilt cover-device, 8vo, 23 cm,. xi, 306 pp. From the blurb - "More than 3,000 handbooks are listed, commented upon, and indexed for quick reference in this classified guide to practical books on subjects of interest to the handyman, the owner- occupier of a house, the owner-driver of a car… Ler mais sobre este item

Holland Press, London, 1981 reprint in one volume of 1959 first collected edition. Cloth, 8vo. approximately 800 pp. Approximately 400 entries. From the publisher's description: "[Ferguson] describes hundreds of books, from the 15th to the 18th century, of technical receipts, popular medicine, cookery, and books of secrets, both English and Foreign, mostly of considerable rarity, giving exact collations and… Ler mais sobre este item

Derek Verschoyle, London, 1954 reprint of 1906 first edition (which was limited to 250 copies). 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. xxi, 487 and 598 pp. Approximately 2,500 entries. Bibliotheca Chemica is the catalogue of the collection of James Young, which was acquired by Ferguson and is now in the library of Strathclyde University. The collection (and therefore the bibliography) was… Ler mais sobre este item

Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, 2000 reprint of the 1949 first edition (which was limited to 200 copies). Cloth, 8vo,. viii, 669 pp, 16 plates. Approximately 3,000 entries. From Duveen's introduction: "My main interest was, and indeed still is, the gathering of old and newer books on chemistry, but as the harvest proceeded I soon found other more or less… Ler mais sobre este item

S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, London,auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th to 27th April, 29th to 30th April, 1st to 4th May, and 6th to 8th May, 1861. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 26 cm,. xxxi, [1], 475 pp, 4 plates. Part 1 only. In need of rebinding: wrappers edgeworn and detached with… Ler mais sobre este item

Stockholm-Djursholm, 1914. Printed wrappers, 4to, 30 cm,. xvi columns, [1] leaf, 690 columns, [1] leaf. Wrappers slightly browned, contents Very Good.

Tom Donovan Editions Ltd, Brighton, first edition, 2015. E. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxi, 201 pp, 20 ills (some colour), facs ;. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.

Maurizio Martino, Mansfield, undated reprint [1995] of 1880 first edition. Reprint stated to be limited to 150 copies. Cloth, 8vo,. xxvii, 564 pp. From the preface: " "It contains over 13000 entries, comprising not only the books, pamphlets, and other publications in the Ronalds library, but also the titles of all other works on the subject of Electricity,… Ler mais sobre este item

Library Association, London, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. vi, [1], 172 pp. Supplement to the third edition. From the blurb - "The first edition of 'Scientific books, libraries and collectors' was published in 1954 and the third edition appeared in 1971. Instead of preparing a fourth edition it was decided, on economic grounds, to produce this… Ler mais sobre este item

HMSO, London, first edition, 1992. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. 183 pp, including 50 plates. 859 entries. A useful and well-illustrated catalogue in a field where bibliographical detail is often hard to find. The Comben Collection was formed over a period of 45 years from the early 1940s by Norman Comben, a veterinary surgeon fascinated by the origins of his… Ler mais sobre este item

Biometrika Office, University College London, first edition, 1939. Cloth, 8vo,. viii, 119 pp. 670 entries. Contents comprise: Foreword; Section I. Writings on the Theory of Statistics and its Application to Biological, Social and other Problems; II. Writings on Pure and Applied Mathematics and Physical Science; III. Literary and Historical Writings; IV. Writings on University Matters; … Ler mais sobre este item

Biometrika Office, University College London, first edition, 1939. Cloth, 8vo,. viii, 119 pp. 670 entries. Contents comprise: Foreword; Section I. Writings on the Theory of Statistics and its Application to Biological, Social and other Problems; II. Writings on Pure and Applied Mathematics and Physical Science; III. Literary and Historical Writings; IV. Writings on University Matters; … Ler mais sobre este item

Library of Congress, Washington, first edition, 1984. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxv, [4], 555 pp, ill s. Chip to head of spine, top edge dust-stained, otherwise Good.

Library Association, London, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. vi, [1], 172 pp. Supplement to the third edition. From the blurb - "The first edition of 'Scientific books, libraries and collectors' was published in 1954 and the third edition appeared in 1971. Instead of preparing a fourth edition it was decided, on economic grounds, to produce this… Ler mais sobre este item

Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, first edition, 1963. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 246, [1] pp. From the preface : "This is the second of a series of reference works published by the MuseumÂ' compiled by the Keeper of the Department of Geology, and designed to help both amateur and professional geologists to trace the sources… Ler mais sobre este item