Some mild shelf-wear and bumping to edges. Small nick to spine. Contents clean and tight, Very good. *Due to size and weight extra shipping fees may apply to overseas orders* [more...]
Third edition. Includes a description of the development and theory of optical fibres by Anagnostis Hadjifotiou. Crisp, clean, fine condition. [more...]
Nicely bound edition of accessible lectures delivered by the great physicist Hermann von Helmholtz whilst a professor in Berlin. Topics include the Eye and Optics, Music, Ice and Glaciers and Goethe's scientific research. With an introduction by John Tyndall [more...]
'The first complete guide to nonlinear theory and practice for engineers.' Small tear and bumping to dust jacket. Contents crisp and clean. Good/very good. [more...]
Pleasing quarter leather binding of Wood's accessible guide to the Animal Kingdom. Arranged by species, Wood describes the behavior and physiology of the animals in a narrative but scientifically learned style. With charming b/w illustrations plus diagrams o [more...]
A New Naturalist Special volume focusing on this peculiar group of wild flowers. First edition, with b/w images and diagrams and a colour frontispiece. DJ has light bumping. Mild foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Second edition. Practical guide to collection of moths and butterflies by a entomologist with 25 years of experience. With relevant entomological details. Including chapters on Night-time and daytime techniques, finding pupae and larva and breeding. No date [more...]
'Being a Familiar introduction to the use of the instrument and the study of microscopical science.' Fourth edition. Illustrated with upwards of 500 engravings. An early example of this classic text. engraved title page and frontispice with hundreds of b/w [more...]
Handsome publisher's special leather bound edition of the first volume of Roule's great work on Fish and ocean life. With colour plates and b/w illustrations within the text. Quarter leather with marbled boards. Marbled end-papers. 8vo. Some light rubbing [more...]
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (S. P. C. K) 1913
Scarce first edition of this accessible account of moths and butterflies that pairs Kirby's important scientific work on the Lepidoptera with examples of the cultural importance of Butterflies and Moths, their appearances in poetry etc. With 28 colour plates [more...]