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Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician
Harvey Sales 1981 Facsimile Edition Hard Cover Good+ Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
iv, 240 pp. Occasional colour plates. Facsimile edition of the 1826 original. Previous owner's name in ink to front flyleaf. Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped. Page edges lightly yellowed. Boards with some light edgewear. Dustjacket sunned at spine, with some light edgewear.
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A Lady [Frances Chickering] Cloud Crystals: A Snow-Flake Album Collected and Edited by a Lady
New York D. Appleton and Company 1864 First Leather Very Good No Jacket Ex-Library Large 0ctavo Richardson, J.F.
158 pp. Light wear to leather boards; a little chipping along the spine and edges. Decorated endpapers; all edges gilt. Attractive old bookplate (Sondley Reference Library, Asheville, North Carolina 1879-1919) to front pastedown. The only other ex-lib marks are two nearly invisible embossings on the first and last pages (possibly more -- they are barely visible). Pages are unmarked. Binding is solid throughout. 27 bright and clean illustrations with tissue guards intact. Discusses the history, science, and literature of snowflakes. Includes poems.
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Adams, George, and Olive Whicher. Preface by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer The Plant between Sun and Earth
Clent, Stourbridge, Worcestershire Goethean Science Foundation 1952 First Hard Cover Fair No Jacket Quarto
66 pp. Cloth boards are badly stained and faded, with cloth lifting from its backing on the back cover. Yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers. Title page is split from front endpaper, showing mesh. Rear endpaper beginning to split. Occasional foxing throughout; otherwise unmarked. Forty illustrations in black and white (in plates, bound in) and twenty-four colour plates, all loose, in a built-in folder attached to the rear pastedown. The b/w plates are unfoxed, but there is foxing to most of the colour plates.
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Anderson, Warwick The Cultivation of Whiteness
Carlton Melbourne University Press 2002 052284989X / 9780522849899 First Paperback Near Fine Octavo
xi, 352 pp. Extremely light edgewear to illustrated covers; a little scuffing to lower edge of text block. All else as new. Illustrated with b/w photos, maps and diagrams. "...examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates.... Anderson also provides the first full account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts."
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Asimov, Isaac, editor Living in the Future
London New English Library Ltd 1985 0450060713 / 9780450060717 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Quarto
288 pp. Very light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. A little discolouration to edges of text block. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. Black-and-white photos in the text. "Is our planet over-exploited? Who runs things? Is the family obsolete? Will the future be 'science fiction'? What can we do to ensure our survival?"
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Bell, E.T. Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science
London G. Bell & Sons Ltd 1961 Fourth Edition Hard Cover Good Good Octavo
437 pp. General and edgewear to price-clipped dustjacket. A little light wear to boards. Some foxing to edges of text block. Small bookseller's sticker (The Lincoln Book Co, Mornington & Springvale) to front pastedown. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "It is not a history of mathematics but rather a stimulating selection from the huge field of mathematics from which, to quote the author, 'mathematical amateurs, taking whatever they may like from the narrative, will sense enough of the spirit of modern mathematics to make them want to go on to fuller accounts than mine.'"
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Calaprice, Alice (editor). Foreword by Freeman Dyson The Expanded Quotable Einstein
Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2000 0691070210 / 9780691070216 First Hard Cover Near Fine Fine 12 mo
407 pp. One page, midbook, has a short tear and creasing near the top of the gutter in what seems to be a production error. All else as new. Black-and-white photos in the text. "I want to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, I want to know his thoughts. The rest are details."
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Cassidy, David C. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century
New York Pi Press / Pearson Education 2005 0131479962 / 9780131479968 Second Printing Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
xviii, 462 pp. Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped but has light edgewear. Light scuffing to lower edge of text block. One dog-eared page. Illustrated with b/w photos.
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18.00 AUD
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Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1999 0521639905 / 9780521639903 Reprint Paperback Very Good Octavo
245 pp. Very light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Corners a little curled. Internally clean, bright, solidly bound. Black-and-white illustrations in the text. "Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notation, and perspective painting. By the 16th century more people were thinking quantitatively in western Europe than in any other part of the world. [This book] discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible."
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Darwin, Charles On Natural Selection (Penguin Great Ideas)
Penguin 2004 0141018968 / 9780141018966 First Thus Paperback Near Fine 12 mo
116 pp. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Light scuffing to back cover. Internally as new. Extracts from "The Origin of Species". The book is small and light; within Australia postage will be lowered to $3.00 upon receipt of order.
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Doherty, Peter A Light History of Hot Air
Carlton Melbourne University Press 2007 0522854079 / 9780522854077 First Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Small Octavo
viii, 302 pp. Extremely light wrinkling to edges of unclipped dw. Unobtrusive chips to head and foot of backstrip and board corners. Internally as new. From balloons to climate change with the Australian Nobellist.
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