1. Banks, A.G. & Schofield, R.B.: Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: an engineering study. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1968. 1st. edn. 156 pp. 32 b/w photos., text figures. Price-clipped d/w slightly faded on spine and rubbed on extremities otherwise a very good copy. (Stock ref 8752) £9.00
2. Berkeley, R. C. & Goodfellow, M. (eds.): The Aerobic Endospore-Forming Bacteria: classification and identification. London: Academic Press for the Society for General Microbiology, 1981. 1st. edn. xvi,373pp. B/w photos.,diagrams. D/w faded on spine and with two small tears in top edge otherwise a very good copy. (Stock ref 6884) £10.00
3. Bramwell, Anna: Blood and Soil: Walthger Darre and Hitler’s “Green Party” Bourne End: The Kensal Press, 1985 1st. edn. viii, 288 pp. 12 b/w photos. D/w very slightly creased on edges otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 1954) £75.00
4. Burch, Druin.: Digging up the Dead: the life and times of Astley Cooper, an extraordinary surgeon. London: Chatto & Windus, 2007. 1st. edn. xii, 276pp. B/w illus. D/w slightly creased on top edge otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 4745) £10.00
5. Chesney, D.N. & M.O.:: Radiographic Photography. Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976. 3rd. edn. repr. xvii,487 pp. 55 b/w photos., numerous text figures. D/w a trifle rubbed on extremities and with one small tear. (Stock ref 8751) £8.50
6. Chihara, Charles S.: Constructibility and Mathematical Existence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 1st. UK edn. xvi,282pp. Small, neat dated ownership signature to ffep. D/w a trifle rubbed on corners otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 7179) £30.00
7. Clark, David et al.: A Bit of Heaven for the Few?; an oral history of the modern hospice movement. Lancaster: Observatory Publications, 2005. 1st. edn. viii,239pp. B/w photos. Laminated pictorial card covers, a fine copy. (Stock ref 6192) £10.00
8. Duncan, David Ewing:: The Calendar: the 5000 year struggle to align the clock and the heavens – and what happened to the missing ten days. London: Fourth Estate, 1998. 1st. edn. xxi, 360 pp. b/w illus and text figures. Price-clipped d/w otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 6091) £4.00
9. Eyre, J. Vargas: Henry Edward Armstrong 1848-1937: the doyen of British chemists and pioneer of technical education London: Butterworth Scientific Publications, 1958 1st. edn. xix, 325pp. 18 b/w illus. D/w a trifle rubbed on edges with one small. closed tear in spine head otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 3018) £20.00
10. Hadfield, Chris.: An Astronaut’s Guide top Life on Earth. London: Macmillan, 2013. 1st. edn. (8)295pp. Cold. and b/w photos. Inscribed by the author on title page. D/w a trifle creased along top edge otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 6354) £15.00
11. Hunter, John.: Obervations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy. London: Printed and sold at no. 13 Castle Street, Leicester Square and by Mr. G. Nicol, Pall-Mall and Mr. J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, MDCCXCII(1792) 2nd. edn. (4)ii,272pp plus 5pp index. 18 engraved plates. Ownership signature to title page. Some foxing throughout. Publisher’s paper-covered boards, with later cloth gilt spine, rather grubby and worn on edges and corners. (Stock ref 9696) £300.00
12. Kanner, Leo: Folklore of the Teeth New York: Macmillan, 1928 1st. edn. xiii, 316 pp. 17 b/w illus. Inscribed by the author. Red cloth gilt somewhat spotted and faded. Clean and sound, internally. (Stock ref 1940) £50.00
13. Knopp, Konrad.: Theory and Application of Infinite Series. London: Blackie & Son, 1946. 2nd.edn. reprint. xii,571pp. Translated from the German by Miss R. C. Young. Small ownership signature to ffep. Binding very slightly cocked. D/w a little rubbed on edges with a couple of small nicks at spine tail otherwise a very good copy. (Stock ref 6207) £10.00
14. Lane, Harlan.: When the Mind Hears: a history of the deaf. New York: Random House, 1984. 3rd. impression. xviii,537pp. B/w illus. Presentation letter from the UK publisher, Souvenir Press, to the Rt. Hon. Alfred Morris, M. P., a prominent disability campaigner and later Lord Morris of Manchester, laid in. Price-clipped d/w very slightly rubbed on edges otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 5871) £10.00
15. Mackay, Alan L.: The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: a selection of scientific quotations Bristol: The Institute of Physics, 1977 1st. edn. xii, 192 pp. Line drawings. Edited by Maurice Ebison and with a foreword by Sir Peter Medawar. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 6105) £7.50
16. Macnish, Robert.: The Anatomy of Drunkenness. Glasgow: W. R. McPhun, 1836. 6th edn. 270pp plus 8pp publisher’s list. Textblock untrimmed. Neat ownership signature and date to title page.Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering rather dull and bumped on corners otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 4612) £30.00
17. Montgomery, Scott L.: The Moon and Western Imagination. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1999. 3rd. impression. xiv, 265pp. Many b/w illus and text figures. Pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed on corners otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 5140) £15.00
18. Mount, Toni.: Dragon’s Blood and Willow Bark: the mysteries of medieval medicine. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2015. 1st. edn. 288pp. Many cold. illus. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 10224) £25.00
19. Murray, Iain.: Bouncing-Bomb Man: thescience of Sir Barnes Wallis. Yeovil: Haynes Publishing, 2009. 1st. edn. 288pp. Numerous b/w photos. and text figures. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 7379) £50.00
20. Orta, Garcia da.: Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India. London: Henry Sotheran, 1913. No. 136 of an edn. limited to 150 copies. xxi, 509 pp. The new edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham. Previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown. Some light foxing to prelims. Teg. Blue cloth gilt slightly marked otherwise a clean, bright copy. (Stock ref 1835) £350.00
21. Penrose, Roger.: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 1st. edn. xviii,501pp. Many text figures. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 6714) £12.00
22. Prum, Richard O.: The Evolution of Beauty: how Darwin’s forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world – and us. New York: Doubleday, 2017 1st. edn. (12)438(2)pp. Cold. photos, text figures. D/w very slightly faded on spine otherwise a fine copy. (Stock ref 8130) £10.00
23. Rogers, Leonard.: Fevers in the Tropics: their clinical and microscopical differentiation including the Milroy Lectures on Kala-Azar. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press & Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. 1st. edn. xviii, 343pp plus 24pp publisher’s list. Cold. frontis.,10 b/w plates, text figures and many temperature charts. An Oxford Medical Publication. Small ink ownership signature to ffep. Front inner hinge cracked. Dark red cloth rather grubby and rubbed.Gilt spine lettering very dull. Internally, a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 3810) £70.00
24. Saunders, Cicely M. (ed.).: The Management of Terminal Disease. London: Edward Arnold, 1978. 1st. edn. x,210pp Cold. frontis. and b/w photos. Includes contributions from Mary J.Baines, C. Murray Parkes, T.S. West et al. Inscribed by the editor. D/w faded on spine otherwise a very clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 9936) £20.00
25. Sharpe, Tom.: The Fossil Woman: a life of Mary Anning. Bridport: The Docecote Press, 2022. 2nd. impression. 240pp. Many cold. and b/w illus. Pictorial card overs, a fine copy. (Stock ref 9561) £10.00
26. Thorwald, Jurgen.: The Dismissal: the last days of Ferdinand Sauerbruch, surgeon. London: Thames & Hudson, 1961. 1st. UK edn. 256pp. 27 b/w photos. D/w aslightly faded on spine and rubbed on edges and corners otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 7261) £20.00
27. Toth, Gabor.: Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002. 2nd. edn. xxii,450(3)pp.183 cold. and b/w illus. Laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. (Stock ref 6393) £15.00
28. Wake, Roy.: The Nightingale Training School, 1860-1996. London: Haggerston Press, 1998. 1st. edn. 265 pp. Numerous b/w illus. D/w, a fine copy. (Stock ref 2769) £12.00
29. Watkins, John: Science and Scepticism London: Hutchinson, 1984 1st. edn. xvii, 387 pp. D/w just showing a little shelf wear otherwise a very clean, bright copy. (Stock ref 2427) £20.00
30. Wilson, Dudley.: Signs and Portents. London: Routledge, 1993. 1st. edn. ix, 215pp. 31 b/w illus. Some ballpoint scribbling to half-title. D/w very slightly dust marked on back panel, a very good copy. (Stock ref 3083) £50.00
31. Wilson, Edward O. (ed.).: From so Simple a Beginning: the four great books of Charles Darwin. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. 3rd. impression. 1706pp. Numerous b/w illus. (many by Darwin himself). Six original essays by the editor and authorititive texts of The Voyage of the Beagle: On the Origin of Species: The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. D/w creased along top edge otherwise a very clean, sound copy in a rather dust marked slipcase. (Stock ref 8334) £20.00
32. Wise, Sarah.: Inconvenient People: lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England. London: The Bodley Head, 2012. 1st. edn. xxii,473pp. B/w illus. D/w rubbed on corners with a three tiny nicks at spine head and tail otherwise a clean, sound copy. (Stock ref 6801) £10.00