Science
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# 42887
LEAVITT, Ruth (editor)
Artist and computer
Morristown, New Jersey : Creative Computing Press, 1976. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (crease to upper wrapper, wear and tear to spine), pp. 121, illustrated throughout in black and white with four colour plates. One of the earliest books on computer generated art, with thirty-five chapters on different international artists creating graphic art with the …
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# 41471
DUNN, Samuel (? - 1794)
The description and use, of the universal planispheres ; or, terrestrial and celestial globes in plano.
Being compleat substitutes for a large pair of globes. With their applications, in the solutions of all the capital problems in geography, astronomy, and navigation. Invented and delineated by Samuel Dunn. London : Printed and published (according to an Act of Parliament) for the author, and W. Owen, 1759. Second edition, with additions and improvements. …
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# 41597
DARWIN, Charles
Menniskans härledning och Könsurvalet. (First Swedish edition of The Descent of Man)
Stockholm : Albert Bonnier, 1872. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary gilt-lettered half-morocco over pebbled cloth (edges scuffed, particularly at head and foot of spine), marbled edges, pink endpapers, pp. [iv]; 314; (2); [iv]; xv; [blank]; 294; (6), portrait frontispiece of Darwin to volume two, text illustrations, internally fine, a fine set. The first Swedish edition of …
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# 41903
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms; with observations on their habits (1882)
London : John Murray, 1882. First edition. Seventh thousand (corrected). Octavo, publisher’s blind blocked dark green cloth (edges rubbed, small tears to head and foot of spine), spine lettered in gilt; endpapers rubbed, pp. [ii], viii, 328, [2] (adv.); 15 text illustrations, index; original cloth; uncut; light foxing to preliminaries (inscription on title-page & long …
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# 41840
RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)
The Great Melbourne Telescope.
[Late 1880s]. Albumen print, 130 x 195 mm; preserved as issued mounted on the original green backing sheet, 190 x 230 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD. View Specialist. 257 Bourke Street’, and at lower centre: ‘VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS.’; both the print and the secondary support are in excellent condition. Rare 1880s view …
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# 41899
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1891)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. With portrait. London : John Murray, 1891. Two volumes, octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered grey-green cloth (light corner wear, lightly bruised with small tears at head and foot of spine, spine lightly sunned), original navy blue chalk-surfaced endpapers; Vol. I, …
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# 30235
MAITLAND, A. (Andrew) Gibb
Bibliography of the geology of Western Australia,
/ by A. Gibb Maitland, Government Geologist (Formerly of the Geological Survey of Queensland). Issued under the Authority of the Hon. E. H. Wittenoom, M.L.C., Minister for Mines. At head of title: 1898. Western Australia. Geological Survey. Perth, WA : Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1898. Series: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Bulletin no. 1. Octavo, original printed wrappers, …
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# 41324
CORSON, Edward M.
Introduction to Tensors, Spinors and Relativistic Wave Equations (relative structure)
London : Black and Son, 1954 (second printing). Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (a little toned at spine, price-clipped), contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, pp. xii; [ii]; 221, a fine copy.
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# 41328
THOMAS, T. Y.
The Differential Invariants of Generalized Spaces
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1934. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (small chips to edges and spine), pp. x; 242, a very good copy.
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# 41327
MILNE, E. A. (1896 - 1950)
Modern cosmology and the Christian idea of God
Being the Edward Cadbury Lectures in the University of Birmingham for 1950. Oxford : at the Clarendon Press, 1952. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket (price-clipped, original owner’s name in pencil to upper panel), pp. [viii]; 160, a fine copy. An important series of lectures on Christianity and cosmology given just before the author’s …
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# 21338
ALLEN, Glover M.
The mammals of China and Mongolia
New York : The American Museum of Natural History, 1938 – 1940. Two volumes, quarto, black lettered yellow cloth, dustjackets (a couple of small chips), the first volume pp. xxv; 629; 9 plates, 22 distribution maps; the second volume pp. xxvi; 621- 1350; 11 plates, 11 text illustrations, 41 distribution maps, a very good set. …
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# 40117
MJÖBERG, Eric (1882-1938) et al.
Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg’s Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. (Twelve individual parts)
Series: Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1918-22. Twelve disbound individual issues, comprising Volume 58 nos. 6, 7, 9; Volume 59 nos. 1, 4; Volume 60 no. 4; Volume 61 nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; Volume 63 no. 6. Uniform large quarto (310 x 250 mm), disbound, illustrated, partially unopened, …
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# 40262
SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)
The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.
/ By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …
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# 40019
RICHARDSON, Ralph A.
Electricity and wheels.
Detroit, USA : Dept. of Public Relations, General Motors Corporation, [1939]. Title page: General Motors-Holden’s Ltd. Brisbane – Sydney – Melbourne – Adelaide – Perth. Inside rear cover: Printed in Australia. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled; 32 pp, illustrated; a fine copy. Trove locates no copies of this Australian imprint in Australian …
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# 38778
SCHOUTEN, J. A.
Tensor Analysis for Physicists
Osford : The Clarendon Press, 1951. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth in dustjacket (a couple of small chips, lightly toned), pp. x; 275, photographic plates, mathematical equations and diagrams.
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# 38776
GAMOW, G.
Structure of Atomic Nuclei and Nuclear Transformations
Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1937. Second edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine a little faded), previous owner’s name to pastedown, pp. xii; 270; (2), a very good copy. A landmark study in nuclear physics, the second edition greatly expanded from the first due to the pace of scientific discovery of the period.