Science and Medicine

1. Barnett, Richard.: The Sick Rose or Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. 1st. edn. 253pp. 345 cold. illus. 1/4 cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards (no d/w issued), a fine copy.  (Stock ref 6339) £10.00

2. Barnett, Richard.: The Smile Stealers: the fine art of dentistry. London: Thames and Hudson, 2017. 1st. edn. 255pp. Over 500 cold. and b/w illus. 1/4 cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards, a fine copy.  (Stock ref 6340) £10.00

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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. Clarkson, Patrick & Pelly, Anthony.: The General and Plastic Surgery of the Hand. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1962. 1st. edn. xiv,428pp. Numerous b/w photos., text figures. Ownership inscription, signed by one of the authors, to front pastedown.  Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. A very clean, bright copy.  (Stock ref 7019) £25.00

9. 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

10. Ekers, Ronald D. et al (eds.): SETI 2020: a road map for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Mountain View: SETI Press, 2002. 1st. edn. xlix,549pp. B/w photo., text figures. Pictorial card covers, a fine copy  (Stock ref 6567) £15.00

11. 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

12. Gregory, P. H. & Monteith, J. L. (Eds.): Airborne Microbes. London: Cambridge University Press, 1967. 1st. edn. xii,385pp. B/w photos., text figures. Seventeenth symposium of the Society for General Microbiology. Contributors include J. D. Anderson, C. W. Bruch and W. C. Noble. D/w tanned on spine, a trifle rubbed on edges with some minor loss in top edge of front panel. Otherwise a clean, sound copy.  (Stock ref 6568) £10.00

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Laycock, Thomas.: A Treatise on the Nervous Diseases of Women: comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes and treatment of spinal and hysterical disorders. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Greene and Longmans, 1840. 1st. edn. xxxii, 356 pp. Paper covered boards with blind stamped decoration, rebacked with original spine laid on, gilt lettering. Binding rather rubbed and worn but, internallly a clean, sound copy.  (Stock ref 1841) £100.00

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Porter, Stephen.: The Great Plague. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999. 1st. edn. x,213pp. 70 b/w illus. D/w, a fine copy.  (Stock ref 7017) £5.00

25. 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 6055) £10.00

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

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

33. Wulf, Andrea.: The Invention of Nature: the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science. London: John Murray, 2015. 3rd. impression. xx,473pp. Cold. and b/w illus., maps. D/w, a fine copy.  (Stock ref 6865) £10.00