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Stevenson Roger E. et al (Editors) - Human Malformations and Related Anomalies - 2 Vol. set

Hardbacks. A very good two volume set in black cloth lettered in gilt. Clean copies without ownership inscription, foxing or any other internal marking. Vol. I,pp.xvii,271. Vol. II,pp.xi,1162. Numerous figures and tables. This is No. 27 of the Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics. [Please notes these two volumes are very heavy and will incur extra postage].
Published : Oxford University Press 1993, First Edition
£50.00

Stranger Ralph - Wireless, the Modern Magic Carpet

Nd. c.1929. A good plus copy in light green cloth. Some edge foxing. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. Pp.viii,279. Nearly 250 diagrams and illustrations. A quite detailed work on the early wireless set.
Published : George Newnes, London,
£15.00

Taylor Andrew G; Gordon John E.; Usher Michael B. (Editors) - Soils, Sustainability and the Natural Heritage

Hardback. A very good copy in laminated boards. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xvii,316. Colour illustrations. Figures. Consists mainly of papers delivered at a conference organised by Scottish Natural Heritage.
Published : HMSO, Edinburgh 1996, First Edition
£12.00

Taylor Henry Osborn - Greek Biology and Medicine

A good copy in black cloth lettered in gilt. Small ownership inscription. Pp.xv,151.
Published : George G. Harrap, London 1922, First Edition
£12.00

Taylor Hugh Stott, Lawrence Ernest O, and Langmuir Irving - Molecular Films the Cyclotron and the New Biology

A very good copy in a rather worn dustwrapper with some internal sellotape repairs. Bookplate. 95pp. 24 figures. Essays-two by Nobel prize winners-aimed at helping to solve some of the most difficult questions in biology.
Published : Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1942, First Edition
£10.00

Thompson C. J. S. - Guide to the Surgical Instruments and Objects in the Historical Series with Their History and Development (Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England)

A very good copy in light grey card covers with light blue cloth spine. Small inscription on front end-paper. Pp.iv,92. Numerous illustrations.
Published : Royal College of Surgeons of England, London 1929, First Edition
£30.00

Thomson A.G.M. - The Position of the Old Red Sandstone in the Geological Succession

A very good copy in maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Bevelled edges. No ownership inscription. Pp.vi,224. Author's unsigned compliments slip loosely inserted. The author puts forward hypotheses as to how the old red sandstone was produced and its correct dating.
Published : John Leng & Co, Dundee` 1903, First Edition
£40.00

Thornton John L. - Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors: a Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the Medical Sciences

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is a little worn at the edges. 445pp. 16 illustrations. A mine of information on medical books.
Published : Andre Deutsch, London 1966,
£18.00

Tibbles William - Foods Their Origin, Composition and Manufacture

Hardback. A good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. Single stamp on half title. Pp.viii,950. Many tables. A comprehensive work on the chemical make-up and nutritional value of foods. Uncommon in first edition.
Published : Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, London 1912, First Edition
£35.00

Trinder, Barrie - The Industrial Archaeology of Shropshire

Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.x,278. 125 black and white illustrations. "This penetrating new micro-study of Shropshire examines in detail the whole range of artefacts, images, structures, sites and landscapes which relate to manufactures or mines and their associated transport and social systems."
Published : Phillimore & Co 1996, First Edition
£15.00

Trotter Wilfred - The Collected Papers of Wilfred Trotter

A good copy. Slightly faded on spine. some foxing to endpapers. 194pp. 12 papers mainly on the philosophy of medicine.
Published : Oxford University Press 1946,
£6.00

Turner A. Logan - Joseph, Baron Lister Centenary Volume 1827-1927

A good copy, a little faded on spine. 182pp. Frontispiece and 8 illustrations + portrait medallion on upper board. Essays to celebrate the centenary of Lister's birth.
Published : Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1927, First Edition
£12.00

Turner A. Logan - Joseph, Baron Lister Centenary Volume 1827-1927

A very good copy in a virtually complete but rather dusty wrapper with a few tears. 182pp. Frontispiece and 8 illustrations + portrait medallion on upper board. Essays to celebrate the centenary of Lister's birth.
Published : Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1927, First Edition
£20.00

Tyndall John - The Glaciers of the Alps. Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to Which They are Related

Hardback. A good copy in blind-decorated cloth which is faded on the spine (although the lettering is clear). A little marked on spine. Internally a very good, clean, copy without foxing or ownership inscription and with sound hinges. Pp.xxvi,445. Frontispiece and 61 illustrations including one plate in colour. Prefatory Note by the author's widow.
Published : Longmans Green & Co, London 1896,
£24.00

Wallace, William - Geometrical Theorems and Analytical Formulae, with Their Application to the Solution of Certain Geodetical Problems. And an Appendix, Containing a Description of Two Copying Instruments

Hardback. A good copy in the original patterned boards, originally mauve or purple but now considerably faded. The gilt lettering on the spine remains clear. The book is inscribed as follows: To Dr. Traill from the Author Feb. 18th 1839."The ex libris label of Thomas Stewart Traill is on the front fixed end-paper. Traill was Professor of medical jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh and the main editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1852 to 1861. Pp.xiii,155. Three folding diagrams at rear. Various figures in the Appendix. Two loose pages which came with the book (one a continued errata page, the other described as a Supplement to Article 112) remain present. The author writes: "In this Tract ----the reader will find a very considerable number of new propositions, interesting in themselves as speculative truths, and remarkable, by their connecting Theories hitherto considered as but slightly, if at all related." The author was emeritus professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh.
Published : Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh 1839, First Edition
£90.00

Walton, D. W. H. - Antarctic Science

4to. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.viii,280. Many illustrations including colour. This is a review of the major international developments in Antarctic sciense.
Published : Cambridge University Press 1987, First Edition
£14.00

Warburton, Dorothy; Byrne, Julianne; Canki, Nina - Chromosome Anomalies and Prenatal Development: An Atlas

Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in the original cloth. Neat ownership inscription. Pp.vii,104. Numerous colour illustrations. Graphs. This is no. 21 of the Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics.
Published : Oxford University Press, New York 1991, First Edition
£30.00

Weismann, Dr. August - The Evolution Theory Volume II

Hardback. A very good copy in maroon cloth which is just a little faded on the spine. 405 pages. Illustrations 96-131 in this volume.
Published : Edward Arnold, London 1904, First Edition
£25.00

West, Luther S.; Peters, Oneita B. - An Annotated Bibliography of Musca Domestica Linnaeus

Hardback. A very good copy in a good, complete, dustwrapper which shows some rubbing. A clean copy internally with no ownership inscription or other marking. Pp.xiii,743. Frontispiece. Described as "a new aid to entomological research."
Published : Dawsons of Pall Mall 1973, First Edition
£15.00

Wheeler J. F. G. - On the Stock of Whales at South Georgia

4to. A very good copy in light grey card covers. Comprises pages 351-372 of Volume IX of the "Discovery Reports." 5 tables. 3 figures. The Discovery Reports were funded by the British Colonial Office and were intended to provide the scientific background to stock management of the Antarctic whale fishery.
Published : Cambridge University Press 1934,
£8.00

Wightman W.P.D. - Science and the Renaissance; an Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century Volume 1

A very good copy in a good dustwrapper with a few edge tears. Pp.xv,327. 8 plates. End-paper map. This volume traces the growth of scientific ideas in the Renaissance. (The second volume is a bibliography of 16th century scientific books in the library of Aberdeen University).
Published : Oliver & Boyd for the University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh 1962, First Edition
£15.00

Williamson George - Memorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education and Development of the Genius of James Watt

A very good copy in a half-leather binding. Five raised bands. Moderate wear to the spine. 262 pages. 16 illustrations including folding map of the River Clyde, double page view of Greenock and folding plan of the steamship "Atrato". (Loosely inserted is a folding plate of the same ship which does not appear to come from the book).
Published : Printed for the Watt Club By Thomas Constable Printer to Her Majexty 1856, First Edition
£55.00

Wood, Rev. J.G. - Common Objects of the Microscope

Illustrated by Tuffen West.
Hardback. 12mo. A good copy in red cloth decorated in gilt on the spine and upper board. The boards are now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Ownership inscription. Pp.iv,188. 12 full page colour plates. Black and white illustrations in the text. "---a general demand has arisen for an elementary handbook upon the Microscope and its practical application to the study of nature; and in order to supply that want, this little volume has been published."
Published : Routledge, Warne & Routledge, London 1864,
£45.00

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