History Of Science from Duck Cottage Books

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1899. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 2650 8vo. Title continues: "with which is Incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies". Two volumes, complete, half leather on brown cloth-covered boards, gilt motif (Institution of Civil Engineers) to front boards, all edges marbled, marbled end papers,… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1902. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 561 8vo. A new (one volume) edition. Photogravure portrait as frontispiece (lacks tissue guard), facsimile letter plate, as called for, original light green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, related early 20th Century cuttings pasted in at front and back (article from The Observer, 1929 and one by E V… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1902. Hardback. Very Good. 563 8vo. Prize binding (Drax Grammar School), half leather on dark green cloth-covered boards, marbled end papers, top edges gilt, gilt school crest to front board, prize presentation label dated 1921 to front paste down. "New edition"- a single-volume version (348 pages) of the work first published in three volumes.… Read more about this item

London: Watts and Co, 1909. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 302 12mo. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with blind-stamped titles and gilt titles to spine, 154 pages, with Bibliography, Index and illustrations. The book is divided into The Geometrical Period, the Dynamical Period, Observation and finally The Physical Period. Condition notes: Boards a little bumped, spine faded, internally… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1962. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1000 8vo. Co-author Velta Zebergs. Light blue cloth-covered boards with dark blue spine strip, illustrated throughout, illustrated end papers, 544 pages, large octavo in size. Condition notes: Boards rubbed, especially along edges, but a clean, sound copy.

London: Longman, 1970. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 405 8vo. Pink pictorial dust jacket (not price clipped), dark green cloth-covered boards, 193 pages including Suggested Reading, Bibliography, Notes and Index. Condition notes: Some soiling to the dust jacket, a spot or two on the boards, which have some bumping. Small tear to half title. Internally… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1939. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1838 4to. Title continues: "with intensities in arc, spark or discharge tube of more than 100,000 spectrum lines most strongly emitted by the atomic elements under normal conditions of excitation between 10,000 A. and 2000 A., arranged in order of decreasing wavelength". From The… Read more about this item

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1946. First edition. Hardback. Fair/No jacket. 533 8vo. A report to the Director General, Middle East Supply Centre, August 1945. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, blind-stamped titles to front board, illustrations from photographs, coloured folding map bound in at rear, 239 pages. Condition notes: Boards very scuffed and rubbed, internally… Read more about this item

London: HMSO, 1947. Paperback. Good/No jacket. 283 8vo. With a Foreword by Sir Henry Dale. The four sections covered are: Radar, Operational Research, the Atomic Bomb, Science and the Sea. Red and grey paper covers, illustrations from photographs, maps, diagrams et cetera, 185 pages. Condition notes: Covers chipped, worn and stained. Paper label remnants (library label?) inside front… Read more about this item

Banham, Norfolk: The Erskine Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 289 8vo. Edited by Barbara Debenham, the author's daughter. A book of reminiscence-induced fiction (ranging from the almost-all-true to the could-have-been-true) related to Arctic exploration or to the lives and work of people at the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge. Frank Debenham, whose first… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 660 8vo. Blue cloth-covered boards, 384 pages including bibliography and index, pictorial dust jacket. Portraits of Ernest Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer and their roles in the development of atomic weapons. Condition notes: Front end papers a little grubby, otherwise internally excellent; dust jacket with edges rolled.

London: The Royal Society, 1962. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 618 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little worn and age-darkened, a little dust-speckling to top edges of text block but book otherwise crisp and clean.

London: The Royal Society, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 850 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little worn and age-darkened, book very good.

London: The Royal Society, 1976. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1502 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little worn and soiled, a little dust-speckling to top edges of text block.

London: The Royal Society, 1959. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 852 4to. Includes memoir of Wolfgang Pauli by R.E. Peierls. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket worn and age-darkened, a little dust-speckling to top edges of text block but book otherwise crisp and clean.

London: The Royal Society, 1961. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 1004 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little worn, dust-speckling to top edges of text block.

London: The Royal Society, 1957. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 934 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little worn and age-darkened, some dust-spotting to top edges of text block, book otherwise very good.

London: The Royal Society, 1958. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1028 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket worn and age-darkened, a little dust-speckling to top edges of text block but book otherwise crisp and clean.

London: The Royal Society, 1963. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 960 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little worn and age-darkened, a little dust-speckling to top edges of text block but book otherwise crisp and clean.

London: The Royal Society, 1956. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 960 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Portrait with each biography. Condition notes: Dust jacket worn and chipped, a little dust-speckling to top edges of text block.