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TRANSACTIONS OF THE MIDLAND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION WINTER SESSION OF 1864-5
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819468
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1865. Good condition.

Contents include: On Thor's Cave; On the Nest of the Ten Spined Stickleback; On the Embryo of the Pike; On the Jaw of the British Leopard; On some Peculiarities in the growth of the Hawthorn Tree; and much more. Pink cardwraps. 19 plates at rear. Writing in blue pencil to front cover, covers are unevenly faded and marked/grubby. Backstrip worn and front cover just starting to split from contents because of this. A little unobtrusive annotation to contents in pencil. Text block browned. Plates have some foxing present.

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EARLY SCIENCE IN OXFORD VOL XII
Written by R.T. Gunther.
Stock no. 2133146
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1939. Very good condition.

Dr. Plot and the Correspondence of the Philosophical Society of Oxford. Correspondence dating from 1680-1695 recapturing a Golden Age in British Science. Part of the Oxford Books on the History of Science series. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. 10 b/w plates. 434 pages includes index. All plates present. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine slightly faded. Small closed tear in cloth at edge of rear cover. Pages lightly browned with a few foxspots to edge of textblock. Contents clean.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES
Written by C. G. Jung.
Stock no. 1819211
Published by Routledge. 1st thus 1991. Nearly fine condition.

First paperback edition, from Jung's Collected Works. First appeared in German in 1921. Pictorial cardwraps. 617 pages including index. ISBN: 9780415071772. Minor marks to spine and light scuffing to covers.

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THE AGE OF MACHINERY
Written by Alexander R. Horne.
Stock no. 1819205
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. Almost very good condition.

The Forces of Nature turned to the Service of Man. Some ordinary useful applications of the sciences explained in simple language for young people. Blue boards, pale blue titles. B/w illustrations. Boards marked, spine and title to spine faded. Endpapers and text block heavily browned. Rear pastedown has a sticky label stuck to it and pencil scribble. Rust spot to gutter edge of prelims.

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ECOLOGY OF SALT MARSHES AND SAND DUNES
Written by D.S Ranwell.
Stock no. 2132736
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Comparing and contrasting the salt marsh and sand dune habitats and the ecological processes operating within them. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates and charts. ISBN: 0412105004. Ink stamp to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine and edges.

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THE ABC OF GLIDING
Written by Fox Geen.
Stock no. 2131880
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

B/w diagrams. Pale blue boards, black title to spine. Browning and foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with edge-tears and chips; some loss; grubby in places.

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CONVEXITY
Written by H.G. Eggleston.
Stock no. 1318139
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1958. Very good condition.

Paperwraps. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, No. 47. Spine and a couple of cover edges are faded. A little creasing and some foxing to covers.

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DESERT PLANNING INTERNATIONAL LESSONS
Written by Gideon Golany.
Stock no. 2130080
Published by The Architectural Press. 1st 1982. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. This book provides technical guidance for the whole range of professionals involved in arid-zone development: planners, community-builders, architects, policy-makers and economists. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851391532. Marks along bottom edge of covers. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with fading to spine and a couple of edges.

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JOHN DALTON & THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
Written by D.S.L. Cardwell.
Stock no. 2128653
Published by Manchester University Press. 1968. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Papers presented to a conference held to mark the bicentenary of Dalton's birth; held in Manchester September 19-24 1966. ISBN: 0719003016. Some bumping and browning to spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper is browned to spine, with creasing; a few closed tears and chips; repaired to verso with sticky tape.

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THE 20-CM SCHMIDT-CASSEGRAIN TELESCOPE
Written by Peter L. Manly.
Stock no. 2128102
Published by Press Syndicate Of The University Of Cambridge. 1st thus 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

A practical observing guide. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. B/w photos. ISBN: 0521644410. Some light rubbing to cover edges.

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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND THE NICHE
Written by Paul S. Giller.
Stock no. 2127989
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w graphs and illustrations. ISBN: 0412251108. Spine is faded. Couple of corners are a little creased. Bookplate to inside front cover. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author.

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LIFE
Written by Arthur E. Shipley.
Stock no. 1816524
Published by Cambridge University Press. 2nd 1925. Slightly better than very good condition.

Second Edition. A Book for Elementary Students. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 204 pages including index. Remains of dustwrapper neatly taped in to rear endpapers. A nice, bright copy.

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