Books and Manuscripts

Spherical Astronomy by Friedrich Brunnow (1811–1891) was one of the most important mid-19th century textbooks on positional astronomy, providing a ...

Animal Biography or Popular Zoology by the Rev. W. Bingley, F.L.S., Fourth Edition (London, 1813), is a detailed early 19th-century study of the ha...

A full leather prize presentation copy of this work. William Whewell's Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology ...

An attractive Victorian prize binding, presented by The College School, Huyton. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Reade...

The Radcliffe Catalogue of 6317 Stars (Oxford, 1860) is a landmark nineteenth-century astronomical reference, recording the precise positions of ci...

A very rare sammelband of two scarce nineteenth-century astronomical works. Robert Goodacre, A Brief Explanation of the Principal Terms made use of...

Carl Fraenkel & Richard Pfeiffer – Mikrophotographischer Atlas der Bakterienkunde. Erste und zweite Lieferung. Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1889....

A scarce first edition of Nesbit’s practical instructional work on surveying, A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-Surveying, In Six Parts (York: ...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

Records of Experiments on Living Animals, Bacteriology Department, University of Aberdeen, 1967-1980. A substantial large-format institutional ledg...

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

This is Volume II of Andrew Mackay’s The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea or Land (1801, second edition, improved and enlarged),...

This five‑volume set showcases the writings of Hugh Miller (1802–1856), the celebrated Scottish stonemason‑turned‑geologist, author, and lay theolo...

A significant early Victorian volume on scientific understanding, The Cabinet of Natural Philosophy (1833) forms part of the influential Cabinet Cy...

Étienne Bézout — Cours de Mathématiques, à l'Usage des Gardes du Pavillon et de la Marine. Paris: Various publishers (Delatour, Musier fils, Ph. D....

The Gardener’s Assistant is a substantial 19th-century manual on horticulture and garden management, written by Robert Thompson, a respected figure...

This is a well-preserved 1772 printing of Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton (originally published 1738) – Voltaire’s accessible interpretation o...

This is a well-preserved 1726 third edition of Volume I of Gravesande’s influential introduction to Newtonian physics. Though titled “Vol. I,” this...

This is the sixth edition of American botanist Asa Gray’s influential textbook, first published in 1842. This volume, Part I, focuses on structural...

The Life of John Duncan, Scotch Weaver and Botanist, written by William Jolly and first published in 1883, is a warm and detailed biography of a hu...

Offered here is the 1956 British Museum (Natural History) first edition facsimile of one of the most significant works in the history of science: S...