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A very smart illustrated edition of Gilbert White's 'Natural History of Selborne', produced in conjunction with the Gilbert White Museum. White (17...

A remarkable group of nine official NASA Manned Spacecraft Center letters sent to Ed Conifray of Irvington, New Jersey, between 1963 and 1966, toge...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar best known for his groundbreaking work On Growt...

 A very smart book indeed, of the author's attempt to make sense of society in evolutionary terms. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this pre...

A very smart book indeed, of this work by Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this presents as a handsome volume. We have recen...

A very smart book indeed, of this work by Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this presents as a handsome volume. We have recen...

A very smart set indeed of this most influential of Charles Darwin's works. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, these present as a handsome set...

A very smart set indeed of this work by Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, these present as a handsome set. We have recently a...

A very smart set indeed of this work on the life of Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, these present as a handsome set. We hav...

A smart copy of this informative text on forestry practices (previously in the ownership of the Balfour family of Fife, well known for their contri...

A very good copy of R.M. Lockley's biography of Gilbert White (1720-1793), a pioneering English naturalist and man of the Church. He was highly res...