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History of Geology, 1911. Woodward HB.
History of Geology, 1911. London, Watts & Co. 154pp. Hardcover, dark blue cloth covered boards, slight wear to cover, pages clean but some corners creased. Bookplate and signature of previous...
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Darwin and the Beagle, publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1969. Moorehead, Alan.
Darwin and the Beagle, publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1969, 1st edition, 2nd impression. 280pp. HB, lightly bumped, binding sound, dustjacket with minor marginal tears, otherwise in very good condition. Abundantly illustrated...
Silliman, Benjamin. Benjamin Silliman; a Life in the Young Republic, 1988. by Chandos Brown.
Brown, C.M. 1989. Benjamin Silliman; a Life in the Young Republic, publ. Princeton UP, 1st edition. 377pp. HB with dustjacket in new condition. Silliman (1799-1864), founder of the American Journal...
Forbes, James. James David Forbes; Pioneer Scottish Glaciologist. Scottish Academic Press.
James David Forbes; Pioneer Scottish Glaciologist, by Frank Cunningham. publ. Scottish Academic Press, 1st edition, 1990. 329pp. HB with dustjacket in very good condition.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters from the Malay Archipelago (2013). Oxford University Press.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters from the Malay Archipelago (2013), edited by John Van Whye and Kees Rookmaaker. Oxford University Press, 1st edition, 319pp. Hardback in new condition....
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Gray, Elizabeth Anderson. 'Mrs Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924): a Passion for Fossils' (1989). Natural History Museum.
Gray, Elizabeth Anderson. 'Mrs Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924): a Passion for Fossils' (1989) by Ron Cleevely, in Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series, v17, n.2. pp. 167-258. PB published separately...
Morton, John L. 2004. King of Siluria; How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology.
Morton, John L. 2004. King of Siluria; How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology. Horsham: Brocken Spectre Publishing. 276pp. Paperback. Nearly new.
Stephenson, George and Robert. Lives of the Engineers, by Samuel Smiles. John Murray.
Lives of the Engineers, George and Robert Stephenson: the Locomotive, publ John Murray, London, 1904, ‘popular’ edition (1st was 1887). 510 pp + 4pp adverts. HB with red cloth covers...
Huxley, Thomas. Scientist Extraordinary; the Life and Scientific Work of Thomas Henry Huxley. Pergamon Press.
Scientist Extraordinary; the Life and Scientific Work of Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895, by Cyril Bibby. publ. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1972, 1st edition. 208pp. HB, clean, sound binding, in very good...
Smith, William. (2001). The Map that Changed the World; William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, by Simon Winchester. Harper Collins.
Smith, William. (2001). The Map that Changed the World; William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, by Simon Winchester. Harper Collins, New York, 329pp. Hardback, 1st edition. Dustjacket unfolds...
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Maddox, Brenda. (2017). Reading the Rocks; How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life. Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury.
Maddox, Brenda. (2017). Reading the Rocks; How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life. Bloomsbury, London, 254 pp. Hardback, dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine with dustjacket....
The Earth Generated and Anatomised, ed. Roy Porter, Cornel Univ.Press and British Museum, 1981. Hobbes, William.
The Earth Generated and Anatomised, ed. Roy Porter, Cornel Univ.Press and British Museum, 1981. 158pp of which pp 35 to 126 is Hobbes’ text and the rest introduction, references and...
Down to Earth, One Hundred and fifty Years of the British Geological Survey. Wilson, HE.
Down to Earth, One Hundred and fifty Years of the British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1985. 189pp. ISBN 7073 0473 3. Paperback, faded spine and very slight shelf...
Great Men of Science; a History of Scientific Progress. Bell and Sons.
Great Men of Science; a History of Scientific Progress, by Philip Lenard. publ. Bell, London, 1954. Translated from German by HS Hatfield. 389pp. HB, slight age-toning and corners bumped, no dustjacket,...
Tyrell, Joseph. Measuring Mother Earth, by Heather Robertson, 2007. McLelland and Stewart.
Measuring Mother Earth, publ, McLelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2007, 1st edition. 348pp. HB, as new with dustjacket. The career of the geologist JosephTyrell (1858-1957) spanned the opening of the Canadian...
Skempton, Alec. A Particle of Clay; the biography of Alec Skempton, 2002. by Judith Niechcial.
A Particle of Clay; the biography of Alec Skempton, Civil Engineer, publ. Whittles, Caithness, 2002, 1st edition. 208pp. HB with dustjacket in as new condition. Skempton effectively established soil mechanics...
Deprat, Jacques. The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China. Jonathan Cape.
The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China, by Roger Osborne. publ. Jonathan Cape, London, 1999, 1st edition. 244pp. HB, new with dustjacket. Deprat was a rising star...
Darwin, Charles. Charles Darwin: Evolution by Natural Selection, 1963. Thomas Nelson.
Charles Darwin: Evolution by Natural Selection, by Gavin de Beer. publ. Thomas Nelson, London, 1963, 1st edition. 290pp. HB, green cloth covered boards, bumped and faded where not covered by DJ....
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Newton, Isaac, Isaac Newton, by James Gleick. publ. Fourth Estate, 2003. Fourth Estate.
Isaac Newton, by James Gleick. publ. Fourth Estate, London, 2003, 1st edition. 289pp. HB, as new, minor tear to dustjacket.
Lyell, Charles. Sir Charles Lyell; Interpreter of the Principles of Geology, 1965. Arthur Baker.
Sir Charles Lyell; Interpreter of the Principles of Geology, by Frederick North,1965. In ‘Creators of the Modern World’ series. Arthur Baker, London. 128pp. Hardback, orange cloth covered boards. No dust jacket....
