New York: Hurst & Company Publishers, circa 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. 361 pp. Bound in olive green cloth with the top textblock in gilt. Includes Bacon's apophthegms, elegant sentences, and wisdom of the ancients. Introduction by Henry Morley, LL.D, a former professor of English Literature at University College in London. A... More about The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon
London: John Murray, 1890. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 500 pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt vignette on the front board and gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Darwin. Bookplate of distinguished surgeon and Captain in the Royal Navy (serving during the first world war) Hugh... More about A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the...
London: Harrap, 1974. First printing. 260 pp. Price of £6.10 on front flap of dust jacket. Translated by Gordon Reece. A study of the early development of Quantum Theory from 1900 - 1927. Very slight lean and a bit of wear to the edges of the boards. More about The History of Quantum Theory
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954; 1956; 1959; 1962; 1965. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. 5 vol. 318 pp.; 696 pp.; 874 pp.; 434 pp.; 759 pp. Volume I: Introductory Orientations, Volume II: History of Scientific Thought, Volume III: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth; Volume IV Part I.... More about Science and Civilisation in China
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 383 pp. Bound in tan buckram with brown lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on front jacket flap. Selected and edited by Dorothy Stimson with a preface and biographical note by her. A very attractive copy of this collection of... More about Sarton on the History of Science; Essays By George Sarton