1. Bastian, H. Charlton.

The Nature and Origin of Living Matter. With 245 illustrations from photomicrographs.

First Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. 15 x 23.5cm. 344 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Some signs of external wear, including water stain to rear board, otherwise in very good condition with binding solid and text clear.

2. Bok, Bart J / Bok, Priscilla, F.

The Milky Way. The Harvard Books on Astronomy.

Second Edition. Philadelphia / Tokyo, The Blakiston Company, 1946. 15 cm x 21.9 cm. VI, 224 pages. Frontispiece. Ninety-three illustrations and two large-scale photographic maps of the Milky Way. Rear pastedown contains two booklets, entitled ‘The Northern Milky Way’ and ‘The Southern Milky Way’, both from “The Milky Way” by Bart J. Bok and Priscilla F.Bok (1941). Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only foxing and discolouration to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Very light stain to upper internal pages. Minor signs of wear to dustjacket. Minor dampstain to rear centre of bookblock. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

3. Bray, Lieutenant R. J.

Pivots and Caps in Compasses.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1917. 16 x 25cm. 78 pages, with 88 illustrations. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Mild signs of wear to boards and spine, outer margins of pastedowns and endpapers slightly waterstained. Otherwise in very good condition. Very Rare !

4. Crookes, William.

Diamonds [Kimberley and Its Diamond Mines]. With 24 Illustrations.

London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1909. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 145 pages. 24 monchrome photographs on 24 plates, including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Blindstamped design to front board. Blind stamp of ‘Harper’s Library of Living Thought’ embossed on back board. Deckled edging. Gilt top-edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Staining to front board. Interior bright and clean. [Harper’s Library of Living Thought].

5. De Ropp, Robert S.

The New Prometheans. Creative and Destructive Forces in Modern Science.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1972. 8°. XIII, 288 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Enderle, Alfred / Meyerhöfer, Dietrich / Unverfehrt, Gerd.

Small People – Great Art / Restricted growth from an artistic and medical viewpoint.

Hamm, Artcolor Verlag, 1994. 24.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 324 pages. Illustrated with 116 full-colour plates. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. [Feynman, Richard] Mehra, Jagdish.

The Beat of a Different Drum – The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece (black and white photograph of Feynman playing the bongo drums), XXXII, 630 pages. Several black and white photographs in centre of book. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex-library copy with associated label on spine and stamps on endpapers.

8. [Galilei, Galileo] Heilbron, J.L.

Galileo.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010. Octavo. XIV, 508 pages. With several illustrations (also in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

9. Gassaniga, Michael S.

Nature’s Mind. The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language and Intelligence.

London etc., Penguin Books, 1994. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XIII / 220 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slightly grubby page edges. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

10. Gordon, J.E.

The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor.

Second Edition. London etc. Penguin, 1978. 11 cm x 18 cm. 287 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.