1. 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].

2. Davy, Sir Humphry / John Duke of Bedford / [Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot / Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel].

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry – In a Course of Lectures delivered before the Board of Agriculture [With an Appendix: “An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses and other Plants, used as the Food of Animals” – Instituted by John Duke of Bedford].

The Fourth Edition. Londo, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight’s Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half – leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition.

3. Hess, Fred C. / Jacobowitz, Henry / et al.

Chemistry Made Simple / Electronics Made Simple. Advisory editor John B. Holden (Chemistry Made Simple) / Advisory editor Leslie Basford (Electronics Made Simple).

Two Volumes of the Made Simple Series. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1982. 13 cm x 21.5 cm. XXVIII, 593 pages. Hundreds of black and white diagrams, illustrations, equations and tables throughout both books. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Made Simple Series (Two volumes of 85 titles)]

4. Pyrex.

Pyrex Laboratory And Scientific Glassware.

Sunderland, James A. Jobling & Co. Ltd., 1950. 15 x 24 cm. 64 pages with illustrations. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Company stamp of Thomas H. Mason & Sons, Ltd, in Dublin – on frontcover.

5. Servos, John W.

Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling – The Making of a Science in America.

New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1990. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXIII, 402 pages. Some black and white illustrations. Original Hardback with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor tear on dustjacket. Ex-library copy with associated label on spine and stamps on title page and pastedown. Some writting in pencil to endpapers. Bookplate on pastedown (Beschafft aus Mitteln der Stiftung Volkswagenwerk). Former library copy !