Science & Scientists (Bibliographies) from Wykeham Books

Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for sales held on 10th and 11th January 2001. Laminated wrappers, 4to,. 478 pp, many plates, some colour. 569 lots. With a short introduction by Jonathan A Hill, who was closely involved in assembling the collection: he describes it as "particularly rich in mineralogy, geology, metallurgy, and gemology". Entries are carefully described and often… Read more about this item

S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, London,auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th to 29th June, 1861. Later brown paper wrappers, typescript cover-label, 8vo, 26 cm,. 76 pp. 969 lots. Scarce. Among the items mentioned from Charles Meigh's library were: "Rapin and Tindal's History of England, profusely illustrated with three thousand Historical Prints and Rare Portraits, divided… Read more about this item

Oxford Bibliographical Society Proceedings and Papers, original journal issue, 1935. Later quarter cloth and marbled boards (original printed wrappers not retained), 4to,. 62 pp, facs. Bookplate of Arno B. Luckhardt (Chicago physiologist, 1885-19570on front pastedown endpaper, Tape with manuscript title around spine, otherwise Good. With a clipping of a short review or bookseller's catalogue entry on… Read more about this item

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogues for the sales held on 10th-11th June and 11th November, 1974. 2 vols, cloth, cover devices, large 8vo,. Unpaginated, plates and illustrations throughout. 502 lots. Elegantly produced catalogues of a splendid collection on science, navigation and travel, especially rich in English books of the 16th and 17th centuries. It had been intended that… Read more about this item

Jeremy Norman & Co., San Francisco, first edition, 1991. Regular edition, limited to 465 copies. 2 vols, two-tone cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 100 pp. 24 colour plates & 396 black & white text illustrations. A luxurious fully annotated catalogue, with collations, paginations and plate counts, describing some 2,285 significant first editions in the history… Read more about this item

Thames & Hudson, London, first edition, 1956. Cloth, gilt cover-device, 8vo, 23 cm,. xi, 306 pp. From the blurb - "More than 3,000 handbooks are listed, commented upon, and indexed for quick reference in this classified guide to practical books on subjects of interest to the handyman, the owner- occupier of a house, the owner-driver of a car… Read more about this item

Holland Press, London, 1981 reprint in one volume of 1959 first collected edition. Cloth, 8vo. approximately 800 pp. Approximately 400 entries. From the publisher's description: "[Ferguson] describes hundreds of books, from the 15th to the 18th century, of technical receipts, popular medicine, cookery, and books of secrets, both English and Foreign, mostly of considerable rarity, giving exact collations and… Read more about this item

Derek Verschoyle, London, 1954 reprint of 1906 first edition (which was limited to 250 copies). 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. xxi, 487 and 598 pp. Approximately 2,500 entries. Bibliotheca Chemica is the catalogue of the collection of James Young, which was acquired by Ferguson and is now in the library of Strathclyde University. The collection (and therefore the bibliography) was… Read more about this item

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, London, auction catalogues, for the Honeyman collection sales held from 30 and 31 October, 1978 to 19 and 20 May, 1981. 7 vols.printed wrappers, 4to, ,. Illustrations throughout, some in colour, some folding. Lots 1-3309. The splendid catalogue of a superb collection, begun in the 1930s and arguably the finest collection on the history of… Read more about this item

Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, 2000 reprint of the 1949 first edition (which was limited to 200 copies). Cloth, 8vo,. viii, 669 pp, 16 plates. Approximately 3,000 entries. From Duveen's introduction: "My main interest was, and indeed still is, the gathering of old and newer books on chemistry, but as the harvest proceeded I soon found other more or less… Read more about this item

S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, London,auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th to 27th April, 29th to 30th April, 1st to 4th May, and 6th to 8th May, 1861. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 26 cm,. xxxi, [1], 475 pp, 4 plates. Part 1 only. In need of rebinding: wrappers edgeworn and detached with… Read more about this item

Stockholm-Djursholm, 1914. Printed wrappers, 4to, 30 cm,. xvi columns, [1] leaf, 690 columns, [1] leaf. Wrappers slightly browned, contents Very Good.

Tom Donovan Editions Ltd, Brighton, first edition, 2015. E. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxi, 201 pp, 20 ills (some colour), facs ;. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.

Maurizio Martino, Mansfield, undated reprint [1995] of 1880 first edition. Reprint stated to be limited to 150 copies. Cloth, 8vo,. xxvii, 564 pp. From the preface: " "It contains over 13000 entries, comprising not only the books, pamphlets, and other publications in the Ronalds library, but also the titles of all other works on the subject of Electricity,… Read more about this item

Library Association, London, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. vi, [1], 172 pp. Supplement to the third edition. From the blurb - "The first edition of 'Scientific books, libraries and collectors' was published in 1954 and the third edition appeared in 1971. Instead of preparing a fourth edition it was decided, on economic grounds, to produce this… Read more about this item

HMSO, London, first edition, 1992. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. 183 pp, including 50 plates. 859 entries. A useful and well-illustrated catalogue in a field where bibliographical detail is often hard to find. The Comben Collection was formed over a period of 45 years from the early 1940s by Norman Comben, a veterinary surgeon fascinated by the origins of his… Read more about this item

Biometrika Office, University College London, first edition, 1939. Cloth, 8vo,. viii, 119 pp. 670 entries. Contents comprise: Foreword; Section I. Writings on the Theory of Statistics and its Application to Biological, Social and other Problems; II. Writings on Pure and Applied Mathematics and Physical Science; III. Literary and Historical Writings; IV. Writings on University Matters; … Read more about this item

Biometrika Office, University College London, first edition, 1939. Cloth, 8vo,. viii, 119 pp. 670 entries. Contents comprise: Foreword; Section I. Writings on the Theory of Statistics and its Application to Biological, Social and other Problems; II. Writings on Pure and Applied Mathematics and Physical Science; III. Literary and Historical Writings; IV. Writings on University Matters; … Read more about this item

Library of Congress, Washington, first edition, 1984. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxv, [4], 555 pp, ill s. Chip to head of spine, top edge dust-stained, otherwise Good.

Library Association, London, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. vi, [1], 172 pp. Supplement to the third edition. From the blurb - "The first edition of 'Scientific books, libraries and collectors' was published in 1954 and the third edition appeared in 1971. Instead of preparing a fourth edition it was decided, on economic grounds, to produce this… Read more about this item