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London: John Murray, 2015. Perfect bound. Original wrappers printed in colour. Wrappers a little rubbed, a few light marks to the lower cover. Very good condition. Uncorrected proof copy of the best-seller that reintroduced naturalist Alexander von Humboldt to the English-speaking world and explored his influence on figures such as Thoreau, Darwin, and Muir. The Invention of Nature was awarded the Royal Society's Insight Investment Science Book Prize in 2016. This uncorrected proof is marked "not for sale or quotation" and contains blank pages in place of the index.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.,, 1934. Small octavo. Original white paper boards, red cloth backstrip, title to upper board in red, printed paper label to spine. Short pencilled note to the rear free endpaper. Binding a little rubbed and scratched, spine faded, corners slightly bumped, a little spotting to contents. A very good copy. First English language edition, first impression. Originally published as "Die physikalische Sprache als Universalsprache der Wissenschaft" in the journal Erkenntnis in 1932. "Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) was one of the best-known philosophers of the twentieth century. Notorious as one of the founders, and perhaps the leading philosophical representative, of the movement known as logical positivism or logical empiricism, he was one of the originators of the new field of philosophy of science and later a leading contributor to semantics and inductive logic" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Science).