The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 258pp. Navy boards in dust jacket. Illustrated. More
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Cambridge University Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 258pp. Navy boards in dust jacket. Illustrated. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 259 pages. Green cloth. SIGNED "to The Duke of Argyll / From the Author". A different previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. Light spotting to the top foredge. Binding..... More
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Geo. T. Walker & Company, 1950. Hardcover. 27.5 x 20 cm. Quarto. 980pp. Bound in brown embossed boards. Extensively illustrated with drawings of bottles, condensers, thermometers, scales and much more. Scuffing to edges. Some foredge spotting. More
Cambridge and London and Edinburgh: MacMillan and Co and Edmonston and Douglas, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. [x], 583, 24 of ads. Green cloth. Rubbing to the edges of the boards with a small piece missing from the top of the spine. Previous owner's bookplate inside..... More
New York, London, Toronto: Longsmans, Green and Co., 1931. Second Printing. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. xxviii 434pp, xviii 207 vi 284. Two volume set. Navy cloth in dust jackets. The former edition of Gibbs' writings was first published in 1906 as "The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs"..... More
Springer, 2017. Hardcover. Octavo. 24cm x 16cm. 277pp. Archimedes 50. New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. More
Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1874. Hardcover. Elephant folio. (43cm x 33cm) Rebound in blue cloth. New endpapers. 308pp text. Twenty pages of black and white illustrations with numerous examples on each page. German text. Occasional scattered foxing. Giebel, C. (Christoph), 1820-1881. Nitzsch, Christian Ludwig, 1782-1837. More
Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 247pp. Bibliography, index. More
Cambridge University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 781pp. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Light toning to jacket flaps. More
Denver: Grier, 1989. 4to, 319 pp. Very tight and clean. Illustrated. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996. Paperback. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. xxxvi + 248 pp. With a new preface by the author. More
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. 21.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. xxiv 396pp. Bound in blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Facsimile reprint of the 1930 Oxford edition. Includes The Life of Dr. Robert Hooke by Richard Waller. Fading to the spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper..... More
Yale University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 193 pages. Red boards in dust jacket. Yales Studies in the History of Science and Medicine 8. SIGNED by the author, H. Lewis McKinney, and inscribed to the previous owner Leonard G. Wilson. Wilson's book, a biography of geologist Charles..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. vii 281pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. Stated first edition (American), published in England as "Keeping Cool and Other Essays" the same year. Above where it states first edtiion there are some characters..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 207pp. Red cloth spine white boards. Smudge to front cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
New York: Arno Press, 1975. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 300pp (3). 11 illustrations, one of which is a fold-out facsimile. Bound in green cloth, gilt lettering. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. One corner bumped. Reprint of the 1932 Oxford edition. Also includes an unpublished memoir of..... More
The University of Birmingham, 2001. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 174pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. More
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 433pp. Blue and grey cloth in price clipped dust jacket. There is toning to the cloth as well as the jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 337pp. Brown cloth in dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
Oxford, 1963. secojnd edition. Hard Cover. octavo. 228pp A very nice copy in a chipped dust jacket. This second edition is planned to consist of a number of monographs, the first of which is the present volume. It is a modernized and extended version of the first four chapters of..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1987. Paperback. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 772pp. Some light shelf wear. Part of the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. More
Sussex and New Jersey: The Harvester Press / Barnes & Noble Books, 1982. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 168pp. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Toning to the inside of the jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper, gift inscription on front free endpaper. More
New York: Julian Messner, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 190pp. Teal cloth in dust jacket. Jacket illustrated by Donald Lambo. First edition with no additional printings noted. Illustrated with photographs and charts. Jacket is clipped at the bottom of front flap, original price of $3.95 remains..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. xxvi 859pp, xx 863-1873pp. Two volume set bound in red cloth in slipcase. Front gutter of volume two is cracked at the title page. Spines are faded. Scuffing to the slipcase. Consisting of works by important authors in..... More
Philadelphai: The American Philosophical Society, 1957. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo .692pp. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Jacket is chipped and worn. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge Volume 44. More