The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
London: Prion, 2002. Soft cover. 8vo [super]. Soft cover. 248 pp., [8]. Illustrations in text throughout. Fine condition. More
London: Prion, 2002. Soft cover. 8vo [super]. Soft cover. 248 pp., [8]. Illustrations in text throughout. Fine condition. More
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1943. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Orig. burgundy stiffened cloth. xi, 1019 pp. B&W illustration. Spine tilted, chafing to extremities, some creasing to spine, creasing to lower front corner. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. More
London: The War Office, 1956. Soft cover. 8vo. 167 p.p. Green paper wraps, staple bound. Wraps are sunned at edges, curling at corners, a few creases to corners and edges, small stain to rear cover. Bumping to outer margin of some pages. Binding is tight. B&W illustrations throughout. A manual..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, ix, 261pp. Illustrated. Light wear on edges and spine o/w near fine in d/w. Jacket a bit faded with some tears to extremities and along top of jacket spine. Contains information on valves, semi-conductors, photo-electric devices and cathode-ray..... More
West New York, NJ: Mark Batty Publisher, 2004. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (royal). Soft cover. 319 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. CD-ROM included. Fine. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. Hardcover. 12mo. The I Tatti Renaissance Library No. 6. xxx, 721 p.p. Facing Latin to English translation. Includes notes on chronology, notes to text and translation, and bibliography. Blue cloth boards with black spine label, gilt lettering. Dust jacket is sunned at spine, else..... More
Vienna: A. Hartelben's, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [The Book of Experiments: Physical Apparatus and Experiments. Mechanical operations...] German. 392 p.p. With 425 pictures and figures in text and one insert. B&W illustrations including one fold out illustration. Small tear to fold out. Original green cloth with gilt titling on..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black paper boards. xi, 307 pp. [8] pp. B&W photos. Fine condition. More
London: Pelham Books, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. 166 p.p. B&W photos and illustrations throughout. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to top edge, light bumping to spine ends and corners. Library bookplate and pencil annotations to endpapers, ownership inscription to FFEP. Colour illustrated dust jacket is price clipped..... More
London: Allen Lane, 2015. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black cloth. xiv, 769 pp., [16] pp. colour plates of photos. Minor bumps to spine ends. Jacket lightly bumped to extremities. Fine overall. We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of..... More
Glendora, CA: Royal Publishing, Inc., 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by Rosalie Wysocki to ffep. Brown leatherette boards. xxiii, 277 p.p. B&W photos in-text. Light bruising to spine ends. Light staining to fore edge of text block. Dust jacket bumped at spine foot, small spot of wear to front..... More
Tokyo: Toyo Keizai Inc., 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full tan paper boards. vii, 202 pp. Dust jacket sunned to spine, else fine. More
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full grey paper boards. 174 pp. Fine. What do many of the technical and business innovations of the past 200 years have in common? The answer is simple: disaggregration -- the act of breaking things..... More