London: Collins, 1954. First edition. 8vo. xii, 212 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 15 black and white plates plus further maps and drawings. A few light marks to the rear panel, an excellent copy, New Naturalist Monograph no. 12. More

London: Collins, 1985. First edition, second state. 8vo. 432 pp. Publisher's bright green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 6 colour plates and 177 illustrations in the text. Sunning to the jacket spine, else very good. New Naturalist series no. 71. More

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1873. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 544 pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece, some pencilled underlining and marginalia. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, top edge of upper cover sunned, some light rubbing otherwise very good. Professor of Obstetrics (then Midwifery) at Edinburgh University, Simpson pioneered the use of chloroform..... More

London: J. Nourse, 1748. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 77, (1) pp. Original course plain paper wrappers. Trigonemetrical diagrams in the text throughout. Wear with two small losses to the spine, though the covers remain sound, very good overall. Thomas Simpson (1710–1761) was a self taught mathematician or "philomath" as they..... More

London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1794. First edition thus. 8vo. iv, 110 pp. Contemporary full calf, sometime rebacked with a new red gilt lettered label. 5 folding plates of machinery and apparatus. Some wear to the boards, else very good. Smeaton's papers were previous published singly in journals..... More

London: Printed by J. Macock, for Walter Kettilby, 1676. Second edition, "corrected", 8vo, (xvi), 266, (6 index) pp. Folding table. Contemporary calf, gilt titled red spine label, joints and spine ends recently restored. A meditation on the description of old age in Ecclesiastes chapter 12, explaining and adapting them to..... More

London: Collins, 1951. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 318, (4) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 16 colour and 16 black and white plates. Tanning to the spine and lower panel of the jacket with a modicum of very mild wear at the..... More

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1960). First edition, 8vo, xvi, 561, (1) pp. 50 colour plates plus a further 2 colour and 47 black and white photographic plates, marbled endpapers. Later light brown morocco with a marbled paper spine label. More

London: Printed by R. Taylor and Co... And sold by the Author... and by White, Fleet-Street, Symonds, Paternoster-row... [then] Printed by Arding and Merrett... and sold by the Author... [and] Sherwood and Co., Paternoster Row; and by all other Book, 1804-17. First edition. Five volumes. Large 8vo. Recent brown half..... More

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1927. First edition, 8vo, (xx), 471, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 38 coloured plates, contemporary signature to the fly leaf. Cloth with slight fading to the spine ends, d.w. with loss to the same. More

London: Collins, 1969. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 273, (1) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 23 black and white illustrations and 5 maps. Some tanning to the jacket spine, else very good. New Naturalist series no. 49. More

New York: Skandia America Group, 1982. First edition. 4to. xvi, 392, (6) pp. Publisher's card covers, prior owner's inscription to the title page. Black and white illustrations throughout. A few minor marks to the covers, generally very good. More