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COLOUR VISION: A DISCUSSION OF THE LEADING PHENOMENA AND THEIR PHYSICAL LAWS
Written by W. Peddie.
Stock no. 986591
Published by Edward Arnold. 1st 1922. Very good condition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 208 pages including index. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Text block browned with a little foxing. Contents clean.

STATISTICAL METHODS IN BIOLOGY
Written by Norman T.J. Bailey.
Stock no. 664756
Published by The English Universities Press Ltd.. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Name in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper corners worn.

A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL MENSURATION IN EIGHT PARTS
Written by A. Nesbit.
Stock no. 556975
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1830. Good condition.

5th Edition. Containing the most approved Methods of drawing Geometrical Figures; Mensuration of Superficies; Land Surveying; Mensuration of Solids; the Use of the Carpenter's Rule; Timber Measure, in which is shewn the Mehod of measuring and valuing standing Timber; Artificer's Works, illustrated by the Dimensions and Contents of a House; Mensuration of Haystacks, Drains, Canals, Marlpits, Ponds, Mill-dams, Embankments, Quarries, Coal-heaps, and Clay-heaps; Conic Sections and their Solids; the most useful Problems in Gauging, according to the New Imperial Measures; and a Dictionary of the Terms used in Architecture. Full brown leather binding. B/w illustrations. xiv and 448 pages. Name in ink to front endpaper (contemporary). Boards rubbed and worn at edges. Joints starting to crack. Text block browned. A few corner creases to contents. Some age browning to contents.

INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE
No author listed.
Stock no. 618640
Published by Manchester University Press. 1st 1954. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A study of their relationship based on a survey of firms in the Greater Manchester area carried out by the Manchester Joint Research Council 1950-1953. Dark red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. viii and 188 pages including Appendix. Text block browned. '3576' written in light red pencil to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded to spine and a little grubby/scuffed.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: A VIEW FROM WITHIN
Written by Stephen Smith.
Stock no. 986896
Published by Elliot Stock. Circa 1902. Almost very good condition.

Third edition - enlarged. A book about Vivisection and experiments on animals. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages: 81-99 are a brochure for the London Anti-Vivisection Society. 8 coloured plates of operations performed by the author on dead animals - repetitions of what he had seen done on living animals. ix and 99 pages. Covers mottled, and browned to spine. Browning to text block and endpaper. Front joint pulled between front endpaper and half-title page. First plate almost detached. Contents clean.

LES LIMITES DU CONNAISSABLES
Written by Felix Le Dantec.
Stock no. 988722
Published by Felix Alcan. 1st 1903. Good condition.

Green paperwraps. Text in French. La Vie Et Les Phenomenes Naturels. (The Limits of the Knowable: Life and Natural Phenomena) 237 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Ex-lib with a few scattered stamps to contents. Spine browned with small tear at top. Vertical edge of rear cover has a small crease and tear. Pencil markings to front cover. Front joint broken. Text block and endpapers browned. Hinges pulled, top edges unopened. A few scattered foxspots. A working copy only.

THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTISTS: ENGINEERS AND INVENTORS
Written by David Abbott.
Stock no. 557778
Published by Blond Educational. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. 189 pages. ISBN: 0584700040. Ex-lib with usual markings to prelims and covers, contents clean.

A CENTURY OF TECHNOLOGY 1851-1951
Written by Percy Dunsheath.
Stock no. 557848
Published by Hutchinson's Scientific And Technical Publications. 1st 1951. Almost very good condition.

Edited by Dunsheath. Covering everything from iron and steel, chemicals, agriculture, telecommunications etc. Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. 346 pages, including index. Ex-lib with library mark to base of spine partially erased and the normal stamps etc to the contents. Pale page browning else contents clean.

LOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS
Written by Robert S. Cohen; Marx W. Wartofsky.
Stock no. 989087
Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1st 1974. Almost very good condition.

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol XIII. A collection of articles on philosophical issues in contemporary physics. The principal domain of these investigations is quantum physics. Blue cloth. viii and 462 pages. ISBN: 9027703914. Ex-lib, with usual markings, else contents very good. Text block lightly browned.

SCIENCE AND ABSOLUTE VALUES
No author listed.
Stock no. 989056
Published by The International Cultural Foundation Inc.. 1st 1974. Almost very good condition.

The Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences. 2 Volumes. Original green cloth binding. Pages: xxxii, 1453. ISBN: 0892260017. Ex-lib, stamps and labels to prelims. Text blocks browned. Contents clean.

LESSONS ON RINGS, MODULES AND MULTIPLICITIES
Written by D.G. Northcott.
Stock no. 989204
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1968. Slightly better than good condition.

Blue cloth. 444 pages. ISBN: 0521071518. Book: Ex-lib, stamps to prelims, else contents very good. Rear joint broken.

FORMAL METHODS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF EMPIRICAL SCIENCES
Written by Marian Przelecki; Klemens Szaniawski; Rysard Wojcicki.
Stock no. 989082
Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1st 1976. Almost very good condition.

Proceedings of the Conference for Formal Methods in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences, Warsaw, June 17-21, 1974. Edited by Przelecki, Szaniawski and Wojcicki. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. 457 pages. ISBN: 9027706980. Ex-lib, stamps & usual markings to prelims and text block, else contents very good.