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THE GEOMETRY OF DETERMINANTAL LOCI
Written by T.G. Room.
Stock no. 1811329
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The book contains 3 parts. Part I - Looks at Manifolds Defined by Matrices of General Form; Part II: Manifolds Defined by Matrices of Special Forms; Part III: Determinantal Quartic Primals In Space of Four Dimensions. Boards lightly mottled at edges. Text block a little grubby. 1.5cm x 6.5cm cut from top of front endppaer. Minor foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Boards slightly bowed.

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THE PARTICLE PLAY: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER
Written by J.C. Polkinghorne.
Stock no. 2119117
Published by W.H. Freeman and Company. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Written for the layman. It unfolds a tale which starts with the deceptively simple days of the early 1930s, through the tide of discovery which flowed from the giant machines constructed for accelerating particles, to the present concern with the quark structure of matter and the unification of fundamental interactions. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 138 pages including index. ISBN: 071671177X. A very nice copy with dustwrapper.

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OUR VILLAGE
Written by Mary Russell Mitford. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson; Alfred Rawlings.
Stock no. 2119098
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1910. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth, gilt titles and gilt shepherd vignette to front cover. 16 tipped-in colour plates by Rawlings. Numerous b/w illustrations by Thomson. Top edge gilt. Covers are unevenly browned. A few chips and nicks at cloth; with a little fraying in places. Plate to opposite page 27 is MISSING (mounting card and tissue-guard are still present, but plate no longer there). Some foxing and page browning.

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MOTHER GOOSE
No author listed. Illustrated by Laura Larcombe.
Stock no. 2119085
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. Circa 1918. Good condition.

A Dean's Rag Book. Colour illustrations and quite large print. Front cover is pretty faded. Some creasing. Brown marks/spotting/mottling to all pages. Odd fray of cloth at edges.

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SUCH FUN
Written by Norman Gale; Grace C. Floyd; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 2119056
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine with black title. Father Tuck's 'Children's Own' Library. Colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations by Wain throughout - all pussy cats! Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Scuffing and chipping along cover edges. Front board is a little bowed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and grubby marks, mostly to endpapers and page margins.

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FAIRY STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 2119054
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. The 'Attwell Kiddies' Story Book. Beautiful mounted colour plate to front cover and colour frontispiece. Two-tone illustrations. Contains very short versions of 'Robinson Crusoe'; 'Aladdin'; Jack the Giant-Killer' and 'Tom Thumb'. A thin booklet style item. Some creasing to covers; a few marks. Foxing/browning to some pages.

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THE GEOMETRY OF DETERMINANTAL LOCI
Written by T.G. Room.
Stock no. 2119041
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1938. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The book contains 3 parts. Part I - Looks at Manifolds Defined by Matrices of General Form; Part II: Manifolds Defined by Matrices of Special Forms; Part III: Determinantal Quartic Primals In Space of Four Dimensions. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine is browned. Some marks and scuffing to covers. Light page browning and some foxing.

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DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL FIGURES
Written by I. Pal. Illustrated by I. Pal.
Stock no. 2119039
Published by Hungarian Technical Publishers. 1962. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine. Many diagrams that will 'come to life' using the 3D glasses in pocket at rear of book. Foxing and marks to covers. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; a little surface paper lifting to front board. Page browning; a little foxing. 3D glasses are still present to pocket in rear.

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GEOMETRICAL INVESTIGATIONS ILLUSTRATING THE ART OF DISCOVERY IN THE MATHEMATICAL FIELD
Written by John Pottage; Stillman Drake.
Stock no. 2119037
Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Inc.. 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An age-old dialogue resumes when the author resurrects Galileo's characters Salviati, Sagredo and Simplicio to dramatize the often imperfect but ever creative world of mathematical thought. ISBN: 0201057336. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
Written by Charles Bullock.
Stock no. 1505210
Published by Home Words Publishing Office. Very good condition.

Sidelights of Home Life. Tenth Thousand edition. Green cloth covers with red vignette and gilt titles. Bevelled edges. B/w illustrations. 74 pages plus publication list. Spine bumped and worn, slight wear to corners. Spine and covers alongside are very browned. Covers slightly grubby. Front joint and a couple of hinges cracked. Contents clean but some light foxing.

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ATLANTIC THE WELL BELOVED ENGINE
Written by R.A.S. Hennessey.
Stock no. 2118979
Published by Tempus. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0752421433. SIGNED by author to title page. Some creasing to cover corners. A few marks to outer page edges.

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THEORY OF RECONSTRUCTION FROM IMAGE MOTION
Written by Stephen Maybank.
Stock no. 2118967
Published by Springer-Verlag. 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Springer Series in Information Sciences. This book presents the mathematics underlying the reconstruction of camera motion from the movements of points in the camera image. It describes recent work employing mathematical methods drawn from linear algebra, projective geometry, algebraic geometry, the theory of transversality and the theory of least-squares approximation. This book is a good starting point for anyone interested in the application of different mathematical techniques to the rapidly expanding field of computer vision, especially in the areas of vehicle guidance, robotics and remote sensing. ISBN: 0387555374. Light wear to corners. Foxing to outer page edges.

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