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A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, and the United States
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartG. M. Mowbray
London: J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1847.Formulas and preparations interleaved with manuscript notes and formulas of EJ Merrifield, with his signature dated 1850.
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Symposium on Monsoons of the World
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartInternational Union of Geodesy and Geophysics; et al.
New Delhi: HIND Union Press, 1960.Held at Meteorological Office, New Delhi, 19-21 February 1958. Under the auspices of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, World Meteorological Organisation, International Association for Meterology and Atmospheric Physics and the Government of India
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Craftsmen of the Australian Army: The Story of RAEME
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartTheo Barker
Bathurst: Crawford House Press, 1992.History of the Corps of Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
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Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Gulick
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905.Human evolutionary theory by Hawaiian naturalist, missionary, and snail collector John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923). The three colour plates showing numerous shells.
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Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartMorris Llewellyn Cooke
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.On city management based on the author’s time as Director of Public Works for the City of Philadelphia.
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The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Dawson
Norwich: J. Dawson, No date.Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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Bioluminescence in Focus: A Collection of Illuminating Essays
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Benno Meyer-Rochow
Trivandrum: Research Signpost, 2009. -
Drosophila melanogaster: Practical Uses in Cell and Molecular Biology
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartLawrence S. B. Goldstein; Eric A. Fyrberg
San Diego: Academic Press, 1994. -
Drosophila Protocols
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Sullivan; Michael Ashburner; R. Scott Hawley
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2000. -
Engineering The Outback: A History of the Western Queensland Consulting Engineers, George Bourne & Associates
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Forrest; Sheila Forrest
Barcaldine: George Bourne and Associates, 2006. -
Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
AU$8,000 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward L. Youmans
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856.Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest Views of the Subjects Illustrated. Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887) was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer, and founder of Popular Science magazine. Youmans’ Chemical Atlas is one of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization, with striking colour plates both conveying information and capturing the imagination, and was featured in the William Reese exhibition Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: “This chemistry textbook was a pioneering publication in the use of color to convey quantitative information”. There are recorded printings each year between 1854 and 1857. This 1856 edition being the third year of printing and from the collection of the renowned neurologist, author, and educator Dr. Oliver Sacks, with his bookplate laid in.
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Integrated Design of Water Treatment Facilities
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSusumu Kawamura
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.Includes: Management of a Design Project, Preliminary Studies, Design of Basic Treatment Process Units, Subordinate Plant Facilities, Design of Plant Components, Elements of Detailed Design, Specific Water Treatment Processes, Management of Procurement and Construction Phases, Operations and Maintenance Manual and Operator Training, and Plant Start-up and Follow-up Services.
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Miscellaneous Observations Connected with the Physical Sciences
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartEmanuel Swedenborg; Charles Edward Strutt
Bryn Athyn: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1976.Translated from the Latin by Charles Edward Strutt. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772) was a Swedish mystic, theologian, philosopher, and scientist. After a successful career as a scientist and inventor, at the age of 53 he had a revelation that Jesus had chosen him to write ‘The Heavenly Doctrine’ to reform Christianity. He published 18 theological works before his death which he predicted. His writings have been very influential around the world, with The New Church or Swedenborgism being founded in 1787. It is still present around Australia.
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Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartVarnum Door Engine Company
Los Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
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Some Telephone Suggestions
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartSouthern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date.1930s instruction booklet for conducting polite business communication on the telephone. “To have persons habitually look forward to a pleasant experience when they deal with your business is one of the greatest assets your firm can have. There are ways by which your staff’s use of the telephone can have a big effect in creating such an attitude. ” (from wrapper) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Gardner Gears Spare Parts Catalogue and Servicing and Maintenance Instructions (2 Volumes)
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartGardner Engines
Manchester: Gardner Engines, No date.1: Servicing and Maintenance Instructions for the Gardner No. 3 Unit Construction Reverse Gear Type 2 And Reversing-Reducing Gear Type 3. Instruction Book No. 46-4. With updates pasted in.; 2: Spare Parts Catalogue for the 3UC Unit Construction Reversing Gear (Direct Drive) & Unit Construction Reversing-Reducing Gear.
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Lot of 10 Odd Issues of A Printer’s Progress
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Setek
Gold Coast: Hand Press / Utility Press, 1988-1991.The product of an amateur experimental printer, at first working as the Hand Press, later the Utility Press. These issues of A Printer’s Progress vary from individual sheets and cards to folded sheets and stapled booklets. All relate to printing and its history. An out of sequence run, full list of numbers: 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19, 21, 24, 25, and 26.
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Distillation et Rectification des Liquides Industriels
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Mariller
Paris: Dunod, 1925.Distillation and Rectification of Industrial Liquids including alcohols, benzols, oils, ethers, chemicals, air and liquid gases, recovery of solvents.