The Sciences

London: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.First edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records.

London: Seeley & Co.. 1884.Second edition. 8vo. 217x185mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. With illustrations by the author. Original illustrated limp vellum covered card. Vellum worn, particularly at the spine where there is some loss, corners rubbed. Hinge with upper cover is cracked but holding. Otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book. Upper cover has an ownership inscription. This second edition, issued in the same year as the first, included a six page preface in which a fictional interlocutor addressed, on behalf of Abbott/A Square two of the criticisms aimed at this strange book.

London: T. Dolby. 1821.First edition. 225x145mm. pp. viii, 7 [1bl], 8, 271, [3]. Frontispiece portrait and five further etched portrait plates. Uncut in the original boards. Tan morocco spine. Rubbing and wear to spine, edges and corners with some loss to head and foot of spine. Upper joint is split but holding. Leaf 2L has a closed tear without loss. Although a little delicate, it is in very good condition overall and is a rare book institutionally, Library Hub recording only six copies in the UK and comparatively scarce commercially.

London: Printed for the author.. 1734.First edition. Large quarto. 240x182mm. pp. [20], xxii, 359 [3]. Although the pagination jumps from 198-203, this is a printer's error as the book collates complete and the catchwords are correct. Additional leaves Hh2 and Uu2 have also been bound in alongside the correct ones. Five engraved plates, of which four are folding. Contemporary reverse sheep with borders ruled in blind. Five raised bands, black morocco label in second compartment. Wear to spine and corners with some loss to spine. Repair to head and foot of spine.

London: Seeley and Co. Limited.. 1911.First edition. 8vo. 192x130mm. pp. xxiii [ibl], 25-328 [1]; adverts[8], 16. Sixteen plates and maps. Original navy blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Head and foot of spine bumped and some rubbing to extremities and marking to the boards. Leaves N6 and 7 have a small tear to upper right corner with loss but this does not affect the text.

Praze [Prague]: Fr. Borový, 1923.First and only edition of the Czech translation of Einstein's Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie first published in German in 1916 with the English translation appearing in 1920. It was intended by Einstein as a brief, popular introduction to his theory of relativity. This Czech edition has a special preface by Einstein written for this translation. Einstein worked in Prague for seventeen months in 1911-12 and retained a fondness for the city. 8vo. 210x135mmpp. 103 [2,1bl]. Original Blue card wrappers with striking design.

n.p. . n.d. [c1970].Two volumes. 254x202mm. pp. 7 [1bl], 42. 6 illustrations; 47 [1bl], 9 illustrations. Typed pages stapled at left edge with green card covers on the first volume and orange on the second. Some marks and toning on the covers and four of the leaves have been repaired with coloured tape at the edges. An utterly bizarre (and unrecorded) home-made production of which we have been unable to find another copy. At first sight, on encountering the photocopied illustrations, this would appear to be a fantasy work for rubber fetishists.

London: Basic English Publishing. n.d..Second issue published by Basic English Publishing and with the original price of 2/6 overstamped with 3/6. Number 83 in the Psyche Miniatures General Series. 150x100mm. pp. 117, [2]. With the folding table of "Basic English" bound before the title page. Original red cloth backed boards. Printed paper label to spine. Slight scuffing to spine and some marking and soiling to covers. Browning to half title but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. A very good copy of the undated reissue published by C.K.Ogden's Basic English Publishing.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1926.Third edition. 8vo. 217x175mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. Original wrappers, some slight wear to extremities but otherwise in very good condition throughout and internally excellent. Protected by a transparent plastic cover. The first two editions of Flatland appeared in quick succession in 1884 but the book then fell out of print. Blackwell issued this third edition forty two years later. Textually it is has a few revisions from the second edition but its appearance is almost exactly the same as the earlier ones.

Cambridge: Printed for The Author, and sold there by Cornelius Crownfield. 1738.First edition. Two volumes. 252x194mm. pp. [6], vi, [8], 280; [2], 281-455, [1bl], 171, [13]. With the final errata, advertisement and instructions to the binder leaves and a total of 83 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, morocco label lettered in gilt. Front pastedowns have the bookplates of Belton House and of The Right Hon John Lord Brownlowe whose seat Belton was. Rubbing and some wear to extremities, corners bumped. Head and foot of spines bumped and torn.

London: Printed by S.R., and are to be sold by Edward Gough. 1682.First edition. 8vo. 173x110mm. pp.[16], 78, [2]. With a separate title page for "A remembrance of the worthy show and shooting by he Duke of Shoreditch, and his associaties ... By W.M." (p. [33]-71). Contains the scarce Postscript which was missing from three of the six copies appearing in the auction records since 1975. Contemporary brick red morocco with double fillet border and gilt panel of double fillet and roll-tool decoration with inner and outer corner pieces to upper and lower covers.

Amsterdam: n.p.. [1964].Paper scroll (2760x430mm) with a facsimile (translated into English) of Huges's manifesto, written while in prison, for an expanded consciousness achieved through the control of blood to the brain. which gives the work its alternative name: The Mechanism of BrainBloodVolume (BBV). The original manuscript of Homo Sapiens Correctus was written in Dutch in 1962. In 1964, a facsimile was issued in both Dutch and in an English translation.

New York: The Publishers' Printing Company. 1901.First edition. 175x120mm. pp. xviii, 138. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover. Some marking and soiling to boards, rubbing to edges and slight fraying to head and foot of spine. Internally very good and overall a nice copy of a book which is rare in commerce, no copies appearing in the auction records. Eleanor Kirk (1831-1908) was an extraordinary woman who wrote curious books.

London: Printed for J.M.Richardson. 1808.Second edition. 8vo in 4s. pp. iv, 179 [1bl]. Uncut in the original blue wrappers, large section of the spine is missing but original label is present. Heavily foxed. Inscribed in black ink on the front wrapper: "The Honble. Rufus King with Mr Alexr Baring's Compliments". This work, in which Alexander Baring makes the case for a liberalising of British trade policy towards the United States, was popular and influential, running to three editions in 1808 alone.

Two round white cotton mats with silk fringes (190mm in diameter). In the centre of each mat is a drawing. The first shows a simian, heavily bearded man carrying a large folio volume under his arm and removing his top hat. The frame around the image is in the form of a heraldic garter on which is written "A specimen of the Darwinian race". The other mat has a drawing of a naval officer (in contemporary tail-coat) standing in front of a shaving mirror brandishing a cut-throat razor. Written on the garter is "A native trimming his beard".

London: Scott, Greenwood and Son. 1918.Two volumes. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Large 8vo, 248x154mm. pp. xi [i], 521, [3]; [viii], 344. Original green cloth, lettered in black. Bumping to head and foot of spines with some very small tears. Some slight marking in places and rubbing to joints. Internally very good but with some slight loosening to the hinges in volume two. This second volume has the signature of "O.

Paris and Nancy: Berger-Levrault & Libraires-Éditeurs. 1915.First (and apparently only) edition. 8vo. 185x118mm. pp. xii, 207 [1bl]. In original printed grey wrappers and housed in a marbled paper covered slipcase. Most of the gatherings are unopened although there is a tear to the final leaf where is has been opened. Small chip to foot of the spine and a crease to bottom edge of lower cover. Spine somewhat browned but overall a very good copy of a rare book, seemingly untraceable in commerce.

London: John Murray. 1844.First edition. Small 8vo. 167x105mm. pp. [4], xviii, 511, [1 adverts]. With engraved frontispiece, engraved half-title, and engraved illustrations and plans in the text. Bound by Remnant and Edmonds (ticket on rear pastedown) in green cloth, borders and spine decorated in blind, centre of upper cover illustrated in gilt with a farmhouse and animals. Corners bumped and worn, spine faded and bumped to head and foot and a (30mm) surface tear to the cloth at joint with upper cover. Minor marks to baords in place. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of James Hunter of Hafton.

London: Printed by W. and J. Stratford. 1790.First edition. 8vo. 200x130mm. pp. [4], 44. Plus three leaves of waxed blue card on which were mounted samples of tin foil from Banca (an island off Sumatra) and Cornwall. These samples have since oxidised to dust, leaving residues. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked to style, original metal clasps, marbled endpapers. Contemporary book label of George Croker Fox, a shipping agent and merchant from Falmouth whose father (of the same name) founded the family firm of G.C.Fox.

London: Batsford. 1906.First edition. 4to. xii, 281pp, frontispiece and illustrations and plans throughout text with an old label to the front pastedown. Original red cloth with blind-stamped bands and gilt titles to upper board. gilt bands and titles to spine (An old water stain to the top of the upper board and some light shelfwear). Original dust-jacket (wear to edges with some small closed tears to bottom edge and a shallow missing section to the very top quarter-inch of the rear). In very good condition.

Lausanne & Geneva Marci-Michaelis Bousquet. 1742.Two volumes. First edition. 8vo. 167x100mm. pp. xxx, 466; [2], 1-432, 443-499, [2, 1bl]. Title page of volume one printed in black and red. Collates complete despite the pagination. 44 folding plates with an extensive array of diagrams. Eighteenth century calf with double fillet borders to the covers. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, morocco labels lettered in gilt. All edges red. Some slight rubbing and fading to spines.

Coloniæ Agrippinæ [Cologne] Apud Ioducum Kalcovium [Jost Kalkhoven]. 1645.First edition. 8vo. 188x122mm. pp. [8], 239 [1bl]. Attractively bound in eighteenth century mottled calf, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with a floral motif, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Edges of boards, tooled in gilt, all edges red. Internally there is some browning and foxing but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Macclesfield Library. Allatius (1586-1669) was a Greek scientist, theologian and keeper of the Vatican Library.

Norwich: Printed and sold by Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson. 1808.First edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. [12], 117, [1bl], [7, 1bl], 4pp advertisements of books on farming tipped in. Original blue-grey boards, backed with white paper, original orange label to spine. Spine cracked and worn with loss of c45mm to lower part of spine and loss to label. Corners bumped and some soiling to the boards. Internally very good but with some foxing. Overall an excellent uncut copy in the original boards. A rare book, Worldcat locates eight copies worldwide and only one appears in the auction records.