Science And Medicine from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Essex: 5M Books Ltd 2024. 8vo. xii, 348 pp. Illustrated softcover with photographic paste-downs. 'How has it come to this point in history that we hardly value the food we eat and the soil that it's grown in?' This book addresses the ecological costs of industrial farming: how it has impacted animals, the environment, farmers and the way we eat.… Read more about this item

London: Tavistock Publications 1971. 8vo. First edition. [vii], 133 pp. Cloth in unclipped jacket, both in near fine condition - there is some yellowing to front endpapers. Clean copy. 0422738700 . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 1971.

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and W. Ruddimans 1734. 8vo. First Edition. xii, 276 pp. Contemporary full calf with raised bands, red title label and gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and minor wear to extremities. Ink ownership mark at prelims and light and infrequent foxing, though overall quite clean. 18 cms tall, 12 cms wide, though technically a… Read more about this item

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press ca. 1920. 12mo. 524 pp. Full maroon leather with gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge gilt. With frontis portrait and an engraved title page. Spine faded with some creasing to the leather and light rubbing to the edges. Some spotting to the contents pages and extremities. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1920.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1912. Tall 8vo. xi, 340 pp. Green calf prize binding by Howell of Liverpool. Emblem of Liverpool Collegiate School to front board with gilt ruling, floral devices and an embossed decorative border. Raised bands, gilt decorative tooled design and red title label with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bookplate of award to front pastedown from… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001. 8vo. x, 201 pp. Black hardback in pictorial jacket. Small dent to tail of spine end and some creasing to top edge of jacket. Internally as new. A bold corrective to scientism in the modern world - the exaggerated conception of what science can do for us. John Dupre is a Professor of Philosophy of Science… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin Books Ltd 1971. 12mo. 317 pp. Paperback. Fading and creasing to spine, with minor rubbing to covers. Internally clean. Introduction by Lord Shackleton and a preface by Julian Huxley. Carson's great challenging work on insecticides and environmental protection. . Good. Paperback. Reprint. 1971.

London: John Harris 1835. Small Square 8vo. frontis., [4], 252 pp. Leather spine over cloth board, with gilt lettering to spine. Some wear to extremities, including loss at top of spine. Light scattered foxing and ink ownership mark to ffep. Includes a number of engraved plates of various machines and structures. 14 cms tall. . Good. Leather Spine. 1835.

London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1850. Small 8vo. xii, 305 pp. Hand coloured folding map frontis, and chart at rear, with wood engravings throughout. Cloth with blind stamped decoration to boards and gilt lettering to spine. Wear and bumping to extremities, particularly at spine, which has darkened. Light marking to binding. Folding pages have wear to fore-edges. Pencil… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson 1804. 8vo. First UK edition, following the first edition published in the United States in 1803. xii, [ii], 344, 35, plates. 30 hand-coloured plates, including frontis. Contemporary binding of half morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and wear, bumping to corners. Offsetting to ffep. from previous owner's bookplate. Occasional light foxing… Read more about this item

London: Watts & Co. 1945. 12mo. viii, 434, [4 ads] pp. Red hardback. Some discolouration to edges of board and spine, dent to top spine end and minor wear to extremities. Some spotting to top edge and very occasionally inside but otherwise a clean copy. A nice pocket edition of Darwin's classic text on evolution, with a glossary and index… Read more about this item

Oxford: Old Ashmolean Reprints 1930. 8vo. [iii], viii, 50 pp. Green cloth in a pictorial jacket. Chipping to jacket extremities. Boards clean, light spotting to fore-edge and prelims but otherwise internally clean. A facsimile of a work originally published in 1661 about the air pollution in London, still considered a milestone in the science. . Very Good. Cloth. 1930.

New York: Stonehill Publishing Company 1978. 4to. Second printing. xv, 417 pp. Colour illustrated paper covers. A few slight dents around covers, but generally externally clean. Clean and bright inside. Extensively illustrated with black & white photographs, cartoons, taxonomical pictures, etc., and several colour illustrations as well. A thoroughgoing book on all things drugs, documenting their social history, chemistry, effects,… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1883. 8vo. xiii, 1005 pp. Full brown calf prize binding with raised bands, brown title label, gilt lettering and decorations to spine and gilt borders and device to boards; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Rubbing to extremities, and marks to boards and spine. Light spotting throughout. Black & white illustrations and diagrams throughout, colour frontispiece… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press 1952. 8vo. First edition thus. 80 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustjacket. Some minor wear to edges of jacket. Ink ownership inscription to first free endpaper, but otherwise in lovely clean condition. . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 1952.

London: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd 1933. Small 4to. xx, 498 pp. Hardcover with bevelled edges, gilt portrait to board and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Blue page ribbon. Boards have patches of light wear, though they are clean. Sunning to spine. Gilt bright. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise internally clean. High quality paper. A comprehensive biography of… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent and Co. 1908. 12mo.Prize Binding. ix, 243 pp. Half red-brown calf with gilt school crest to front board, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Francis Holland School for Girls prize binding, bound by Truslove & Hanson; bookplate to front pastedown. Slight wear and scratches to edges and joints. Spots to… Read more about this item

Brighton: Published by the Author [1938]. 8vo. xxii, 464 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to boards and spine. Rubbing to extremities, slight fading to spine and gilt, with a few minor marks. Offsetting and spots to first and last few pages, but otherwise internally clean. Black & white illustrations. A guide to phrenology, the idea - discredited as a… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1933. 8vo. Presentation copy. First Edition. xxiii, 559 pp. Half brown calf with raised bands, brown and black title labels, gilt lettering and decor to spine; top edge marbled. Wear, scratches and marks to extremitiesand spine; slight splitting to head of front joint. Ink names to ffep., spots to prelims and endpapers, otherwise internally clean.… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman 1836. 8vo. 2 volumes. First Editions. xii, 508; vii, 420 pp. Full brown calf with raised bands and black title labels to spine, and gilt and blind-stamped borders, decor and lettering to boards and spine; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Marks to boards and spine, slight damage to title labels and wear… Read more about this item