Search Results: Science from Mike Park Ltd

Antalya: The Turkish Society of Toxicology, 2000. Octavo, pp 306, front hinge slightly strained, otherwise a very clean copy, paperback.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London, 1969. THE TIMES SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT - THE COLOUR OF SPACE. A four page record of the Apollo 8 flight round the moon. Monday January 6th, 1969. Large folio, folded three times, very browned, a little worn at the joints and folds. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced]. First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1936. Illustrated with six photographic plates, slim quarto, pp (16), paperback, a tear and crease to the lower cover, otherwise a fine copy, virtually as new. [The John Murray Expedition of 1933-1934 ‘pioneered bilateral relations in the field of oceanography, at a time when the Law of the Sea was not even an embryonic concept’ (Aleem & Morcos, 1984). Funded by a £20,000 bequest from oceanographer, John Murray, this expedition was a collaboration between Britain and Egypt. Aboard HEMS Mabahiss, British zoologist Lt. Col. Dr R.B. Seymour Sewell led a team of scientists to research the oceanography, geology, and mineralogy of the Red Sea and the Indian and Arabian Oceans. The trip took nine months and eleven volumes of data collected were published from 1935 to 1970.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Princeton University Press, 1974. Small octavo, pp x, 307, paperback, a very good copy. [From the library of Sir John Burnett, with his signature on the front endpaper. A distinguished academic career and a lifelong interest in fungi, botany and nature conservation made him the ideal champion for biological recording in the UK. He held that effective nature conservation could be achieved only if good quality information about species and their habitats was accessible to all who needed it - a belief that made him perfectly suited to run the National Biodiversity Network, founded in 2000. He was convinced that academics with high administrative posts must continue with some personal research, in his case on the myxomycetes.]]. Paperback. Very Good.

London & New York: Logos Press. Academic Press., 1964. Large 8vo, pp 360, fore-edge slightly marked, black buckram very slightly marked & worn. [a modern treatment of the mechanisms of compensatory growth in animals].

New York: Mikaya Press, 1998. Well illustrated, small slim quarto, pp 64, paperback, the slightest signs of use, but a very good copy. [On July 4, 1997, The Mars Pathfinder lander, cocooned in an ungainly mass of airbags, was dropped from a parachute 40 feet above Mars. It slammed to the surface, kicked up the red Martian dust, bounced along like a giant beach ball and rolled to a stop. Pathfinder's three solar panel "petals" unfolded. Nestled inside was Sojourner, a one foot high, remote control vehicle that looked like something you might find under a Christmas tree. The world had a new hero. The Mars mission was a genuine phenomenon. In a one month period, there were over a half billion hits on the mission's web site, breaking all records by hundreds of millions of hits. The most watched, most talked about space flight since men had landed on the Moon, it was also the most unlikely. In The Adventures of Sojourner, Susi Trautmann Wunsch tells the entire story: from the small team… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xiv, 234, extremely clean internally, grey cloth with a suggestion of fading to the margins otherwise very good, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is just very slightly worn.. First British edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: J. & A. Churchill, 1911. Fourth edition, entirely rewritten. Large 8vo, pp x, 520, very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean and sound internally, red cloth slightly rubbed and worn, spine faded and slightly marked, with the attractive library label of The Research Association of British Paint Colour & Varnish Manufacturers, but no other library markings.. Cloth. Good.

London & New York: Elsevier Applied Science, 1988. Proceedings of the International Conference held at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Large 8vo, pp x, 249, cloth faded and a little marked and worn, an ex-library copy with remains of a label and an erasure on the front endpaper, small label on upper cover, stamp on verso of title page. VERY SCARCE. [Septic tanks, biomass production, soil treatment, composting technology, anaerobic systems.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd, 1983. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 310, very clean internally, pperback, the covers very slightly worn. [Dr Peter Moore's copy with his label on the front cover. . First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1889. Illustrated with many wood engravings throughout, (five of which have been neatly partially coloured by a previous owner), and with two folding coloured litho plates at the rear, (one plates is almost detached), octavo, pp xvi, 449, very clean internally, stoutly bound in a simple unsophisticated black leather. With the signature stamp of the marine biologist Dr Ivor Griffiths on the half-title and title page. [Translations of Foreign Biological memoirs Volume II].. First English edition. Full Leather. Very Good.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner & Co Ltd, 1905. Fifth edition, small 8vo, pp viii, 378, exceptionally clean and sound internally, red cloth with very slight age-marking, but really a very good copy overall.. Cloth. Very Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1995. Quarto, illustrated with maps and charts, pp xviii, 213, very clean internally, pictorial cloth in very good condition. SCARCE. [Dr Peter Moore's copy, with his small label on the front endpaper.] {As Climate Changes: International Impacts and Implications is the most comprehensive study to date examining potential global effects of climate change. The project, which was funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, involved over 150 scientists from around the world. Common climate change scenarios were used to examine impacts on agriculture, water resources, coastal resources, forests and human health. The studies focused on impacts of climate change on developing countries around the world, and included an integrated case study of Egypt. In addition, the agriculture and forests studies also examined global effects. The studies found that developing countries may be more vulnerable to climate change because some impacts may be more negative on these… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1961. Octavo, not illustrated, pp 236, green cloth, an exceptionally clean copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper which is slightly rubbed and marked.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn.

Bath: Adams & Dart, 1970. Frontispiece, octavo, pp 159, very clean internally, grey cloth faded at the spine, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is just slightly worn and faded.. First Edition thus. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and faded.

London: Geographical Society, 1932. Illustrated, pp (31), a coloured folding map, slightly used internally with slightly folded corners, paperback, covers slightly marked and creased. From the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his signature on the upper cover and his stamps on both covers. RARE. [Reprinted from The Geographical Journal, Volume LXXX number 2.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Melbourne and London: Hill House Publishers, 1990. Limited edition of 500 copies only. Illustrated, folio, pp 112, green cloth, a very good copy. The first trade edition, without the brochure of other illustrations. [Comprises two major essays - "Sir Joseph Banks as the Father of Australia", and "Captain Cook's Second Voyage and His Chart of the Southern Hemisphere", together with two appendices - "Franz Andreas Bauer" and "The Banks Copper Engraving of the Great Pacific Ocean". With two portaits of Banks, two botanical plates (by L'Heritier and Franz Bauer), 10 plates of charts or maps, and seven other plates.]. First Edition. Cloth. As New.

Leverkusen: Farbenfabriken Bayer, 1959. Thick 12mo, pp 464, a very clean copy internally, bound in soft plastic covers (70% Mesamoll and 30% Ultramoll !!), a very good copy.. Second edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Liverpool & London: James Beadel & Co. Ltd A trade catalogue, not paginated, ringbound in black faux leather soft covers. Tabbed dividers separate the following sections : Beckosols, Super Beckacites, Easter Gums Coumarones, Beckamines, Formulating and Reference. A little worn throughout, a few handwritten notes.. Faux-leather ringbound. Good.

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. Illustrated with a few black-and-white photos, 8vo, pp xvi, 377, navy cloth with gilt titles on spine, fine copy in similar dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine.