Science & Ideas

Scarce works in Science and Ideas. From botany and zoology to Darwinism, evolution, genetics and human biology to books on geology, evolutionary science, physics, medicine, astronomy, mathematics and technology.

Sotherans has a long tradition of dealing with fine science books stretching back to 1906, when work began on our Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica. This exhaustive bibliography, which was published between 1921 and 1952, remains an important resource.

 

862 items
  • SPEECHLY, William. Treatise on the Culture of the Pine Apple and the Management of the Hot-House. Together with a Description of Every Species of Insect that Infest Hot-Houses, with Effectual Methods of Destroying Them.
    £475.00
    £475.00
  • KENT, Adolphus H[enry]. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae. [[bmid:2114680]]
    £350.00
    £350.00
  • BLACKSTONE, John. Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield sponte nascentium. Cum appendice, ad loci historiam spectante. [[bmid:2121839a]]
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • PRATT, Anne. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns, of Great Britain, and their allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails. [[bmid:2122117f]]
    £600.00
    £600.00
  • SMITH, James Edward An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany. [[bmid:2122299c]]
    £400.00
    £400.00
  • WASSON, Valentina Pavlovna; R. Gordon WASSON. Mushrooms, Russia and History. [[bmid:2123906d]]
    £7,000.00
    £7,000.00
  • SAYERS, Brendan; Susan SEX ( illustrator ). Ireland's Wild Orchids. A Field Guide. [[bmid:2124357a]]
    £750.00
    £750.00
  • CLARKE, William A[mbrose]. First Records of British Flowering Plants.
    £200.00
    £200.00
  • LINNAEUS, Carl. Hortus Upsaliensis exhibens plantas exoticas horto Upsaliensis Academiae a sese illatas, ab anno 1742, in annum 1748, additis differentiis, synonymis, habitationibus hospitiis, rariorumque desciptionibus. In gratiam studiosae juventutis. [[bmid:2124906a]]
    £850.00
    £850.00
  • NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénomènes électriques: et sur les effets nuisibles ou avantageux qu’on peut en attendre. [[bmid:2124907b]]
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • BERTHOLON, Pierre. De l’électricité des végétaux. Ouvrage dans lequel on traite de l’électricité de l'atmosphère sur les plantes …
    £550.00
    £550.00
  • GLEADALL, Eliza Eve. The Beauties of Flora with Botanic and Poetic Illustrations: Being a Selection of Flowers Drawn from Nature, Arranged Emblematically, with Directions for Colouring Them. [[bmid:2124911c]]
    £4,500.00
    £4,500.00
  • WHITTOCK, Nathaniel. The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature; Flowers, Fruit, and Shells to which is Added, Correct Directions for Preparing the Most Brilliant colours for Painting on Velvet, with the Mode of Using Them; also, the New Method of Orie… [[bmid:2124912c]]
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00
  • MONTAGU, George Testacea Britannica, or, Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-Water, Including the Most Minute: Systematically Arranged and Embellished with Figures. Part I [–II]. [[bmid:2125048a]]
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00
  • ALBIN, Eleazar; W. DERHAM. A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: and (for Those who Desire it) exactly Coloured by the Author … [[bmid:2125138e]]
    £4,500.00
    £4,500.00
  • PERRY, George Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells: Containing a New Arrangement of the Genera and Species. Illustrated by Coloured Engravings, Executed from the Natural Specimens, and Including the Latest Discoveries. [[bmid:2125787b]]
    £5,500.00
    £5,500.00
  • DA COSTA, Emanuel Mendes. Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, The British Conchology: Containing the Descriptions and Other Particulars of Natural History of the Shells of Great Britain and Ireland: Illustrated with Figures, in English and in F… [[bmid:2125788a]]
    £1,300.00
    £1,300.00
  • JEFFREYS, John Gwyn. British Conchology, or an Account of the Mollusca which now Inhabit the British Isles and the Surrounding Seas.
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
  • WRIGHT, John; May RIVERS ( illustrator ). The Fruit Grower’s Guide …
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • GOSSE, Philip Henry. Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals.
    £700.00
    £700.00
  • POE, Edgar Allan. The Conchologist’s First Book: or, A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given with the Shells, a Great Number of New Species Added, and the Whole Br… [[bmid:2125973b]]
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    £800.00
  • SOWERBY, George Brettingham. A Conchological Manual. [[bmid:2125974b]]
    £350.00
    £350.00
  • COUCH, Jonathan. A History of the Fishes of the British Islands. [[bmid:2125975h]]
    £1,150.00
    £1,150.00
  • MAXIM, Sir Hiram S. Artificial and Natural Flight. [[bmid:2126002a]]
    £550.00
    £550.00
  • KENNEDY, John F.; Allan NEVINS ( editor ). The Strategy of Peace.
    £5,000.00
    £5,000.00
  • THEYS, Freddy. Rosa Tomentosa.
    £300.00
    £300.00
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    £200.00
    £200.00
  • BAKER, J.A. The Peregrine.
    £225.00
    £225.00
  • McWILLIAM, John Morell. Birds of the Firth of Clyde
    £650.00
    £650.00
  • SMITH, Albert [Richard]. The English Hotel Nuisance.
    £300.00
    £300.00
  • SACROBOSCO, Johannes de; Elie VINET. Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, emendata.
    £2,000.00
    £2,000.00
  • ELIOT, George. Felix Holt. The Radical. [[bmid:2113623]]
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00