Collection: 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.

 

283 items
  • PHILLIMORE, R.P. The Bass Rock: its history and romance. With numerous illustrations.
    The Bass Rock: its history and romance. With numerous illustrations
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    £100.00
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    £100.00
  • TIMBS, John. Doctors and Patients or anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine.
    Doctors and Patients or anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities …
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    £600.00
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    £600.00
  • BLACKSTONE, John. Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield sponte nascentium.
    Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield sponte nascentium
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    £800.00
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    £800.00
  • PULTENEY, Richard. Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England, from its origin to the introduction of the Linnaean system.
    Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England …
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    £550.00
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    £550.00
  • MIVART, St. George. On the Genesis of Species.
    On the Genesis of Species
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    £400.00
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    £400.00
  • ZUCKERMAN, Solly. The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes.
    The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes
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    £300.00
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    £300.00
  • DARWIN, Charles Robert. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
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    £8,000.00
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    £8,000.00
  • EINSTEIN, Albert. Relativity: The Special and The General Theory: A Popular Exposition.
    Relativity: The Special and The General Theory: A Popular Exposition
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    £2,500.00
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    £2,500.00
  • RUTHERFORD, Ernest. Radioactive Transformations.
    Radioactive Transformations
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    £1,000.00
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    £1,000.00
  • KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Either/Or.
    Either/Or
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    £600.00
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  • LANGER, Susanne K. An Introduction to Symbolic logic.
    An Introduction to Symbolic logic
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    £600.00
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  • GILBERT, William. De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata.
    GILBERT, William. De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata.
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    £40,000.00
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    £40,000.00
  • SMITH, James Edward. An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany.
    An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany
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    £400.00
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    £400.00
  • RAWSTORNE, Lawrence. Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game; and an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers, Explained and Illustrated.
    Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game; and an Improved Method …
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    £1,500.00
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    £1,500.00
  • WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne… A new edition; with notes, by Edward Turner Bennett, esq.
    The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne… A new edition; with …
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    £200.00
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  • PRATT, Anne. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns, of Great Britain, and their allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails.
    The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns, of Great Britain, and …
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    £600.00
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    £600.00
  • CARDANO, Girolamo. De subtilitate libri XXI. Nunc demum recogniti atq[ue] perfecti.
    De subtilitate libri XXI. Nunc demum recogniti atq[ue] perfecti
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  • DOLCE, Lodovico. Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e prima della dialettica.
    Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e prima della dialettica
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    £1,400.00
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    £1,400.00
  • RAMELLI, Agostino. Le diverse et artificiose machine … Nelle qualsi si contengono varij et industriosi Movimenti, degni digrandissima Speculatione, per cavarne beneficio….
    Le diverse et artificiose machine … Nelle qualsi si contengono varij et …
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    £24,000.00
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    £24,000.00
  • PERRIN, Mrs. I.S. [Henry]. British Flowering Plants; Illustrated by Three Hundred Full-Page Coloured Plates Reproduced from Drawings ... With Detailed Descriptive Notes and an I….
    British Flowering Plants; Illustrated by Three Hundred Full-Page Coloured Plates …
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    £500.00
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    £500.00
  • LYELL, Charles. The Geological Evidences of The Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation.
    The Geological Evidences of The Antiquity of Man with Remarks on …
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    £750.00
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    £750.00
  • PRITT, T.E. The Book of the Grayling: being a description of the fish, and the art of angling for him, as practised chiefly in the Midlands and the north of Engla….
    The Book of the Grayling: being a description of the fish …
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    £450.00
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    £450.00
  • HENNIX, Catherine Christer & Henry FLYNT (ed.). Modalities and Languages for Algorithms.
    Modalities and Languages for Algorithms
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    £2,000.00
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    £2,000.00
  • HENNIX, Catherine Christer. Notes on Toposes & Adjoints.
    Notes on Toposes & Adjoints
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    £3,500.00
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    £3,500.00
  • MANWOOD, John. A treatise of the lavves of the forest: vvherein is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of ….
    A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest: Wherein is declared …
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    £850.00
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    £850.00
  • WALCOTT, John. Descriptions and Figures of Petrifactions, found in the Quarries, Gravel-Pits, &c, near Bath.
    Descriptions and Figures of Petrifactions, found in the Quarries, Gravel-Pits …
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    £1,400.00
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    £1,400.00
  • [OPPENHEIMER, J. Robert]. UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Transcript of hearing before personnel security board.
    In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Transcript of hearing before …
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    £900.00
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    £900.00