Science – 8 books

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British Pharmacopoeia. 1867.

General Council of Medical Education and Registration.
Spottiwoode, London 1867.
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xxiv,434p. 24p, 1874 'Additions to he British Pharmacopoeia of 1867' loosely enclosed, Old half calf, corners rubbed and 1 cm. snag in headband. Leather label on spine. Includes an addenda to the first printing pursuant to the Medical Act. 1858, in 1864.

Price: $125
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order number: 19973




The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury: A survey of the first hundred years.

MALING, P.B.
Royal Society of New Zealand, Christchurch 1962.
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7p, 9 portraits. Wrappers. Rubber stamp on front wrapper and title.

Price: $15
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order number: 11437




Annual reports 1876/7, 1879/80, 1881/2, 1883/4, 1884/5, 1886/7, 1887/8, 1893.

New Zealand Institute.
Government Printer, Wellington 1867-1893.
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8 foolscap reports. Some foxing and chips to margins.

Price: $12
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order number: 11489




A view of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy.

PEMBERTON, Henry (Isaac Newton).
For S. Palmer, London 1728.
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(25)407p 4to, title vignette, 12 folding plates of physics and astronomy. With decorative head and tail pieces, and decorated initial letters. Full calf binding worn and hinges splitting, strengthened with new end papers. Inclosures. Pemberton was an associate of Newton (1642-1727) and supervised the printing of the third edition of Principia. He wrote this simplified and illustrated version for the wider use of the general public, and is said to have read part of the work to Newton when he was dying. A poem of Sir Isaac Newton by R. Glover occupies 15p following the preface.

Price: $950
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order number: 20324




Oryctocephalidae (Trilobita: Middle Cambrian) of Australia.

SHERGOLD, J.H.
Bull 104, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra 1969.
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66p, 12 plates, and 18 figures. Cloth bound. Upper corner lightly bumped.

Price: $30
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order number: 11481




Report of the committee appointed by the British Government ... for the observation of the Transit of Venus, 1882, December 6.

STOKES, G.G. et al.
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1887.
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88p foolscap, tables. Cloth backed limp boards worn, corners chipped. Stations were occupied at Jamaica, Barbados, Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, New Zealand (Wellington, Burnham and Nelson), and Brisbane.

Price: $45
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order number: 11442




The miracle of the Ahuriri Lagoon. The earthquakes gift; story of its reclamation and development.

TAYLOR, Thomas David.
Blundell Bros, Wellington 1940.
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12p. Wrappers, spine worn. The Napier earthquake of 1931.

Price: $20
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order number: 11270




Contribution to the petrography of Benguella based on a rock collection made by Professor J.W. Gregory.

TYRRELL, G.W.
Trans. Royal Society of Edinburgh 50(2), Edinburgh 1916.
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pp537-559 4to, plate. Front wrapper detached, torn and ragged. Corners of paper dog-eared.

Price: $25
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order number: 15032




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