Lot 200
Science & natural history
Collection of works, 18th-20th century
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
[Pennant, Thomas.] British Zoology. London: printed for Benjamin White, 1768-70. [Second edition], 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary calf (spines rebacked) [ESTC T148771];
[Nature]. Nature: a Weekly Journal of Science. London: Macmillan and Co. 4 volumes, 4to, ex-library copies, cloth bindings: Vol. 129 (1932) containing James Chadwick's letter to the editor, p. 312, on the possible existence of a neutron, the first mention of it in print (Chadwick received the Nobel Prize in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron); vol. 164 (1949) containing reports on EDSAC, an early British computer, pp. 341-43 and pp. 557-58; vol. 176 (1955) containing articles co-authored by Dr Francis Crick (one of the scientists who worked on the identification of DNA), pp. 780-81 and 915-16; vol. 177 (1956) containing an article by Crick and James Watson (of DNA fame) on the structure of small viruses, pp. 473-75, an important work for the understanding of viral structure;
[Physics]. Sammelband of 18 offprints on physics, in English, German and French, from various scientific periodicals published between 1900-11, 8vo, from the library of British physicist Professor Lionel Robert Wilberforce (1861-1944), inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum, cloth (heavily sunned);
Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. [et al.]. British Game Birds and Wildfowl. London: London & Counties Press Association, 1912. No. 885 of a limited edition of 950 copies, folio, issued as vol. 1 of the series ‘The gun at home and abroad,’ 26 chromolithographs and 4 half tone plates, publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, very clean copy;
Sitwell, Sacheverell [et al.]. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. London and New York: Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953. First edition, folio (48.7 x 32.2cm), limited edition of 2,000 copies, 16 colour plates, one folding, 22 black & white illustrations, original half green morocco;
Sotheby & Co. The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung für Botanik, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Collected by the late Arpad Plesch. [London: Sotheby & Co., 1975]. 3 volumes, hardcover, auction catalogue with numerous plates (illustrations and facsimiles), with dust jackets;
and 5 others (27)