Science & Technology
London, Staples Press, 1952.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s.6d.
The first volume of Carson's acclaimed "Sea Trilogy," offering an immersive ecological view that presaged her later environmentalist influence. This lyrical nature work portrays the lives of Atlantic sea creatures, the sandpiper, a mackerel, an eel, across the seasons, blending scientific observation with poetic narrative.
Science & Technology
Part I (seemingly all published of this edition).
London, John Walea, 1842.
Second edition. 8vo. Presumed original cloth rebacked in later cloth to style, with morocco spine label.
The first part of Dalton's classic work on the atomic theory of matter. 'Dalton reconstructed Newton's speculations on the structure of matter, and, applying them in a new form to chemistry, gave Lavoisier's reformation of that science a deeper significance' (PMM). The first edition of the first part was published in 1808; this seemingly rare second edition was according to the preface published at the request of several of the author's friends.