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Mankind's scientific progress, as it happened, complete with all the dead ends and unrealised theories. Four hundred years of thinking and re-thinking and all the breakthroughs.
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1843 The Nature and Property of SoilsLondon: 1843A beautifully bound, fourth edition copy of John Morton's work on soil.
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1912 Bacteria as Friends and Foes of the Dairy FarmerLondon: 1912A scarce, early twentieth-century work on bacteria and its uses in agriculture, handsomely bound in full calf prize binding.
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1927 The Food of Some British Wild BirdsYork: 1924-1927A finely bound, early edition of Walter E Collinge's study in economic ornithology. It is to this work he explores the food of some British wild birds.