Genre
Science.
From the elegant geometry of Euclid and the transformative theories of Darwin to the alchemical scepticism of Boyle and the botanical curiosities of Vegetable Teratology, our Science shelves are filled with works that have shaped how we understand the world. These are books for the endlessly curious—whether you're tracing the history of inductive sciences or exploring the chemistry of poisons. Welcome to a collection that celebrates both the foundational and the wonderfully niche.
The Way To Geometry
An early treatise setting out the principles of geometry for the student and practitioner.
$8.50
Evolution, Old & New
Samuel Butler's spirited examination of theories of evolution, championing the earlier evolutionists against Darwin's account of natural selection.
$8.00
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
A practical nineteenth-century manual that set out to demystify the craft of beekeeping.
$8.00
Influences of Geographic Environment: On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Ellen Churchill Semple's influential treatise argues that geography shapes human history and society, adapting Friedrich Ratzel's system of anthropo-geography for the English-speak
$8.00
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
Charles Darwin's vast survey of how humans have reshaped living things through breeding — the evidence, gathered animal by animal and plant by plant, behind his theory of selection
$8.00
The Animal Parasites of Man
A classic scientific account of the parasites that afflict human beings, describing their forms, life cycles, and effects for students of medicine and natural history.
$8.00
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
A lively popular-science account of astronomy's wonders and the myths that have gathered around the heavens.
$7.50
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.
$8.00
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Charles Darwin's world-changing 1859 work, laying out the theory of evolution by natural selection with patient evidence and cautious brilliance.
$8.00
Astronomy for Amateurs
Camille Flammarion's beloved introduction to the night sky, written to make the heavens accessible to anyone willing to look up.
$8.00
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypos
Robert Boyle's landmark 1661 dialogue challenges the old doctrines of the alchemists and Aristotelians, pressing the questions that would help turn alchemy into modern chemistry.
$8.00
The Economic Aspect of Geology
A survey of geology in its practical and economic dimension, examining how the earth's minerals, ores, fuels and materials underpin industry, wealth and the workings of a modern ec
$8.00
The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
The foundational text of geometry, presenting Euclid's first six books of the Elements with their definitions, propositions and proofs.
$8.50
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
John Stuart Mill's foundational treatise on reasoning, evidence, and the methods of science.
$8.00
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.
$8.00
On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's landmark work reveals the mathematics and physics behind the shapes of living things, uniting biology, geometry, and beauty.
$8.00
Civics and Health
An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.
$9.00
Treatise on Poisons: In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic
A foundational nineteenth-century treatise on poisons, examining their action, detection, and effects in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and medical practice: a land
$9.50
Manures and the principles of manuring
A thorough treatise on manures and the science of enriching the soil.
$9.00
Zoonomia
Erasmus Darwin's ambitious treatise on the laws of organic life, blending medicine, biology, and bold speculation about how living things change.
$9.50
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin's world-altering argument that life's endless forms arose through descent with modification and natural selection — the book that remade our understanding of nature
$9.00
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique
A practical laboratory manual from the era when bacteriology was young, setting out the methods, apparatus and procedures for culturing and studying microorganisms, written to guid
$9.00
Practical Mechanics for Boys
A hands-on guide introducing young readers to the principles of mechanics and the pleasures of making things.
$8.50
Vegetable Teratology
A nineteenth-century work of botanical science devoted to the abnormal and monstrous forms plants can take.
$9.00
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
A comprehensive official veterinary manual on the ailments of the horse, describing their causes, symptoms and treatment for a world that still depended on horsepower in the most l
$9.50
History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time
William Whewell's landmark survey of how the natural sciences developed, tracing the growth of physics, astronomy, chemistry and more from antiquity to the nineteenth century as a
$9.00
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc
An illustrated study of American mushrooms — edible, poisonous and curious — combining careful description with the naturalist's delight in one of nature's strangest kingdoms.
$9.00
The field and garden vegetables of America : $b containing full descriptions of nearly eleven hundred species and variet
A remarkably thorough nineteenth-century American reference describing nearly eleven hundred vegetable species and varieties: a gardener's and farmer's encyclopedia of what grew in
$9.50
Color Images from Mars Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity
A collection of colour images sent back from the surface of Mars by NASA's twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
$9.00
The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain: Second Edition, Revised
A foundational survey of Britain's prehistoric stone tools, weapons, and ornaments, richly illustrated and carefully classified by type and period.
$9.00
Pharmacographia
A landmark history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, tracing the plants that became medicines across cultures and centuries.
$9.00