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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Paperback as issued. 68 pp. embrowned edges, otherwise Very Good condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Cloth in DJ. 1307 pp. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Reprint. Publisher's laminated hardback in nearly new condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Contents crisp, fresh and tight; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. New Edition. Free of inscriptions with clean contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in an unread condition. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Reprint. Publisher's dark green laminated hardback in nearly new condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Contents crisp, fresh and tight; non pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Reprint. Publisher's dark green laminated hardback in nearly new condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Contents crisp, fresh and tight; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Reprint. Publisher's dark green laminated hardback in nearly new condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Contents crisp, fresh and tight; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 296 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.68 inches. In Stock.

Oxford Scholarly Classics reprint edn. 6 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (small crease at bottom edge upper cover of vol V - otherwise near Fine). Pp. various, illus with b&w plates some folding (no inscriptions). Volume I Introduction and De Vita Propria, Volume II Kalendarium 1620-1649, Volume III Kalendarium 1650-1672, Volume IV Kalendarium 1673-1689, Volume V Kalendarium 1690-1706, Volume VI Additions and Corrections Index.

First edition presented by the inventor of the Bouncing Bomb to his philosopher son in law, Harry Stopes-Roe, son of Marie Stopes. Near fine book in magenta cloth, inscribed by Barnes Wallis at the head of the first flyleaf and evidently read with some care by Stopes-Roe who has made half a page of pencilled notes on the verso of the final flyleaf. Also occasional pencilled marginalia, responding for example to Douglas McKie's criticism of the futility of Baconian induction 'but this was general: Johnson p192 et see index "Utility"' and later a pencilled explication of Christopher Wren's Parentalia. Provenance: from the estate of Mary Stopes Roe, Harry Stopes-Roe's wife and Barnes Wallis's second daughter who helped her father in early experiments with marbles, a catapult and a tin bath as he tried to work out how to 'bounce' a bomb across water. Barnes Wallis is best remembered for inventing the bouncing bomb which was used by the Royal Air Force in the 'Dambusters' raid to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. The raid was immortalised in the 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave. Among Wallis's other inventions were his version of the geodetic airframe and the earthquake bomb. His election to the Royal Society in the final months of the war was in recognition of these achievements. His son in law Harry Stopes-Roe (1924-2014) was a humanist and lecturer in Science Studies at Birmingham University, explaining his interest in this history. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.