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Alembic Rare Books

Alembic Rare Books specialises in rare science books, with special expertise in genetics and evolution, natural history, anatomy, microbiology & epidemiology, nuclear physics, atomic weapons, early computing, diversity in science, and popular science. Our Bookshop storefront sells new, non-fiction books in these and other subjects, as well as fiction titles we particularly like.

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just The Wonderful MR Willughby: The First True Ornithologist Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

The Scientific Life: Biographies & Memoirs

The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species

Endless Forms Most Beautiful & Wonderful: Natural History, Biology, & Evolution.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

Now I Am Become Death: The Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapons, & Nuclear Power

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Our Favourite History Books

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism Lab Girl

Diversity in STEM: Race, Gender, and the History of Science

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens The End of Everything: (astrophysically Speaking) The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

The Heavens: Astronomy & Cosmology

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Blood & Guts: Medicine, Anatomy, and Surgery

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson Braiding Sweetgrass

The Time is Now: Ecology, Environmentalism, & Climate Change

Studying Early Printed Books, 1450-1800: A Practical Guide Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800

Books about Books: Book History and Book Collecting

The Master and Margarita Their Eyes Were Watching God We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Orange Collection)

Literature: Our Favourite Novels, Poems & Essays