Reid Books

10/02/2023

Alas, I have been neglecting this FB page. Sadly, John Reid, my husband and the major partner in Red Books, died in February 2021, so thoughts have been elsewhere. John has left a large collection of antiquarian and historic technical books that were meant to be cataloged and offered for sale via Reid Books. It will be a bit of a Herculean task for me to review and catalogue his books but, as an interim measure, I am posting images of his bookcases on our website for potential customers to browse and then make contact for further information if any item is of interest. Three bookcases are already on display with lots more to come. See

Reid Books : - Pre 20th Century Early 20th Century Mid 20th Century Late 20th Century Journals & Magazines ecommerce, open source, shop, online shopping, antiquarian books, historic technical books

17/09/2018

Illustrations from Chapter 4 of Mechanical Aberdeen

23/11/2013

Antiquarian and historic technical books for sale. Check out our on-line catalogue.

23/11/2011

Signed by the author

Reid Books Mechanical Aberdeen [1870978315] - An Engineering View of Aberdeen's Industries from 1888 - 1913, the First 25 Years of the Aberdeen Mechanical Society. A guided tour of industries located in and around Aberdeen about 100 years ago, illustrated by numerous archival pictures and containing...

23/11/2011

Featured book

Reid Books James Clerk Maxwell: A Biography [086241010X] - Published on the 150th anniversary of Clerk Maxwell's birth. A respected biography of Maxwell that gets under his skin. Ends with a bibliography but no academic footnotes.

23/11/2011

Recent addition

Reid Books Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Makers - First English edition of Les Instruments Scientifiques aux xvii et xviii Siècles now a classic 'must-have' reference for anyone interested in the history of scientific instruments. 361 text pages with a...

23/11/2011

Signed up to facebook today . . . seems to be de rigour these days.