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A Key to the Skulls of North American Mammals
Stillwater: Oklahoma State University, 1965. Signed dedication by Bryan P. Glass to the front in ink. Illustrated pale green paperback covers, with green cloth spine. Front cover is age toned to the very edges. Copyright 1951, but this is stated as the seventh printing from 1965. Illustrated with over 100 b/w fascinating anatomical drawings. Clean inside. 53 pages. 280 x 215 mm (11 x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3049More details Price: £20.00 -
A Natural History of British Moths - 4 volumes
London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. Four Volumes. Third Edition. Complete with 132 plates.Containing nearly two thousand specimens all coloured by hand. Original dark green decorated buckram. Slight fading / rubbing to the gilt. Handling to top and base of spine. Bump / crease to the front of vol III (not as bad as it sounds!). Internally clean and tidy with slight foxing to the end papers. A Very nice copy.
xvi, 253., iv, 180., iv, 233., iv, 5-322. pp.
260 by 160mm (10¼ by 6¼ inches).Book ID: 2171More details Price: £350.00 -
A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls, In Which Their Importance Is Considered: And Plain Rules Are Exhibited for Ascertaining the Value of Both; And the True Method of Manufacturing Diamonds.
London: W. L. Molyneux, 1871. Fourth edition (first 1750) in blue cloth hardback. Gilt decoration to front board and gilt title to spine. Boards bumped, and faded to spine edge. Spine has a horizontal split in the centre of the cloth. Ex Libris to front pastedown. Old newspaper clipping to the front free endpaper. This has transferred toning to the title page. Otherwise very clean and tidy inside. Pagination: xxiii, 96, 30 (tables). 180 x 110 mm (7 x 4¼ inches).
Famous handbook for jewellers and antique dealers, or those with gemology collections.
Book ID: 2960More details Price: £50.00 -
Album de L'internat 1933 - 1934
Book ID: 3286More details Price: £85.00 -
Album de Orchidées de l'Europe central et septentrionale
Book ID: 3303More details Price: £240.00 -
Album des orchidées d'Europe 66 planches coloriées
Genève: H. Correvon, "Floraire", 1923. Second edition revised and improved. Softback illustrated covers, a little rubbed. Signed inscription by Henry Correvon to the half title page. Complete. With a list of all 66 gorgeous colour plates. 66 pages. 255 x 165 mm (10 x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3327More details Price: £170.00 -
Amber Eyes
London: Sands: 1942. Pink card covers. Originally intended to have a dust wrapper, so no titles on the card covers at all. Gift inscription to the front end paper. Frontis photograph and 7 further photographic plates. (Lacks one photograph) An account of dogs that the author has known, and characters who have been involved with dogs. 102 pages.
Condition: The pink card is clean and tidy, with just a touch of darkening to the edges. White mark to the rear panel. Inside, the book is clean and tidy, but on slightly darkened economy wartime paper. Gift inscription to the front end paper (Nov. 1942). 8 of 9 photographs present (lacks "Rags and tatters".
Book ID: 1341More details Price: £5.00 -
American and European Railway Practice in the Economical Generation of Steam. Including The Materials and Construction of Coal-Burning Boilers, Combustion, The Variable Blast, Vaporization, Circulation, Superheating, Supplying and Heating Feed Water, Etc.,
Book ID: 3310More details Price: £380.00 -
An Essay on Vision Briefly Explaining the Fabric of the Eye and the Nature of Vision. Intended for the service of those whose Eyes are Weak or Impaired: Enabling them to form an accurate idea of the true state of their sight, the means of preserving it, together with proper rules for ascertaining when spectacles are necessary, and how to choose them without injuring the sight.
Book ID: 2830More details Price: £300.00 -
Anthropophyteia Jahrbucher. Folkloristische Erhebungen und Forschungen zur Entwicklungeschichte der geschlechtlichen Moral
Book ID: 3331More details Price: £350.00 -
Archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Age: Experimental Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Archaeological Parks Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference 1996
Budapest: Archaeolingua, 1999. Hardback book. No dust jacket, so as was produced. Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference 1996, which took place at the 'Matrica' Museum in Százhalombatta (Hungary). In both English and German text, on high gloss paper. 488 pages. This work is a wide range of papers, with various information and interpretations; its aim to transcend the limits of traditional archaeology.
Condition: Good clean condition, both inside and out.
Book ID: 2835More details Price: £20.00 -
Blood & Oil Memoirs of a Persian Prince
New York: Random House, 1997. Signed by both authors to half title page. Reprint (3rd impression). A memoir of Iran before the revolution. 514 [iii]. pp
240 by 160 mm (9½ by 6¼ inches).Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket
Book ID: 2038More details Price: £30.00 -
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Two parts in one volume. Part 1. Alphabetical list of authors and titles & Part 2. Subject catalogue
Mansfield CT: Maurizio Martino, 1995. Limited to 150 copies. Facsimile of the 1918-1920 Cambridge University Press edition. In original green cloth with gilt title to spine. No dust wrapper, as issued. 587 pp. 280 x 220 mm (11 x 8¾ inches).
Condition: In very good condition. Pages clean and binding tight.
Book ID: 2090More details Price: £35.00 -
Commentarium de Urethrae Corporis Glandisque Structura
Book ID: 3041More details Price: £700.00 -
Congenital Club-Foot (Talipes Equinovarus)
Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd, 1930. First edition. In burgundy buckram, with debossed title to front board, and gilt stamped title to spine.
110 pp. with 92 illustrations / photographs. This is regarded as a seminal work on this subject. Brockman was a well respected Orthopaedic specialist, who worked at both St. Thomas' and Westminster Hospitals.Condition: A couple of small minor marks to the front and rear boards. Title page has the previous owner signature of Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke (Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen from 1965 to 1973).
Book ID: 2321More details Price: £75.00 -
Cool Orchids and How to Grow Them With a Descriptive list of all the Best Species in Cultivation
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1874. A lovely copy of this first edition. green cloth with gilt titles and border to the front board. Frontis engraving of an Orchid House (complete with waterfall). 4 beautifully hand coloured plates and black and white engraved vignettes and illustrations throughout. The cloth is in very nice clean condition, with just a little bumping to the top of the spine. Internally clean, but very slightly darkened. iv. 160 pages. 180 by 120mm (7 by 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 3081More details Price: £90.00 -
Description des Experiences de la Machine Aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, et de celles auxquelles cette decouverte a donne lieu;
Book ID: 1849More details Price: £695.00 -
Diamant et pierres Precieuse. Cristallographie - emplois - evaluation - commerce. Bijoux-joyaux - orfevreries au point de vue de leur histoire et de leur travail
Book ID: 2956More details Price: £130.00 -
Gedachten over de veranderingen van het weder, het onmogelijke en onnuttige van denzelver voorspelling
Haarlem: A. Loosjes: 1819. Blue paper wraps. "Thoughts on the changes of the weather, the impossible and useless for prediction thereof" Previously in the possession of the Royal Meteorological Society (Symons Bequest) and with their stamp to the front cover. 67 pages. 67 pages.
Condition: There are a couple of the private library stamps - which are not onerous. There has been staining to the bottom two thirds of the pages across the book - where there is a pale "tide mark." Attractive engraved title page with astrological design to it.
Book ID: 1851More details Price: £90.00 -
Histoire Naturelle et Médicale des Casses, et Particulièrement de Casse et Des Sénés Employés en Médecine
Book ID: 2271More details Price: £150.00