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A Cabinet of Quadrupeds with historical and scientific descriptions;
Consisting of highly-finished engravings, by James Tookey.
Book ID: 4510More details Price: £600.00
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A French Pressed Flower Collection
Book ID: 4559More details Price: £175.00
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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 set of 12 Pharmaceutical advertising cards.
Book ID: 3446More details Price: £70.00
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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 -
Acoustique biologique. Phénomènes physiques de la phonation et de l'audition
Avec 100 figures dans le texte
Book ID: 4438More details Price: £90.00
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Adam's Rib. A defence of woman's sexuality
Book ID: 4253More details Price: £50.00
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Album de L'internat 1933 - 1934.
Book ID: 3286More details Price: £85.00
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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). Deuxième édition revue et améliorée. Couvertures illustrées brochées, un peu frottées. Inscription signée d'Henry Correvon sur la page de faux-titre. Complet. Avec une liste des 66 superbes plaques de couleurs. 66 pages. 255 × 165 mm
Book ID: 3327More details Price: £170.00 -
Album No. 2 Fontes de Bâtiment & de Construction;
catalogue commercial
Book ID: 4058More details Price: £120.00
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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) 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". An account of dogs that the author has known, and characters who have been involved with dogs. 102 pages.
Book ID: 1341More details Price: £10.00 -
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
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An Account of the Most Approved Mode of Draining Land; according to the System practised by Mr Joseph Elkington.
With an appendix containing hints for the further improvements of Bogs and other Marshy Ground after draining;
Book ID: 3812More details Price: £480.00
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Anthologie du vin et de L'ivresse en Islam
Paris: Seuil, 2004. First edition. A lovely anthology of Islamic writings about wine and drunkeness. Burgundy cloth covers with yellow printed design and titles. Clean and tidy boards. Slight mark to the rear board. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Attractive black and white illustrations. 375, [viii] pages. 190 by 140mm (7½ by 5½ inches).
. Première édition. Une belle anthologie d'écrits islamiques sur le vin et l'ivresse. Couvertures en tissu bourgogne avec des motifs et des titres imprimés en jaune. Les planches sont propres et bien rangées. Légère marque au dos de la couverture. L'intérieur de l'ouvrage est propre et soigné. Illustrations attrayantes en noir et blanc. 375, [viii] pages. 190 x 140 mm
Book ID: 4267More details Price: £22.00 -
Anthropophyteia Jahrbucher.
Folkloristische Erhebungen und Forschungen zur Entwicklungeschichte der geschlechtlichen Moral.
Book ID: 3331More details Price: £350.00
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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. Good clean condition, both inside and out. This work is a wide range of papers, with various information and interpretations; its aim to transcend the limits of traditional archaeology.
Book ID: 2835More details Price: £20.00 -
Beautes de l'histoire naturelle de Buffon, ou Lecons sur les moeurs et sur l'industrie des animaux, par L. Cotte
Complete in two volumes
Book ID: 4214More details Price: £280.00
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Cage and Chamber-Birds.
Their natural history, habits, food, diseases, management, and modes of capture.
Book ID: 3885More details Price: £90.00
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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). In very good condition. Pages clean and binding tight.
Book ID: 2090More details Price: £35.00 -
Catalogue of the Mycological Library of Howard A. Kelly.
Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1924. First edition. Hardback, with quarter cloth spine. Gilt titles to spine. Half title, Title. Slip asking for corrections. Externally the book is in very good condition. Clean and tidy, with just a little bumping. Internally clean and tidy throughout. x, 260 pp. 285 x 220 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 2626More details Price: £50.00