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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 (see images). Internally clean and tidy with slight foxing to the end papers. Morris is "best known by his works on natural history, which, although popular rather than scientific, had much literary value" (DNB). xvi, 253., iv, 180., iv, 233., iv, 5-322. pp. 260 x 160 mm (10¼ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2171More details Price: £350.00 -
A set of 12 Pharmaceutical advertising cards.
Book ID: 3446More details Price: £70.00 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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. 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 -
Athlétisme et gymnastique suédoise.
Book ID: 3156More details Price: £70.00 -
Atlas des Mollusques, composé de 51 planches, représentant la plupart des mollusques et de leurs coquilles décrits dans le Manuel d'histoire naturelle Paris
Book ID: 4123More details Price: £350.00 -
Cage and Chamber-Birds. Their natural history, habits, food, diseases, management, and modes of capture.
Book ID: 3885More details Price: £90.00 -
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). 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 -
Catalogue raisonné ou énumération méthodique des espèces du genre rosier pour l'Europe, l'Asie et l'Afrique spécialement les rosiers de la France et de L'Angleterre
Genève: Librairié Ch. Mentz, 1877. Very attractive copy of this first edition Catalogue raisonné. A catalogue of species of Roses existing in 1877, Three quarters red leather with marbled boards. A little rubbing to the edges of the boards. Binding is clean and bright with just a little handling. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 348 pages, charts. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches). Très bel exemplaire de cette première édition du Catalogue raisonné. Un catalogue d'espèces de Roses existant en 1877, Trois quarts cuir rouge avec plats marbrés. Un petit frottement sur les bords des plats. La reliure est propre et brillante avec juste un peu de manipulation. Intérieurement propre et rangé partout. 348 pages, graphiques.
Book ID: 3623More details Price: £100.00 -
Commentarium de Urethrae Corporis Glandisque Structura
Book ID: 3041More details Price: £700.00