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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: £460.00 -
The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign.
London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878. First edition. Hardback in more recent attractive three quarters chestnut morocco, with marbled boards. Gilt titles to spine. New endpapers. Illustrated with gorgeous colour chromolithographic plates (including frontispiece). Many in text b/w illustrations. Boards in very good condition. Contents in good clean condition with a little light foxing to extremities of a few pages. Small pencil and ink inscription to FFEP. Owner's name to Top of title. Undated, but WORLDCAT states 1878. viii, 448 pp. 280 x 220 mm (11 x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3852More details Price: £350.00 -
Photograph of a Red Cross Nurse - World War One
1914. Mounted albumen print of a nurse in Red Cross uniform, signed "Henri Manuel Paris" in pencil in lower margin of mount. - A few small stains. With (later) annotation in ballpoint on verso "La guerre 1914-1918". The nurse is portrayed in a beatific pose. Henri Manuel (1874 – 1947) was a French photographer who served as the official photographer of the French government from 1914 to 1944. 212 by 146mm (8¼ by 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3705More details Price: £150.00 -
Physical Principles of Mechanics and Acoustics
London: Blackie & Son, 1932. First Thus (first English translation) of Einführung in die Mechanik, Akustik und Wärmelehre, issued as v. 1 of his Einführung in die Physik. Original dark brown cloth, with gilt titles to spine. A little bumping and rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine, with a very small (2-3mm) closed tear to the head of the spine. No significant marks to the cloth. Foyles bookshop sticker to the inside board. Fractionally darkened to the edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Xii, 338 pages + 13 photographic plates. (complete). A very nice copy. Pohl has been described as the Father of Solid State Physics, 220 by 160mm (8¾ by 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3677More details Price: £75.00 -
Voiage du monde de Descartes / Suite du voyage du Monde de Descartes ou Nouvelles difficultez proposees a l'auteur du Voyage du Monde de Descartes.
Two volumes bound as one
Book ID: 3675More details Price: £425.00 -
The Life and Scientific Legacy of George Porter
London: Imperial College Press, 2006. First edition. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. Small inscription to FFEP. Otherwise in spotless condition. 640 pages. 265 x 195 mm (10½ x 7¾ inches).
Sir George Porter was a highly regarded and well known British scientist. Appointed Director of the Royal Institution in 1966, Porter was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. He was the only Director of the Royal Institution to later become President of the Royal Society.
Porter's enthusiasm for science was infectious, and in this book his peers, former colleagues, students and friends celebrate his life and work.Book ID: 3663More details Price: £40.00 -
Engineering Apprenticeship
Book ID: 3594More details Price: £30.00 -
Mélanges botaniques ou recueil d'observations, mémoires, et notices sur la botanique. Volume I.
Contenant une Critique de cinq décades de Roses desséchées et la Monographie des céréales de la Suisse.
Book ID: 3477More details Price: £400.00 -
De Bononiensi Scientiarum et Artium Instituto atque Academia.
Book ID: 3382More details Price: £2,200.00 -
Travels through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France, with Curious Observations, Natural, Topographical, Moral, Physiological &c
Also a Catalogue of Plants, Found spontaneously growing in those Parts and their Virtues. To which is added, an account of the travels of Francis Willughby, Esq ; through great part of Spain.
The Second Edition. Corrected and Improv'd, and Adorn'd with Copper-Plates.Book ID: 3332More details Price: £450.00 -
Athlétisme et gymnastique suédoise.
Book ID: 3156More details Price: £70.00 -
The Advantages of Saccharin in the Manufacture of Aerated Waters, Cordials, &c
London: Wilson, Salamon, & Co., Ltd, 1894. Scarce reprint (improved and revised 10th edition) of the original business pamphlet had become necessary as, within three years of the original, the contents were viewed more as a practical text book than a promotional item. At the time, saccharin was considered be a good inclusion, as - to quote this booklet - it never creates acidity or heartburn, and is, in these respects, far healthier than sugar! Blue soft covers are a little creased at edges, and inside the staples holding the booklet together are somewhat rusted. Overall good. 48 pages. 210 x 135 mm (8¼ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3115More details Price: £30.00 -
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 -
Commentarium de Urethrae Corporis Glandisque Structura
Book ID: 3041More details Price: £600.00 -
Woodworking Machinery; Its rise, progress, and construction, with hints on the management of saw mills and the economical conversion of timber.
London: The Technical Press Limited, 1922. 5th Printing. A companion book to 'Saw Mills, their Arrangement and Management'. Hardback in original dark blue cloth, with gilt stamped title to spine. 40 b/w plates - 10 of which are fold out. In a very good and clean condition. Minor rubbing to boards. Inside just a number 1 in ink on title page, otherwise virtually spotless. 442 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2890More details Price: £38.00 -
Revolution in Glassmaking. Entrepeneurship Technological Change in American Industry 1880-1920.
Book ID: 2837More details Price: £30.00 -
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 -
Slang Esculaap en Gaper,
Medisch-farmaceutische symbolen
Mijdrecht: Roche Nederland B.V, 1993. Fascinating book, dealing with the symbols and representations associated with chemists / apothecaries. Full of colour photographs. 174 pages. Clean and tidy full colour dust wrapper. Book itself is also clean throughout. It appears that a front end paper has been removed, so the book starts with the half title. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2681More details Price: £15.00 -
The Life Story of Birds.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1930. Very nice copy of this first edition. Clean and tidy pale grey boards, with illustration to the front board. Beautiful black and white cuts throughout. viii, 236. pp
200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).Book ID: 2413More details Price: £20.00 -
Les Maladies Vénériennes No. 1.
Book ID: 2391More details Price: £26.00































































