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De Bononiensi Scientiarum et Artium Instituto atque Academia.
Book ID: 3382More details Price: £2,200.00 -
Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier: et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu: suivie de recherches sur la hauteur à laquelle est parvenu le ballon du Champ-de-Mars
Book ID: 1849More details Price: £600.00 -
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 -
Engineering Apprenticeship
Book ID: 3594More details Price: £30.00 -
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, augmentes des Dialogues des morts. Nouvelle edition.
Book ID: 3487More details Price: £125.00 -
Gäa Sophia. Band IV. Landwirtschaft. Jahrbuch der Naturwissenschaftlichen Sektion der freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum Dornach.
Stuttgart, Den Haag, London: Orient-Occident-Verlag, 1929. First Edition. Hardback, with cloth spine, and gilt titles and design to front board. In German language, with some illustrations, and one folding plate. In good shape. Boards a little faded. Ex-libris to front. 259 pages. 230 x 165 mm (9 x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3999More details Price: £30.00 -
Grimm's Law: a study or hints towards an explanation of the so-called "Lautverschiebung" to which are added some remarks on the primitive Indo-European K and several appendices.
London and Strassburg: Trübner & Co, 1876. Ex-library, in green cloth hardback binding. The cloth has split to the front hinge, for the entire length, but as this is a surface split, the binding is holding well. There are the usual library stamps inside, plus a bookplate to the front which says it was donated to the library by the executors of the late W. J. Ashdown Esq. Overall an interesting, in generally good condition, and scarce. xvi, 231 pp. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3973More details Price: £80.00 -
Handbook of Engraved Gems.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. Second edition. A sound copy of this edition. Ex-library copy. Rebound in brown library cloth with gilt titles to spine. Complete, including neatly folded frontispiece, and all woodcut plates, including one other folding. A little bumping to binding. Internally clean, with just a little darkening to some page edges. Usual library stamps - including to title page. Overall an good copy. ix [iii] 288 LXXXVII plates pp. 250 x 170 mm (9¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3980More details Price: £40.00 -
Histoire Naturelle et Médicale des Casses, et Particulièrement de Casse et Des Sénés Employés en Médecine.
Book ID: 2271More details Price: £150.00 -
History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Massachusetts: Horticultural Society, 1929. First edition. Original navy blue buckram with gilt title to front board and spine. ix, 553 pp. (including index). Frontispiece of Horticultural Hall, several portraits, details of exhibitions. 235 x 165 mm (9¼ x 6½ inches). In a good condition. Lightly bumped to edges. Neat owner's name to front pastedown.
Book ID: 2051More details Price: £15.00 -
L'Apoticaire Charitable.
Book ID: 3486More details Price: £250.00 -
La Jambe artificielle "La Française"
Book ID: 3239More details Price: £25.00 -
La Vie des Insectes.
Book ID: 3254More details Price: £75.00 -
Lecons de Medecine Legale - Planches
Book ID: 2739More details Price: £110.00 -
Les Maladies Vénériennes No. 1.
Book ID: 2391More details Price: £24.00 -
Les races humaines. Ouvrage illustré de 288 gravures dessinées sur bois et de 8 chromolithographies représentant les principaux types des familles humaines.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1873. Second edition. Hardback in half black leather. Boards are lightly rubbed at edges. All full-page colour plates have tissue guards. A snapshot of race related thinking from the late 1800s. Text in French. 235 x 165 mm (9¼ x 6½ inches). Deuxième édition. Relié en demi cuir noir. Les planches sont légèrement frottées sur les bords. Toutes les planches couleur pleine page ont des protège-tissus. Un instantané de la pensée raciale de la fin des années 1800. Texte en français. 235 × 165 mm
Book ID: 3537More details Price: £40.00 -
Lives of the Necromancers: Or, an Account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, Or to Whom Has Been Imputed By Others, the Exercise of Magical Power.
London: Frederick J.Mason, 1834. First Edition. Ex-library copy in neat hardback library binding. Inside a few library stamps, but not too intrusive. Overall a good and reasonably priced book. xx, 465 pp. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
This was the final book written by William Godwin, and concerns a wide ranging look at man's fascination with the supernatural - from Rosicrucianism and chiromancy, to sorcery, and witchcraft. This work was once reviewed in 1835 by Edgar Allan Poe whilst he was a staff writer, and critic, at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia.
Book ID: 3977More details Price: £250.00 -
Manuels-Roret. Nouveau manuel pour le Naturaliste Préparatoire. l'art d'empailler les animaux, de conserve les vegetaux et les mineraux, de preparer les pieces d'anatomie normale et pathologique; suivud un tratie des embaumens.
Book ID: 3134More details Price: £120.00 -
Manufacture de Glaces. Plate section from the Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire des Science.
Book ID: 1912More details Price: £400.00 -
Marionnettes rustiques montrant les bonnes petites gens à leurs métiers, en douze contesavec dessins de Armand Rassenfosse.
Liège: Aug. Bénard. First edition. Author signed dedication to front blank page, dated 1899. This is one of the 1,000 on vélin teinté. In original softback, with sanguine illustrations to front and back covers. Undated but 1899. In very good shape, with just some age toning. 163 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches). Première édition. Dédicace signée par l'auteur sur la première page blanche, datée de 1899. Il s'agit de l'un des 1 000 exemplaires sur vélin teinté. Couverture souple d'origine, avec des illustrations à la sanguine sur les couvertures avant et arrière. Sans daté, mais 1899. En très bon état, avec un léger assombrissement. 163 pages. 225 x 145 mm.
Book ID: 3953More details Price: £80.00