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Les Harmonies providentielles.
Bibliothèque des Merveilles.
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1884. Fourth edition. Hardback book, dark brown half leather with green mottled boards. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece of a starry night, with tissue guard.
x-304 pp. plates. 185 x 120 mm (7¼ x4¾ inches).. 4e édition, revue et augmentée. Livre relié, demi-cuir marron foncé, plats marbrés verts. Frontispice gravé d'une nuit étoilée, avec protège-tissu. x-304 pp. plates. 185 x 120 mm.
Book ID: 4008More details Price: £35.00 -
Les Maladies Vénériennes No. 1.
Book ID: 2391More details Price: £24.00
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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
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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 -
Medical Reports of the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm as a Remedy in Fever and Other Diseases
Whether applied to the surface of the body or used internally.
Book ID: 4652More details Price: £350.00
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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: £450.00
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Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschryving der dieren, planten en mineraalen
Eerste deels, Agttiende stuk (1st book, 18th series). De Plantdieren
Book ID: 4593More details Price: £175.00
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Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschryving der dieren, planten en mineraalen
Tweede deels, Tweede stuk (2nd book, 2nd series). De Boomen
Book ID: 4605More details Price: £175.00
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Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschryving der dieren, planten en mineraalen
Tweede deels, Vierde stuk (2nd book, 4th series). De Heesters
Book ID: 4618More details Price: £175.00
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Observations de medecine, contenant la guerison de plusieurs maladies considerables
Avec la maniere de bien préparer & administrer les remedes. Nouvelle edition
Book ID: 4051More details Price: £250.00
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Oekonomisch-technologische Encyclopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats-, Stadt-, Haus- und Landwirtschaft. Teil 75: Von Leidenschaft - Lein
Book ID: 3703More details Price: £150.00
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ORTHOPEDIE; Deviations du rachis | Mal de pott | Luxations congenitales | Coxalgie
Colour Plates only / Plaques de couleur uniquement.
Book ID: 4242More details Price: £75.00
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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 -
Practical Wildfowling: A Complete Guide to the Art of the Fowler
With descriptions of the various birds usually met with. Second edition, revised and greatly enlarged.
Book ID: 4197More details Price: £30.00
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Proportions du corps humain, début d'anatomie, expression et leurs applications. 36 leçons théoriques à l'usage des élèves du cours supérieur de décorations
Proportieleer beginselen van ontileedkunde uitdrukkeingsleer en hunne toepassing. 36 theoretische lessen over teekenen ten gebruike van de studenten der heegere leergangen
Book ID: 4659More details Price: £250.00
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Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds.
London: Published by Trübner and Co. For The English Dialect Society, 1885. First edition, in half-leather hardback binding. With raised bands and gilt title to spine. Boards are quite rubbed, particularly to spine, and a damp stain to fore-edge of front board. Foxing to front free end paper. Neat initials to half title. Inside, one or two spots of foxing, but minimal. 243 pages. 235 x 155 mm (9¼ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3019More details Price: £50.00 -
Rapprochemens historiques sur l'hospitalité des Anciens;
sur la formation de nos hôpitaux, la nature de leurs revenus, et les divers systèmes qui se sont succédés dans leur administration
Book ID: 4608More details Price: £250.00
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Revolution in Glassmaking.
Entrepeneurship Technological Change in American Industry 1880-1920.
Book ID: 2837More details Price: £28.00
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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