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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 -
Oekonomisch-technologische Encyclopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats-, Stadt-, Haus- und Landwirtschaft. Teil 75: Von Leidenschaft - Lein
Book ID: 3703More details Price: £150.00 -
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: £175.00 -
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 -
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 -
Revolution in Glassmaking. Entrepeneurship Technological Change in American Industry 1880-1920.
Book ID: 2837More details Price: £28.00 -
Scriptores Rei Rusticae veteres latini Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius, quibus acc. Vegetius De mulo-medicina et Gargilii Martialis fragmentum. Adj.notae vir.clar.integrae tum editae tum ineditae et lexicon rei rusticae.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1866More details Price: £375.00 -
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: £10.00 -
Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral illusions showing Ghosts everywhere, and of any Colour.
Book ID: 3834More details Price: £450.00 -
Sylva Britannica; or Portraits of Forest Trees. Distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty, drawn from nature.
Book ID: 3539More details Price: £400.00 -
Taxidermy: or, the Art of Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting Objects of Natural History. For the use of Museums and Travellers With plates.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. Third edition. Scarce. Hardback three quarter leather, with marbled boards and gilt title to spine. Marbled page edges. Ex libris to front. Neat message to front says the book was a gift from the owner's mother in 1826, and was rebound in to this hardback in 1847. Neat owner's name (dated 1826) to top of title page. 168 pages, plus five engraved plates to rear. Boards a little rubbed to edges, and one or two spots of foxing - but overall in very good condition. 175 x 105 mm (7 x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3708More details Price: £195.00 -
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: £28.00 -
The Finchley Manuals of Industry. No. II - Gardening. Or Practical and Economical Training, for the Management of a School or Cottage Garden.
London: Joseph Masters, 1865. Handy little seventh edition of the second in the series of Finchley manuals. In blue / green buckram with title stamped to front board. 132 pages. 150 x 90 mm (6 x 3½ inches). There is some wear / soiling to the boards, and a neat owner's stamp to the half-title. Some foxing / darkening, but generally in a a reasonable condition.
Book ID: 2839More details Price: £25.00 -
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: £450.00 -
The Illustrated Book of Pigeons. With Standards for Judging.
Book ID: 3844More details Price: £500.00 -
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: £100.00 -
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 -
The Nature of Viruses. A Ciba Foundation Symposium.
London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd, 1957. First edition. Scarce in dust jacket. A Symposium by Ciba in 1956 led to this book being published the next year. Contents written by by F. H. C. Crick, and J. D. Watson. Edited by G. E. W. Wolstenholme OBE, and Elaine C. P. Millar. Green hardback boards in excellent shape. No markings or writing inside. 57 illustrations. Dust jacket has scrape to lower back but otherwise in very good condition. 292 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).
The Ciba Foundation was established in London in 1947, it was an international educational and scientific centre, and it held conferences and symposiums, and subsequently published the proceedings.
Book ID: 3738More details Price: £150.00 -
The New Naturalist. The Art of Botanical Illustration.
London: Collins, 1951. Second edition. Hardback in green cloth, under original unclipped dust jacket. Wilfrid Blunt provides a "critical survey" of botanical illustration, complemented by The New Naturalist illustrations; both colour and b/w. Dust jacket is aged at edges, with one very small closed tear. Internally, endpapers have a little off-setting from jacket, otherwise clean and tight. 303 pages. 220 x 160 mm (8¾ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3950More details Price: £25.00 -
Théorie et Pratique des Ombres et des Cadrans Solaires. Deuxieme édition revue et augmentee.
Paris: Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1926. Interesting treatise on the theory and practice of sundials, and how shadows work. In French. Large format softback covers. A little darkening to the covers and slight nicking to the edges. Internally clean throughout with just a touch of darkening to the pages. viii, 1-274 pp. 360 x 285 mm (14¼ x 11¼ inches). Intéressant traité sur la théorie et la pratique des cadrans solaires, et sur le fonctionnement des ombres. En français. Couvertures souples grand format. Un peu assombri sur les couvertures et légère entaille sur les bords. Nettoyer l'intérieur tout au long avec juste une touche d'assombrissement des pages. viii, 1-274 p. 360 x 285 mm
Book ID: 3333More details Price: £100.00