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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 Living Planet. Signed by David Attenborough.
London: Book Club Associates, 1985. Hardback in grey cloth. Original colour photographic dust jacket. Signed dedication to the half title by Attenborough. Book based on the popular BBC documentary series of the same name which studied the ways in which living organisms, including humans, adapt to their surroundings. Book and jacket in very good condition. 320 pages. 205 x 135 mm (8 x 5¼ inches).
Sir David Attenborough is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and author.
Book ID: 4012More details Price: £50.00 -
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 -
Three copper engravings - Human Anatomy. Fig 3. from "Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines".
Book ID: 2697More details Price: £100.00 -
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.
London: J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch..et al, 1738. Second edition. Volume I only (of two). Full leather binding with gilt details and titles. The leather is a little rubbed and the gilt faded. Slight cracking to the hinge, but holding well. Complete with three engraved plates (two folding). All three of the engraved plates are found in this, the first of the two volumes. Engraved capitals and end pieces. Internally in good clean condition, in a good, tight condition. Owner's name to the head of the title page. iv, 428, 120 pp. 205 x 130 mm (8 x 5 inches).
John Ray was an English naturalist, widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists, and the man with whom "the adventure of modern science begins".
Book ID: 3332More details Price: £480.00 -
Trials of a Public Benefactor, as Illustrated in the Discovery of Etherization.
New York: Pudney & Russell, 1859. First edition. Hardback, with tissue guard protected frontispiece portrait of Dr. William T. G. Morton. Half-title. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt stamped title to recent spine, original yellow endpapers. Two engraved plates. Plus double page engraved plate of Morton's medal. In a very good condition. xx, [13]-460pp. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3825More details Price: £1,200.00 -
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: £450.00 -
Wasser und Sumpfvogel
1881. A watercolour entitled Water and marshbirds. Beautifully executed, would appear to be the original for a book illustration? 16 water and marsh birds are illustrated, including a swan and a flamingo. illustration is on art board and is sized 48cm x 31cm. It is presented under passe partout of 60cm x 40cm. To the bottom edge is a little marking. One of the birds (Grey Heron) has been neatly pasted onto the rest of the image. To the reverse of the passe partout is a photocopy of the artwork with the birds labelled in German. Dittrich, Walter: (1881 Haida - 1976 Rorgenwies/Eigeltingen) German watercolourist and book illustrator.
Book ID: 4086More details Price: £225.00 -
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 -
XXX. vypusk wratschei 1-go Leningradskogo Medizinskogo Instituta. 30th graduation year of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute.
Book ID: 3001More details Price: £300.00