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5 EASY PIECES.
The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems.
Washington/London: Island Press, 2010. Large 8vo., pp.xii,193, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A COMPARATIVE HAND LIST OF THE BIRDS OF JAPAN AND THE BRITISH ISLES.
In this Hand List the author has attempted to supply the materials for a complete comparison between the birds of the Island of Japan and the birds found in Great Britain and Ireland.
Cambridge University Press, 1925. 4to., pp.(vi),107, beige cloth, gilt; ownership bookplates to front endpapers, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed and partly toned, with water-stain to rear/spine, and light wear to extremities, with apx. 6mms loss at head of spine.
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A COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON PLUMBING AND SANITATION.
Embracing Drainage and Plumbing Practice, Both Perfect and Defective; Sanitary Appliances; The Erection of Public Conveniences; The Sanitation of a Country House, Including Water Supply and Sewage Disposal; Domestic Hot Water Supply; Warming Buildings by Hot Water, Steam, and Heated Air; Horticultural Heating Works; Steam Cooking Apparatus; Gas, Electric Light, Bells, Etc.
London: E. and F.N. Spon, Ltd. 4to., pp.xii,674, half burgundy morocco, gilt, brown cloth boards, b/w plates (including folding plates), b/w figures; light foxing to prelims and occasionally throughout, light wear to extremities, light rubbing to boards, internally clean, a very good copy.
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A GARDEN DIARY,
September 1899-September 1900.
London: Methuen and Co, 1901. 8vo., pp.(iv),245, uncut, quarter dark green buckram, gilt, with gilt-lettered green paper-covered boards, t.e.g., title in red and black; toning to free endpapers, foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, some foxing within, light paper-splitting to inner hinges, a very good copy.
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A GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRE OF GERMANY, HOLLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, PRUSSIA, ITALY, SICILY, CORSICA, AND SARDINIA;
With a Gazetteer of Reference to the Principal Places in Those Countries. Compiled and translated from the German. To which are added, Statistical Tables of all the States of Europe; Translated from the German of J.G. Boetticher of Konigsberg. With a Supplementary Table, Showing the Changes Since the Commencement of the Present War. Illustrated with Twemty-Four Plates, and a large Three-Sheet Post Map of Germany, Holland, Italy, Etc.
Lo: John Stockdale, 1800. 4to., pp.390,viii,87, full contemporary speckled calf, 5 raised bands, red title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, frontispiece map, 3 folding maps, 23 city plans; light evidence of removed bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor marginal worming, not affecting printed area, 4cm wear to foot of upper external joint, 1.5cm wear to foot of lower external joint, rubbing/superficial wear along upper joint and to lower inner corner of front board, a clean and handsome copy.
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A LIFE-TIME COLLECTION OF 688 RECIPES FOR DRINKS.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1934. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.viii,124,(iii)adverts, ecru cloth stamped in black; foxing to edges and margins, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with chipping and light loss to extremities.
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A MANUAL OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE, DESCRIBING THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, AND TREATMENT OF THE MOST COMMON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL AFFECTIONS;
The Whole Intended as a Family Guide in all Cases of Accident and Emergency, and to give Directions as to the Proper Method of Proceeding in Those Cases Where the Surgeon’s Aid is Obtained After Difficulty and Much Delay.
London: Virtue and Co, 1867. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,204,10 (publisher’s adverts), red cloth wrappers with unlettered spine and front cover stamped in gilt and blind; crosses marked to margins, corners have been folded, marking to wrappers, with light wear to edges, darkening to cloth, a good copy.
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A STUDY OF INFLUENZA, AND THE LAWS OF ENGLAND CONCERNING INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
A Paper Read Before the Society of Medical Officers of Health, January 18th, 1892. To which is appended a paper on the Spread of Influenza by Contagion, read before the Epidemiological Society, May 20, 1891. And an Abstract of a Paper On the Prevention of the Spread of Epidemic Influenza, read at the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, August 1891. Together with: Counsel’s Opinion on the Powers of Sanitary Authorities as to Influenza, and the Acts and Extracts from Acts relating to Infectious Diseases; the Provisional Memorandum on Epidemic Influenza, issued by the Local Government Board on January 25, 1892; and the Directions for Obtaining Ambulances for the Conveyance of Persons Suffering from Influenza, issued by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. 8vo., pp.119, green cloth, gilt; ex Royal Veterinary College Library, with inkstamp to title and to two further pages, publisher’s blindstamp to title, o.w internally fine, rubbing to extremities, small label to spine, o/w a very good, bright copy.
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A VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF ARGYLL AND THE INNER HEBRIDES.
Edinburgh, David Douglas. 8vo.,pp. lxxxiv, 262, green cloth, gilt, gilt to upper edge, ribbon bookmark, pictorial title, b/w plates with tissue guards, b/w and colour maps, colour linen-backed folding map to rear; lightly toned to margins and edges, with occasional light foxing, bookplates to front paste down and front free endpapers, ribbon divider faded and partially torn, sunned to spine and inner margins of boards, slight wear to head and foot of spine and to corners, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A WILD FLOWER WREATH.
Bude, Cornwall: privately printed at The Stellar Press, Hatfield. 8vo., pp.xii,178, green cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w plates; author’s inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to fore- and top edges, otherwise a very good, fresh copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (AACHEN) AS A HEALTH RESORT.
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1899. Second impression, 8vo., pp.viii,323, green cloth, gilt, decorative endpapers, ribbon bookmark, speckled edges; ex libris Dr. James Rutherford, Glasgow, with ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, further (other) ownership blindstamp to front free endpaper, toning to edges/margins, light sunning to inner margin of front board, a little rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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ALBUM DES GRANDS CRUS CLASSES.
par le syndicat des grandes crus classes du medoc, 1926. Oblong 8vo.,pp. 64, paperback, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, scuffed tears to lower margins of wrapper up to p.10, occasional foxing throughout, rubbed and toned to extremities, with some creasing to corners, a good copy.
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AN APPROVED TREATISE OF HAWKS AND HAWKING.
London 1619.
Trowbridge: Thames Valley Press. Small 4to., pp.(ii),(xvi),109, Facsimile edition, hardcover, silver lettering, pale green to upper edge; toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has runckles to laminate at front with a small scuff mark, light toning to spine and extremities.
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B.B.C. HANDBOOK 1929.
[The second B.B.C. Handbook.]
Savoy Hill, London: The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1928. 8vo., pp.480, blue cloth lettered and decorated in dark blue, b/w illustrations throughout; very good indeed, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, which has chipping to head of spine, small closed tears to edges, and light surface-soil to pale paper, else very good
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BACON'S SCIENCE OF MEMORY SIMPLIFIED AND EXPLAINED;
Or, a Rational System for Improving the Memory and Rapidly Acquiring Knowledge; with an application to Languages, History, Geography, Prose, Poetry, Etc. In Two Parts.
London: J.B. Bateman, 1862. 12mo., pp.(vi),108, textured brown cloth, lettered in gilt to front board; light foxing/toning to prelims, slight sunning to spine, a very good, fresh copy.
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BANTAMS AS A HOBBY.
London: ‘The Feathered World’, 1902. Large 8vo., pp.58,(7)adverts, blue cloth lettered in white to front board, unlettered spine, b/w frontispiece portrait, 2 folding colour plates, 26 b/w illustrations; neat inked inscription, dated 1902, to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, light spotting to lower margin of front board, slight rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket.
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BIRDS OF THE GREY WIND.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,228, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates, endpaper maps; a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has light wear to extremities (with chipping to head of spine, including 12 x 10 mm loss), good+ and now in a protective cover.
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Bound collection of pamphlets:
1. The Death Warrant of Charles the First; 2. The Liberal Catholic Church and the Theosophical Society, Where they Agree and where they Differ; 4. Spiritualism as Related to Theosophy; 5. The Social Upheaval in Progress; 6. Expanded Theosophical Knowledge; 7. Super-Physical Science; 8. Study and Practice; 9. The Prophecy of Lenin; 10. An Astrological Survey of the Great War; 11. The Diminishing Birth-Rate; 12. Who is Margaretta Pye’s Mother?; 13. The Servant; 14. Never Again.
8vo., blue cloth, gilt; a little rubbing to extremities, very good.
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BRITISH BATS.
The New Naturalist, Volume 93.
London: HarperCollins. First edition, 8vo., pp.218, green cloth, gilt, 8 colour plates and over 120 b/w illustrations (photographic and drawn); a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BRITISH LARKS, PIPITS AND WAGTAILS.
The New Naturalist Library, No. 78.
London: HarperCollins. 8vo., pp.320, green cloth, gilt, 4 colour plates, b/w plates; ink ownership to front free endpaper, slight mark to foot of spine, a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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