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BOFFIN A Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics. [First Edition]
Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1991. 8vo., pp. 184, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures and illustrations; a very good indeed copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket with some light surface scratches.
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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 FUNGI. With a Chapter on Lichens.
London: Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp.,551, pictorial green cloth, gilt, colour plates; a little mottling to cloth, rubbing to extremities, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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BRITISH TIMBER TREES: Their Rearing and Subsequent Management, in Woods, Groves, and Plantations. Including Remarks on Soil and Situation, the General Improvement of Landed Estates and Mountainous Districts; with Directions for the Measurement and Valuation of Standing Timber.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. 8vo., pp.xii,276, full green bevelled morocco, gilt, four raised bands, decorative gilt borders to boards, gilt decoration to compartments, a.e.g., b/w figures; rubbing/slight wear to extremities, else very good.
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CHOICE EMBLEMS, Natural, Historical, Fabulous, Moral and Divine, for the Improvement and Passing of Youth. Ornamented with near Fifty Handsome Allegorical Engravings, Designed on Purpose for this Work.
London: Printed for George Riley, in Curzon Street, Mayfair, 1772. 12mo., pp.xii,192, full calf, five raised bands, red gilt-lettered title label to spine, engraved frontispiece, engraved emblems as headpieces to each chapter; occasional foxing, small closed tear to p.xi, splitting along joints, though stitching remains firm, a little wear to extremities, with some loss to calf at upper section of upper joint, an internally clean and good+ copy.
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CHURCH FESTIVAL DECORATIONS.
Being full Directions for Garnishing Churches for Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide and Harvest.
London: L. Upcott Gill/New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Second, revised and enlarged edition, small 8vo., pp.(iv),156,15(publisher’s adverts),(iii)adverts, red textured cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; inner hinges cracked (binding remains firm), pencilled ownership autograph and small bookseller’s sticker to front paste-down endpaper, gather of adverts to rear of volume working loose, with ultimate leaf loose, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to front lower corner, otherwise a very good, bright copy.
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COINAGE IN SCOTLAND.
London: Spink, 1997. 8vo., pp.175, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; one very small mark to front board, else a near-fine copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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CONFRONTING NATURE.
The Sociology of Solar-Neutrino Detection.
Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company (Kluwer), 1986. Reprinted, 8vo., pp.xi,268, glazed hardcover; very good indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN AND ALI IBN AL-ABBAS AL-MAGUSI.
The Pategni and Related Texts.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. 8vo., pp.ix,364, red cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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CROQUET UP TO DATE.
Containing the Ideas and Teachings of the Leading Players and Champions.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition, 8vo., pp.xviii,313, uncut and partially unopened, pictorial green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates and figures; croquet instruction pamphlet loose inside back endpapers, spine darkened, rubbing to extremities, small tear to cloth at tail of spine, a few small marks to cloth, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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CURIOSITIES FOR THE INGENIOUS: Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History, and General Literature.
London: Thomas Boys, 1821. 12mo., pp.192,(iv)adverts, uncut, leather-backed marbled boards, unlettered spine, complete with 13 engraved illustrations in 12 plates, including frontispiece; worn to extremities, boards rubbed, with loss to paper covering at lower margin, a little scruffy within, with some foxing and light surface soil, a good copy.
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DE VERBORUM SIGNIFICATIONE: THE EXPOSITION OF THE TERMES AND DIFFICILL WORDES, CONTAINED IN FOUR BUIKES OF REGIAM MAJESTATEM, AND OTHERS, IN THE ACTES OF PARLIAMENT, INVESTMENTS, AND USED IN PRACTICQUE OF THIS REALME,
And with diverse rules, and common places, or Principalles of the Lawes.
Edinburgh: printed be Robert Walde-grave, Printer to the Kingis Majestie, 1599. 4to., pp. unpaginated (H1-S5), half calf, five raised bands, marbled boards, engraved head-piece and coat-of-arms to title; lacking the folding table, otherwise complete, ink annotation to lower margin of I1, loss to lower corners of final few leaves, darkening and light marginal wear to final text leaf, margins a little darkened throughout, water-marking near rear of volume, with light undulation to the leaves throughout, front free endpaper beginning to work loose, joints worn but holding, wear to extremities, with 1.5cms loss to head of spine, a good copy. [STC 21877.5]
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DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xiv,459, navy cloth, gilt, lightly toned to margins and endpapers, toned to head and foot of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, small stain to front upper margin, worn at corners, chipping to head and foot of spine with loss to head of spine slightly obscuring title, closed tears along front and rear edge, now in a protective dust-cover, overall very good.
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DISOBEDIENCE.
London: S.P.C.K, 1874. 12mo., pp..24, printed stitched wrappers, b/w frontispiece; Sunday School prize inscription to reverse of frontispiece, dated 1874, foxing throughout, stitched in three places, of which only the uppermost holds, staining and surface soil to wrappers, small area of loss to fore-margin of rear wrapper, wrappers worn along spine, further light wear to extremities, a good copy.
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ELECTRONS, OR THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF NEGATIVE ELECTRICITY.
London: George Bell and Sons. Second, revised edition, published March 1907, 8vo., pp.xv,230,(ii), red cloth, gilt, b/w figures; foxing to fore-edges, toning to endpapers, extremities rubbed, with some rubbing and light scratches to boards, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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ENDLESS AMUSEMENT; A COLLECTION OF 404 ENTERTAINING AND ASTONISHING EXPERIMENTS. Among a Variety of Other Subjects are Amusements in Arithmetic, Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Optics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetism, Combinations of Figures, Reflection and Refraction of Light, the Art of Making Fire Works, Diverting Experiments with the Magic Lantern and Camera Obscura, Wonders of the Air-Pump, All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c. &c. &c. The whole so clearly explained as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity.
London: Published by Thorp and Burch, and printed by Gye and Balne, 1820. 12mo., pp.216, uncut, marbled paper-covered boards reinforced with green linen backstrip, folding copper-engraved frontispiece plate; foxing to frontispiece and edges, with some foxing throughout, occasional light pencil ‘x’ marks to margins, boards rubbed and lightly worn, partly recoloured with biro, with wear to edges of boards, a good copy of this extremely scarce volume.
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ETHIC AMUSEMENTS.
London: Printed by W. Faden, for the Author, 1768. 4to., pp.(xxv),x,260,86, uncut, just occasionally unopened, rebound with new endpapers, half calf, five raised bands, black title label, gilt-lettered, with gilt decorations to compartments, marbled boards, engraved frontispiece, titles and plates; small ink ownership autograph to title, tissue repairs to corners and edges of frontispiece, closed tears and light wear to margins of first few leaves, with water-staining to fore-margin of p.(vii) and some surface soil to fore-margins of opening leaves, clean within, a very good copy, with handsome modern binding in fine condition.
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ETUDE ET RECREATION, OU L'INTERIEUR D'UN PENSIONNAT.
Paris: Parmantier, Libraire, 1825. Small 8vo., pp.viii,327, rebacked marbled calf boards, red title label and gilt embellishments to spine, engraved frontispiece and four further engraved plates; neat ink ownership inscription, dated 1826, to front free endpaper verso, light foxing within, with slight wear to headband and wear to upper corner of rear board, a very good copy.
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FACES WE MEET AND HOW TO READ THEM. With: HOW TO READ CHARACTER BY THE AID OF PATHOGNOMY; Or The Signs Which Are Manifested By The Human System In Motion: As By The Walk Or Gait, Tones Of The Voice, Form Of The Body, The Mode Of Shaking Hands, Temperamental Conditions, Dress, Etc.
London: H. Vickers, et al, 1881. Two volumes in one, small 8vo., pp.240, brown cloth, gilt, with decorative blindstamped borders to boards, b/w frontispiece, b/w in-text illustrations throughout; some paper-splitting along inner hinges (joints remain firm),light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with 2cm split to cloth at head of upper joint, light partial sunning and slight marking to cloth, a near very good copy.
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FLORA OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA. [In Four Volumes].
I: Lycopodiaceae-Rosaceae; II: Leguminosae-Rubiceae; III: Polemoniaceae-Compositae; IV: Alismataceae-Orchidaceae.
Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division. Fourth edition, four volumes, large 8vo., pp.2248, red cloth, gilt, colour plates and numerous b/w figures; a fine set.
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