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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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FRESHWATER FISHES. New Naturalist Series 75.
London: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, 8vo., pp.378, green cloth, gilt, with 21 colour photographs and over 200 b/w photographs and diagrams; slight soil to top edges, a near fine copy, in a very good complete and unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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GEMS AND JEWELS, Their History, Geography, Chemistry, and Ana, from the Earliest Ages down to the Present Time.
London: Richard Bentley, 1860. 8vo., pp.xxxii,382, half leather, gilt, marbled boards; small heraldic emblem tipped in to front free endpaper, pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims, loss to upper corner of p.5, occasional pencil annotation and underlining within, rubbing to boards and extremities, especially to centre of front board, a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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GEORGE FORREST. Plant Hunter.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2004. First edition, 4to., pp.239, colour and b/w illustrations throughout; light spotting to half-title, tiny spot to title, otherwise a bright clean copy in a very good dust-jacket, with a small nick to the head of the spine, now in a protective cover.
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GERMAN ENCOUNTERS WITH MODERNISM, 1840-1945.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1840. 8vo., pp.xi,271, paperback, 8 colour plates, b/w illustrations; near-fine.
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GREATER PEFECTIONS:
The Practice of Garden Theory.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. 8vo., pp.xiii,273, paperback, b/w illustrations; crease to upper corner of front wrapper, light shelfwear, light creasing to spine, a clean and otherwise very good copy.
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GREEN TREASURY. A Journey Through the World’s Great Nature Writing.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1952. 8vo., pp.615,xxi, green hardcover, quarter bound in contrasting green paper, gilt, decorative gilt to front board, uncut, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations; very light yellowing to leaves, very light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy indeed in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extermities, with closed tears to head and tailband, repaired with tape by previous owner, and minor chipping/creasing to extremities, and a few marks to rear.
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HARRODS ILLUSTRATED [Full Catalogue, c.1911]
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HISTORIC DOUBTS ON THE LIFE AND REIGN OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD.
London: J. Dodsley, 1868. 8vo.,pp. xv,134, full calf boards, decorative gilt and lettering to spine, five raised bands and burgundy title band to spine, b/w illustration and frontispiece; toned and lightly foxed to endpapers with light foxing to margins, text mildly off set to leaves throughout, minor cracking to hinge, webbing very slightly visible but all contents firm, boards rubbed to extremities with wear to corners and lower corners slightly knocked, otherwise a very good copy.
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HOYLE’S GAMES IMPROVED:
Being Practical Treatises on the Following Fashionable Games, Viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Back-Gammon, Chess, Billiards, and Tennis. With the Established Rules of Each Game.
London: S. Bladon, 1775. 12mo., pp.iv,(vi),208, full calf, five raised bands, red title label to spine, gilt; partial loss to title label (’HOYL... GAME...’), light cracking to head (first compartment) of upper joint, else fresh and very good indeed.
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ILLUSTRATED IMPORTANT FOREST TREES OF JAPAN.
Tokyo: Chikyu Shuppan Co. Ltd, 1964. First edition, bilingual Japanese/English text, 4to., pp.217, white cloth lettered in black and green, 100 colour plates, with distribution maps printed on glassine leaves. and accompanying text; ownership inscription to prelim blank, a very good copy, in pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to edges, with creasing, tears and some loss to upper edge.
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IN THE NORTH COUNTREE. Annals and Anecdotes of Horse, Hound and Herd.
London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co./York: Sampson Brothers, 1889. 8vo., pp.(ix),296,(8)adverts, original pictorial cloth stamped in blue and black, and lettered in gilt, neatly recased, with new endpapers, pictorial title, b/w plates; ink ownership autograph to half title, rubbed to extremities, a very good copy.
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INCREASING THE STRENGTH OF THE EYES AND OF THE EYE MUSCLES WITHOUT THE AID OF GLASSES.
Kansas City: The Eyesight and Health Association Publishers, 1928. Fourth impression (first published in 1925), 8vo., pp.199, textured black cloth, faded (gilt?) lettering to spine and to front board, b/w illustrations and two loose eye-test charts; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, ownership autograph also to the loose charts, rubbing to extremities, light marking to cloth, a good, internally clean copy.
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INTRODUCTION TO GPS. The Global Positioning System.
Norwood: ARTECH HOUSE, INC, 2006. 8vo., pp.xiv,210, pictorial hardcover, b/w diagrams; just slight shelfwear, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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INVENTARIUM SIVE CHIRURGIA MAGNA. [In Two Volumes:]
Volume One: Text; Volume II: Commentary.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xviii,486;(iii),438, red cloth, gilt; fine, in very good unclipped dust-jackets.
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INVESTIGATION OF THE MOTION OF HALLEY’S COMET FROM 1759 TO 1910.
Edinburgh: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Neill and Co., Limited, 1910. Folio, pp.84, cloth with printed paper title label to spine; crease and large closed tear to lower margin of final leaf, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy.
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JUNG IN AFRICA [First Edition]
New York, London: Continuum, 2005. First edition, 8vo., pp. xi,256, brown hardcover, silver lettering, one b/w map, b/w plates; toning to edges of text block, affecting margins, light tobacco odour, else a very good copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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KINETIC RELATIVITY
A Sequel to Relativity, Gravitation and World Structure
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948. First edition, 8vo., pp.238, blue cloth, gilt; light toning to endpapers and edges, neat ink ownership inscriptionn to front free endpaper, faint marking to front board, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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