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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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GREATER PERFECTIONS:
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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HANDBUCH DER NATURFARBSTOFFE. Vorkommon. Verwendung. Nachweis.
Landsberg am Lech: Ecomed Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993. Large 8vo., pp.800, red hardcover with colour inlay, colour plates; guttering lightly visible, binding working loose to rear, light soiling to p.4 and p.5, slight rubbing to boards with slight soiling to rear, a good + copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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HISTORY OF FREDERICH II OF PRUSSIA, CALLED FREDERICK THE GREAT.
In Three Volumes. Volume I. Books 1-10; Volume II. Books 11-16; Volume III. Books 17-21
London: Chapman and Hall. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.xvi,461;xvi,446;xiii,340,392,258, full calf prize bindings with decorative heraldic device to front and rear boards, five raised bands with gilt decorations to compartments, black title bands, gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, engraved frontispiece portrait to Volume I, small b/w map to Volume II; prize bookplate to front paste-down endpaper of Volume I, a fresh and near-fine set.
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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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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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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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KINEMATIC 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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LANDFORMS AND GEOLOGY OF GRANITE TERRAINS.
Leiden/London: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2005. 4to., pp.ix,351, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light shelfwear to covers, internally fine, with presentation inscription to title, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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LECTURES ON CONDITIONED REFLEXES. Twenty-five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (Behaviour) of Animals
London: Martin Lawrence Limited, 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.414, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; light foxing to prelims, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an edgeworn unclipped dust-jacket, which has 1cm loss at headband, chipping and closed tears to the edges, and staining/marking to the paper. Now in a protective cover.
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LIST OF YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA Entomological Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. Vol. 2.
Leeds: printed for the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union by Taylor Brothers, 1883. 8vo., pp. 190, blue hardcover, gilt, decorative gilt to front board, one colour plate in with prelims; foxing to endpapers, occasional spots throughout text, pages slightly coming away from lower gutter, light pencilling to pages 12-16, light wear to extremities of boards, especially to the corners which are lightly bruised, some light marks to boards, a good+ copy.
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LOGIC, SIGNS AND NATURE IN THE RENAISSANCE. The Case of Learned Medicine.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xvi,407, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece, b/w figures; a very good, fresh copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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LOST BEASTS OF BRITAIN.
London: Harrap, 1974. 8vo., pp.138, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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MAGISTRI SALERNITANI NONDUM COGNITI.
A Contribution to the History of the Medical School of Salerno. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum London, Research Studies in Medical History, No.2.
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd, 1923. Large 8vo., pp.(viii),68, pictorial blue cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece and 27 b/w plates; sellotape stain to inner margins of frontispiece/title, handwritten ownership markings throughout (including to all plates and to lower edge), ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, paper title labels pasted to spine, light sunning to spine, a good copy.
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MAKING 20TH CENTURY SCIENCE: How Theories Became Knowledge.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 8vo.,pp. xvii,531, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w figures; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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MAKING THE DOVECOTE PAY.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935. 8vo., pp.92,(iv)adverts, green cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and 8 further b/w illustrations; foxing to titles and edges, just slight rubbing to extremities, else a very good copy indeed.
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