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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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FOLKS DO GET BORN.
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,245, uncut, pictorial pale green cloth, stamped in brown and lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers, b/w illustrations; foxing to edges and to margins of boards, gilt a little faded, internally clean, a good+ copy, in a very good colour pictorial dust-jacket with slight rubbing to extremities, small tears/chips to the head and tail band, and light foxing to reverse.
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GARDENS IN AMERICA.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.320, cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece plus 15 further b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, foxing to edges, sunning to spine and edges of boards, a good+ copy, in good(+) unclipped dust-jacket, which has chipping with light loss to edges, and has sticker reinforcements to reverse.
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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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GENERAL RELATIVITY.
Papers in Honour of J.L Synge.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1972. 8vo., pp.ix,277, navy cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly worn to extremities, with partial sunning, and paper reinforcement to reverse of headband.
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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.
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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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HARRODS ILLUSTRATED [Full Catalogue, c.1911]
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HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Reproduction of the 1667 Edition.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.xxxii,439,78, blue cloth, gilt, title inlay to spine, b/w frontispieces; light toning and foxing to endpapers, light foxing to edges, slightly affecting margins, otherwise internally clean, slight bruise to bottom right corner of front board, overall a very good copy, in a good price-clipped dust-jacket with chipping to head and tail band and mottling to spine and margins.
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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 BRECKLAND WILDS
Yorkshire: EP Publishing Limited, 1974. 8vo., pp.viii,200, red hardcover, gold lettering, b/w frontispiece and 18 b/w plates throughout; very minimal foxing on top edge, very good unclipped dust-jacket that has been covered, overall very good copy 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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INSECT FACT AND FOLKLORE
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. 8vo, pp.xiv,194, black cloth, orange lettering, b/w illustrations throughout; some foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, has been sunned to the spine, chipped at head and tail of spine and with historic repair to the reverse.
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INTRODUCTION TO TENSORS, SPINORS, AND RELATIVISTIC WAVE-EQUATIONS.
London: Blackie & Son, 1953. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,221, navy cloth, gilt, lightly toned to margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, chipping to head of spine and upper corners, with some loss, overall very good.
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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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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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LAMENESS IN THE HORSE: With Coloured Plates, Illustrative of the Different Species of Lameness.
Being Part II, Vol.IV, of the Author’s “HIPPOPATHOLOGY” or, “Treatise on the Diseases and Lameness of the Horse”, Now Complete in Four Volumes, With A Copious Index to the Entire Work.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans. Part II, Vo.lV, 8vo.,pp.vi,274-514, red cloth, black title label to spine, gilt, b/w illustrations, colour plates, colour frontispiece; rubbed to extremities, chipping to head and foot of spine, wear to head of spine, and corners, foxed to margins, with heavier foxing to first few pages, off-setting to endpapers, ownership inscription to front-free endpaper, a good+ copy.
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