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PEAT AND ITS PRODUCTS. An Illustrated Treatise on Peat and its Products as a National Source of Wealth.
Glasgow: Begg, Kennedy & Elder, 1905. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,318, brown cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w plates; foxing to fore-edges, light foxing and toning to prelims, bubbling and light marking to cloth, a good+ copy of this scarce title.
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PILGRIMAGE FOR PLANTS.
London: George G. Harrap, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.191, green hardcover lettered in white, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly chipped to extremities,
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POWER FROM THE EARTH.
Deep Earth Gas - Energy for the Future.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1987. 8vo., pp.vii,208, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light marking to front board, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS.
London: T. Cadell, 1785. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,233,(i), rebacked tree calf boards, spine in a modern tan leather, gilt-lettered; contemporary ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, without original free endpapers or replacements: begins at prelim blank, internally fresh with minimal marking or spotting, light wear at corners of boards, a very good copy.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF A SUSSEX PARSON.
Berwick, St. Michael and All the Angels. 8vo.,pp. 259, grey cloth, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w figures; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light surface marking.
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RELATIVITY The Special & the General Theory, A Popular Exposition. Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson. With five diagrams and a portrait of the author.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1920. Second English edition, 8vo., publisher’s red cloth, gilt, pp.xiii,(3),138,(2),8(adverts), frontispiece portrait;neat signature to front free endpaper, light foxing to fore-edges and prelims, otherwise a very attractive, bright, clean copy.
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RELATIVITY. A Very Elementary Exposition.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First US edition, pocket 8vo., pp.45, turquoise cloth, navy lettering; light toning to endpapers, very light foxing to prelims and edges, not affecting margins, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy in clipped dust-jacket, which s worn to extremities, with closed tears, chipping, and small areas of loss - now in a protective cover.
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RELATIVITY GRAVITATION AND WORLD-STRUCTURE.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. 8vo.,pp. viii,365, dark green cloth, gilt, b/w figures, b/w frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, light sunning to spine and light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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REYNARD THE FOX,
After the German Version of Goethe.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1887. First edition thus, 4to., pp.342, uncut, deluxe half red morocco Bickers binding, three raised bands, gilt, with pictorial gilt decoration to spine, marbled cloth boards, matching marbled endpapers, t.e.g., ribbon bookmark, b/w frontispiece and decorative title, engraved b/w plates and in-text illustrations, head- and tailpieces; heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, ex libris W.A. Foyle, with small gilt-lettered leather bookplate to front free endpaper, light foxing to prelims and fore-edges, a fine copy.
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RICHARD WOODS (1715-1793),
Master of the Pleasure Garden.
Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009. Large 8vo., pp.xx,283, brown hardcover, gilt, 8pp. colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations; near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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ROBERT BOYLE BY HIMSELF AND HIS FRIENDS. With a fragment of William Wotton’s lost Life of Boyle.
London: William Pickering, 1994. 8vo.,pp. cvii,188, navy cloth, red title band and gilt lettering to spine, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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RUSSIAN PICTURES
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1889. 4to., pp.224, pictorial blue cloth, decorative gilt, gilt lettering, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; prize presentation bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (dated 1907), toning to front free endpaper, spots of foxing throughout, particularly to initial pages, light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy.
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SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE FRS 1802-1875.
History of Technology Series 29.
London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xvii,235, pictorial hardcover, b/w figures and tables; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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SNOWDROPS AND SNOWFLAKES.
A Study of the Genera Galanthus and Leucojum.
London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1956. First edition, pp.128, navy cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, further b/w and colour plates, folding map to rear of volume; rubbing to extremities, mark to front board, slight mustiness, an internally clean and good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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SUPPLEMENT TO PAXTON’S BOTANICAL DICTIONARY.
Containing All the New Plants Since the Appearance of the First Edition.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849. Pocket 8vo., pp.(iv),73,(ii)adverts, green cloth with decorative blindstamped borders, gilt-lettered (with decoration) to front board, unlettered spine, a.e.g.; front endpapers partially cracked along hinge (joint is firm), fairly extensive splash-marking to rear board, spine lightly sunned, an otherwise attractive and very good copy.
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SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR FEYNMAN!
Adventures of a Curious Character.
London: The Folio Society, 2012. 8vo., pp.356, pictorial grey cloth, in slipcase; mint, in shrinkwrap. [This edition follows the text of the 1992 Vintage edition.]
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SYRIAN ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS, OR ‘THE BOOK OF MEDICINES’. The Syriac Text, Edited from a Rare Manuscript, with an English Translation. [Set of Two Volumes:]
Volume I. Introduction; Syriac Text. Volume II. English Translation and Index
London: Published under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913. 8vo., pp.clxxviii,614;xxv,804 red cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are lightly worn to extremities, with possible light worming to front lower margin of jacket to Volume I, and with foxing/mottling to spines - now in protective covers and otherwise very good.
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TELLING LIVES IN SCIENCE.
Essays on Scientific Biography.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xiv,295, hardcover with stamped title label in blue, gilt; slight tone to edges, a couple of small bumps to edges of boards, else clean and very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has cm closed tear to front upper edge, small nick to headband, and removed sticker to rear of jacket, else vg.
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THE ADJUSTMENT & TESTING OF TELESCOPE OBJECTIVES
York: T. Cooke & Sons, Ltd, 1921. 8vo., pp.123, boards quarter bound in contrasting paper, tan title inlay to spine, uncut, one b/w plate, b/w illustrations throughout, toning to margins, occasional pencilling, closed tears to pages, 73, 75, 77, light wear to boards, particularly to extremities, mark to front and rear board, overall a good copy.
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THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED, TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE. To which are added Two brief Dissertations: I. Of Personal Identity. II. Of the Nature of Virtue.
London: James, John and Paul Knapton. First edition, includes half title, 4to., pp.(x),320, full pannelled calf, five raised bands; lacks title label, wear to calf, including loss of apx. 5x6 cms to front lower LH corner, with professional reinforcement and recolouring to boards, some neat pencilled annotation within, internally very good, a good copy overall.
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