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TRANSACTIONS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM AND NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. New Series, vol.IX: History of the Birds of Durham.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, W.L.Large & Sons. 8vo.,pp.296, printed wrappers, b/w fold-out map to rear; lightly rubbed to extremities, with some discolouration to extremities, lightly worn at head and foot of spine, small stain to front of wrappers near hinge, a very good copy.
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TREATISES OF FISTULA IN ANO.
Haemorrhoids, and Clysters. From an Early Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Translation.
London: Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1968. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xxxvii,156, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 4 further b/w plates (one of which reprises frontispiece; one folding plate); ex publisher’s Printer’s Library, with small plate to front paste-down endpaper, and inkstamp to title verso, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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TREES AND SHRUBS HARDY IN THE BRITISH ISLES. (Set of Four Volumes:) Volume I. A-C; Volume II. D-M; Volume III. N-Rh; Volume IV. Ri-Z; Index.
London: John Murray, 1976. Second, further revised impression of the eighth revised edition, Volume IV first impression of the eighth edition, four volumes, 8vo., pp.xx,845;xvi,784;xvi,973;xv,808, teal blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates, top edges blue; rubbing to extremities, rear inner hinge of Volume IV broken, with webbing visible between endpapers, a very good set, in very good complete and unclipped dust-jackets.
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TROPICAL DISEASES. A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1909. 8vo., pp.xx,876, green cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour plates, b/w figures; ink ownership autograph (twice) and blindstamp (thrice) to prelims, toning to front endpapers, light foxing to rear endpapers and fore-edges, paper cracking to rear inner hinge (joint remains firm), rubbing to extremities, a good+ copy.
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UNEMPLOYMENT: A Social Study.
London, Macmillan, 1911. First edition, author’s presentation inscription, ‘with love from Seebolm’ and dated ‘9.xi.1911’, 8vo.,pp. xx,317, burgundy cloth, gilt, b/w tables, with 7 fold-out tables and advertisement page to rear; author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to endpapers, with occasional light foxing to margins, small knock to upper margin of front board, lightly sunned to spine and rubbed to extremities, a very good bright copy. No dust-jacket.
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UPLANDS AND BIRDS.
The New Naturalist, Vol.142.
London: William Collins, 2020. 8vo., pp.x,598, green cloth, gilt, colour plates; a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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VISTA: The Culture and Politics of Gardens.
London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. 8vo., pp.191, orange hardcover, gilt; ex library, with remnants of removed plates to front endpapers, and sticker to title verso, else clean and unmarked, with sunning to top edges, an otherwise very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and has remnant of paper label to foot of spine.
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VOYAGES & TRAVELS. An entertaining account of all the countries of the Known world. Defcribing the different religions, habits. Tempers, customs, traffick, and manufactures. Of their inhabitants; the remarkable curiofities, amongft them, either of art, or nature; the great variety of ftrange land and sea-animals; extraordinary plants, minerals, etc. Adorn’d, occafionally, with cuts of the habits of the feveral people, uncommon animals, ceremonies, buildings, etc. all curioufly engraved.
London: R. Goadby, 1753. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp. 490, 18, reverse calf, mimic panelled calf boards, five raised bands, leather title inlay to spine, 13 of 14 b/w plates, contains: ‘A Voyage to Virginia in 1649’; several ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, foxing and light soil throughout, marginal damage to several plates, previous owner’s repairs to first plate, a large tear has been sewn up with white thread, gutter visible between some leaves, lacks pages 301-4, wear to boards, a good copy of this scarce volume.
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WENTWORTH CASTLE AND GEORGIAN POLITICAL GARDENING.
The Wentworth Castle Heritage Trust, 2012. 4to., pp.ix,198, paperback, colour plates; a fine copy.
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WILD FOOD FROM LAND AND SEA.
Ebury Press, 1994. Folio, pp.160, grey hardcover, gilt, colour plates and illustrations; signed by the author to front free endpaper, slight tone to fore-edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has crease and small closed tear to head of spine, light creasing to edges, and slight surface soil to pale paper at rear of jacket, else very good..
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