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BION AND GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv, red hardcover, gentle vertical crease to spine, light creasing to head/tailbands, else a very good copy, in a lightly toned unclipped dust-jacket.
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SPINORS AND SPACE-TIME. [In Two Volumes:] Volume I. Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields; Volume II. Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics.
Cambridge University Press, 1995. Reprints of the corrected editions, two volumes, 8vo., pp.x,458;ix,501, paperback; light creasing to spine of Volume 2, light toning to edges, a very good, fresh set.
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THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. Containing his Original; a State of his Circumstances; his Conduct Publick and Private; The Various Turns of his Affairs, from Adam down to the Present Time; the Various Methods he takes to Converse with Mankind; With the Manner of his Making Witches, Wizards, and Conjurers; and how they fell their Souls to him, &c, &c. The Whole Interspers’d with many of the Devil’s Adventures. To which is Added, a Description of the Devil’s Dwelling, vulgarly call’d Hell.
London: John Brindley, Olive Payne, John Jolliffe, Alexander Lyon, Charles Corbett, 1734. Third edition, 8vo., pp.(viii),408, contemporary panelled calf, five raised bands, edges red, engraved frontispiece; joints neatly repaired with specialist papers, boards show rubbing to margins as well as edges, internally fresh, a good copy. Lacks title-label to spine, some cracking to spine.
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THE NEW BRIGHTON GUIDE, Involving a Complete, Authentic, and Honourable Solution of the Recent Mysteries of Carlton House.
London: H.D. Symonds; T. Bellamy, 1796. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.68, quarter leather, gilt, marbled boards, pictorial title; light toning to half title, with two small holes to inner margin, spine neatly repaired with papers, a very good copy.
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THE LIFE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBE. [Two Volumes].
Vol I. Social life; Vol II. Mental Life.
New York: University Books Inc, 1962. 8vo., pp. xv, 559, 660, hardcover, silver lettering, yellow top edge, many b/w illustrations; very light marks to foredge, internally clean, some very light rubbing to extremities and spines, a very good indeed set in a pictorial slipcase with some rubbing and a large tear to roof.
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THE HARNESSING OF NIAGARA.
London: The Louis Cassier Co, 1899. Fifth edition, large 8vo., pp.(vi),162-384, green cloth, gilt, pictorial title, numerous b/w illustrations and figures; foxing and small tear to cloth at head and foot of spine, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE COMPLETE GENTLEMAN (1622). With: The Truth of Our Times, and The Art of Living in London.
Ithaca, NY: Published for The Folger Shakespeare Library, by Cornell University Press, 1962. First edition, 8vo., pp.xx,250, red cloth, gilt; pencilled ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned, with two small closed tears at headband.
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THE COMPLETE KANO JIU-JITSU (JIUDO). The Official Jiu-Jitsu of the Japanese Government. With the Additions by Hoshino and Tsutsumi, and Chapters on the Serious and Fatal Blows and on Kuatsu, the Japanese Science of the Restoration of Life.
London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931. Reprinted (third impression of the second edition), 8vo., pp.xv,526, red cloth lettered in black, 500 b/w illustrations and 4 b/w figures; light foxing to endpapers, light marking and slight mottling to cloth, rubbing to extremities, internally clean, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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FERNS: THEIR HABITATS IN THE BRITISH AND IRISH LANDSCAPE.
New Naturalist Series No. 74.
London: Collins, 1988. 8vo., pp.430, green cloth, gilt, with 21 colour photographs and over b/w photographs and diagrams; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise clean and very good, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine, with light creasing at headband.
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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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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S SCIENCE.
Cambridge, Mass./London: Yale University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.xii,273, pale blue cloth, gilt; slight roll to spine, a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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LICHENS.
The New Naturalist, Volume 86.
London: HarperCollins. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, green cloth, gilt, 16 colour plates and over 120 b/w photographs and line drawings; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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THE B.B.C YEAR-BOOK 1932. The programme year covered by this book is from November 1, 1930, to October 31, 1931.
London: The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1932. 8vo., pp. 480, hardcover, black lettering, b/w pictorial endpapers, text accompanied by many b/w illustrations; very light toning and foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally clean, boards lightly rubbed, small bruise to head of spine, a very good copy indeed, in a vg colour pictorial dust-jacket, slightly rubbed with light surface soil, creasing to head and tail band and closed tears to head and tail of spine
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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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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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ELECTRICITY IN THE SERVICE OF MAN.
A Popular and Practical Treatise on the Applications of Electricity to Modern Life. [Volumes I and II:] Volume I. The History and Principles of Electrical Science; Volume II. Technology of Electricity, Section 1.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1911. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xi,828;vii,686, blue cloth, gilt, front boards lettered in black, b/w frontispiece, very numerous b/w illustrations throughout, including 11 folding plates to Volume II; contemporary ink ownership inscription (dated 1916) to front free endpaper of both volumes, toning to free endpapers, and foxing to prelims/end leaves of Volume II, with superficial paper-cracking to rear inner hinge, Volume I has a small area of loss to cloth and puncture mark near foot of spine, a small knock to lower spine of Volume II, rubbing and occasional slight wear to extremities, overall very good.
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ELECTRONS, OR THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF NEGATIVE ELECTRICITY.
London: George Bell and Sons. Second, revised edition, published March 1907, 8vo., pp.xv,230,(ii), red cloth, gilt, b/w figures; foxing to fore-edges, toning to endpapers, extremities rubbed, with some rubbing and light scratches to boards, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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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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CHOICE EMBLEMS, Natural, Historical, Fabulous, Moral and Divine, for the Improvement and Passing of Youth. Ornamented with near Fifty Handsome Allegorical Engravings, Designed on Purpose for this Work.
London: Printed for George Riley, in Curzon Street, Mayfair, 1772. 12mo., pp.xii,192, full calf, five raised bands, red gilt-lettered title label to spine, engraved frontispiece, engraved emblems as headpieces to each chapter; occasional foxing, small closed tear to p.xi, splitting along joints, though stitching remains firm, a little wear to extremities, with some loss to calf at upper section of upper joint, an internally clean and good+ copy.
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