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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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FACES WE MEET AND HOW TO READ THEM. With: HOW TO READ CHARACTER BY THE AID OF PATHOGNOMY; Or The Signs Which Are Manifested By The Human System In Motion: As By The Walk Or Gait, Tones Of The Voice, Form Of The Body, The Mode Of Shaking Hands, Temperamental Conditions, Dress, Etc.
London: H. Vickers, et al, 1881. Two volumes in one, small 8vo., pp.240, brown cloth, gilt, with decorative blindstamped borders to boards, b/w frontispiece, b/w in-text illustrations throughout; some paper-splitting along inner hinges (joints remain firm),light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with 2cm split to cloth at head of upper joint, light partial sunning and slight marking to cloth, a near very good copy.
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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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THE GAME FOR THE GAME'S SAKE.
The History of Queen’s Park Football Club 1867-1967.
Glasgow: published by the Queen’s Park Football Club Ltd., and printed by Hay Nisbet & Co, 1967. First edition, 8vo., pp.(viii),402, black hardcover lettered and with pictorial emblem in silver; light partial toning to free endpapers, a clean and very good+ copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is chipped to head of spine, with small closed tears to extremities, as well as 4cm closed tear to head of spine. Now in a protective cover.
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The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 10: CIVILIZATION IN TRANSITION.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. First English edition, 8vo., pp.xii,618, green cloth, gilt; small Foyles sticker to front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy, in edge-worn unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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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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THE MICROSCOPE IN THE DUTCH REPUBLIC: The Shaping of Discovery.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 8vo.,pp. xii,348, paperback, b/w figures; lightly sunned to spine, a very good copy.
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THE ANTHROPOCENE AS A GEOLOGICAL TIME UNIT.
A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 8vo.,pp. xiv,361, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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MECHANICS’ MAGAZINE, MUSEUM, REGISTER, JOURNAL, AND GAZETTE.
No. 325, Saturday, October 31, 1829 (Vol. XII); No. 326 - Saturday, November 7, 1829;
1829. 8vo., pp.162-256,(iv), bound into unlettered moire cloth, b/w illustrations including folding plate; chipping and light wear to edges of contents, foxing and toning to contents, a good copy (binding vg).
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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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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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BIRDS OF THE GREY WIND.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,228, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates, endpaper maps; a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has light wear to extremities (with chipping to head of spine, including 12 x 10 mm loss), good+ and now in a protective cover.
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CURIOSITIES FOR THE INGENIOUS: Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History, and General Literature.
London: Thomas Boys, 1821. 12mo., pp.192,(iv)adverts, uncut, leather-backed marbled boards, unlettered spine, complete with 13 engraved illustrations in 12 plates, including frontispiece; worn to extremities, boards rubbed, with loss to paper covering at lower margin, a little scruffy within, with some foxing and light surface soil, a good copy.
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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE RABBIT.
An Account of the Life History and Social Behaviour of the Wild Rabbit.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. 8vo., pp.152, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 8 b/w plates and 16 in-text figures; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, else very good, in good price-clipped dust-jacket, which has closed tears and creasing to head of spine and front upper margin, with sellotape repairs to reverse, and light chipping to extremities.
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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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BACON'S SCIENCE OF MEMORY SIMPLIFIED AND EXPLAINED;
Or, a Rational System for Improving the Memory and Rapidly Acquiring Knowledge; with an application to Languages, History, Geography, Prose, Poetry, Etc. In Two Parts.
London: J.B. Bateman, 1862. 12mo., pp.(vi),108, textured brown cloth, lettered in gilt to front board; light foxing/toning to prelims, slight sunning to spine, a very good, fresh copy.
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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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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF FISHES.
Richard Bell, 1956. 8vo., pp.150,(i), tan hardcover lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and plates; foxing to edges and endpapers, and lightly to prelims, else a very good copy, in complete and unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is creased and lightly chipped without loss to head of spine, with foxing to the pale paper, now in a protective cover and otherwise very good.
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