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BRITISH BATS. The New Naturalist, Volume 93.
London: HarperCollins. First edition, 8vo., pp.218, green cloth, gilt, 8 colour plates and over 120 b/w illustrations (photographic and drawn); a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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A MANUAL OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE, DESCRIBING THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, AND TREATMENT OF THE MOST COMMON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL AFFECTIONS; The Whole Intended as a Family Guide in all Cases of Accident and Emergency, and to give Directions as to the Proper Method of Proceeding in Those Cases Where the Surgeon’s Aid is Obtained After Difficulty and Much Delay.
London: Virtue and Co, 1867. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,204,10 (publisher’s adverts), red cloth wrappers with unlettered spine and front cover stamped in gilt and blind; crosses marked to margins, corners have been folded, marking to wrappers, with light wear to edges, darkening to cloth, a good copy.
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The New Naturalist: CAVES AND CAVE LIFE.
With 97 black and white photographs, line drawings and maps.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 216, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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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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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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KINEMATIC 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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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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CROQUET UP TO DATE.
Containing the Ideas and Teachings of the Leading Players and Champions.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition, 8vo., pp.xviii,313, uncut and partially unopened, pictorial green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates and figures; croquet instruction pamphlet loose inside back endpapers, spine darkened, rubbing to extremities, small tear to cloth at tail of spine, a few small marks to cloth, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xiv,459, navy cloth, gilt, lightly toned to margins and endpapers, toned to head and foot of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, small stain to front upper margin, worn at corners, chipping to head and foot of spine with loss to head of spine slightly obscuring title, closed tears along front and rear edge, now in a protective dust-cover, overall very good.
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MODERN COSMOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF GOD. Being the Edward Cadbury Lectures in the University of Birmingham for 1950.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1952. First editon, 8vo.,pp. 160, navy cloth, gilt; toning to endpapers, off setting to front and rear free endpapers and toning to margins, occasional light pencilling to margins, otherwise very good, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and rubbed to spine and extremities, with wear to corners.
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THE PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1947. Third edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,311, green cloth, gilt; toned to margins, pencil annotation to front free endpaper and occasionally to margins, sunning to spine and lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE RELATIVISTIC GAS.
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing, 1957. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xi,108,red cloth, gilt, b/w figures; light toning to margins, otherwise very good, in a good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, chipped and some loss to head and foot of spine and wear to corners, small creased tears along margins.
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5 EASY PIECES.
The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems.
Washington/London: Island Press, 2010. Large 8vo., pp.xii,193, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRE OF GERMANY, HOLLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, PRUSSIA, ITALY, SICILY, CORSICA, AND SARDINIA; With a Gazetteer of Reference to the Principal Places in Those Countries. Compiled and translated from the German. To which are added, Statistical Tables of all the States of Europe; Translated from the German of J.G. Boetticher of Konigsberg. With a Supplementary Table, Showing the Changes Since the Commencement of the Present War. Illustrated with Twemty-Four Plates, and a large Three-Sheet Post Map of Germany, Holland, Italy, Etc.
London: John Stockdale, 1800. 4to., pp.390,viii,87, full contemporary speckled calf, 5 raised bands, red title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, frontispiece map, 3 folding maps, 23 city plans; light evidence of removed bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor marginal worming, not affecting printed area, 4cm wear to foot of upper external joint, 1.5cm wear to foot of lower external joint, rubbing/superficial wear along upper joint and to lower inner corner of front board, a clean and handsome copy.
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A COMPARATIVE HAND LIST OF THE BIRDS OF JAPAN AND THE BRITISH ISLES.
In this Hand List the author has attempted to supply the materials for a complete comparison between the birds of the Island of Japan and the birds found in Great Britain and Ireland.
Cambridge University Press, 1925. 4to., pp.(vi),107, beige cloth, gilt; ownership bookplates to front endpapers, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed and partly toned, with water-stain to rear/spine, and light wear to extremities, with apx. 6mms loss at head of spine.
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ALBUM DES GRANDS CRUS CLASSES.
par le syndicat des grandes crus classes du medoc, 1926. Oblong 8vo.,pp. 64, paperback, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, scuffed tears to lower margins of wrapper up to p.10, occasional foxing throughout, rubbed and toned to extremities, with some creasing to corners, a good copy.
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LANDFORMS AND GEOLOGY OF GRANITE TERRAINS.
Leiden/London: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2005. 4to., pp.ix,351, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light shelfwear to covers, internally fine, with presentation inscription to title, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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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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