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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: Watts & Co., 1950. [Evolutionary Science] FIRST REPRINT OF THE 1859 EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 426. With a facsimile frontispiece showing the original 'Whale-Bear' passage. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dark green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. A touch of light toning..... More
Aerodynamics of the Helicopter.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, no date [1952]. [Aviation] GALLEY PROOF. A4 photocopied paper, ring-bound in black plastic with clear plastic covers. (28 x 24cm), lacking pages 2 and 3 (one sheet of paper). pp.[6] 1; 4-343. A small blank area of the first page cut away. Browned throughout..... More
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). With the composer's blue ink stamp-signature to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's sub-conductor..... More
Psychic Energy: Its Source and Goal.
Washington, D.C.: Published for Bollingen Foundation by Pantheon Books, 1947. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 497 [5]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and green..... More
Poisonous Plants on the Farm. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Miscellaneous Publications No. 57.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.58. With 51 illustrations to plate section at rear. In original leather-effect blue quarter cloth, with titles to plain paper-covered boards. Boards lightly browned, with a couple of small water stains to top edge (upper board only). Near fine overall... More
Wood Bending Handbook.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970. [Craft and Construction] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (30 x 21cm), pp.[10] 110. With diagrams and black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown faux leather over boards, with lighter brown decoration to upper, and white titles to spine and upper. Priced at £1/15s or £1.75..... More
The Relations of the Sexes.
Christchurch: The Free Age Press, 1901. [Letters and Diaries] FIRST THUS. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.80. Publisher's green paper covers, priced at 4d. Rubbing and toning to spine, with a 1cm loss to head. Very good. A series of extracts from Tolstoy's letters, diaries and unpublished MSS. More
The Fashionable Letter Writer; or, Art of Polite Correspondence. Consisting of Original Letters on every Occurrence in Life, written in a concise and familiar style, and adapted to both sexes. To which are added, complimentary cards, petitions, wills, bonds, etc.
London: Dean and Munday, and A.K. Newman, n.d. [c.1840]. EARLY EDITION in original publisher's boards. Sexto, pp.216. With a steel engraved frontispiece and decorated title page after drawings by H. Corbould, by H. Adlard. In original publisher's plain paper-covered boards with black titles to spine and upper board. Some outer..... More
Land: Its Attractions ad Riches. By Fifty-Seven Writers.
London: The Land Roll Office, 1892. [Property Investments] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 910 [10]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bookplate dated 1892 to front pastedown. Light browning and spotting to edges and preliminaries. Light rubbing to cloth. Very good. A rather desperate and highly..... More
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