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The Arts & Sciences
Triumphant Democracy. Or Fifty Year's March of the Republic.
London; Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 1886. First Edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.353, index. Folding chart as frontispiece. Publisher's fragile paperback, pictorial upper printed in green and black. Covers a little grubby, some edgewear, spine rolled and a little chipped, priced 1/-. A very good copy, and scarce..... More
The Microscope, and its Revelations.
London: John Churchill, 1856. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.xx, 778 [2]. With 345 wood engraved diagrams. In publisher's blind-tooled cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Slight reading lean and a little external wear; very good indeed. A popular early manual on the use of the microscope, by..... More
Philosophical, Political, and Literary Travels in Russia During the Years 1788 and 1789. Translated from the French of Chantreau with a map, and other plates.
Perth: R. Morison and Son. [Vernor and Hood, London]. 1794. First English edition. 2 volumes. Octavo. One folding map and three finely engraved plates. Bound in contemporary tan tree calf boards with later tan spines, black title labels, embellished with gilt centre tools and ruled compartments. Strong and solid. Internally..... More
Unmarried Love. Sexual Wisdom for the Single.
London: Jarrolds, 1965. [Sex advice] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with red and black titles, priced at 15s. Light spotting to edges and endpapers. Cloth a rubbed and marked, bumped to fore edge and top corners. Jacket lightly sunned..... More
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[ECONOMICS] A Statistical View of the Population of Massachussetts, from 1765 to 1840.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. Small 4to. Publisher's grey paper wrappers with printed titles to spine and upper. Little nicks to head and tail of spine and to corners. Boston Library label to inner cover and small ink stamp to bottom of title page. Clean and strong..... More
Fishing; Pike and Coarse Fish, Salmon and Trout Fishing.
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. 8vo. 2 volumes in publisher's half blue morocco with gilt titles to spines, yellow cloth boards with gilt crest to centre of uppers; top edges gilt. Fifth Edition, with numerous additional illustrations and diagrams. Marginal loss to final leafof indec, shprt tear to rear..... More
Studies in Terrestrial Magnetism.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First printing of a collection of the main results of Chree's works on Terrestrial Magnetism up to 1912, with several charts and diagrams. Large 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and embossed to upper. A superb copy of a rare book..... More
Landscape into Art.
London: John Murray, 1949. [Landscape Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 148. With 52 double-sided half-tone plates at rear. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Graham Sutherland, priced at 25s. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Slightly short jacket toned to..... More
The Exploration of Space.
London: Temple Press Ltd, 1951. [Science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiii; [1]; 198. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leslie Carr, cosmic endpapers. With fifteen plates plus a number of in-text illustrations. Internally clean with some light spotting to the preliminaries and to..... More
Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics. Technical Trends Series.
London: Temple Press Limited, 1950. [Space Exploration] MULTI-SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 164 [2]. With six double-sided black and white plates. SIGNED to flyleaf by the author, and eleven other important science fiction writers and editors, including John (Wyndham) Harris, author of 'The Day of the Triffids'..... More
The Problem of Industrial Relations and Other Lectures.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth in scarce original dustwrapper. The book is absolutely fine and appears unread; jacket shows some chipping to spine tips, and a little toning to extremities. An attractive copy. First edition in book form. Some of these essays had appeared..... More
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale and Co., no date [1919]. [Hops and Agriculture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 120. With 30 illustrations, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with gilt titles and price of 10/6 to spine. A presentation copy with the plate of W.H. and H. Le May, London Hop..... More
Lithops: Flowering Stones.
Randburg, SA: Acorn Books, 1988. [Botany] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.x; 254. Illustrated with diagrams and colour photographs. Number 268 of 2500 copies. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Green endpapers. A fine copy. More
Darwin and the Naked Lady Discursive Essays on Biology and Art.
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1961. FIRST EDITION: Publisher's boards with original dustwrapper. A fine copy in slightly faded to spine wrapper, with small closed tear verso. From the author of "The Joy of Sex" More
Chester. Painted by E. Harrison Compton. Described by Francis Duckworth.
London: A. and C. Black, 1910. FIRST EDITION. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles and decorated with grey lines to spine and upper, with the coat of arms of the city of Chester to centre of upper; top edge gilt. Illustrated with 20 colour plates from paintings by Compton with..... More
System of Positive Polity, or Treatise on Sociology, Instituting the Religion of Humanity.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875-1877. [Positivism and Humanism] COMPLETE FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 21cm), pp.lx; 618 [24]; pp.[2] xxx; 387 [25]; pp.[2] lxxxii; 536 [24]; pp.lxxx; 678 [26]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind to upper boards. Dark brown..... More
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Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Sussex [together with] Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Surrey.
London: C Cooke, [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Two volumes in one. pp.180; 168. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards, ruled in gilt to spine, later/replacement title labels. Illustrated with a map of the county to each title, and further including a table of information concerning the principal towns of the county..... More
The Century Book of Gardening. A Comprehensive Work for Every Lover of the Garden.
London: Country Life, n.d. (c.1930). 4to. Publisher's beige cloth beautifully decorated and titled in black, green and red to spine and upper, speckled edges. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white photogravures. Binding very little rubbed to extremities. A lovely copy. More
The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978-1985. FOUR VOLUMES, volume one a reprint. Quarto, pp.[10], 722; pp.[8], 695; pp.[8], 913 [2]; pp.[10], 960. With a wealth of colour illustrations. In publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spines. With original colour illustrated dust-jackets. Jackets lightly sunned to spines. Very good indeed. The..... More
The Hive and its Wonders.
Philadelphia, PA: The American Sunday-School Union, n.d. [1851]. [Apiculture] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[2] 126 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations and a wood engraved frontispiece by H. M. Snyder. Publisher's blind-decorated dark brown cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; light yellow endpapers..... More
The Peerage of Ireland: or, an exact Catalogue of the present Nobility both Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with an Historical and Genealogical account of them, containing the Descents, Creations and most remarkable Actions of them, their Ancestors, and some of their Monuments; also the Titles of Honour they now enjoy, both here and in England, their Preferments, and the time of their Promotions, with their Marriages and Issues, continued to this Time; with their Paternal Coats of Arms, and of the Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the time of their Consecrations and Translations of each Family in Blazon, with their respective Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos; the whole collected from the most authentick Histories, Pedigrees, choice Manuscripts, Certificates, and other Records of this Kingdom. [Together with] The Signification of most Things that are born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born by.
Dublin: Printed by Thomas Hume, 1724 - 1725. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (32 x 21cm), pp.[16]; 260; [14]; 86; [10]. In recent brown speckled full panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to red label on spine. Blue ink library stamp to title page and..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1871. [Evolutionary science] FIRST EDITION, Second state. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.424; pp.476. Bound without adverts in contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Contents very clean, same neat ink name (Dutton) to each half title, binding gently aged..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London, John Murray. 1901. New edition, with illustrations [the first of this 2/6 edition, November 1901]. Octavo, pp.1031. Bound in publisher's mid green buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine, title panel and floral decoration stamped in dark green to upper. Some trivial wear, lightly spotted, discreet ink ownership to..... More
The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation In the Vegetable Kingdom.
London: John Murray, 1891. Third edition. Octavo, pp.viii; 487; [1], advertisement. Finely bound by Bickers of Leicester in tree calf, gilt-stamped crest of Royal Holloway College to front cover, later respine to style, original title label, marbled edges and endpapers. Internally clean, light shelfwear to binding, corners rubbed. A very..... More
A Naturalist's Voyage Round The World.
London: John Murray, 1909. Octavo. Bound in green cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and dark green panelling and design to front board. Includes Christmas gift insert and review slip. Stain to front board, and some spotting to edges. Occassional spots in text, mostly to prelims, but largely clean, including..... More