Natural History
The Art of Skating. Its History and Development with practical directions: by... former Champion of America & contributions by eminent skaters.
London: The Arden Press, 1910. First edition, 4to, xii, 158, (2) pp, frontispiece and numerous black and white photographic illustrations as well as diagrams of manoeuvres, original gilt titled buckram, marked and rubbed, t.e.g. More
Notes and Jottings from Animal Life. By the late...
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889. 8vo, (x), 414 pp. 16 engravings in the text, prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound by Relfe Brothers in contemporary calf, gilt border and spine, some mild marks and darkening otherwise a handsome copy. A prolific writer on natural history..... More
Cultivated Plants. Their propogation and improvement.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1877. First edition, 8vo, xii, 618, (2) pp. Black and white illustrations in the text, light foxing at the beginning and end. Wilfrid Blunt's copy, with his signature to the title page dated 1950, a contemporary signature also to the same. Original gilt titled green..... More
Elements of Conchology, According to the Linnæan System...
London: Printed for the Author, 1815. First edition, 8vo, (iv), xv, (i), 248 pp. 28 plates, some foxing, mostly to the plates. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt ruled spine with a black label, some rubbing otherwise a good copy. More
A Treatise on the Non-Naturals. In which the Great Influence They have on Human Bodies [is] Set forth, and Mechanically accounted [for]. To which is subjoin'd, A Short Essay on the Chin-Cough: with a New Method of treating that Obstinate Distemper.
York: Printed by A. Staples... 1738. First edition, 8vo, xxiii, (1), 367, (1) pp. Signatures to title, one partly removed affecting a couple of the printed words, modern owner's ink stamp to fly leaf. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked with a red label, some repair to corners also. Burton lists the..... More
The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1924. 8vo, xviii, (ii), 747, (1) pp. Frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Bound for Heffer and Sons in contemporary blue half calf, t.e.g., spine sunned and slightly rubbed. More
British Birds' Eggs: A Handbook of British Oölogy.
London: E.W. Janson, [1886]. First edition, 8vo, viii, 219, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 37 colour lithographic plates, hinge slightly cracked towards the end but sound, later signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled brown cloth, spine slightly darkened. More
The Redstart.
London: Collins, 1950. First edition, 8vo, xii, 180 pp. Colour frontispiece and 19 black and white photographs plus other maps and diagrams in the text, slightly later inscription to fly leaf. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, spine and lower wrapper browned with some slight loss. New Naturalist Monograph no. 2..... More
The Cambridge Natural History. Edited by Sir S.F. Harmer... and Sir A.E. Shipley.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922-36. Mixed editions. Ten volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth gilt to the spines, volumes III, V and VII with the gilt crest of Sutton High School for Girls on the upper cover having evidently been given as prizes. Illustrations in the text. The cloth of..... More
Catalogue of Zodiacal Stars for the Equinox 1900.0 from Observations Made in the Years 1900-1918.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1928. 4to. vi, 58 pp. Original green buckram backed matching boards, printed to the upper cover, many of the tables with neat early annotations to the margins. Slight wear to the edges, else very good. "Cambridge Observations. Vol. XXIV. Part II" More
Rocks from Gough Island, South Atlantic. (Collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904).
Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1914. 4to, (397)-404 pp. One plate. Original printed wrappers, foxed, signature to upper wrapper. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. L, part II, no. 13. More
Mémoire sur les Différentes Especes, Races et Varietés de Choux et de Raiforts Cultivés en Europe.
Paris: Madame Huzard, 1822. 8vo, 55, (1) pp. Uncut in the original wrappers, sewn as issued, some marks and browning, later paper strengthening to spine. More
Retrospect. Reminiscences and Impressions of a Hunter-Naturalist in Three Continents 1851-1928.
London: Gurney and Jackson, 1928. First edition. 8vo. xx, 353, (7) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge green, ownership inscription to the front pastedown dated 1942. 20 colour plates plus 39 in black and white and numerous illustrations in the text. Generally very good. A...... More
The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture. Assisted by Specialists. Second edition by P.M. Synge.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, (1956). Five volumes, being the second edition of the four volume dictionary and the supplement, 4to. Numerous illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w.'s, price clipped, the first four with some loss to edges, final wrapper browned. More
On the Theory and Practice of Midwifery.
London: Henry Renshaw; Dublin: Fannin and Co., 1842. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 479, (5) pp. Publisher's blindstamped black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Subtly recased, very good. More
'Clarke's Tables'. A Pocket-Book of Tables & Memoranda for Plumbers, Builders, Sanitary, Heating, and Electrical Engineers... Revised and Enlarged by Walter Scott...
London: B.T. Batsford, [1930s]. Miniature book, covers measuring 50 x 70 mm, (viii), 333, (1, 18 advertisement) pp. Small ink stain to the fore edge. Original gilt titled green limp cloth, some light wear. More
Every Man His Own Farrier; Containing the causes, symptoms, and most approved methods of cure of the diseases of Horses and Dogs. Edited by Henry Mayhew.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. [et al], 1876. Thirty-second edition, small 8vo, (iii)-viii, 362 pp. Frontispiece and title vignette, school library stamp and an owner's ink stamp to the front endpapers, signature to front blank, light foxing to early leaves. Contemporary gilt titled cloth, marbled edges, spine ends and corners..... More
Brick Tile and Pipe Machinery.
Blackburn: Clayton Goodfellow & Co., [c.1950]. Seventh edition, 4to, (iv), 20, 8, 36, 10 pp. Black and white illustrations. Original printed wrappers, slightly browned and soiled. Comprising four sections - grinding plant, semi-plastic and semi-dry machines, plastic and pipe machines and accessories. More
Miike Coal, with a Description of the Coalfield, the Quality of the Coal, Testimonials from Consumers; Together with Sailing Directions for the Ports of Shipment, Kuchinotzu and Misumi...
Shanghai: "North China Herald" Office, 1893. 8vo, (vi), 84, (36 blank) pp. 4 folding coloured maps, 2 partially torn and repaired, but lacking the 13 photographs usually found at the end. Gilt titled cloth, rubbed, neatly rebacked. More
Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick. Wherein is shewed the Nature and Use of Decimal Fractions in the usual Rules of Arithmetick, and the Mensuration of Plains and Solids. Together with Tables of Interest and Rebate for the Valuation of Leases and Annuities... Whereunto is added, His Artifical Arithmetick, shewing the Genesis or Fabrick of the Logarithms... also His Algebraical Arithmetick, containing the Doctrine of Composing and Resolving an Equation... Perused, Corrected and Published, by John Hawkins...
London: Printed for Richard Wellington, 1713. Fourth edition, 8vo, xvi, 192, 177-436 pp, with some mispagination. Title page with loss and chipping to edges, not affecting text or borders, and with some careful repairs to the verso, leaves browned and somewhat cockled throughout, final leaf with an old repair. Neatly..... More
(De Re Rustica). On Agriculture. Res Rustica I-IV with a Recension of the Text and an English Translation by Harrison Boyd Ash [later volumes] Res Rustica V-XI [and] ...X-XII (Translated by) E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1977, 1968, 1993. Three volumes. Small 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Occasional fading and wear to the jackets, mostly quite light, else very good. Volumes 361, 407 and 408 in the Loeb Classical Library. More
The Natural History of Wales.
London: Collins, 1981. First edition. 8vo. 287, (1) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket with the original Duraseal plastic cover, not price clipped. 24 black and white plates. Slight dulling and a few minor indentations to the original plastic cover, else very good. New Naturalist..... More
Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science, and Comparative Views of the Structure of Foreign Countries. Part I [All published].
London: William Phillips, 1822. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), lxi, (3), 58, (2), 59-470, (2) pp. Recent dark green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label, early ownership inscription of a W. Parry to the head of the title page. Geological frontispiece map of England and Wales plus a long hand..... More