Angling Idylls.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1876. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 204 pp. Rather blotted signature to half title. Original gilt titled decorative cloth, recased with subtle repair to spine ends. More about Angling Idylls
Natural History
Whatever is Under the Earth. The Geological Society of London 1807 to 2007.
London: The Geological Society, 2007. First edition. Large 8vo. xiv, 356 pp. Publisher's dark blue full morocco, gilt lettering to the spine and the upper board, the society's crest also featured to the latter, matching buckram slipcase. 11 colour plates over 4 leaves plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout... More about Whatever is Under the Earth. The Geological Society of London 1807 to 2007
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Sporting Adventure. With... plates and... line drawings by "Fish-Hawk" [David K. Wolfe-Murray].
London: George G. Harrap, (1937). First edition, 4to, 287, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 12 plates plus illustrations in the text, some occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers. Later quarter morocco, t.e.g., slightly dusty otherwise very good. More about Sporting Adventure. With... plates and... line drawings by "Fish-Hawk" [David K....
La Parfaite Connoissance des Chevaux, Leur Anatomie, leurs Bonnes, & Mauvaises Qualitez, leur Maladies & les Remedes qui y Conviennent...
La Haye [The Hague]: Imprimé pour l'Auteur... et se vend... Chez Adrien Moetjens, 1734. First edition. Folio. (viii), 256, (8) pp. Contemporary tree sheep, spine flat with gilt tooled bands, gilt lettered to one panel, the 19th century armorial bookplate of the Pauncefoot Duncombe baronets to the front pastedown. Frontispiece... More about La Parfaite Connoissance des Chevaux, Leur Anatomie, leurs Bonnes, & Mauvaises Qualitez, leur...
The Deep-Level Mines of the Rand, and their future development considered from the commercial point of view.
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1902. First edition, large 8vo, xii, 170, (10 advertisement) pp. 7 diagrammatical plates, most folding, plus 34 diagrams in the text, with 3 leaves from the "Colliery Guardian" of 1918 loosely inserted, pencilled calculations in the margins throughout. Original gilt titled buckram, spine sunned, some light bumps and wear. More about The Deep-Level Mines of the Rand, and their future development considered from the commercial...
Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell.
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1937). Sixth printing, small 4to, (x), 271, (1) pp, with 12 coloured plates tipped in, captioned tissues, gilt decorated green cloth, d.w. a little marked and soiled with loss to top of spine. More about Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's...
Natural Childbirth.
London: William Heinemann (Medical Books) Ltd, 1933. First edition. 8vo. x, 127, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Loss to the head of the jacket spine, a little less so to the foot plus minor wear to the corners, very good overall... More about Natural Childbirth
The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. First edition, 4to, xvi, xvi, 422, (2) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 44 lithographic plates showing close to 1,000 examples, two plates hand coloured and two double page, title page creased with some closed tears. Modern half calf, maroon spine labels. Edited by Richard... More about The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex
Geology.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1917]. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 301, (1) pp. 18 black and white plates, one slightly proud at the fore edge. From the library of the naturalist L. Dudley Stamp, with his signature to the fly leaf. Original cloth with a further black and white illustrations... More about Geology
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My Hunting Sketch Book. Volume I [and II]. Written and Illustrated by...
London, 1928, 1930. Two volumes, first volume first reprint, second volume first edition, 4to, (xiv, 30; xvi, 42) pp, with 15 and 12 coloured plates respectively plus 14 black and white illustrations in the second volume. Cloth, d.w.'s, some light marks, loss to spine ends otherwise very good. More about My Hunting Sketch Book. Volume I [and II]. Written and Illustrated by
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Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie. [Offprint from] den Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Phys.-Math Klasse 1929.
Berlin: Verlag de Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1929. First separate edition, 8vo, 8 pp. Original printed orange wrappers, some very mild creasing otherwise an excellent copy. More about Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie. [Offprint from] den Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie...
Japonica Magnifica.
(Stroud): Alan Sutton, (London): The Fine Art Society & (Portland): Sagapress, Timber Press, (1992). First edition, folio, 143, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations, mainly in colour. Original faux leather, d.w., spine and upper sunned with two small closed tears. More about Japonica Magnifica
The House on the Shore. The Story of Monks' House Bird Observatory.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, (1959). First edition, 8vo, xv, (i), 200 pp. 16 plates plus illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, one tiny tear to the foot of the upper wrapper otherwise an excellent copy. More about The House on the Shore. The Story of Monks' House Bird Observatory
Big Chub and Roach. John Etherington's Thoughts and Encounters.
Ewhurst: Waterlife Publishers, 1985. First edition. 8vo. (vi), 117, (3) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, original owner's inscription to the front free endpaper. Black and white photographic illustrations. Very good. More about Big Chub and Roach. John Etherington's Thoughts and Encounters
The Elements of... Viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. The Errors, by which Theon, or others, have long ago vitiated these Books, are corrected, And some of Euclid's Demonstrations are restored. Also the Book of Euclid's data, In like manner corrected. By Robert Simson. To this ninth edition are also annexed Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry,
Edinburgh: Printed for E. Wingrove... and J. Balfour, 1793. Ninth edition thus, 8vo, 520 pp. 3 folding plates, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound by Riviere and Son in early 20th century vellum, t.e.g., minor sunning of spine and some mild marks, a lovely copy. More about The Elements of... Viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. The Errors,...
The Horse in the Furrow. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition. 8vo. 292 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Black and white illustrations in the text. A little light edge wear to the jacket with a small tear without loss to the upper panel, else very good. More about The Horse in the Furrow. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe
Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques".
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [c.1931]. 8vo, 287, (1) pp. A few spots, marbled endpapers, Prize label of Guildford Grammar School, Western Australia, to paste down dated 1931. Contemporary dark blue calf, double gilt rules, gilt decorated and title spine, t.e.g., slight rubbing otherwise an attractive copy. More about Fabre's Book of Insects. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's...
The Colliery Manager's Calculator; Containing Practical Rules and Tables, with various information, for the use of Colliery Agents and others.
London: Colliery Guardian Office, 1866. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 82, (2 Index, 3 advertisement, 1) pp, with a folding coloured plate showing brick kilns - this with some carefully repaired tears, 4 further coloured and 4 black and white plates plus 2 folding tables, original gilt titled cloth, spine ends slightly worn, some marks. More about The Colliery Manager's Calculator; Containing Practical Rules and Tables, with various...
Minéralogie des Volcans, ou Description de Toutes les Substances Produites ou Rejettées par les Feux Soutterains.
Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1784. First edition. 8vo. xviii, 511, (1) pp. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label with gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. 3 plates. Sympathetic repair to the head of the spine, slight wear to the corners... More about Minéralogie des Volcans, ou Description de Toutes les Substances Produites ou Rejettées par...
Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington [et al], 1771. Second edition, "with Additions". 8vo. xvi, 334, (2) pp. Recent half speckled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label. 3 folding plates. Very good. One of Ferguson's later works, first published in 1767, having long since... More about Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences
Bibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the Collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris.
Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1906. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, xxi, (iii), 487, (1); (iv), 598, (2) pp. Portrait frontispieces, some light foxing to endpapers, inscribed from Ferguson on the fly leaf of volume I. Partly unopened in the original buckram, spines slightly dull and rubbed. More about Bibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the...
Memoranda, References, and Documents Relating to the Royal Hospitals of the City of London. Prepared and Printed under the Directions of the Committee of the Court of Common Council Appointed in Relation to the Said Hospitals.
London: Re-printed by Benjamin Pardon, 1863. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 82, 157, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. A little light wear to the edges, a few minor marks, a very good copy overall. First published in 1836. More about Memoranda, References, and Documents Relating to the Royal Hospitals of the City of London....
Milward's Tackle. Stocked by all good dealers. Season 1938-39. Handbook No. 20.
Redditch: Henry Milward & Sons. 8vo, 80 pp. Numerous illustrations. Original wrappers, stapled as issued, slightly darkened and with a small tear to the top of the spine. More about Milward's Tackle. Stocked by all good dealers. Season 1938-39. Handbook No. 20
The Desertion of Rookeries (with GREEN, James). Stoats and Blackbirds. Crepis Biennis L. in Yorkshire. Blackbirds and the Fruit of the Wild Rose. Weights and Measurements of Stoats and Weasels. Notes on the Hole of Horcum. Linnæa Borealis L. in England. Stoats and Weasels, Brown and White. Stoats, Brown and White: A New Record. The Martin, the Sparrow, and Man. The Old Oak Tree.
Hull: A. Brown & Sons & Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1931-38. 11 volumes, 8vo, including two issues of "Crepis Biennis..." One photographic plate and a folding map, some damp staining to inner margins, this causing significant damage to "The Old Oak Tree". Original wrappers, stapled as issued, these somewhat... More about The Desertion of Rookeries (with GREEN, James). Stoats and Blackbirds. Crepis Biennis L. in...
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[Psychrolousia], or the History of Cold Bathing, Both Ancient and Modern. In Two Parts... the Genuine Use of Hot and Cold Baths. Together with the Wonderful Effects of the Bath-Water, drank hot from the Pump, in decay'd Stomachs, and in most Diseases of the Bowels, Liver, and Spleen &c...
London: William Innys, 1715. Fourth edition, 8vo, (xxii), 484 pp. Mild damp staining to the front and rear blanks only, upper hinge slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with recent subtle repairs to joints and ends, red label, a very good copy. "...one of the most original physicians... More about Psychrolousia], or the History of Cold Bathing, Both Ancient and Modern. In Two Parts... the...