British Seals.
London: Collins, (1974). First edition, 8vo, 256 pp. 24 black and white plates plus 54 illustrations in the text. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, spine sunned. New Naturalist series no. 57. More
Natural History
A Manuel of Bacteriology Clinical and Applied.
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1908. Third edition. 8vo. x, 638, (16) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. 24 plates plus numerous figures and tables in the text. Occasional foxing, slight sunning to the spine, some mild rubbing to..... More
The Book of the Marine Aquarium; or practical instructions on the formation, stocking, and management in all seasons, of collections of marine animals and plants.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869. 12mo, (vi), 128, (16 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text, later signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped green cloth, recently recased, some mild rubbing. First published 1856, with a subsequent edition in 1869. Scarce. More
Eden: or. a Compleat Body of Gardening, Both in Knowledge and Practice; Directing the Gardener in His Work, for Every Distinct Week in the Year, in the Kitchen-Ground, Flower-Garden, and Nursery; and Shewing the Proprietor those Shrubs, Plants, and Flowers, which are Most Usually Cultivated in Gardens; or Most Worthy to be so; with the History, Description, and figure of Every Kind; and their Culture and Management... Illustrated with Figures of About Four Hundred of the Finest Shrubs, Flowers, and Plants.
London: Printed for the Author, 1773. Second edition, "corrected and enlarged". Folio. (ii), iv, ii, 716 pp. Later tan half calf over early worn boards, gilt lettered green spine label, marbled endpapers, old inscriptions inked out to the verso of the front free endpaper, two old pieces of paper affixed..... More
A Treatise on the Operation of Cupping.
London: Printed for E. Cox, 1839. Second edition, 12mo, (iv), iii, (i), 98 pp. Three folding plates, foxed and with an ink stain the top corners when folded - stain to the top corner of the title page too, the second plate missing a piece, some subtle repairs to fold..... More
The Principles and Practice of Arithmetic, Comprising the Nature and Use of Logarithms, with the Computations Employed by Artifices, Gagers, and Land-Surveyors. Designed for the Use of Students.
Cambridge: John William Parker, 1840. Third edition. 8vo. (ii), xvi, 224 pp. Original green cloth backed drab boards, printed paper spine label. The rear free endpaper sometime neatly excised, otherwise a decent copy. More
The Wild Flowers of Great Britain. Botanically and popularly described, with copious notices of their history and uses. With original plates drawn and coloured from nature by Charlotte Gower.
London: Journal of Horticulture & Cottage Gardener Office, 1863-78. Eleven volumes, 8vo. 917 hand coloured plates, including one bis plate (no. 828) but lacking eight (661-668). Some occasional light foxing, armorial bookplates, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary dark green half morocco, the final three volumes faded with some wear, upper..... More
The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture. 1862-66.
London: Published at the "Journal of Horticulture" Office, 1862-66. Five volumes, large 8vo. 83 splendid chromolithographic plates. Old pencilled signature to one title page, bookseller's blind stamp to one fly leaf. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, a.e.g., the first three volumes rebacked retaining the original backstrips. A lovely set. The..... More
Rubber Cultivation in West Africa.
7th March, 1901. Small folio. 7 pp. Original printed blue paper boards, paler blue cloth spine, small old inscribed library ticket pasted to lower corner of upper board. Five b/w plates. Slight cockling to paper boards, a few chips at edges, otherwise very good. Holland was Curator of the Botanic..... More
The Origin of Life, and Process of Reproduction in Plants and Animals, with the anatomy and physiology of the human generative system, male and female, and the causes, prevention and cure of the special diseases to which it is liable. A Plain, Practical Treatise, for Popular Use.
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1902). Large 8vo, (ii), xxxviii, (3), 16-932 pp. 44 plates, the majority in colour. Original cloth, a little browned and marked. More
The Posthumous Works. Edited by Richard Waller (1705).
Hildesheim: George Olms Verlag, 1970. Facsimile edition, small folio, (iv, viii), xxviii, 572, (30) pp. 6 folding plates. Original gilt titled green cloth. Volume III in the Collected Works. More
Observations on the Structure and Economy of Plants: to which is Added the Analogy Between the Animal and Vegetable Kingdom.
Oxford: Sold by Messrs. Fletcher and Co.; Messrs. Rivington; and Messrs. Murray and Highley, London, 1797. Sole edition. 8vo. (2), vi, (10), 129, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled to the spine, gilt lettered black label, later neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, the..... More
![Item #36721 Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. [with bound in volume I] Report...](https://bowwindows.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/36721.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602247205)
Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. [with bound in volume I] Report of the Garden Committee on the Formation and Progress of the Garden; Drawn Up for the Information of the Fellows of the Society... March 31, 1823.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., [later volumes] W. Nicol, Sold by J. Hatchard, 1812-30. Seven volumes. 4to. Contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and blind decorated to the others, volumes I-VI uniformly bound, volume VII in a...... More
Living with Birds.
London: Collins, 1956. First edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations plus further illustrations in the text. Jacket rather marked and worn with small losses, remnants of old tape to the verso. More
A Treatise on the Nature, Economy, and Practical Management, of Bees; In which the various systems of the British and foreign apiarians are examined, and the most improved methods laid down for effectually preserving the lives of the bees...
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1817. Second edition, 8vo, xxvii, (iii), 400 pp. 6 plates, one extending, with some foxing. Original boards, rebacked retaining some of the original spine label. British Bee Books, 176. Originally published in 1815. More
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Familiar Wild Flowers. Figured and Described by... First [to] Seventh Series [only of eight].
London: Cassell and Company, [c.1900]. Seven volumes. 8vo. Contemporary plain olive cloth, gilt lettered maroon spine labels. 280 colour plates. Some light rubbing, very good overall. More
Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Volume One.
Charlottesville: Published for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia, (1979). First edition, large 8vo, (xxviii), 606 pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., some faint rubbing otherwise a very good copy. More
Mathematical Tables: Containing the common, hyperbolic, and logistic logarithms, also sines, tangents, secants, and versed sines... with... additional tables of trigonometrical formulæ by Olinthus Gregory.
London: Longman, Brown, and Co. [et al], 1846. Tenth edition, 8vo, lxviii, 368 pp. 20th century typescript notes on logarithms pasted to front and rear blanks, some older manuscript notes to a rear blank also, marbled endpapers. 20th century maroon half morocco, some light rubbing. More
Horologium Oscillatorum.
London: Dawsons, 1966. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1673, 4to, (ii), (xiv), 162 pp. Original cream cloth, faint mark to the head of the spine otherwise fine. A landmark work in science, this book contains the first mathematical analysis of a pendulum as well as examining motion along..... More
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Psychologie V Jeho Dile As-Sifa'. Vydat par Jan Bakos.
Praha: Nakladatelstvi Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved, 1956. 8vo. (276) pp. A fine bespoke binding of tan full morocco with a fold-over flap in the Middle Eastern style, elaborate gilt corner pieces with a matching circular roundel to the upper cover, a central leaved rosette with inlaid green and red morocco panels..... More
Plant Disease, A Natural History.
London: HarperCollins, 1999. First edition. 8vo. 287, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 8 coloured plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Just a hint of sunning to the brown on the spine, an excellent copy. New Naturalist series no. 85..... More
Jahr's Pocket Dictionary and Concordance of Homœopathic Practice; A Clinical Guide and Repertory for the treatment of cute and chronic diseases. Translated by Charles J. Hempel and edited with enlargements, and the addition of a complete glossary and index by Joseph Laurie.
London: James Leath, 1850. First edition, 8vo, (ii), xx, 488 pp. Contemporary inscription to paste down. Original patterned black cloth, rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Very scarce with OCLC only listing 3 copies - two at the British Library and one in Oxford. More
Mineralogy of the Scottish Isles; With mineralogical observations made in a Tour through different parts of the mainland of Scotland, and dissertations upon peat and kelp.
Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewart & Co., 1800. First edition, two volumes bound in one, 4to, xxvi, (ii), 243, (1, ii), iv, 289, (3) pp. 13 maps and views, several folding, some foxing. Recently bound in dark blue quarter morocco, gilt decorated spine. Professor of Natural History and Keeper of..... More
Richard Jefferies. A Tribute. By Various Writers.
Worthing: Published under the Worthing Art Development Scheme by Aldridge Bros. 1946. First edition, 4to, 156 pp. Black and white illustrations. Original gilt titled cloth, d.w. with some soiling to the lower wrapper, otherwise very good. More
The Nature Diaries and Note-Books of... with an Essay 'A Tangle of Autumn' now printed for the first time. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Samuel J. Looker.
Billericay: The Grey Walls Press, 1941. Limited edition, no. 58 of 105 copies, signed by the Editor, tall 8vo, (iv), 86 pp. Original white cloth, with some mild staining and marks. More