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18911005W30Oswestry: Woodall Minshall and Co. 1891. First edition. Cloth. Good. 6" by 4". None. A very scarce little first edition catalogue of local flora with carefully collected Welsh terms and translations. A very scarce first edition catalogue of the flora of Oswestry where this work was published and the surrounding area.In original publisher's binding with helpful English-Welsh index of plant names spanning pp.35-58 with illustrated header and footers between the two parts of the text.Ink inscription of a 'Charles J. Littlehales' to the front free endpaper. Bound in original green cloth. Externally generally smart with mild shelf wear. Moderate damp staining to boards. Former owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Large loss to rear free endpaper. Regular rust spots surrounding stapled binding. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with small regular pencil annotations and the odd one in pen. Dark tide mark to text block top edge. Good Woodall, Minshall, and Co. hardcover
189747749Privately Printed 1897. Oblong 4to. First Edition with numerous full-page illustrations throughout; strongly bound in blue cloth boards ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED wrappers lightly age-marked internally a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. [Privately Printed], hardcover
184975634hLondon: For Private Circulation 1849. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards with some neat professional restoration to spine corners and hinges. Some toning and foxing to text; old owner's armorial bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. . For Private Circulation Hardcover
188640975Chicago: Poole Bros. 1886. 1886. First edition. 7 1/4" x 4 5/8" in light green pictorial cover showing a young woman holding an envelop to her chest and in the foreground a letter describing how much she and her family had enjoyed their trip aboard the Jo Line Steamer. Rear cover offers information about Diamond Jo Line Steamers along with an illustration. The Diamond Jo Line Steamers offered fine passenger packets between St. Louis and St. Paul. The two interior pages show a collection of vignettes illustrating the trip from planning to boarding to enjoying the ocean air to eating in the dining room to dancing to returning home and eventually sitting in a rocker while writing a letter. 4 pp. including covers. Printed in shades of green. Top corner 1/4" x 1/4" of front cover missing and with light soiling and light wear to the extremities. Very good. A very unique advertisement. Poole Bros., 1886. unknown
181446007London W. Bulmer and Co. 1814. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1814 - Part II. Pp. 557-570. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this importent paper in which Davy "finally put it beyond doubt that carbon and diamond were chemically identical; that neither all acids nor all alkalies contained oxygen; and that oxygen enjoyed no unique status as the supporter of combustion but rather that heat was a consequence of any violent chemical change."DSB."In Florence he Davy burnt a diamond in oxygen using the burning glass of the Accademia del Cimento and foundthat it has the same composition as pure charcoal. He found that a diamond ignited in oxygen by a burning glass continued to burn when the source of external heating is removed and only carbonic acid gas and no moisture was formed."Partington IV:p. 61. </em> unknown
189775633hNew York: Illustrated London News 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half-year run bound in original marbled boards rebacked in leather. Handling and some staining to fore-edge of text. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume. Spectacular illustrations including numerous fold-outs on the Diamond Jubilee; a good deal including illustrations of the Klondike. Illustrated London News Hardcover
