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1829023356Privately Published Printed by Crockers of Frome 1829. 12mo pp 155 some foxing and age-toning to about a third of the book otherwise clean internally very firn and tight original boards a little worn and marked new leather spine with abbreviated title and author. Inscribed on the front endpaper "Mary Anne Miller - the gift of the Marquess of Bath 1833". RARE. The work was produced for and given to various cottagers who worked on the estate at Longleat. After brewing and breadmaking there is instruction on the keeping of cows pigs rabbits and fowls; various recipes follow. It is rarely mentioned in the history of English cookery books. Isabella died a year after its publication. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. Privately Published (Printed by Crockers of Frome) Hardcover
1812e4527London: Gale Curtis & Fenner. VG : in very good condition. Rebound. 1812. The Sixth Edition with Considerable Additions. Blue cloth spine over grey board cover. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". 146pp. . Gale, Curtis, & Fenner hardcover
1895L0558New York: The Engineering Record. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Small tear at top of spine. Light rubbing and bumping to boards. Tightly bound. A little browning within. 1895. First Edition. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover. 290mm x 200mm 11" x 8". 317pp ads. 585 illustrations. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . The Engineering Record hardcover
1878r6211bLondon: Longmans Green & Co. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and faded. Hinges cracked and weak. 1878. 7th Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". x 1021pp;. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Longmans, Green, & Co hardcover
18421212459Graz, J. A. Kienreich, Jänner - December, 1842. 4to. 416 S. m. zahlr. Textillustrationen in Holzschnitt, 4 lithographierte Tafeln; je 52 Nummern zu je 1 Blatt von 1. "Allgemeines Anzeige-Blatt für technische Literatur, Industrie, Handel, Künste und Gewerbe" sowie 2. "Literarischer Anzeiger der J. A. Kienreich'schen Buchhandlung in Grätz". Hldrbd d. Zeit m. Rverg. (Kanten etwas berieben, etwas braunfleckig, ohne Haupttitel u. Register).
1855674ABParis, Langlois et Leclercq, 1855-1856. 8°. (4) III (1), 554 (2) S.; (4) II, 582 (2) S. Mit insges. 520 gest. Abb. im Text, 5 gef. lithogr. Karten, 10 Stahlstichtafeln und 4 gef. Tabellen. Spätere Leinenbände mit goldgepr. Rückenschild (Orig.-Umschläge miteingebunden). + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 674A 2 Bde.
1825r5153London: William Cobbett. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with scuffing to leather along corners and spine. Previous owner's inscription to fep. Sporadic foxing. 1825. First Edition. Half-leather cover on marbled board. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 220pp. . William Cobbett hardcover
18693770475E & F. N. Spon 1869. This book has a scuffed backstrip. Weak spine. Stain on the cover Dog eared corners. Foxing inside. Clear text.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library With usual stamps and markings In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3050grams ISBN: E & F. N. Spon hardcover
189219158Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co. Good. 1892. Revised Edition; first. Hardcover. In the original embossed leather binding. The spine is faded and worn at the spine ends and corners. While the interior hinges are weak the contents are very good to near fine. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 584 pages . W. B. Conkey Co. hardcover
189017181Atlanta GA: The Southern Farm. Very Good. 1890-1892. First Edition. Magazine. Some rubbing to the spines. Remarkable condition for a fragile magazine. Price is for all 27 issues. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . The Southern Farm unknown
1892626G0060London: Colliery Guardian Company Ltd. 1892. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 63 pages. A detailed description of how mines were intricately surveyed in 1842 - 1892. "Be the mine limestone ironstone coal or clay the same process is gone through." - from chapter one. Maroon cloth cover with gilt lettering. Page 56/57 binding loose but intact. Foxing to endpapers and title page. Minor foxing to sides of content on pages that fold out. Otherwise content unmarked. Minor wear to spine and corners. A worthy copy. Colliery Guardian Company Ltd. Hardcover
1895007231Detroit MI: Chas. A. Strelinger & Co. 1895 Book. Illus. by Photos and Wood Engravings. Good Plus to Very Good. Cloth Card Cover. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original brown cloth on flexible card covers stapled. Second Edition. One of the most sought-after tool books full of no-nonsense descriptions photos and wood engravings. Everything from micrometers to steam engines ! Previous owner's name. Light soil to covers and edges. Clean inside. 526 pp. Chas. A. Strelinger & Co. paperback
184649661New Haven: Durrie & Peck 1846. First Separate Edition. Octavo 23cm.; original pale yellow wrappers printed within decorative border; 80pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and one additional plate pink tissue guards. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and worn with shallow loss at spine crown general dust-soil else Very Good internally fine. Lengthy biographical article first published in the "American Journal of Science" 1832. Missed by Sabin. Durrie & Peck unknown
187048955Troy NY: American Association for the Advancement of Science 1870. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's green printed wrappers; 23pp. Wrappers a bit soiled with some shallow creasing and dog-earing to textblock else Very Good and sound. At head of title page: "Metallurgical Papers No. 15." Scarce published edition of the author's first scientific paper read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Troy New York August 20 1870 and described as "the first account of the Bessemer steel process published in the United States and a useful analogue of the earth's own blast furnaces" anb.org. AAS only in OCLC as of April 2020. American Association for the Advancement of Science unknown
183713321Albany NY: New York State Acricultural Society. Very Good. 1837. Second Edition. Hardcover. Bound in half-leather with paper-covered boards. The boards are rubbed & stained. The leather is cracked & worn but intact. The contents are near fine to fine with very little foxing. Endpapers are age spotted/stained but not the contents. Contains the first three volumes of the monthly magazine bound & published in one volume with indexes & page numbers. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 552 pages . New York State Acricultural Society hardcover
1871590New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1871 343 pages one corner slightly bumped one small tear on inner margin of title page- otherwise near fine condition. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
188900004535Heidelberg 1889 55 pages also with De Antiquitate & praestantia Medicinae by Henricus Smetius in Latin. Front hinge is disconnected although the book being thin is still bound. hardcover
18981146566Leipzig, Voigt, 1898. 12, 304, 56 S. m. 40 Abb. u. Atlas-Bd in 4to m. 4 S., 28 doppelbl.-gr. lithogr. Taf. Farb. illustr. OHlwdbde (Einbde fl., berieben u. bestoßen, Vorsätze des Textbandes erneuert, durchgehend etwas braun- u. fingerfl.).
1822022550183 Fleet Street London: J.M. Cobbett 1822. title continues - "and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and of the institutions of the country civil political and religious. In Three Parts." Third edition. 12mo pp 2 vi 360 a little age-toned a large folding map with one tear age-toned and with some offsetting both to itself and the adjoining pages but in much better than average condition marbled edges in a fairly recent and attractive binding of tan quarter morocco and marbled boards. . Third edition. Quarter calf and boards. Very Good. J.M. Cobbett Hardcover
1860023006106 Great Russell Street Bedford Square London: Atchley & Co. 1860. Illustrated with many text illustrations tall thick quarto pp viii 844 a little rough at the edges one gathering is becoming loose so the edges are protruding slightly the frontispiece is chipped and frayed at the edges otherwise all is tight internally contemporary black qyarter leather and green cloth sides a little rubbed and used. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. SCARCE. The "plates" mentoned in the title are actually the text illustrations so a bit misleading. This copy has a superb tipped-in colour advertisement for two potato cultivars from Suttons Seeds. John Donaldson 1799-1876 was a Scottish agriculturalist professor of Botany at the Royal Agricultural Training School Hoddesdon government land drainage surveyor and author of prize essays works best known as author of the 1854 Agricultural Biography. This 1860 British Agriculture is an elaborate compilation dedicated to the Duke of Argyll. He is described by Fussell 1983 as "another of these Victorian goliaths whose output was large and. was intimate with the writings of all his bucolic and farming literary ancestors". First Edition. Quarter leather. Fair. Atchley & Co., Hardcover
1900GT927London: Crosby Lockwood and Son 1900. fourteenth edition . Hardback. Fine. 4to. xiv 1086 x ads. pp. Fine red calf spine with gilt titles. The boards are rubbed to the green cloth board but a stron g and sound copy. Scarce to find in such condition as the huge weight has resulted tin many copies being damaged to the binding. This epic book was originally written by the English veterinary surgeon William Youatt 1776-1847 with the thirteenth edition has been "re-written considerably enlarged and brought up to the present requirements of agricultural practice" by William Fream. A lovely copy. <br/> <br/> Crosby Lockwood and Son hardcover
1812g9483aEdinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. G : in good condition plus. Scattered browning. 1812. First Edition. Blue board cover. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". xx 595p ad. 3 plates including two coloured. . Archibald Constable & Co unknown
1813g8267London: Sherwood Neely and Jones. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed with some abrasion and indents on lower board. 1813. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". viii 412pp; ads. Frontispiece fold out map and plates. . Sherwood, Neely, and Jones hardcover
1824607286London: Printed for Josiah Taylor 1824. Hardcover rebound in contemporary cloth with endpapers by either MIT or the Smithsonian; gilt titles on spine. Second edition improved with nine plates all present and several wood cuts in text. xiv 325pp. Ex-academic library - MIT Dept. of Civil Engineering stamp on title page with Smithsonian stamp on reverse; serial stamped on final blank unclear which draughty house of education was responsible for the binding. Two marks on spine.Taped repair to upper edge of p.iii dedication page with a small nick further down; chip an inch or two deep from upper edge of p.v advertisement; two nicks at fore-edge of p. vii preface - all text remains clear. Pages in main body are in very good condition for age. Title continues: 'With Illustrations Experimental Scientific and Practical to which are added Remarks on the Nature of Heat and Light; and Various Tables Useful in the Application of Heat'. TS. Hardcover. Good. Used. Printed for Josiah Taylor Hardcover
18211200595Halle, Hemmerde u. Schwetschke, 1821). Kl.-4to. 360 S. m. 1 Textholzschnitt, 5 gefalteten Tabellen, 3 lithogr. Taf. Hübscher Hldrbd d. Zeit m. 2 farbigen Rsch. u. Rverg. (leicht berieben, kaum braunfleckig; ohne den Haupttitel und das Inhaltsverzeichnis).