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1845L0482dbLondon: John van Voorst. VG : in very good condition. Cover lightly rubbed. 1845. Second Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 651pp. Illustrated with wood-engravings throughout. . John van Voorst hardcover
182618812London: William Cobbett 1826. Ex-Library. Good Reading Copy. Hardback. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Not paginated. Front board is detached and spine is missing. Usual library markings. Information relative to the brewing of beer making of bread keeping of cows pigs bees ewes goats poultry and rabbits and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of labourer's family; to which are added instructions relative to the selecting the cutting and the bleaching of the plants of English grass and grain for the purpose of making hats and bonnets; and also instructions for erecting and using ice-houses after the Virginian manner. William Cobbett Hardcover
18760228062 Castle Street City Road London: Wesleyan Conference Office 1876. Illustrated with many text engravings throughout small octavo pp xii 292 slight signs of wear throuoghout a slight suggestion of weakness internally original beveled green cloth elaborately decorated in black gold and red slightly rubbed the spine head a little torn. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Wesleyan Conference Office Hardcover
1806037175London & Edinburgh: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme and William Blackwood 1806. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 248. Bound in later pebbled plum cloth with title label to spine taken from original binding very good. Contents good no inscriptions a little foxing along the gutter edge of the title page top edge dust marked. A very good copy. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme and William Blackwood Hardcover
1870023368Marlborough & London: Perkins "Times Office"; Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1870. Small octavo pp viii 117 very clean internally original green blind-stamped cloth with gilt central decoration on the front cover the very slightest signs of use but really an exceptionally clean bright copy. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Perkins, "Times Office"; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Hardcover
1898028936Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiv 256 16 pages of adverts at year; b/w portrait frontispiece of the author; 9 further b/w plates; folding map at end; in-text vingette. Original green buckram cloth binding with gilt lettering good and strong but somewhat worn and rubbed; cloth marked and tanned. Contents good and tight a little spotting and foxing a few pages marked; private bookplate to the front paste-down. A good copy of the first edition. "Journey of the British explorer & ornithologist in 1894 from Kolguev Island up the Pechora River & then west to the White Sea". Archibald Constable & Co. Hardcover
186755047London: Published for the Ray Society By Robert Hardwicke. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned owner name Peter Stettenheim on . front free endpaper spine cracked between pp5-15 with tape repairs and . semi-detached leaves. 1867. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the German and edited by Philip Lutley Sclater Bound in dark green reinforced cloth. x 181pp. Index. Ten etched plates showing feather structures of various bird species eight engravings in text. Preface by Sclater and second preface by H. Burmeister who edited the original 1840 edition from Nitzschs manuscript. Appendices by A. D. Bartlett and P. L. Sclater adding to Nitzchs ornithological observations list of Nitzschs works explanation of plates. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Published for the Ray Society By Robert Hardwicke hardcover
1885011280Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1885. First Edition Later Printing. . Half-Leather. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Thick quarto 566 pp. numerous b/w illus. 2 color plates 23 b/w full page plates maps bib. index. Part of the larger Riverside Natural History set this is vol 4 Birds. Half-leather binding in v.g. cond. w/only sl. wear to the corners. Binding solid marbled end papers marbled edges former owner's tiny name ink stamp on top right hand corner of the page following the f.f.e.p. A clean nice copy. <br/> <br/> Houghton, Mifflin and Co. hardcover
189915099Chicago: American Field Publishing Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Usual xlib marks. The inside of the back cover is damaged from a pocket being removed. Covers wrinkled worn on the edges. Out of a YMCA library there is an original worl war one "War Service Library" bookplate inside the front cover. The famous one with a soldier holding an entire stack of books. Owner's inscription on the fep. ; Ex-Library; 5 1/2x7 1/2"; 131 pages . American Field Publishing Co. hardcover