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Features: In colour - a Flemish Masterpiece, Portuguese Flowers, and Etna; Mercedes-Benz colour ad.; The Dalai Lama's escape to India - large photo with Mr. Nehru; Polar funeral for Sir H. Wilkins; Balloon House demonstration; The Sun - Part VIII of a Science Series; Treasures of a Ming Emperor - from the Untouched Tomb of Wan-Li; 2-page illustration of navigation aids - the British Decca System and the adopted American V.O.R.-D.M.E.T. system; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
4to., Second Edition, with 28 plates, and very numerous illustrations and tables in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Nice copy of the revised version of Godwin's standard reference, first published in 1956.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Ray Society, vol. 150.
96 pages. Index. 100 close-up photographs. Presents fascinating aspects of plant reproduction for younger readers. Usual library markings. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing and very slight fading to spine. 160pp. Studies of a selection of our most colourful and well-loved wild flowers, with reference in the text to related species, with fifty illustrated in full-page colour photographs.
315p., illus. with 324 species illus. in color & 88 in B&W. Hardcover Very good condition good
315pp. illus.(part col.) 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Pages 197-256. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; A Tip-top experience on Mooshilauke - article with great photos; The birth of the White Mountains (poem); Mr. Unlukikus has Rheumatism; The Beginning of Methodist Theological Education in New Hampshire; The Lord Escutcheon; The winter is past (poem); The wild flowers of spring; The Shadow of a coming event; The Eames Family in Coos County; Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford; The Dear Old Homestead Farm; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to upper corners and spine ends. 92pp. Cultivation, propogation, best uses and varieties of one of the most colourful garden plants. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery
197p. Hardcover Very good condition good
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dull purple boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with two small indents and crease to lower rear edge. 301pp. Detailed study monograph of the orchid known as lady's slippers or moccasin flowers which considers their history, biology, evolution, conservation, cultivation and classification. Illustrated by numerous artists. Published in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Scarce in the UK.
36 leaves, printed on one side only. Illustrated with four brilliant chromolithographs from water color paintings; eight text illustrations from crayon drawings; and four etchings. Original tissues are foxed, but the plates are clean. All edges gold. 4to. 300 mm. Interesting original full cloth binding, decorated in gold. Wear at extremities, but still nice. Very Good overall. Poetry and pictures illustrating lilies and their associations in Victorian times with love, death, and Christianity. Manuscript presentation to "Mary R. Slaymaker, St. Valentine, 1880." Miss Mary was born in 1855 and married in 1880 - hopefully she married her thoughtful Valentine's Day suitor;) W134
Year 1928 complete in 2 volumes: 472 + 512pp. + some pages of commercial publicity, illustrated with figures in text + many plates out-of-text ("supplements") of which some in colour, hardcovers (nice binding with leather spine, gilt title), marbled endpapers, very good condition, Total weight is almost 6kg. (extra shipping expenses will be required), V83412
8vo., Second Impression thus, with a chromolithograph frontispiece, 10 fine chromolithograph plates, 27 line illustrations in the text, numerous head- and tail-pieces, and pictorial endpapers, neat inscription on frontispiece recto; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Anthony Gross was selected as the artist for the first illustrated edition of Galsworthy's dynastic classic, first published in the previous year. The colour plates, drawn by Gross in six colours, are printed by Cowell of Ipswich using their proprietary 'Plastocowell' technique. The elegant typography is by John Lewis. Very scarce, especially in this condition
81 pages plus large section of black and white plates and index. Contains brief descriptions of the native forest tree species of the province, accompanied by illustrations of their leaves, fruits, winter twigs, and in some cases of the flowers where considered useful. Some damage at each end of spine. Binding a little fragile but remains an excellent reference. Book
Sans date, sans éditeur - 1845 - In-4 - Reliurefrottée & tachée - toutes tranches dorées - Page de titre illustrée en couleurs - 28 pages illustrées de fleurs aquarellées en rapport avec les pièces de Shakspeare - Malgré & planche tachée & quelques rousseurs, superbe et rare ouvrage
473 p. Pages 23-34 loss on bottom corners with some loss of letters. Age stain. Some leaves very browned. Early manuscript ownership of Wm. H. Clymer, 1845 on title page. Early manuscript ownership of John Davis Nov. 25, 1827 (his birth date?) on front and rear fly leaves. Also penciled ownership of George Garnant on rear fly leaf. Clymer (1820-1883) born in Caernarvon township, near Morgantown, Berks County, PA. became an important mine and forge owner and banker in the Reading region. 8vo. 215 mm. Original leather binding, worn. Second American edition. Hardbound. Good. Selections from the writings of travelers in: AFRICA; INDIA; CHINA; PERSIA; ICELAND; etc. AI BX 5
473 p. Damp stain. Text browned but not brittle. XLib. Old bookplate of the Lancaster Mechanics' Library Association on front paste down. XLib stamp on title page. 8vo. 215 mm. Virtually disbound: Lacks spine. Boards very worn with loss and very fragile. Second American edition. Poor. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 5
8vo., First English Edition; original patterned cloth, black cloth backstrip lettered in silver, top a trifle dust-soiled else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with neat initials on front fold-in and one short closed tear at lower margin of front panel. Shiina's ground-breaking novel was first published in Japan as Ai No Shogen in 1955. With dustwrapper artwork by Brian Sanders. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
249p., illus. Hardcover Good condition! endpapers chipped
395p. Hardcover Very good condition
Mm 175x225 Volume in mezza tela con copertina figurata, 748 pagine con ricchissimo corredo iconografico a colori. Libro in condizioni di nuovo - brand new in original shrink wrap. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
pp. 329, (1). Early inked presentation from to L. A. Wade from her grandmother. Very foxed and age stained. Rear fly leaves torn with loss. Tall 12mo. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in blind. Gilt lettered spine. Head and tail of spine torn with some loss. Hardbound. Female Victorian prose heavily laced with scripture. PLANTS W130 Left Rear
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges and tiny bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 235pp. How to grow flowers, foliage, berries or seed heads which will be available every week of the year.
From an excellent set of craft books. Abunantly illustrated. Topics in this volume include: Embroidery, Enameling metal flags and banners; Florentine Stitch; Flowers (artificial); Foam forms; Folk art; Framing; Furniture Refinishing; Fur recycling; Genealogy; Gingerbread. Clean, bright and unmarked but for Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
