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Veduta della facciata dell'università
Veduta della facciata dell'università
Veduta dell'università
Veduta delle rovine della chiesa
Veduta delle rovine della chiesa
Veduta della facciata del teatro
Veduta della facciata del teatro
16 pages. Features: Eddie Thomas cover photo; "Is Board's Power of Control Waning?"; Charlie Tucker photo; "Tot" Glanville photo; Photos of L. Radley of Oxford House Boxing Club; Photo of Charlie Collett, the Hemel Hempstead heavyweight; Photos of Charlie Solinas and Max Brady of Lurgan; Pritchard's Pile-Driver Stopped Jem Smith - article with photos of Jem Smith and Peter Jackson; Photos of Lavern Roach and Chris Jenkins, the Stourbridge lightweight; Photos of Eddie Thomas, Henry Hall and C.S.M. Inst. J. Ryan (Army Champion; Photo of Bos Murphy fighting Vince Hawkins; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
239 pages. Index. "A revised and updated of the 1969 first edition. Has added plants from all around the world that have come into common use since then. The text has been rewritten to reflect current knowledge, especially regarding nutrition. The original full-colour illustrations are reprinted in full, together with new paintings specially commissioned for this book." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound working copy. Book
"In the past ten or fifteen years, weeds have started to acquire a new and more respectable role and much active work is now being carried out on the taxonomy, evloution, genetics, physiology and ecology of weeds. This symposium was convened with the intention of bringing together active research workers in these fields from the iniversities, research organizations and industry. Sections include: Introduction; Problems in the Taxonomy and Evolution of Weeds; The Dormancy and Dispersal of Weed Seeds, Population Studies, Interference and Competition; Special Weed Problems; Autoecological Studies on Weed Species. Concerned with the biology of weeds, which has been interpreted to exclude chemical control. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Infrequent small pencil tick marks in margin. Small brown tape stains to each endpaper where, presumably, dust jacket was formerly affixed. Book
Latin Text with Latin apparatus and introduction. Digitally reprinted. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); Vol. 2; 451 pages
Spine slightly sunned. Minor Edgewear to base of spine. Small chips to spine ends and 2 corner. Lower corners lightly bumped. Faint small stain to foredges of last few pages. Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham). ; Unchanged Reprint of 1924 edition; 365 pages
Dustsoiling to top of textblock. Spine sunned. Endpapers tanned. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1924 edition; 365 pages
Second Edition, half-title, viii, 187, [1]pp., some light damp-staining of the inner margins of the first few leaves, original wrappers, uncut. The Edinburgh Review had published an attack on the Oxford system of education, "to which Copleston at once replied and completely demolished his antagonist, whom he convicted not only of stark ignorance of what he had undertaken to condemn, but of much bad Latin besides." - DNB.
[4], 36pp., margins closely shaved by the binders knife (affecting text on several leaves), disbound. Wing, F125.
New edition, with considerable additions, large 12mo (180 x 105 mm), vi, [4], 11-214, [2]pp., 8 engraved plates, orig. publisher's blue printed wrappers, lightly chipped.
Folio, First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; olive cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHORS WITH THEIR SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 64 fine plates and several folding pedigrees; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cordeaux & Merry 1323.
8vo., text in Latin and English, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; contemporary full roan, sides with double frame border in blind, back with six flat bands, brown top, hinges starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, clean copy. A scarce edition of the 'Oxford Statutes' designed for the use of schools and academies. Whilst the extracts themselves are given in the original Latin, some sections outlining the several scholarships and prizes are presented in English. A nice copy of a mid-Victorian edition of a compilation originally promulgated in 1671. See Cordeaux & Merry, 1089.
8vo., maroon cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled armorial bookplate on front paste-down and small stamp in title verso. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 12 pages of coloured and monochrome plates; decorative buckram, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Elegant new edition of the astonishing story of William chester Minor, American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum, who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language. His considerable (and anonymous) contributions to the making of the OED resulted in his being unmasked by the Dictionary's editor James Murray.
First edition, 4to, 182pp., 25 coloured tipped-in plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed and soiled but still a good copy, uncut.
3 vols., [of 5], 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces and plates; original black cloth, backstrips with printed paper labels, backstrips worn and split, labels worn (but just legible), uncut, a good, sound working collection of the first three volumes. Sold from an institution with its bookplate and press-marks on endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The first three volumes comprise Vol. I: 1758-1781 (second impression, 1924); Vol. II: 1782-87 (first edition, 1926); Vol. III: 1788-92 (first edition, 1927). Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. See Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
8vo., First and Sole Edition; boards, cloth back, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Published as The Manorial Society's Publications, No.16. ANTHONY WAGNER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Sir Anthony Richard Wagner (1908-1995) was one of the longest-serving members of the College of Arms of the twentieth century, and one of the most prolific authors on heraldry and genealogy. He joined the College in 1931 as Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary (in which position he acquired and signed this copy). During the next sixty years or so he occupied most of the major offices, including Richmond Herald (1943) and Garter Principal King of Arms in 1961. In 1978 he retired to the subordinate position of Clarenceux King of Arms and concentrated on the cataloguing of his extensive professional library. Scarce. Cordeaux & Merry 7926.
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations, facsimiles and diagrams in the text; original grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Major compendium of naval and maritime reference with over 3500 entries. This is the corrected version of the original edition of 1976.
