Scienza e natura

Thomas Johnson: botanical journeys in Kent & Hampstead. A facsimile reprint with introduction and translation of his Iter Plantarum 1629, Descriptio Itineris Plantarum 1632. 'Hunt Facsimile Series No. 3.'

GILMOUR, J. S. L. (Editor). · 1972 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,938)

Pittsburgh: The Hunt Botanical Library, 1972. 4to. ix[i], 167pp, text facsimiles, 2 folding maps, text map. Original brown cloth gilt, rubbed and lightly soiled d/w.

The Book of a Naturalist.

HUDSON, W. H. · 1919 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

London: Hodder and Stoughton, ND (1919?) 1st edition? viii, 360pp. Original green cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes slightly worn, leaf edges foxed, boards lightly scuffed w/o loss.

Observations on the brumal retreat of the swallow. To which is added a copious index to many passages relating to this bird, in the works of ancient and modern authors.

FORSTER, Thomas. · 1814 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,385)

N.P., 1814 4th corrected and enlarged edition. 8vo. Pp [431]-462, text table. Disbound. Very light soiling to title-page margins.

No. X. A Descriptive Catalogue of the recent Zoophytes found on the Coast of Durham ... Read April 16, 1832. [Extracted from the Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle upon Tyne. Vol. II. 1832.]

JOHNSTON, George. · 0 · John Turton

£55.68 (€66.75 | $73.57 | ¥11,750)

4to. Pp 239-272, 6 etched plates, 2 text illustrations. Modern linen-backed paper boards. Plates lightly browned and spotted.

Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (New Series.) Vol. VI.

NORTH EAST ENGLAND NATURAL HISTORY. · 1923 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.72 | $45.98 | ¥7,344)

London: Williams and Norgate, 1923-1926. 8vo. [iv], 242pp, lxxxvi pp, plates, text figures and tables. Later quarter blue crushed morocco gilt, matching cloth sides. Spine sun-faded. Ex-reference library with following evidence: Dewey number in gilt to spine tail; 'withdrawn' ...

The Forest Trees of Britain.

JOHNS, C. A., Rev. · 1882 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

London: SPCK, 1882. 8vo. xi[i], 431[1]pp, 4pp publisher's list, frontis, text illustrations. Original decorated green cloth gilt, black eps. Extremes very lightly rubbed; scattered very light stains to cloth; tiny hole to cloth of upper joint; very occasional very light spotting.

Refrigerating Machinery. Its principles and management.

LEASK, A. Ritchie. · 1901 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,385)

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1901 2nd revised edition. 8vo. xii, 296pp, [12]pp adverts at rear, text illustrations, figures and tables. Original pictorial maroon cloth gilt, bevelled edges, ep adverts printed on orange paper. Spine slightly sun-faded; wear to rear board upp...

Thomas Tompion, His Life & Work.

SYMONDS, R. W. · 1951 · John Turton

£55.68 (€66.75 | $73.57 | ¥11,750)

London: B T Batsford, [1951.] 4to. xvi, 320pp, 4 colour plates, b/w plates within the pagination, text illustrations and figures, 2 multi-folding facsimiles, title-page printed in red and black. Original blue cloth gilt, te coloured. Cloth very slightly rubbed. Ex-reference li...

The Conchologist's Text-Book, embracing the arrangements of Lamarck and Linnaeus, with a glossary of technical terms.

BROWN, Thomas, Captain. · 1835 · John Turton

£83.52 (€100.13 | $110.36 | ¥17,625)

Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton & Co, 1835 3rd edition. 12mo in sixes. 180pp, 19 plates, 2 text illustrations. Original printed green paper boards, uncut. Re-spine with matching plain paper; boards rubbed with slight wear; boards lightly soiled; light vertical crease to first few...

Field Observations on British Birds. By a sportsman naturalist. Edited by Henry Balfour ...

OGILVIE, Fergus Menteith. · 1920 · John Turton

£41.76 (€50.06 | $55.18 | ¥8,813)

London: Selwyn & Blount, [1920] new edition. 4to. xvi[ii], 228pp, gravure portrait frontis, 7 further plates (2 in colour), 14 text illustrations, 3 maps. Original quarter cream cloth lettered in black, grey sides. Spine browned, spotted and soiled; a series of small localised...

The Cotteswold Hills. Hand-book introductory to their geology and palaeontology.

LYCETT, John. · 1857 · John Turton

£81.20 (€97.35 | $107.29 | ¥17,136)

London: Piper, Stephenson and Spence; Stroud: F W Harmer, 1857. 8vo in fours. [iv], iii[i], 168[2]pp, 7 litho plates at rear. Original blind-stamped red cloth gilt, yellow eps, uncut/partly unopened. Extremes very lightly rubbed; cloth very lightly soiled; 3 tiny ink-stains to...

Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (New Series.) Vol. I. [Including] A Ramble up Burnhope [Weardale]. By the Rev. W. J. Wingate. The Spiders of the Tyne Valley. By A. Randell Jackson. Larval Trematodes of the Northumberland Coast. By Marie V. Lebour.

NORTH EAST ENGLAND NATURAL HISTORY. · 1904 · John Turton

£29.00 (€34.77 | $38.32 | ¥6,120)

Newcastle: Williams and Norgate, 1904-1907. 8vo. vi, 506pp, plates, text figures and tables. Later quarter blue crushed morocco gilt, matching cloth sides. Spine sun-faded. Ex-reference library with following evidence: Dewey number in gilt to spine tail; 'withdrawn' ink-stamp ...

Glimpses of the Mineral Wealth of Wild Wales. Notes for the [second] Llangynog camp ...

BRUTON, F. A.; J. R. WILKINSON. · 1915 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.50 | $49.05 | ¥7,833)

Manchester Grammar School, 1915. 8vo. 56pp. Original embossed card wraps lettered and decorated in black. * Not found in COPAC, CCLC or any other of the major on-line databases.

The Industrial Design Consultant: who he is and what he does. A paper read ... before the Royal Society of Arts ...

MERCER, F. A. · 1947 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

London and New York: The Studio, 1947. 8vo. 144pp, c. 50 double-sided plates at rear within the pagination. Original white cloth decorated and lettered in grey. Spine and edges of boards browned.

The Romance of Water-Power.

LEWIS, Paul. · 1931 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, N.D. [1931.] 8vo. viii[ii], 246pp, double-sided plates, maps (one folding,) contour plate. Original green cloth lettered in black. Extremes rubbed with very light wear; very light spotting to cloth; ht and last page lightly browned; occasion...

The Gravels of the Severn, Avon, and Evenlode, and their extension over the Cotteswold Hills.

LUCY, W. C. · 1869 · John Turton

£44.08 (€52.84 | $58.25 | ¥9,302)

Gloucester: John Bellows, 1869. 8vo. 72pp, errata slip, text figures and tables, multi-folding hand-coloured geological map. Extracted from disparate bound collection with original printed front wrap still present.

Geology of the Redesdale Ironstone District. From the Transactions of the North of Englnd Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Vol. XXII.

LEBOUR, G. A. · 1873 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.38 | $36.79 | ¥5,875)

Newcastle: A Reid, 1873. 8vo.[ii], 18pp, colour geological map and contour map at rear, text tables. Disbound. Light vertical crease.

The Metamorphic Rocks of the Malvern Range, and the strata derived from them. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society.

RICKETTS, Charles. · 1874 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Liverpool: Courier Steam Printing Works, 1874. 8vo. 8pp. Disbound. Light vertical crease.

The Base of the Carboniferous Limestone. From the Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society.

RICKETTS, Charles. · 1887 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Liverpool: C Tinling and Co, 1887. 8vo. 12pp. Disbound. Light vertical crease.

The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588). Translated ... with a biographical study ... by Martha Teach Gnudi. Technical annotations and a pictorial glossary by Eugene S. Ferguson.

RAMELLI, Agostino. · 1976 · John Turton

£69.60 (€83.44 | $91.97 | ¥14,688)

London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Fo. 604pp, portrait frontis, 195 plates (some double-page) within the pagination, text figures. Original green cloth gilt, rubbed card slip-case with printed paper label.