Creaking Shelves Books

The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain

Pratt, Anne · 1856

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1856. Hardcover. The six volumes complete of this important and much reprinted work. Undated but apparently a first edition pf 1855. Many lithographic plates with tissue guards. Modern rebind in dark green buckram with bold gilt titli...

Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J.E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby Vols. I & II (in Original Parts)

Hooker, William Jackson; Smith, Sir J. E.; Sowerby, Mr. · 1834

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

C. E. Sowerby,, 1834. Soft Cover. The full set of 39 parts of the first and second supplement volumes (of the first edition of Sowerby's English Botany), all in original blue wrappers. The supplements have been bound into a two bespoke hardback boxes as seen. All are uncoloure...

The Botanist. (Containing Accurately Coloured Figures, of Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants; with Descriptions, Scientific and Popular; Intended to Convey Both Moral and Intellectual Gratification). Vols I & II.

Botanik - Maund, B(enjamin) and Henslow, J(ohn) S(tevens). · 1836

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

Published by London, R. Groombridge, Edinburgh, W. White, Dublin, J. Robertson, 1836-1838., 1838, 1836. Hardcover. 2 Vols. Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow collaborated in 1837 to produce The Botanist, a botanical journal the goal of which was to educate gardeners. Five...

Memories

Desmomd MacCarthy · 1953

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

MacGibbon & Kee, 1953. Hardcover. 223p 1p adverts. Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy FRSL (20 May 1877 - 7 June 1952) was a British writer and the foremost literary and dramatic critic of his day. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, fro...

Researches in Newer Pliocene and Post-Tertiary Geology

Smith, James Esq. Of Jordanhill · 1862

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

John Gray, 1862. Hardcover. pp. x, (ii), 191, (i) Errata, 4p Ads. 4 attractive tissue guarded tinted lithographs (including Gibraltar and Straits from Gun Rock), 12 text woodcuts. Dealing mostly with raised beaches about the Clyde and West Highlands but includes essays on the ...

Far Fortress

Angel, Edmund · 1958

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

Robert Hayle, 1958. Hardcover. 222p Formosa in the seventeenth century was a stronghold of the West on the flank of revolutionary China, The Dutch, already masters of Java, looked from their chain of Formosan forts toward the rich provinces of the Chinese mainland. How the Dut...

A Glenn Miller Discography and Biography

Stephen F. Bedwell Geoffrey E. Butcher · 1955

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Glenn Miller Appreciation Society, 1955. Hardcover. 102p illustrated. The original first edition unusually in hardback - in plain red cloth boards. Clean and unmarked bit front hinge cracked though binding sound. with inserts and press cuttings. See scans. . Very Good

The Puggy Line - the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway

Howat, Patrick · 2007

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

Narrow Gauge Railway Society, 2007. Soft Cover. The second and much enlarged edition of this book first published in 72 pages by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society in 1980 in silver soft covers. This second edition under a new title comprises 97p and is much enlarged. Profusely ...

With Roberts to Candahar, a Tale of the Third Afghan War

Brereton, Captain F S · 1907

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Blackie & Son, 1907. Hardcover. 352p + 16p Blackie catalogue. Poor copy prelims and frontis missing one loose page and localised foxing. Reading copy. See scans. . Poor

An Historical Atlas of East Yorkshire

Susan Neave; Steve Ellis · 1996

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

The University of Hull Press, 1996. Soft Cover. 160p with innumerable maps, plans and diagrams; withe loose index in a pocket at the back of the book. Clean and unmarked. A perfect collectable or presentable copy. See cans. (ISBN: 0859586529).. Near Fine

Petrogenesis of the Volcanic Rocks of the Karoo Province. (=Special Publications No. 13).

A J Erlank (Editor) · 1984

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Geological Society of South Africa, 1984. Hardcover. This is the first edition in hardback with a coloured frontis, 395p illustrated with a folding map and many diagrams. The book is clean tight and unmarked apart from a neat owners name on the fep. Unclipped d/w has some edg...

The Limpopo Belt. A Contribution to the National Geodynamics Programme Sponsored by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [Geological Society of South Africa Special Publication, No 8]

W. J. Van Biljon; J. H. Legg · 1983

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Lewis Morris Productions, 1983. Hardcover. The Limpopo Belt is located in South Africa and Zimbabwe, runs E-NE, and joins the Kaapvaal Craton to the south with the Zimbabwe Craton to the north. The belt is of high-grade metamorphic rocks that have undergone a long cycle of met...

Mr. Beck's Underground Map: A History

Garland, Ken · 2008

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Capital Transport Pub, 2008. Hardcover. Beautifully got up coverage of the famous London Underground Map. In fine unmarked condition. A perfect presentable or collectable copy. 78p very well illustrated. See scans. (ISBN: 9781854141682).. Fine

Road-Books, Road-Maps and Itineraries of Gt. Britain 1535-1850: A Catalogue Anotated for Devon and Cornwall

Bennett, Francis · 1996

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Published by author, 1996. Soft Cover. 144pm +4p index. Well illustrated Detailing maps in chronological order with index of surveyors, authors, engravers, publishers and printers. Clean, tight and unmarked in near fine condition. See scans . Near Fine

Browns' Illustrated Guide to Hull

Wrigglesworth, Edmund · 1972

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

EP Publishing Ltd, 1972. Hardcover. 224p facsimile reprint of this important guide to Hull, first published in 1891. In VG clean condition but with a small owners name on the fep tippexed out. See scans (ISBN: 0854098321).. Very Good

Plans in St. George's Channel, 1748

Morris, Lewis · 1987

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Lewis Morris Productions, 1987. Soft Cover. v + 46pp printed on cream paper on one side only. A reprint ofthe rare original of 1748. Small number on fep , some toning and card covers curling. Excellent reading copy. See scans (ISBN: 0951267310).. Good to Very Good

The New England Company,1649-1776: Missionary Society to the American Indians

Kellaway, William · 1961

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Longmans, 1961. Hardcover. The New England Company is the oldest English Protestant Missionary society still active in Britain. It was founded by an Act of Oliver Cromwell's Parliament on 27 July 1649 and had as its aim the conversion of the Indians of New England. 303p. The b...

A Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe

MacDonald, Joseph · 1971

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

SR Publishers Ltd, 1971. Hardcover. The 1971 reprint of this classic first published in 1803. This edition republished from the 1927 edition by Alexander MacDonald, Inverness. ix+(2)+36p. Clean, tight and unmarked though with a little wrinkling at the top of the first few page...

All Arms and Elbows

Ireland, Innes; Brabham, Jack · 1994

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Transport Bookman Publications Ltd, 1994. Hardcover. Lieutenant Robert McGregor Innes Ireland (12 June 1930 - 22 October 1993), was a British military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver, with 1 Formula 1 victory, and 8 Tourist Trophies. Ireland was a larger-than-life c...

The Life and Sins of a Crofter's Son

Hugh Matheson · 2011

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

North Highland Publishing, 2011. Soft Cover. 346 + plates. The autobiography of a crofters son born at Wester Gruinards, Strathcarron, Ardgay, Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands in 1935. chapter headings include before electricity came up the glen, poaching, illicit whisky r...