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NICHOLAS CULPEPER: English Physician and Astrologer.

THULESIUS, Olav. · 1992

£50.00 (€59.89 | $67.25 | ¥10,626)

Basingtoke: Macmillan, 1992. 8vo.,pp.xi,210, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; light toning to endpapers, ownership signature to front free endpaper, a near-fine copy, in a vg unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE UPON HUMILITY Wherein is shewn, The Nature, Reasonableness, and Usefulness thereof. Together with the Ways of Expressing and Increasing it.

PELLING, Edward, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties, and Rector of Petworth in Sussex. · 1694

£195.00 (€233.56 | $262.29 | ¥41,441)

London: William Crooke, 1694. 8vo., pp.(i),(v),198,(x) publisher’s advertisements, full calf with blindstamped borders, rebacked in modern leather with modern gilt-lettered title, preserving front endpapers with linen tape reinforcement to inner hinge and rebacking to ...

THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS.

DARWIN, Charles. · 1876

£150.00 (€179.66 | $201.76 | ¥31,878)

London: John Murray, 1876. Second thousand, 8vo., pp.viii,208, half leather, five raised bands, gilt, green title label, gilt decorations to compartments, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, 13 engraved in-text figures; foxing to prelims, some wear to extremities, most part...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY, Volume I.

FARADAY, Michael. · 1849

£175.00 (€209.60 | $235.39 | ¥37,191)

London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1849. Volume I only, the second edition, 8vo., pp.viii,574,8 (adverts), decoratively blindstamped green cloth, gilt, eight folding plates at rear of volume; ex libris Francis Edward Paget, Rector of Elford, with neat ownership nameplat...

THE MICROSCOPE. Its History, Construction, and Applications. Being a Familiar Introduction to the Use of the Instrument and the Study of Microscopical Science.

HOGG, Jabez. · 1854

£110.00 (€131.75 | $147.96 | ¥23,377)

London: Published at the office of the Illustrated London Library, Milford House, Strand, and W.S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, 1854. 8vo., pp.xvi,440,(viii) adverts, uncut, pictorial green cloth, gilt, with blindstamped borders, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title, over ...

LATE-EGYPTIAN MISCELLANIES. Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca VII.

GARDINER, Alan H. · 1937

£30.00 (€35.93 | $40.35 | ¥6,376)

London: PercyLund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1937. 8vo., pp.,142, loose bound paper sleeves individually bound loosely in paper wrappers; edges of wrapper are lightly worn with slight chipping to top of back wrapper, spine is lightly worn,o/w internally clean. A very good copy.

WE MADE A GARDEN.

FISH, Margery. · 1956

£48.00 (€57.49 | $64.56 | ¥10,201)

London: Collingridge Ltd., 1956. Second impression, 8vo., pp.,120, red hardcover, silver lettering,colour photo frontispiece,b/w photos; top toned, very light spotting to front and rear paste-down and rear end-papers, o/w a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket...

CHINESE JADES.

WILSON, Ming. · 2004

£45.00 (€53.90 | $60.53 | ¥9,563)

London: V & A, 2004. Small 4to., pp.127, black hardcover, silver lettering, many colour illustrations; a fine copy in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

DENDROLOGIA BRITANNICA, Or Trees and Shrubs That Will Live in the Open Air of Britain Throughout the Year. A Work Useful to Proprietors and Possessors of Estates, in Selecting Subjects for Planting Woods, Parks and Shrubberies; And also to All Persons Who Cultivate Trees and Shrubs. Volume II: PLATE 81-172.

WATSON, P.W. · 1825

£495.00 (€592.88 | $665.81 | ¥105,197)

London: printed for the author by Isaac Wilson, Hull, and sold by John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill 1825. First edition, Volume II only (of two), 8vo., pp.unpaginated plates with numbered text-leaves corresponding to plates(81-172),(x)Indices,30(Appendix),(i)Errata, half green ...

TREATISES OF FISTULA IN ANO. Haemorrhoids, and Clysters. From an Early Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Translation.

ARDERNE, John. Edited by: POWER, Darcy, · 1968

£24.00 (€28.75 | $32.28 | ¥5,100)

London: Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1968. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xxxvii,156, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 4 further b/w plates (one of which reprises frontispiece; one folding plate); ex publisher’s Printer’s Li...

THE BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT; Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House Maids, Lady’s Maid, Maid-of-All-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly, Wet, And Sick Nurses, Etc. Etc. Also, Sanitary, Medical, & Legal Memoranda; With a History of the Origin, Properties, And Uses of All Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort.

BEETON, Mrs Isabella. · 1861

£1,450.00 (€1,736.72 | $1,950.34 | ¥308,153)

London, S.O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first issue with "Bouverie St" on the illustrated title page and the farmyard frontispiece, 8vo.,pp. xxxix,1112, contemporary half calf with marbled paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, speckled edges, 12 colour ...

DISOBEDIENCE.

DUNCAN, Harriet Louisa. · 1874

£12.00 (€14.37 | $16.14 | ¥2,550)

London: S.P.C.K., n.d. C.1874 12mo., pp..24, printed stitched wrappers, b/w frontispiece; Sunday School prize inscription to reverse of frontispiece, dated 1874, foxing throughout, stitched in three places, of which only the uppermost holds, staining and surface soil to wrap...

THE BULL TERRIER. A Comprehensive Treatise on the History, Management, Breeding, Training, Care, Showing and Judging.

MONTGOMERY, E.S. · 1946

£55.00 (€65.88 | $73.98 | ¥11,689)

New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, Inc., 1946. 8vo., pp.415, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, numerous b/w illustrations; light toning to margins of text, (very) light foxing to endpapers, slight marking to cloth, creasing to spine, overall very good. (No dust-jacket).

THE CURRENT STATUS OF LADYBIRDS IN BRITAIN: Final Report of the Cambridge Ladybird Survey- 1984-1994.

MAJERUS, Michael E.N. · 1995

£15.00 (€17.97 | $20.18 | ¥3,188)

Cambridge, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, 1995. 4to.,pp.144, unbound between clear acetate covers, b/w figures and maps, pictorial title page; a very good copy.

biology and conservation of small falcons. Proceedings of the 1991 Hawk and Owl Trust Conference.

Edited by: NICHOLLS, M.K.; CLARKE, R. · 1993

£28.00 (€33.54 | $37.66 | ¥5,951)

Taunton: Hawk and Owl Trust, 1993. 4to., pp.v,250, paperback, b/w figures; rubbing to extremities of wrappers, else very good.

RICHARD III., As Duke of Gloucester and King of England.

HALSTED, Caroline A. · 1844

£350.00 (€419.21 | $470.77 | ¥74,382)

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, (1844). Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xi,457;xii,570, full ochre calf, five raised bands, double fillets, gilt-lettered, with decorative gilt compartments and edges, marbled endpapers and edges, b/w frontispieces; foxing to prelims, fresh ...

The Collected Works, Volume Thirteen: ALCHEMICAL STUDIES.

JUNG, C.G. Translated from the German by: HULL, R.F.C. · 1981

£95.00 (€113.78 | $127.78 | ¥20,189)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xiv,453, green hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; tobacco odour, small price sticker residue to front free endpaper, light toning to endpapers and slightly throughout, light soiling to spine, s...

The Collected Works, Volume Ten: CIVILISATION IN TRANSITION.

JUNG, C.G. Translated from the German by: HULL, R.F.C. · 1981

£55.00 (€65.88 | $73.98 | ¥11,689)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,609, green hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; tobacco odour, light toning and foxing to endpapers and edges, slightly toned throughout, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket...

The Collected Works, Supplementary Volume A: THE ZOFINGIA LECTURES.

JUNG, C. G. Translated by HEURCK, Jan Van. · 1983

£48.00 (€57.49 | $64.56 | ¥10,201)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxv,129, green hardcover, gilt; tobacco odour, light surface wear to front free endpaper, slightly toned throughout, lightly foxed and toned to edges, light toning to boards, very slight shelf-wear, a very goo...

THE EPIC OF HADES. In Three Books.

MORRIS, Lewis.

£68.00 (€81.45 | $91.46 | ¥14,451)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Pocket 8vo., pp.x,284, fine Bickers binding, full morocco, gilt, decorated compartments, corners, and inner dentelles, gilt-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt; slight wear at corners, splitting along upper joint (lower compartme...