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By: N/A
Price: £4.50
Publisher: New Delhi, Centre for Science and Environment: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001944
Condition: Good
Illustrated with monocrome photos and line drawings, 4to, pp xvii, 393, (v), laminated boards, slightly worn and rubbed, base of board spine cracking but held together by the cellaphane layer of the laminated board, internally sound and tight, slight scuff on the rear pastedown endpaper. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Denmark,
Seller ID: 006655
Not dated, but probably early 1930's ? Not actually postcards as they are too small, but presented in a similar way. Each set folds back in to a cardboard cover. (1). Frederiksborg. 12 udvalgte Billeder (12 images of castles). The concertina folds out to about 1 ft 10 inches. [Each image size 85mm x 45mm]. There is slight adhesion/surface damage to each image. (2). Frederiksborg Slot. 24 Billeder (24 images of Frederiksborg Castle - interiors). The concertina folds out to about 5ft 10 inches (approximately 160 cms). [Each image size is 85mm x 65mm]. There is slight adhesion/surface damage to e... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London & New York, Thames & Hudson: 1958
Seller ID: 006693
Well illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs, small quarto, pp (c.100), endpapers slightly marked otherwise clean internally, very faint signs of wear to the cloth, in a dustwrapper which is a little marked and frayed and slightly torn. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Amman, Department of Statistics: 1970
Seller ID: 006900
A few illustrations, one folding chart, one folding map, small slim 8vo, pp (c.100), paperback, very slight signs of wear. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter]. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Marseille, FREZET:
Seller ID: 006905
[Not dated - c.1960 ?]. Illustrated, small slim 12mo, pp 84, contents clean and the large folding map is in good condition, paperback in plain card covers, in a frayed and torn dustwrapper. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter]. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Nairobi, East African Publishing House: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007150
Condition: Good
Illustrated, small quarto, pp 208, the dustwrapper is a little faded on the spine a little frayed generally and has one closed tear on the upper cover, otherwise a good copy and difficult to find with dustwrapper in this condition. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper] View more info
By: N/A
Price: £12.50
Publisher: The Industrial Commission: 1914
Seller ID: 007502
Condition: Fair
Well illustrated with photographs throughout, two folding plans, pp 84, staples rusty, paperback, covers rather worn and frayed, contents a little age-toned but reasonably clean and tight. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £8.50
Publisher: London, G.W. Bacon & Co Ltd:
Seller ID: 007932
Condition: Fair
(1912). Small 12mo, (measures 97mm x 158mm), pp 30, rather worn and stained internally, with folded corners, paperback covers a little worn. The booklet has been folded in half (in the pocket, no doubt), so is creased vertically throughout. [Very scarce - a listing of mileage distances between most towns and villages of the area.]. Postage will be much reduced. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £60.00
Publisher: 136, The Strand, W.H. Smith & Son:
Seller ID: 008811
Condition: Fair
Not dated (c.1853 ?). Small 8vo, pp 192, a little aged and marked throughout, preceded by seven un-numbered pages with an engraving and quote from a notable person, title page with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Sydney Smith, title page. a bit marked, lacking the front endpaper, rough quarter calf a bit rubbed and worn. Several newspaper clippings tipped-in. [With the tiny book label of Santiago Jose Brinn, his neat name is written on the first few pages, and a note to say that the book was bound in Santiago. The anecdotes are miscellaneous and light, designed no doubt to take the min... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £8.50
Publisher: Beijing, China Travel and Tourism Press:
Seller ID: 009620
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated with superb photographs, 121 pages, quarto, paperback, covers very slightly worn. Chapters include The Grand Ceremony, Imperial Wedding, Birthday celebrations, Routine affairs, Meals, Royal Wardrobe, Bedchambers, Cultural accomplishments, Theatrical performances in the Palace, and Sacrificial rites and religious services. [The captions are in Chinese. However a translation booklet of 12 pages is inserted which gives, in English, all the captions and chapter introductions. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £4.00
Publisher: 1983
Seller ID: 009804
Condition: Good
Very well illustrated, slim 8vo, pp (72), paperback, very slightly worn. (Postage will be reduced). View more info
By: N/A
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Belgrade, Izdanje Geokarta: 1952
Seller ID: 009873
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, + 22 double-page colour maps, large 12mo (measures 104mm x 177mm), pp 63, slightly age-toned internally but otherwise very clean and tight, cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly dull and worn. SCARCE. [Serbian ? text]. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Florence, Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009996
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, slim 8vo, pp 62, paperback, covers showing the faintest signs of wear. [An intriguing and, at times ammusing, anthology of historical accounts relating to music in the East. Produced to accompany a concert in the 'Early Music at I Tatti' series.] Postage will be reduced. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Minneapolis, J. Leachman & Sons:
Seller ID: 013167
Condition: Good
[May be a first edition ? - the verso of title page states "Copyright 1897]. Small tall 16mo, (measures 140mm x 68mm), pp 192 + 192, a little age-toned and dog-eared, there is an alphabetical thumb index front and back - the book inverts for each language, dark violet cloth, a little worn. [A contemporary bookseller's stamp on the title page. Originally in the library of the zoologist A.G. Searle, from whom it was given to the Kew botanist C.E. Hubbard.]. Postage will be reduced. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £5.00
Publisher: New Plymouth, Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014868
Condition: Good
Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 78, paperback, covers very slightly faded and slightly worn. With the bookplate of Dan E. Mayers. SCARCE. [An amazing New Zealand rhododendron garden.] View more info
By: N/A
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Montevideo, Federacion Uruguaya de Turismo:
Seller ID: 015019
Condition: Good
[Not dated - c.1954 ?]. Illustrated, many maps, some of them folding, thick 12mo, pp 176 + 66 pages of advertisements, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly worn and age-toned, a large stamp on the back cover. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £5.00
Publisher: New York, The American Geographical Society: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015268
Condition: Good
A complete index to the three sheets, octavo, pp 77, slightly age-toned and used internally, paperback, covers slightly marked and worn. From the library of Professor Jack Hawkes, with his signature on the upper cover. View more info
By: Abel, Clarke
Price: £1,000.00
Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown: 1819
Edition: Second edition
Seller ID: 013161
Condition: Good
Second edition, quarto, pp xvi, 420, with 10 plain litho plates, 7 hand coloured aquatint plates, 4 maps (of which 3 are folding), errata leaf present, some marking foxing and thumbing throughout, margins frayed of one plate, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, a later calf spine, endpapers marked. Three small Penzance Library stamps on the title page, partially removed, but no other markings. {Possibly lacking one plate ? This frequently occurs in this work.} [One of the main accounts of the period, during which a large number of plants were both discussed and collected. Clarke Abel, 1... View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Beijing, Xinjiang People's Publishing House: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015368
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (not paginated - c.200 ?), clothbound, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. From the library of the botanist Alan Leslie, with his bookplate and various signatures facing the title page. [A pictorial accounf of the landscape and life in this mountainous district of China, bordering on Kazakhstan.] View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Flagstaff, Stillwater Canyon Press: 1978
Seller ID: 006531
Illustrated, 12mo, pp x, 142, paperback, folding map in rear pocket, a very good copy. [Bookplate of Pat Brenan, ex-director of Kew Gardens] View more info
