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Haeckel (E.)<P> NATURLICHE SCHOPFUNGSGESCHICHTE. Berlin, 1873. With (fold.) col. & b/w frontis. & plates, Contemp. h. calf gilt with r...

Bewick, (Thomas)<P> A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1791. 2nd ed. Royal 8vo. Wood-engr. ills. Lacks last leaf of index. ...

White (James)<P> A COMPENDIUM OF THE VETERINARY ART. 1822-23. 3 vols. 25 engr. plates. Some fldg., a few hand-col. Cont. boards; some cracking...

Millais (John Guille)<P> BRITISH DEER AND THEIR HORNS. 1897. With chromolith. frontis. & gravure plates & b/w text ills mostly after t...

Partington (Charles F.)<P> THE BRITISH CYCLOPAEDIA OF NATURAL HISTORY. 1835. 3 Vols. With 50 hand-col. wood-engr. plates & num. wood-engr....

Goldsmith (Oliver)<P> A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE ... 1876. 2 Vols. With hand-col. & b/w steel-engr. & wood-engr. half-...

Gosse (Philip Henry)<P> A YEAR AT THE SHORE. 1865. Col. frontis & 35 col. plates. Cont. half morocco gt. Gifford (Isabella)<P> ...

Youatt (William)<P> THE HORSE. Ed.: W. Watson. 1888. Engr. ills. Advrts. book list. Orig. two-tone cloth gt. Plus 6 others on veterinary scien...

Sutherland (William)<P> HANDBOOK OF HARDY HERBACEOUS AND ALPINE FLOWERS. Edin. & L. 1871. Orig. dec. cloth gilt. Small mark on front c...

Britten, (James)<P> EUROPEAN FERNS. A.d., [ca. 1870]. Ills.: D. Blair. 30 chromolith. plates & engr. text-ills. Orig. pictorial cloth gt. ...

Harvey, (William Henry)<P> A MANUAL OF THE BRITISH MARINE ALGAE. 1849. 2nd ed. Portrait frontis. & 27 handcol. plates. Orig. pebble-grain ...

Chittenden (Fred. J.) & Synge (Patrick M.).<P> THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. A PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLO...

Bean (W.J.)<P> TREES AND SHRUBS HARDY IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 1916, 2nd edition. 2 Vols. With b/w plates & text ills. Thick 8vo., contemp. ...

Smith (Sir James Edward)<P> AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMATICAL BOTANY. 1819. With 15 engr. plates (of which 14 handcol.). Conte...

Pratt (Anne)<P> THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES, AND FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR ALLIES.....L. and NY [ca 1870]. 6 vols. 316 chromo...

Schaal (Gustav)<P> WERTVOLLE APFEL UND BIRNSORTEN. Stuttgart, [ca. 1910], 3rd ed. 2 Vols. With chromolith. plates. Small 8vo., orig. dec. clot...

Pringsheim, (N.)<P> GESAMMELTE ABHANDLUNGEN. Jena, 1895-1896. 4 Vols. Fldg. (col.) plates. Orig. cloth gt. Partly untrimmed. - Harvey, (Willia...

Meredith (Louisa Anne)<P> BUSH FRIENDS IN TASMANIA. 1891. Last series. Added chromolith. title & 13 chromolith. plattes. Dedication plate ...

Whittle (T.)<P> COMMON OR GARDEN. 1969. Orig. cloth. D/w. Col. frontis. Some spotting to both covers. A few minor chips & tears in d...

Morgan (Augustus de)<P> TRIGONOMETRY AND DOUBLE ALGEBRA. 1849. With lith. front. & text ills. Orig. cloth (rebacked with modern quarter ca...

Davy (Sir Humphry)<P> SOME EXPERIMENTS ON A SOLID COMPOUND OF IODINE AND OXYGENE, AND ON ITS CHEMICAL AGENCIES. READ APRIL 20, 1815. / ON THE ...

Pasteur (Louis)<P> STUDIES ON FERMENTATION. 1879. 1st English ed. 12 engr. plates & text ills. Orig. cloth. Some light foxing. Owner's...

Weisse (Maximilian)<P> POSITIONES MEDIAE STELLARUM FIXARUM IN ZONIS REGIONMONTANIS A BESSELIO .......... AD ANNUM REDUCTAE. Krakow, 1846.

Royal Astronomical Society<P> MONTHLY NOTICES. Vol. 65-74, except 66 & 68. 1905-1914. 8 Vols. of the series. With plates, tables, diagrams...

ENCYCLOPEDIE DES SCIENCES MEDICALES. Paris, 1835-1838. 4 Vols. of the series. Contemp. uniform quarter calf gilt with raised bands. - Kuhne (Louis)&...

Brown (John)<P>. RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. Edinburgh, 1872. With frontis., dec. title & plates. 4to., orig. pictorial limp boards. Spine sl. da...

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT - COLLECTION of ca. 60 public health acts from the reigns of George III and Victoria. [ca. 1816-1880]. (60)

THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON HOSPITAL AND TUMOR INSTITUTE. Houston, [1964]. With col. & b/w plates & ills...

Brodie (Benjamin C.)<P> PATHOLOGICAL AND SURGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES OF THE JOINTS. 1850. 5th ed. Orig. blindstamped cloth, upper hi...

Besant (Annie)<P> THE LAW OF POPULATION: ITS CONSEQUENCES, AND ITS BEARING UPON HUMAN CONDUCT AND MORALS. New York, 1889. Orig. wrappers. Loos...

Griffith (J.W.) & Henfrey (Arthur)<P>. THE MICROGRAPHIC DICTIONARY. A GUIDE TO THE EXAMINATION AND INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND NATU...

Saint-Andre (J.-D.)<P> ANALYSES DES EAUX DE LABARTHE-RIVIERE. / ANALYSE DES EAUX DITES ACIDULES FERRUGINEUSES. Toulouse, 1816. 2 Vols. in 1. ...

Menzies Campbell (J.)<P> CATALOGUE OF THE MENZIES CAMPBELL COLLECTION OF DENTAL INSTRUMENTS, PICTURES, APPLIANCES, ORNAMENTS, ETC. Edinburgh, ...

Barbour Simpson (G.F.) & Burnet (Edward)<P>. THE EDINBURGH STEREOSCOPIC ATLAS OF OBSTETRICS. 1908-1909. With 100 laid-in photo plates loos...

Chambon de Montaux (Nicolai)<P> OBSERVATIONES CLINICAE, CURATIONES MORBORUM. Paris, 1789. 4to. 2 engr. plates, headpieces etc. Old owner's...

Muys (Johannes)<P> PRAXIS MEDICO-CHIRURGICA. Naples, 1727. 4to. 2 woodcuts in text. Cont. vellum, a little discoloured. First published in 16...

Bilz (F.E.)<P> DAS NEUE NATURHEILVERFAHREN. Leipzig, [ca. 1895], 87th ed. With (fold.) chromolith. & wood-engr. b/w frontis., half-title, ...

Howard (John)<P>. PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY AND CURE OF VENEREAL DISEASE. 1787. 1 Vol. of 3. With 2 fold. engr. plates. Mo...

REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON RABIES IN DOGS. Hansard, 1887. Folio, orig. wrappers. Spine & covers worn & back ...

ENGINEERING An illustrated weekly journal. London, 1937-1967. 62 vols. Double-page plates, tables, diagrams & ills. Large 4to (4) & fo...

[sectional models] Mulhaupt (O.)<P> MODELL-ATLAS ZU DIE MODERNE ELEKTRIZITAT. Gera, n.d [ca 1890]. Folio. 13 chromolitho sectional models inc...

Simms (Frederick Walter)<P> PRACTICAL TUNNELLING Ed.: D.K. Clark. 1877. 3rd ed. 19 fldg. plates. Engr. text ills. Orig. cloth gt. Spine rubbed...

Campbell (John)<P> LIVES OF THE ADMIRALS AND OTHER ..... BRITISH SEAMEN. 1750. 2nd edn. 4 vols. Cont. calf gt. Crimson labels. Minor we...

GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Albany, 1858. Lith. title & 6 plates. Small 8vo., orig. dec. calf gilt wit...

Scheer (Reinhard)<P> DIE DEUTSCHE FLOTTE IN GROSSER ZEIT. Ills: W.Stower. Braunschweig, Hamburg, Berlin, [1926]. Oblong folio. 40 col. plates....

Lettow-Vorbeck (Generalmajor von..) & others<P> DIE WELTKRIEGSPIONAGE (Original-Spionage-Werk) Munich, [1931]. Large 4to. Gravure plates, ...

Eisenhart Rothe ( General D. von)<P> EHRENDENKMAL DER DEUTSCHEN ARMEE UND MARINE 1871-1918. Berlin & Munich, 1927. 3rd edn. Folio. Col. &...

Bongartz (Heinz)<P> LUFTMACHT DEUTSCHLAND. Essen, 1939. Large 8vo. Col. plates. B/w plates and text ills. Advts. Orig. printed cloth.

ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS. R.A.F.- EGYPT & AFRICA. ca 1942. Large oblong 8vo. 125 private photographs taken by an RAF officer who evidently was invo...

Low (Charles Rathbone). HER MAJESTY'S NAVY INCLUDING ITS DEEDS AND BATTLES. N.d. [ca. 1900]. 3 Vols. With col. frontis., dec. added titles &...

Hawtrey Gyngall, (Dudley S.)<P> ARMOURERS MARK, BEING A COMPILATION OF KNOWN MARKS OF ARMOURERS, SWORDSMITHS AND GUNSMITHS. 1959, Ltd. de-luxe...

THE ILLUSTRATED NAVAL AND MILITARY MAGAZINE. Vols. 4, 5, 7 & 8; 1886-1888 & Vol. 4 & 5 of the new series, 1890. 6 Vols. With chromolith....

Mountford, (Charles P.)<P>. RECORDS OF THE AMERICAN-AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO ARNHEM LAND. I. ART, MYTH AND SYMBOLISM. Melbourne, (1...

Speer (Albert)<P> SPANDAUER TAGEBUCHER. Frankfurt etc. 1975. 1st edn. Signed by the author on f.e.p.<P> B/w ills. Orig. cloth. D/w.

Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer)<P> LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. 1906, first edition. 2 Vols. With gravure frontis. & (fldg.) (facsimil...

Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer)<P>. THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES. (1932), first ed. Frontis. Orig. cloth gilt. - Fore edge sl. foxed. Inscr...

Lawrence, (Thomas Edward).<P> SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. A TRIUMPH. London & Toronto, 1935, 4th impr. With b/w frontis., (fldg.) maps & ...

Larochejaquelein (Marchioness de)<P>. MEMOIRS. Transl. from the French. Edinburgh, 1816. With fold. handcol. map. Contemp. h. calf gilt. Cover...

Thomas (Hugh)<P> THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR. 1961. B/w ills. D/w. Thompson (Paul)<P> SOCIALISTS, LIBERALS & LABOUR: THE STRUGGLE FO...

Marx (Karl) & Engels (Friedrich)<P> GESAMTAUSGABE. Berlin, 1975-85. 29 vols. Orig. cloth gt. Some superficial marking. (29)

Barber (B. Aquila)<P> THE ART OF FRANK O. SALISBURY... Leigh-on-Sea, 1936. 4to. Ltd. edn. (107/250), signed by the artist. Col. and b/w plat...

Penley (Aaron)<P> SKETCHING FROM NATURE IN WATERCOLOURS. n.d. [ca 1880] 4to. Chromolitho title and plates as called for. Orig. cloth gt. Upper...

Hager (Bengt)<P> BALLETS SUEDOIS. Trans. R. Sharman. L. & N.Y., 1990. Folio, orig. artificial dec. leather with dec. title & col. ...

MODERN MASTERS OF ETCHING. EDMUND BLAMPIED. Intr.: Malcolm C. Salaman. 1926. With 12 mounted plates. Folio oblong with mounted printed title. Minor we

Taschen (Angelika)<P> LENI RIEFENSTAHL. FIVE LIVES. [N.pl., 2000]. With (col.) plates after a.o. L. Riefenstahl. Folio, orig. boards, d/w. - S...

THE ART JOURNAL. 4 Vols. 1885-1888. With num. etchings, steel-engr. plates, gravure plates & wood-engr. ills. Folio, contemp. ruled half crushed...

THE ART ANNUAL. [ca. 1888-1904]. 28 parts in 3 vols., incl. special Easter editions. With etched, laid-in col., steel-engr. & gravure plates &am...

Salzman (L.F.)<P> BUILDING IN ENGLAND DOWN TO 1540. A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. Oxford, 1992. 8vo. Orig. cloth gt. Mowl (T.) & Earnshaw (B...

Mowl (Tim) & Earnshaw (Brian)<P> TRUMPET AT A DISTANT GATE. THE LODGE AS PRELUDE TO THE COUNTRY HOUSE. 1985. Large 8vo. Orig. boards....

Raymond (Alexandre M.)<P> L'ART ISLAMIQUE EN ORIENT. II PARTIE. Constantinople, 1924. With text volume & 60 chromolitho plates loo...

Riley (Terence) & Bergdall (Barry)<P> MIES IN BERLIN. New York, (2001). With fold. col. front. & text ills. Large 4to., orig. blindsta...

Frampton (Kenneth)<P>. CHARLES CORREA. 1996. With col. & b/w frontis., plates & text ills. Large 4to., orig. dec. boards, d/w. - Samma...

Speer (Albert)<P> DIE NEUE REICHSKANZLEI. Munich, n.d [ca 1935]. 2nd edn. Folio. Col. and b/w plates, fldg plans. Orig. quater cloth gt. Dust...

Cescinsky (Herbert) & Gribble (Ernest R.)<P> EARLY ENGLISH FURNITURE AND WOODWORK. 2 Vols. With (col.) frontis., plates & ills. Folio,...

Markham (Christopher A.)<P> PEWTER MARKS AND OLD PEWTER WARE. DOMESTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL. 1909. With frontis., plates, tables & ills. Ori...

Pinto (Edward H.)<P> TREEN AND OTHER WOODEN BYGONES. AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA AND SOCIAL HISTORY. 1976. With plates. Large thick 8vo., orig. cloth, d/...

Winkles (Henry & B.)<P> ARCHITECTURAL AND PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND WALES. 1841. 3 Vols. Added st...

Rackham (Bernard) & Gibb (William)<P> A BOOK OF PORCELAIN. 1910. 1st edition. 4to. 28 mounted chromolith. plates. Orig. pictorial cloth gt...

King (William)<P> CHELSEA PORCELAIN. 1922, first edition. Col. & b/w plates. 4to., orig. cloth gt. - Pugh (P.D.Gordon)<P>. NAVAL CER...

Mankowitz (Wolf)<P> WEDGWOOD. 1980. 3rd edition. Col. & b/w plates. 4to., orig. cloth, d/w. - Hyde (J.A. Lloyd)<P> ORIGINAL LOWESTOF...

Powell (Harry J.)<P> GLASS-MAKING IN ENGLAND. Cambridge, 1923. With frontis., fold. map & plates. Large 8vo., orig. dec. blindstamped gilt...

[FASHION PLATES]. JOURNAL DES DEMOISELLES. Paris, 1884. Large 8vo. 18 plates, of which 16 handcol. & 2 uncol. fldg. Contemp. quarter crushed mor...

Carter (John) & Muir, (P.H.) (eds.)<P> PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE ILLUSTRATING THE IMPACT OF PRINT ON THE EVOLU...

Daumas (Maurice)<P> SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES AND THEIR MAKERS. Transl. & Ed.: Mary Holbrook. 198...

Salaman (R.A.)<P> DICTIONARY OF LEATHER-WORKING TOOLS., c. 1700-1950. London & Sydney, (1986). With plates & ills. 4to., orig. cloth, ...

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, "Lewis Carroll")<P> THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. Ills: J. Tenniel. 1872. 12t...

Henty, George Alfred<P> WITH CLIVE IN INDIA OR THE BEGINNINGS OF AN EMPIRE. 1884, first edition. With frontis., plates after Gordon Browne, ma...

Henty (George Alfred) & others<P> BRAINS & BRAVERY. Ills: A.Rackham. 1903. 1st edn. Half-title with pencilled owner's signatures...

THE MONSTER RUPERT. (N.d.) 4to. B/w ills and col. cut-outs. Orig. cloth-backed pict. boards.

Henty, George Alfred<P> THE TIGER OF MYSORE. THE STORY OF THE WAR WITH TIPPOO SAIB. London, Glasgow & Dublin, 1896, 1st ed. With gravure f...

Bannerman (Helen)<P> THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. 1899. 1st edn. 16mo. 27 col ills. Orig, cloth. Gutta percha binding perished. Owner'...

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge - 'Lewis Carroll')<P> THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. Ills: J.Tenniel. 1872. 28th t...

Goodrich (Samuel Griswold - 'Peter Parley')<P> THE BALLOON TRAVELS OF ROBERT MERRY AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 1857. Engr. plates and ill...

[Cervantes, Miguel de]<P> DON QUIXOTE. 1930. With col. plates & text. ills. Folio, orig. quarter cloth with dec. boards gilt. Covers sl. w...

Defoe (Daniel)<P> ROBINSON CRUSOE (German) Berlin, 1860. 8 hand-col. plates and t.p. vignette. Threequarter green levant morocco, by Bayntu...

Straparola (Giovanni Francesca)<P> THE NIGHTS. Trans: W.G. Waters. 1894. 8 vols. Large 8vo. Orig. half-cloth. With gravure frontis. &am...

Clerc (Charles) & Sevestre (Norbert)<P> QUAND NOS GRAND ROIS ETAIENT PETITS. Ills. Job (J.M.G. Breville). Paris, n.d. [1913]. With col. pl...

Montorgueil (Georges)<P> LA CANTINIERE. Ills. Job (Jacques Marie Gaston Breville). Paris, n.d. [ca. 1910]. With stencil-coloured lith. ills. L...

JUGEND. MUNCHNER ILLUSTRIERTE WOCHENSCHRIFT FUR KUNST UND LEBEN. Munich & Leipzig, 1900 & 1916. 53 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Chromolitho title...

Nevill (Ralph)<P>. OLD ENGLISH SPORTING BOOKS. 1924, Ltd. ed. (75/1500). With laid-in col. & b/w plates & text ills. Large 4to., orig....