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London: Faber & Faber, 1973. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Fine-/VG. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. 264 pp., 46 monochrome plates on 8 leaves ex-pagination; t.p. inscribed 'All good wishes/ Mea Allen'; Previous owner's small printed name & address label top front pastedown, faint hint of fading bottom edge of front cover, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked and unworn; clipped jacket in protective sleeve as acquired appears clean and minimally worn - very slight edge rubbing in a few places. Bowles was an eminent pioneering gardener and Royal Horticultural Society member for over 50 years. A very good copy of this fascinating man.
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E.A.BOWLES & His Garden at Myddelton House (1865-1954)
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E.I. du PONT, BOTANISTE. THE BEGINNING OF A TRADITION
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Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972. 1st Edition . Brown and green cloth. Very Good-Fine/Very Good. 17.5 Cms x 26 Cms. f/piece portrait+xi+(1)(Fig.1)+139+colophon, 35 figs, 16 plates, some col., dec.endpapers. Internally unmarked and near pristine in clean, bright unworn covers; unclipped jacket clean and minimally edge-rubbed but has two thin vertical rub-marks (fr. & back) corresponding to transition of binding from brown cl.sp. to green cl.boards. Very nice copy.
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EARLIEST MAN AND ENVIRONMENTS IN THE LAKE RUDOLF BASIN Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Evolution
by COPPENS, Yves, HOWELL, F.Clark, ISAAC, Glyn Ll. & LEAKEY Richard E.F. (eds)
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. 1st ed. . Paperback. VG-. 17 Cms x 24 Cms. xxii+615, num.figs & diagrams numbered by chapter;prev.owner's small gilt label top front endpaper otherwise internally clean and unmarked, greyish line across top of textblock of little significance, covers clean & unmarked but creasing down spine centre and along back joint due to thickness of textblock. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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THE EARLS OF DERBY 1485-1985
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. Fine/Fine. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. xii+257; virtually new copy in similar unclipped jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Apparently scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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EARLY ASTRONOMY from Babylonia to Copernicus
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Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1986. 1st ed. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 14.5 Cm x 19 Cm. Dark tesxtxure blue cloth binding.f/piece+xiii+214, numerous figures and tables numbered by chapter. A virtually pristine copy in similar jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Includes coverage of Hipparchus, Ptolemy and Arabian Astronomy among much else. The author (1912-1991) was Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney, as well as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, but had been also publishing on the history of science, especially astronomy, from the late 1960s.
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EARLY BEHAVIOR Comparative and Developmental Approaches
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New York etc.: John Wiley, 1967. 1st ed. . Puce cloth. VG/Good+. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. ix+303; squiggled sig, private ex-lib.stamp and lib.donation label all on front pastedown, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked and unworn inside and out;unclipped jacket clean but very slight sun-browning to spine, couple of nicks to bottom edge and trivial rub top spine (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Includes studies of altricial birds, rhesus monkey and chimpanzees as whenh as human infants and neonates.
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THE EARLY ECONOMIC WRITINGS OF ALFRED MARCHALL, 1867 - 1890 Volume 1
by MARSHALL, Alfred Ed. & Intro. by J.K. Whitaker
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London: Macmillan for The Royal Economic Society, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Black cloth with gilt spine-lettering, virtually pristine. xxi + 296, 1 full-page plate + numerous text figs (mostly graphs) numbered by chapter, again virtually pristine. Jacket in removable protective sleeve as acquired, in similar condition. Scarce, especially in this condition. 14.5 cm x 22 cm
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THE EARLY EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910. 2nd Ed. . Blue Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 13.5 Cm x 19 Cm. xvi+398, 32 figures, 12 plates, 1 unfolding (uncoloured), 6 coloured; apart from hint of gutter opening before p.1 and faint trace of pencillings to pastedown and front endpaper this s internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean but very slight cloth wrinkling in a few places, spine ends a touch rubbed and a small pale mark towards top in title region. The faults are all quite minor and VG- seems a fair rating. Some Froebel influence. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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EARLY ENGLISH LYRICS AMOROUS, DIVINE, MORAL & TRIVIAL
by CHAMBERS, F.K & SIDGWICK, F ('chosen by')
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London: A, H. Bullen, 1907. Assumed 1st ed. . Hardcover. VG for age/No Jacket. Green boards with light brown black-printed spine, minimum corner bumping, spine a little dark with hints of end-rubbing. x + 384; uncut fore-edge, main problem is extensive but easily erasable light pencil annotations, usually single or double word translations of word in Middle English text, 1918-dated pencil sig. to fr. end-paper. . Has preserved M.E. spelling etc. up to 1400, 15th cent. slightly normalised, later fully modernised. A very scholarly work with extensive discussions from p.157 of the nature of Mediaeval lyrics (by Chambers), text sources and notes plus a bibliography and 1st line index. Does not include folk-ballads. 12 cm x 17 cm
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THE EARLY ESSAYS AND ETHICS OF ROBERT BOTLE
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Carbondale and Edwardsville: souther Illinois University Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Grey cloth with gilt lettering to sp. & front. Endpapers ill. with Boyle ms,, f/piece + lxix + 330 +(1, note on author). Pristine copy bar a short black line to bottom edge by spine. 16 cm x 23,5
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EARLY ESSAYS BY JOHN STUART MILL Selected from the original sources by ...
by MILL, John Stuart ;selected by'J.W.M.Gibbs
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London: George Bells & Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Red cloth, blind-stamped central'Bohn's Libraries' logo to front, spine slightly end-rubbed and rather darkened, gilt bottom pub. imprint okay but gilt (assuming it was) top title verging on illegible, otherwise clean and minimally worn. vii + 425 (452 being an errata note) + 40 (1896 pub. catalogue and notices, inc. Bohn's Libraries list); 1897 dated red sig. & place verso t.p.and, inverted!, same sig. and full date to rear end-paper, slight incipient paper splitting to parts of rear gutter otherwise clean, tight and unmarked, no tanning, hint of cocking to text-block. Essays on economics, politicas, poetry, history. 12 cm x 18.5 cm
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THE EARLY GROWTH OF LOGIC IN THE CHILD Classification and Seriation
by INHELDER, Barbel & PIAGET, J. translated by E.A.Linzer and D. Papert
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New York & Evanston: Harper & Row, 1964. 1st US Ed. (1st German-1968) . Brown Cloth. VG-Fine/VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xxv+302; near pristine but marred by dent centre fore-edge of front cover; jacket minimally worn, clean bar slight dustiness to back, but also slight crease and small rub due to aforementioned knock. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
by RICHARDS, R.D.
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London: P.S. King, 1929. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG-Fine/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xviii+319+(5, pub.list); one very small (15 mm.) round stamp of Birmingham Assay Office Library bottom front endpaper which is totally inoffensive, no other provenance marks and otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean unworn covers, just a hint of spine fading. An excellent copy of this scarce work.
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EARLY HISTORY OF BERMUDA FOR CHILDREN
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Bermuda: The Department of Education, 1937. 1st ed. . Grey hessian. Good-VG/G+. 15.5 Cms x 18 Cms. col.f/piece (Bermuda coat of arms)+xi+110, maps on endpapers, 9 further ills (line-drawn plates in pag.); browning recto fr.endpaper and sm.patch browning outer edge of t.p., there are a few sm. wormholes top fr. gutter but these do nto appear to extend any further, fore-edges of pastedowns have some quite enigmatic white surface roughening which looks like mould but isn't, otherwise internally clean and unmarked, gutters between some gatherings appear to be opening but this may be a production fault; covers unworn and generally clean but faint patches v.sl.browning; unclipped jacket has a few surface marks, edges all somewhat rubbed & nicked with a sm.chip bottom sp., joints all rubbed. Worth it for the following: 'A Sci-en-tist is a man who knows. They also explain how Bermuda became smaller, like it is now; but we need not trouble our heads about that.' (p.5). Despite the faults this remains an…
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EARLY HOMINIDS IN AFRICA
by JOLLY, Clifford J. (ed.)
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London: Duckworth, 1978. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 16 Cms x 25.5 Cms x 5 Cms thick. x+598, numerous ills of various kinds numbered by chapter; prev.owner's small gilt label top front pastedown, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in generally clean and unworn covers, thin white trace of rubbing to lower front outer edge of little significance. Contributions from most of the major figures of the day including the Leakey's, Don Johanson, Tobias, Clark Howell, C.K. Brain, Pilbeam, Ralph Holloway, Glynn Isaac and B.A.Wood. Remains a very useful reference work for the state of play at the end of the 1970s and the major issues of the time. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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THE EARTH, THE TEMPLE AND THE GODS Greek Sacred Architecture
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Yale University Press, 1979. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Blue cloth with white sp. lettering, virtually pristine. f/piece + xxxii + 271 + 456 photos, maps and figs, many several to a page and some sub-numbered; no obvious internal faults, this would be 'As New' but for small tanning spots to top and outer edges of text-block. Unclipped jacket clean with trivial hint of rubbing to back joint and bottom back edge, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Weighs just over 1.6 kg unpacked so allow for additional postage outside UK. 20.5 cm x 28.5 cm
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EAST AND WEST INDIAN MIRROW. being an account of JORIS VAN SPIELBERGEN'S Voyage around the World (1614-1617) and The Australian Navigations of Jacob le Maire
by SPIELGERGEN, Joris Van, LE MAIRE, Jacob trans with notes and Intro. by J.A.J. de VILLIERS
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London: Hakluyt Society, 1906. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG- for age and genre. Blue blind-stamped cloth with gilt sp. lettering and logo centre front, sp. a little darkened, end sl. rubbed and intermittent rubbing to joints with some sm. cloth brekas. , lxi + unf.facs. t.p. of 1619 Dutch 1st ed. + 272 +40 (Haklut Society notices and pub. list), 24 further unf. plates ex-pag. as called for + one other not inc. in list (as noted on Contents p.); series half title moderately tanned as usual, end-papers more heavily so, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, though a touch of marginal tanning throughout. Issued as Second Series No. XVIII 15 cm x 22 cm
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EASTERN ART An Annual Vol II 1930
by WARNER, Langdon, JAYNE. Horace H.F. (eds)
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Philadelphia: College Art Association, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG for age/No Jacket. Black cloth binding with yellow cloth printed spine, all corners badly rubbed and spine slightly soiled, boards clean. f/piece+ 246 + (8 adverts), numerous figs. numbered by chapter on 136 plates inc.in pagination, 16 tipped in col. figs to 1st chapter but have not located any more. 9 chapters on various topics related oriental art including ceramics, Indian miniatures and 'A Glass Globe of Arghun', preceded by short obituary of Edward Hamilton Bell (1857-1929), further details on request. 1 cm square red ideogram bottom corner half-title with small faint penciled number. Internally near fine, no tanning and all gutters good.Text-block edges a tad dusty and fore-edge uncut. Scarce in UK. 23.5 cm x 30.5 cm
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EASTERN ART An Annual Volume III 1931
by WARNER, Lngdon and JAYNE, Horce H.F. (eds)
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Philadelphia: College Art Association, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+ for age/No Jacket. Black cloth binding with lettered yellow cloth spine, slight marking to spine otherwise very good. 238 pp. + (6, adverts), numerous illustrations numbered by chapter on 118 plates, 12 being coloured, all inc.in pagination, 1 cm square red ideogram bottom corner half title with short small penciled number above it, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked with good gutters, no tanning, fore-edge uncut. Eleven chapters on various topics including ancient jJapanese pigments (with coloured plates +tissue guards), Khmer architecture, Chinese lacquer and Persian lustred pottery (fill details on request), also a short opening obituary in Frenc of Gaston Migeon. Apparently very scarce. 23.5 cm x 30.5 cm.
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THE EBBING OF THE TIDE
by BECKE, Louis
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London: T.Fisher Unwin. unstated . Patterned blue cloth. Good (-)/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 19 Cm. 292+(4, pub.list); front endpaper lightly tanned with traces of erasedpencil, gutter paper split, early signature verso front endpaper, t.p.heavily tanned, following 'Contents' page also tanned but less heavily, heavy tanning to last page of pub.list and lightly to rear endpaper, some gutters between gatherings slightly open, covers have whitish splash-type soiling to front, corners bumped, spine faded with nick to bottom, back clean and brighter but still a few marks. Undated but feels early 20th cent., unclear if the stories which comprise this work are actually fiction or fictionalised memoir - full of dialogue but also lots of detail about different islands with some anthropological content. Fairly uncommon.
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