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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, with list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a comprehensive guide to hunting, covering topics from the history and methods of various types of hunting, to the diseases and treatments of hunting dogs. The author, an experienced hunter, provides insights into the evolution of hunting practices, from ancient hunting methods to those used in modern times. The book delves into the complexities of hunting techniques, offering valuable advice on tracking, aiming, and capturing game. The author also addresses the importance of dog breeds in hunting, discussing their strengths, weaknesses, and how to train and care for them. Beyond its practical guidance, this book explores the cultural and ethical dimensions of hunting, examining its role in human history and the debates surrounding it in the present day. Ultimately, this book not only equips readers with the knowledge and skills for successful hunting, but also encourages a deeper understanding of the sport's traditions, challenges, and societal impact. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Befriedigend. 312 S. Erste Ausgabe. - Der Einband stark fleckig / berieben. Unbeschnitten. Braunfleckig. - Riling 380; Schwerdt I,268. - Alles über Jagd und Jagdhundeabrichtung, Jagdwaffen und Munition, jagdbares Wild, Fischfang etc. - Exemplar aus der Sammlung 'Bibliotheca Tiliana' (Jagdbibliothek Kurt Lindner). Aufgrund der EU-Verpackungsverordnung (PPWR) Versand nur noch innerhalb Deutschlands möglich. Kein Versand in EU-Länder !! Due to the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), shipping is now only possible within Germany. No shipping to other EU countries!! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300 8°. Hln. d. Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rsch. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Dust Jacket. Hard cover published by Simpkin and Marshall in London in 1817. No dust jacket. Front cover and spine are detached from binding and are only attached to back cover. Spine is torn along front edge from bottom to halfway point and at top. Ends of spine are bent and creased by the tears. Corners of covers are bumped and wrinkled. Inside front cover has a bookplate from a previous owner, a sticker from a bookstore and a handwritten price. Pages have some tanning and spotting. Binding is partially loose at top for first several pages. Book is in acceptable condition. 311 pages, .6 lb.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 311 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Modern half calf, marbled boards, inscription on half title, , small hole pg 123/4 pp312.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text illus., chart (to document the kills). 7 x 4", gilt dec full leather, red leather spine with gilt lettering, xi, 312. Covers worn, scuffed/scraped, lacks tips of spine, corners bumped and worn, inner hinges cracking else good to very good condition. Textblock tight. "Training Dogs For The Gun", "Reciepts For Making Shoes Resist Water", "Proportions Of Powder And Shot". FIRST EDITION. SCARCE.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. Narrow tall 4to. (6) + 65 + (1)pp. 1 bw plate. Publisher's printed blue wrappers, black lettering + royal crest on front. 2 metal staples. Slight browning around cover edges, faint browning to pages else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy. VG. WE SPECIALISE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Contemporary Cloth, calf label, inscription on front endpaper dated 1831, top of spine worn, nice clean copy, pp312.

Script Format, reprint. Condition: As New. / I HAVE MORE TITLES, LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR OTHER TITLES /THE SCRIPT IS PRINTED ON THREE-HOLE PUNCHED PAPER AND BOUND WITH 2 BRASS BRADS /.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xii+831 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. light cover wear, small tear at top & bottom of spine. Contents: The necessity of scientific education in China to-day; The peoples of Kwangtung: Their origin, migrations, and present distribution; The manufacture of leather in Canton; On the palm and sole prints of Chinese; Manufactures weather; The study of botany in Fukien; A note on Gnetum scandens; The Magnoliaceae of Kwangtung, Macao, and Hong Kong; The botany of Kwangtung and its relation to agriculture; Differentiating fungi by precipitation with water-soluble specific substances; The number of vascular bundles in Ephedra sinica and E. equisetina; Grasses of Canton vicinity; A brief historical survey of the Lingnan University Herbarium; The local resident's opportunity for productive work in the biological sciences in China; Unrecorded plants from Kwangtung Province II; A review of the literature on the growth of Bamboo; Remarks on citrus and citrus relatives in China; The marine and freshwater algae of China; The collection of mosquitoes in south China; On two species of Sphaeridium from the oriental region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae); Gall midges or gall gnats of the orient (Itonididae or Cecidomyiidae); The membracidae of China; A common moth and some of its enemies; The Brethnidae and Lycidae of China; Our present knowledge about the Pupipara of Tabanidae of China; A new species of stonefly from China (order Plecoptera, family Nemouridae); Biological notes on a Chrysomelid pest of bamboo; Termites, destroyers of wood and man's fight against them; Present status of our knowledge of the termites of China; Insect inhabitants of the fruiting sprays of the pagoda tree, Sophora japonica; Studies on the Chinese honey-bee; Some principles useful in solving economic biological problems; Study of Brachyplatus subaëneus Westw.; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) Part I. External characters of the nervous system; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) part II. Internal structure of the brain and ventral nerve cord; External morphology of the corn ear worm; The present status of knowledge bout Chinese Gryinidae; On the cricket locusts (Gryllacrids) of China; A list of the coprophagous Coleoptera of China; Notes on the life history of a wild silkworm; History of Rhynchocoris humeralis Thumb. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [A massive 46 volume set] Interesting provenance, previously owned by Owsei Temkin, and later Owen and Caroline Hannaway. Mixed set with mostly softcovers, printed 1959-1978. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Bookplates of Temkin inside hardcovers. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Contents: Vol. 3, 1959-1960; Vol. 6, 1962-1963; Vol. 11, No. 1, Autumn 1967; Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1968; Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring 1968; Vol. 11, No. 4, Summer 1968; Vol. 12, No. 1, Autumn 1968; Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter 1969; Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring 1969; Vol. 12, No. 4, Summer 1969; Vol. 13, No. 1, Autumn 1969; Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 1970; Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 1970; Vol. 13, No. 4, Summer 1970; Vol. 14, No. 1, Autumn 1970; Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter 1971; Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring 1971; Vol. 14, No. 4, Summer 1971; Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1971; Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 1972; Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring 1972; Vol. 15, No. 4, Summer 1972; Vol. 16, No. 1, Autumn 1972; Vol. 16, No. 2, Winter 1973; Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 1973; Vol. 16, No. 4, Summer 1973; Vol. 17, No. 1, Autumn 1973; Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 1974; Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring 1974; Vol. 17, No. 4, Summer 1974; Vol. 18, No. 1, Autumn 1974; Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1975; Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1975; Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1975; Vol. 19, No. 1, Autumn 1975; Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 1976; Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 1976; Vol. 19, No. 4, Summer 1976; Vol. 20, No. 1, Autumn 1976; Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 1977; Vol. 20, No. 3, Spring 1977; Vol. 20, No. 4, Summer 1977; Vol. 21, No. 1, Autumn 1977; Vol. 21, No. 2, Winter 1978; Vol. 21, No. 3, Spring 1978; Vol. 21, No. 4; Summer 1978. Interesting articles in this collection include: The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Intelligence by Arthur J. Jensen; On the Treatment of Stimulant Abuse by Pierre Renault and Charles R. Schuster; The Normal, and the Perils of the Sylleptic Argument by Edmond A. Murphy; The Interdeterminacies of the Brain by Donald O. Walter; The Prometheus Experiment by Bernard L. Strehler; Scientific Medicine and Historical Research by Owsei Temkin; The Origins of Life by Hans Gaffron; Viruses and Evolution by E.A. Evans Jr.; Observations on the Comparative Anatomy of the Avian Brain; Frederick Gowland Hopkins by Joseph Needham; Eugenics in Evolutionary Perspective by Sir Julian Huxley; Critical Brain Size and Language by John C. Lilly; Linguistic Habits of Science by Irwin D.J. Bross; The Evolution of Modern Cardiology by Werner Forssmann; Some Possible Genetic Implications of Carthaginian Child Sacrifice by Nathaniel Weyl; In Search of Homunculus by George T. Jacobi; Experimental Tumor of the Interstitial Gland of the Testicle by Robert Courrier; Differential Evolutionary Patters of Experimentally Induced Ovarian Tumors by Alexander Lipschutz; Delight in Evil by Orville T. Bailey; The Origins of DNA by M. Sluyser; Darwinian Evolution and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Theodosius Dobzhansky; Fallacies and Errors in the Wonderlands of Biology, Medicine, and Lewis Carroll by Dwight J. Ingle; A Case of Recurrent Pseudocyesis by C. Knight Aldrich; Medicare in Utopia by Ilza Veith; Malignant Transformation of Cells by Viruses by Howard M. Temin; Natural Selection and the Origin of Life by Gordon Allen; Lasting Biological Effects of Early Influences by Rene Dubos; A Cell Is Not an Island Entire of Itself by Paul A. Weiss; Some Genetic Aspects of Plantations Slavery by Nathaniel Weyl; The Possible Vascular Regulation of Luteal Function by Bruce B. Pharriss; Race, Reality, and Experimental Psychology by Clyde E. Noble; Divine Humor by E. Gellhorn; The Discovery of Serotonin by Irvine H. Page; Lessons from the Discovery of Modern Diuretic Therapy by Karl H. Beyer Jr.; On the Nature of Consciousness and of Physical Reality by David L. Wilson; The Potential of Negative Pions for Cancer Radiation Therapy by Richard Madey; Trends in Current Research on t.…

6th enlarged and improved. x 304, frontis + 3 engraved plates after Howitt, the plate for wild duck shooting has been substituted with woodcock shooting by the publishers,th pages uncut. Ownership signature to the front paste down. Original blue paper covered boards, the spine chipped with loss, boards chipped and showing wear to edges, but a tight copy. This edition has the 2-page list at end of gunmakers. Includes "much miscellaneous information on the choice of Guns, Gunpowder. Shot etc "Thomas is the pseud name of Thomas. B. Johnson and T.H Needham. Chute 344. …

Needham is the pseudonym of T.B. Johnson, writer of sporting literature, this work being printed in Liverpool. 1st edition. Octavo (19 x 12cm). pp. xi,[xii-xiii],14-311,[1]. 18th C copper plate view of bound before half-title, but not requisite to the work. Later 19th C half morocco, marbles sides, teg, with some very light rubbing. VG. [Schwerdt 268; Westwood & Satchell 155; Chute 346; Jones 1231; Heckscher 1409; Souhart 346; Riling 380]. …

3rd. viii- 397-(4), 4 engraved plates, armorial bookplate to the front paste down. Of, Charles R. C. Hibbert, some occasional spotting to plates and contents. Bound in a later circa 1860s 1/2 tan calf. To the last page a contemporary handwritten manuscript recipe for sportsmen? To verso blank a recipe? in horses. Followed by an unnumbered printed page a "Scheme of a Sportsman's journal" listing where killed, when, types of game, remarks, filled in for the years 1822/23/24/25 noting game shot in the year. The next 4 blank pages are laid out as a game register, for the previous dates but giving months, September through to January, noting daily bags and where killed. A quick search brings up places in Yorkshire and Cumbria. Then follows another page of recipes, there are also 4 loose pages (6 sides) with similar game registers for 1827 1836/ 1837, and a June to August undated register of Trout, Eels, other Fish. The 3rd edition has considerable additions, includes a reference to Forsyth's percussion system, an engraving of grouse shooting from a horse. A much re printed tittle the first 3 editions particularly hard to find. Thomas is the pseud name of Thomas. B. Johnson and T.H Needham. Chute 341.…