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

Hardcover. Condition: Good Only. Moderate age wear, including scuffs, rub marks, soils, edge wear, age toning, inner hinge cracking, shaken spine, etc. A readable copy. Book.

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

Hard. Condition: Fair+. With upwards of fifty engraved illustrations. (illustrator). 'New edition'. Fair+. Binding copy. Half calf and marbled boards. Calf to spine missing. Covers rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of `Lambert Middleton` to front pastedown. All edges marbled.

Full Leather. Condition: Fair+. No Jacket. 743 pages. Volume I ONLY of three volume set., with "Second and Third Volumes, Containing Precedents of Pleadings." Full leather with red and black leather spine labels. Calf is scuffed and worn around edges. Spine labels with gilt lettering are faded, though lettering remains legible. Two inch crack on joints of both boards near foot of spine. Hinges are good, and the volume is very tight. End pages show some wear around edges, as do the last couple pages of the index. There is scattered foxing throughout. Text remains complete and is at all places legible.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Published 1893 very good hardback, light surface sctaches to front cover, foxing to page edges, title page and endpapers. Contents bright and clean. gilt to top page edges. Untrimmed page edgesNo inscription. 367 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrations. With Lord Braybrooke's notes and additions by Henry B. Wheatley.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Stanley William Hayter (illustrator). First thus. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition. Quarterbound in gray cloth with red cloth boards. Green gilt decoration on front board, titles in gilt on spine. Top edge in Blue. Hardly any edge wear. Corners barely bumped. Spines has toning and foxing. Pages are very clean, binding is tight.

Facsimilie Edition. Good Paperback. Covers worn and scratched, corners creased, bookplate inside front cover, half title page grubby. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts (PLEASE NOTE: International Economy shipping is by sea and may take up to 90 days to arrive).

Hardcover. 12mo., 528 pages. In Good plus condition. Quarter bound in black leather with gilt lettering. Boards have shelf wear, bumping to corners, rubbing, and some tearing to the head edge of the spine. Text block has some age toning, minor staining to the paste downs, pen writing on the first free end paper, and foxing throughout. NOTE: Shelved in ND-B. 1374857. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY M.M. PATTISON MUIR FROM THE 2ND GERMAN EDITION - VERY NICE COPY : clean tight and square, in the original brown cloth, free of inscriptions. Light rubs to the extremities, pages clean. Few small areas of foxing. Very good.xix, 274 pages illustrations.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Former Library book. Writing inside. (Horses, Horsemanship, Stables).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 112pp; 30 cm x 23 cm. Black leather spine; printed paper covered boards. Rubbed extremities. Inner hinges cracked. Contents textually unmarked; clean; complete; tight. Owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper. No library stamps. Color maps and engraved illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ] Very stiff card covers, 8vo, gilt on green cloth, xii + 544 pages, VG+. Corners, ends and joints very light rubbing. Very bright and fresh appearing. Decorated end-papers, hinges fine, very clean within but for m.d.'s name, city and date in ink to title page (Houston, Minn., 1907). Materia Medica and Therapeutics section at the rear (Part II) which includes Hydrotherapy, Electricity, Massage, Climatology, Diet. Indexed. RWR5 Pediatric Medicine Pharmacology.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. Each volume 5 x 7 inches. Publisher's blindstamped maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine. Condition of books is Fair to Good; All covers rubbed, text and frontis and fold-out illustrations are very clean, Vols. I & II, Cloth on spine missing, text block cracked into 3 pieces, Vols. III & IV, front & rear joints & hinges cracked but holding, Vols. V & VI, rear joint & hinge cracked but holding, Vols. VII & VIII, front & rear joints & hinges cracked but holding, Vols. IX & X, hinges are solid, cloth is split at top of rear joint. Biography STK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New American Edition With Notes and Additions. Hardcover. Originally published in London by John Churchill in 1861. Rather handsome copy of the American edition. Portrait of late ex-gov. E. D. Morgan and inscription that of his physician son. Moderate shelf/edge wear, light rubbing, tidemarks at upper corner involving first few leaves with related stain at front board, portrait plate tipped in at front pastedown, ownership sigature at ffep, light foxing focused at preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full brown leather binding, four raised bands, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 8vo. 648pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Appendix. Index. New American Edition With Notes and Additions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 109 tabular forms and 129 plates, with 548 subjects, many in colors. ; Large 8vo.

Condition: Near Fine. Handsome forest green leather like cloth hardback with heavy gilt embellishment figure on front cover. Gilt titling on spine is still bright also. Former owner's name in old cursive on front endpaper and dated 1918. Some slight browning of end papers; otherwise the interior is in excellent condition. Some slight shelf wear to the cover; nothing major. (PM) "B"ulfinch.

Thomas Plume. 1865. Reprint. Presentation copy from the editor Walcott to the Athenium. Small 8vo hardback, NO DW. Original blue baords, gilt and pages edges sprayed red. . Extremities slightly worn with boards slightly sunned and library number written to upper board and Atheneum Club library stamp to half title page. Pages slightly browned otherwise a lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 109 Tabular Forms, 129 Plates, Many In Color (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unpaginated But Large, 11" X 7 3/4" X 1 1/2". Slight Wear At Corners, No Fraying, 1/4" Tear To Cloth Near Top Of Front Panel, Hinges Tight, Front Endpaper Excised, Previous Owner's Name Stamp On Title Page.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 378pp ".BEING A TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HORSES, IN RELATION TO STABLING, GROOMING, FEEDNG, WATERING AND WORKING, CONSTRUCTION OF STABLES, VENTILATION, STABLE APPENDAGES, MANAGEMENT OF THE FEET. MANAGEMENT OF DISEASED AND DEFECTIVE HORSES." An Uncommon Title ! good+, green cloth (hardcover) - nice clean and tigh copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1904. 1st edition, G/. No Jacket. Book has wear and rubbing to spine ends & corners, loose front hinge but still holding (rear hinge tight), light surface wear, FFE missing. Illustrated with 42 lithographic plates and many text illustrations, some in colors. 16 pages of adds in rear, 3 (of 4) pages of synopsis of Saunders medical hand atlases. describes and analyses all the major and complicated medical procedures in practice at that time. Fascinating book, of medical historical interest, great graphics. 138 pp. Rm.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles and front decoration. 7.75 inches tall; [2], iii-xv, 1-456, [2] pages. Index. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of a bust of Ares, with a genealogical chart of Greek mythology, and with fifteen additional plates and numerous in-text illustrations. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; a spot of wear on the center of the spine. Previous owner's name on the free endpage. . Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable simplifies and preserves classical mythology, making it accessible to modern readers, while promoting an understanding of ancient cultures and their lasting influence on literature and art. A classic of the subject. A collection of Greek, Roman, Eastern and Northern mythologies. [Adapted from reviews].

Cloth: white sp., red boards. Condition: Good+. 1st ed. ex-Brighton Public Reference Library. Both vols have their label to fr.pastedown, a faint withdrawn stamp tp fr. endpaper and oval impressed stamps to top corners of t.p.'s plates and end charts, also a sm.number verso t.p. and traces of a loan sheet (?) edge beside fr.gutters. Top edges gilt, fore-edges & bottom edges uncut. Vol.1.: half-title, Imprimatur on verso+f/piece w. tissue-guard+ t.p. w. red photo of seal in centre+xx+(1 late full page note re:manuscript correction)+tipped in errata slip+ unf.plate+277+8 unf.genealogical charts, 21 further plates, brown corner waterstain across bottom inner corners pp.xx to errata slip, outer margin of final genealogical chart creased & dusty with a short tear, outer sides of endpapers browned; Vol.2: half-title, imprimatur on verso, f/piece with tissue guard, t.p. design as Vol.1, xx+219+10 unf. genealogical charts, the last (of Radcliffe, of Dalson and Derwentwater), extending to 6 cms, the first crease having a 9 cm. tear from bottom and 3rd also having a sm.hole and short bottom tear, 25 further plates, incipient gutter cracks to inner sides of endpapers, final pastedown has a cryptic thin brown strip beside gutter (possibly a magnetic security strip?) which is of little consequence. The covers, with central gilt seal lgo are relatively unworn bar some sp.end rubbing & corner bumping, red cloth is clean but white cloth to sp.& adjacent region rather dusty, exacerbated by horizontal ghost of lib. sellotape, which has some thin dark edge lines, sp.lettering in gilt, with a gilt lib.numbers at bottoms. I think that just about covers everything - oh there area few brown spots to back of end-charts & possibly elsewhere. Weighs over 1.7 kg so allow for extra postage. Despite lib.marks, spine dustiness & other minor faults this remains an acceptable working/reference set of this lavishly produced work. Size: 17 Cms x 26 Cms.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xix, 208pp + xxiii index. There is insect damage effecting the lower edges and corners of the boards that also continues onto the very edges of the pages, but does not effect any text. Aside from the insect damage this is a very solid copy still in its original cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. The interior is clean except for the previous owner's name in an early hand on the verso of the front endpaper and the rear pastedown. The text is clean and unmarked. NOT ex-library. A good or slightly better copy of the first edition.

Full Calf. Condition: Near Fine. Later Edition. Finely bound in stamp-signed Riviere and Son binding of dark green full polished calf, the back with red morocco labels and ornate gilt decorations, marbled end papers with ornate gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Near Fine, the covers with a few faint rubs. xxiv, 416 pp. with 40 engravings. An uncommon later edition of this classic of natural history, WorldCat locates only two libraries with holdings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xxxviii,472pp,181pp,ccclxxviii,170pp,ccxix,180pp,ccxci,164pp ,ccclxvii. Minor shelfwear, vol. 3 has clothed repaired on spine, very good solid set.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. 1840 first American edition of this important early collection of medical essays on diseases of the nervous system, edited by Alexander Tweedie and supplemented with American notes and additions by Philadelphia physician W. W. Gerhard. Bound in contemporary full calf with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Binding remains sound and attractive with rubbing, scuffing, and edge wear, including chipping to the spine ends and corners. Boards firmly attached. Text block solid and complete. Internally clean and complete. Moderate age toning and scattered foxing. Contemporary ownership inscription of Dr. E. A. Kemp on the front blank. No library markings found. Pages remain generally bright and highly readable. A well-preserved example of an early American medical text in its original binding. Contains substantial discussions of insanity, delirium tremens, epilepsy, catalepsy, spinal irritation, spinal meningitis, myelitis, hydrocephalus, tetanus, hydrophobia (rabies), neuralgia, paralysis, and apoplexy. The work includes contributions by several leading nineteenth-century physicians, notably John Hughes Bennett, whose observations on apoplexy and intracranial pressure are cited in Garrison-McHenry's medical bibliography. Retains an original antiquarian bookseller catalog description identifying the volume as the first American edition and referencing the work's significance in the history of neurology and stroke research. The dealer catalog slip is preserved with the volume. A fascinating window into the formative period of neurology and psychiatry before the emergence of modern neurological science. Of particular interest to collectors of medical history, neurology, psychiatry, and nineteenth-century medicine. Carefully packed and shipped in a box. Shipped via USPS with tracking provided. International shipping available. Additional photographs available upon request. Please review photographs carefully, as they form part of the description. Returns accepted within the AbeBooks 30-day return window. bSCI 1d.

Hard. Condition: Fair+. Illustrated with b/w engraved plates throughout. (illustrator). This set was originally published in 8 v. Fair+. Vol. I is a binding copy, missing its spine, with both boards detached and with a damp-stain to the first few leaves. Hinges cracked. Slightly musty smell.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. xii, [1], 34-683, 32 p. 24 cm. Some b&w illustrations. Hardcover. Some rubbing and stains to boards. Occasional spotting. New American edition revised by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Jesse (illustrator). A beautiful edition with leather at the spine with five raised bands with gilt lettering and designs. Gilt on top edge. The cover has leather near the spine and over an area near the fore-edge corners with a distressed marble design on the cover primarily in blues with some gold elements mixed in. The endpapers and paste-down also feather this marbled design though elements near the edge have chipped off over time. The book is in very good condition with shelf rubbing to the exterior most noticeably on the top and bottom where there is some areas of colour or small surface fabric lost. The inside of the book has some foxing, a few instances of neat writing on the first blank page and page opposite but otherwise no other handwriting within the book. Apart from the mentioned points pages appear bright. 'White's Natural History was at once well received by contemporary critics and the public, and continued to be admired by a diverse range of nineteenth and twentieth century literary figures. His work has been seen as an early contribution to ecology and in particular to phenology. The book has been enjoyed for its charm and apparent simplicity, and the way that it creates a vision of pre-industrial England. Since it's publication in 1789 by his brother Benjamin it has been continuously in print.' xxiv+416 pages. 7.4 x 5 inches. May require additional postage. This listing was made by a small independent book shop. We carefully inspect every single book we list and give accurate descriptions. If you require we will promptly send pictures of listed books upon request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.