ABBEY, Staton

The Book of the Austin Seven and Eight. A Complete Guide for Owners of All Models with Details of Changes in Design and Equipment Since 1927. Pitman's Motorists Library.

London, Pitmans, 1948. Third Edition. Original cloth-backed boards, 118pp [ii]. Boards a little marked, slightly shaken but generally in good condition. No dust-wrapper. Illustrated in b/w throughout with many plates.

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Book number: 37332

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Keywords: Cars|Automobiles|Manual|Featured

Anon

Hobby. Das Magazin Der Technik. Atom-Flugzeug Keine Utopie Mehr.

Stuttgart, Hobby, 1955. Small format magazine, 15 x 21 cm. colour illustrated covers, 148 pp. Light wear, back-strip torn. Inside complete, clean and tight.

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Book number: 37736

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Keywords: World War II|Transport|Magazine|Featured|German|Science

DAVENPORT, John

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction; with Some Account of the Judicial "Congress" As Practised in France During the Seventeenth Century

London, Privately Printed, 1869. Small quarto, later (recent) plain cloth, morocco label to spine, xii+154pp. engraved frontis. and seven engraved plates bound in back, top-edge gilt. Used; Good "Written salaciously for a diverse contemporary audience." (Evans, 2014) Prepared for publication by John Camden Hotten but published after the author's death. Hardback.

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Book number: 36528

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Keywords: Erotica|Special Collection|Illustrated|Featured|Private Press

GILMOUR

British Birds. No 2 Birds of Wood & Forest.

Glasgow & London, Gilmour & Dean, 1950. Stapled, coloured paper wrappers. c. 30pp. colour illustrations through, tables for notes. A good, clean, tight copy. Owner name neatly to upper cover. No date (1950s?). Mild creasing to outer covers. Tables in back clean. Used; Very Good c. 22 birds, coloured, with short description. Paperback.

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Book number: 34398

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Keywords: Birds|Natural History|Featured

GORDON, W. J..

Warne's Discount and Commission Tables. Containing Nine Thousand Calculations at from One Sixteenth to Ninety-Five Per Cent. On Amounts from a Penny to a Thousand Pounds.

London and New York, Frederick Warne, 1910. A fair copy but complete. Published c.1910, 7x13.5cm, unpaginated. Much handled, cloth rubbed, lacks front end-paper. stamped Hydraulics Research Station, Wallingford, stationer's label to paste-down (Alfred Wilson successors to Jas Gilbert), a number of owner inscriptions including typed label dated 1910. Used; Good Stamped Hydraulics Research Station, Wallingford, stationer's label to paste-down (Alfred Wilson successors to Jas Gilbert), a number of owner inscriptions including typed label dated 1910. Hardback.

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Book number: 34862

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Keywords: Ephemera|Self-Help|Featured|Mathematics|Ready Reckoner|Memorabilia

HYSLOP, Jonathan

Colliery Management [I], Colliery Management Plates [II].

London, W M Hutchings, 1876. Two 8vo volumes in original blind-stamped, maroon buckram lettered gilt. First volume with engraved frontispiece and folding chart inside. xv+527pp. Index leaves numbered 522-527 mis-bound at front (after Contents). Second volume:17 plates (mainly folding). Owner name to plate volume f.e.p.: 'Mr Teasdale, White House, Tow Law 1878'. Text volume in slightly darker cloth, spine ends bruised, tiny nick to spine edge, tight inside and clean. Plate volume cloth lighter and now somewhat faded, plates complete. Used; Very Good Rare work on the management of Collieries, expanded version of first edition printed by David Johnston in Wishaw in 1870. Often cited in academic publications on nineteenth century mining (Wilson, 1977,Cross, 2015). As well as being an active partner of the short-lived South Cobinshaw Oil Company, Hyslop was until 1868 a partner at Brand & Hyslop, proprietors of Greenhead Colliery, Wishaw, He is listed as owner of the Hawkswoodburn mine in Scotland in 1873. He is also listed as a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers. The present work was described by the Glasgow Herald as a "valuable treatise, containing the fruits of long professional experience". Hyslop was an prolific public speaker and advocate of temperance. By the 1890s his interests appear to have been centred around the Airdrie House brickworks. Hardback.

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Book number: 37166

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Keywords: Industry|Coal Industry|Mining|Industrial Revolution|Featured|Scotland

JENKINS, J. Geraint.

The English Farm Wagon. Origins and Structure.

U.K, David and Charles, 1977. A good copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper, top edge rather dusty, dust-wrapper sunned and a little discoloured, owner insc. to fep. minimal foxing but a good, clean tight copy. Used; Very Good "The published work of J. G. Jenkins, has been particularly influential (on social history)"(Brigden 1984) . Hardcover.

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Book number: 28720

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Keywords: Farm Wagons|Trailors|Gypsy Caravans|the English Farm Wagon. |Jenkins, J. Geraint. |Rural England|Agriculture|Peasants|Wheelwright

JESSOP, J. C..

Teach Yourself Golf: A Teach Yourself Book. Edited by Leonard Cutts.

London, English Universities Press, 1955. New Edition. Later impression. Usual blue cross-hatched boards, 202pp. in original illustrated dust-wrapper (featuring Bobby Locke), illustrated inside. In good condition, dust-wrapper a little worn at edges With photographic illustration of celebrated South African professional Bobby Locke to green dust-wrapper lettered in white.

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Book number: 38031

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McCARTHY, R. H..

Canoeing. Second Edition. Games and Recreations Series.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1951. A very nice bright copy in original green cloth (gilt illustration to upper board) and unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Small 8vo. with 25 b/w illustrations including frontispiece and three maps (one folding). Appears unused. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 37023

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Keywords: Book-Cover Design|Sport|Boats|Hobby|Featured

MEYNELL, Laurence.

The Hon. C.S. Rolls. (Charles Stewart Rolls). "Men of Speed" Series.

London, Newnes Educational Publishing. 1955. Illustrated limp cloth in blue, white and black. 48 pp. b/w illustrations from photographs. In very good condition, neat school stamp to title page. Blue Coat Secondary Girls' School, Hereford. Biography of Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 – 1910) founder, with Henry Royce, of Rolls-Royce. Third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock, Charles Stewart was a motoring and aviation pioneer. He died at the age of only 32 when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke.

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Book number: 38030

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Keywords: Biography|Motoring|Transport|Featured|Sport|Vintage

MONTESSORI, Maria

The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy As Applied to Child Education in "the Children's Houses" with Additions and Revisions by the Author. Translated from the Italian by Anne E George. With an Introduction by Martin Mayer.

Cambridge, Mass, Robert Bentley Inc, 1973. Facsimile reprint of 1912 edition. A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper. Occasional light pencil annotations. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 36555

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News of the World

Household Guide and Almanac 1956 a Book for the Family and the Home. Horoscopes

London, New of the World, 1956. In original printed wrappers. 6th volume (year). 328pp. with 16 4-colour pages. Spine ends snagged, covers a little discoloured else very tight and internally clean. Advertisement for Newnes' Practical Handyman loosely enclosed. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 37223

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Keywords: Social History|Featured|Britain|History|Family|Ephemera

Raleigh Press

Where's That Car from? Car Index Numbers. A Complete Alphabetically Arranged List of All Car Registration Numbers in Great Britain. The Story of the Motor Car. Illustrations of Early Cars.

Exmouth, Devon, The Raleigh Press, 1948. Original printed wrappers, 14x11cm. Not dated but previous owner's ink date to upper cover. A very good tight copy with a few ink annotations to inside back cover. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 37239

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Keywords: Automobiles|Cars|Transport|Featured|Ephemera

ROLT, L T C

Horseless Carriage. The Motor-Car in England.

London, Constable, 1954. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. 204pp. index, 28 b/w plates. Dust-wrapper just a tad age-darkened in places. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Book number: 36619

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SPINK, M. S. and LEWIS, Gl. L. [Albucasis Abu 'I-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawi]

Albucasis on Surgery and Instruments. (Two Copies) a Definitive Edition of the Arabic Text with English Translation and Commentary. (Illustrations by Marsh and Huntington).

London, The Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973. Two copies. Large 8vo. 850pp. each. New in original dust-wrappers. Unused. Unopened. In publisher's brown paper. In mint condition. Illustrated, bibliography, translation with commentary in English. Over 5 Kg packed, will require extra payment for shipping overseas. Single copy also available. New Translation of al-Maqa lah fi al- amal bi-al-yad, which forms the 30th treatise of al-Tasri f li-man ajiza an al-ta li f. Albucasis Abu 'I-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawi, one of the greatest of Arabic surgeons and physicians. Bornin Cordova, in Islamic Spain, he became one of the most influential of all medical writers at the time, both in Arabic-speaking countries and in the Latin West. His treatises were gathered together into an encyclopaedia al-Tasrif and this particular one (the 30th) on surgery was of enormous importance. Hardback.

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Book number: 36877

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Keywords: Medicine|Medical|Arabic|Featured|Reference