JUDGE, C. W:

The Axholme Joint Railway: Including the Goole and Marshland Light Railway and the Isle of Axholme Light Railway.

Oakwood Press, 1994. Very good condition in dust jacket with spine just a trifle faded.

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Book number: 3414

Catalogue: Railways

Keywords: isbn 0853614415,Axholme,Goole, railways, 0853614415

JUNOD, H.P:

Bantu Heritage.

Johnannesburg, Hortors Ltd, (1938), pp. (10), 155 with 41 illustrations. Original cloth. Very good condition in rather frayed and used dust jacket. Small circular stamp on endpaper.

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Book number: 3346

Catalogue: Travel-Africa

Keywords: Africa,Bantu,Zimbabwe,South Africa,Bushmen,

KAYE, Joel:

Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought.

Cambridge, 1998. Very good condition in the dust jacket.

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Book number: 3099

Catalogue: Medieval History

Keywords: isbn 0521572762,money,meieval history,economic history.Aquinas, 0521572762

KEAY, John:

Celebrating 200 Years of the Great Arc.

Laburnum Technologies, New Delhi, circa 2000, large format, 151 pages, profusely illustrated. Very good condition in the dust jacket. The story of the surveying and mapping of India.

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Book number: 2733

Catalogue: Travel-India

Keywords: India, Everest, surveying, Survey of India

KELLY, Edith and Thomas:

A Schoolmaster's Notebook.

Manchester,Chetham Society,1957, small 4to,pp. (10),128. Very nice, bright condition in the original cloth. Volume 8 in the third series of the Society's publications. An account of a nineteenth century experiment in social welfare by David Winstanley of Manchester.

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Book number: 2341

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Chetham Society,Manchester,education,Miles Platting,Winstanley,Sir Benjamin Heywood,Charity Schools,Unitarians,working class,

KEW, Harry Wallis:

A Synopsis of the False Scorpions of Britain and Ireland.

Dublin,Hodges Figgis,1911, offprint from the proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, comprising pages 38 to 64 with 3 plates. An ex-library copy in cloth and marbled boards with the original wrappers bound in. Number at foot of spine and bookplate inside,but a very good,clean copy.

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Book number: 1396

Catalogue: Natural History-Invertebrates

Keywords: false scorpions,insects,entomology,spiders,arachnida,

KIRA, Tetsuaki:

Shells of the Western Pacific in Color.

Japan,Hoikusha Publishing,1970, two volumes,pp.224,233,profusely illustrated. Volume 1 illustrates 1270 specimens and volume 2 illustrates 1457 specimens. Vol 1 is a reprint of the revised edition of 1965 and vol 2 is a reprint of the revised edition of 1968. There is a little creasing and very minor rubbing to the d.w. of vol 2, but these are very nice copies in their jackets. Quite heavy so please allow for extra postage.

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Book number: 1084

Catalogue: Natural History-Invertebrates

Keywords: shells,conchology,gastropoda,molluscs,

DE LACY, Margaret:

Prison Reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850. A Study in local administration.

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1986, pp.xiv,272. Very good in dust jacket. Chetham Society,Third Series,Vol. 33.

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Book number: 1851

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: isbn 0719013410,Lancashire,Chetham Society,prisons,prison reform,gaols,crime,Manchester,Lancaster,Preston,Salford, 0719013410

LAHEE, Miss M. R:

Sybil West. A Lancashire Story.

Clegg, Oldham, 1892, pp. vi, 323, (5). Original red cloth a trifle rubbed, but good, sound condition. Includes passages in the Lancashire dialect.

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Book number: 3365

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: M R Lahee,Lancashire,Lancashire dialect.

LANCISI, Giovanni Maria:

Aneurysms.

New York,Macmillan,1952, first edition,pp.xxxv,362. Very good in worn,price-clipped d.w. which has been strengthened on the reverse with brown paper. The Latin text of Rome 1745 with translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright. A landmark in the history of cardiology and the first complete translation.

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Book number: 671

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: medicine,Lancisi,cardiology,heart disease,aneurysm,

LANE, Paul G:

The East and West Africa Medal 1887-1900 to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

OMRS, 2015 Very nice condition in excellent dust jacket. A very substantial work of 654 pages. The superior hardback edition.

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Book number: 3405

Catalogue: Military and Naval History

Keywords: Africa, medals,decorations,military,awards 9780956826657

LANGTON, D.H:

A History of the Parish of Flixton. (with Urmston and Davyhulme)

Manchester,Taylor,Garnett,Evans & Co.,1898, first edition,8vo, pp.160,folding map and numerous illustrations. Original cloth binding in very good condition. Local Historian Ernest Axon's copy with his signature and loosely inserted notes. Four original drawings of local buildings and scenes by W Pownall dated 1888/89 pasted to the endpapers. Contents a little well used by Axon, but a sound and interesting copy.

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Book number: 3192

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Flixton,Urmston,Davyhulme,Manchester.

LAWSON, William:

A New Orchard and Garden.

Cresset Press, 1927. Original parchment backed boards. Spine a little rubbed, covers a little marked, but very sound condition. One of 650 numbered copies.

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Book number: 3401

Catalogue: Gardening and Garden Design

Keywords: gardening history,orchards,fruit growing,

LEECH, Sir Bosdin:

History of the Manchester Ship Canal from its Inception to its Completion.

Manchester and London,Sherratt & Hughes,1907, two volumes, 4to, pp.xv, 333, ix, 351. With very many illustrations including maps, plans, photographs, autograph letters, portraits etc. Volume 1 contains 5 loose plans in the rear pocket and volume 2 contains 2, as called for. Original brown cloth gilt, top edges gilt. Bindings somewhat rubbed and faded with a few marks here and there, but still very tight and sound. Some of the folding plates within the book have been misfolded at some time so are a bit creased and dusty at the edge, with some marks to the back of one. The plates in the pockets are very good. These impressive volumes are the major work on the Manchester ship canal. A very sound working set.

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Book number: 3323

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Manchester, Lancashire,Liverpool,ship canal,canals,waterways.

LEES, Edwin:

The Botany of Worcestershire, or the Distribution of the Indigenous & Naturalized Plants of That County.

Worcester, 1867, pp. xci, 148, 48, (3), illustrations and folding coloured map. Original cloth a little frayed at head and tail of spine, else good condition. Author's compliments inside and a couple of names of early owners.

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Book number: 2689

Catalogue: Natural History-Botany

Keywords: Worcestershire, botany, local flora