SISLEY, Richard.

A Study of Influenza, and the Laws of England Concerning Infectious Diseases. A Paper Read Before the Society of Medical Officers of Health, January 18th, 1892. To Which Is Appended a Paper on the Spread of Influenza by Contagion, Read Before the Epidemiological Society, May 20, 1891. And an Abstract of a Paper on the Prevention of the Spread of Epidemic Influenza, Read at the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, August 1891. Together with: Counsel&Rsquo;S Opinion on the Powers of Sanitary Authorities As to Influenza, and the Acts and Extracts from Acts Relating to Infectious Diseases; the Provisional Memorandum on Epidemic Influenza, Issued by the Local Government Board on January 25, 1892; and the Directions for Obtaining Ambulances for the Conveyance of Persons Suffering from Influenza, Issued by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. 8vo., pp.119, green cloth, gilt; ex Royal Veterinary College Library, with inkstamp to title and to two further pages, publisher’s blindstamp to title, o.w internally fine, rubbing to extremities, small label to spine, o/w a very good, bright copy.

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SLACK, Henry J.

Marvels of Pond-Life. Or, a Year&Rsquo;S Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-Bears, and Polyzoa.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878. Third edition, 8vo., pp.xii,147, pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g., colour frontispiece and 6 further colour plates, b/w in-text figures; foxing to prelims, small closed tear to fore-margin of front free endpaper and frontispiece, ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, typed letter pasted to inner margin of front free endpaper, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, a very good copy.

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STENO, Nicolaus (Niels Stensen). Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by: GARBOE, Axel.

The Earliest Geological Treatise (1667). Translated from Canis Carchariae Dissectum Caput.

London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1958. 8vo., pp.v,51, bilingual edition with Latin text to versos and English translation to rectos, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 3 further b/w plates; ex library, with remains of bookplates to front endpapers, as well as handwritten catalogue no. to upper margin of front free endpaper, inkstamp to title and to rear blank, sellotape staining to rear endpapers, light sellotape marking to cloth, else clean and very good, in good(+) unclipped dust-jacket, which has a little sellotape darkening and is torn across rear flap.

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STERN, F.C.

Snowdrops and Snowflakes. A Study of the Genera Galanthus and Leucojum.

London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1956. First edition, pp.128, navy cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, further b/w and colour plates, folding map to rear of volume; rubbing to extremities, mark to front board, slight mustiness, an internally clean and good+ copy. No dust-jacket.

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SUFFLING, Ernest R.

Church Festival Decorations. Being Full Directions for Garnishing Churches for Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide and Harvest.

London: L. Upcott Gill/New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907. Second, revised and enlarged edition, small 8vo., pp.(iv),156,15(publisher’s adverts),(iii)adverts, red textured cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; inner hinges cracked (binding remains firm), pencilled ownership autograph and small bookseller’s sticker to front paste-down endpaper, gather of adverts to rear of volume working loose, with ultimate leaf loose, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to front lower corner, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

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Book number: 29321

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Supervised by: Forestry Agency, and edited by the Japan Forest Technical Association.

Illustrated Important Forest Trees of Japan.

Tokyo: Chikyu Shuppan Co. Ltd., 1964. First edition, bilingual Japanese/English text, 4to., pp.217, white cloth lettered in black and green, 100 colour plates, with distribution maps printed on glassine leaves. and accompanying text; ownership inscription to prelim blank, a very good copy, in pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to edges, with creasing, tears and some loss to upper edge.

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SYNGE, J.L.

The Relativistic Gas.

Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing, 1957. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xi,108,red cloth, gilt, b/w figures; light toning to margins, otherwise very good, in s good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, chipped and some loss to head and foot of spine and wear to corners, small creased tears along margins.

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TEMPERLEY, George W.

Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle Upon Tyne. New Series, Vol. IX: History of the Birds of Durham.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, W.L.Large & Sons, 1951. 8vo.,pp.296, printed wrappers, b/w fold-out map to rear; lightly rubbed to extremities, with some discolouration to extremities, lightly worn at head and foot of spine, small stain to front of wrappers near hinge, a very good copy.

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THOMAS, William J.; WEDGWOOD, Rev. J.J.; SINNETT, A.P.; BESANT, Annie; HERMAN (translated by SEPHARIAL); SEPHARIAL; TAYLOR, John W.; Lady PALMER; LAZENBY, Charles; CARPENTER, Edward.

Bound Collection of Pamphlets: 1. The Death Warrant of Charles the First; 2. The Liberal Catholic Church and the Theosophical Society, Where They Agree and Where They Differ; 4. Spiritualism As Related to Theosophy; 5. The Social Upheaval in Progress; 6. Expanded Theosophical Knowledge; 7. Super-Physical Science; 8. Study and Practice; 9. The Prophecy of Lenin; 10. An Astrological Survey of the Great War; 11. The Diminishing Birth-Rate; 12. Who Is Margaretta Pye&Rsquo;S Mother?; 13. The Servant; 14. Never Again.

8vo., blue cloth, gilt; a little rubbing to extremities, very good.

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Keywords: theosophy

TORR, Cecil.

Small Talk at Wreyland. Three Volumes.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1918; 1921; 1923. Three volumes, 8vo.,pp. 120; 120; 112; plain brown boards with beige cloth spines, black lettering, b/w plates and b/w frontispiece to vols I & III; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper of vols I, II & III, ownership autograph in ink front free endpaper of vols II & III and in pencil to vol I, toned to endpapers of vol II and light toning to margins, rubbed to extremities, with wear to corners of boards, with the lower corners to vol I slightly knocked, otherwise very good. No dust-jackets.

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TUBBS, Colin R.

The New Naturalist No. 73: The New Forest.

London: Collins, 1986. First edition, 8vo., pp.300, green cloth, gilt, colour plates; a near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.

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TWIDALE, C.R.; ROMANI, J.R. Vidal.

Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains.

Leiden/London: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2005. 4to., pp.ix,351, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light shelfwear to covers, internally fine, with presentation inscription to title, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.

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WALLIS BUDGE, E.A.

Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics, or &Lsquo;the Book of Medicines&Rsquo;. The Syriac Text, Edited from a Rare Manuscript, with an English Translation. [Set of Two Volumes: ] Volume I. Introduction; Syriac Text. Volume II. English Translation and Index

London: Published under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913. 8vo., pp.clxxviii,614;xxv,804 red cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are lightly worn to extremities, with possible light worming to front lower margin of jacket to Volume I, and with foxing/mottling to spines - now in protective covers and otherwise very good.

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Keywords: Medicine & Psychology

WALTERS, Max.

Wild and Garden Plants. The New Naturalist, No. 80.

Harper Collins, 1993. First edition, 8vo., pp.200, green cloth, gilt, colour plates and b/w illustrations; ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.

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Book number: 38184

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WELLS, R.B.D., Phrenologist, Pavilion Place, Scarborough.

Faces We Meet and How to Read Them. With: How to Read Character by the Aid of Pathognomy; or the Signs Which Are Manifested by the Human System in Motion: As by the Walk or Gait, Tones of the Voice, Form of the Body, the Mode of Shaking Hands, Temperamental Conditions, Dress, Etc.

London: H. Vickers, et al, n.d.; 1881. Two volumes in one, small 8vo., pp.240, brown cloth, gilt, with decorative blindstamped borders to boards, b/w frontispiece, b/w in-text illustrations throughout; some paper-splitting along inner hinges (joints remain firm),light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with 2cm split to cloth at head of upper joint, light partial sunning and slight marking to cloth, a near very good copy.

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Keywords: Phrenology