Bankoff, George

THE SHADOW ON THE PATH with a foreword by A.W. Reynolds & Patrick Haviland

London, Peter Garnett Ltd. 1st edition first printing (March) 1949 Plates of early medics (15 as listed) from 16-18th century books and including a few Victorian doctors. . Octavo cloth in dust jacket (jacket with marginal chips, creasing & 2 larger lacks at foot) xi +207pp. *History of venereal diseases from the earliest times and their treatment and the great advances made in modern times so that treatment now is "speedy and effective".

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Book number: A74344

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: history medicine venereal diseases cures

Barker,Felix

DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION - FIRST EXPLORERS

London, Reader's Digest 1st edition 1971 Color and other illustrations throughout. . Large octavo cloth spined pictorial boards (tips slightly rubbed) 191pp V.G. *Egyptian Poenican Greek explorers.

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Book number: A58280

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: exploration classic travel exploration

Barnett,S.A. (editor)

A CENTURY OF DARWIN

London, Heinemann 1959 Plates (6) + 55 text figures. . Octavo black cloth spine gilt rubbed (tips sl.bumped) xv +376pp 3 marginal library stamps and front end paper with 1.5" strip torn away. Text and all plates very clean and tight.

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Book number: A72721

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: evolution Darwin fossils genetics selection

Bartrum,Douglas

RHODODENDRONS AND MAGNOLIAS

London, Garden Book Club 1957 Colour and b/w photographs as full page or several per plate. . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips rubbed/jacket with some edge loss but neat) 176pp. A clean tight copy.

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Book number: A72720

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: gardening flowering bush flowers natural history

Bear, P.K.

SIMPLE FRUIT GROWING

London, W.H. & L. Collingridge Ltd. 3rd edition reprint 1948 approx. Plates (16) with several illustrations & a few line drawings. . Duodecimo cloth in unclipped dust jacket (slight shadow to cloth from the dust jacket/jacket torn and head and foot of spine minimal loss) 96pp clean and tight.

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Book number: A72818

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: fruit gardening pruning cordons espaliers

Becker, Professor W.A. translated by Frederick Metcalfe

GALLUS or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus.

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 8th edition 1886 A few illustrations. . Octavo plum cloth gilt rebacked in green (tips bumped some marks) Top Edge Gilt xxi +535pp coat of arms bookplate Robert Russell Baron on front endpaper, 2 inscriptions, prelims slightly foxed else internally V.G.

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Book number: A52566

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Roman antiquity history sociology dress classics

Beedell,Suzanne in association with Barbara Hargreaves

COMPLETE GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING: A Discursive Dictionary

London, David & Charles 1979 Over two hundred illustrations. . Large octavo green boards in dust jacket 256pp. *Alphabetical encyclopaedia from aviaries, Algae to wrought iron, windmills, wine making via fungi & mushrooms, dating houses etc. V.G in V.G jacket.

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Book number: A72712

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: countryside living illustrated

Aristophanes edited by Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871)

ARISTOPHANIS COMOEDIAE cum Scholiis et Varietate Lectionis Recensuit Immanuel Bekkerus Professor Berolinensis. Accedunt Versio Latina Deperditarum Comoediarum Fragmenta. Index Locupletissimus Notaeque Brunckii .. Vol. III (only).

London, Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot - R. Priestley + J.& J.J. Deighton (Cambridge). 1829 . Volume III (only) Octavo full leather on 4 raised bands and one of two labels gilt to spine, cover and gilt legend "E Libris R. Dear. A.M. olim istius Collegii Tutoris, Morte Improvisa Abrepti MDCCCLXXI" (tips worn/chipping to head of spine, rubbed & some marks). St. John's College Oxford library stamp & later neat ink ownership to pastedown, ink library shelfmark to title. Half title + titlepage +635pp. This is the Notes volume with profuse Greek & Latin annotation in 22 columns on the Acharnians, Knights, Clouds and Wasps. Endpapers and first text page facing them are foxed but text, on different paper, has no foxing and no tears or loose pages.

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Book number: A74620

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Greek Drama commentary

Aristotle edited by Immanuel Bekker

ARISTOTELIS DE RE PUBLICA Libri Octo

Berlin, George Reimer 1878 . Octavo cream buckram with large longitudinal red gilt spine label (cloth edge & spine darkened, tips rubbed but hardly any wear) titlepage +265pp including index. Entire volume is in Greek. First few and last few leaves lightly foxed and parts with very neat, precise underlining and notes to the margin. One page with corner crease and 2 neat names to endpaper else this is a neat tight copy.

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Book number: A74551

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Greek text Aristotle

Bell,Rev.Charles D.

ANGELIC BEINGS: their nature and Ministry.

London, Religious Tract society [1875 according to Birtish Library decorative head- and tailpieces and docorated initials to each chapter . Small ovtavo green decorated cloth on beveled boards spine and cover gilt titled. [edges slightly worn/spine rubbed and dulled] Titlepage + [3p=preface] + {1p=contents] +186pp gift inscription dated 1975 one gathering. Neat and clean, no tears or markings. 10 lectures for Rev Charles Bell`s congregation at the Rectory in Cheltenham.

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Book number: A75429

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Keywords: lectures

Bellamy, David

BELLAMY'S BRITAIN (on cover: An entertaining guided tour of the landscapes of Britain based on the BBC TV series.)

London, Treasure Press 1984 Illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams. . Octavo pictorial boards (hardback) 127pp like new. *By the ecologist and botanist, David Bellamy.

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Book number: A73651

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ecology tour Britain botany geography geology natural history

Belloc,Hilaire

AVRIL being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance

London, Sheed & Ward 1945 Frontis of a French sculpture possibly of Mary Magdalen. . Octavo green cloth (tips rubbed one small smudge) 110pp. *Includes Villon, Marot, Fonsard, Malherbe, Charles d'Orlean, Du Bellay with examples of their work.

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Book number: A65762

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: history French poetry

Bernard,Mme Laure

CONTES MATERNELS Scenes de L'education

Paris, Librairie de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse P.C. Lehuby / Rouen Fleury fils [ 1842 ] Engraved plates [4 . 12mo green gilt and blindstamped Cartonnage Romantique [rubbed but with no dulling of gilt/corners sl.bumped but no fraying] half title and approbation leaves in the count of 285pp + [1p=tables des matieres] Some pale foxing but all pages clean and crisp though paper is sl.off white. Name-stamp to front endpaper otherwise no tears or signs of use. FRENCH TEXT

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Book number: A75464

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: French moral stories

Berry,W. Grinton

FRANCE SINCE WATERLOO

London, Methuen 1st edition 1908 Plates (16 including maps and as listed). . Octavo half tan calf with raised bands gilt rules with maroon label marbled boards (tips sl.worn but neat nice binding) x +382pp ex Ferguson bequest Fund Library with stamps on titlepage & back of some plates label & inscription on endpaper some fingering and signs of use but tight copy.

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Book number: A51382

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: French history

Best, Charles Herbert & Norman B. Taylor

THE LIVING BODY A Text in Human Physiology. Third Edition.

London, Chapam & Hall Ltd 3rd edition 1954 Colour plates (16) + text illustrations & diagrams. . Octavo navy cloth gilt titled spine & cover in torn dust jacket (tips rubbed jacket tape repaired but almost complete) viii +792pp name to fly leaf else clean, unmarked & tight.

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Book number: A73580

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: biology textbook physiology science