The Pleasure Girls - Promotion Press Publicity (Press Book)

Compton-Cameo Films Ltd., . Soft Cover. Press Book advertising literature for the film The Pleasure Girls studded with still pictures from the film and suggested tie ups for local promotions in peripheral cinemas - e.g. Milk - Tie up with the town's largest dairy using the catchline The Pleasure Girls drink a pinta milka Day. Arrange for the milk floats to be decorated with streamers giving full details of playdate and showing times. Pressbooks were used by movie theatres to aid them in advertising a film. They were not available to the public. Single large sheet folded in top half to give 1 large folio sheet with central fold. Undated but film released 1965. . Very Good

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A Pox on the Provinces Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the British Society for the History of Medicine

Bath University Press, 1991. Hardcover. A diverse collection of papers on Medical History. See scans for titles. Book clean, tight and unmarked and VG - in like unpriceclipped d/w.222p ill. (ISBN: 0861971124).. Very Good

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Prehistoric Humberside

Humberside County Council Archaeology Unit, 1987. Soft Cover. 36p well illustrated booklet. Includes The Palaeolithic (250,000-8,300 B.C. approx),The Mesolithic (8,300-4,000 B.C. approx) The Neolithic (4,000-2,000 B.C. approx),Farming and Forest Clearance, Food and Shelter, Neolithic Burial, Religious Monuments The Earlier Bronze age (2,000-1,400 B.C. approx), New Arrivals Bronze Working, The Later Bronze Age (1,400-600 B.C. approx) A Cultural Change, Defended Settlements, Ancient Boats The Iron Age (600 B.C.-43 A.D.), The Arras Culture, The Coritani Iron Age Settlement, The Coming of the Romans. In near fine little used condition. See scans. . Near Fine

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Prevention of Accidents to Staff Engaged on Signal and Telegraph Installation and Maintenance

GWR, SR, LMS and LNER, 1938. Soft Cover. Published jointly by the GWR, SR, LMS and LNER in November 1938. It begins Every year some 200 railwaymen are killed.. 43p with some dramatic posed photographs of accidents about to happen and rescue from live rails and etc. Sobering! No marks or signatures and tight despite rusting of the staples. Card covers a little worn and some dog earing of corners - the owner took to heart the advice on the front cover : After you have read this booklet keep it handy. It will pay yiu to study it from time to time. See scans and email for more. . Good

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Privately Produced Wwii Diary of a Dutch Girl - Dieneke's Diary. 10th May 1940 - 10th May 1945

Privately Printed, 2003. Soft Cover. Privately produced and printed Dieneke's diary. 10th May 1940 - 10th May 1945 records a WWII diary of a dutch girl, using primary source material from the original diary of Dien Kiewiet de Jonge. Part of the original manuscript diary is on line - in Dutch. This is an English translation published privately by her hisband and cghildren after her death,with an introduction and extensive appendices. Includes her narrative, jokes and sketches. She was a member of the Dutch resistance, though the diary contains none of this - she was once arrested and escaped by jumping off a train. Her family hid British pilots and Jews to protect them from the Germans. Unpaginated c. 300+p. Illuistrations, photos maps. The diary is something of a pot-pourri of poems, thoughts and derogatory comments about the Natzis. See scans for a selection of the content. The lower edge of the first few pages are very lightly damp stained, otherwise VG+. No marks or sigantures apart fronm a gift inscripion from her husband dated 2003 opposite the title page. See scans and email for more. . Very Good

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Prize-Essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Volume VII (New Series Vol. I) 1829

William Blackwood and Sons, 1829. Hardcover. viii+456p+51p list of premiums offered for 1828 +52p list of premiums offered for 1829. Plates. This volume of essays and transactions of the Society includes essays on the disease in sheep called Braxy; experiments on raising turnips with artificial manures; the temperature at which butter can be best procured from cream; and fish-ponds;Description and Plan of a Steam-Boat for the conveyance of livestock; Receipt(?Recipe) for making cheese in Imitation of Double Gloucester; drainage of the Barr Loch Lochwinnoch and etc. The text block is sound with all 8 plates sound though some with a little foxing. No fep and the spine has been reinforced with brown taps. See scans. . Good

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Prize-Essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Volume X (New Series Vol. IV) 1835

William Blackwood and Sons, 1835. Hardcover. viii+499p+60p list of premiums offered for 1833 +63p list of premiums offered for 1834. Plates. This volume of essays and transactions of the Society includes essays on the state of Agriculture in the Vale of Forth,, Italian Rye grass, descriptive account of six varieties of potato, Reports on Granite Quarries also of Sandstone, Lime and Slate, remarks on smearing of sheep., description of a machine fir sowing carrots, improvements in instruments for bleeding horses, a proposed Geological map of Scotland, Experiments and Observations on kelp, hedges, highways, , the coal district between the Forth and Tay and etc. . The text block is sound with all 8 plates sound though some with a little foxing. No fep and the spine has been reinforced with brown tape. See scans. . Good

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Prize-Essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Volume XIV 1843

William Blackwood and Sons, 1843. Hardcover. viii+907p+80p list of premiums offered for 1850. Plates. This volume of essays and transactions of the Society includes essays on Old Brick drains,Culture of the Rohan Potato,Geology of Carluke Parish,Insectts injurious to Forest Trees, especially the larch and the spine., the Bothy system of maintaining single farm servants, manures, hoar-frost, Geology pf Perthshire, farm of swellhead, Kingcausie, Kincardinshire,Geognostical account of Banffshire, . Maps include Geognostical map of Kirkcudbright, Geognostical map pf Banffshire, Peebleshire, Parish of Carluke.. Maps appear hand coloured. The text block is sound with all 13 plates sound though some with a little foxing. Scattered neat stamps of the Glasgow Horticultural Society.No fep and the spine has been reinforced with brown tape. See scans and email for more. . Good

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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh Vol. III 1862-63

Printed for the Society By Neill and Company, 1867. Hardcover. 426p, 3 plates (?some missing), folding table and many woodcuts in text.Proceedings from 1862-66 and 65-66. Contains articles on Bituminous shales in Linlithgowshire, orinithological notes; remarks on torn of digits in man; a young otter from Calaber; fossils in Caithness;fireball observed near Auchterarder; bronze implement from Currie, Mid-Lothian; origin of Granite; gold field of Ballarat; glacial drift. Bound in old half calf with marbled boards and gilt labelling on spine with raised bands; bookplate of Glasgow Geological Society. Binding rubbed at corners and edges but book tight, clean and impressive. See scans. Several other matching early volumes available as illustrated - email for details. . Very Good

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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh Vol. IV 1874-78

Printed for the Society By M'Farlane & Erskine, 1878. Hardcover. Bound Proceedings from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. p.308; 3 plates inc. a large folding map of the effects of the Dollar Flood in 1877. Articles on fishes and reptiles from old Calabar, South Esk fossils, Natural History of Islay, motion of the Sea, On the succesful rearing of the Emu in Scotland, floods on the Ochils 1877 from Tilicoultry to Muckhart, raised beaches in the west of Scotland, vitrified forts,Friesian Islands with index and list of fellows. Re-bound in half leather with original spine laid down and marbled boards and new endpapers. Clean and tight without marks or signatures. See scans. Several other matching early volumes available as illustrated - email for details. . Very Good

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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh Vol VII. 1881-1883

Printed for the Society By M'Farlane & Erskine, 1883. Hardcover. Bound Proceedings from 1881-1883.372p; 7 plates. Articles include:the Paleozoic conchology of Scotland, the Chough in Scotland, birds of Glenurquhart, Natural History of Madagascar, Zoology of Mid-Lochaber, fossil myriapods from Forfarshire, fish fauna of shales of Edinburgh, The New Forest, Harvie-Brown in the Stock Dove, Mr Hugh Miller on River-Terracing, on a new species of Octapus - and etc. Edges and corners a little rubbed but still VG. Bookplate of Geological Society of Glasgow on front pastedown. Otherwise clean and tight. Several other matching early volumes available as illustrated - email for details.See scans. . Very Good

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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh Vol. IX 1885-88

Printed for the Society, 1888. Hardcover. Bound Proceedings from 1885-88. 586p 21 plates. Articles on the Bottle-nosed or beaked whale, spores in the carboniferous formation of Scotland, abnormal limbs in Crustacea, hatching of herring ova in deep water, birds of Skye, Harvie-Brown's further notes on North Rona, the Lobster, influence of the environment upon the organism, summer birds in Shetland and etc.Boards rubbed at edges and corners and bookplate of the Geological Society of Glasgow with one stamp on fep and spine label absent (though inmpression of titling shows through). Otherwise clean and tight. Several other matching early volumes available as illustrated - email for details.See scans. . Very Good

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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh Vol. X 1888-90

Printed for the Society, 1890. Hardcover. Bound Proceedings from 1888-1890. 526p inc. index;16 plates with two coloured folding maps. Articles on Sowerby's whale, Asterolepidae, theory of the parasitic habit of the cuckoo, plumage of the rook, birds of Paraguay, Palla's Sand Grouse in Scotland, Ancient lakes of Edinbiurgh, crested birds of prey, classification and distribution of earrthworms, viscera of the female chimpanzee, British Echinoidea, census of land and freshater Molluscs in Scotland and etc. Clean and tight but some rubbing of edges and Geological Society of Glasgow Library plate on front pastedown one stamp on fep. See scans. Several other matching early volumes available as illustrated - email for details. . Very Good

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Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science - Seession of 1905-1906 - (Front Wrapper Missing)

, 1905. Soft Cover. p.xl-lii+553-670+mlist of members and index for Vol.XI. Articles on the Flora of McNab's Island, the Birds of Prince Edward's Island, the Grignard Synthesis, Oil fields of Eastern Canada, the frost and droughtof 1905, Eels in water pipe and their migration, water powers on the Mersey River and water-rolled weed balls. In original wrpppers (but front wrapper missing). No marks but some edge wear - See scans. . Fair/Good

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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Vol XI Third Series 1900 - 1901 - Contains the List of Tours

For the Society By Neill & Co., 1901. Hardcover. xlvii + 680p. An important volume in the Series as it contains Mitchells List of Tours in Scotland - in over 200 pages of the volume. Valuable reference source. From Aberdeen University Elphinstone Institute: The starting-point is the bibliography of travels and tours in Scotland compiled by Sir Arthur Mitchell (1901, 1905, 1910). Born in Elgin and educated at the University of Aberdeen, Mitchell was a national authority on the treatment of the insane and no less eminent as an antiquarian and bibliographer. He was also a proto-ethnologist, investigating superstitions of the Highlands as they related to insanity. The value of his bibliography is enhanced by its preface, whose section headings alone reveal the problems he encountered (Difficulty as to Including or Excluding, Books of Little Value not Excluded, Narratives still in Manuscript, Narratives Hidden in Biographies or Magazines, Misleading Titles, Changes in Late Editions) and the variety of genres in which travels and tours could be found (Excursions of Scientific Societies, Guide Books and Itineraries, Botanical, Geological, and other such Excursions, Books showing state of North Britain, Travel with a Special Object). Under the heading Books entered with Hesitation Few, Mitchell explained that his principle had been to include rather than exclude. As a result, his bibliography runs to over 1,000 entries. Of these, 48 date from before 1600, 69 from the period 1600-1700, 49 from 1701-50; 128 from 1751- 1800; and 352 from 1801-50. The book is clean and tight with a few minor marks on the boards; endpapers evenly browned. Heavy book - will incur extra postage - £7.06 in the UK by parcel post. . Very Good

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