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The little book of botany, or, familiar exposition of botanical science, simplified and written expressly for young botanists

By: Cooper, D.

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Darton & Clark, London: 1839

Seller ID: 14349

Binding: Publisher's cloth

Condition: Fair

Cover patchily stained, spine chipped, 'plate 3' frontispiece; printed on pale blue paper, this miniature book measures 10.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 cm. All edges gilt. Former owner's inscription on ffep.
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Berge's complete natural history (etc.)

By: Crawford, R.F. (ed.)

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Dean & Son, London: 1890

Seller ID: 21945

Binding: Publisher's cloth

Condition: Good

Tissue guard to frontispiece tanned, some transfer to t.p. Edge wear to cover, extremities of spine bumped.
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The fifteen decisive battles of the world: from Marathon to Waterloo

By: Creasy, Sir E.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Richard Bentley: 1856

Seller ID: 17643

Binding: Publisher's cloth

Condition: Good

Impressed design and gilt title on rebound cover.
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Culpeper's English physician and complete herbal (etc.)

By: Culpeper, N.

Price: £450.00

Publisher: London: printed for the proprietor by Lewis & Roden, Paternoster Row: 1813

Seller ID: 16299

Binding: Rebound in half leather

Condition: V.g.

[xvi], 400, [2], 256 pages, a total of 44 plates, (29 hand coloured, 14 anatomical drawings, engraved frontispiece). Rebound in modern half leather, raised bands, gilt title on spine.
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Flora Cestrica: an herborizing companion for the young botanists of Chester County, State of Pennsylvania

By: Darlington, William

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadedelphia: 1853

Seller ID: 2481

Binding: Hard covers, dust jacket

Condition: Good

Modern boards (hinges partly split at front and rear), quarter-calf with gilt title on spine, illustrated bookplate; pages foxed throughout, more densely so in the first half. Small chip missing from corner of geological map, not affecting the plate. Despite the visual defects, this is a tightly bound copy, text little worn, inscribed by the author (in pencil) Washington Townsend, with the respects of his aged Friend, Wm. Darlington, April 14, 1853, on the dedication page. 100, 498 pp., one plate.
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Welsh Botanology: part the first - a systematic catalogue of the native plants of the Isle of Anglesey (etc.)

By: Davies, Hugh

Price: £180.00

Publisher: London: the author: 1813

Seller ID: 8235

Binding: Publisher's boards

Condition: Good

Donor's inscription A present from Rev. H. Pritchard Dinas Hall Anglesea (sic) to Owen Price, 1881 on t.p. A nicely preserved copy with untrimmed edges, title blind-inscribed (by hand) on spine. xvi, 151, xiv, plate facing p. xv, 153-255 pp. The first Welsh local flora, particularly noted for its appendix of Welsh names of plants.
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Welsh Botanology: part the first - a systematic catalogue of the native plants of the Isle of Anglesey (etc.)

By: Davies, Hugh

Price: £180.00

Publisher: London: the author: 1813

Seller ID: 15951

Binding: Rebound in quarter leather.

Condition: Good

Bound in quarter leather, with gilt title on spine. A nicely preserved copy with untrimmed edges. xvi, 151, xiv, plate facing p. xv, 153-255 pp. The first Welsh local flora, particularly noted for its appendix of Welsh names of plants.
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The preparation and mounting of microscope objects

By: Davies, Thomas

Price: £32.00

Publisher: David Bogue, London: 1881

Seller ID: 6537

Binding: Publisher's maroon cloth, no jacket

Condition: V.g.

Owner's signature on half-title. Slight corner wear, but a well preserved copy. viii, 214 pp. plus publisher's advertisements at rear (32 pp.).
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Early man in Britain

By: Dawkins, W.B.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1880

Seller ID: 21465

Binding: Publisher's cloth, gilt title.

Condition: Fair

Spine detached, text block split between pp. 368 and 369; a copy in need of repair.
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The kitchen garden

By: Delamer, E.S. (pseud., = E.S. Dixon)

Price: £60.00

Publisher: George Routledge: n.d. [1855]

Seller ID: 26262

Binding: Hard covers

Condition: Good

Owner's signature. No date, but the publisher's advertisements include books published in 1859 so this is very likely the first edition of a very popular book. Unillustrated apart from the frontispiece which shows men at work in a walled garden. Cover rubbed, lower corner bumped.
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A new French dictionary, in two parts (etc.)

By: Des Carrieres, M. (revised by); Deletanville, T.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London: printed for F. Wingrave (et al.): 1794

Seller ID: 19265

Binding: Full leather binding

Condition: Fair

Hinges very weak, pages preceding t.p. detached, contemporary inscription (in Latin) on front pastedown, wormholes to rearmost pages and rear cover, corners and edges worn, titling on spine now illegible save for shelfmark number (in white); narrow gilt decorations to spine but no raised bands.
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A tale of two cities

By: Dickens, C.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: John Long, London: 1906

Seller ID: 26444

Binding: Hard covers

Condition: Good

Owner's inscription.
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The flora of Liverpool

By: Dickinson, J.

Price: £64.00

Publisher: John Van Voorst, London; Deighton & Lawton, Liverpool: 1851

Seller ID: 16089

Binding: Publisher's cloth

Condition: V.g.

Inscribed by the author. William Garnett's heraldic bookplate on front pastedown.
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Rambles by the Ribble

By: Dobson, William

Price: £40.00

Publisher: W. & J. Dobson, Preston: 1864

Seller ID: 5826

Binding: Hard covers, no dust jacket

Condition: Fair

Bookplate of Will Ingwerson; former owners' signatures on front pastedown and t.p. Boards dulled and waterstained (?dropped in the Ribble) , ffep excised, but the main text is hardly affected. iv, (5-) 143, (1) pp.
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Hortus Cantabrigiensis, or an accented catalogue of indigenous and exotic plants cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden

By: Donn, J. (edited by G. Sinclair)

Price: £24.00

Publisher: London: Rivington et mult. al.: 1831

Seller ID: 15077

Binding: Full leather binding

Condition: Good

Bound in tree calf, with slight edge wear and frayed at extremities of spine. Spine ruled into compartments with gilt lines, spine labelled with black leather title. vii, (1), 543, (1) pp. Front hinge starting. Inscribed in thin handwriting John Wootton | His Book | August 9th 42 | Derby' on partly detached blank sheet preceding detached t.p.
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A chronicle of England B.C. 55--A.D. 1485

By: Doyle, J.E.

Price: £600.00

Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green: 1864

Seller ID: 22214

Binding: Full leather binding

Condition: V.g.

Attractively bound with gilt decoration, all edges gilt, and with very attractive woodcut illustrations in colour by Edmund Evans.
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The flower garden, or monthly calendar of practical directions for the culture of flowers

By: Doyle, M. [pseud. for Reverend William Hickey]

Price: £120.00

Publisher: William Curry, Dublin: 1839

Seller ID: 19967

Binding: Half leather covers, marbled boards

Condition: Good

Owner's bookplate. Leather worn, title label on spine chipped, some foxing of the first dozen pages. Only 4 in COPAC for this edition. Includes Prefatory address to the Fair Sex.
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Historical and topographical notices of Great Yarmouth (etc.)

By: Druery, J.H.

Price: £180.00

Publisher: London: Nichols & Son; Baldwin, Cradock & Joy; Longman, Rees, Orme, & Co.: 1826

Seller ID: 23787

Binding: Half leather binding, marbled boards

Condition: V.g.

Bookplate of Carl George Savile Fitzjambe, who is not listed as one of the subscribers (pp. v-xiv). Some edge wear to leather binding, front hinge weak, a little print-through of frontispiece onto title page. Fold-out tables facing pp. 124 and 166 intact. Illustrated with engravings of harbours, churches and the ruins of Caister Castle. Includes a chapter with notable events of Yarmouth's history and a list of mayors since the charter of 1703.
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