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The land and fresh water shells of the districts around Manchester

By: Dyson, David

Price: £90.00

Publisher: Manchester: John Harrison: 1850

Seller ID: 6046

Binding: Hard covers

Condition: Good

Cover label darkened; weakness in binding between pp. 86 and 87. Includes a few pencil notes of records from localities in north England. A rare provincial title. xi, 95, (1) pp., 2 figs.
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A handbook of modern French painting

By: Eaton, D. Cady

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Gay & Hancock: 1909

Seller ID: 10935

Binding: Publisher's blue boards with gilt title

Condition: Good

Binding a little shaken. TEG. Owner's signature on front pastedown.
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The practical housewife

By: Editors of the Family Friend

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co.: n.d. [1855]

Seller ID: 14329

Binding: Publisher's dark red cloth.

Condition: Good

Spine sl. frayed at extremities, corners bumped, internally near fine (a few pages with minor soiling). 192 pp.
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Official catalogue of the great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851

By: Ellis, R. (intro.)

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London: Spicer Bros.: 1851

Seller ID: 25592

Binding: Half leather binding, red boards

Condition: V.g.

The first version of the 1851 exhibition catalogue, necessarily appearing in a state of great imperfection, in consequence of the delay of the reception of Goods at the Building.
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The ladder to the stars

By: Findlater, J.H.

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Methuen: 1906

Seller ID: 26445

Binding: Hard covers

Condition: Good

Mild foxing, mainly to fore-edge. No inscriptiojns.
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A history of British starfishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata

By: Forbes, E.

Price: £48.00

Publisher: John Van Voorst: 1841

Seller ID: 15461

Binding: Publisher's green cloth

Condition: V.g.

The book has been repaired, with new end papers and pastedowns, some labels transferred to the new f.e.p. at rear. A tidy copy.
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A hand-book to the Primates (vol. 2 only)

By: Forbes, H.O.

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Edward Lloyd, London: 1897

Seller ID: 21946

Binding: Half leather binding

Condition: Good

Leather of spine badly stained, front hinge loose. Frontispiece reattached with tape.
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A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees (etc.)

By: Forsyth, William

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown: 1810

Seller ID: 11203

Binding: Publisher's boards.

Condition: Fair

Front hinge starting, prelims damp-stained, pencil notes on ffep, edges of last few pages creased and folded. The folding plates are intact
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The little English flora (etc.)

By: Francis, G.W.

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1849

Seller ID: 12462

Binding: Half leather binding

Condition: V.g.

Oriignal ffep excised; leather binding little worn. All edges gilt.
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A translation of the book of Psalms from the original Hebrew with explanatory notes

By: French, W. & Skinner, G.

Price: £70.00

Publisher: John W. Parker, London: 1842

Seller ID: 22217

Binding: Full leather binding

Condition: V.g.

Cover worn, with attractive impressed design. Owner's bookplate. Contents very well preserved, each page framed in red with copious footnotes.
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An account of the Earl of Peterborow's conduct in Spain, chiefly since the raising the siege of Barcelona, 1706; to which is added the campagne of Valencia; with original papers

By: Friend, John

Price: £80.00

Publisher: London, printed for Jonah Bowyer, at the Rose in Ludgate-street: 1707

Seller ID: 6722

Binding: Full leather binding

Condition: Good

Owner's signature on t.p., hinges starting, sl. bowing of boards; text block tight. (8), 280 pp.
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The natural history of the County of Stafford (etc.)

By: Garner, R.

Price: £38.00

Publisher: John Van Voorst: 1844

Seller ID: 15686

Binding: Publisher's cloth

Condition: Good

Spine sl. rubbed at extremities. Small portion of ffep excised. Folded geological map at rear intact.
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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 vols.)

By: Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Washington Irving]

Price: £60.00

Publisher: John Murray, London: 1826

Seller ID: 21671

Binding: Half leather binding

Condition: V.g.

Signed on t.p. Tips of spines frayed.
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Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire (vol. 2 only)

By: Gilpin, W.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: R. Blamire, Strand, London: 1791

Seller ID: 13461

Binding: Rebound in library cover.

Condition: Good

Library style modern binding in blue cloth, edges trimmed (rather too enthusiastically), with attractive plates including some of equestrian subjects. (2), 308, iii, xx pp. Vol. 2 only.
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The complete poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith

By: Goldsmith, O.; Dobson, A. (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London: Henry Frowde: 1906

Seller ID: 21612

Binding: Full leather binding

Condition: V.g.

Prize binding with label.
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Country pastimes for boys

By: Graham, P.A.

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green: 1901

Seller ID: 21664

Binding: Hard covers

Condition: Good

448 pp. All edges gilt. Prize inscription. Nowadays this book would seem somewhat politically incorrect, with treatments of Bird Nesting and the care of Miscellaneous Pets.
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