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TRAPPING AND THE DETECTION, CONTROL, AND REGULATION OF TEPHRITID FRUIT FLIES
Written by Todd Shelly; Nancy Epsky; Eric B. Jang; et al.
Stock no. 1824636
Published by Springer. 1st 2014. Very good condition.

Lures, Area-Wide Programs, and Trade Implications... Tephritid fruit flies are among the world's most notorious pests of commercially important fuits and vegetables. Green glazed boards, white titles. ISBN: 9789401791922. Light rubbing to lower edges of boards. Corners lightly bumped. Boards lightly scuffed. Previous seller's label to rear board. Front hinge pulled but binding still tight. Contents clean.

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GUNPOWDER: THE HISTORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Written by Brenda J. Buchanan.
Stock no. 1824563
Published by Bath University Press. 1st 1996. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive coverage of gunpowder making at international level, revealing the problems faced in its manufacture and showing the world-wide significance of gunpowder, in terms of the transfer of ideas and techniques and the transport of raw materials and finished goods. Based upon papers contributed by many of the leading authorities in the field, attending The Gunpowder Symposium of 1994 at the University of Bath, edited by Brenda Buchanan. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and diagrams. ISBN: 0861971248. Corners lightly bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper spine faded.

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THE TOBACCO PLANT GENOME
Written by Nikolai V. Ivanov; Nicolas Sierro; Manuel C. Peitsch.
Stock no. 1324172
Published by Springer. 1st 2020. Very good condition.

Compendium of Plant Genomes series. Glazed boards. Graphs and charts. 263 pages. Printed by Books on Demand. ISBN: 9783030294922. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Neat barcode label to rear cover. Contents fine.

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ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE REEF CRISIS
Written by Bernhard M. Riegl.
Stock no. 1324142
Published by Academic Press. 1st 2020. Very good condition.

Volume 87 in the series. Glazed pictorial boards. 472 pages. ISBN: 9780128215296. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Neat barcode label to rear cover.

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BRITISH CAR FACTORIES FROM 1896
Written by Paul Collins; Michael Stratton.
Stock no. 1324046
Published by Veloce Publishing Plc.. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. A Complete Historical, Geographical, Architectural & Technological Survey. A catalogue of 240 factories which produced 220 makes of car in 44 different British counties, towns and cities. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos, diagrams and maps. ISBN: 1874105049. Some light spotting to textblock. Dustwrapper is creased at edges and spine. Neat barcode label to rear panel of wrapper.

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DICTIONARY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION
Written by Alan Jay Christensen.
Stock no. 1824435
Published by McGraw-Hill. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

A unique, comprehensive reference that defines the language of today's landscape architecture, planning, construction, and environmental science, covering specifics such as irrigation, plant science, soil science, wetlands, landscape ecology, horticulture, and land planning. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and sketches in the text. ISBN: 0071441425. Board corners lightly rubbed. Boards a little scuffed, top of spine bumped. Small knock to top rear edge of board. Text block a little grubby else contents clean.

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TELESCOPES AND ACCESSORIES (THE HARVARD BOOKS ON ASTRONOMY)
Written by George Z. Dimitroff; James G. Baker.
Stock no. 1824427
Published by The Blakiston Company. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

How man has learned through procedures and instruments of great power to analyze the universe in which he lives. Red cloth boards, gilt titles.B/w illustrations. Foxing mainly to endpapers and text block. Some pages may be slightly stuck together due to the glossy nature of the paper and damp (easily opened).

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CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE
Written by Richard Dawkins. Illustrated by Lalla Ward.
Stock no. 1824403
Published by Viking. 1996. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The combination of perfection and improbablity that is epitomised in the seemingly designed perfection living things. Black boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0670850187. Second printing. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. B/w plates were stuck together and now prised apart giving surface paper damage and also imprinting of the facing page. Minor foxing to text block. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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NATURE IN THE BALANCE: THE ECONOMICS OF DIVERSITY
Written by Dieter Helm; Cameron Hepburn.
Stock no. 1824084
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2014. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together conceptual and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, the policy instruments, and the institutions. The objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and to suggest how this very urgent problem should be addressed. Navy blue boards, gilt title to spine. Edited by Helm & Hepburn. ISBN: 9780199676880.

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UNIVERSAL: A GUIDE TO THE COSMOS
Written by Brian Cox; Jeff Forshaw.
Stock no. 2140969
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 2016. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Shiny silver covers with white titles. Some graphs and colour photos. ISBN: 9781846144363. Light bump to top of spine. Some edge-creasing and light scuffs to wrapper.

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SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM +2
No author listed.
Stock no. 2140968
Very good condition.

Card wraps. What appears to be a manual that went along with the computer of the same name. Some light edge-creasing. A few marks to outer page edges.

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AN ATLAS OF ASTRONOMY
Written by Robert Stawell Ball.
Stock no. 2140761
Published by George Philip & Son. 1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

xi pages + 57 pages of introduction + 72 plate pages, 17 page index to rear.. Original blue cloth binding with gilt decoration on boards and spine. Front cover shows signs of the Zodiac. All edges gilt. Spine and edges are browned, with bumping and a little chipping. Wear to cover corners. Joints are a little cracked; front joint is cracked and fragile. All plates present. Some foxing and browning to pages.

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