TRANSACTIONS OF THE MIDLAND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION WINTER SESSION OF 1864-5
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819468
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1865. Good condition.

Contents include: On Thor's Cave; On the Nest of the Ten Spined Stickleback; On the Embryo of the Pike; On the Jaw of the British Leopard; On some Peculiarities in the growth of the Hawthorn Tree; and much more. Pink cardwraps. 19 plates at rear. Writing in blue pencil to front cover, covers are unevenly faded and marked/grubby. Backstrip worn and front cover just starting to split from contents because of this. A little unobtrusive annotation to contents in pencil. Text block browned. Plates have some foxing present.

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OUR DARLINGS: AT HOME, IN TOWN, AT THE SEA-SIDE, IN THE COUNTRY, AT PLAY
Written by Mars. Illustrated by Mars.
Stock no. 1818422
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Circa 1890. Almost very good condition.

A picture book with minimal text. Oblong format. Bevelled edge boards. Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. Green, floral endpapers. 47 pages. Edges rubbed, corners worn, boards a little browned and scuffed. Joints repaired. Diagonal corner crease to lower corner of free front endpaper is fragile and liable to tear. Vertical crease to half-title page. Light browning to contents with minor grubby marks in places.

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LA NAVIGATION AERIENNE L'AVIATION ET LA DIRECTION DES AEROSTATS
Written by Gaston Tissandier.
Stock no. 2131329
Published by Librairie Hachette Et Cie. 1st 1886. Good condition.

L'Aviation et la Direction des Aerostats dans les temps anciens et modernes (the aviation and direction of airships in old and modern times). Blue paperwraps. B/w illustrations. Text in French. Re-bound with a near matching blue card, front and rear paperwrap covers glued to card for strength, original spine missing. Some hinges broken but binding is generally tight. One or two scattered foxspots else contents clean.

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REMINISCENCES OF A HUNTSMAN
Written by Grantley F. Berkeley. Illustrated by John Leech; G.H. Jalland.
Stock no. 2130938
Published by Edward Arnold. 1897. Almost very good condition.

A fascinating glimpse into the world of fox hunting and life in the English countryside during the late 19th century. A New Edition. Cream spine and corners with brown title label laid down on spine, marble boards. 6 colour and 8 b/w plates. Top edge gilt. Darkening and chipping, with some loss to spine and corners. Bumping to corners. Scuffing also to marbled covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Names in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. Tiny booksellers sticker to rear pastedown.

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RURAL SPORTS (2 VOLUMES)
Written by William B. Daniel.
Stock no. 2127953
Published by Bunny And Gold. Circa 1801. Almost very good condition.

2 volumes. Brown leather covers, gilt borders. B/w plates. Includes sections on dogs, plus fox and stag hunting, hare coursing. Rabbit, martin, badger and otter hunting. Angling, game shooting and waterfowl etc. Both volumes have been rebacked with new spines with raised bands; new endpapers, original boards and pages. Volume 1 No longer has its title page. All plates present. Volume 1 was published in 1801 and Volume 2 in 1802. Scuffing and wear to covers; heavy wear to corners. Foxing, browning and some margin marks.

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A CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF BRISTOL
Written by John Evans.
Stock no. 2127055
Published by G. And W.B. Whittaker. 1824. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth. Folding map frontis. xxxiv + 376 pages. Spine has faded to brown; some other fade marks along edges. Some scuffing and a few 'splash' marks to covers. Heavy browning to fold-out map to front. Some foxing.

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HUNTING SONGS AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES
Written by R.E. Egerton Warburton.
Stock no. 2124519
Published by Longman, Green, Longman And Roberts. 2nd 1860. Very good condition.

2nd edition. Red leather spine and corners; raised bands to spine and gilt decorations and gilt title to dark title block. Marbled boards and endpapers. Spine has faded. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges; a few to some page margins internally.

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LANCASHIRE WORTHIES (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Francis Espinasse.
Stock no. 1814823
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1st 1874. Good condition.

Two volumes, second series first published date is 1877. People of note from Lancashire including Samuel Crompton who invented the spinning-mule. Red cloth boards with black & gilt titles. Bevelled edges. B/w frontis to volume one. Volume one top of spine is fraying with a little loss of cloth. Inscriptions in ink to prelims. Joints splitting and therefore binding fragile but holding. A few damp stains to margins.

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THE CAPTAIN'S YOUNGEST PICCINO AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Stock no. 1208841
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1905. Almost very good condition.

Blue/green and orange decorated cloth. B/w plates. 183 pages. All plates present. Top and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed with slight loss of colour. Covers marked, mainly at edges. Bookplate and name in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to prelims. Contents clean.

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THE GIRLS AND I
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
Stock no. 1208826
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth with black title and vignette plus gilt border to front. Gilt title and decorations to spine. 192 pages. 7 full-page b/w illustrations. One plate missing. Spine browned. Covers slightly soiled. Endpapers browned, rear endpaper soiled. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents very good.

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THE WORTHIES OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
Written by Hartley Coleridge.
Stock no. 1208783
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1899. Good condition.

Being lives of the most distinguished persons that have been born in, or connected with, those provinces. Red embossed cloth, gilt title to spine. Portrait frontis plus one other b/w portrait plate. 480 pages. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped. Covers soiled. Names and dates in ink on verso of front endpaper. Prelims very browned. Some margin marks and foxspots but contents generally clean.

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HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PARISH OF BOSBURY
Written by Samuel Bentley. Illustrated by Arthur Harrison.
Stock no. 2123522
Published by J. Masters And Co.. 1891. Almost very good condition.

Bosbury is in the diocese and county of Hereford. Green cloth, gilt titles. 14 b/w plates. Top edge gilt. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Small split to top of spine with fraying to cloth. A few scuff marks and white marks to covers. Front joint is weak and partially broken (can see stitching beneath). Inscription in ink to top of title page. Some foxing and browning. All plates present.

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