Stella & Rose's Books

THE EARLIEST ENGLISHMAN
Written by Arthur Smith Woodward.
Stock no. 1819483
Published by Watts & Co. 1st 1948. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Thinker's Library series. A graphic, first-hand account of the discovery of Piltdown Man - one of the most famous of the links between ape and man. Small format. Red cloth boards, black titles. B/w illustrations. 118 pages. Top & tail of spine lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Rear hinge pulled but binding tight. Red and white dustwrapper is faded to spine, edge-worn with loss to top rear edge.

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THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 6 PART 6
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819482
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1974. Very good condition.

Pages 373-568, February 1974. Green cardwraps. Contents are papers on the Sowerby family. Backstrip faded, a little rubbed and creased. Price-label stuck to front cover. Text block slightly grubby.

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THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 5 PART 6
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819481
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1971. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pages 399-500, April 1971. Green cardwraps. Contents include: John Woodward F.R.S. F.R.C.P., M.D. (1665-1728): a bio-bibliographical account of his life and work; Thomas Webster (circa 1772-1844); The reading of the Darwin and Wallace papers: an historical "non-event"; and more. Spine slightly faded with pencil annotation. Contents clean.

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THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 3 PART 2
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819480
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1955. Nearly fine condition.

Pages 63-115, March 1955. Paper wraps. Contents include: Bibliography and the History of Science; Books of Reference in Zoology, chiefly bibliographical; The North American Birds of Virginia Chroniclers 1588-1686; A Further Note on the Name of the Author of the Rat-Flea; and more. Covers lightly browned.

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THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 4 PART 2
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819479
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1963. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pages 85-152, January 1963. Paper wraps. B/w illustrations. Contents include: A hitherto unknown book on Entomology; The North American Birds of Thomas Pennant; Notes chiefly on the plates of Wilson's American Ornithology; Seemann's "Flora Vitensis"; and more. Browning to cover edges.

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THE DERBYSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL VOLUME CIII FOR THE YEAR 1983
Written by Graeme Barker; D.V. Fowkes.
Stock no. 1819478
Published by Moorland Publishing. 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Grey cardwraps. B/w illustrations. Contents include: The Survey and Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement Area at Mount Pleasant, Kenslow; The prehistoric Pottery from Mam Tor: Further considerations; Excavations at Poole's Cavern, Buxton: an Interim Report; The Curzons of Fifteenth-Century Derbyshire; and more.

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ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 12 PART 2
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819477
Published by Society For The History Of Natural History. 1985. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pages 175-252, October 1985. Green Cardwraps. B/w illustrations. Contents include: Separately published prints of fossils in nineteenth century Britain; The 'fish-frog' and the Surinam toad; The zoological notes by Johann Reinhold and George Forster included in Buffon's Historie Naturelle (1782); and more. Spine faded, top corner crease to prelims.

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ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 27 2000
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819476
Published by Science History Publications Ltd.. 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Volume 27 part 1; Pages 1-156, February 2000. Cardwraps. Colour frontis & b/w illustrations. Contents include: John Christopher Thackeray 1948-1999; Confessions of a geological book-collector; The two states of Mantell's Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex: 1827 and c. 1829; Georges Cuvier's paper museum of fossil bones; and more.

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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 7 PART 4
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Stock no. 1819475
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1976. Very good condition.

Pages 333-537. June 1976. Green cardwraps, b/w illustrations. Contents include: William Hobbs of Weymouth and his The Earth Generated and Anatomized (?1715); Robert Brown (1773-1858) and the natural history of Matthew Flinders' voyager in H.M.S. Investigator, 1801-1805; Bibliographical forgery, with special reference to George Washington Sleeper; Natural history and social history; and more. Spine faded, front cover a little marked. Text block a little grubby.

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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 9 PART 1
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819474
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1978. Nearly fine condition.

Pages 1-94. November 1978. Green cardwraps, b/w illustrations. Contents include: V.A. Eyles (1895-1978) - an obituary and bibliography; H.C. Richter - John Gould's unknown bird artist; The missing volume of John Gould's working notebook for his Birds of Europe; Two collections of rhinoceros plates compiled by James Douglas and James Parsons in the eighteenth century; and more. Spine slightly faded.

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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 6 PART 3
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Stock no. 1819473
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1972. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pages 139-227. October 1972. Contents include: The original drawings of George Henry Ford; A note on the "editions" of Beringer's Lithographia Wirceburgensis; The Bean of Scarborough a family of naturalists; Essential source-material of Roderick Murchison; A biographical history of John Woodward's An Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth; and more. Green cardwraps. B/w illustrations. Front joint between front cover and first page slightly pulled.

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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 6 PART 2
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Stock no. 1819472
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1972. Nearly fine condition.

Pages 71-138. April 1972. Contents include: Francis Willoughby F.R.S. (1635-1672); A note on the editions of Edward Lhwyd's Lithophylacii Britannici ichnographia; A bibliography of Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) - articles in learned journals; Natural History book selling. Green cardwraps. B/w illustrations.

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