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JEKYLL Gertrude
Annuals & Biennials. The Best Annual and Biennial Plants and their Uses in the Garden. With Cultural Notes by E.H. Jenkins. ARGUABLY JEKYLL'S SCARCEST WORK
8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece mounted on grained card, title in red and black, 2 coloured plates mounted on grained card, 40 full-page monochrome illustrations in the text and a folding plan on japon, title very lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, backstrip sunned, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a very good, clean copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear. The author's only work not be reissued. The work is divided into three parts. Part I gives general information on sowing, raising, characteristics and uses. Part II provides an alphabetical list, with descriptions and culture, of the best annuals and biennials. Part III gives a chart of colour and height, and selections for purposes and aspects. Arguably the scarcest of all Jekyll's works.
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SETH-SMITH Michael
Bred for the Purple. [A History of the Monarchy and the Turf.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; purple cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STANBURY Percy
Clay Pigeon Marksmanship. Photography by G.L. Carlisle. [Foreword by Lord Rupert Nevill]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FORREST Denys
Tea for the British. The Social and Economic History of a Famous Trade. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green faux-calf, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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PATTEN Marguerite
Classic British Dishes. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Marguerite Patten has always been passionate about the classic cooking of the British Isles; here she collects over 500 thoroughly British recipes which she describes with her usual aplomb.
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SHEPHERD C.B.
Beagling. [with] Basset Hounds by Miss Ena Adams and Harriers by the Earl og Stradbroke. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter chipped at extremities and with loss (affecting lettering) at tail of backstrip.
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NICHOLS J.C.M.
Shooting Ways and Shooting Days. BRIGHT COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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RICHARDS Coombe
Wild Goose Chase. being the Wildfowling Reminiscences of some Amateurs at the Game. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations by the author in the text; red cloth, backstrip lattered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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CLARK Atwood
Gun Dogs and their Training. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plates; green cloth, backstrip framed and lettered in white, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. First published in 1935.
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DROUGHT Captain J.B.
A Shot in the Making. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. SCARCE.
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HEARN Arthur
Shooting and Gunfitting. [Third Impression]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small losses (not affecting lettering) at upper edge.
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PARKER Eric
The Shooting Week-End Book. With Illustrations by Beryl Irving. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with title-vignette, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, yellow cloth back, backstrip with paper label printed in green, a very good, bright, clean copy price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-browned and wanting first two inches of backstrip.
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LANCASTER Charles
The Art of Shooting. Tenth Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Tenth Edition, with frontispiece, illustrations and diagrams in the text; rose cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. With numerous trade advertisements (several illustrated) at rear. Remarkably bright, clean copy of a shooting classic.
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STAUNTON Howard
The Laws and Practice of Chess. Together with an Analysis of the Openings, and a Treatise on End Games. Edited by Robert B. Wormald. A New Edition. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., with numerous board diagrams throughout, half-title lightly browned; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip gilt mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Early reissue of one of most famous of all English chess books, first published in 1876 as 'Chess; Theory and Practice'. See Betts 10-33; 10-35.
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MILLAIS John Guille
The Wildfowler in Scotland. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF MILLAIS IN SCOTLAND
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 8 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), 2 plates in colour, and 50 illustrations in the text, free endpapers very lightly browned; original half vellum gilt, blue-grey boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Millais' sojurn in the Highlands was partly for the purpose of collecting specimens for his well-known portrayals of surface-feeding and diving ducks.
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FLETCHER J.S.
The History of the St. Leger Stakes 1776-1901. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 3 coloured plates nd numerous plates in monochrome, free endpapers very lightly browned, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Detailed and comprehensive history of the famous Yorkshire horse race, the oldest (1776) of Britain's five classic flat races. Appendices include St. Leger at a Glance; Winners of the St. Leger and other classic races; Owners winning more than once; Winners of the Doncaster Cup; and other related data. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BROWNE Captain L. S.
History of the English Turf 1904-1930. Supplementary to History of the English Turf by Sir T.A. Cook. FINE COPY
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and very numerous fine portraits and plates throughout; original brown faux-morocco cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, green edges, green endpapers, a fine copy., A sequel worthy of its illustrious predecessor. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DU MONT J.
Chess. More Miniature Games. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous board diagrams in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Contains 200 annotated games in 25 moves or fewer. The games are chiefly from the period 1940-1953 and arranged by opening. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Betts 24-73.
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BONINGTON Christian
Tibet's Secret Mountain. The Triumph of Sepu Kangri. SIGNED BY CHRIS BONINGTON
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY BONINGTON ON TITLE.
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DAHL Felicity
Memories with Food at Gypsy House. Photographs by Jan Baldwin. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHARITATOS Manos
I Istoria Tou Ellinikou Tsigarou [History of the Greek Cigarette].. FINE COPY IN PRESENTATION CASE
Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in Greek, with many hundreds of coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's board presentation case. The presentation case is modelled on a cigarette box. VERY SCARCE.
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ROHDE Eleanour Sinclair
A Garden of Herbs. Revised and Enlarged Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Best Edition, with frontispiece and plates; buff boards, oatmeal holland back with paper label printed in red and black, dark red top, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Considerably revised and enlarged version of the original Medici edition of 1921.
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VESEY-FITZGERALD, ed. Brian
The Book of the Horse. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in brown and black, very numerous coloured and monochrome plates and illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, boards blocked in green, backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy. Large and detailed compendium of matters equine, and forerunner to the same author's 'Book of the Dog' of 1948. Includes contributions from many well-known authorites of the period.
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LYLE R.C.
Royal Newmarket. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards. Introduction by Adair Dighton. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, upper board lettered in darker green, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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KIMBERLEY et al Earl of
Lonsdale Library Volume XXI. Polo. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with frontispiece, numerous plates, and illustrations and diagrams in the text; original series binding of brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, upper board lightly faded at margin else a near fine copy. Lonsdale Library Vol. XXI.
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MARKMANN Charles Lann
The Book of Sports Cars. Foreword by Briggs. S. Cunningham. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with many hundreds of photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with two short closede tears.
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MORTIMER Charles
Racing a Sports Car. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with plates; yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in yellow and black, a near fine copy.
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BURRARD Major Gerald
In the Gunroom. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND IMPRESSION
8vo., Second Impression, neat signature on front paste-down; green cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end. Published in the same year as the first edition.
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WILLETT Ernest H.
The Ancient British Coins of Sussex. [Reprinted from Sussex Archaeological Collections Vols. XXIX and XXX.] CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition thus, with 6 engraved plates, free endpapers mildly browned; original grey boards, white cloth back lettered in MS, backstrip rubbed (but binding entirely sound), a very good, crisp, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CHIVERS Keith
The Shire Horse. A History of the Breed, the Society and the Men. [Preface by Lord Cornwallis. Foreword by HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh.] 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and coloured and monochrome plates; handsomely bound in full tan calf, upper board blocked in gilt, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, white silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's marbled board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY LORD CORNWALLIS (THIS COPY. NO. 87).
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JEKYLL Gertrude
Garden Ornament. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BUCKRAM
Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, title-vignette, and many hundreds of fine photographs (many full-page), marbled endpapers, marbled endpapers; original blue buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt edges, joints and extremities mildly rubbed as usual, covers lightly age-marked and faded else very good, clean copy. This magnificent standard reference comprises introductory text and a superb assembly of photographs of garden ornaments of every kind, including wood and iron gates, steps, balustrades, urns, vases, courts, paved ways, seats, loggias, orangeries, dovecotes, parterres, sundials, topiary, pergolas, treillage, canals, ponds, water gardens, bridges, fountains, dipping wells, borders, wall gardens, Japanese gardens and many more. The examples are chosen primarily from England, with a few from Italy. One of the finest garden books of the twentieth century. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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MASON Finch
Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National. Containing a complete Account of every Race from its Foundation in 1839 to the Present Year. Second Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and photographs in the text, free endpapers very lightly browned; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. In the interests of economy, the second edition in cloth was published without the 6 coloured plates of the first edition; they are included in the morocco-bound version.
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DAVID Elizabeth
French Country Cooking. Line Drawings by John Minton. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text; green pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy. Lavishly illustrated reissue of the author's second book, with Minton's original illustrations augmented by well-chosen plates by Old and Modern Masters. This edition preserves David's introduction to the original edition of 1951. A well-produced and respectful version of the second of the author's three cookery books that changed English cooking forever.
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HORRY John
The History of Squash Rackets. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HOUGH Richard
A History of the World's Sports Cars. With Introductions by W.O. Bentley and S.C.H. Davis. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and numerous monochrome photographs and facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss at head of backstrip.
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LAMB Edgar
The Illustrated Reference on Cacti and other Succulents. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
5 vols., 8vo., with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original cloth (red/red/red/red/black), gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. Lovely set of a standard reference; first published 1955-1978.
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DAVID Elizabeth
Is There a Nutmeg in the House?. Compiled by Jill Norman. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, orange endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. A sequel to 'An Omelette and a Glass of Wine', this is a wonderful anthology of previously unpublished pieces compiled by David's friend and editor Jill Norman.
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DAVID Elizabeth
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine . [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. Collects a variety of articles, reviews and travel pieces all in the author's inimitable style. Increasingly elusive in this condition.
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HANMER Sir Thomas
The Garden Book of Sir Thomas Hanmer. With an Introduction by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. 900 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and facsimiles in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 900 COPIES.
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HITCHINGS David
Showing High Pheasants and Partridges. The Story of Gurston Down. Foreword by the Duke of Wellington. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the internationally renowned high bird shoot.
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DAVIES Hunter
Wainwright. The Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 37 plates on 16 and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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OPIE Iona
Children's Games in Street and Playground. Chasing. Catching. Seeking. Hunting. Racing. Duelling. Exerting. Daring. Guessing. Acting. Pretending. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, and plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROBSON John
Phil Burrows and the Bolebroke Beagles. With a Foreword by Tony Leavey. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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CAMPBELL Colin
The Sports Car. Its Design and Performance. Second Edition, revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations and tables in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Updated version of the original edition of 1954.
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CALCULUS
Speed from the Sports Car. Tuning for Efficiency. [Clymer Edition.] IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, and photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers mildly rubbed else a bright, clean copy.
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STRELINGER & Co Chas A.
A Book of Tools, Machinery and Supplies 1895. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1895.
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CALCULUS
Speed from the Sports Car. Tuning for Efficiency. [UK Edition.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE UK EDITION
8vo., Second Impression thus, with photographs and illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DADANT and Son Chas.
Langstroth on the Hive and Honey-Bee. Revised, Enlarged and Completed by Chas. Dadant and Son. Revised Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Revised Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette, 19 plates and numerous illustrations in the text; navy diced cloth, black endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With the usual production errors: plate 4 (Swammerdam) is numbered 15; plate 17 (Bertrand) is numbered 13. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1810-1895), generally recognised as the father of American beekeeping and inventor of the Langstroth Hive. First published in 1853, his seminal work 'The Hive and Honey-Bee' quickly ran to several editions before ill-health in 1885 compelled the author to pass revision of the work to Chas Dadant, whose revised and enlarged edition was first issued in 1888. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPLETE AND IN THIS CONDITION.
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BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION.
Fundamentals of the Scout Method. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS: A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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CHANEY Lisa
Elizabeth David. A Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and coloured printed endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted.
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