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HORNSEY J.
English Exercises, Orthographical and Grammatical; in Two Parts: being a Selection of Choice Pieces, in Prose and Verse. With many original Reflections, etc. designed to improve the juvenile Mind in Spelling and Grammar. Sixth Edition.
12mo., Sixth Edition, endpapers mildly browned, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down and small sketch on rear paste-down; original dark green ribbed cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in blind; sprinkled edges, a very good, firm, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Hornsey's well-known exercises were first published in 1818 and several times reissued. BLPC gives only the fifth edition of 1839. Very scarce in any edition.
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ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
Souvenir of the Centenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1800-1900.
4to., First Edition, with a fine frontispiece in sepia-toned photogravure (original tissue guard present), engraved title-vignette, title in red and brown, 8 fine plates in sepia-toned photogravure (all original tissue guards present) and an engraved tail-piece, free endpapers lightly browned; original green cloth lettered in gilt, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. Sumptuously produced souvenir record with outstanding plates. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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HOWSE D.
The Clocks and Watches of Captain James Cook 1769-1969.
8vo., with numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles in the text, small neat inscription on front inner wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Reprinted from four quarterly issues of 'Antiquarian Horology'.
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HILL John
Hypochondriasis. A Practical Treatise (1766). Introduction by G.S. Rousseau. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 135. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Continental Books and Manuscripts including Science and Medicine. 5 December 1996.
4to., with very numerous facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprised 248 fine lots including an Apollo and Pegasus binding for Giovanni Battista Grimaldi, the second issue of Newton's 'Principia', and important letters from Einstein including a series relating to the Hebrew University. With bibliography and index
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TEMPLE R.
Invention and Discovery.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 13 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, patterned endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's original pictorial binding. Engaging accounts of over 120 major inventions and discoveries told with characteristic late Victorian aplomb. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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SEARLE Alfred B.
Clay and what we get from it.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 49 illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original brown cloth, gilt back, inscription on top edge, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in end. Sold from an institution with its stamps on front endpaper. Extremely scarce.
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DICKINSON H.W.
Matthew Boulton.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 14 plates, 7 illustrations in the text and a large folding plan; original terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with minor loss at tail of backstrip. With the separately printed errata slip mounted facing p1. This detailed biography is uncommon in this condition.
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PILKINGTON Roger
Robert Boyle. Father of Chemistry.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and illustrations and diagrams in the text; tallow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition.
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DAVIES O.
The Quaternary in the Coastlands of Guinea.
4to., First Edition, with 8 plates and numerous illustrations in the text; original cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed with minor loss at edges. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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HUXLEY Julian
Biological Aspects of Cancer.
8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front paste-down; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at folds-ins and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Huxley reviews the facts concerning cancer in the light of modern biological advances, and concludes that its study can no longer be regarded merely as a specialised branch of medicine but is a focal field of general biology.
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HOOKE S.H.
The Siege Perilous. Essays in Biblical Anthropology and Kindred Subjects.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MAXWELL W. H.
Current Waterworks Practice. A Practical Treatise on the Provision of Water Supplies for Urban and Rural Communities.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 19 plates and numerous diagrams in the text; original red cloth gilt, gilt back, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TOPLISS Patricia
The Rhetoric of Pascal. A Study of his Art of Persuasion in the 'Provencales' and the 'Pensees'.
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned and with small loss at one corner.
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ROBINSON E.
James Watt and the Steam Revolution. A Documentary History.
4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations and facsimiles throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Comprehensive and detailed study
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WOOD Alexander
Sound Waves and their Uses. Six Lectures delivered before a 'Juvenile Auditory' under the Auspices of The Royal Institution, Christmas, 1928, [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original grey cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip, and browned at backstrip and rear panel. First published in the previous year. Wood was at this time Lecturer in Experimental Physics at Cambridge. The lectures comprise I: Waves; II: Signalling in Air and Water; III: Notes and Noises; IV: How Sounds are Analysed; V: The Ear and What it Does; VI: How Sounds are Recorded and Reproduced. Scarce in the dustwrapper.
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COUSINS F.W.
Sundials. A Simplified Approach by Means of the Equatorial Dial. Foreword by J.G. Porter.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illuystrations in the tecxt and 3 folding plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges. Scarce
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FREUD Sigmund
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. Authorized Translation by Alex Strachey. Third Impression.
8vo., Third Impression, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Published as The International Psycho-Analytical Library, No. 28. First issued in the previous year.
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EATON P.
Marie Stopes. A Checklist of her Writings.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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THANGARAJ (ed.) R.H.
A Manual of Leprosy. [Third Edition].
8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; burgundy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright clean copy. Very scarce
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HURST C.
The Care and Management of Stationary Steam Engines. A Practical Handbook for Men-in-Charge. Third Edition.
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with numerous engraved diagrams in the text, front free endpaper clipped; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, green catalogue endpapers, covers lightly rubbed else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. First published in 1902.
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BELL J.
The Telegraphists' Guide to the Departmental; and City and Guilds Examinations in Telegraphy. Seventh Edition (New Impression). NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Seventh Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams (a number folding) in the text; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL
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BAKER E.C.
Preece and those who followed. Consulting Engineers in the Twentieth Century. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter just a trifle browned at backstrip.
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BELL W.J.
Early American Science. Needs and Opportunities for Study.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original green boards, terracotta cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy.
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LIVINGSTON Philip
Fringe of the Clouds. [The Story of an RAF doctor]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Livingston served from the early days of the RAF in India and Iraq. After specialising in ophthalmology he studied aircrew visual acuity during WWII and ended his career as Director-General of RAF Medical Services. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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PENNIE Robin
John Ramsbottom. A Victorian Engineering Giant. FINE COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Published in association with the London & North-Western Railway Society.
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CARPENTER Edward
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk. A Study in Social Evolution.
8vo., First Edition, neat personal signature and stamp on front free endpaper; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. Pioneering sociological study by an early gay activist, poet and member of the 'Uranians'. Carpenter's writings and attitudes influenced many society figures (notably Robert Ross) and writers including both Owen and Sassoon.
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BARTON David K.
Radar System Analysis. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous diagrams throughout, small personal stamp on front paste-down; black cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in gilt and white, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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SHAW W.N.
Forecasting Weather. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with folding chart as frontispiece and very numerous maps, charts and diagrams (a number folding) throughout, small blind stamp on title; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frames, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Lovely copy of this early and immensely detailed work of the science of meteorological prediction, published just a decade before Richardson's first numerical weather prediction experiment. VERY SCARCE.
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BRABAZON Lord
The Brabazon Story. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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CHERRY Niall
Red Berets and Red Crosses. The Story of the Medical Services in the 1st Airborne Division in World War II. [Includes major coverage of Arnhem. Revised edition]. BEST EDITION; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Roy. 4to., Best Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps (a number full-page) in the text; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Detailed account of the inception and development of British airborne medical units. Covers France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Norway, but inevitably the major part of the work is devoted to the medical role at Arnhem. Many useful photographs and much valuable vernacular material. The most comprehensive study and a splendid complement to Cole's 'Wings of Healing' (1963). The MS was first published in 1998, with a revised and augmented version in 1999. Following several reissues, this edition contains a revised Nominal Roll. SCARCE.
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FREUD Sigmund
An Autobiographical Study. Authorized Translation by James Strachey. Fifth Impression. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Fifth Impression thus, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately sunned and with one small tear at backstrip. With a quantity of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. International Psycho-Analytical Library, Edited by Ernest Jones. No. 26. First published in 1935.
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FARMER R.C.
The Manufacture and Uses of Explosives. With Notes on their Characteristics and Testing.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a chart as frontispiece, and diagrams and tables in the text; original pictorial terracotta cloth blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisement as front free endpaper, and 8pp publisher's catalogue at rear. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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SMITHERS D.W.
On the Nature of Neoplasia in Man. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text, small neat signature on front paste-down; black cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. Uncommon in this condition
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RICHTER Curt Paul
Biological Clocks in Medicine and Psychiatry. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo. First Edition with plates and diagrams; blue cloth gilt gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO GEORGE BOAS PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT JOHN HOPKINS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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BURTON S.H.
The Watch Collection of Stanley H Burton. Warts and All. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth a very good bright clean copy in dustwrapper. Contains illustrations of 900 watches and over 600 movements.
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HORDER Lord T.
Conway Memorial Lecture. Obscurantism. Delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, on 27 April 1938. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo. First Edition; blue cloth upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt gilt back a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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BROADBENT Sir William
Selections from the Writings of Sir William Broadbent. Medical and Neurological. Edited by Walter Broadbent. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; original red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, a very good bright, clean copy. Collects a large number of papers and articles, excluding those used as the basis of his books on 'The Pulse' and 'Heart Disease'. VERY SCARCE.
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FISH E. Wilfred
An Experimental Investigation of Enamel, Dentine and the Dental Pulp. THE AUTHOR'S COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates (original tissue guards present) and 51 monochrome plates; strongly bound in red full roan, sides with frame border with sprays at corners enclosing title and author's name all in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, covers moderately age-worn else a very good, bright copy. THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY IN PERSONALISED BINDING WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The author was Honorary Dental Surgeon at London's Royal Dental Hospital and several other institutions.
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WALLIS R. Ransome
Two Red Stripes. A Naval Surgeon at War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served on LONDON from 1941-1942. After a spell hunting German supply ships in the South Atlantic, she spent most of her time on the northern patrols and Arctic convoys. Enser, p.261; Law 1035.
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LANDIS Casparus
De Melancholia ex Mente. Dissertatio inauguralis medica quam consensu illustris medicorum ordinis pro obtinendis summis in Medicina et Chirurgica honoribus. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF RARE TRACT ON MELANCHOLY
8vo., newly bound in full calf, backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, remarkably crisp copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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KOENIGSBERGER Leo
Hermann von Helmholtz. Erster Band [with] Zweiter Band. THESE TWO VOLUMES ONLY [OF 3]. FIRST TWO VOLUMES IN FINE STATE
2 vols. [of 3], First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispieces in photogravure and 3 plates (all original captioned tissue guards present); handsomely bound in half leather, marbled boards, backstrips tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, green silk markers, both fine copies.
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DREWETT F.D.
The Note-Book of Edward Jenner in the Possession of the Royal College of Physicians of London. With an Introduction on Jenner's Work as a Naturalist. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), neat signature on front free endpaper; grey boards, blue cloth back, gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON.
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BRAITHWAITE David
Savage of King's Lynn. Inventor of Machines and Merry-Go-Rounds. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Paperback Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original wrappers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Includes detailed engine register and bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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JAMES Robert
A Dissertation on Fevers and Inflammatory Distempers. Wherein an expeditious Method is proposed of curing those dangerous Disorders. The Second Edition. BRIGHT COPY IN MODERN BOARDS
8vo., Second Edition, WANTING LEAF C2 (pp.13/14); newly bound in boards, backstrip with printed paper label, a clean, crisp copy.
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ROBINSON Douglas H.
The Dangerous Sky. A History of Aviation Medicine. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter creased at fold-ins and with minor loss at upper edge of front panel.
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HORDER Mervyn
The Little Genius. A Memoir of the First Lord Horder. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Memoir of the eminent physician by his son.
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FARADAY Michael
The Selected Correspondence of Michael Faraday 1812-1866. Edited on behalf of the Royal Institution of Great Britain by L. Pearce Williams, R. Fitzgerald and O. Stallybrass. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces; original blue cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, blue endpapers, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. Vol. I: 1812-1848; Vol. II: 1849-1866. Sold from an institution with neat stamps.
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PARE Ambroise
The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Pare. containing the Voyages made into divers Places with many of his Writings upon Surgery. Edited and with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, brown top, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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ROYAL NAVY
Manual of Instruction for the Royal Naval Sick Berth Staff. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with a coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plates, 2 plates in monochrome, very numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text and large folding chart; cloth, gilt back, a remarkably well-preserved, near fine copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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