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Mansfield Ctr., CT, U.S.A.: Martino Publishing, 1998. 8vo. xl.623 pgs. Fine condition green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering. Crisp, clean, unmarked. An indispensable bibliographical reference for 17th to 19th century works of botany, being a "Classified Selection of Botanical Works Including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's Thesaurus". This is a Limited Edition Facsimile of the 1881 Edition. ISBN 1578981484. #1406.. ISBN: 1578981484. Limited Edition Facsimile.. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾... more information

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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1995. 160 pgs. Good+ condition hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Book is ex-library with usual markings, stamps and pocket. Light fading to blue cloth along edges. Internally clean and sound. Jacket has minimal if any shelf wear. An overall very presentable copy for reference or reading. Illustrated throughout with inviting and inspiring color photos of seaside gardens created i a wide range of shoreline environments. Contents: Introduction, The Water's Edge, ... more information

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Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1996. 8vo. 433 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Green cloth, jacket illustrations: 1885 silk and wood tapestry Pomona, jacket back is frontis of Traite des arbres fruitiers. Illustrated endpapers, black and white engravings, illustrations and color plates throughout text. An in-depth review of European literature dealing with fruit from antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Contains a detailed bibliography of over 600 fruit-related works. Contents include: fruit texts of... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 8vo. 255 pgs. Fine condition hardcover, in Fine jacket. From the preface: "The art of building memory palaces has become a historical curiosity. What Ricci taught as a deliberate pneumonic device comes close to describing what the brain does automatically. As we move through the world, experience is transformed into memories. Neuron by neuron, we snap together mental structures..." In searching for the secrets of memory, the author focuses on the efforts of three... more information

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New York: Dutton, 1998. 8vo. 492 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Biography of Joyce Carol Oates. First printing, April 1998. Contents: preface, introduction, In the North Country, The Girl Who Wrote on the Edges: 1938-50, The Romance of Solitude: 1950-56, Syracuse: 1956-60, New Directions: 1960-62, An Entirely New World: Detroit 1962-64, Violence All Around Me: Detroit 1965-67, A House in Windsor 1968-70, Transformation of Being: Hollywood and London 1971-72, The Visionary Gleam: 1973-75, Invisible Woma... more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. 8vo. 159 pgs. Fine hardcover in very good + jacket, slight fading and yellowing to paper at spine of jacket, one small closed tear at rear top edge. A nature chronology and environmental commentary. By the author of The Sorcerer's Son and Other Stories, The Dark Traveler, Wildwood, Paulina, Jordanstown, Year's End, Winter Orchard, and Now in November, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. #1039.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good+. Illus. by Mel Kapholz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" t... more information

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London: Edward Arnold & Company, 1951. x.456pgs. Very Good navy blue cloth hardcover, no jacket. Gilt lettering to spine. Bottom front corner bumped, very light rubbing to spine edges. Clean, sound, unmarked. Illustrated with line drawings, figures, diagrams, spectra and 31 black and white plates. Frontis plate of nebulous region around p Ophiuchi. Contents: Preface to the Third Edition, List of Plates, I. The Celestial Sphere, II. The Earth, III. The Earth in Relation to the Sun, IV. Astronomical Instrume... more information

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Portland, OR, U.S.A.: Timber Press, Incorporated, in Association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2002. Large square 4to. 230 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Well-illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams for fresh and dried arrangements, bulbs, living wreaths. Contents: Introduction, Nature's Designs, The Art of Composition, Working With Flowers, Photographic Gallery of Floral Design, Suggested Reading, Index. ISBN 088192539X. #1465.. ISBN: 088192539x. First Printing. Har... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 8vo. 409 pgs. Very good condition hardcover. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering and floral decoration on spine. A few shallow dings to rear board, otherwise clean and unmarked. Historical novel set in France. #118.. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, Novel, France, Royalists, Literature, Mildred Jordan, Asylum for the Queen. ... more information

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New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1871. Vol. I. x.681pgs+adv.; Vol. II. 607pgs+adv.; Vol. III. 599pgs.; Vol. IV. 594pgs.+ adv. Very Good condition four volume set, rust colored brown cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Light overall shelf wear with rubbing to cloth at edges and corners, shallow bump to top edge of boards (Vol. II). Original dark brown endpapers. Endpaper over front hinges of vols I and IV starting a bit, underlying mesh remains sound. Text is clean and unmarked. Names or initials of... more information

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