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Very good copy of William Wood's influential guidebook to conchology first published in 1815.With [2], iv, 8, lxii, 246 pages of text and 60 delicately hand-coloured engraved plates with tissue guardsPlates numbered 1-59 with one bis plate 4* illustrating 260 species of shellsWilliam Wood (1774–1857) was an English surgeon, zoologist, conchologist and entomologist. Among his works are Zoography, 1807, Index testaceologicus, 1818, Index entomologicus, 1839, British Marine Conchology with G.B. Sowerby, 1844, etc. Bound in half green morocco, gilt-decorated spine with shell tooling, marble boards, missing leather title label, a.e.g., scuffed and bumped. Plates clean and bright with delicate handcolour.
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FOX, Charles JamesA history of the early part of the reign of James the Second, with an introductory chapter.London, Large 4to, First edition. Printed for William Miller. 1808. Pp. xl, 293, [ii], cli. Contemporary Tree Calf, with extensive gilding on the covers and the spine (photos). FINE copy, text block is clean, bright, tight, and without any markings or inscriptions. End papers are marbled with the book plate of John Clerk Brodie. This attractive copy is in exceptional condition.
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Boucard, A.Travels of a Naturalist. London 1894. Published by the Author. First edition 8vo., viii, ii, 204 pages. Publisher's Brown Pebbled Cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Boucard, Half Titles. Boards are in Fine condition with no scuffing, fading or wear. SIGNED inscription by Boucard to Edmound Perrier, Director du Museum de Paris. Text block is in Fine condition without any markings, or discoloration, and is bright, clean, and tight. A very attractive copy is seldom found in commerce in this condition. With ALS to Perrier, and a 24 page pamphlet by Boucard titled OBJETS EXPOSES published for an International Exposition in Paris, 1889.Boucard was noted for his extensive travels and adventures as a Naturalist. His travels are best described by the title as: A Record of Adventures, Discoveries, History and Customs of Americans and Indians, Habits and Descriptions of Animals, Chiefly Made in North America, California, Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Chile, Etc., During the Last Forty-Two Years.
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The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (Complete in 16 Volumes)
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London: F. And C. Rivington. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1803. Early Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Complete in 16 Volumes. Publisher's half dark green leather with marbled boards, endpapers and edges, 5 gilt decorated raised bands on spine, gilt lettering in two of the compartments on the spine, gilt decoration in the remaining four. The first eight volumes are dated 1803, with the remaining eight volumes dating from1812 to 1827. . Leather spines are brittle and chipped with some loss at the heads of the spine on about five of the volumes, rubbing but no loss at the bottom of the spines and the tips, hinges are rubbed, but holding, former owner's name in elegant cursive at top of title page, else unmarked, square and clean. GOOD+. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Traité sur la Vénin de la Vipere sur les poisons Americains sur le Laurier-Cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végetaux. On y a joint des observations sur la structure primitive du corps animal. Différentes expériences sur la reproduction des nerfs et la description d'un nouveau canal de l'Oeil
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Title, xxviii, 329 p.; xii, 373, 10 folding plates.First French edition, greatly expanded from the 1767 edition. Fontana's extensive research on snake venom is considered the beginning of modern toxicology."A contribution to comparative zoology by one of the foremost anatomists of the eighteenth century" - Wood. p. 344
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ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION: A treatise containing the elementary part of fortification, regular and irregular. With remarks on the Constructions of the most celebrated Authors, particularly of Marshal de Vauban and Baron Coehorn, in which the Perfection and Imperfection of their several Works are considered. For the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. Illustrated with thirty-four copper plates. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification
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London: London: printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street, in the Strand, 1746. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; xvi,232pp, with full complement of 34 engravings, 33 of which are folding. In contemporary unlettered full calf (a little worn with minor loss to board corners, sometime skilfully rebacked in matching leather), five raised spine bands, internally clean with only the lightest of occasional dust staining. Muller was deputy head of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was instrumental to its transformation into a disciplined cadet academy. An attractive first edition example of his first work. Laurence Sterne possessed the text in second edition, with possible influence on Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim's obsessions with fortification in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. ESTC T176381.
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