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[HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON]. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London. 1838. [London]. [s.n.], [1838]. First edition. 8vo. 13pp, [3]. Loosely gathered in original publisher's printed tan paper wrappers. A trifle creased and dust-soiled, slightest of chipping to leaf edges. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 14691

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ULLYETT, Henry. Rambles of a naturalist round folkestone, with occasional papers on the fauna and flora of the district... Folkestone. J. English, 1880. First edition. 8vo. [6], 157pp ,[1]. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21510

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DIXON, Charles. Rural bird life: being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. 8vo. xiv, 374pp. With an engraved colour frontispiece, a further four engraved plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy calf, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, gilt supralibros of Hillbrow School, Rugby to upper boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, without front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16492

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LAURENCE, John. The Clergy-Man's Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit Of the Art of gardening. London. Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714. First edition. 8vo. [16], 83pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Recent navy buckram, lettered in gilt. Extremities sunned and a trifle rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 15120

DARWIN, Charles. The darwin reader. London. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1957. First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 481pp, [1]. With a black and white photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Slight edgewear to dustwrapper, inked price to front flap. Light browning to endpapers. A fine copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21515

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WHITE, Gilbert. The natural history of selborne. London. John Van Voorst, 1843. New edition. 8vo. xvi, 398pp. With half-title. Attractively bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Slightest of spotting to boards. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of 'Jasper More' to FEP, ink inscription to recto of blank fly-leaf; 'Henwick House / near / Worcester / Prize for / Drawing / 2nd Div. / Robt. Jasper More / Midsr. 1849 / A. Philips D. D.', internally ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 15364

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DARWIN, Charles. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London. John Murray, 1888. Second edition, sixth thousand. 8vo. In two volumes. xiv, 473, [1]; x, 495, [1], With numerous engraved illustrations in the text. and a 32pp publisher's advertisement catalogue to Vol. II. Very slight rubbing a marking to extremities. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of S. H. Hammond to FEPs, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19312

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[FORD, John Walker]. [Three manuscript commonplace volumes with provenance of John Walker Ford, with extensive notes on horticulture and planting]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1905] 8vo. Manuscript on paper. Three volumes; two in contemporary gilt-ruled red morocco, marbled edges (predominantly filled, the second with numerous leaves excised); the third, black half-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges (with many leaves unused). Extremities a trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Bookplates of John Walker Ford to FEPs of both full-calf volumes. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 14484