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Albany NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1872. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Cover with some dampstaining and edgewear, notably to spine ends. Spine cloth faded. Binding sound. Front cover with bright gold design of fruit filled basket. Interior clean and intact with some light dampstainig to top gutter area of some front pages. Otherwise a very nice copy. 326 pages.
THE ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE ON CACTI AND OTHER SUCCULENTS. FIRST 4 VOLUMES. VOLUME ONE, VOLUME TWO, VOLUME THREE, VOLUME FOUR. (1, 2, 3, 4. I, II, III, IV.) by Lamb, Edgar and Lamb, Brian
by Lamb, Edgar and Lamb, Brian
THE ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE ON CACTI AND OTHER SUCCULENTS. FIRST 4 VOLUMES. VOLUME ONE, VOLUME TWO, VOLUME THREE, VOLUME FOUR. (1, 2, 3, 4. I, II, III, IV.)
by Lamb, Edgar and Lamb, Brian
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Blandford, London, (1969 reprint, 1968 2nd, 1963 Ist, 1966 1st). 4 volumes, consecutively paged to page 1,212, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard covers (maroon cloth with gold lettering on spines), in dust jackets. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs. "These pictorial encyclopaedias provide a unique reference and a means of quick and easy recognition of cacti and succulents. Every plant illustrated is captioned with its name, together with the Botanical Authority, country of origin, notes on colour, size and general cultivation. The information is intended to be non-technical and readily understood by the average collector who follows the hobby for pleasure yet wishes to know a little more." Light to moderate edgewear to all volumes, light wrinkling at top or bottom of spines of three volumes, three very tiny corner bumps, slight discoloration at top of textblock of volume one - light migration into top of last few pages, small area of discoloration on top of textblock of volume three, volumes one and two are slightly cracked in several places, wrinkling to rear pastedown of volume two, light stain line at fore-edge of front free endpaper in volume three, minor browning to rear pastedown in volume four. Dust jackets - three are price clipped, all have moderate edgewear with surface paper loss - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light edge wrinkling, some areas of light browning, some light rubbing and soiling, corner crease on rear flap of volume four, slight fading to colour on spine of volume one. VG/G.
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- Publisher Blandford, London, (1969 reprint, 1968 2nd, 1963 Ist, 1966 1st).
- Keywords Cactus, Cacti, Succulents, Identification guides, Recognition, Reference, Genera, Specimens, Habitats, Cultivation, Botany, Hobbies, Botanical, Opuntia, Cereus, Pilocereus, Echinopsis, Echinocactus, Mammillaria, Epiphyllum, Phyllocactus, Hatiora, Rh
Rural Affairs: A Practical and Copiously Illustrated Register of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals, and All Farm and Garden Processes. Vol. VI: Four Hundred an
by Thomas, J.J
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Wilmington, New York, United States
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Structure of Rich Clusters of Galaxies: Clues to Formation and Origin
by Rhee, George
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Blairsville, Georgia, United States
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Text is clean & tight & unmarked. Multiple creases of all four cover corners—front & back, ranging from tiny to four inches long. Bumping & creasing of page corners—lower corners more than upper corners. Creasing along free edge of pp 31, 47, 53, 63, 69, 127, 133, 147, & 237. Some sun-toning along spine.
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Die Botanische Buchillustration Ihre Geschichte Und Bibliographie, Band I & Band II
by Nissen, Carl
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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SGD 172.34
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Maurizio Martino, Mansfield, CT, (1994); First Edition, Limited to 225 copies; Quarto, 11" x 8 3/4" (28.1 cm x 22.2 cm); red buckram; gold titles on a black field. Verbatim facsimile reprint of this scholarly work on botanical illustration first published at Stuttgart in 1951. Two volumes in one, 264 pages and 324 pages respectively, Volume I an exhaustive history of botanical book illustration, and Volume II a detailed bibliographical catalogue of 2,387 illustrated botanical works spanning more than four centuries, arranged in alphabetical order by author. Text in German. A unique and valuable reference. Fine. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.
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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man
by Lawrence, William
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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J. Griffin, 1822. Two volumes bound in one, 12mo, pp (2), 212; (4), 288, lightly age-toned throughout with the occasional page with mild foxing, otherwise very sound internally, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, rubbed, slightly worn at the corners, rebacked at some point with a later calf spine. The Oates-Selborne copy, with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates, the later presentation labels to the Gilbert White Museum in1955, and the tiny Bibliotecha Oatesiana stamp on the final page. With the earlier bookplate of the surgeon John Wheeley Gough Gutch. [A pirated edition, without illustrations. It seems scarce - I have only been able to trace two other copies from this publisher in libraries. It is curious that two printers seem to have been involved - H. Price for the first volume and Kaygill on the colophon of the second. There is no seperate title page for the second volume, and this seems consistent with the copies on record. In his mid-thirties, Lawrence published two books of…
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Wanderings Through the Conservatories at Kew
by Gosse, Philip Henry
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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SGD 146.95
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1856. First edition. Small octavo, pp viii, 296, slightly age-toned, illustrated with engravings in the text, a large corner has been cut from the title page to remove a signature, the name of the author has been written on the title page, and on the reverse an inscription states that this is a presentation copy to the botanist A.D. Cotton from J. Skan (?). Recently bound in a simple quarter leather and cloth and quite a good bright copy overall.. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good.
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Wild Life in a Southern County
by Richard Jefferies
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- Early Edition
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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SGD 157.45
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Smith, Elder and Co, 1892. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Natural History & Resources; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 1636. .
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Ants, Bees and Wasps
by Lord Avebury
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Early Edition
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1902. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very scarce. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Animals & Birds; Insects; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 1633. .
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science.
by DAWKINS, Richard
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- First U.S. edition / First printing.
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780062288431 / 0062288431
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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New York: Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science 2015. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.
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Geology and Natural Resources of Colorado
by Russell D. George
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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University of Colorado, 1927. VG+ in Fair brown paper wrapper. Book is As New except for all four corners being slightly bumped and rubbed. DJ is really just a light paper wrapper with the University logo on the front. This is acidic, brittle, torn, creased, and soiled. It has done its job protecting the book within. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Petrology of the San Marcos Mountain Gabbro, San Luis Rey Quadrangle, California
by Miller, Franklin S.
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- very good
- Hardcover
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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Granville, New York, United States
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SGD 172.34
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Cambridge: Self / Harvard University, 1934. Original typewritten doctoral dissertation submitted to division of Geological Sciences, Harvard University, 1934. 4to. hard cover, 9" x 11 1/8", 215pp., illustrated with 26 multi-part plates with captioned tissue guards, 6 figures and 3 folding maps in rear pocket. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. "Personal copy", signed by author with annotations to the text in pencil. Very good.. Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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