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Cambridge in the age of the Enlightenment: Science , religion and politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution
by Gascoigne, John
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- First Edition
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- 1989
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- Hardcover
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- 9780521351393
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989. 8vo. xii, 358 pp. Hardcover in jacket. Light spotting to top and fore edges, otherwise internally clean. Through a study on Cambridge, Gascoigne investigates the diffusion of the chief characteristics of the Engligtenment in English society, including the Establishment and the Church of England. Review copy. VG to NF. 0521351391 . Very Good. Hardcover. First… Read more about this item Item Price
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The English Physician Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, That were not in any Impression until This. Being an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation, containing a complete Method of Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health or cure himself, being Sick, for Three-pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies.
by Culpepper, Nicholas
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- 1801
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£250.00
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London: Printed for J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, W. Lowndes and J. Barker [1801]. 12mo. [xii], 348 pp. Rebound in brown half calf over marbled boards; red title label and gilt lettering and devices to spine with raised bands. Light spotting to text throughout. Short biography of Culpeper (spelt Culpepper on title page) written in ink at prelims. This work covers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Drugs in Modern Society
by Imlah, Norman
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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- 9780225489293
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£30.00
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London: Geoffrey Chapman 1970. 8vo. First Edition. [v], 147 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped jacket. Wear to jacket edges, including area of loss at top edge. Internally clean. 0225489295 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1970. Item Price
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Six Inches of Soil: How to Heal our Soils , Ourselves and Our Communities through Regenerative Farming
by Foster, Molly ; Kalia, Priya ; Toynbee, Jeremy
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- As New
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- 2024
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- Card Covers
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- 9781917159005
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£25.00
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Essex: 5M Books Ltd 2024. 8vo. xii, 348 pp. Illustrated softcover with photographic paste-downs. 'How has it come to this point in history that we hardly value the food we eat and the soil that it's grown in?' This book addresses the ecological costs of industrial farming: how it has impacted animals, the environment, farmers and the way we eat.… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Treatise Concerning The Origin and Progress of Fees; or, The Constitution and Transmission of Heritable Rights: Being a Supplement to Spotiswood's Introduction to the Knowledge of the Stile of Writs
by [Mackenzie, James & John Spottiswoode]
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- 1734
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£295.00
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Edinburgh: Printed by T. and W. Ruddimans 1734. 8vo. First Edition. xii, 276 pp. Contemporary full calf with raised bands, red title label and gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and minor wear to extremities. Ink ownership mark at prelims and light and infrequent foxing, though overall quite clean. 18 cms tall, 12 cms wide, though technically a… Read more about this item Item Price
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On the Origin of Species
by Darwin, Charles
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- 1920
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- Full Leather
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London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press ca. 1920. 12mo. 524 pp. Full maroon leather with gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge gilt. With frontis portrait and an engraved title page. Spine faded with some creasing to the leather and light rubbing to the edges. Some spotting to the contents pages and extremities. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1920. Item Price
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The Theory of Experimental Electricity
by Whetham, William Cecil Dampier
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- 1912
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£48.00
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1912. Tall 8vo. xi, 340 pp. Green calf prize binding by Howell of Liverpool. Emblem of Liverpool Collegiate School to front board with gilt ruling, floral devices and an embossed decorative border. Raised bands, gilt decorative tooled design and red title label with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bookplate of award to front pastedown from… Read more about this item Item Price
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Human Nature and the Limits of Science
by Dupre, John
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001. 8vo. x, 201 pp. Black hardback in pictorial jacket. Small dent to tail of spine end and some creasing to top edge of jacket. Internally as new. A bold corrective to scientism in the modern world - the exaggerated conception of what science can do for us. John Dupre is a Professor of Philosophy of Science… Read more about this item Item Price
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Silent Spring
by Carson, Rachel
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- Reprint
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- 1971
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- Paperback
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£20.00
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Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin Books Ltd 1971. 12mo. 317 pp. Paperback. Fading and creasing to spine, with minor rubbing to covers. Internally clean. Introduction by Lord Shackleton and a preface by Julian Huxley. Carson's great challenging work on insecticides and environmental protection. . Good. Paperback. Reprint. 1971. Item Price
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The Young Mechanic; Being Incidents and Lectures Explanatory of The First Principles of Mechanics, with Some Account of the Most Celebrated Engines, Ancient and Modern
by Lever, Francis
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- 1835
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- Leather Spine
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London: John Harris 1835. Small Square 8vo. frontis., [4], 252 pp. Leather spine over cloth board, with gilt lettering to spine. Some wear to extremities, including loss at top of spine. Light scattered foxing and ink ownership mark to ffep. Includes a number of engraved plates of various machines and structures. 14 cms tall. . Good. Leather Spine. 1835. Item Price
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Outlines of British Geology, Chiefly Intended to Illustrate the Geology of England and Wales, with Some Notice of that of Scotland and Ireland. To Which is Appended, a Glossary of Terms Used in Geology and Minerology.
by [British Geology]
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- 1850
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- Publisher's Cloth
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£125.00
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London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1850. Small 8vo. xii, 305 pp. Hand coloured folding map frontis, and chart at rear, with wood engravings throughout. Cloth with blind stamped decoration to boards and gilt lettering to spine. Wear and bumping to extremities, particularly at spine, which has darkened. Light marking to binding. Folding pages have wear to fore-edges. Pencil… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elements of Botany: or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables
by Barton, Benjamin Smith
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- First UK Edition
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- 1804
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- Half Morocco
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London: J. Johnson 1804. 8vo. First UK edition, following the first edition published in the United States in 1803. xii, [ii], 344, 35, plates. 30 hand-coloured plates, including frontis. Contemporary binding of half morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and wear, bumping to corners. Offsetting to ffep. from previous owner's bookplate. Occasional light foxing… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Origin of Species : By Means of Natural Selection. Thinker's Library, No. 8
by Darwin, Charles
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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London: Watts & Co. 1945. 12mo. viii, 434, [4 ads] pp. Red hardback. Some discolouration to edges of board and spine, dent to top spine end and minor wear to extremities. Some spotting to top edge and very occasionally inside but otherwise a clean copy. A nice pocket edition of Darwin's classic text on evolution, with a glossary and index… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Smoake of London - Fumifugium. Now reissued as an old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean Museum, which, like ' Fumifugium,' was dedicated to King Charles II, founder of the Royal Society - Fumifugium: Or, The Incovenience of the Aer, and Smoake of London Dissipated. Together With some Remedies humbly proposed [...] To His Sacred Majestie, and To the Parliament now Assembled.
by Evelyn, John
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- Very Good
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- 1930
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£75.00
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Oxford: Old Ashmolean Reprints 1930. 8vo. [iii], viii, 50 pp. Green cloth in a pictorial jacket. Chipping to jacket extremities. Boards clean, light spotting to fore-edge and prelims but otherwise internally clean. A facsimile of a work originally published in 1661 about the air pollution in London, still considered a milestone in the science. . Very Good. Cloth. 1930. Item Price
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High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs
by Kowl, Andrew [ed.]
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- Second Printing
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- 1978
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- Illustrated Paper Covers
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New York: Stonehill Publishing Company 1978. 4to. Second printing. xv, 417 pp. Colour illustrated paper covers. A few slight dents around covers, but generally externally clean. Clean and bright inside. Extensively illustrated with black & white photographs, cartoons, taxonomical pictures, etc., and several colour illustrations as well. A thoroughgoing book on all things drugs, documenting their social history, chemistry, effects,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of Colleges and Schools.
by Atkinson, E. [trans. ed.] ; Ganot, Adolphe
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- 1883
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- Gilt-decorated Calf
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£140.00
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1883. 8vo. xiii, 1005 pp. Full brown calf prize binding with raised bands, brown title label, gilt lettering and decorations to spine and gilt borders and device to boards; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Rubbing to extremities, and marks to boards and spine. Light spotting throughout. Black & white illustrations and diagrams throughout, colour frontispiece… Read more about this item Item Price
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On Dreams
by Freud, Sigmund ; Strachey, James (trans)
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- Very Good
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- First Edition Thus
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- 1952
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- Cloth
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London: The Hogarth Press 1952. 8vo. First edition thus. 80 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustjacket. Some minor wear to edges of jacket. Ink ownership inscription to first free endpaper, but otherwise in lovely clean condition. . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 1952. Item Price
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Lettsom: His Life, Times, Friends and Descendants
by Abraham, James Johnston
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- 1933
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- Gilt-decorated Boards
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London: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd 1933. Small 4to. xx, 498 pp. Hardcover with bevelled edges, gilt portrait to board and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Blue page ribbon. Boards have patches of light wear, though they are clean. Sunning to spine. Gilt bright. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise internally clean. High quality paper. A comprehensive biography of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall
by Bacon, Francis
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- 1908
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London: J. M. Dent and Co. 1908. 12mo.Prize Binding. ix, 243 pp. Half red-brown calf with gilt school crest to front board, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Francis Holland School for Girls prize binding, bound by Truslove & Hanson; bookplate to front pastedown. Slight wear and scratches to edges and joints. Spots to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Phrenology: The Language of the Mental Faculties. Definitions, Combinations. etc.
by Severn, J. Milliot
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- 1938
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- Gilt Lettered Cloth
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Brighton: Published by the Author [1938]. 8vo. xxii, 464 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to boards and spine. Rubbing to extremities, slight fading to spine and gilt, with a few minor marks. Offsetting and spots to first and last few pages, but otherwise internally clean. Black & white illustrations. A guide to phrenology, the idea - discredited as a… Read more about this item Item Price
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