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London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995. (UK) Presumed First Edition No markings, Fine; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Green cloth with gold spine titles to burgundy title block, v, 276pp.. This is Volume V in a ten volume set on Actuarial Science. This volume deals with material drawn from the 17th to early 20th centuries which bears on the study of Life Insurance which include Tonti's Edict of the King for the creation of the society of the royal tontine; Wagstaffe's Proposals for subscriptions of money; Hartley's A letter for a Perpetual Assurance; Dodson's First Lectures on Insurance etc. The material is printed as facsimiles from the original texts.A heavy book. (2.6 JM PL4. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995. (UK) Presumed First Edition No markings, Fine; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Green cloth with gold spine titles to burgundy title block, v, 300pp, index. This is Volume IX in a ten volume set on Actuarial Science. This volume deals with material drawn from the 18th to early 20th centuries which bears on the study of Health and Sickness insurance which include Richard Price Observations on Reversionary Payments; Highland Society of Scotland Report on Friendly or Benefit Societies; Bradfield Union Benefit Society, Rules and Tables of Assurance; Gustav Ncolas Hubbard, On the Organisation of Provident Societies; August Wiegand, The Mathematical Basis of Railway Pension Funds; Alfred William Watson, Sickness and Mortality Experience of the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity Friendly Society. The material is printed as facsimiles from the original texts. (2.0 JM PL 4. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995. (UK) Presumed First Edition No markings, Fine; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Green cloth with gold spine titles to burgundy title block, v, 393pp, index. This is Volume X in a ten volume set on Actuarial Science. This volume deals with material drawn from the 18th to early 20th centuries which bears on the study of estimation of rates, which include Charles Brand's Tables of Interest, Discount, Annuities; Morgan's Appendix to a view of the rise and Progress of the Equitsble Society; Woolhouse's Investigation of Mortality in the Indian Army and also On Interpolation Summation and the Adjustment of Numerical Tables, etc. The material is printed as facsimiles from the original texts. A heavy book (2.5 JM PL 4. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995. (UK) Presumed First Edition No markings, Fine; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Green cloth with gold spine titles to burgundy title block, v, 391pp.. This is Volume VIII in a ten volume set on Actuarial Science. This volume deals with material drawn from the 18th to early 20th centuries which bears on the study of Multiple Decrement ans Multiple State Models which include Bernoulli's A new analysis of the mortality caused by smallpox; Lambert's The mortality of smallpox in children; Duvillard's, Analysis and Tables of the influence of smallpox on mortality; Cournot's Exposition of the theory of Chance and Probability, etc. The material is printed as facsimiles from the original texts. A heavy book. (2.4 JM PL04. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995. (UK)Presumed First Edition No markings, Fine; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Green cloth with gold spine titles to burgundy title block, v, 436pp. This is Volume III in a ten volume set on Actuarial Science. This volume deals with material drawn from the 18th century which bears on the history of Life Insurance Mathematics: De Moivre's Annuities on Lives; Hayes's A New Method for Valuing of Annuities upon Lives; De Moivre's The Doctrine of Chances; Simpson's, The Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions; Simpson's Select Exercises for Young proficients in the Mathematics; Dodson's The Mathematical Repository; Price's Observations on Reversionary Payments. The material is printed as facsimiles from the original texts. A heavy book (2.5 JM PL04. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995. (UK) Presumed First Edition No markings, there is an indentation and a bump to the lower front corner, not breaking the cloth, bump to top front cover corner tip, thus Very Good ; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Green cloth with gold spine titles to burgundy title block, v, 276pp.. This is Volume VII in a ten volume set on Actuarial Science. This volume deals with material drawn from the 17th to early 20th centuries which bears on the study of Investment and Risk which include Castaing'sThe course of Exchange and other things; Daubuz's Broker's List of stock prices; Bailey's On the principles on which the funds of life assurance societies should be invested; Bacheller's Theory of Speculation, , etc. The material is printed as facsimiles from the original texts. (1.9 JM PL 04. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Paris: Editions J. Lanore, 1998. (FR) No markings, Very Good. Wraps, 221pp, index. Lots of colour photos throughout show how to make flowers and other food decoration out of fruit and vegetables, how to present lobster, crab, shrimp. (2.8 JM HOJ 301/4. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967. (UK) Third Edition Pen notations to fewer than 15 pages, tight soild copy Good copy because of the marking in Very Good dust jacket with slight darkening of the spine. Red cloth, liv, 333pp. An anthology with works in French by Baudelaire, Charles Gos, Mallarme, Verlaine, Corbiere, Lautremont, Rimbaud, Moreas, Laforgue, Maeterlinck, de Regnier, Toulet, Jammes, Claudel, Valery, Peguy, Jarry, Jacob, Fargue, Apollinaire, Superville, Romains, Jouve, Perse, Reverdy, Cocteau, Eluard, Breton, Tzara, and others. (1.8 JM HOQ 100/3. 3rd. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Hutchinson, 1959. (UK) "First publication 1959". No markings, Near Fine in unclipped Fair dustjacket with chip to head of spine and edges of dust jacket rubbed. DJ is in mylar sleeve. Green cloth, 291pp. Hadfield was known as the eidtor of The Saturday Book and for his anthologies A Book of Beauty and A Book of Delights, but he is bst known for this work, his first novel, a comedic romance in an "uninhibitedly arcadian way". (1.5 JM HOQ 103/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Acceptable. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Ward Lock & Co Limited, 1910. (UK) No markings, the front hinge shows repairs to cracked paper, rear hinge is solid, some rubbing to cover edges,faint soiling to covers, Good; no dust jacket as published. Green cloth with title and pictorial in brick red, chamfered cover edges, black end papers, tissue-protected colour frontis, B&W illus in text and some colour plates, iv, 818pp. Bound as six monthly issues without the original covers and ads but with an index. The Jan 1910 has an 8-page article by H. Rider Haggard entitled "The Romance of the Nile". A heavy book. (5.0 JMLVR 201/b4. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Periodical.

London: Ward Lock & Co Limited, 1910. (UK) No markings, hinges solid, some rubbing to cover edges,faint soiling to covers, Good; no dust jacket as published. Green cloth with title and pictorial in brick red, chamfered cover edges, black end papers, tissue-protected colour frontis, B&W illus in text and six colour plates, vi, 734pp. Bound as six monthly issues without the original covers and ads but with an index. The Nov 1910 has a story by Warwick Deeping entitled "Swords before Tongues". This is a collection of fiction, verse and articles, A heavy book. (5.0 JMLVR 201/b4. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Periodical.

San Francisco: VIZ Graphic Novel, 1997. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine. Wraps, no page numbers, [208pp]. B&W comic type illu. SCIENCE FICTION WITH A ROMANTIC TWIST This science fiction trilogy is a "prime" example of shojo manga, a unique literary genre of Japanese comics in which the relationships between the characters are as meticulously crafted as the story's action. The Stories of A, A' revolve around the relationships between humans and a genetically engineered race of people called "Unicorns", whose personal struggles become a moving metaphor for humanity's alienation in the modern age. Born in 1949, Moto Hari began her manga career in 1969 and has created numerous masterpieces, including "Poe's Clan", "The Heart of Toma" and her science fiction mini-series "They Were Eleven" (1.4 PAR HOZ 402/b1. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Hagio, Moto. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 1993. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "To P--- & H----/ with regards/ Alan Haig-Brown", no other markings, , Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 200pp, index, B&W photos of boat and fishers. (2.9 JM HOJ 301/5. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Malaysia: Universiti Brunei Darussalam , 1993. (MALAY) 2nd printing, 1993. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "His Excellermcy Mr. Gardiner J. Wilson , Mrs Suchitra Wilson and Family/ With best wishes/ Tinggal, 29th July 1999, the Author", no other markings, the covers are very slightly bowed, otherwise Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with one closed edge tear; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Yellow cloth, 148pp, index, colour photos throughout. This monograph on fruits in Brunei was written by a professor of biology at the University of Brunei. The photo are quite good. The text is breif and there is no information on how to use or eat the fruit. The text is in English. A heavy book (3.5 JM LVR 200/b6. Inscribed By Author. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Yerevan [Russia]: Sovetakan Grogh Publishing House, 1978. (RUS) No markings, spine slant, otherwsie VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD DJ with 1" closed tear to top edge, in mylar sleeve. Burgundy leather over boards with gold titles, [272]pp. 100 full-page colour plates of reproductions of Amenian religious art and artifacts. Text in Armenia(?), Russian, and in English. Uncommon work with nicely-produced plates. (4.5 JM lvr 206/a6. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Singapore: Archipelago Press, 1995. (SING) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, but there is a faint spot the size of a bean to the front cover, thus Fine(-) in Fine(-) dust jacket. Boards, 528pp. over 800 illus including 112 pages in full colour referencing some 3000 artists who worked in or about Indonesia between 1600 to 1950. A heavy book, (5.5 JM HOJ 300/5. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, very light rubbing to cover gloss, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, xxx,311pp, index,diagrams.. This book id devoted to the use of embedded real time computing systems to control industrial, medical, scientific, consumer, enviromental, and other processes. (2.6 JM LVR 205/1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Philadelphia: T.B. Petersen, 1857. (USA) First Edition Owner's inscription to the yellow endpaper and also to top of the preface, no other markings, small edge tear to page 13 / 14, the hinges are solid but the signatures are slightly misaligned, one signature is loose but still attached by the original sewn thread, the covers are clean with some rubbing to spine extremities, there are three tiny holes to the front spine gutter, the spine titles are bright and readable, overall about Good, given its age. 19 x 12.5 cm, brown blind emboseed boards with gold title titles, yellow endpapers printed with ads, 721pp, index [1] blank, 12pp of publisher's ads. Hale was a widow with five yound chidlren on her hands when she turned to writing to support herself. After the success of her novel Northwood (1827) she became the editor of Ladies Magazine and still later the editor of Gosley's Ladies Magazine, the most successfull women's periodical of its time. This compilation of useful… Read More

NY: Oxford University Press, 1990. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in price-clipped Fine dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Boards, 377pp, index, No illus. From the DJ: The anecdotes presented here-touching on almost 200 painters and sculptors-show what these artists were like, how they responded to the world, and how their work is a reflection of themselves. Here is the fabled romantic life of Belle Epoch Paris, with Picasso and Braque ("Almost every evening, either I went to Braque's studio or Braque came to mine....A painting wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was"), Suzanne Valadon parading the streets of Paris with a nosegay of lettuce and live snails, and Yves Tanguy's wife hurling a forkful of fish at her husband's mistress, Peggy Guggenheim. And there are the stories of the Cedar Bar crowd-Pollock's legendary drinking, the famous softball games in East Hampton, and de Kooning's working method ("I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it… Read More

Scotland: Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, 1996. (UK) No markings, Near Fine. Wraps, 422pp, index. diagrams. General Relativity provides an unusually broad survey of the current state of this field. Chapters on mathematical relativity cover many topics, including initial value problems, a new approach to the partial differential equations of physics, and work on exact solutions. The chapters on relativistic cosmology and black holes explore cosmology. Other chapters deal with gravitational waves, experimental relativity, quantum gravity, and aspects of computing in relativity. The book will be useful both to postgraduates and to established workers in the field. (2.0 JM HOJ 300/b1. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".