Search Results: Titles starting with O from Forest Books

Cambridge: The University Press, 1916-18. 4to, 4 parts in two, [2], 83-117, [1]; [2], 15-52pp., presentation inscription to upper wrapper, 2 plates, orig. blue printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Ecology 1916-18.

Chicago: Shepard & Johnston, 1885. 8vo, 96pp., illustrated throughout, orig. pictorial wrappers, a very nice copy. "In presenting my annual catalogue of stock at Oaklawn for 1885, I have the pleasure of knowing that it possesses attractions never before offered in any stock catalogue. It contains descriptions and pedigrees of four hundred imported animals of the finest breeding and highest physical qualities, all recorded with their pedigrees in the Percheron Stud-Book of France, and also a list of nearly two thousand pure bred animals imported by me since 1872. Of the horses imported this year many were prize winners in France, several of them being of such superior quality that they attracted the attention of the famous artist, Rosa Bonheur, and were sent to her chateau to be sketched as models for a future picture."—Introduction.

London: Ridgway, [W. L. Gravas & Co., Printers], 1839. First Edition, 16pp., disbound. "The company planned to build a sewage system running parallel to the river and emptying below the city."—Cohen. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 31079.19; Cohen, p.331.

Tournier, Tunis. 1948. 4to, 364pp., 64 plates, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut. This fascicle is solely devoted to bookbinding, a further fascicle was issued in 1952 relating to the other subjects. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.

Philadelphia: Published by Kimber and Conrad, William Fry, Printer, 1814. First American edition, 12mo, text slightly browned, 120pp., disbound. This is not Bakewell the sheep-breeder, but the geologist. Bakewell was probably one of the Quakers and wool-staplers of that name in Nottingham. As a schoolboy he amused himself with construction of telescopes, and being amongst wools looked at them under a microscope. He afterwards speculated as to the effects of soil and food upon them and published this work, while living in Wakefield. After writing this book he confined himself to mineralogy and geology.

Re-printed by Desire of the Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor, by W. Watson and Son, Dublin. 1803. 24pp., recent marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. No other copy located.

London: Printed and Published by William Phillips, 1818. First edition, 8vo, [2], vii, [1], 60pp., cont. calf, cloth reback. Provenance: bookplate and a couple of neat stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

London: Printed for J. Harding, 1808. Second edition, 8vo, 22pp., disbound. First published in 1800, no copies of this second edition located.

Crowborough: [s.n.], 1885. Single, folded, sheet (290 x 210mm), lower bottom left-hand corner cut away (effecting one word), inner margin frayed. Not listed on Copac. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1804. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 342, [16, index]pp., presentation inscription, title page slightly browned, 10 engraved plates of which 2 are folding, marbled endpapers, contemporary diced calf with red morocco spine gilt decorated and lettered direct, a nice copy. Provenance: Presentation inscription to title page "June 1816, Eyre Evans, the gift of Emma Mansell", Small oval stamp on endpapers of the Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1769. Fourth edition, [2], 155, [1]pp., disbound.

Taunton: Printed for the Author, by J. W. Marriott, 1828. First edition, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), [4], viii, 77, [1], 4, 10pp., including two addenda, 'Hydrophobic Syringe' & 'Horse Provender', half-title, one engraved plate 'Hydrophobic Injection', recent morocco-backed patterned paper boards, spine gilt lettered direct. Henry Sully was surgeon to Wiveliscombe Infirmiary and to the Duke of Cumberland. This work records a number of local rabies cases and repeats directions given earlier by Somerset doctors that the effects of rabies can be prevented if the saliva is wiped away and the bite thoroughly washed. Washing the wound with antiseptic is still the first treatment for rabies. The understanding of rabies did not progress until Louis Pasteur published 'Sur la Rage' in 1881. The article on Horse Provender is about Sully's system for feeding horse chaff via a chute from a loft above the stable.

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817.]. Large 8vo, viii, 312pp., LACKING TITLE PAGE, 4 copper engraved plates, cont. half calf, marbled boards.

London: Printed and Published by Bunney, and Gold, [c. 1798]. First edition, 8vo, [2], 66pp., disbound. ESTC cites the Lambeth Palace Library copy only.

Leeds: Printed by Thomas Gill, and sold by E. Hargrove, Knaresbro' and Harrogate; Binns, Leeds; Todd, York; and all other booksellers, [1791]. First Edition, half-title, [5], vi, 45, [3]pp., preface dated: April 1, 1791, advertisement leaf at end, modern marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover, a nice copy. The ESTC does not call for a half-title, and the advertisement leaf states "Soon will be published, Price 1s. 6d. Experiments and Observations on the Crescent Water at Harrogate. By. T. Garnett,....." Not in Blake or the Wellcome Library. The ESTC locates copies at the British Library, Leeds, Bodleian, York Minster, McMaster, Countway Library of Medicine and the University of California.

Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour and Clarke, 1818. First edition, xvi, [2], 180 [i.e. 170]pp., quarter calf, orig. boards, rubbed, spine worn and chipped. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

London: Printed for the Author, by M. Vint; and sold by E. Newbery; Shepperson and Reynolds; W. Richardson; and G. Burnett, [N.d., c.1789]. First edition, 8vo (215 x 125 mm), [2], ii, vii, [1], [9]-92pp., title page a little browed, modern boards. The author presents to the public his concoction of Fixible Air, and Artificial Mineral Water, which he calls Aqua Salubris, or Salubrious Water, claiming cures or relief of many common diseases. The solution is made up of a mixture of distilled water, oil of vitriol, powdered marble and air, which is boiled in a glass apparatus. The resulting 'tonic' is made more palatable by mixing it with wines or other fermented liquors, helping in the cure of rheumatism, gout, gall stones, bloody urine, scurvy, hypochondria and other nervous complaints. The final leaf gives addresses where Aqua Salubris is available and supplied, including that of Mrs. Elizabeth Newbery, widow of Francis, publishers, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-yard. Wellcome,… Read More

London: Printed for R. Franklin, 1730. Pirated edition?, half-title, 31, [1]pp., disbound. Possibly a pirated edition printed at Dublin. An attack on Sir Robert Walpole's "Observations upon the Treaty between the crowns of Great Britain, France,....". Kress, 3381; Goldsmith, 6821.

London: Printed by Joseph Bonsor, 1838. First and only edition, 7, [1]pp., disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress, no. 30340.

London: Printed for J. Callow... by G. Hayden, 1809. Second edition, 8vo (215 x 130 mm), vii, [1], 345, [1] + 6pp., of publishers' adverts, text woodcut of Haslam's 'Key', small hole to upper blank margin of title page, faint unobtrusive ink library stamp, later plum cloth. "Haslam considered the enlarged second edition... to be his magnum opus; it remained a standard work for several years. This edition includes an illustration of Haslam's infamous "key," an instrument used to force patients' mouths open to receive food, medicine, etc.; the key was intended as an improvement to earlier methods of artificial feeding, as it preserved the patients' teeth."—Hook & Norman. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hook & Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library I, 1015; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 632-636; Wellcome III, p. 221; Garrison-Morton, 4794 (first edition).