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Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan by Kaempfer, Engelbert - 1980
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Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan
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Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1980. FINE four-volume set in Near Fine custom leatherette folding case with leather ties. #37 of 500 Limited Edition. A deluxe facsimile of the Lemgo 2-volume edition of 1777 / 79, prepared by Christian Wilhelm Dohm from Kaempfer's original manuscript, complete with folded plates. Also, the folio of B/W botanical plates "Icones Selectae Plantarum, quas in Japonia Collegit et Delineavit Engelbertus Kaempfer" edited by Joseph Banks (London, 1791). A fourth volume of commentary, includes the bibliographical discussion of works on Japan before Kaempfer, by Johann Caspar Scheuchzer; new essays on Kaempfer's role in the European Enlightenment; a printing history of his work on Japan; and a view of Kaempfer from the perspective of Japanese studies. Numerous illustrations and plates (many folding). Books bound in three quarter-leather and marbled boards. Four volumes, 8° and 4°, all in original tissue wrappers, all Fine in Near Fine, slightly shelf rubbed case. In German. A heavy set requiring additional postage for overseas or priority mailing.. Half-Leather. Near Fine/Boxed Set. Facsimile Reprint.
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A CABINET OF QUADRUPEDS WITH HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTIONS. Complete in Two Volumes
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Genera plantarum eorumque characteres naturales, secundùm numerum, figuram, situm & proportionem omnium fructificationis partium. Editio sextaab auctore reformata et aucta [With the rare portrait]
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Holmiae: Laurentii Salvii, 1764. Title page printed in red and black, pp xx, 580, [42], + 1 leaf of errata & emendada, a little general age-toning of the pages but remarkably clean and sound internally, marbled endpapers, contemporary speckled calf, lined in gilt, dentelles in gilt, a litlte worn ( mainly at the corners), spine ornate gilt with raised bands, rubbed and a bit more worn, black leather title label lacking a corner, joints cracking but still holding well. With the large folding portrait, a bit creased, which Soulsby mentions is only found in some copies. [Soulsby 305.]. Full-Leather. Good.
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The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants. Containing all such English and Foreign Herbs, Shrubs and Trees as are used in Physick and Surgery....also directions for making compound-waters, syrups, electuaries, pills, powders...gums, balsams, oils, juices .
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The Red Lion in St Paul's Churchyard, London: R. & J. Bonwicke, 1707. "The Second edition, with the addition of many physical herbs and their vertues". 12mo (measures 165mm x 105mm), pp (6), 349, (29) (though errors in pagination mean that there are actually 411 pages of main text), slightly used and marked throughout, contemporary panelled calf, dull and cracke but very sound, early repairs to the corners, fairly recently rebacked with new calf spine, raised bands and title label. RARE. [Blanche Henrey 288.]. Second edition. Full-Leather. Good.
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A General History Of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved On Wood by Thomas Bewick
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Newcastle Upon Tyne: S. Hodgson et al., 1792. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. Bewick, Thomas. 483 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. First published 1790, GORDON RAY 49 notes, "Bewick faithfully depicted each quadruped in proper sequence. Exotic animals like the lion and the hippopotamus, which he drew from books, may be unconvincing, but he never fails with dogs, sheep, and cats, which he drew from life." Original price six shillings in boards. Index. Mild scattered toning, generally clean, corners rubbed.
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Plain and Full Instructions to Raise all Sorts of Fruit-trees in England. Second edition, revised and enlarged in many places; together with an addition of two intire chapters of Greens and Green-houses
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Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard: Richard Chiswell, 1696. Second edition. Illustrated with one engraved plate only (of two - lacking one plate), 12mo, pp (30), 220, + publisher's advertisement of six pages, a bit age-toned and marked throughout, some staining in the lower margins towards the centre of the book, the plate rather marked and frayed, a tight copy. Original calf, a bit worn, lacking small portions of the lower cover, neatly rebacked with unlettered leather spine, new endpapers. RARE. [Blanche Henrey 216. Little is known of the author but the work, in its first edition, was highly praised by both John Evelyn and Samuel Gilbert. This second edition includes an extra chapter on evergreens and greenhouses; it also includes a catalogue of fruit trees and shrubs for sale from Brompton Park Nursery.]. Second edition. Half Leather. Good.
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A CABINET OF QUADRUPEDS WITH HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTIONS. Complete in Two Volumes
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Genera plantarum eorumque characteres naturales, secundùm numerum, figuram, situm & proportionem omnium fructificationis partium. Editio sextaab auctore reformata et aucta [With the rare portrait]
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The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants. Containing all such English and Foreign Herbs, Shrubs and Trees as are used in Physick and Surgery....also directions for making compound-waters, syrups, electuaries, pills, powders...gums, balsams, oils, juices .
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The Botanic Garden; A Poem in Two Parts. Part I, containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II - The Loves of the Plants
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St Paul's Churchyard, London: J. Johnson, 1791. Two volumes bound in one. [Volume 1 - Second edition, 1791. Volume 2 - Third edition, 1791. Blanche Henrey 470 ?]. Illustrated with two engraved allegorical frontispieces, 18 engraved plates (one of them folding and two hand-coloured), quarto, pp xii, 214, 126, (ii(; x, 197, both frontispieces and title pages browned and with some offsetting from plate to title, the plates of the Portland Vase and the Fertilisation of Egypt similar, (this last plate by Blake after Fuseli); the remaining botanical plates clean, lacking the corner of page 171/2, a releveant pencilled note at the base of one page, a few pages with foxing but otherwise very clean and sound internally, with the armorial bookplate of the Dowdeswell family, Pull Court Worcestershire on the front endpaper together with a shelf label and a small newspaper clipping; the hand-colouring on the two plates is particularly attractive, and there is also an extra engraved plate fixed to the verso of…
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Hippocrates upon air, water, and situation; upon epidemical diseases; and upon prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydides's account of the plague of Athens The whole translated & methodis'd......
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Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields: J. Watts, 1734. Octavo, title-page printed in red and black, LACKING THE PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE, pp [8], xxiv, [18], 389 [i], some age-toning throughout, the odd browning and fox spot but, overall, very clean and tight internally. Contemporary panelled calf, very neatly repaired and rebacked, the original spine laid down, a new morocco label, corners strengthened, new endpapers. [Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 - c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is often referred to as the "Father of Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized Ancient Greek medicine, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had traditionally been associated (theurgy and philosophy),…
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Geschichte Und Beschreibung Von Japan, II. Band: Aus Den Originalhandschriften Des Verfassers Herausgegeben Von Christian Wilhelm Dohm
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Stuttgart, Germany: F.A. Brockhaus, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 478pp.; HB lt.brwn.w/brwn.&gilt; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. Title trans.: "History and Description of Japan, Vol.II: Published From the Original Manuscripts of the Author, Christian Wilhelm Dohm" 27 reproductions of original works. in German.
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Geschichte Und Beschreibung von Japan. Aus den Originalhandschriften des Verfassers herausgegeben von Christian Wilhelm Dohm.
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Stuttgart.: Brockhaus.. 1982.. 2 volumes. Volume I: Folding map, lxviii + 310pp. Volume II: 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 1 folding plate, black and white full page plates, [8] + 478pp. Cloth, leather title labels spine, quarto. Small mark cloth upper cover, lettering on upper cover a little worn, a very good set. Facsimile of the first German edition. .
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Polynesian Triangle
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
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