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Birds and Their Ways

By: Armstrong, Jessie F

Price: £42.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein and Co: 1886

Seller ID: 004429

This is a very rare bird book, written for children, and illustrated with 10 full-page and 6 text wood engravings of birds. octavo 19 by 13 cms. (7.5 by 5 inches) Text of 137 pages. Original pictorial cloth, gilt edges. It's not listed in any of the standard bibliographies of bird books and there is currently no other copy listed online. It's undated but the publishers, Swan Sonnenschein, list it in their catalogue for 1886. A very clean copy, firm and sound in the covers, no internal marks Signature inside front cover, a few very small and faint spots to the cover-see photo, corners bent, ...
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Fresh-Water Aquaria Their Construction, Arrangement, And Management.........

By: Bateman, Rev. Gregory C

Price: £34.00

Publisher: London, L Upcott Gill: 1890

Seller ID: 004471

octavo 19 by 13 cms. (7.5 by 5.25 inches)Text of 316 pages including the index plus 16 pages of advertisments bound in at the rear. Many text illustrations throughout. Original decorative green cloth boards and decorated end papers. The title page has some foxing and there is light foxing to several other pages. Rear inner hinge cracked with webbing showing but the binding firm and sound, inscription on the half title
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Wild Flowers of the Ceylon Hills

By: Bond, Thomas

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1953

Seller ID: 003592

octavo (22 by 14.8 cms) text of 240 pages including index, with a coloured frontispiece, illustrated throughout with line drawings, mainly full-page, original cloth in unclipped dust wrapper, signature on front end-paper, small mark on front of dust jackt which has a few signs of use otherwise a nice clean copy £18.00
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School of the Woods. Some Life studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training

By: Long William J

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Boston, Ginn and company: 1903

Seller ID: 003390

square octavo (8 by 5.8 inches) text of 364 pages, illustrated throughout with full-page and text illustrations by Charles Copeland, original decorative green cloth. very slight lean, ink name and date on front end-paper otherwise an unusually bright, clean and sound copy
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The Geology of the Country near Saffron Walden

By: Osborne White, H J

Price: £26.00

Publisher: London, HMSO: 1932

Seller ID: 003587

large slim octavo 24.5 by 15 cms text of 125 pages including index plus 2 leaves of advertisements illustrated with 3 plates of photographs, 2 folding charts and 15 text illustrations, original printed boards which are damp mottled and rubbed at the corners but a clean, sound and complete copy £26.00
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