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THE EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: REPORT OF THE BRITISH MISSION TO JAPAN
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827253
Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

On August 6th, 1945, an American Super-Fortress flying at 30,000 feet dropped a single atomic bomb over the Japanese mercantile city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped over the industrial city of Nagasaki. The British Mission which spent the month of November, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki gives this report which tells what as seen and what could be learnt three months after the bombing. Cream paperwraps with blue title to front. Staple binding. 21 pages plus b/w photos. Covers a little grubby, corners a little worn/creased. Contents clean.

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THE ALGEBRA OF INVARIANTS
Written by J.H. Grace; A. Young.
Stock no. 1326643
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

Olive green cloth with gilt title to spine. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some marks and scuffs to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some marks and foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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HOOF PROBLEMS
Written by Rob Van Nassau.
Stock no. 1326411
Published by Kenilworth Press. 1st 2007. Good condition.

Hoof Construction; Trimming and Shoeing; Hoof Problems and Solutions. With the aid of over 1000 colour photographs, internationally renowned farrier Rob van Nassau looks at every aspect of hoof care, and describes in detail more than fifty common foot problems. Pictorial glazed boards. ISBN: 9781905693009. Spine and corners bumped and worn with split to top front edge of spine. Contents fine.

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ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS
Written by Herbert Cescinsky; Malcolm R. Webster. Illustrated by Herbert Cescinsky; Malcolm R. Webster.
Stock no. 1826994
Published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd.. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A classic account of the clock styles and types made in England from the late seventeenth century to the nineteenth. Originally published in 1913 by George Routledge and Sons Limited, this is the new edition. Large format. White cloth boards, green title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0600008975. Text block and endpapers browned. Relatively minor dampstain to vertical margins (edge of page). White pictorial dustwrapper is browned and a little grubby. Slight musty odour present.

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FLOUR MANUFACTURE: A TREATISE ON MILLING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
Written by Friedrich Kick; H.H.P. Powles.
Stock no. 1826854
Published by Crosby Lockwood and Son. 2nd 1888. Almost very good condition.

Translated from the Second Enlarged and Revised Edition with Supplement by H.H.P. Powles also bound in. Illustrated with 24 fold-out plates plus another 4 fold-out plates to supplement. 113 woodcuts plus 54 woodcuts to supplement. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Text block untrimmed. Spine & board corners rubbed & worn. Cloth joints starting to split from the outside. Inner joints still firm. Text block and page edges a little browned. All plates present. A few finger marks to margins. Some dampstaining to some plates.

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TECHNICS OF FLOUR MILLING: A HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS
Written by W. Halliwell.
Stock no. 1826848
Published by The Northern Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st 1898. Almost very good condition.

Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to front. B/w illustrations and diagrams. Boards a little scuffed and marked. Rear joint pulled. Endpapers and text block browned. Some black powder spots to prelims and rear endpapers. A few margin marks.

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A HISTORY OF THE CALICO PRINTING INDUSTRY OF GREAT BRITAIN
Written by Geoffrey Turnbull.
Stock no. 1826846
Published by John Sherratt & Son. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Calico printing is cloth printed with simple designs in one or more colours. A combination of many highly technical processes. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Uneven fading to top & tail of spine. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Green patterned dustwrapper is heavily edge-worn with loss to corners.

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PRACTICAL PAPER-MAKING
Written by George Clapperton.
Stock no. 1826831
Published by Crosby Lockwood and Son. 1st 1894. Very good condition.

A Manual for Paper-Makers and Owners and Managers of Paper Mills to which are appended useful tables, calculations, data, etc. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations reproduced from micro-photographs. Top & tail of spine lightly worn. Page browning. Some hinges pulled but binding is tight.

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FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES: SELECT PROCEEDINGS OF FLEXEV-2021
Written by Sanjeet Dwivedi; Sanjeev Singh; Manish Tiwari; Ashish Shrivastava.
Stock no. 1826725
Published by Springer. 1st 2023. Slightly better than very good condition.

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 863. This book compiles the refereed papers presented during the 2nd Flexible Electronics for Electric Vehicles (FlexEV-2021). Red glazed boards. Colour & b/w charts and diagrams. ISBN: 9789811905872. Board corners lightly scuffed. Text block slightly grubby. Boards lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY AND THE BROWN TROUT
Written by J.M. Elliott.
Stock no. 1826715
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution. A synthesis of quantitative information on the ecology of the brown trout, including sea-trout, and comparisons with closely related species such as Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon, and rainbow trout. Cardwraps. ISBN: 0198540906. Light browning to covers. Light rubbing to corners. Contents clean.

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HONEY BEE BIOLOGY AND BEEKEEPING
Written by Dewey M. Caron.
Stock no. 1826678
Published by Wicwas Press. 2nd 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

Second Edition. This book explains bee biology, what bees do, and provides the tools which make it possible for an individual to successfully manage bee colonies. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos, diagrams, charts and illustrations. ISBN: 1878075098. SIGNED by the author (with personal dedication) to verso of front endpaper. Rear board lightly scuffed and small sticky patch (label removal?). A few minor knocks to board edges. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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AIRSHIP TECHNOLOGY
Written by G.A. Khoury; J.D. Gillett.
Stock no. 1826661
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st thus 2004. Very good condition.

Providing a unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation. Cambridge Aerospace Series 10. Blue cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. A physical copy of a print on demand item, printed by Lightning Source UK Ltd. ISBN: 0521607531. Covers lightly bowed, lightly rubbed at corners, a little scuffed. Text block a little grubby. Otherwise contents clean.

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