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DICTIONARY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION
Written by Alan Jay Christensen.
Stock no. 1824435
Published by McGraw-Hill. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

A unique, comprehensive reference that defines the language of today's landscape architecture, planning, construction, and environmental science, covering specifics such as irrigation, plant science, soil science, wetlands, landscape ecology, horticulture, and land planning. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and sketches in the text. ISBN: 0071441425. Board corners lightly rubbed. Boards a little scuffed, top of spine bumped. Small knock to top rear edge of board. Text block a little grubby else contents clean.

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TELESCOPES AND ACCESSORIES (THE HARVARD BOOKS ON ASTRONOMY)
Written by George Z. Dimitroff; James G. Baker.
Stock no. 1824427
Published by The Blakiston Company. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

How man has learned through procedures and instruments of great power to analyze the universe in which he lives. Red cloth boards, gilt titles.B/w illustrations. Foxing mainly to endpapers and text block. Some pages may be slightly stuck together due to the glossy nature of the paper and damp (easily opened).

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CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE
Written by Richard Dawkins. Illustrated by Lalla Ward.
Stock no. 1824403
Published by Viking. 1996. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The combination of perfection and improbablity that is epitomised in the seemingly designed perfection living things. Black boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0670850187. Second printing. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. B/w plates were stuck together and now prised apart giving surface paper damage and also imprinting of the facing page. Minor foxing to text block. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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NATURE IN THE BALANCE: THE ECONOMICS OF DIVERSITY
Written by Dieter Helm; Cameron Hepburn.
Stock no. 1824084
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2014. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together conceptual and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, the policy instruments, and the institutions. The objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and to suggest how this very urgent problem should be addressed. Navy blue boards, gilt title to spine. Edited by Helm & Hepburn. ISBN: 9780199676880.

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UNIVERSAL: A GUIDE TO THE COSMOS
Written by Brian Cox; Jeff Forshaw.
Stock no. 2140969
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 2016. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Shiny silver covers with white titles. Some graphs and colour photos. ISBN: 9781846144363. Light bump to top of spine. Some edge-creasing and light scuffs to wrapper.

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SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM +2
No author listed.
Stock no. 2140968
Very good condition.

Card wraps. What appears to be a manual that went along with the computer of the same name. Some light edge-creasing. A few marks to outer page edges.

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AN ATLAS OF ASTRONOMY
Written by Robert Stawell Ball.
Stock no. 2140761
Published by George Philip & Son. 1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

xi pages + 57 pages of introduction + 72 plate pages, 17 page index to rear.. Original blue cloth binding with gilt decoration on boards and spine. Front cover shows signs of the Zodiac. All edges gilt. Spine and edges are browned, with bumping and a little chipping. Wear to cover corners. Joints are a little cracked; front joint is cracked and fragile. All plates present. Some foxing and browning to pages.

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NATURE IN IRELAND: A SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL HISTORY
Written by John Wilson Foster; Helena C.G. Chesney.
Stock no. 2140643
Published by The Lilliput Press. 1st IRELAND 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Dark grey boards with silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1874675295. Foxing to outer page edges. Photo pages are a little stuck together in places (From print/shiny surface). Wrapper is edge-creased.

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SEED DEVELOPMENT AND GERMINATION
Written by Jaime Kigel; Gad Galili.
Stock no. 2140442
Published by Marcel Dekker. Circa 1995. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed boards. 853 pages, including acknowledgements, references and index. ISBN: 0824792297. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine. Ex-lib. with minimal markings; one ink stamp to front endpaper. A few marks to outer page edges.

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THE EXTRAORDINARY BIOLOGY OF THE NAKED MOLE-RAT
Written by Rochelle Buffenstein; Thomas J. Park; Melissa M. Holmes.
Stock no. 2140381
Published by Springer. Circa 2021. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Series. ISBN: 9783030659424. Still in original shrink-wrap - UNOPENED! Couple of corners are lightly bumped.

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FOWLER'S MECHANICS' & MACHINISTS' POCKET BOOK 1922
Written by William H. Fowler.
Stock no. 2140307
Published by The Scientific Publishing Co.. 1922. Good condition.

Stiff card covers. 14th annual edition. B/w diagrams. A synopsis of practical rules for fitters, turners, millwrights, erectors, pattern makers, foundrymen, draughtsmen, apprentices, students, etc. etc Scuffing and marks to covers. Splitting to spine; chipping. Binding is starting to become weak. Page edge browning.

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A C MOTORS AND CONTROL GEAR
Written by A.J. Coker; E. Molloy.
Stock no. 2140305
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1942. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A practical work for installation engineers, contractors, plant engineers and works electricians. Green cloth with gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear along cover edges and to corners. Foxing and browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with tears and chips; some marks; ink stain to front panel.

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