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REPORT OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
No author listed.
Stock no. 985352
Published by John Murray. 1850. Slightly better than good condition.

Includes: Luminous Meteors; Nebuli; Influence of Carbonic Acid Gas on the Health of Plants; The Heat of Combination; Vitality of Seeds; Railway Bar Corrosion; Electrical Observations. Pages: xlvi, 144, 11, 6, plates + 8. Original paper boards. Pages uncut. 10 plates, 5 folding. Boards marked and stained. Backstrip missing and thus front joint fragile. Text block browned. Top edge of pages uncut. Contents lightly browned but generally clean. Hinges pulled but binding holding.

SALMONIA: OR DAYS OF FLY FISHING
Written by Humphry Davy.
Stock no. 988552
Published by John Murray. 1832. Very good condition.

In a Series of Conversations with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo by an Angler - Third edition. Pages: xiii, 335. Contemporary three-quarters blue leather binding; raised bands and gilt-lettered black moroco label on spine. 6 engraved plates plus 3 fly plates. No author named, but is Sir Humphry Davy. Contents very good. In handsome modern binding. REDUCED from £120.