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TRANSACTIONS OF THE MIDLAND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION WINTER SESSION OF 1864-5
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819468
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1865. Good condition.

Contents include: On Thor's Cave; On the Nest of the Ten Spined Stickleback; On the Embryo of the Pike; On the Jaw of the British Leopard; On some Peculiarities in the growth of the Hawthorn Tree; and much more. Pink cardwraps. 19 plates at rear. Writing in blue pencil to front cover, covers are unevenly faded and marked/grubby. Backstrip worn and front cover just starting to split from contents because of this. A little unobtrusive annotation to contents in pencil. Text block browned. Plates have some foxing present.

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MEMOIRS OF THE BELVOIR HOUNDS
No author listed.
Stock no. 2130942
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1867. Almost very good condition.

From Their Earliest Records to The Present Day. Green cloth with gilt title to spine and small vignette to front cover. Dedicated to His Grace The Duke of Rutland. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Marks to covers. Name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing and margin marks. Page edge creasing. Pencil annotations.

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NEW PICTURES IN OLD FRAMES
Written by Gertrude M. Bradley; Amy Mark. Illustrated by Gertrude M. Bradley.
Stock no. 2130744
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Mark + Moody Limited. 1894. Good condition.

Large format. Blue boards with gold titles and decorations. Being a Book of Verse for Girls & Boys. Written in Old French Forms. B/w illustrations. Uneven browning/fading to covers. 1.5" loss to paper cover at base of spine; 1" loss to top. Bumping and wear, with some chipping to corners and cover edges. Foxing is heaviest to endpapers, prelims, outer page edges and last few pages. 2" closed tear to half-title page.

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THE OLD CHURCH CLOCK
Written by Richard Parkinson; John Evans.
Stock no. 1814826
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Abel Heywood & Son Ltd.. 5th 1880. Good condition.

Fifth Edition. Edited with a Biographical Sketch of the author by Evans. Olive green cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. xcvii + 267 pages includes index. Top & tail of spine worn with fraying. A few marks to rear board. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Joints and hinges pulled, binding fragile.

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LANCASHIRE WORTHIES (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Francis Espinasse.
Stock no. 1814823
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1st 1874. Good condition.

Two volumes, second series first published date is 1877. People of note from Lancashire including Samuel Crompton who invented the spinning-mule. Red cloth boards with black & gilt titles. Bevelled edges. B/w frontis to volume one. Volume one top of spine is fraying with a little loss of cloth. Inscriptions in ink to prelims. Joints splitting and therefore binding fragile but holding. A few damp stains to margins.

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FIRST FRENCH READING-BOOK
Written by Louis Philippe R.F. De Porquet.
Stock no. 2123743
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 23rd 1853. Good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. Or Petites Histories, Interessantes, Instructives et Morales. 23rd edition. Covers are unevenly faded and browned. Splits to spine, with some chipping and loss. Foxing and browning, with damp marks to a few pages. A reading copy.

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ILLUSTRATED INDEX OF BRITISH SHELLS
Written by G.B. Sowerby. Illustrated by G.B. Sowerby.
Stock no. 1208607
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 2nd 1887. Almost very good condition.

Containing Figures Of All The Recent Species, With Names and Other Information. Habits and localities, range of depth of marine species and comparative abundance. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 26 tissue-guarded hand-coloured plates depicting 668 species. Red cloth, gilt title to front cover, embossed decorative borders to covers. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn with small tear in cloth at base of spine. Covers darkened at edges and on spine. Front hinge cracked. Inscription in ink on verso of front endpaper. All plates present. One tissue guard detached. Foxing to tissue guards. Plates clean except for a very few which have minor foxing at the edges. A bright copy.

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KING DIDDLE
Written by H.C. Davidson. Illustrated by E.A. Lemann.
Stock no. 1314238
Published by J.W. Arrowsmith; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. Almost very good condition.

Hugh and Amy find the key to the lumber-room! Grey pictorial boards. 99 pages. Colour illustrations. Spine professionally re-backed with red cloth and new endpapers. Covers edge worn, covers a little grubby and scratched. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to front cover. Grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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AN ANALYSIS OF BRITISH FERNS AND THEIR ALLIES
Written by G.W. Francis; Arthur Henfrey.
Stock no. 1711745
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1856. Very good condition.

Fifth edition. Revised and enlarged by Henfrey. 10 b/w plates (9 numbered and one supplementary.) Spine faded. Possible new endpaper. Some foxing.

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DAYS IN DERBYSHIRE
Written by Spencer T. Hall.
Stock no. 2112522
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1863. Almost very good condition.

Leather binding; raised bands to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine is split to top of spine on both sides; horizontally as well. Corners are bumped. Scuffing to cover edges. Small part of paper clipping stuck to front free endpaper; name in ink. Some foxing. P. 185 has surface paper damage.

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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NORTH WALES FOR PEDESTRIANS AND TOURISTS
Written by J.L. Moore.
Stock no. 1204285
Published by Abel Heywood & Son; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. Circa 1894. Poor condition.

Stiff cardwraps with fold-out map to prelims and b/w illustrations. Front cover detached. 1" loss to back strip top & tail. Else contents very good.

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THE SPORTSMAN'S DIRECTORY
Written by John Mayer.
Stock no. 576175
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1838. Good condition.

Small format. Green cloth, gilt title and shooting vignette to front cover. The Sportsman's Directory and Park & Gamekeeper's Companion. Being a Series of Instructions in Ten Parts for The Chase in its Various Classes: Coursing, Shooting, Fishing, The Preservation of Game and Decoys, Selection and Training of the Pointer and Spaniel, Breeding Pheasants, Partridges, Rabbits Etc. With Copious Directions for Trapping and Destroying Vermin and Detecting the Operations of the Poachere. An Appendix Containing Numerous Valuable Receipts and Useful Abstracts of the Game Laws and the Laws of Coursing. 6th edition. viii + 181 pages. B/w illustrations. Rear free endpaper missing. Front joint cracked, rear joint broken. Contemporary name in ink to title page. Covers a little marked. Corners slightly worn. Page 97 has crayon scribble but text still readable.

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