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MY LADY VENTURESOME A STORY OF 1685
Written by Dorothea Moore. Illustrated by P. Walford.
Stock no. 1805769
Published by The Sheldon Press. 1st 1926. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth boards, black titles and vignettes with pink highlighting. Colour frontispiece by Walford. Boards a little grubby, Top & tail of spine edges worn. Prize plate to front pastedown. A few marks to margins. Some hinges pulled.

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IN AND ABOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN
Written by Clive Holland.
Stock no. 1805759
Published by Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

With chapters upon Corunna, Orporto, Lisbon, Tangier, and Casablanca. A cruising handbook. Blue cloth boards, dark blue titles. B/w photos. A few light marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Scattered foxspots throughout. All plates present. A few annotations in pencil and red ink.

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HENRY DISCOVERS THE COUNTRYSIDE
No author listed. Illustrated by Caroline Mills.
Stock no. 1107572
Published by Foxwood Publishing Limited. 1st 1977. Very good condition.

Turn-over Picture Books. NO TEXT. Spiral bound cardwraps. Each page is divided into three parts which can be turned over to give many different picture combinations. ISBN: 0904897478. Some light browning and creasing to covers. Contents still in excellent working order.

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AINSLEY'S NEW DRAWING BOOK
Written by Tom Wake.
Stock no. 1603184
Published by T.L. Ainsley. Circa 1909. Good condition.

Red card wraps. Gilt tile to cover states "Plates and Diagrams to Accompany Ainsley's Engineers' Manual". B/w folding diagrams. Covers grubby, spine creased, corners rubbed. Plates present, one is torn with some loss and piece detached. Scattered foxing. Red ink annotation to many pages.

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SWINDON & THE GWR
Written by Felicity Ball; Tim Bryan.
Stock no. 1805711
Published by Tempus. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition.

Follow on from Great Western Swindon, further building upon the story and history of the Great Western Railway through a selection of photographs which offer a fascinating insight into the workshops of the Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Works at Swindon, and the lives of those who worked within them. Cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0752428012.

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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Written by Alexander Findlay.
Stock no. 1805692
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 2nd 1944. Almost very good condition.

Second Edition revised and enlarged. An introduction to the study of physical chemistry. Blue cloth boards, black title to spine. 142 figures in the text. vii and 582 pages including index. Boards a little marked, corners bumped, spine cocked. Numerous names and addresses neatly crossed out to front endpapers. Front hinge pulled between title page and facing page. A few lower corner creases. Contents clean. A good working copy.

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NATURE NOTES WITH A DEGREE OF DIVERSION
Written by Gordon Forrest.
Stock no. 1603149
Published by Gordon Forrest. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ISBN: 0953116212. SIGNED by author on title page with dedication 'Best Wishes'.

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THE GENE AUTRY JUMP-UP BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1603101
Published by Adprint Limited. Very good condition.

With 5 pop-Up Pictures. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Some creasing to first po-up scene, and one tab torn in second scene. A couple of margin marks.

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SESSILE ANIMALS OF THE SEA SHORE
Written by Vernon A. Harris.
Stock no. 1805653
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition.

A synthesis of current ideas on the diverse structural, biochemical, behavioural and physiological adaptations which have led to sessile animals successfully invading the intertidal region of the sea shore. B/w diagrams. x and 379 pages including index. ISBN: 0412337606. Corners lightly bumped. Contents fine.

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KRAFTFAHR TECHNISCHES TASCHENBUCH
No author listed.
Stock no. 1603088
Published by Bosch. 1966. Almost very good condition.

(Motor Vehicle Technical Pocketbook). Text in German. Small format, limp cardwraps. B/w diagrams. 508 pages. Text block lightly browned. Front joint cock-eyed. Dampstaining and crinkling to contents caused by same.

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VEGETATION HISTORY
Written by B. Huntley; T. Webb.
Stock no. 1805652
Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition.

Handbook of vegetation science 7. Bringing together contributions from experts in various aspects of palaeoecology in an effort to present vegetation to scientists, biogeographers, and others for whom palaeoecology is not a specialization, the method, limitations, and achievements of palaeoecology in unravelling the history of world vegetation since the late-Tertiary period. Glazed lime-green baords, brown titles. B/w maps and charts. xx and 803 pages including index. ISBN: 9061931886. Faint tape marks to pastedowns. Small red ink inscription to free front endpaper. Otherwise contents fine.

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