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A practical guide to gardening with Alpine plants, magnificently Illustrated throughout with brightly tinted plates.

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PUBLISHERJonathan Cape.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards with gilt lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards a little worn and faded at very edges. Some browning and foxing mainly affecting block...

Works of the imagination, from the travel journals of the intrepid Lady Hurnshaw painted during her twenty years spent on the legendary island of Atlantis.

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PUBLISHERMunn and Company, New York.
BINDING
Green cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn with fading to edges and spine. Hinges a little weak...

A comprehensive history of oil extraction in the Middle East, beginning with an account of the history of the region in general since the advent of Islam.

Beginning his research after hearing of an old country woman who used the herb to cure dropsy, Withering used foxglove to treat congestive heart failure with some success. Its introduction into the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia in 1783 and its subsequent widespread acceptance eventually led to its overuse and Withering's classic Account of the Foxglove was actually written as a protest against such abuse. The book includes 163 cases involving the use of digitalis and is regarded as one of the classics in pharmacology (Heirs of Hippocrates 1039)

The memoires of a German soldier and later airman and air intelligence officer during WW1.

A practical textbook designed both for senior senior school and professional bankers examinations. 

A history of early Welsh poetry, with many examples in the original Welsh language, followed by the author's sensitive translations.

A highly detailed description of the anatomy of the honey bee in all its life stages.

A history of the development of wooden ships from the earliest times to the mid nineteenth century.

A comprehensive contemporary guide to ancient pottery; Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman.

A lavishly illustrated narrative of the authors twin passions of art and angling.

The autobiography of a steam engineer, born in Cowes in 1898, including service through both world wars.

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PUBLISHERJonathan Cape, London
BINDINGFuchsia pink cloth boards 
BOOK CONDITIONSome bumping to lower spine edge and marks to end papers, otherwise good. Printed pages and images...

A history of Roman Bath, based on available sources at the time. From its first occupation and the construction of the famous baths, fed by the natural spring which gave the town its name: Aqua Solis.

Continuing of the Author's earlier autobiography "Nuda Veritas," and detailing the eight years she lived in the Sahara with native Arab peoples.

The story of a Danish scientific expedition to the Middle East, leaving in 1761 to meet with excitement, danger, privation and disaster.