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Chicago: Boy Scouts of America, 1930. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Cover. 51 pp. Dark green cover with orange drawings by the author. No. 3196 in Boy Scouts of America Service Library. Some light soiling in text. Techniques and designs for totem poles, frequently used in Scout camping.
A Treatise on the Practical Drainage of Land by Hutchinson, Henry - 1844
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A Treatise on the Practical Drainage of Land
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London & Stamford: Houlston and Stoneman; H. Johnson, 1844. First edition. An engraved frontispiece showing drainage implements, four folding plans of fields, octavo, pp viii, 207, a little age-toning on some pages, some offsetting from frontispiece on to title page, but most of the contents are clear, bound in an attractive and probably contemporary half calf and marbled boards, very slightly worn. SCARCE. With the small contemporary book label of J. Bailey. [The author is described on the title page as Land-Agent and Professor of Draining, Walcot, near Stamford. The plates of fields are all in Northamptonshire.]. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good.
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TOTEM POLES: A HAPPY HOBBY FOR BOYS
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The Memory of the Late James Grahame, the Historian of the United States, Vindicated from the Charges of "detraction" and "calumny" Preferred Against Him by Mr. George Bancroft, and the Conduct of Mr. Bancroft Towards That Historian Stated and Exposed
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Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1846. Thin blue cloth binding with gilt titles on spine. This ex-library book has been professionally rebound both boards and endpapers are in great condition and probably 100 or more years younger than the rest of the book. 59 pages with some library markings including some punch throughs. Bright pages with no foxing. Pages are not flat. Penciled price on blank page after fep. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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The Nature-Study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-Movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature
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A Comic Romance. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author. xiv+578 pp. 12,8x7 cm. London, 1808. --- Half leather. Covers are detached. Text in english. Engraved frontispiece. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. No foxing.
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Alchymie und Heilkunst
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View of the Agriculture of Middlesex; with observations on the means of its improvement, and several essays on agriculture in general, drawn up for the consideration of The Board of Agriculture.
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First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol, Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard ... but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size, and being of small importance, the idea was given up". Later utilitarian quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy, firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.John Middleton (1751 – 1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including the state of property, commons and… Read More
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The Climatic Factor as Illustrated in Arid America
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Washington DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. First edition. Hardback. Good/No jacket. 1816 4to. Ex-library, University of Hull, with a donation label from the author. Green cloth-covered boards, 341 pages, many illustrations from photographs. Two folding maps, one as frontispiece and one bound in with text block. Condition notes: Boards bumped and worn, with some spottiness, especially to the front board. Small split to back board/spine joint (about half an inch, at the top). Wear and fraying to extremities of spine strip. Library labels, stamps and remnants to front paste down, with library's blind stamped and subsequent withdrawal stamp to title page. Both maps in excellent condition.
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Sinai, the Hedjaz, and Soudan: Wanderings Around the Birth-Place of the Prophet, and Across the Aethiopian Desert, from Sawakin to Chartum (Folios)
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Cool Orchids and How to Grow Them.: With a Descriptive list of all the Best Species in Cultivation
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Mechanic' Manual Models 685, 675, 6-226
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Toledo: Willys-Overland Export Corporation, 1955. Service manual for these 6-cylindere passenger vehicles. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, chips to spine, minor creases & scuffs, some internal foxing extending to page edges. Text clean; 243 pages, many tables, diagrams, b/w photos. . First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8½" by 11".
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A Treatise on the Practical Drainage of Land
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Paperback / softback. New. This practical 1844 guide provides a detailed insight into the history and application of draining land. Beginning with an address to the public focusing on the importance of farming and the improvement of ground, Henry Hutchinson devotes separate chapters to the various methods of land drainage available in England.
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A TREATISE ON THE PRACTICAL DRAINAGE OF LAND
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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