A Treatise on the Practical Drainage of Land by Hutchinson, Henry - 1844

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

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.

Folding maps, v, xi, 414p. dj. 24cm. Facsimile of the rare 1857 edition with a New Introduction (2 1/2p.) by Robin Bidwell.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1874. A lovely copy of this first edition. green cloth with gilt titles and border to the front board. Frontis engraving of an Orchid House (complete with waterfall). Four beautifully hand coloured plates and black and white engraved vignettes and illustrations throughout. The cloth is in very nice clean condition, with just a little bumping to the top of the spine. Internally clean, but very slightly darkened. iv. 160 pages. 180 by 120mm (7 by 4¾ inches).

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".

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.

Evesham: Agg, Printer, 1820 Book. Good. Hardcover. 122 pages. Undated, circa 1820? In the original paper covered boards, but with repacement cloth spine and modern end papers. Pages 93-96 have a section torn out of the fore edge and this just touches some of the printed side notes in places..

Paris :: Librairie des Sciences et des Arts, 1938., 1938. Reprint. 8vo. XX, 445 pp. Portrait, 2 tinted plates, indexes (author and subject). Modern brown leatherette, gilt-stamped title. Fine. First issued in 1885, this work offers the earliest study of the early history of ancient and medieval alchemy, with special attention to Egypt. Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot, FRS FRSE, was a French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. Maureen Ogle describes the author as "one of the most famous chemists in the world."

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