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Handsome and complete 4 volumes - With photographic illustrations, diagrams, tables, and charts A comprehensive account of the farming practices developed during the years after 1939 to increase agricultural production, edited by J. A. Handley and written by a team of contributors for the National Agricultural Advisory Service. Introduction by Sir James Turner, President of the National Farmers Union. Item Description This is… Read more about this item

SMITH Adam AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS The Eleventh Edition with Notes Supplementary Chapters and a Life of Dr Smith by William Playfair In Three VolumesPrinted for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805. 11th edn. 3 vols. 8vo (8¾ x 5½ ins). Contemporary full calf, spines gilt tooled in five compartments of which 2… Read more about this item

Thorburn, Archibald British Birds; 2nd edition; Complete 4 volume set; including supplementary part(1918), with two plates in colour London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916., 4to, 80 plates in colour, original publisher's red cloth with gilt border lining on front and gilt title on spines. Condition; Some slight fading, rubbing and very slight soiling to covers, a little internal occasional spotting and… Read more about this item

FELL, Bishop of Oxford A PARAPHRASE AND ANNOTATIONS UPON ALL ST. PAUL'S EPISTLES Done by several Eminent men at Oxford, Corrected and Improv'd by the late Richt Reverend and Learned Dr. FELL, Bishop of Oxford. The Third Edition with additions. LONDON, 1703 Full leather (spotted calf) bound - embossed front and back plates - spine with raised bands and label with gilt floral decoration and… Read more about this item

Mackenzie, Henry Prize Essays And Transactions Of The Highland Society Of Scotland To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of The Institution And Principal Proceedings Of The Society Vol. 1 Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewant, printer to the cociety; For T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, London and William Creech, Edinburgh. 1799. Tree calf full leather bindingSpine with gilt lining and green morocco label with… Read more about this item

Walter, R. A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson,commander in chief of a Squadron of His Majesties Ships, sent upon an Epedition sto the South-Seas. Compiled From his Papers and Materials,By Richard Walter, M.A. Chaplain of His Majesty's Shop the Centurion, in thet Expedition. The Eight EditionLondon: Printed for… Read more about this item

Denniston, Capt. The battle of Craignilder. 1832 DENNISTON, Capt. [James] The battle of craignilder, a very ancient gallovidian ballad; arranged for publication, with an introduction and notesPublished by R. Cadell; & R. Griffin and Co., Edinburgh, 1832. title page prefacepp v - l ; introduction pp 51 -77 ; Battle of Graignilderpp 78 - 104 ; notes Untrimmed, in original publisher's green… Read more about this item

Boulton, Major (Charles Arkell) Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions With a record of the raising of her majesty's 100th Regiment in Canada and a chapter on Canadian social and political life. Toronto: Davis & Henderson/Grip Printing and Publishing, 1886 Red buckram hardback with very nice gilt illustration and lettering upon red front board and gilt lettering upon spine. Floral front and end papers.- Frontispiece… Read more about this item

(Persian) Falconry.Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri. A Persian Treatise on Falconry, translated by D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott, 1st edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, One of 500 copies. Description: halftone illustrations in the text, original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gilt reproduction of ancient Persian ms. with falconer on horseback, gilt-lettered spine, one minor worm hole through bottom margin first… Read more about this item

The Natural History of the Eastern Borders Vol I: The Botany of the Eastern Borders, with the Popular Names and Uses of the Plants and of the Customs and Beliefs Which have Been Associated with Them Published by John Van Voorst, London, 1853. , xii, 336 pages, complete with frontispiece plate "Castlehills", black & white plate inserted at page 221, 13… Read more about this item

Lee, Sophia THE LIFE OF A LOVER. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS.London: Printed for G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1804. 8vo. Vol.V (of 6): 298pp. Sophia Lee (1750-1824) was born of theatrical parents, and, as the oldest child, took care of her sisters when their mother died at an early age; her first work, a play, "The Chapter of Accidents," was… Read more about this item

W. H. Hudson - Birds of Plata {with 44 chromolithographic plates} - 1920 Ornithologie - Aantal: 2 - Beperkte oplage, Stofomslag - Boek Birds of Plata by W. H. Hudson Volumes 1 and 2Chromolithographic plates by H. Gronvold. Limited edition of 1500 for England and 1500 copies for the United States of America. Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1920. 22 chromolithographic… Read more about this item

Thomas Bewick / Iain Bain - The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and His Workshop Apprentices - 1989 Two volumes, oblong quarto (23 x 25 cm), pp. Volume 1: 233, Volume 2: 230. Reprint edition. Green cloth boards with gilt titling. Blue endpapers. Introduction and editorial notes by Iain Bain. Exhaustively illustrated with hundreds of sketches and reproductions of engravings… Read more about this item

BEWICK Thomas History of British Birds - complete 2 volume setThe Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick. Vol 1. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. (1821) pp xl + 43-330 pp British Birds + 48 pp Supplement to Vol. I Vol 2. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. (1821) pp xxii + 19-360 British Birds + 44 pp… Read more about this item

Goldsmith, Oliver A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, 1852. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter calf Biologie, Geïllustreerd, Geschiedenis, Natuurlijke historie, Ornithologie, Verzamelwerken - Aantal: 2 - Handgekleurde illustraties Object: Boek (Meer kavels)Aantal boeken: 2 Onderwerp: Biologie, Geïllustreerd, Geschiedenis, Natuurlijke historie, Ornithologie, VerzamelwerkenAuteur/ Illustrator: Oliver Goldsmith Boektitel: A History of the Earth and Animated NatureStaat: Zeer Goed Publicatiejaar oudste… Read more about this item

Memoir of Thomas Bewick Written By Himself 1822-1828,with an introduction by Selwyn Image, Late Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford Sixty-one illustrationsLondon - John Lane The Bodley Head Limited Published in 1924 A clean, bright copy of a scarce classic. Illustrated with woodcuts by Bewick. first edition. Hard cover binding in grey cloth with black lining and pictorial decoration on front en black… Read more about this item

Brown, Walter illustrated by Thomas Bewick FablesPublished by S. Grosvenor, London, 1884. , title page, ii, ii, 68 pages, with tissue guarded frontispiece and woodcuts throughout by Thomas Bewick First Edition Containing 41 lovely fables, still worthwhile reading, Hardcover half green buckram over marbled boards, spine with original title/author label.First additional blank front paper with embossed round emblem "W.H. Smith & Son Library… Read more about this item

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ­ Translated out of The Original Greek ­ Edinburg, Printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1824 ­ +/­ 340 pp Bound together with: The Psalms of David ­ in Metre; Translated and diligently compared with The Original Text ­ Edinburg, Printed by Sir… Read more about this item

Thomas Bewick - A General History of Quadrupeds, 3rd edition,Newcastle upon Tyne, printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, 1792, numerous wood engraved illustrations by Thomas Bewick, some scattered spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary polished full calf gilt, rubbed and a little wear to joints and head and foot of spine, with upper cover detached, contemporary… Read more about this item

Bewick to Dovaston, Letters 1824-1828, edited by Gordon Williams, Introduced by Montague WeekleyLondon - Nattali & Maurice first edition, 1968 quarter japan vellum over yellow paper boards hardback with dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Black woodcut Dovastion silhouette by Bewick on front similar to portrait as tipped in between pages 56 and 57. Tipped-in frontispiece of a magpie printed from an original… Read more about this item