Medicine from Mike Park Ltd

Princes Street, Corner of Gerard Street, Soho: J. Callow, 1819. First edition. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates (several of them folding), octavo, pp xxiv, 579, (i), slight age-toning to the front endpaper, the half-title and the frontispiece, otherwise very clean internally, neatly bound in a recent brown half-leather and cloth. With the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates on the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006. Octavo, pp (8), 308, not illustrated, a very good copy in dustwrapper, as new. ["The story behind ginseng is as remarkable as the root itself. Prized for its legendary curative powers, ginseng launched the rise to power of China's last great dynasty; inspired battles between France and England; and sparked a boom in Minnesota comparable… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin: John Exshaw, 1778. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps and ten engraved plates (some folding), octavo, pp xvi, 118; 128; 132; 95; [13], a few folded corners, a little used and age-toned internally with a few paper imperfections and marks, the front endpaper slightly marked and lacking a corner, contemporary calf sound but rather worn at the edges, lacking… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh and London: John Anderson & Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1813. Second edition. Two volumes, pp vi, 496; vi, 496, some age-toning and slight blemishes, a few lightly turned cornes, but overall good, sound and tight internally, contemporary full calf, a bit worn and bumped, the boards showing though at the corners, a tear to the upper… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Collins, 1969. First Edition in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 20 line drawings and a map, small octavo, pp.254, green cloth with gilt titles on spine, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. [From the library of the botanist Ron Payne, with his signature on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Philadelphia & London: Taylor & Francis, 1998. Illustrated with charts and diagrams, octavo, pp xii, 231, a signature and date on the front endpaper, otherwise a very fine copy internally, laminated boards in excellent condition. ["This first volume in the series provides a detailed treatment in ecotoxicology and stresses why genetics is important in understanding if and how chemical contaminants… Saber más sobre este artículo

Conservatoire Botanique de Geneve, 1972. Illustrated with line drawings and distribution maps, octavo, pp 235, very clean internally, paperback, a slight crease to the spine otherwise very good. {Boissiera Volume 21}. [From the library of the Kew botanist Vicki Matthews, with her signature on the upper cover and bookplate internally.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Ottawa: Department of Agriculture, 1949. Illustrated with 42 plates of line drawings, many distribution maps, pp 306, a duplicate from East Malling Research Stration, with their stamp on the title page and the front endpaper and a shelf label on the spine, stoutly bound in red cloth, with the original card covers bound in at the rear. . First British… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Penguin Books, 1978. Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 912, a little age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, paperback,the spine slightly concave, the covers in very good condition. A considerably better-than-usual copy [Originally published in 1931].. Paperback. Very Good.

New York & Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1972. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xvi, 304, edges untrimmed, the top edge slightly foxed, a small price sticker on the front endpaper otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth very slightly marked and the lower corners very slightly bruised, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but it is unevenly faded and very slightly worn.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1920. Volume 1 only. Illustrated, octavo, pp xxviii, 423, very clean internally, green cloth slightly worn, the spine very dull. From the library of the botanist Frank White, with his signature on the front endpaper. [This volume covers history, physical characteristics, agriculture & food, hunting & fishing,handicrafts, leechcaft,social organisation , etiquette, property, slavery etc.].… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Studio Vista, 1979. Revised and enlarged edition. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 206, very slightly used internally, endpapers a litle age-toned, paperback, the covers very slightly used and slightly curled.. Paperback. Good.

London & New York: Bantam Press, 1989. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xxviii, 290, a very good, bright clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. [For the first time in Extraordinary People, the psychiatrist who was a consultant to the movie Rain Man, collects the most fascinating cases of Savant Syndrome both in history and modern times. Dr. Treffert documents the spectacular… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1983. A few illustrations, octavo, pp 304, a very faint mark to the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth with the lower corners sliughtly bruised otherwise very good, the dustwrapper is slightly worn with a rather faded spine.. First British edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and faded.

Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1900. A few illustrations in the text, large octavo, pp viii, 198, a few pages slightly awkwardly opened, otherwise very clean internally, original cloth very slightly faded, the spine head a little pulled. [The Chelsea Physic Garden copy, with their attractive cancelled bookplate on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Oxford University Press, 1986. Illustrated, octavo, pp (8), 209, very cleaninternally, blue cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which has the very slightest signs of use. [Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Grange Books, 1997. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 144, pictorial boards, a very good copy in dustwrapper. . Boards. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Dorling Kindersley, 1996. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 256, very clean internally, pictorial boards very slightly bruised on the lower corners otherwise in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and just very slightly worn. . Boards. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Widdington, Newport, Essex: The Linden Press, 1940. Pictorial title page with a disected cabbage printed in green, pp 12, quite heavily foxed, the top of the front endpaper has been neatly cut away (probably to remove a signature), green and tan cloth binding in quite bright condition with printed title on its upper cover, the dustwrapper is a little… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1970. Second edition. Small quarto, pp vi, 508, very clean internally, pictorial cloth, slightly faded and very slightly worn. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good.