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Smith, Elder. London. 1913.. pp. x, (ii), 362, (ii) Advertisement. Portrait frontispiece, plate, double-page plan of the Museums in 1873 with a transparent overlay of the Museums in 1912. Original cloth, uncut, presentation inscription from Shipley to the 'General Hospital', 1914, spine faded and a bit rubbed and nicked at the ends, else a very good copy. *A rather scarce biography of an interesting man - CLARK (1813-1910), zoologist, archaeologist and Cambridge historian, from 1866-1891 he was Superintendent of the Zoology Museum in Cambridge. The Darwin Correspondence Project records two letters exchanged between them - Clark, J. W. (a) to Darwin, C. R., 31 Aug 1871 Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated... [Darwin donated 'the entire collection of fish brought home from South America and some other portions of the globe.... many of those comprised in the Darwin Collection are entirely new.' Page 259 above]. Darwin, C. R. to Clark, [J. W. (a)?], 12 Nov 1877 Thanks his correspondent for his… Leer más

. Later cloth, the first page laid down and the glue now browning, else a very good copy, ex-libris EDWIN CLARKE.

I.L.P. edition for The Keir Hardie Memorial Committee. London. 1921.. pp. xxvi, (ii), 387, (i). Portrait frontispiece, 3 plates. Original cloth, uncut, a very good copy.

Adlard and Son. London. 1911. Vol.XVIII, Nos.4-12, Jan.-Sept. 1911; Vol.XIX, Nos. 1-3, Oct.-Dec.1911.. pp. iv, 49-192, 60. 2 plates, occasional text illustration. Binder's cloth, a little foxing at the ends, text with faint vertical crease where folded for posting, else a very good copy. *Contains an account by MATTHEWS DUNCAN of his experience in testing various anaesthetic agents including chloroform.

Printed by Wilsons, Mount Street, Nottingham. No date [?1930s]. . pp. (viii). 3 full-page illustrations. Stapled within wrappers with front cover carrying an photograph of Jack 'Legs' Diamond, a vertical fold, else a very good copy. *Loosely inserted is a handbill for the ANDERTON & ROWLAND Fair at which the car was exhibited [printed by Clark, Doble, Plymouth].

Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1889. Folio.. Title and 18 leaves, text and illustrations in red and black. Cloth-backed boards, the gutta percha binding perished and the leaves now loose, some wear to backstrip, some surface wear [silverfish?] to the front board, corners worn, contents clean.

William and Robert Chambers. Edinburgh. 1834.. pp. xix, (i), 511, (i). Contemporary boards, newly rebacked, without the half-title, else a very good copy.

Religious Tract Society. London. [1846].. pp. 2, vi, (7)-192. Original blind-decorated cloth, all edges gilt, a very good copy.

Faber & Faber. London. 1945. Fourth impression.. pp. 168. Very good copy in original cloth.

Paul Bousrez. Tours. No date [c.1880]. . pp. 45, (i). 2 lithographed plates. Bound together in period half roan, backstrip taped at the ends, a bit of foxing, one paper shows a small patch of adhesion between the folding map and the opposing title, generally in very good condition. BOUND WITH: LUCO, L'Abbé. Explorations Archéologique a l'Ile-d'Arz a Ilur a Nostang. Imprimerie Galles. Vannes. 1882. pp. 19, (i). 3 lithographed plates. BOUND WITH: 12 other papers, some by LUCO, some by FÉLIX GAILLARD, many folding plates, 1 real photograph, occasionally with original wrappers. *All the papers in this collection, published 1870s and 1880s, deal with excavations and investigations of dolmens, tumuli and cists in the Carnac area. JAMES MILN [1819-1881] was a pioneer in the research of the Carnac stones and was mentor to Zacharie Le Rouzic [1864-1939] who became the first Director of the Carnac Museum, founded in memory of James Miln by his brother Robert.

Spottiswoode, Ballantyne. London. 1946. Third impression.. pp. 58. Frontispiece, title vignette, 6 illustrations, map end-papers. Paper wrappers, very good copy.

George Newnes. London. 1898.. pp. vii, (i), 424. Publisher's maroon cloth, now a little faded and marked, half-title and title with lower corners creased at tips, a couple of faint dust marks to verso of title, good copy overall. *Reprinted from the 3rd. edition of 1848 - a cheap production but scarce.

Offprints from - K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar, Band 23, Afd. III, no. 4 & 11. Stockholm. 1897. 2 items.. pp. 34. 5 plates; 44. 7 plates. Disbound, marginal damp marks on some of the plates of the second paper.

Macmillan. London. 1902.. pp. xiv, (ii), 419, (i). 29 text figures. A good ex-library copy with stamps on the end-papers and one on the title, text clean and unmarked. *With chapters on the properties of glass in general and specifically upon lens glass for microscopes, telescopes and for photography.

Smith, Elder. London. 1887. First edition.. pp. viii, 336, (iv) Catalogue. Original cloth a bit dull with spine a little faded, a bit foxed at the ends but otherwise a very good copy, uncut.

Wertheimer, Lea & Co. London. 1895.. pp. 128. Original printed paper wrappers a little faded and spotted, an ex-library copy with call nos. on the spine, label removed from verso of the front wrap, stamps on recto and verso of title, a few lower corners very slightly creased and the tip of the front wrapper torn off, otherwise a tight, clean copy. *COPAC records three locations only: British Library, Leeds University and the Wellcome Library.

Eyre and Spottiswoode. London. 1945.. pp. 222. Slightly frayed dust wrapper, else a very good copy. *Wrapper blurb : 'The scene of this story is a pleasant country village near the sea, a village remote from the war, to which Jim came home. In the first place he was on seven days leave, but when his seven days were up Jim could not go back.'

William Heinemann. London. 1930. First edition. . pp. (x), 787, (iii). Dust wrapper a touch worn at the turn-in folds, else a good copy. *FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG (1884-1954), graduated MB, ChB, from the University of Birmingham in 1907. His father was a doctor and his mother, the daughter of the surgeon John Jackson of Somerby, Leicestershire. After marriage he settled to practise in Brixham, Devon; he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI but due to poor health was no longer able to practise medicine and retired to Capri. He had always combined medicine with literature and after some success as a writer, he and his wife returned to England, settling near Evesham in 1933.

John Lane The Bodley Head. London. 1935.. pp. ix, (iii), 594, (ii) Advertisements. Publisher's cloth, patchily faded, without dust wrapper, else a very good copy.

University Press. Cambridge. 1936.. pp. xvi, (ii), 191, (i). WITHOUT THE 4 PLATES. *A collection of the galleys from the CUP, for Hartley and Aldridge's book, with copious corrections by Hartley, PLUS a series of 9 letters from CRUTCHLEY, Assistant Printer to the CUP, PLUS 8 letters from co-author ALDRIDGE, PLUS a few leaves of notes by Hartley and some other correspondence, PLUS a ms. copy of the Index, all loose within two cloth cases, one of them as issued for the book. The prelims. are present in two corrected copies, the final two gatherings are triplicated, with an extra, fourth copy, of the last gathering.