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Poste Restante.
STROMHOLM, Christer.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Christer Strömholm was initially associated with Subjective Photography and Otto Steinert's Fotoforum group. Feeling that their aspirations had be...
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The Grass is Singing.
LESSING, Doris.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Signed first edition of the author's first novel. An exceptional copy of the author's first novel, signed by her in black ink on the title page.Fir...
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The English Version of the Polyglott Bible:
[POLYGLOTT BIBLE].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /A well-preserved example of this scarce polyglot Bible in English printed for Samuel Bagster with over 60,000 parallel references, and a preface b...
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Swanson on Swanson.
SWANSON, Gloria.Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00| /Multiple signatories. First edition of Swanson's memoirs, signed by the author and seven other celebrities who attended a Foyles Literary Luncheon ...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /A very handsome copy in contemporary tree calf gilt of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late roma...
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Danny, The Champion of the World.
DAHL, Roald; BENNETT, Jill (illustrator).Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Danny, The Champion of the World remains one of Dahl's most beloved titles, in part due to the highly successful TV-movie adaptation in 1989 starr...
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Brooklyn Gang.
DAVIDSON, Bruce.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /Inscribed. Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of The Beatles company Apple C...
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Journal of a voyage to Australia
SCORESBY, William, Reverend.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /William Scoresby junior, the great Arctic explorer, was actively engaged on scientific research into magnetism and published several papers on the...
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The Metamorphoses
(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). OVID.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Ovid's Metamorphoses in a beautiful modern edition, specially bound with an additional suite of plates including three not published in the regula...
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Air and Rain.
SMITH, Robert Angus.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /The beginning of air quality monitoring. First and only edition of the first book on the results of air quality monitoring, a pioneering work in th...
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Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Die Zauneidechse. Lacerta agilis.
SCHMID, Bastian.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief of the European lizard species Lacerta agilis (the sand lizard). The publisher's archive copy, in e...
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Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Rana esculenta. Wasserfrosch.
SCHMID, Bastian.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief plaque of the European frog species Rana esculenta (the common European water frog, or green frog)....
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The Organization and Cell-Lineage of the Ascidian Egg.
CONKLIN, Edwin G.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A milestone in embryology. First edition, first printing of a foundational work in our understanding of how fertilised eggs develop cell-by-cell. T...
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Recherches sur la Constitution des Spectra d'Émission des Éléments Chimiques.
RYDBERG, J.R.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...
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Die Chemische Abscheidung der bei Spaltung des Urans entstehenden Elemente und Atomarten.
HAHN, Otto & STRASSMAN, Fritz.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The true offprint of the final paper on the discovery of nuclear fission. The true offprint, in the orange wrappers, of the third of Hahn and Stras...
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Über das Zerplatzen des Urankernes durch langsame Neutronen.
HAHN, Otto & STRASSMAN, Fritz.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /The discovery of nuclear fission. The Abhandlungen offprint of the first of Hahn and Strassman's 'three fundamental papers on nuclear fission, cont...
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The Fundamental Properties of the Galactic System.
[SANDAGE, Allan] [VYSSTOSKY] Williams, Emma T. R., et al.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Women in cosmology, from the library of a nobel prize winner. First edition of this collection of eight cosmology papers from the New York Academy ...
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19 meticulous birding notebooks kept during the 1980s and early 1990s.
BOLTSON, Howard.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /A decade's worth of birdwatching. An exceptional set of notebooks recording the observations of an Audubon Master Birder between 1985 and 1992, pri...
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Topographical Botany.
WATSON, Hewett Cottrell.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /Inspiration for darwin's origin of species. First edition, presentation set inscribed by the author on each title, 'Mary Edmonds from the Author, H...
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Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945
GOWING, Margaret.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /The first authoritative account of british nuclear research and policy. First editions, possible second impression of the first volume, which has n...
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The Prevention of Malaria.
ROSS, Ronald, et al.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /Preventing malaria by understanding its transmission. First edition of this comprehensive work on the epidemiology of malaria by the doctor who ide...
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The Dinosaur Artist.
WILLIAMS, Paige.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Inscribed by the author. First edition, inscribed by the author on the title, 'Paige Williams, Tucson Book Festival, March 2, 2019'.This best-selli...
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Praktikum der Gewebepflege oder Explanation Besonders der Gewebezüchtung.
ERDMANN, Rhoda.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist. First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions...
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An Alphabet.
NICHOLSON, William.Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00Original price £0.00£1,200.00£1,200.00 - £1,200.00Current price £1,200.00| /Nicholson had been working with Heinemann since the mid-1890s. As well as designing their windmill device, Nicholson created a number of books for...
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