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The Statutes at Large, From the Magna Charta to the Year 1866.
This is a combined series of early statutes, large format, heavy volumes, more than three ...
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Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Volumes 1-13. Complete.
Set of thirteen hardback volumes in dark green cloth, 430p per volume (approx), good condition set ...
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Slovar Sovremennogo Russkogo Literaturnogo Iazyka. Vol 1 - 17.
17 large vols in cloth with blue lettering, extensive and heavy set, very well preserved, massive ...
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Trésor de Livres Rares et Précieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique. First Edition.
eight very large volumes bound in plain black cloth with period title label to spine, 1950ies (?) ...
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£480.00
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 1 (1955) to Volume 54 (2008)
A nice long run, all volumes in dustjackets except volume 1, excellent condition, very well ...
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Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry: The Rational Design, Mechanistic Study and Therapeutic Application of Chemical Compounds. 6 Volume Set.
6 large volumes in red cloth with gilt lettering, mild library markings stemming from time spent in ...
£460.00
£460.00
Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy Contained in the Museum of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. Volume 1-3, Second Edition.
xiii 160p 518p 391p blue cloth with gilt lettering, set of 3 vols, spines sunned with fraying to ...
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£460.00
Istoria universale di tutti i concilii generali e particolari celebrati nella chiesa... Nella seconda edizione accresciuta di 403 concilii etc. Terza edizione.
2 volumes in one, folio (32cm) 446p, 468p, title for each part in red and black, index, text in two ...
£460.00
![The Consolidated Treaty Series Volumes 76 - 93 [1825 - 1842].](images/books/140512_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "The Consolidated Treaty Series Volumes 76 - 93 [1825 - 1842].")
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The Consolidated Treaty Series Volumes 76 - 93 [1825 - 1842].
17 volumes, approx. 500pp per heavy volume, blue buckram boards, tan buckram spines, gilt titles, ...
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Arabic English Lexicon. Eight Volume Set.
eight large format volume in black boards, all edges gilt, attractive and clean set
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Fremdwörterbuch in deutscher Schrift- und Umgangssprache aus allen Fächern des menschlichen Wissens und Treibens. Für Leser aus allen Ständen und Gewerben. Fünfte Auflage.
928p brown cloth with paper label, Part 1: A-K, Part 2: L-Z, continiously paginated, original cloth ...
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Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia.
large format, volume 1 - 14, lacking volume 6, bound in brown hardback, printed with colour and b/w ...
£360.00
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Health Science Books, 1876 - 1982. 4 Volume Set.
4599p in 4 volumes, large black cloth, from a Cambridge college library with labels and stamps, top ...
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Chemistry of Carbon Compounds. A Modern Comprehensive Treatise. First Edition.
10 Vols in original terracotta cloth, bright and fresh set, minimal library markings, hardly used, ...
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The Encyclopedia of Islam. New Edition. Edited by Bernard Lewis, Chr. Pellat and Joseph Schacht. Volume 3 (ONLY) as issued in ten parts numbered Fasc 41 - 60.
paginated 1 - 1270, in ten parts with their original card cover, covering Ha - Iram, substantial ...
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Register of Thoroughbred Stallions. Containing the Tabulated Pedigrees and Racing Performances at the Stud. Long Run.
This is a long run of this series, 23 volumes and 8 addenda volumes. Issued every second year, our ...
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£240.00
American Places Dictionary.
4 Large hardbacks with illustrated laminated cover, corners a little bumped but pages clean with ...
£240.00
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Histoire Abregee des Traites de Paix entre les Puissances de l'Europe depuis la Paix de Westphalie. Ouvrage entierement refondu, augmente et continue jusqu'au Congres de Vienne et aux Traites de Paris de 1815. Tomes 1 - 4 (complete)
630p, 522p, 589p, 635p, four vols bound in two, contemporary quarter calf on marbled boards with ...
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£240.00
Rules for Classification of Mobile Offshore Units.
large format ring folder with seven loose leaf sections on various topics, each section amd ...
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Histoire Abrégée des Traités de Paix entre les Puissances de l'Europe depuis la Paix de Westphalie. Ouvrage entiérement refondu etc par F Schoell.
4 volumes, large format, half morocco binding in very good condition, college library bookplate and ...
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Cassell's Encyclopaedia of General Information. Special Edition.
10 volume set in blind stamped burgundy cloth with five raised bands to spine, stamped design in ...
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Histoire Abrégée des Traités de Paix entre les Puissances de l'Europe depuis la Paix de Westphalie. Ouvrage entiérement refondu etc par F Schoell.
4 volumes, large format, blue ribbed calf with title labels to spine, corners a little rubbed, ...
£210.00
£200.00
Iran- Shahr. A Survey of Land, People, Culture, Government and Economy. Volume 1, Volume 2.
18p 944p; 10p 948p two very large and very heavy volumes, brown cloth a little soiled and dusty, ...
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£200.00
Men-at-the-Bar. A Biographical Hand-List of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges.
xxvi 528p bright blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt arms, large format, heavy book, well ...
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Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. 208th Year.
lxiv 1064p 2032p, 64p of adverts, oversized volume, very thick, original attractive red cloth ...
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Dizionario Enciclopedico del Medioevo.
approx 2300p three very large and thick volumes, hardback, black illustrated dustjacket present, ...
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Metals and Alloys in the Unified Numbering System. 11th Edition.
ix 583p large purple paperback, excellent copy, neat markings from an engineering library, ...
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£180.00
Nomenclator Literarius Recentioris Theologiae Catholicae Theologos Exhibens, Qui Inde A Concilio Tridentino Floruerunt Aetate, Natione, Disciplinis Distinctos.
lix 1746p lxii (index), three volumes in half calf binding, pages clean, binding tight, hinges ...
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The Dictionary of English Law.
1905p two volume set, pebbled dark red cloth with black and gilt title labels to spine, edges a bit ...
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Royal Insignia: British and Foreign Orders of Chivalry from the Royal Collection.
208p large format paperback, colour illustrations throughout, a nice and clean copy, tight, fresh ...
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A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. (Vols 1 - 3)
complete in 3 vols approx 700p each, large half calf vols with sunned spine still intact, various ...
£160.00
£160.00
A Hebrew and English and English and Hebrew Dictionary with Roots and Abbreviations.
359p original half calf with marbled boards, top panel of spine missing, very decorative leather ...
£160.00
£160.00
A Standard Dictionary of the English Language upon Original Plans Designed to Give, in Complete and Accurate Statement (..) the Meanings (..) of all Words in the English-Speaking Peoples.
xx 2318p (4p) two very large folio volumes, half calf binding with spines detached or missing, ...
£160.00
£160.00
Homiletisches Reallexikon nebst Index Rerum. Vol 1 - 4 (Complete,)
4 large volumes, half calf binding, one spine detaching, one spine beginning to tear, text clean, ...
£160.00
£160.00
Sultan Qaboos Dictionary of Arab Names. Edited by Mohammad Al-Zubair.
two large and heavy volumes with still fresh dustjackets, together 1900 pages, a nice tight set, ...
£160.00
£160.00
The Encyclopaedic Dictionary. An Original Work of Reference to the Words in the English, giving a full acccount of their origin, meaning, pronunciation and use. 7 Volumes plus Supplement.
7 vols large format, brown full cloth with gilt lettering to spine, chromolithogr colour plates and ...
£160.00
£160.00
The London Medical Dictionary; Including, under Distinct Heads, Every Branch of Medicine, viz. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, the Practice of Physic and Surgery, Therapeutics, and Materia Medica.
2 large volumes, old half calf binding, all boards detached but pages clean and binding (sewing) ...
£160.00
£160.00
The Scottish National Dictionary designed partly on Regional Lines and partly on Historical Principles, and containing all the Scottish words know to be in use or to have been in use since c. 1700.
incomplete set, lacking volumes 8 and 9, we have for sale eight volumes, fresh blue library buckram ...
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£146.00
Gazetteer of India, Union Territory of Pondicherry. Volume 1 and 2.
xii 922p, iii pp 923- 1789, two volumes bound in black cloth (not quite uniform) with silver ...
£146.00
£140.00
Aldrich Library of Infrared Spectra. First Edition.
1203p oversized volume, impaginated to be read sideways, reproduces thousands of spectra, from a ...
£140.00
£140.00
Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. 153rd Year.
xx 268p 1288p, 2120p oversized volume, very thick, very attractive cloth binding in excellent ...
£140.00
£140.00
Naval War College: International Law Documents 1940 - 1953. 9 Volumes: (1940, 41,42,43, 44-45, 46-47, 48-49, 50-51, 52-53.
Run of 9 volumes 1940 - 1953, about 200p each, bound in blue cloth, unobtrusive old library ...
£140.00
£140.00
The Ancient Liturgy of The Church of England According to the Uses of Sarum Bangor York & Hereford and the Modern Roman Liturgy Arranged in Parallel Columns.
Preface: lxxxvi, texts in Latin and Greek (printed in black and red: 117p), and preface and notes ...
£140.00
£140.00
The Consolidated Treaty Series Volumes 111 - 113. [1853 - 1855].
3 volumes, 486p, 496p, 491p, blue buckram boards, tan buckram spines, gilt titles, edited and ...
£140.00
£140.00
The Library of Medicine. A System of Practical Medicine Comprised in A Series of Original Dissertations. Volume 1-6. 1 - 5: Practical Medicine, 6: Midwifery.
440p 353p 385p 361p 346p 314p maroon cloth with gilt lettering, ex Cambridge library with each 3 ...
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£136.00
A History of Technology. (Vols 1 - 5)
complete in 5 volumes, approx 1000p each, large heavy cloth with illustrations, indices, each ...
£136.00
£124.00
Gazetteer of India: Bihar. Bhagalpur.
iv 731p xxi bound in original green cloth, new library endpapers, many plates in the back, three ...
£124.00
£124.00
Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology. Volume 1: Acute Infective Diseases. Volume 2: Chronic Infective, Toxic, Parasitic, Septic and Constitutional Diseases. Volume 3: Diseases of Organs and Parts.
710p 681p 780p brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt Sydenham portrait to front board, Set of 3 ...
£124.00
£124.00
The Law of Naval Warfare: Targeting Enemy Merchant Shipping.
383p blue cloth, excellent condition, boards unmarked, binding firm, pages clean, no library ...
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A Practice of Medicine. Volume 1-3.
2356p, Set of 3 Vols, bound in bright red publisher's cloth, spine sunned, from a Cambridge college ...
£120.00