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Cassell's Concise Cyclopaedia. With numerous Illustrations.
1340p large green half calf, red leather label and gilt on spine, cover worn, marbled endpapers and ...
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Cassell's Dictionary of Practical Gardening. An illustrated Encyclopaedia of Practical Horticulture for all Classes, Vol 1- 2.
2 volumes bound in one, vii 480p each volume, large heavy half calf A4 format, spine torn and held ...
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French Dictionaries.
71p booklet, blue paper cover, indices, hardly used copy from a Cambridge college library
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Biographisch-literarisches Handworterbuch der exakten Naturwissenschaften. Band 7B, Teil 3: F - Hem (1932 - 1962)
pp 1313 - 1948 black library cloth, single volume, excellent copy from a Cambridge college library
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Dictionary of National Biography, Second Supplement: Index and Epitome.
129p large cloth, a fresh and clean copy
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Scientific Serials: Characteristics and Lists of most cited Publications in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Physiology, Botany, Zoology, and Entomology. With a Section by Roger Krumm.
xiv 189p large cloth, appendices, tables, clean copy from a Cambridge college library
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Eigo meiku jiten = The Taishukan Dictionary of Familiar Quotations (Japanese Edition)
lxvi 599p large heavy hardback, dustjacket, index, quotations in Japanese and English, ...
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Scottish Texts and Calendars: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications.
xii 233p large format, red cloth, fresh dustjacket, index, as new
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[Royal Historical Society] Texts and Calendars II: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications 1957 - 1982.
xi 323p large hardback volume, index, as new
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Four Language Technical Dictionary of Data Processing Computers, Office Machines. About 13000 Terms.
1463p large heavy cloth, jacket a little torn, in four languages: English, German, French, Russian, ...
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Society of Friends, London and Middlesex, General Meeting. List of Members 1970.
270p green limp cloth, minor soiling to covers but pages clean with index, very good
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Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol 3 (1700 - 1800) Part 2: Gay - Philips.
375p large format hardback, plates, indices, as new
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A History of Technology. (Vols 1 - 5)
complete in 5 volumes, approx 1000p each, large heavy cloth with illustrations, indices, each ...
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Handwörterbuch des politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
xvii 699p paperback, appendix with tables, indices, as new
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All-Romanized English-Japanese Dictionary.
iii 732p 14cm paperback, includes summary of grammatic rules, almost as new
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The Penguin Dictionary of Saints.
362p paperback, bibliography, glossary, appendices covering emblems and feast days, saints from ...
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The Age We Live In: A History of the 19th Century from the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time.
7 large volumes, brown cloth with elaborate gilt lettering & decoration to spine and intriguingly ...
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A Biographical Dictionary.
2 volumes, 1211p continuous pagination + 219p supplement, russet cloth, gilt lettering to spine, ...
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A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509 - 1688.
viii 306p burgundy boards, gilt lettering to spine, index, hardly used
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State University of New York at Buffalo Student Directory 1978 - 1979.
176p large format paperback, yellow pages directory for the university including bus map, academic ...
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Langenscheidts Sprachführer für den Sportsman / Langenscheidt's Language Guide for the Sportsman.
296p 17cm narrow embossed grey cloth, brown edges, German and English prefaces, bidirectional ...
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Studi di Estetica. Indice 1973 - 1989. 3rd serie, vol 18, no. 2.
87p paperback, very good
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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 ...
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Enzyme Nomenclature: Recommendations (1964) of the International Union of Biochemistry on the Nomenclature and Classification of Enzymes, together with their Units and the Symbols of Enzyme Kinetics.
219p blue laminated paperback, tables, appendices, indices, very good
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Dictionnaire de la Peinture Moderne.
328p grey cloth, dustjacket (rather torn), useful reference guide, illustration throughout, clean ...
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Dictionary of Painting.
viii 335p brown library buckram, excellent reference book to painting styles, equipment and ...
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The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director.
[245]p large format paperback, cover solid, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, Dover reprint of ...
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Medizinisches Wörter- und Nachschlagebuch: Ein Hilfsbuch für Studierende und Ärzte, und alle mit der Medizin im Zusammenhang stehende Berufe.
xxiv 816p 314p 16 x 12cm burgundy cloth with gilt title to cover, black & gilt title panel to ...
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The Annual Register of the University of Cambridge for the Year 1971.
vii 1925p red cloth, index, very good
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Die Sprichwörter und sprichwörtlichen Redensarten der Deutschen. Nebst den sprichwörterlichen Redensarten der deutschen Zechbrüder und Aller Praktik Großmutter. 2nd ed.
xxxii 580p quarter cloth with marbled boards and edges, black highlights, title panels in black and ...
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Russian-English Biological Dictionary.
xiv 512p black cloth, bibliography, slight stain to cover, review copy presented to library, fresh ...
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Exeter: Heart of the West.
136p 16cm paperback, folding map, 16 colour and many half-tone plates, full tourist guide to the ...
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Revue Chronologique de l'Histoire de France depuis la Première Convocation des Notables jusqu'au Départ des Troupes Étrangères. 1787-1818. 2nd ed.
896p full calf, spine absent, crude tape repair, boards in place, sewing tight and firm, from a ...
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Symbols, Signs and Abbreviations Recommended for British Scientific Publications.
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Biographies of British Women. An Annotated Bibliography.
x 410p cloth, index, appendix, a useful reference work
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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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Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künste von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Vol 10 (Dubolon - Erlwein).
600p large format, half calf, clean and fresh copy,
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A Catalogue of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the Natural History Museum, London.
xii 70p plus 130 plates, hardback, new
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A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, 24th Ed. with a new Appendix of Questions without Answers.
vi 488p small format original cloth, inner front hinge soft and some yielding, minor spotting, ...
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Schriftsteller der DDR.
656p cloth, dustjacket, appendix, very good but paper yellows a little
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The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Text of the First Folio. Ed. T Howard-Hill.
xvi 284p cloth, red jacket, from a Cambridge college library, hardly used, based on Old Spelling ...
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A Calendar of John Paul Jones Manuscripts in the Library of Congress.
316p red cloth, 100p index, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library
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Calendar of the Papers of John Jordan Crittenden in the Library of Congress.
335p large format red cloth, index, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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The Manor Lodge Family, 1906 - 1939. Recollections and Reflections.
88p with plates, genealogical tables, fresh and clean
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Official Publications of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945 - 1980.
xv 619p cloth, blue dustjacket, indices, as new
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Guide to Documents and Manuscripts in Great Britain Relating to the Kingdom of Hungary from the earliest Times to 1800.
xv 707p green hardback, indices, as new
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A General Analytical Bibliography of the Regional Novelists of the British Isles, 1800 - 1950.
399p sturdy half calf library binding, maps, a bound xerox-copy facsimile in very cood condition.
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Catalogue of the Acton Collection. Classes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7: Papacy, Canon Law, Religious Orders, Counter Reformation.
vii 504p unbound as issued by publisher, index, as new, a valuable research tool
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Rules for Compiling the Catalogues of Printed Books, Maps and Music in the British Museum. Revised Ed.
68p paperback, grey card cover, very good condition, cover lightly tanned, pages clean and bright, ...
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Office-Holder in the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster from 1603.
xxviii 260p hardback with dustjacket, index, as new: more than 2000 names, with short biographies, ...
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