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The third revised edition of William Lewis's authoritative The new dispensatory, edited by Andrew Duncan

[EDINBURGH - PHARMACOPOEIA] LEWIS, William. The Edinburgh new dispensatory. Containing, I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica ... III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. ...
Edinburgh, for William Ceech, 1791. Large 8vo. With 3 double-page engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment, each in two parts. Pp. 113-665 (Part 2-3) printed in two columns. Mottled calf, red morocco spine label. 665 [= 656] pp. Full description
€ 650
Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea UK - United Kingdom
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Unique snapshots of Egypt in 1906-1908: excavations in progress, the Mahmal procession,
the Tanta fair and daily life, probably taken by a female photographer

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT]. Book I-[II] Egypt 1906-7. Book III Naples, Rome, Florence. Book IV Criccieth N. Wales, Zara, Khargeh Upper Egypt, Cairo, Freshwater Bay I.W.Egypt, Naples, Rome, Florence, Criccieth and the Isle of Wight, 1906-1908. Oblong (23 x 32 cm). An album in 4 volumes with 323 silver gelatin prints (8 x 5.5 cm to 14 x 8 cm, mostly ca. 10 x 7 cm). Side-stitched.
With:
(2) LEHNERT & LANDROCK. Souvenir of Cairo. 12 real artistic photos. Serie A.
Egypt, [late 1920s]. Envelope containing 12 silver gelatin prints (12 x 9 cm).
(3) [PHOTOGRAPHY - SINGAPORE?]. Photograph of a woman and a baby sitting in a rickshaw, with a child in front and the rickshaw puller.
[Singapore?], [late 1920s]. Silver gelatin print (7.5 x 12.5 cm). 9; 7; 12; 11 ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Archaeology Italy North Africa & Egypt Photography UK - United Kingdom Women History
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Rare text of the defensive alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, just before the official Peace of Nijmegen in August 1678

[ENGLAND & DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Traitté dalliance defensive, entre lAngleterre et les Estats Generaux, conclu le 3. Mars 1678.
Cologne [recté: Amsterdam?], "Pierre Marteau", 1680. 4to. With the woodcut English royal arms on the title-page. 19th-century brown paper wrappers. [8] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) UK - United Kingdom
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Hand-coloured Dutch edition of "Cattle, their breeds, management, and diseases"

ENKLAAR, Evert Cornelis. Engelsche rundveerassen. Naar het werk van Dr. Youat. Met 32 figuren.
Zwolle, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, 1852. With 32 charming handcoloured illustrations of British cattle breeds on 9 folding lithographed plates by L.J. Tordoir in Zwolle. Contemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine. [8], 342, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Mammals UK - United Kingdom
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The division of Oregon Country between Britain and the United States of America

FÉDIX, P.A. L'Orégon et les côtes de l'Océan Pacifique du Nord, aperçu géographique, statistique et politique, avec une carte du pays d'après les documens les plus récens.
Paris, Librairie de Amyot (printed by Éd. Proux et Cie), 1846. 8vo. With a large folding map (40 x 52.5 cm) depicting what the United States called Oregon Country, dated 1846 and partly coloured in outline. Modern maroon half morocco. 258 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Geography Law & Politics North America UK - United Kingdom
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Enlarged third edition of the first printed secular Scottish songbook

FORBES, John (publisher). Cantus, songs and fancies, to severall musicall parts. Both apt for voices and viols. With a brief introduction to musick, ... The third edition, exactly corrected and enlarged. Together also, with several of the choisest Italian-songs, and New English-Ayres, all in three parts, (viz.) two treebles and a bass.
Aberdeen, John Forbes, 1682. Small oblong 4to (12.5 x 16 cm). With a facsimile woodcut title-page (with woodcut arms on the back), a general letterpress title-page (with the woodcut arms of King Charles Stuart on the back), a full-page woodcut of a human hand, and musical scores throughout. 19th-century brown morocco. [57] ll. Full description
€ 6,000
Music, Theatre & Dance Scotland UK - United Kingdom
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French edition of Forster’s acclaimed and influential Ansichten vom Niederrhein

FORSTER, Georg. Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, a Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, l'Angleterre, la France, etc. fait en 1790, ...
Paris, F. Buisson and Charles Pougens, l'an VIII [= 1800]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of Great Britain and 9 folding engraved views of famous English buildings. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spines. [4], XVI, 408; [4], 446; 8, 407 pp. Full description
€ 2,650
Belgium City Plans, Topography & Views France Germany Netherlands Travel & Voyages Europe UK - United Kingdom Wine / Viticulture
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Diplomatic treaty between the UK and North Yemen

FURLONGE, Sir Geoffrey Warren, and Qadi al-AMRI. Exchange of notes regarding relations between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the government of the Yemen.
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. With a woodcut British Royal arms on the title-page. In a blue paper wrapper with a clear plastic front. 8 pp. Full description
€ 350
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom
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British military intelligence handbook for Palestine, copy of the 1st Batallion Irish Guards

GENERAL STAFF INTELLIGENCE HEADQUARTERS PALESTINE. Short handbook of Palestine.
[London?], printed by the Printing and Stationery Services, M. E. F., 1947. 8vo. With one folding map and four folding tables. Original printed orange/brown paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 78 pp. Full description
€ 1,800
Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom West Asia
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