Pixley, Chas. H. An Optical Primer. The Majority of the Articles in This Book INcluding the Special Artile on "Trail Lenses and How to Use Them" Were Written by Chas. H. Pixley. Photo available. Chicago. F.A. Hardy & Co. 1916. 300 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (owner name on end paper) copy.
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Book ID: 200767 |
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Place, Marian. Cariboo Gold. The Story of the British Columbia Gold Rush. Photo available. New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1970. 180 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (book plate removed, some names marked out).
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Book ID: 194180 |
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Platnick, Norman (ed). Spiders of the World. A Natural History. Photo available. Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2020. 256 pps. 4to. Decorated hard cover. First edition (number line begins with "2"). Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new.
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Book ID: 231036 |
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Platt, Tony. Grave Matters. Inscribed by the author. Excavating California's Buried Past. Photo available. Berkeley. Heyday. 2011. 240 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition (number line begins with "2". Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Inscribed by the author "To Bill - In solidarity - Thanks for doing justice to history! Tony Platt". Fine copy.
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Book ID: 220172 |
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Plenk, Henry, P. (ed). Medicine in the Beehive State. 1940-1990. Photo available. Salt Lake City. Utah Medical Assoc. 1992. 586 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 195728 |
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Plumb, Timothy (ed). Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology, Management, and Utilization of California Oaks. Photo available. Berkeley. Pacific Southest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 1980. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (owner name on end paper) copy.
Price: $25 |
Book ID: 190218 |
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Plummer, Thomas. Landscape Atlas of the U.S.S.R. Photo available. West Point. Department of Earth, Space and Graphic Sciences. 1971. 197 pps. Folio. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $75 |
Book ID: 235836 |
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Pollock, George H. M.D. & John Munder Ross, Ph.D. The Oedipus Papers. Classics in Psychoanalysis Monograph Series. Monograph 6. Photo available. Madison. International Universities Press. 1988. 532 pps. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new.
Price: $50 |
Book ID: 220082 |
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Polunin, Oleg. Flowers of the Himalaya. Photo available. Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1989. 580 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $75 |
Book ID: 234368 |
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Poole, Lynn & Gray. Fireflies. In Nature and the Laboratory. Photo available. New York. Thomas Y. Crowell. 1965. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Christine Sapieha. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 184472 |
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Porcellino, Michael R. Through the Telescope. A Guide for the Amateur Astronomer. Photo available. Blue Ridge. TAB Books. 1989. 342 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (very light wear at spine tips) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 218758 |
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Porcellino, Michael. Through the Telescope. A Guide for the Amateur Astronomer. Photo available. New York. TAB. 1989. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
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Book ID: 134227 |
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Porter, Eliot. Vanishing Songbirds. The Sixth Order, Wood Warblers and other Passerine Birds. Photo available. Boston. Bulfinch. Little, Brown Co. 1996. 4to. Hard cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 172660 |
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Porter, Professor Roy. The Timechart History of Medicine. Tracing the History of Medical Practice from 10,000 BC to Modern Micro-Surgery. Photo available. Rickmansorth. The Timechart Company. 1999. Folio. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Folding plates. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
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Book ID: 188473 |
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Porter, Roy (ed). Medicine. A History of Healing. Ancient Traditions to Modern Practices. Photo available. New York. Barnes & Noble. 1997. Folio. Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $30 |
Book ID: 165206 |
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Porter, Stephen. The Great Plague. Photo available. Stroud. Sutton. 1999. Octavo. Hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
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Book ID: 171557 |
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Posamentier, Alfred. Math Makers. The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians. Photo available. Guilford. Prometheus Books. 2020. 420 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new.
Price: $75 |
Book ID: 230665 |
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Pott, Percivall, F.R.S. The Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott, F.R.S. and Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Photo available. Birmingham. The Classics of Medicine Library. 1985 [1778]. Octavo. Full leather. Gilt decorated hard cover. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. First edition thus. Limited edition, number 1957. Related material laid in. Very scarce in this condition. Fine, beautiful copy.
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Book ID: 186312 |
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Potter, Jonathan. Collecting Antique Maps. An Introduction to the History of Cartography. Photo available. London. Jonathan Potter. 1999. 219 pps. 4to. Hardcover. Revised edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
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Book ID: 198078 |
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Powell, J.H. Bring Out Your Dead. The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Photo available. New York. Time. 1965. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear).
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Book ID: 165378 |
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Powell, Jerry. California Insects. Photo available. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1979. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear).
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Book ID: 188286 |
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Powledge, Fred. Water. The Nature, Uses and Future of Our Most Precious and Abused Resource. Photo available. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1982. 423 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
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Book ID: 110428 |
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Prater, S.H. The Book of Indian Animals. Photo available. Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society. 1980. 324 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 198334 |
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Pratt, Verna E. Wildflowers Along the Alaska Highway. A Roadside Guide. From - Dawson Creek, B.C. to - Delta Junction, AK and on to Fairbanks, AK. Photo available. Anchorage. AlaskaKrafts. 2002. 230 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Price: $20 |
Book ID: 215045 |
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Pratt, Verna. Wildflowers Along the Alaska Highway. A Roadside Guide. Photo available. Anchorage. Alaskakrafts. 1991. 230 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Stated first edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new.
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Book ID: 233526 |
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