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Halley, E. [Newton, I.]
The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, intituled, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James.
London, The Royal Society, 1697. 4to (22.3 x 16.2 cm). [2], 13 pp. (numbered 445-457); two engraved text illustrations. Spine with marbled paper cover.
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The Malay Archipelago: the land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of Man and Nature.
London, MacMillan, 1886. 8vo (18.7 x 12.6 cm). Half-title, title page, dedication to Charles Darwin, xvi, 653, [ii] pp.; engraved frontispiece, seven engraved plates, two folded, tinted maps, and numerous steel-engravings in the text. Original green cloth. Spine with black bands, gilt title, and gilt vignette of a bird of paradise; front board with black blind-stamped border and gilt central vignette with an orangutan. Green endpapers.
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Astronomical observations on the rotations of the planets round their axes, made with a view to determine whether the Earth's diurnal motion is perfectly equable.
London, The Royal Society, 1781. 4to (24.5 x 19.5 cm). 24 pp. (numbered 115-138); two large, foldout plates. Spine with marbled paper cover.
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Nadrági Vasipar Társaság. Nadráger Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft.
Nadrág, Nadrager Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft, 1913. Folio (28.5 x 22.4 cm). 27 colour-printed pp. Original marbled wrappers with gilt title on the front wrapper. One additional printed leaf loosely inserted.
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