Sir Arthur E Shipley (165 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1924. First Published. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining to spine. Scratches to rear board.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 6-7 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover has foxed endpage.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. In English.

Reprint of 1927 edition. 8vo. xxxviii + 302pp. Folding map frontispiece, 9 colour and b/w. plates, text illustrations. Original blue buckram. White d/w. lettered in red, slightly rubbed to edges with 4cm. tear. US$7.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No dustwrapper, original cloth small 8vo, pp.184. Frontis portrait of author, line drawings in text. Edited by C.F.A.Pantin. Shipley died before publication of this introduction to the study of pondwater usinga microscope. Covers bleached and faded, some faint marking. Spine dull but gilt lettering legible. Previous owners details on front endpaper. Contents clean and tight. A fair to good copy.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: Good. Cambridge 1925 Private Circulation, University press. Tancred, 1689-1754, left large endowment for students in Divinity, Law and Physic. 12mo., 39pp., frontis of Shipley, wraps. Good, cover a bit browned and lightly frayed on edges.

3rd edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Volume 3 only. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 535 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Contains Molluscs; Brachiopods (Recent); Brachiopods (Fossil). 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 338 p. : ill., port., plates ; 23 cm. Subjects; Murray, John Sir 1841-1914. Insects; studies. Insect studies; historical. Science. Biology studies; historical. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xix(inc.errata slip between vi/vii and f/piece before 'author's introduction')+220, 165 figs. several on unf. plates ex-pagination; ex-University College of North Wales w. their heralDIc plate 'ex libris K.J.P.Orton' on fr. pastedown, sm. faint oval stamp on t.p.& occ. elsewhere but not prominent, ink number verso t.p., edges of endpapers appear water-stained but this, curiously, does not extend elsewhere, v.sl.opening of endpaper gutters, internally tight & unmarked. bROWN CLOTH covers a little grubby w. remnants of lib.no.bottom sp. and sp.label rubbed but no damage beyond routine corner bumping. Apparently quite scarce. An interesting work for historians of science as figs. inc. a number of plans etc. of scientific laboratories in USA and Germany plus some photos. Far from pristine but quite acceptable.…

Good+. better than a reading copy. no dj. green boards are markedly sunned to some edges and to the spine. Internally, the text is clean and without inscriptions or marginalia, but pages have a hint of age-tanning, and the titl page has a few smudges/marks - not unsightly. all pages and images are present and tightly bound in. an uncommon title.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 634p.: ill; 23 cm. Subject: Birds. Zoology. 1 Kg.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Original red binding, gold title. 204 pages, includes index. Illustrated. Spine faded and stained. A firm, straight book. Scan available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In faded blue cloth, edges rubbed. Spine, gilt titles & tooling, edges bumped. Internally, half title, [6], (vii-xv), [1], [1], 2-232 pp, 7 pls (depicting 10 images), foxing as normal to leaves & text block edges, school prize label to fpd (R Dean), with some offsetting to ffep. (216*140 mm).…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 338 p. : ill., port., plates ; 23 cm. Subjects; Murray, John Sir 1841-1914. Insects; studies. Insect studies; historical. Science. Biology studies; historical. 1 Kg. …

3rd edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Volume 3 only. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 535 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Contains Molluscs; Brachiopods (Recent); Brachiopods (Fossil). 1 Kg.…