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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good-. First. 12mo. slight bow. Light marks to boards. 64pp. Maroon boards. Dw has wear and small tears to extremities Soiling to cover. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Small private society ownership stamp, else very near fine in modestly soiled, else near fine dust jacket.

Zustand: New. In.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. W. G. Blackall, A. Cousins (illustrator). A beautifully illustrated guide to the arms of Cambridge. Bound in blue with dark blue lettering to spine. Very light bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket has browned at edges and is foxed to the inside, with chipping at corners, but is still handsome.

Green card cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover marked. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 38pp.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. From a Mezzotint By Simon (illustrator). A splendid original antique portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Very unusual and decorative .

Zustand: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

8°. OBr. 3. A. 392 S. NaV. LW1109 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Zustand: New. In.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 484 pages. 8.43x5.35x1.18 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.88 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Obituary: Edward Smith Deevey (1914-1988).- Palaeolimnology in the English Lakes - some questions and answers over fifty years.- Accuracy and precision in sediment chronology.- 241Am dating of lake sediments.- Accuracies in Po-210 determination for lead-210 dating.- How long was the Younger Dryas Preliminary evidence from annually laminated sediments of Soppensee (Switzerland).- Absolute dating of late Quaternary Lacustrine sediments by high resolution varve chronology.- The record of deposition of radionuclides in the sediments of Ponsonby Tarn, Cumbria.- Deposition and transport of radionuclides within an upland drainage basin in mid-Wales.- Progress in understanding the chemical stratigraphy of metals in lake sediments in relation to acidic precipitation.- Spheroidal carbonaceous particles as a marker for recent sediment distribution.- Magnetic spherules in recent lake sediments.- Lake sediment records of erosional processes.- A multidisciplinary study of the lake Bjäresjösjön (S Sweden): land-use history, soil erosion, lake trophy and lake-level fluctuations during the last 3000 years.- Paleolimnology of Slapton Ley, Devon, UK.- Sequential inorganic chemical analysis of a core from Slapton Ley, Devon, UK.- Sediment characteristics in relation to cultivation history in two varved lake sediments from East Finland.- The influence of land use on the sedimentation of the river delta in the Kyrönjoki drainage basin.- Heavy metals (Cu and Zn) in recent sediments of Llangorse Lake, Wales: non-ferrous smelting, Napoleon and the price of wheat - a palaeoecological study.- A comparative study of heavy metal contamination and pollution in four Reservoirs in the English Midlands, UK.- Sedimentary diatom concentrations and accumulation rates as predictors of lake trophic state.- The sediment column as a record of trophic status: examples from Bosherston Lakes, SW Wales.- Recent changes to upland tarns in the English Lake District.- Palaeolimnological study of an environmental monitoring area, or, Are there pristine lakes in Finland .- The eutrophication history of Lake Särkinen, Finland and the effects of lake aeration.- Are we building enough bridges between paleolimnology and aquatic ecology .- Weichselian chironomid and cladoceran assemblages from maar lakes.- Stratigraphy of the fossil Chironomidae (Diptera) from Lake Grasmere, South Island, New Zealand, during the last 6000 years.- Modern assemblages of arctic and alpine Chironomidae as analogues for late-glacial communities.- Paleolimnology of Neusiedlersee, Austria: the succession of ostracods.- Palaeolimnology of Neusiedlersee - II: the distribution of nutrients and trace metals.- Paleolimnological investigation of three manipulated lakes from Sudbury, Canada.- Dominant diatoms in the interglacial lake sediments of the Middle Pleistocene in Central and Eastern Poland.- Fossil diatom inferred reconstruction of the pH history of two acidic, clear water lakes from insular Newfoundland, Canada.- Taphonomy and diagenesis in diatom assemblages; a Late Pleistocene palaeoecological study from Lake Magadi, Kenya.- Palaeolimnological aspects of a Late-Glacial shallow lake in Sandy Flanders, Belgium.- Palaeolimnological studies of laminated sediments from the Shropshire-Cheshire meres.- Paleolimnological studies using sequential lipid extraction from recent lacustrine sediment: recognition of source organisms from biomarkers.- Vegetation change and pollen recruitment in a lowland lake catchment: Groby Pool, Leics (England).- Seasonal changes in sedimenting material collected by high aspect ratio sediment traps operated in a holomictic eutrophic lake.- Paleolimnology of a Polar Oasis, Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada.- An environmental history of two freshwater lakes in the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica.- Paleolimnology of Qilu Hu, Yunnan Province, China.- Sedimentary features and the evolution of lake Honghu, central China.- Palaeolakes of the south central Sahara - probl.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the River Niger in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah in 1832, 1833 and 1834, Laird, MacGregor and R A K Oldfield. Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1837. First Edition. Two volumes rebound in one. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Volume 1: 451pp., Volume 2: 447pp. plus Vocabulary. 6 engraved plates including chart of the river Quorra. Bound in brown cloth with green label to spine. In very nice condition with light wear to boards with occasional spotting to contents. Bookplate of John Ralph Willis (1938-2007), a prominent African American educator and art collector. An account of the 1832-1834 expedition into the African interior, a "technical and exploration venture" to the confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers: "Of the forty-eight white men who began the venture in 1832, only nine survived when it ended in 1834"--DNB. Laird and Oldfield were two of these nine; Laird would become known as the first European to voyage up the Benue. William Allen was also among the survivors.

Zustand: Near Fine. Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt and black title and author block lettering to the spines, small gilt vignette to the upper panels. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xvi] 451; [viii] 447 printed pages of text with seven full-page monochrome illustrations and map. Couple of insignificant marks to the fore edge of volume II and in very near Fine condition, spines not faded. The Niger River (/French: fleuve Niger) is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4,180 km (2,600 mi). Its drainage basin is 2,117,700 km2 (817,600 sq mi) in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea. It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta or the Oil Rivers, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0714618268 AFRICA [Mali].

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo bound in quarter green calf with matching marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. xv + 451pp, 4 engraved aquatints (frontispiece, plus 3 others), engraved chart of the river Quorra (all present and collated complete). Volume one only . [CONDITION: VERY GOOD - spine and corner pieces rubbed and a little worn, private bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, mild tanning to leaves and contents otherwise clean and tight ] . . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. 2 volumes, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. owner's plate & Reading Society plate. both spines are very worn. spine of vol 1 is partly split. foxing to end papers.

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, map and 6 engraved plates, including frontispieces, light spotting, contemporary maroon half calf, marbled boards, green labels, spines faded, lightly rubbed, a very good set. Laird was a member of the famous shipbuilding family and the Alburkah, built by his yard, was the first iron vessel to make an ocean voyage. The purpose of Laird's expedition was the commercial development of the recent discoveries by the brothers Lander of the River Niger.

First edition. Two vols. Six aquatint engravings and a map. 8vo. Plain contemporary half calf, rebacked, some slight foxing here and there. xvi, 451; vii, 447pp. London, Bentley, Though not mentioned on the title this is the account of Lander's last expedition which had been funded in Liverpool in the hopes of developing a trade with the Interior. The expedition was not a success, except in as much as it proved the Niger navigable for steamers, Lander died of his wound after having been shot in the thigh.  .