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Forest Books was established in 1979, issuing regular catalogues and exhibiting at bookfairs throughout the UK. More
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We offer a changing selection of interesting and unusual antiquarian books on a wide range of subjects.
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PLAT (Sir Hugh)
The Jewel House of Art and Nature: Containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new Experiments in the Art of Husbandry, with Divers Chimical conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof. Faithfully an familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience. By Sir Hugh Plat of Lincolns-Inne, Knight. Whereunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins; with the vertues and use thereof....
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TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY (Edmund, & Son)
Specimen of Modern Printing Types, by Edm. Fry & Son, Letter Founders to the King, Type Street, London.
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BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de)
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon, Illustrated with above Six Hundred Copper Plates... A new edition, carefully corrected and considerably enlarged, by many additional articles, notes, and plates, and some account of the life of M. De Buffon by William Wood.
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SAUSSURE (Horace-Bénédict de)
Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genève.
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Latest Catalogue:
Catalogue 117 - part three
(A selection of recent acquisitions - Bookbinding, Printing, Library and Auction Catalogues)
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We are always keen to purchase books that are rare or of collectable value, either singly or collections. We give very fair prices for books that are in very good or better condition. More