A Catalogue of Upwards of Fifty Thousand Volumes of Ancient and Modern Books, English and Foreign: In All Classes of Literature and the Fine Arts ; Including Rare and Curious Books, Manuscripts, Etc. in Good Library Condition, Many in Neat and Elegant Bindings

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Willis and Sotheran, 1862 - Books - 676 pages
 

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Page 336 - M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Page 95 - CARPENTER'S (Dr. WB) Zoology. A Systematic View of the Structure, Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the principal Families of the Animal Kingdom, and of the chief Forms of Fossil Remains. Revised by WS Dallas, FLS Numerous Woodcuts. 2 vols. 6s. each. IS CARPENTER'S Works.— Continued. Mechanical Philosophy, Astronomy, and Horology. A Popular Exposition. 181 Woodcuts. Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany.
Page 329 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: Comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 31s. 6d. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening : Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Page 462 - The VOYAGE and SHIPWRECK of ST. PAUL ; with Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients.
Page 424 - The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the INSTITUTES ; the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe, and the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obedience of independent nations.
Page 305 - Notes of a Traveller. 8vo. price 12s. Laing's (S.) Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849: Being the Second Series of Notes of a Traveller.
Page 340 - History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England, from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Reign ofEdw.
Page 63 - Bible in Spain; or the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula.
Page 392 - RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA In the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks.
Page 322 - Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relations to physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce, and Political Economy. By JUSTUS VON LIEBIG.

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