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Folding Georgian Guinea Scales c1805

A very good set of early Guinea Scales with contemporary instructions label. Manufactured Stephen Houghton who took over from Anthony Wilkinson at Ormskirk, Lancashire. Wilkinson had died in 1804. We have two very good examples this probably the best.

Self-erecting and known generally as the Lancashire Gold Balance. The brass beam is rectangular in section and has a hinged “turn and swing” overweight which counter poises the beam for the guinea or half-guinea. Once folded the end-button release mechanism sets and releases nicely.

A small rectangular sliding weight on the load arm registers in graduations to show discrepancies in of under-weight coins.

The collapsing mechanism makes the whole entirely portal in the gentleman’s trouser.

Functioning Georgian Gold Sovereign Scale

$190.00

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The Integrative Action of the Nervous System – Charles Sherrington

Published for Members of the Classics of Medicine Library 1989.

Thick octavo, heavily illustrated, 411 pages, a very good copy. Bound in deep green leather and beautifully gilt embossed on boards and spine, all page edges richly gilt. Bright marbled end papers, green silk marker ribbon. A beautiful production.

Dr Sherrington FRS was the Holt Professor of Physiology at the University of Liverpool – this book originally published in the USA in 1906 followed a series of lectures at Yale and in itself is a landmark publication regarding the development of understanding the central nervous system.

Nervous System Explored and Documented

$60.00

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Queensland Fossil Plants – Dicotyledon and Others – Redbank Plains Formation – 45 Million Years

A nice slab of carbonaceous shale showing numerous preserved plants from the middle Eocene era – circa 45 million years ago – a period regraded as the “dawn of modern life”.

Fossils were found in the Redbank Plains area as early as 1900 by settlers. Most of the sites have been built out which makes the having of specimens all that more cherishable.

A good example 19.0cm by 16.0cm, 3.0cm deep, weighing 1,180gms

Earliest examples of Australian modern plants – if that makes sense.

$65.00

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Snakes and Lizards of Australia – Observer Book Series – David McPhee

Published by Methuen, Sydney in 1979, an exceptionally clean copy of this respected book about Australian snakes and lizards.

Pocket sized hardback, every snake and lizard accompanied by a good coloured image clear enough to actually identify the species [this clarity issue is a problem with mots other books on the subject].

The book commences with some general information on snakes and lizards but be warned that the treatment for snake bite is no longer the preferred method – keep up to date with that!

Our not so favourite – the red-bellied black snake that we used to see in our garden in Pullenvale west Brisbane

Snakes and Lizards a perfect combo.

$30.00

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Early Aviation at Farnborough – The First Aeroplanes – Percy Walker

A particularly good to better copy of this stand out book on the very first aeroplanes.

First edition published by MacDonald, London in 1974. Quarto, 375 pages, littered with images from original photographs and diagrams of these first in the air machines. Still has its original pictorial slipcase. A heavy book not really suitable fro Overseas.

Described as Volume II as there was an earlier book on balloons etc but generally seen separately as they carry different interests.

Naturally, we start with the Wright Brothers. Colonel Caper visits the US in 1904 to see the Wright Brothers and Samual Langley – Negotiations takes place, but they are frustrated. In 1906 further approaches are made – more rejections. Cody moves on [first without engines] and the first machine is ready in October 1908. It works and we are in the air. There is some mystery along the way – the odd hoax – the odd tree gets in the way – but generally speaking we are off and running – well “flying”!

If it’s Farnborough, then it’s Flying.

$80.00

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Flinders Chase [Kangaroo Island, South Australia] – Mervinia Masterman.

The first edition and much preferred edition published by Georgian House, Melbourne in 1950.

Written and truly beautifully illustrated by Mervinia Masterman.

Flinders Chase is a protected area of natural beauty on Kangaroo Island.

Octavo, 62 pages, end paper maps, and numerous illustrations of flora and fauna. Dust jacket a bit roughed at its fold – forgive it – overall still and excellent copy.

Kangaroo Island – now a classic reference.

$30.00

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