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Condición: Very Good. Cover has some light wear and creases from use.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Possible FIRST OR EARY EDITION. A VERY GOOD Volume, VII. Dark brick colored cloth with gilt embossed F.L.S. emblem (Folk Lore Society) on front cover; gilt spine title with 1912 date and F.L.S. on foot of spine cloth. Original black end-papers in place; the front free end-paper has a 2" closed tear at gutter (does not detract). Map frontispiece. A faint price stamp on title page (c.1914!) Map frontispiece is present. Illustrated with 11 pages of archival photographs. Weak (but tight) front hinge; gently bumped corners and spine edges. Awesome collection of source material for scholars of Personal Legends; Ballads and Songs; Traditional Narratives: Customs; Witchcraft; Superstitions; Rhymes and Sayings. and much more. 419 pages that includes a large Appendix from the ms. collection of David Rorie, M.D./ Heavy volume.

Condición: Very Good. 194, b/w illus. . PB. Wrappers. Vg. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History Vol. 6 (6). Five papers concerning the Sowerby family, 18th-19th century naturalists. Papers include; The Sowerby Collection in the British Museum (Natural History); Biographical sketch of James Sowerby; Childhood reminiscences of James Sowerby; The Sowerbys, the Mineral conchology, and their fossil collection; A provisional bibliography of natural history works by the Sowerby family.Together with Supplementa Sowerbiana, issued as a Supplement to Bernard Quartitch's Catalogue No. 894, 1969, pp 20.

20pp. (11+2+3+1+2+1), foolscap 8vo, with a further four pages of figures. Stapled, with front cover printed in black, red and blue, carrying stylised design of satellite design. Cover stamped with date 4 June 1968. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copies on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. From the Pat Hawker archive.