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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library copy with the usual library stamps and markings. The Wiltshire Archaeological Society, 1888. Waxed navy blue cloth. Gilt lettering and gilt bands to spine. Illustrated with a distribution map showing the distribution of rainfall of Wilts, according to river basins, for the 10 years 1876 1885. Illustrated with a graph and with statistical tables. No dustjacket. The book would appear to have been re-bound. Head and foot of spine rubbed. Corners of fore edge of boards slightly rubbed. Some light soiling to lower board. Front and rear hinges reinforced with tape. A few ink marks on page 4. Some areas of loss to fore edge of pages xlvii and 159. Text unaffected. Overall, the book is in a very good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good. Hardback. Map. Weight exceeds standard 1.0 kg rate - extra postage may be required for some overseas destinations.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. decorated green cloth faded with old damp, cracks at top of spine cloth, inner hinges loose, browning to lower parts of first few leaves due to damp exposure, text otherwise clean and sound, folding map of county as frontispiece, other folding map illustrating rainfall. Book would benefit from minor repair with new endpapers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. pp lxix 436; colour map plus one other fold out map on rainfall distribution. Original hardback binding, very good with minimal wear. Contents clean and tight, name in ink to the front pastedown, some pages uncut, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. pp.lxvix, 436 with hand-col. map of Wiltshire and one further fold-out map. 8vo. Hardback. Bookplate of Henry Arnold Oliver to front pastedown. A little light spotting to verso of col. map, sections uncut o/w. contents in fine condition. Original, decorated green cloth with gilt motif, in nr. fine condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Pp. xxiv, 129, [1], [2], 16; photographic map. Original blind-stamped green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, very good, light rubbing to head/tail of the spine and corners. Contents good and tight, original brown-coated end-papers, first few pages a little toned and spotted, a few neat marginal notes in pencil, photographic map over exposed (presumably it started life as such). armorial bookplate of the antiquary Charles Francis Wyatt to the front paste-down, 2-page and 16-page publisher's catalogues bound in at rear, the latter dated January 1863. Scarce. Freeman 3089. Size: 12mo. Book.

12pp., 12mo. On three bifoliums. In good condition, lightly aged. A long speculation - of great interest in the light of subsequent developments - on 'the connection between Vegetation & Climate', beginning with a discussion of 'the case of the Hawthorn'. 'The whole subject', he notes, 'at present is in its infancy and there are so many varied questions for wh. we seek answers that at present I do not think we can state any certain conclusions. | Botanically, the constitution of each species is an interesting source of investigation. I at no time imagined that some species were so constant in their time of flowering that they were practically useless as probable indicators of the weather.' He also discusses 'the connection between one species & another, especially when applicable to cultivation', and continues with reference to mulberry trees and the 'leafing of the Oak & Ash'. He sums up: 'Though myself fully believing that trees have a very great influence on composition of Rainfall, I must warn you that it [is] not a universally accepted Theory. Mr. Scott, for instance, believes that except the destruction or planting of trees takes place upon a very large scale, no effect is really produced on climate. I believe that he wd. Consider the whole of England as almost too small a space for this effect to be produced. As I said I do not hold to this, but still there are some eminent meteorologists who do, and of course their opinion has considerable weight.' Preston was a scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he had a distinguished academic career; he was the author of the 'Flora of Marlborough' (1863) and other botanical works. He was founder of the Natural History Society at Marlborough. For more information see his obituary in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (1905).

Folding mounted photo. map, pp,129, part of flyleaf removed, otherwise a fine copy in original blind stamped cloth. Rare. Size: Sm 8vo.