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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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ELZEVIER (Daniel, 1626-1680)
Catalogus Librorum qui in Bibliopolio Danielis Elsevirii venales extant.
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LESNÉ [(Mathurin Marie)]
La Reliure, Poëme Didactique en Six Chants... Paris: Chez Lesné,1820. First edition, [6], 246pp., half-title signed by the author. [Bound with:] ----. Épitre a Thouvenin.
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HILL (John)
A Decade of Curious Insects: some of them not describ'd before: shewn in their natural size; and as they appear enlarg'd before the Lucernal Microscope; in which the solar apparatus is artificially illuminated. With their history, characters, manners, and places of abode; on ten quarto plates, and their explanations. Drawn and engraved from nature.
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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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Latest Catalogue:
Miscellany Fifteen
(A catalogue of rare and curious books, pamphlets, & printed ephemera)
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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
