We have compiled a list of books in greatest need of repair. Each has been individually assessed to decide the level of work needed – be it a new spine, retooling of lettering or completely new covers – with the emphasis on being as true to the original binding as possible.
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New Titles - April 2012
Author: Woodward, Arthur Smith, Sir, 1864-1944
Title: Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part IV: containing the Actinopterygian Teleostomi
Publ. Details: London: British Museum, 1901
Restoration Price: £240.00
Author: Topley, William, 1841-1894
Title: The geology of the Weald: (parts of the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hants.)
Publ. Details: London: H.M.S.O., 1875
Note: Topley's own copy, donated by Topley's great-grandson Keith Topley
Restoration Price: £240.00
Transactions of the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club 1853-70, including papers illustrative of the natural history and geology of the district
Publ. Details: Worcester: Holl & Darke, 1870
Restoration Price: £60.00 (£20.00 already donated)
New Titles - August 2011
Author: Fouqué, F. (Ferdinand André), 1828-1904
Title: Santorin et ses éruptions
Publ. Details: Paris: Libraire de l'Academie de Médecine, 1879
Restoration Price: circa £100.00
Corp. Body: Sezione Napoletana. Club Alpino Italiano
Title: Lo Spettatore del Vesuvio e dei campi flegrei. Nuova serie
Publ. Details: Napoli: Presso Federico Furchheim, 1887
Restoration Price: circa £100.00
New Titles - April 2011
Author: Fischer, Paul Henri.
Title: Manuel de conchyliologie et de palontologie conchyliologique, ou, Histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles
Publ. Details: Paris: F.Savy, 1887
Restoration Price: £355.00
Author: Sedgwick, Adam
Title: A discourse on the studies of the University of Cambridge
Publi. Details: London; Cambridge: John W. Parker; John Deighton , 1850
Restoration Price: £330.00
Author: Waterhouse, G. R. (George Robert)
Title: A natural history of the Mammalia
Publ. Details: London: Hippolyte Baillire, 1846 – 48
Restoration Price: £710.00 for two volumes
New Titles - May 2009
Author: Bakewell, Robert
Title: An introduction to geology [‘Bakewell’s Geology’]
Publ. Details: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833
Restoration Price: £322.00
Author(s): Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859; Bonpland, Aimé, 1773-1858
Title: Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 [‘Humboldt’s Voyages’]
Publ. Details: Paris: A la Libraire Grecque-Latine-Allemande, 1816-1817
Restoration Price for 4 volumes: £900.00; Restoration Price per single volume: £225.00
Author(s): Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852; Artis, Edmund Tyrell, 1789-1847; Parkinson, James, 1755-1824
Title: A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson’s ‘Organic remains of a former world’, and Artis’s ‘Antediluvian phytology’
Publ. Details: London: H.G. Bohn, 1850
Restoration Price: £422.00
Author: Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892
Title: Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic sloth, Mylodon robustus […]
Publ. Details: London: Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor…, sold by John van Voorst, 1842
Restoration Price: £455.00
Titles - Autumn 2008
Author: Herschel, Sir John F.W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 (ed.)
Title: A treatise on astronomy
Publ. Details: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman; John Taylor, 1833.
Restoration Price: £200.00
Corp. Body: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Title: Outlines of British geology, chiefly intended to illustrate the geology of England and Wales: with some notice of that of Scotland and Ireland. To which is appended, a glossary of terms used in geology and mineralogy
Publ. Details: London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1850
Restoration Price: £180.00