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Natural History
AIKIN, JOHN: The Woodland Companion: or a Brief Description of British Trees, with some acount of their uses.
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London: for J. Johnson, 1802. First edition. 28 doublepage engraved plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 92-pages. Recent half brown morocco, marbled boards, the spine with raised bands, unlettered. Browning to margins of title. A pleasing modern binding. Anon.
£125.00
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ANON: Natural History. A Popular Introduction to the Study of Quadrepeds or of the Class Mammalia. Adapted for Youth.
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London: Religious Tract Society, 1833. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, unusually many with tissue guards. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), pages: xii:492, contemporary half burgundy calf spine gilt, all edges gilt. Crack to paper at inner gutter beteen pages xii & 1 but very firm on cords. An excellent and attractive copy. Charming contemporary gift inscription from a father to his daughter on front fly. £40.00 |
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ATCHLEY, SHIRLEY CLIFFORD; TURRILL, W.B. & EVERETT, W.O: Wild Flowers of Attica. Coloured plates by W.O. Everett.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1938. First edition. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), 60-pages. Original green cloth in browned and edgeworn price clipped dustwrapper. Manuscript notes on the inside of the dustwrapper. Prelims. foxed.
£20.00
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ALLEN, BETTY MOLESWORTH: Common Malaysian Fruits. Part of the "Malaysian Nature Handbooks" series.
Kuala Lumpur: Longman, 1975. First edition. Colour plates. 8vo, pp.viii:64, original pictorial boards; spine very slightly faded else very good.
£10.00
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BAKER, E. C. STUART: The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Birds - Volume V (Second edition).
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London : Taylor & Francis, 1928. 6 plates, of which 5 coloured. 9vo (9 1.4 x 6 1/2 inches), 467-pages, original maroon cloth; damp affecting lower margin of covers and endpapers, text and plates unaffected however.
£20.00
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CHAPMAN, DONALD AND NORMA: Fallow Deer. Their History, Distribution and Biology. With Photographs by John K. Fawcett.
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Lavenham, Suffolk: Terence Dalton, 1975. First edition. 8vo (9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches), 271-pages. Original white cloth; excellent in very good dustwrapper. £25.00 |
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CHURCH, ARTHUR HARRY: Types of Floral Mechanism. A Selection of Diagrams and Descriptions of Common Flowers arranged as an Introduction to the Systematic Study of Angiosperms. Part 1, Types I - XII (Jan. to April). All published.
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1908. All published. 39 coloured plates, other plates & illustrations in the text. 4to (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches), 211-pages. Original black cloth. Headbands ragged, binding marked. Rare.Endpapers foxed else internally very good. £200.00 |
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COLYER, CHARLES N. & HAMMOND, CYRIL: Flies of the British Isles. In the Wayside and Woodland Series.
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London: Frederick Warne, 1951. First edition. Coloured plates. Small 8vo (7 x 5 inches), 383-pages. Original brown grained cloth blocked in gilt. Presentation label and name & address label to the reverse of the frontispiece, nick on margin of half-title; else almost fine. In torn, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper which has been repaired with sellotape but now protected in a rermovable plastic sleeve.
£40.00
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D'OMBRAIN, A.W: A Gallery of Gum Trees. Illustrations from Original Paintings in Water-Colour by Tydfyl Evans.
Glebe, N.S.W: Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1938. First edition. Tipped-in coloured plates throughout. 4to, original green cloth. Spine faded, signature on front free-endpaper.
£10.00
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DONISTHORPE, H. ST. J.K: British Ants. Their Life-History and Classification. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
London: Routledge, 1927. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches),436-pages, original orange cloth; rubbed, corners bumped. Neat small private name and address label on front pastedown.
£20.00
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EDLIN, H.L: The New Naturalist No. 32. Trees, Woods & Man.
London: Collins, 1966. Second edition. With 27 colour photographs, 30 photographs in black & white and 2 line drawings. Large 8vo, pp.x:272, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding good; dustwrapper headbands and corners chipped and slightly frayed; internally, a binding fault [one double leaf not stitched in but present], ink name on front free-endpaper, else good.
£14.00
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EDWARDS, F.W., OLDROYD, H. & SMART, J: British Blood-Sucking Flies.
London: British Museum, 1939. First edition. Frontispiece and 44 coloured plates. Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 inches), 156-pages, original maroon cloth. Short snag to bottom edge of upper cover; name on front free endpaper, endpapers foxed else very good.
£15.00
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FERGUSON, HUGH W. (Editor): Systemic Pathology of Fish. A Text and Atlas of Normal Tissues in Teleosts and their responses in Disease. Second edition (Revised and Expanded).
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London: Scotian Press, 2006. Profusely illustrated. Large 8vo (11 x 7 1/2 inches), 366-pages. Original fish scale grained vinyl lettered in gilt and with aplied coloured illustration as issued. Fine. £125.00 |
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GALTON, DOROTHY: The Bee-Hive, An Enquiry into its Origins and History.
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Sheringham, Norfolk: Privately published by the author, 1982. Illustrations. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 104-pages. Original cloth-backed wrappers; very good. £12.00 |
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HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON: Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. In the "Minerva Library of Famous Books" series.
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London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, 1891. Portrait, 2 folding maps, folding panorama, plates & illustrations. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), pages: xxxi:(1):574, contemporary half crimson calf, marbled boards, spine gilt with lettering piece; headbands chipped, extremities rubbed, some fading to boards, well and strongly bound however and very good internally. £30.00 |
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IMMS, A.D: Insect Natural History. No. 8 in the New Naturalist Series.
London: Collins, 1973. Reprint. Coloured plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 317-pages. Original cloth; very light score mark or indent on upper cover else good in excellent dustwrapper now protected by a removable plastic sleeve. Two neat small name and address labels on front pastedown.
£10.00
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LUCAS, SUZANNE: In Praise of Toadstools. Volume 1.
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Lucas Art, 1992. Profusely illustrated in colour. Folio, pp. 142, original gilt lettered cloth in gilt blocked dustwrapper. Mint - New. £22.00 |
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MACKENZIE, J.S.F: British Orchids. How to tell one from another.
London: Unwin Brothers, n.d. 10 mounted coloured plates by Miss A.E. Talbot Ponsonby with tissue guards. 4to, pp.40, original cloth, no dustwrapper; binding soiled and dusty, with splits to the cloth at top of spine (with fraying) and for approximately 14cm along edge of spine, boards warped; inner joints split, hinges weak, some foxing; a tired copy.
£10.00
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MAETERLINCK, MAURICE: The Life of the Bee. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Prize Binding.
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London: George Allen, 1904. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 356-pages. Contemporary prize binding of full polished tan tree calf, decorative gilt border on sides enclosing the gilt arms of Queen Elizabeth's School at Wakefield, spine floral gilt extra with green lettering piece, all edges marbled. Excellent. With prize label to front pastedown. £40.00 |
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MCMILLAN, A.J.S. [Editor]: The Chileans. Bulletins. U.K. Edition. Vol. 1 number 1 - Vol. 8, number 30, 1966 - 1975 with, bound-in at end the Chilleans Year Book 1968 Genus Islaya.
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Plates and illustrations. The 30 numbers and the year book bound into two thick volumes 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches), pebble-grained dark green cloth ruled and lettered in gilt. Well and attractively bound. The original wrappers retained. Rare. Concerning Neoporteria and allied species Chileorebutia, Neochilenia, Horridocactus and Pyrrhocactus. £240.00 |
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PROCTOR, MICHAEL & YEO, PETER: The Pollination of Flowers. New Naturalist No. 54 - First Edition.
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London: Collins, 1973. First edition. Plates. 8vo, original cloth; very good in dust jacket now protected by a removable plastic sleeve. £45.00 |
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RINTOUL, LEONORA JEFFREY & BAXTER, EVELYN V: A Vertebrate Fauna of Forth.
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Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1935. First edition. Plates, illustrations, coloured folding map. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 397-pages. Original fine ribbed green cloth. Spine unevenly faded, slight bubbling of cloth on upper cover, signature on front free endpaper, endpaper a little foxed. Actually a nice copy. £55.00 |
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RUFFORD, PHILIP JAMES: Notes on British Hydroid Zoophytes and other Subjects (Polyzoan Conchological & Geological)
Hastings: Burfield & Pennells, 1902. 21 black & white plates, 16 drawings. Inscribed and with A.L.S. from the editor, Edward Connold, losely inserted. Corrigenda pasted onto pp.143. 8vo. pp.xi:149, original cloth; some creasing to upper backstrip, portrait detached, else an exceptional copy.
£20.00
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RUIZ, HIPOLITO: The Journals of Hipolito Ruis. Spanish Botanist in Peru and Chili 1777 - 1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes.
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1998. First edition thus. Coloured plates. Large 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 357-pages. Original cloth. Slight spotting to top edge of text block else fine in like dustwrapper.
£17.00
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SALISBURY, SIR EDWARD: Weeds & Aliens. The New Naturalist No. 43.
London: Collins, 1961. First edition. With a colour frontispiece, 29 photographs in black & white and 34 line drawings, diagrams and maps by the author. Tall 8vo, pp.384, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper spine slightly faded, top edge of spine and two corners slightly bumped otherwise very good and bright; internally, the occasional light spotting to page edges, else extremely good.
£90.00
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SAVORY, THEODORE H: The Spider's Web. The Wayside and Woodland Series.
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London: Frederick Warne, 1952. First edition. Coloured plates. Small 8vo (7 x 5 inches), 154-pages. Original green cloth blocked in black & gilt. Two spots of foxing on title else almost fine in rubbed price clipped dustwrapper with tears and creasing but without loss. Neat small name and address label on lower margin of front pastedown.
£32.00
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SCHUBERT, DR. G.H: Histoire Naturelle des Amphibies, des Poissons, des Mollusques, nus et Testaces, des Insectes, des Vers et des Animaux Rayonnes. 30 planches coloriees d'apres Nature ...
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Esslingen: J.F. Screiber, circa 1890. 30 attractive double-page coloured plates and descriptive text. Folio (13 x 9 inches), original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Snag to backstrip else excellent.
£100.00
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SENILIS, JOHANNES: Pinaceae: Being a Handbook of the Firs and Pines.
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London: Published for the Author by Hatchard, 1866. First edition. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 223-pages. Original bevelled green cloth blocked in gilt; headband rubbed else good. £15.00 |
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SHOEMAKER, HENRY WHARTON: The Black Bear of Pennsylvania (Ursus Americanus) Compiled by Henry W. Shoemaker. With Chapters by John C. French.
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Altoona: Times Tribune Company, 1921. First edition. Photographic plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches), 92-pages. Original roan backed boards lettered in gilt. Binding poor, the spine chipped with rusting staples showing through; internally very good. Inscribed and signed by the author to the writer J. E. Harting, author of "Recreations of a Naturalist", "Hints on Shore Shooting" and much else. Very rare. £200.00 |
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SHORTEN, MONICA: Squirrels. The New Naturalist No. 12.
London: Collins, 1954. First edition. Illustrated with 32 photographs in black & white, 22 maps and drawings. Tall 8vo, pp.212, original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with a tiny piece nicked from end of spine, tiny tiny tear to top edge of front cover, some very light foxing, else extremely bright; internally, page edges slightly foxed, generally extremely good.
£65.00
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SMITH, JOHN: Ferns: British & Foreign. Their History, Organography, Classification, and Enumeration. With a Treatise on their Cultivation.
London: Robert Hardwicke, n.d. ca. 1866. First edition. Illustrations within the text. 8vo, pp.xi412, original green cloth ruled in blind and blocked in gilt. binding headbands bumped, a band of damp-marking on the lower edge of both covers (with some loss of colour to the cloth); internally, page edges browned, stitching partially broken at p.273 and that section partially detached, in all other respects, good.
£15.00
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SPEIGHT, R; WALL, A; and LAING, R.M. [Editors]: Natural History of Canterbury [New Zealand] issued by the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
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Christchurch, N.Z.: Simpson & Williams, 1927. First edition. Black & white portraits, plates, & folding map. 8vo, pp.ix(including 2-page list of subscribers):299, original cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, else an excellent copy. £15.00 |
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TUNNICLIFFE, C.F: Shorelands Summer Diary.
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London: Collins, 1952. First edition. Coloured plates and illustrations in the text. 4to (12 x 9 inches), 160-pages. Original red cloth blocked in gilt; light foxing to endpapers; overall very good. £25.00 |
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TURTON, WILLIAM: Conchylia insularum Britannicarum. The Shells of the British Islands, systematically arranged.
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London: M. A. Nattali, [1822]. 20 hand-coloured plates. 4to (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: xlvii:279, contemporaryt half calf, marbled boards, spine floral gilt with lettering piece. Lacking upper 1 1/2 inches of backstrip, upper board almost detached. Some offsetting but the plates generally very good. Old annotaions to the text in pencil, in one instance in ink. Damp-marking to the last few leaves of index. £550.00 |
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WATKINS-PITCHFORD, D.J: The Idle Countryman by 'BB' .
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. Illustrations by the author. 1st reprint. 8vo, pp.192, original 2-tone cloth; a very good copy.
£12.00
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WATKINS-PITCHFORD, DENYS "B.B.": Sky Gipsy, the Story of a Wild Goose by "B.B." Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. In the "Country Library" series.
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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942. Reprint. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 258-pages. Original green cloth; very good in good, slightly edge worn, dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. £20.00 |
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WESTWOOD, J.O: The Butterflies of Great Britain with Their Transformations Delineated and Described.
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. Nineteen hand-coloured plates and half-title. 4to, pp.xl:140, original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped and rubbed, spine browned; foxing to page-edges, prelimins, tissue-guards and a small amount to plates; joints cracked and stitching slack with some sections quite loose. £75.00 |
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WHITE, GILBERT: The Natural History of Selborne.
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London: Henry Frowde, 1904. 12mo (6 x 3 3/4 inches) 263-pages. Contemporary full tan tree calf, narrow gilt rules to sides, spine gilt extra, some light rubbing, surface partially chipped from headband, upper joint partially cracked but very firm; overall attractive and sound. Signature and date, 1937, on verso of front free endpaper. £14.00 |
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WILLIAMSON, JESSIE: Useful Plants of Malawi.
Malawi: The Government Printer, 1972. Reprint. Black & white line drawings. 4to, pp.168, original boards, no dustwrapper; binding browned along spine and edges, headbands and corners bumped; internally some brown stains and indentations to title-page and facing page (perhaps something was pressed here at some stage), stains also slightly affecting the Contents page, and with an ink list of names on the back free-endpaper, in all other respects, very good.
£15.00
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WOOSTER, DAVID: Alpine Plants. Figures and Descriptions of some of the most striking and beautiful of the Alpine Fowers. Second edition.
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London: George Bell, 1874. 54 coloured plates. 8vo (10 x 7 inches), 152-pages. Original green pebble-grain cloth blocked in black & gilt and with coloured pictorial onlay, as issued. All edges gilt. Headband bruised, a little light rubbing to upper joint else the binding clean, bright and attractive. Foxing to frontispiece, prelims and last plate else internally very clean. Old gift presentation label pasted to front free endpaper. A second series was published the same year. £90.00 |
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ZIMMERMANN, MARTIN H. [Editor]: The Fomation of Wood in Forest Trees. The Second Symposium Held under the Auspices of the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research, Harvard Forest, April 1963.
New York & London: Academic Press, 1964. First edition. Black & white illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.xv:562, original green cloth, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners rubbed, slight shelf-wear; ink name on front free-endpaper and ink annotation and underlining to a large part of the text.
£15.00
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