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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.
£100.00
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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.
£15.00
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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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BEETON, S.O: Beeton's Dictionary of Natural History. A Compendious Cyclopaedia of the Animal Kingdom, containing upwards of Two Thousand complete and distinct articles, Illustrated by upwards of Four Hundred Engravings.
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London: Ward Lock, 1871. First edition. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). 291-pages. with 32-page publisher's list at end. Original green ribbed cloth blocked in gilt, red title label to spine which is a little rubbed. Joints creased but firm (perhaps re-glued?). Overall very good. Bookplate on front pastedown of Gerrard Ansdell (1853-1936), author of "A Trip to the Highlands of Viti Levu" 1882. |
£40.00
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BRISTOW, C.R. (& othes): Devon Butterflies.
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Tiverton: Devon Books, 1993. First edition. Coloured plates, distribution maps. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 151-pages. Original cloth; fine in fine price clipped dust jacket. £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. £12.00 |
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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.
£25.00
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DARWIN, CHARLES [Editor]: The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836.
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| London: C.I.L. 1994. Originally published 1840- 1842, this facsimile edition in four volumes limited to 1000 copies and signed by Dr. John Hemming, Director and Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society and numbered 333. With 146 plates, 82 of which are in colour, and a large folding plate to Voume I. Four volumes 4to ((12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches), publisher's half tan calf gilt, marbled boards. The 4 volumes contained within the original custom wooden case with hinged lift-up reading lectern; with brass presentation plate, this not engraved. The four volumes in truly excellent condition. |
The four volumes comprise: Volume I. Fossil Mammalia. by Robert Owen. Volume II. Mammalia. by George Waterhouse. Volume III. Birds by John Gould. Volume IV. Fish by Leonard Jenyns; together with Reptillia byThomas Bell. This set was printed and bound to match Darwin's personal copy.
Weight nearly 10 kg. thus extra overseas shipping costs will be requested.
£525.00
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HEATH, JOHN (Editor): The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 10: Noctuidae Cuculliinae to Hypeninae) and Agaristidae.
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Colchester: Harley Books, 1985. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inche), original cloth. Some light rippling of the text else excellent in very good dust jacket which has a pink tinge to the fore-edges (effects of sunlight?). Corrigenda loosely inserted. £25.00 |
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HEATH, JOHN (Editor): The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 7 Part 2: Lasiocampidae - Thyatiridae.
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Colchester: Harley Books, 1991. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inche), original cloth. Excellent in very good edge curled dust jacket which has a pink tinge to the fore-edges (effects of sunlight?). £25.00 |
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HEATH, JOHN (Editor): The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 9: Sphingidae - Noctuinae (Noctuinae and Hadeninae).
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Colchester: Harley Books, 1989. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inche), original cloth. Excellent in very good dust jacket which has a pink tinge to the fore-edges (effects of sunlight?). £25.00 |
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HESLOP, I.R.P; HYDE, G.E; & STOCKLEY, R.E: Notes & Views of the Purple Emperor.
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Brighton: Southern Publishing, 1964. First edition. 22 plates, some coloured. Large 8vo (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 248-pages. Original cloth lettered in white. Very good in very good but slightly edge chipped and lightly marked dust jacket. Rare. £140.00 |
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JOHNSON, CHARLES & SOWERBY, JOHN E: The Fern Allies: a Supplement to the Ferns of Great Britain Illustrated by John E. Sowerby.
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London: John E. Sowerby, 1856. 31hand-coloured plates. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 inches), 52-pages. Original blindstamped plum fine grained cloth, spine sunned else a very good copy, the odd spot of foxing but overall clean internally.
£60.00
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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. £15.00 |
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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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MAXWELL, MARIUS: Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa, with a Mongraph on the African Elephant. With 113-plates.
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London: Wm. Heinemann, 1925. Four fold (32 x 12 inch) photographic frontispiece "Advancing Elephants in the Lorian Swamp" and photographic plates throughout. 4to (12 1/4 x 10 inches), 206-pages. Original brown cloth. Binding a little marked, endpapers tanned; overall very good. |
Very heavy (3kg), extra postage will be requested.
£20.00
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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. £22.00 |
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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.
£45.00
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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. £12.00 |
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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. £300.00 |
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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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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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