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5 EASY PIECES.
The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems.
Washington/London: Island Press, 2010. Large 8vo., pp.xii,193, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A COMPARATIVE HAND LIST OF THE BIRDS OF JAPAN AND THE BRITISH ISLES.
In this Hand List the author has attempted to supply the materials for a complete comparison between the birds of the Island of Japan and the birds found in Great Britain and Ireland.
Cambridge University Press, 1925. 4to., pp.(vi),107, beige cloth, gilt; ownership bookplates to front endpapers, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed and partly toned, with water-stain to rear/spine, and light wear to extremities, with apx. 6mms loss at head of spine.
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A VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF ARGYLL AND THE INNER HEBRIDES.
Edinburgh, David Douglas. 8vo.,pp. lxxxiv, 262, green cloth, gilt, gilt to upper edge, ribbon bookmark, pictorial title, b/w plates with tissue guards, b/w and colour maps, colour linen-backed folding map to rear; lightly toned to margins and edges, with occasional light foxing, bookplates to front paste down and front free endpapers, ribbon divider faded and partially torn, sunned to spine and inner margins of boards, slight wear to head and foot of spine and to corners, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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AN APPROVED TREATISE OF HAWKS AND HAWKING.
London 1619.
Trowbridge: Thames Valley Press. Small 4to., pp.(ii),(xvi),109, Facsimile edition, hardcover, silver lettering, pale green to upper edge; toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has runckles to laminate at front with a small scuff mark, light toning to spine and extremities.
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BANTAMS AS A HOBBY.
London: ‘The Feathered World’, 1902. Large 8vo., pp.58,(7)adverts, blue cloth lettered in white to front board, unlettered spine, b/w frontispiece portrait, 2 folding colour plates, 26 b/w illustrations; neat inked inscription, dated 1902, to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, light spotting to lower margin of front board, slight rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket.
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BIRDS OF THE GREY WIND.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,228, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates, endpaper maps; a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has light wear to extremities (with chipping to head of spine, including 12 x 10 mm loss), good+ and now in a protective cover.
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BRITISH BATS.
The New Naturalist, Volume 93.
London: HarperCollins. First edition, 8vo., pp.218, green cloth, gilt, 8 colour plates and over 120 b/w illustrations (photographic and drawn); a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BRITISH LARKS, PIPITS AND WAGTAILS.
The New Naturalist Library, No. 78.
London: HarperCollins. 8vo., pp.320, green cloth, gilt, 4 colour plates, b/w plates; ink ownership to front free endpaper, slight mark to foot of spine, a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BRITISH TIMBER TREES:
Their Rearing and Subsequent Management, in Woods, Groves, and Plantations. Including Remarks on Soil and Situation, the General Improvement of Landed Estates and Mountainous Districts; with Directions for the Measurement and Valuation of Standing Timber.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. 8vo., pp.xii,276, full green bevelled morocco, gilt, four raised bands, decorative gilt borders to boards, gilt decoration to compartments, a.e.g., b/w figures; rubbing/slight wear to extremities, else very good.
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CREATION (OMPHALOS):
An Attempt to Untie the Genealogical Knot.
London: John Van Voorst, 1857. First edition, second issue, small 8vo., pp.376,(vi)adverts, pictorial green cloth, gilt, a.e.g., engraved b/w illustrations; W.H. Smith blindstamp tot front free endpaper, neat ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, light partial paper-cracking to front inner hinge (joint firm), foxing to title and adjacent leaves, rubbing and a little light wear to extremities, with wrinkling to cloth over spine, slight marking to cloth, a very good, internally clean copy of this scarce title.
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GEMS AND JEWELS,
Their History, Geography, Chemistry, and Ana, from the Earliest Ages down to the Present Time.
London: Richard Bentley, 1860. 8vo., pp.xxxii,382, half leather, gilt, marbled boards; small heraldic emblem tipped in to front free endpaper, pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims, loss to upper corner of p.5, occasional pencil annotation and underlining within, rubbing to boards and extremities, especially to centre of front board, a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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ILLUSTRATED IMPORTANT FOREST TREES OF JAPAN.
Tokyo: Chikyu Shuppan Co. Ltd, 1964. First edition, bilingual Japanese/English text, 4to., pp.217, white cloth lettered in black and green, 100 colour plates, with distribution maps printed on glassine leaves. and accompanying text; ownership inscription to prelim blank, a very good copy, in pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to edges, with creasing, tears and some loss to upper edge.
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IN BRECKLAND WILDS
Yorkshire: EP Publishing Limited, 1974. 8vo., pp.viii,200, red hardcover, gold lettering, b/w frontispiece and 18 b/w plates throughout; very minimal foxing on top edge, very good unclipped dust-jacket that has been covered, overall very good copy indeed.
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INSECT FACT AND FOLKLORE
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. 8vo, pp.xiv,194, black cloth, orange lettering, b/w illustrations throughout; some foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, has been sunned to the spine, chipped at head and tail of spine and with historic repair to the reverse.
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LANDFORMS AND GEOLOGY OF GRANITE TERRAINS.
Leiden/London: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2005. 4to., pp.ix,351, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light shelfwear to covers, internally fine, with presentation inscription to title, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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MAKING THE DOVECOTE PAY.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935. 8vo., pp.92,(iv)adverts, green cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and 8 further b/w illustrations; foxing to titles and edges, just slight rubbing to extremities, else a very good copy indeed.
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MARVELS OF POND-LIFE.
Or, A Year’s Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-Bears, and Polyzoa.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878. Third edition, 8vo., pp.xii,147, pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g., colour frontispiece and 6 further colour plates, b/w in-text figures; foxing to prelims, small closed tear to fore-margin of front free endpaper and frontispiece, ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, typed letter pasted to inner margin of front free endpaper, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, a very good copy.
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MOUNTAIN SHEEP: A Study in Behaviour and Evolution.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. 8vo.,pp. xv,383, beige cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, figures and tables; ownership ink stamp to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers and to fore-edges, with light foxing to title page, cloth slightly marked, a good+ copy in a good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with light chipping to head of spine and light wear to corners, toning to spine, and slight foxing to extremities.
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NATURAL HISTORY OF ARBROATH AND DISTRICT.
Arbroath: Brodie and Salmond, 1893. 12mo., pp.134, uncut, pictorial green cloth, gilt; foxing to endpapers, author’s inscriptions to title page, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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OCTOPUS: PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR OF AN ADVANCED INVERTEBRATE.
London: Chapman and Hall. 8vo., pp.xiii,417, blue faux-leather, gilt, colour frontispiece, 1 further colour plate and 3 b/w plates, numerous b/w in-text illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light toning to margins throughout, a very good copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket with light partial sunning and small pull to laminate coating at rear lower margin. Now in protective cover.
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