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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 New Naturalist Special Volume: LORDS AND LADIES.
London: Collins, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,241, green cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, 4 b/w plates and numerous in-text figures; foxing to fore-edges and end blanks, slight wear to cloth along lower edge of rear board, slight sunning to margins of boards,a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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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 FUNGI. With a Chapter on Lichens.
London: Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp.,551, pictorial green cloth, gilt, colour plates; a little mottling to cloth, rubbing to extremities, else very good. No 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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FRESHWATER FISHES. New Naturalist Series 75.
London: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, 8vo., pp.378, green cloth, gilt, with 21 colour photographs and over 200 b/w photographs and diagrams; slight soil to top edges, a near fine copy, in a very good complete and unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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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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GREEN TREASURY. A Journey Through the World’s Great Nature Writing.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1952. 8vo., pp.615,xxi, green hardcover, quarter bound in contrasting green paper, gilt, decorative gilt to front board, uncut, pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations; very light yellowing to leaves, very light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy indeed in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extermities, with closed tears to head and tailband, repaired with tape by previous owner, and minor chipping/creasing to extremities, and a few marks to rear.
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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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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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LIST OF YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA Entomological Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. Vol. 2.
Leeds: printed for the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union by Taylor Brothers, 1883. 8vo., pp. 190, blue hardcover, gilt, decorative gilt to front board, one colour plate in with prelims; foxing to endpapers, occasional spots throughout text, pages slightly coming away from lower gutter, light pencilling to pages 12-16, light wear to extremities of boards, especially to the corners which are lightly bruised, some light marks to boards, a good+ copy.
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LOST BEASTS OF BRITAIN.
London: Harrap, 1974. 8vo., pp.138, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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MAN'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1907. Sixth edition with an additional chapter, 8vo., pp.vii,341, red cloth, gilt, 2 in-text illustrations, folding plate to rear of volume; toning and foxing to prelims, occasional foxing within, neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper (dated [19]‘09), cloth split for 3cms at head of upper joint, light sunning to spine and rear upper margin, corners just lightly bruised, else very good.
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