- Tag = Natural History
-
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.
More details Price: £28.00 -
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.
More details Price: £35.00 -
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.
More details Price: £35.00 -
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.
More details Price: £40.00 -
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.
More details Price: £35.00 -
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.
More details Price: £85.00 -
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.
More details Price: £75.00 -
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.
More details Price: £48.00 -
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.
More details Price: £250.00 -
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.
More details Price: £350.00 -
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.
More details Price: £35.00 -
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.
More details Price: £95.00 -
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.
More details Price: £25.00 -
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.
More details Price: £48.00 -
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.
More details Price: £28.00 -
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.
More details Price: £250.00 -
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.
More details Price: £55.00 -
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.
More details Price: £60.00 -
ON THE VARIATION OF SPECIES WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INSECTA;
Followed by An Inquiry Into the Nature of Genera.
London: John Van Voorst. First edition, 8vo., pp.vii,206,(i), uncut, modern green cloth binding with new endpapers; some leaves roughly cut, with paper tape repair to upper margin of p.121, occasional archival tape repairs to fore-margins, slight evidence of erased pencil underlining to pp.90-1 and 169, light foxing to prelims, else clean and very good.
More details Price: £495.00 -
SNOWDROPS AND SNOWFLAKES.
A Study of the Genera Galanthus and Leucojum.
London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1956. First edition, pp.128, navy cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, further b/w and colour plates, folding map to rear of volume; rubbing to extremities, mark to front board, slight mustiness, an internally clean and good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
More details Price: £175.00