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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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THOUGHTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF RICHARD JEFFERIES.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1917. 8vo., pp.vii,127, untrimmed edges, pictorial buckram cloth with pictorial spine, gilt, t.e.g., capital letters and title to upper margins in red; owner’s ink inscription, dated 1917, to front free endpaper, light foxing to prelims, cloth has cleanly broken along front joint and been neatly re-glued, light wear to headband, darkening to spine and margins of rear board, overall a very good copy.
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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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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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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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WARDENS' ACCOUNTS AND COURT MINUTE BOOKS OF THE GOLDSMITHS' MISTERY OF LONDON, 1334-1446.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xxxviii,630, blue hardcover, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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THE USES OF PLANTS. With Special Reference to Vegetable Products Introduced During the Last Fifty Years.
London: Roper and Drowley, 1889. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.224, green cloth with red leather title label, gilt; light rubbing to endpapers, rubbing and light marking to cloth, slight chipping to label, internally clean, a very good copy.
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THE NEW NATURALIST: DRAGONFLIES.
London: Collins, 1960. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,260, green cloth, gilt, b/w and colour plates and figures; partial toning to endpapers, lightly toned and foxed to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities with some foxing to rear.
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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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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS FOR THE GARDEN, CONSERVATORY, AND STOVE. [Two Volumes:] Describing and Giving Explicit Cultural Directions for the Best and Most Striking Ferns and Selaginellas in Cultivation. Illustrated with Coloured Plates and Numerous Wood Engravings, Specially Prepared for this Work. Volume II. From Blechnum to Nothochlaena; III. From Ochropteris to Woodwardia, and Selaginella.
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1894. Volumes II and III only (of three), 4to., pp.viii,621,(ii);vii,457,(iii), decorative pictorial bevelled green cloth, gilt, a.e.g., colour frontispieces, colour plates, b/w plates and figures; light foxing, superficial paper splitting to inner hinges, light rubbing to extremities, light dampstaining to boards, a very good (partial) set.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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