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UNDERDOGS: THE FIGHT TO SAVE SOUTH AFRICA'S WILD DOGS
Written by Neil Aldridge.
Stock no. 1827841
Published by Pisces Publications. 1st 2011. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

African wild dogs carry the unenviable title of Africa's second-most endangered carnivore. Neil Aldridge celebrates what is special about the African wild dog and explores the efforts being made to secure its future in South Africa and beyond. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9781874357490. SIGNED by the author to title page (no dedication). Boards clean and bright. Front endpaper has a large tear of surface paper loss (see photo). Otherwise, contents are fine. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is creased and has a 2" closed tear (no loss) between edge of rear panel and rear flap.

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SIR WILLIAM JARDINE: A LIFE IN NATURAL HISTORY
Written by Christine E. Jackson; Peter Davis.
Stock no. 1827836
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 2001. Very good condition.

Biography. Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) of Jardine Hall near Lockerbie, was a Scottish baronet and landowner. He was also a magistrate, Convenor of the Church of Scotland, and Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire in 1841, but, above all, he was an eminent naturalist in several fields, knowledgeable about birds, fishes, insects, plants and geology. Matt boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0718501640. Boards just a little grubby. Light fading to front gutter edge and top of front board. Tiny nick to top of spine. Contents clean.

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LAW AND NATURE (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY)
Written by David Delaney.
Stock no. 1827827
Published by Press Syndicate Of The University Of Cambridge. 1st 2003. Very good condition.

This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. Blue glazed boards. x and 440 pages including index. ISBN: 0521831261. Board edges rubbed. Boards are scuffed. Text block a little grubby. Some pencil annotation throughout, mainly underlining in pencil.

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THE PLANTS OF MOUNT KINABALU: 4. DICOTYLEDON FAMILIES ACANTHACEAE TO LYTHRACEAE
Written by John H. Beaman; Christiane Anderson; Reed S. Beaman.
Stock no. 1827825
Published by Natural History Publications (borneo); Royal Botanic Gardens. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A project to provide inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabulu - this is volume 4 only. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour photos. xiv and 570 pages including index plus publisher adverts to rear. ISBN: 9838120510. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed.

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ATLAS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN BALTIC AMBER
Written by Wolfgang Weitschat; Wilfried Wichard.
Stock no. 1827802
Published by Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

This atlas opens a window onto the world of Baltic amber and the Eocene amber forests. About 650 typical plants and animals are systematically represented in 92 full-page colour plates. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. B/w & colour illustrations. ISBN: 3931516946. A few minor knocks to boards edges. Boards scuffed. Small patch of surface paper loss to front pastedown. Contents clean.

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A PASSION FOR PLANTS: THE TRESEDERS OF TRURO
Written by Suzanne Treseder.
Stock no. 1827788
Published by Alison Hodge. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

The story of the Treseder family's passion for plants and of six generations of Treseders who were nurserymen for over 150 years. Matt pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780906720370. Light bumping to board corners. Minor foxing to text block and gutter edge of endpapers. A few pages have pale brown foxspots.

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ANIMALS AND THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER
Written by Mayumi Itoh.
Stock no. 1327429
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1st 2018. Very good condition.

The Palgrace Macmillan Animal Ethics series. Pictorial boards. 246 pages. A physical print on demand book, printed by Lightning Source. ISBN: 9783319707563. Covers slightly grubby. Remains of a label to rear cover. Contents fine.

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THE BIOLOGY OF XENOPUS
Written by R.C. Tinsley; H.R. Kobel.
Stock no. 1327428
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 1996. Nearly fine condition.

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London Number 68. A physical print on demand book, printed by Lightning Source. Glazed pictorial boards. Some b/w photos and diagrams. 440 pages. ISBN: 0198549741. Top of spine is very slightly bumped. Else a fine copy.

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ARE SPECIES REAL? AN ESSAY ON THE METAPHYSICS OF SPECIES
Written by Matthew H. Slater.
Stock no. 1327422
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

New Directions in the Philosophy of Science series. A novel approach to this question aimed at accomodating the attractions to both realism and antirealism about species. Blue boards. xi and 214 pages including index. Appears to be a physical print on demand book (printed by Printforce). ISBN: 9780230393240. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Contents fine.

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HETEROPTERA: THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE OTHER, OR IMAGES OF A MUTATING WORLD
Written by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger.
Stock no. 1327294
Published by Scalo Zurich. 1st UK 2001. Very good condition.

Large format. Cream boards. 309 pages. ISBN: 3908247314. Spine and corners bumped. Covers very slightly grubby. Contents fine.

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MARINE INTERSTITIAL POECILOSTOMATOIDA AND CYCLOPOIDA (COPEPODA) OF AUSTRALIA
Written by Tomislav Karanovic.
Stock no. 1327152
Published by Koninklijke Brill Nv. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition.

Data about the cyclopoid and poecilostomatoid copepods from the Australian marine instertitial. Red boards. 331 pages. B/w diagrams, some colour photos. ISBN: 9789004164598. Minimal rubbing to corners else a fine copy.

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AUDUBON'S QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by John James Audubon. Illustrated by John James Audubon.
Stock no. 1827646
Published by The Wellfleet Press. 1st thus 1989. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Complete and unabridged. Large format. Heavy. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 155 full-colour illustrations. ISBN: 1555215157. A few minor marks to boards. Tiny knock to lower front edge of board. Some minor foxing to text block. Foxing and browning to endpapers and prelims else contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and is heavily foxed to verso (not visible to front), slightly faded to spine.

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