WODARCH'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CONCHOLOGY
Written by J Mawe.
Stock no. 1208920
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme And Brown. 4th 1932. Very good condition.

Fourth Edition with considerable additions and alterations. Describing the Orders, Genera and Species of Shells with Observations on the nature and Properties of the Animals, and directions for collecting, preserving and cleaning shells. Full calf leather boards, gilt borders, gilt title to spine on red title block. Marbled endpapers. 7 hand coloured plates. xii and 149 pages plus plates to rear. Spine & corners lightly rubbed, some spotting to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. A few very light touch pencil annotations. Some foxing present. All plates present with some browning. A nice copy.

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BRITISH FERNS AND THEIR ALLIES
Written by Thomas Moore.
Stock no. 1208919
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Circa 1888. Very good condition.

An Abridgment of The Popular History of British Ferns. Comprising The Ferns, Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails. Full calf boards, five raised bands to spine and green title block with gilt title. Marbled text block and endpapers. B/w illustrations to text. 12 hand-coloured plates printed in colours by Evans. iv and 187 pages including index plus plates to rear. Gilt vignette of crestof Ladies College Guernsey to front and rear board. Calf boards are rubbed, scuffed and marked. Binding is tight. Large prize plate to front pastedown. College stamp to fly-leaf and verso of rear endpaper. A few foxspots and light browning, most plates affected by foxing.

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A YEAR AT THE SHORE
Written by Philip Henry Gosse. Illustrated by Philip Henry Gosse.
Stock no. 1208918
Published by Alexander Strahan. 1865. Good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt titles and borders. 36 b/w plates printed in colour by Leighton Brothers. xii and 330 pages including index plus 2 pages publisher adverts to rear. Third printing. Re-backed with original spine laid down. Front pastedown has a couple of small chips, endpapers have a few minor marks. A few margin marks and foxspots. All plates present, colours vivid and bright. One plate has a margin crease. A nice copy considering its age.

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THE OCEAN
Written by Philip Henry Gosse. Illustrated by Mrs. J.W. Whymper.
Stock no. 1208917
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Circa 1860. Very good condition.

Second Edition, revised and updated. In this book, the author has endeavoured to describe, with some minuteness of detail, a few of the many objects of interest ore or less directly connected with the Sea, and especially to lead youthful readers to asociate with the phenomena of Nature, habitual thoughts of God. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations within the text. xii and 360 pages plus 4 pages of publisher adverts to rear. Foxing to covers. Front joint just starting to crack. Some hinges lightly pulled. Foxing throughout. A decent copy.

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MARINE ZOOLOGY FOR THE BRITISH ISLES PART I
Written by Philip Henry Gosse.
Stock no. 1208916
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1855. Very good condition.

A work in two parts of which this is Part I. The author endeavours to furnish the sea-side naturalist, what the Linean Genera Insectorum were to him. This book contains figures of three hundred and forty species of which one hundred and twenty are drawn from living, and one hundred and two from preserved specimens. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations within the text. xi and 203 pages including index plus four page publication adverts to rear. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Text block browned. Top of title page has been cut off and is missing but does not affect the title itself. Some light page browning. Rear endpapers a little grubby. Overall a decent copy.

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LIFE IN ITS LOWER, INTERMEDIATE, AND HIGHER FORMS
Written by Philip Henry Gosse.
Stock no. 1208915
Published by James Nisbet & Co.. 1st 1857. Good condition.

Or, Manifestations of the Divine Wisdom in the Natural History of Animals. The greatest part of this book was originally published in the form of successive papers in "Excelsior." Several entire chapters have been added to make the survey of the animate creation more complete, and the whole haws been carefully revised. Green cltoh boards, gitl title and vignettes to spine, vignette of large bowl with a fish inside to front board. Title to spine is 'Life by P.H. Gosse'. B/w plates and illustrations to text. viii and 363 pages including index. Spine browned, split & worn at edges. Corners rubbed and worn. Contemporary inscription in ink to front endpaper and name in pencil. Joints split, cracked to bottom, starting to come unstuck from spine. Text block browned. Prelims almost detached. A few pencil annotations (underlining), grubby marks and some foxing. A good working copy, sold with all faults.

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THE ROMANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY
Written by Philip Henry Gosse. Illustrated by Philip Henry Gosse; Mrs. J.W. Whymper.
Stock no. 1208914
Published by James Nisbet & Co.. 2nd 1861. Almost very good condition.

1st Series, Second Edition. The author seeks to paint a series of pictures, the reflections of scenes and aspects in nature, which in his mind awaken poetic interest, leaving them to do their proper work. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine, gilt vignette of monkey and boys to front board. 12 b/w illustrations, drawn by Wolf and engraved by Whymper. xiv and 372 pages including index, 4 pages of publisher adverts to rear. Spine & corners ligthly rubbed & worn. New endpapers. Illustrations contents page detached but present. Contents are tight but grubby. All plates present. A decent copy for its age.

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PHILIP HENRY GOSSE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Written by R.B. Freeman; Douglas Wertheimer.
Stock no. 1208913
Published by Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

P.H. Gosse (1810-88) was among the most distinguished natural historians in the nineteenth century. He was a true field naturalist, and all his work is pervaded with his own observations. This bibliography is the result of a collaboration between an expert on Gosse and natural-history writing in general in an attempt to provide a complete inventory of all the writings of Gosse, with full bibliographical descriptions and analysis of various editions, issues and bindings. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xviii and 148 pages including index. ISBN: 0712909354. A nice copy. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby.

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THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE
Written by Gilbert White; Ian Niall. Illustrated by Christopher Wormell.
Stock no. 1830697
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduced by Ian Niall. Green cloth spine, brown title block with gilt title. Marbled paper boards. B/w engravings. Top edge brown. xiv and 384 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slicpase which is very lightly scuffed and lightly rubbed at corners.

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THE BIRDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by Gordon Kirk; John Phillips.
Stock no. 1830680
Published by Liverpool University Press. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

One of the most comprehensive accounts of Gloucestershire's birds ever produced, covering all the species recorded in the county in modern times. Large, heavy format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos. B/w illustrations. xi and 451 pages including index. ISBN: 9781846318085. Text block is very slightly grubby. Contents clean. Picotrial dustwrapper is lightly creased at edges, tiny closed tear (no loss) to lower front panel corner.

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THE CHANGING FLORA OF GLASGOW: URBAN AND RURAL PLANTS THROUGH THE CENTURIES
Written by J.H. Dickson; P. MacPherson; Keith Watson.
Stock no. 1830670
Published by Edinburgh University Press. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Data-gathering for this book started in 1984 and continued well into the late 1990s. A detailed listing of 1,500 species. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w distribution maps and illustrations, a few colour photos. xii and 402 pages. ISBN: 0748613978. Boards clean. Title page has been REMOVED. Top edge of text block lightly foxed. Contents clean. Binding glue visible on joints. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed.

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HETEROMORPH: THE RAREST FOSSIL AMMONITES; NATURE AT ITS MOST BIZARRE
Written by Wolfgang Grulke.
Stock no. 1830608
Published by At One Communications. 1st 2014. Slightly better than very good condition.

Ammonites dominated the sea before and during the time of the dinosaurs. Some ammonites were large predators not unlike today's giant squid; others small and delicate. Three times during their reign of more than 300 million years ammonites experimented with the most bizarre and startling shell shapes. Now, new technology is revealing the full beauty of these 'heteromorph' ammonites and they have become some of the most desirable and passionately collected natural objects. This is their story... and how they are becoming a bivrant part of 21st century lifestyles, art and design. Large oblong format. Matt black pictorial boards. Colour photos and illustrations. 224 pages. ISBN: 9780992974008. SIGNED by the author to half-title page. Black boards are a little scuffed. Contents are fine. A rare and unusual book!

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