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TRANSACTIONS OF THE MIDLAND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION WINTER SESSION OF 1864-5
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819468
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co..
1865.
Good condition.
Contents include: On Thor's Cave; On the Nest of the Ten Spined Stickleback; On the Embryo of the Pike; On the Jaw of the British Leopard; On some Peculiarities in the growth of the Hawthorn Tree; and much more. Pink cardwraps. 71 pages plus 19 plates at rear. Writing in blue pencil to front cover, covers are unevenly faded and marked/grubby. Backstrip worn and front cover just starting to split from contents because of this. A little unobtrusive annotation to contents in pencil. Text block browned. Plates have some foxing present.
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- NATURAL HISTORY
- FRESHWATER LIFE
- FOSSILS
- ANTIQUARIAN
TEXT-BOOK OF PALAEONTOLOGY VOL II
Written by Karl A. Von Zittel; Charles R. Eastman; Arthur Smith Woodward.
Stock no. 2133147
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd..
1st thus
1932.
Very good condition.
Translated and edited by Eastman. Second English edition revised with additions by Woodward. Green cloth, gilt title, to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. 464 pages includes index. Volume II only. Spine very slightly bumped at top and tail, corners lightly rubbed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Pages lightly tanned, contents clean.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- GEOLOGY
- FOSSILS
TEXT-BOOK OF PALAEONTOLOGY VOL. III MAMMALIA
Written by Karl A. Von Zittel; Max Schlosser; et al.
Stock no. 2132742
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd..
1st
1925.
Almost very good condition.
Green cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Revised by Schlosser. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some uneven fading/mottling to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- GEOLOGY
- FOSSILS
ECOLOGY OF SALT MARSHES AND SAND DUNES
Written by D.S Ranwell.
Stock no. 2132736
Published by Chapman & Hall.
1975.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Comparing and contrasting the salt marsh and sand dune habitats and the ecological processes operating within them. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates and charts. ISBN: 0412105004. Ink stamp to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine and edges.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- ECOLOGY
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
THE LIVES OF BATS
Written by Wilfried Schober.
Stock no. 2132665
Published by Croom Helm.
1984.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Translated from the German by Sylvia Furness. Revised by A.M. Hutson. Large format. Blue cloth with white title to spine and vignette of bat to front cover. B/w and colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0709923899. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- BATS
- MAMMALS
THE NAMING OF NAMES: THE SEARCH FOR ORDER IN THE WORLD OF PLANTS
Written by Anna Pavord.
Stock no. 2132660
Published by The Bloomsbury Publishing Co. Ltd..
1st
2005.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Maroon boards, black title to spine. Illustrated in full colour, this book gives a compelling insight into a world full of intrigue and intensely competitive egos. ISBN: 0747579520. A few small knocks along cover edges. Wrapper has light edge-creasing.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- BOTANY
TREES AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
Written by Paul Edwards.
Stock no. 2132659
Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd..
1st
1962.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Green cloth with gilt title to spine, vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-tears and chips; a little loss; some browning.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- BOTANY
- TREES
- LANDSCAPE DESIGN
DAINTREE: WHERE THE FOREST MEETS THE REEF
Written by Rupert Russell.
Stock no. 1819036
Published by Kevin Weldon And Associates Pty Ltd; The Australian Conservation Foundation.
1986.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Daintree, Australia, where coastal rainforest meets the sea. The tropical rainforests of Daintree are in danger from developers... Large format. Green glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos. ISBN: 0949708127. Name in ink to half-title page. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- AUSTRALIA
- NATURAL HISTORY
- RAINFOREST
THE MAN WHO LOVES GIANTS
Written by David Shepherd.
Illustrated by David Shepherd.
Stock no. 2132145
Published by David & Charles.
1975.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
An artist among elephants and engines. David Shepherd's Autobiography. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations, colour plates. 164 pages. ISBN: 0715370529. Browning to cover edges. Page edge browning.
- Categorised in:
- ART
- BIOGRAPHY
- RAILWAYS
- NATURAL HISTORY
- ELEPHANT
THE SYLVAN YEAR
Written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton.
Stock no. 1818309
Published by Seeley & Co..
4th
1887.
Good condition.
Fourth Edition. Leaves from the Note-Book of Raoul Dubois. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and brown borders. 8 b/w etchings including frontispiece. 243 pages including index. Top edge gilt. Deckle-edged. Cloth to top of spine worn and frayed. Spine browned, gilt title faded. Heavy foxing to prelims and last few pages. Some margin marks, mainly foxing.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BURREN
Written by Gordon D'Arcy; John Hayward.
Stock no. 1818236
Published by Immel.
2002.
Slightly better than very good condition.
The limestone Karst landscape of the Burren, (Ireland), its Clints and Grykes, home to an enormous variety of plants and animals. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. ISBN: 1898162514. Spine lightly faded.
- Categorised in:
- IRELAND
- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
FAUNA BRITANNICA
Written by Stefan Buczacki.
Stock no. 1818234
Published by Hamlyn.
1st
2002.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
A unique celebration of British wildlife and its role in our cultural history. Large format. Colour photos. ISBN: 0600598675. A few minor marks to boards. Text block a little grubby. Free front endpaper lightly creased. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL