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ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 27 2000
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819476
Published by Science History Publications Ltd.. 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Volume 27 part 1; Pages 1-156, February 2000. Cardwraps. Colour frontis & b/w illustrations. Contents include: John Christopher Thackeray 1948-1999; Confessions of a geological book-collector; The two states of Mantell's Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex: 1827 and c. 1829; Georges Cuvier's paper museum of fossil bones; and more.

JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 9 PART 1
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819474
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1978. Nearly fine condition.

Pages 1-94. November 1978. Green cardwraps, b/w illustrations. Contents include: V.A. Eyles (1895-1978) - an obituary and bibliography; H.C. Richter - John Gould's unknown bird artist; The missing volume of John Gould's working notebook for his Birds of Europe; Two collections of rhinoceros plates compiled by James Douglas and James Parsons in the eighteenth century; and more. Spine slightly faded.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NATURAL SCIENCE BOOKS IN ENGLISH 1600 - 1900
Written by David M. Knight.
Stock no. 1818229
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 262 pages. The collector of scientific books will particularly value the extended bibliographies which follow each chapter. 4 colour and 56 black and white illustrations. Top edge green. ISBN: 071340728X. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards. A few minor grubby marks to text block. Pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, worn at top & tail of spine.

THE HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MAMMALS
Written by Gordon B. Corbet; H.N. Southern.
Stock no. 2130901
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 2nd 1977. Very good condition.

B/w photos and drawings. 2nd edition. ISBN: 0632090804. Spine is faded. Light wrinkling to a few pages.

A TIGER'S TALE
Written by Anup Shah; Manoj Shah.
Stock no. 2129865
Published by Fountain Press. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Maroon boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. The Indian Tiger's Struggle for Survival in the Wild. ISBN: 9780863433917. Some wear to top of spine. Contents are excellent! Wrapper is creased with a few small nicks.

IBP I NORDEN No. 9 MAY 1972
Written by Rolf Vik; Sten Jonsson; et al.
Stock no. 2127991
Published by Scandinavian National Committees Of The Internation Biology Programme. 1972. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. Proceedings of Nordic Symposium on Biological Parameters For Measuring Global Pollution. Spine faded. Light creasing to a couple of corners.

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND THE NICHE
Written by Paul S. Giller.
Stock no. 2127989
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w graphs and illustrations. ISBN: 0412251108. Spine is faded. Couple of corners are a little creased. Bookplate to inside front cover. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author.