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THE BALA VOLCANIC SERIES OF CAERNARVONSHIRE AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS
Written by Alfred Harker.
Stock no. 1712726
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1889. Very good condition.

Being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for 1888. 6 maps. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 130 pages. Spine faded. Corners bumped and rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Contents clean.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
Written by Michael Ruse; Robert J. Richards.
Stock no. 1606009
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. 395 pages including index. ISBN: 9780521691291. Black felt pen mark to edge of textblock.

THE BIOLOGY OF THE CRYPTIC FAUNA OF FORESTS
Written by R.F. Lawrence.
Stock no. 1809530
Published by A.A. Balkema. 1st 1953. Good condition.

With Special Reference to the Indigenous Forests of South Africa. B/w photos and illustrations. 408 pages including index. 'L' in green biro to top of spine. Top rear edge of spine split for 1.5". Joints cracked but binding tight. Tippex to front pastedown. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front endpaper. Front hinge at title page split. Contents clean.

THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
Written by M.J. Hambrey; et al.
Stock no. 1605854
Published by The Geologists' association. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition.

Green pictorial card wraps. 130 pages. B/w illustrations. Geologist's Association Guide No. 44. ISBN: 0707305896. Lower front corner very slightly rubbed.

RIVERMOUTH
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1711670
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Detailed studies of estuary birds. B/w illustrations. Green boards, black title to spine. Boards clean. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Endpapers browned. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper chipped at corners and unevenly browned.

A SEPARATE CREATION
Written by Graham Pizzey.
Stock no. 1711295
Published by Croom Helm. Circa 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour photos. Discovery of Wild Australia by Explorers and Naturalists. ISBN: 0709940254. Couple of edge bumps.

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN ECOLOGY THE BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Written by John Sheail.
Stock no. 1710841
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1st 1987. Nearly fine condition.

Yellow card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0632019174.

BIRD, BEAST AND FLOWER
Written by Ian Parsons. Illustrated by Marie Angel.
Stock no. 2112600
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The world of nature as seen by a group of poets and through the eyes of an outstandingly gift artist. Blue boards, gilt titles. Watercolours by Angel. Poems chosen by Parsons. ISBN: 0701124113. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased, with a few grubby marks.

NATURE CONSERVATION IN BRITAIN (NN 49)
Written by L. Dudley Stamp.
Stock no. 1605533
Published by Collins. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. New Naturalist no. 49. Second impression. ISBN: 0002131528. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Ink annotations on pp. 38-39 and some other pencil marks.Wrapper has small tear and wear at top of spine and is slightly grubby to rear panel.

SALMON THE WORLD'S MOST HARASSED FISH
Written by Anthony Netboy.
Stock no. 1709637
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. The status of one of the world's most extraordinary, and delicious, fish. And the means which can be taken to preserve it. ISBN: 0233968563.

LOWER CARBONIFEROUS FORAMINIFERAL FAUNAS OF THE BORING ORSLEV No. 1, ISLAND OF FALSTER, DENMARK
Written by Olaf Michelsen.
Stock no. 1807792
Published by C.A. Reitzels. 1st 1971. Slightly better than very good condition.

Geological Survey of Denmark II Series No. 98. Text in English and Danish. Green boards. 86 pages + 22 b/w plates. ISBN: 8742106176. SIGNED by author. Corners bumped. Contents fine.

CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY SECOND SERIES
Written by Francis Buckland.
Stock no. 1807771
Published by Richard Bentley. 4th 1963. Very good condition.

Fourth Edition. Small format. Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w frontispiece. xxiv and 360 pages including appendix. One or two instances of pencil annotation to margins.