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DOLPHINS, WHALES & ME
Written by Mike Bossley.
Stock no. 1831116
Published by Moonglow Publishing. 1st 2022. Very good condition.

Dolphins and whales are a "mind in the waters", with self-awareness, culture, and complex communication. But they, and their cousins the whales, are under threat almost everywhere from hunting, entanglement, habitat damage and toxic pollution. This book puts Dr Mike Bossley's research and activism into an international perspective on the campaign to protect these enigmatic beings. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 264 pages. ISBN: 9780645299526. SIGNED by the author (Best wishes) to title page. Corners of covers lightly worn. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

THE WORLD OF ICE
Written by R.M. Ballantyne. Illustrated by Savile Lumley.
Stock no. 2134975
Published by P.R. Gawthorn Ltd.. Circa 1949. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Youth Classics Series. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Colour frontis. Spotting to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with creasing, chips and tears; some grubby marks.

WILBERFORCE AND THE BLUE CAVE
Written by Leslie Coleman. Illustrated by John Laing.
Stock no. 1108570
Published by Blackie. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 021689770X. A couple of fox spots to outer page edges. Wrapper is lightly browned.

FORT WILBERFORCE
Written by Leslie Coleman. Illustrated by John Laing.
Stock no. 1108569
Published by Blackie. 1st 1977. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0216902150. Some browning to wrapper.

THE MAMMALS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Written by J.G. Millais. Illustrated by J.G. Millais; Archibald Thorburn; G.E. Lodge; Henrik Gronvold.
Stock no. 1706435
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Three volumes. Blue cloth, gilt titles. 14 x 13", large heavy format. Top edge gilt. Limited edition of 1025 copies. With 62 photogravures, 62 coloured plates and 149 uncoloured plates. Copy No. 217. Bookplates to front pastedowns. 12cm split to one side of spine from top to volume 1. Spines faded. Corners worn. Occasional foxspot to contents.

MUSCO BLUE WHALE
Written by Vincent Smith. Illustrated by Wilson Buchanan.
Stock no. 441257
Published by Harper & Row. 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Dark blue boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0063120089. Wrapper is browned and foxed.

A DESCRIPTION OF THREE HUNDRED ANIMALS
No author listed.
Stock no. 597353
Published by J. And F. Rivington. 1774. Good condition.

A Description of Three Hundred Animals viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents and Insects With a Particular Account of The Manner of Their Catching of Whales in Greenland. Extracted from the Best Authors and Adapted to the Use of All Capacities. Illustrated with Copper-Plates, Whereon is Curiously Engraven Every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent and Insect Described in the Whole Book. The Eleventh Edition Carefully Corrected and Amended. Small format. 7 x 4". Full brown leather binding. B/w frontis. Title page in red and black. 212 pages. Numerous b/w illustrations including one large folding plate. Contents very good. Front board almost detached. Boards very worn. A fascinating early natural history book.

THE WING'ED WHALE FROM WOEFULLY
Written by Jonathan Woe. Illustrated by Jonathan Woe.
Stock no. 673041
Published by Hawk Publishing. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition.

The song of a brave little whale who lost his lovely tail. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Bright colour pictures. ISBN: 0962794635. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed.