| AMUCHASTEGUI. (Axel). |
Some Birds and Mammals of Africa. Text by Hilary Hook. London. Tryon Gallery.
1979.
Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies. With 14 coloured plates with guard tissues, folio, pp. [41], bound by Zachnsdorf in quarter dark blue morocco, hand-marbled board sides, vellum-tipped corners, t.e.g., printed on all-rag paper, a fine copy ...
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£175.00 |
| ARCHER. (Mildred). |
Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library. 1962.
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With 25 plates, octavo, good copy in dustjacket.
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£30.00 |
| Bain (Iain) |
The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and his Workshop Apprenticed.
1981.
First Edition 2 vols,with numerous illustrations. fine set in original slipcase pp233 & 230, published at 125
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£25.00 |
| Bell. (Thomas). |
A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea.
1853.
First Edition. Large paper copy, with 174 wood-engravings, nice copy in original cloth, pp. 386.
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£135.00 |
| Beningfield. (Gordon). |
Beningfield's Butterflies. Text by Robert Goodden
1978.
Nice copy in colour illustrated dustjacket, with frontis full page drawing by the Author + 20 other plates, most in colour, some drawings, folio, pp. 92
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£10.50 |
| BRIDSON. (G.D.R.). V.C. Phillips and R.P. harvey |
Natural History manuscripts Resources in the British Isles.
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4to, pp. 473.
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| BRITISH MUSEUM ( NATURAL HISTORY). |
Handbook of Instructions for Collectors. London.
1921.
4th Edition. With illustrations, small octavo, pp. 222, very good copy.
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£18.00 |
| Brooks. (Henry). |
Natal; A history and Description of the Colony; Including Its Natural Features, Productions, Industrial Condition and Prospects.
1876.
With coloured frontis., and mounted photographic plates, nice copy in original cloth, pp. 326.
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£350.00 |
| COLLINS. (N.M.). and M.G.Morris. |
Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. The Iven Red Data Book. 1985.
1985.
With 8 plates, some notes in margins, with dustjacket, pp. 401.
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£15.00 |
| COWARD. (T.A.). |
The Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay.
1910.
With plates, 2 volumes, original cloth, pp. 472 & 210.
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£55.00 |
| DALE. (C.R.). and P.J.Greenway. |
Kenya Trees and Shrubs. Nairobi. 1961.
1961.
First Edition. With 80 plates, octavo, original cloth, front inner joint cracked, covers marked, pp. 654.
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£38.00 |
| DEAKIN. (Richard). |
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
1871.
With handcoloured frontis., and text illustrations, original decorated cloth, good copy.
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£65.00 |
| Derry ( Ramsay) |
The Art of Robert Bateman
1981.
obl. 4 to, with coloured plates, a nice copy in dustjacket. pp178
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£20.00 |
| DIXON. (A.F.). |
The Natural History of the Gorilla. 1981.
1981.
With 24 plates and 52 figures, nice copy in dustjacket, pp. 202.
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£20.00 |
| DUNTHORNE. (Gordon). |
Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Century. Their History Makers and Uses. With a catalogue raisonne of the works in which they are found. Washington.
1938.
First Edition. With plates, some coloured, quarto, good copy in original slipcase, Printed for the Author. Edition Limited to 2500 Copies.
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£125.00 |
| Durrell. (Gerald). and Lee Durrell. |
The Amateur Naturalist. A Practical Guide to the Natural World.
1982.
First Edition. Signed by Gerald and Lee Durrell, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 320.
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£45.00 |
| Epstein. (H.). |
Domestic Animals of China.
1969.
With 205 illustrations, nice copy in dustjacket.
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£45.00 |
| Evelyn. (John). |
Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth. Relating to the Culture and Improvement of it for Vegetation and the Propogation of Plants as it is Presented to the Royal Society. A New Edition with Notes by A.Hunter. York.
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Original boards, worn, uncut, pp. 194.
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£125.00 |
| FARRER. (Reginald). |
My Rock-Garden. 1908.
1908.
Second Edition. With 16 plates, nice copy in decorated cloth, pp. 303.
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£25.00 |
| Farrer. (Reginald). |
On The Eaves of the World.
1926.
2 volumes, second impression, with plates, corner of frontis., of volume 1 little stained and map, nice copy in original cloth, pp. 311 & 328.
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£95.00 |
| FLORIST. (The). |
Volume First january to December 1848.
1848.
With 14 handcoloured plates, nice copy in original cloth, pp. 335.
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£125.00 |
| GRAY. (Sir James). |
Animal Locomotion. 1968.
1968.
With autograph card from the Author, with 8 plates, with dustjacket, pp. 479. The World Naturalist Series.
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£30.00 |
| GREEN. (C.Theodore). |
The Flora of the Liverpool District. Arbroath.
1933.
With frontis., and illustrations, original cloth, little rubbed, pp. 163.
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£15.00 |
| GUILLEMARD. (F.H.H.). |
The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guniea. With notes on Formosa, Liu-Kiu and various Islands of the malay Archipelago.
1886.
With coloured frontispiece by J.keulemans, maps and other illustrations, 2 volumes, original cloth, top and foot of spines and corners little worn, pp. 284 & 399.
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£425.00 |
| Hamilton (Edward) |
The Wild Cat of Europe (Felis Catus)
1896.
Illustrated by P and P Smit. pp99, original cloth, endpapers stained, Desmond Morris's copy scarce,
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£85.00 |
| Hart-Davis ( Duff ) |
Eileen Soper's Badgers
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4to, signed presentation copy from the author, good copy in dustjacket. pp144.
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£10.50 |
| Hart-Davis. (Duff). |
Wildings. The Secret Garden of Eileen Soper.
1991.
Very good copy in illustrated dustjacket, with colour frontis and illustrated title, with plates and illustrations in colour and sepia, also photographic illustrations, pp. 143
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£10.50 |
| Harvie-Brown ( J.A.) and Rev H.A.Macpherson |
A Fauna of the North-West Highlands and Sky.
1904.
with folding map, plates and illustrations, good copy in original cloth. pp372
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£100.00 |
| Hills ( Lawrence D.) |
the Propatation of Alpines.
1959.
second edition, nice copy in dustjacket.pp484
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£20.00 |
| Hovell. (Mark). |
Rats and How To Destroy Them. Dealing With Rats in a House, Shop, Warehouse, Yard, Stable....
1924.
With text illustrations, original cloth, nice copy, pp. 465.
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£40.00 |
| HUDSON. (W.H.). and WILSON. (G.F.). |
A Bibliography of the Writings of W.H.Hudson. 1922.
1922.
With illustrations, with dustjacket, pp. 70.
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£15.00 |
| HUNT. (Rachel MacMasters Miller). |
Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel MacMasters Miller Hunt, 1477-1800.
1958-61.
Edition Limited to 750 sets. 3 volumes, with plates, good set in original buckram.
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£225.00 |
| IRAQ. |
A Survey of the Fauna of Iraq. Made by members of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force 'D'. 1915-1919. Bombay.
1923.
With plates, original cloth, rebacked, small repair to bottom of title page, pp. 404.
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£85.00 |
| JENYNS. (Rev.L.). |
Observations in Natural History; With an Introduction on Habits of Observing, as Connected with the Study of the Science. Also a Calendar of Periodic Phenomena in Natural History. 1846.
1846.
Octavo, original cloth, split at joints and top of spine, corners worn, pp. 440.
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£30.00 |
| JOHNSON. (Thomas), |
Botanical Journeys in Kent and Hampstead. A Facsimile reprint with Introduction and Translation of his Iter Plantarum 1629. Descripto Iternis Pantarum 1632.' Edited by J.S.H.Gilmour. Hunt Botanical Library. 1972.
1972.
With map, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 167.
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£20.00 |
| Johnston ( Sir Harry) |
British Mammals. An attempt to descibe and illustrate the mammalian fauna of the British Islands from the commencement of the Pleistocene period down to the present day.
1903.
4to, with 16 coloured plates and other illustrations, pp405.
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£10.50 |
| Jones. (Rev.J.P.). and J.F.Kingston |
Flora Devoniensis: or, A Descriptive Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild in the County of Devon. Arranged Both According to the Linnean and Natural Systems. With an Account of Their Geographical Distribution etc.
1829.
Modern quarter calf, new endpapers, pp. lvii + 161 & lxvii + 218
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£75.00 |
| Kaden (Vera) |
The Illustration of Plants and Gardens 1500-1850. Victoria and Albert Museum
1982.
With 103 illustrations . 4to,as new in dustjacket.
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£12.00 |
| LAVIN . (J.C.). and G.T.D. WIlmore. |
The West Yorkshire Plant Atlas. Bradford.
1994.
With plates and maps, 4to, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 287.
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£15.00 |
| LEACH. (David G.). |
Rhododendrons of the World and How to Grow Them. London.
1962.
With 16 plain plates from photographs, 1 coloured and folding plate, plus numerous line drawings in the text, quarto, pp. 544, cloth slightly rubbed, dustjacket torn and defective.
[2620]
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£30.00 |
| Lydekker. (R.). |
The Ox and Its Kindred.
1912.
With 55 illustrations, original cloth, little damp marked, pp. 271.
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£85.00 |
| MacGILLIVRAY. (William). |
A History of the Molluscous Animals of the Counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, to which is appended and account of the Cirripedal Animals of the same district.
1843.
12mo, original cloth, lacks half title , pp. 372.
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£75.00 |
| Maclean. (Fitzroy). |
Back To Bokhara.
1959.
Good copy in dustjacket, with colour illustrated endpapers, with double frontis., map and 28 plates, pp. 156
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£20.00 |
| MASSON. (F.). |
Stapeliae Novae: or, A Collection of Several New Species of that Genus Discovered in the Interior Part of Africa.
1796.
First Edition. With 41 hand-coloured plates, after drawings by the Author, folio, last 4 plates with slight stain on extreme outer corner, the final plate with blank corner renewed otherwise a nice copy in contemporary half cloth, recent slipcase...
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£4250.00 |
| MEE. (Margaret). |
In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests. Diaries of an English Artist Reveal the Beauty of the vanishing Rain FOrest. Edited by Tony Morrison. Woodbridge, Suffolk.
1988.
First Edition. With colour frontis., and numerous colour plates, text illustrations & line drawings by Margaret Mee, plus text illustrations from photographs, small folio, pp. 302, publisher's cloth, coloured pictorial endpapers & pastedowns, fi...
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£48.00 |
| MERIAN . (M.S.). Rueker. (E.). and W.T.Stearn. |
Maria Sibylla Merian in Surinam. Commentary to the Facsimile Edition of Metamophosis Insectorum Surinamensium (Amsterdam 1705). Based on Original Watercolours in the Royal Library of Windsor Castle.
1982.
Edition Limited to 950 copies, this copy number 8. 2 volumes, large folio, 1 volume quarter calf, 1 volume full morocco,
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£600.00 |
| MURIE. (Olaus J.). |
The Elk of North America. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1951.
First Edition. With colour frontis., 29 plain plates from photographs, plus 32 text figures, 8vo, pp. 376, cloth rubbed.
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£20.00 |
| NORELLI. (Martina R.). |
American Wildlife Painting. New York. 1975.
1975.
With numerous illustrations, many coloured, quarto, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 224.
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£22.00 |
| Oxford |
Notes from a collector's catalogue
1909.
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£25.00 |
| Percival. (Rev. Peter). |
The Land of The Veda: India briefly Described In Some of its Aspects, Physical, Social, Intellectual and Moral.
1854.
Original decorated cloth, covers faded, small split to head of spine, with frontis., + other plates and illustrations, with fold out map to back of book, pp. xii + 515
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£38.00 |
| POORTVLEIT. (Rien). |
.. de Vossen Hebben Holen. Bussum. 1976.
1976.
First Edition. With coloured illustrations by the Author, quarto, good copy in dustjacket.
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£20.00 |
| Poortvliet ( Rien ) |
Noah's Ark
1986.
folio, with numerous colour illustrations by the author, good copy in dustjacket.
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£30.00 |
| PRESTON. (Rev.T.A.). |
The Flowering Plants of Wilts. With Sketches of the Physical Geography and Climate of the County, Wiltshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society.
1888.
With folding and colour map as frontispiece plus one other folding map in text, octavo, pp. lxix + 436, publisher's dark green cloth gilt rubbed, head & foot of spine little worn, library class mark on base of spine, indelible library stamp on v...
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£55.00 |
| Rhodesiana Society |
Silver Jubilee Posrtfolio of Botanical Prints.
1978.
Edition Limited to 500 numberes copies, a portfolio of 6 coloured plates in slipcase.
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£78.00 |
| Rintoul (L.J.) and E.V.Baxter |
A Vertebrate Fauna of Forth.
1935.
With plates and folding map, pp397. good copy
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£50.00 |
| ROBERTS. (Austin). |
The Mammals of South Africa. Cape Town. 1951.
1951.
First Edition. With 23 coloured plates by P.J.Smit and other illustrations, quarto, original cloth, pp. 700.
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£45.00 |
| ROBINSON. (J.F.). |
The Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Including a Physiographical Sketch.
1902.
With folding map, pp. 253.
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£15.00 |
| SAUNDERS. (James). |
The Field Flowers of Bedfordshire. 1911.
1911.
Interleaved copy, original cloth, pp. 91.
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£20.00 |
| Schaller. (George B.). |
Stones of Silence. Journeys in the Himalayas.
1980.
Good copy in dustjacket, with illustrated endpapers, with 6 maps and 12 pages of colour plates after page 116, pp. 292
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£20.00 |
| SETON. (Ernest Thompson). |
Life-Histories of Northern Animals. An Account of the Mammals of manitoba. New York.
1909.
First Edition. With 56 maps and 560 drawings by the Author, 2 volumes, large octavo, original cloth, labels, pp. 1267.
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£135.00 |
| SETON. (George). |
St. Kilda. Past and Present. Edinburgh.
1888.
With plates and illustrations, original cloth, joints very worn and split, pp. 346.
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£125.00 |
| SEWARD. (A.C.). |
Plant Life Through the Ages. A Geological and Botanical Retrospect. Cambridge. 1941.
1941.
With 140 illustrations, octavo, with dustjacket, pp. 607.
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£20.00 |
| Shackleton-Rowett. |
Report on the Geological Collections made During the Voyage of the 'Quest' on the Shackletn-Rowett Exedition to the SOuth Atlantic and Weddell Sea in 1921-1922. British Museum.
1930.
With frontis., and two plates, good copy in original cloth, pp. 161.
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£125.00 |
| Shepherd (David) |
An Artist in Africa.
1969.
obl4to, good copy in dustjacket.
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£15.00 |
| Shepherd. (David). |
David Shepherd. The Man and His Paintings.
1987.
Signed copy, fine copy in dustjacket, oblong folio, with many plates in colour and also text drawings, pp, 168
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£20.00 |
| Shiras. (George). |
Hunting WIld Life with Camera and Flashlight. Washington D.C.
1936.
2 volumes, original cloth with gilt, vol. 1 Lake Superior Region, with maps and many illustrations from pictures, pp. xxi + 450. Vol. 2 Wild Life of Coasts, Islands and Mountains. with inumerable photographic illustrations, pp. viii +454. PLEASE...
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£20.00 |
| SIMMS. (Colin). |
Lives of British Lizards. Norwich. 1970.
1970.
With 4 coloured plates and 18 illustrations, octavo, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 128.
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£18.00 |
| SIMPSON. (Charles). |
The Firlds of Home. A Book of English Field and Hedgerow, Coastline and Moorland.
1948.
Original cloth, with chipped and watermarked dustjacket, with colour mounted frontis and many other illustrations, some in colour, pp. 114
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£10.50 |
| Sinclair. (A.R.E.). |
The African Buffalo. A Study of Resource Limitation of Populations. Wildlife behaviour and Ecology Series. Chicago.
1977.
Good copy in illustrated dustjacket with protective wrapper, with graphs, maps and 41 plates, pp. xii + 355
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£20.00 |
| SITWELL. (S.). and W.Blunt. |
Great FLower Books. 1700-1900. A Bibliography Record of Two Centuries of Finely Illustrated FLower Books.
1956.
Edition Limited to 1750 copies. With coloured plates, folio, without dustjacket.
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£150.00 |
| Skinner. (M.P.). |
Bears in the Yellowstone. Chicago.
1925.
Nice copy in original decorated cloth, with frontis., + 55 other plates, pp. 158
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£15.00 |
| SMITHERS. (Reay H.N.). |
The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Pretoria.
1983.
With coloured plates by Clare Abbott, de luxe edition in full calf, quarto, pp. 736.
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£75.00 |
| Sowerby. (Arthur De Carle). |
Sowerby of China.
1956.
Good copy in clean illustrated dustjacket, with frontis portrait + 5 other plates and fold-out family tree to back of book, pp. 58
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£20.00 |
| Stahl |
Making a Living With Rabbits
1993.
Limited Edition 1 of 10 copies
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£12.00 |
| STEWART. (Robert). |
Handbook of the Torquay Flora: Comprising the Flowering Plants and Ferns Growing in and Around Torquay, With Their Respective Habitats. Torquay.
1860.
Original cloth, top and foot of spine worn, pp. 187.
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£28.00 |
| Stretch. (Richard H.). |
Illustrations of the Zygaenidae and Bombyeidae of North America. Volume 1, part 1 of 9. July 1872 to Dec. 1873. (All Published). San Francisco.
1873.
With 10 hand-coloured plates, half morocco, original wrappers bound in, pp. 242.
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£400.00 |
| THOMPSON. (Ralph). |
An Artist's Safari. With numerous Sketches by the Author.
1970.
Limited to 250 signed copies, this copy not numbered as it was the Binder's File Copy, oblong folio, original half parchment, in slipcase.
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£235.00 |
| Thorburn. (Archibald). |
Works by Archibald Thorburn from The Thorburn Museum. Sold at Sotheby's, 31st March, 1993.
1993.
With coloured plates, with estimates and Price List, pp. 126.
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£30.00 |
| Tryon. (Aylmer). |
Kingfisher Mill.
1985.
Good copy in dustjacket, with illustrated endpapers, + many beautiful illustrations throughout the book, pp. 94
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£12.00 |
| Venables (L.S.V.) and U.M.Venables. |
Birds and Mammals of Shetland.
1955.
with illustrations, good copy in dustjacket. pp391,
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£25.00 |
| Waterhouse. (G.R.). |
Catalogue of British Coleoptera. Interleaved copy wiyh A.L. from the Author Who Worked for the British Museum.
1858.
Finely bound in contemporary red calf, little worn at the top f spine, pp. 126.
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£125.00 |
| Waterton. (Charles). |
Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles in the Year 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824.
1825.
First Edition. With frontis., foxed, 4to, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, pp. 326.
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£300.00 |
| Whiteley (Derek ) editor |
The Natural History of the Sheffield area and the Peak District.
1985.
Sorby Natural History society, good copy in dustjacket. pp255
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£10.00 |
| Yalden ( B.W.) and P.A. Morris |
The lives of Bats
1975.
with illustrations, good copy in dustjacket. pp247
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£8.50 |
| YIN. (U Tun). |
Wild Animals of Burma. Rangoon.
1967.
With numerous plates from photographs, small quarto, pp. 301, cloth-backed boards.
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£55.00 |