Books on Natural History
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Cape Peninsula. South African Wild Flower Guide 3.
239p white paperback, very good copy, bright and clean, new edition 1983
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Darwin's Moon. A Biography of Alfred Russel Wallace.
x 261p hardback with illustrated jacket, jacket spine has sticker trace/scuff, front pastedown has ...
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Scuttle Flies. Diptera, Phoridae (except Megaselia).
81p paperback, yellow cover, good condition, binding tight, text clear, diagrams and photos clear ...
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Scuttle Flies. Diptera, Phoridae. Genus Megaselia.
155p paperback, yellow cover, very good condition, binding tight, pages unmarked, text clear, all ...
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Diptera Checklist.
369p white hardback, very good condition, binding firm, a few very minor smudge marks to cover, ink ...
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I Libri di Botanica Appartenuti a Felice Viali (1638-1722), Prefetto dell'Orto e Lettore dei Semplici nello Studio di Padova: Mostra delle Incisioni.
115p tall format paperback, ivory card cover, with frontispiece, a fresh and clean copy, with plates
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Drosophilidae of Australia V. Remaining Genera and Synopsis (Insecta: Diptera).
164p paperback scientific journal, blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, a ...
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Geology of the Ancient Rocks of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.
160p hardback in blue cloth, some very light wear to cover edges and corners, sides a little ...
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The Origin of Vertebrates.
ix 537p hardback first edition, boards are dark grey cloth with gilt lettering, edges and surfaces ...
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Bretagne. Guides Geologiques Regionaux. 2e Edition.
209p paperback, French language, minimal wear to cover edges and surfaces, pages very clean and ...
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A Catalogue of the Diptera of America North of Mexico.
iv 1696p hardback in green cloth, general wear and tear, edges and surfaces worn, spine and boards ...
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Triangulate Monograptids from the Monograptus Gregarius Zone (lower Llandovery) of the Rheidol Gorge (Cardiganshire)
70p large format, brown card cover with black lettering, light library stamp, many illustrations ...
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On the Nature of Things. A Translation in the Metre of the Original by L L Johnson.
242p hardback with yellow jacket, nice clean copy, light library markings, hardly used, tight and ...
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton. Fourth Edition.
xii vii 568p full calf binding with gilt arms to front (Edinburgh Institution), marbled edges, ...
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The Anatomy and Morphology of Tmesiipteris.
24p offprint, grey paper cover, with plates "from the author", library stamp, very good
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The Mechanical Properties of Biological Materials.
viii 513p hardback, green cloth with pale green jacket, good condition, some light wear to jacket ...
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Hunters and Early Farmers in Britain.
48p landscape format booklet, title page missing, all other pages clean, a useful copy
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Prehistoric Britain.
92p booklet, clear protective sleeve added to cover, clean text, firm binding, heart shape and ...
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The Microbe Man. A Life of Pasteur for Children. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings.
xv 154p hardback with black lettering to front, illustrations, illustrated dustjacket bound in the ...
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Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Tomo 93, Núms 1 - 4.
vii 207p paperback, in excellent condition, clean pages, firm, a well preserved copy
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A Contribution to the Flora and Vegetation of Isla de los Estados (Staten Island), Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
177p large format, navy cloth, bright gilt lettering to front and spine, illustrated, clean pages, ...
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Antarctic Soils and Soil Forming Processes.
177p large format, navy cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, illustrated, clean pages, firm ...
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Invertebrate-Microbial Interactions.
xi 349p hardback with dustjacket, a fresh copy, clean and firm, in excellent condition overall, as ...
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Circle of the Sciences. Vol 9: Economic Botany, Crystallography, Mineralogy.
Large hardback, original maroon blindstamped cloth with gilt titles to spine and large bright gilt ...
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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A Discussion Paper.
25p stapled pamphlet, in excellent condition, clean pages, well preserved
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Guide to Some of East Africa's Flowering Trees and Shrubs.
32p oblong format stapled guide, illustrated, clean pages, staples in good condition, cover edges ...
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Shell Guide to East African Birds.
28p oblong format stapled guide, illustrated, clean pages, staples in good condition, cover edges ...
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Guide to Some of East Africa's Upland Flowers.
30p oblong format stapled guide, clean full colour pages, staples in good condition, cover edges ...
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The Angler's Guide, Abridged for the Use of Young Anglers: Containing The Angler's Progress - The Art of Trolling for Jack and Pike, and Fly-Fishing: also Bottom or Float Fishing, and Trimmer Angling: etc. The Second Edition.
iv 92p original paperback with printed cover, one folding frontispiece (Killing a Pike) and a ...
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A New Family Herbal: Or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts. The Plants Drawn from Nature by Henderson, and Engraved on Wood, by Thomas Bewick.
xvi 901p very strong and decorative half morocco binding dating from approx 1920, a nice strong ...
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A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on The Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates, etc: Sixth Edition, Revised and Improved, To which is added A Memoir of the Author.
xxxii 528p original burgundy cloth blindstamped to boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece ...
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Radnorshire Birds. Annual Report 1987.
394p stapled booklet, cover in excellent condition, clean pages, well preserved, scarce
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Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand. Settlement of Otago.
xiii 342p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, in excellent condition, like new
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New Zealand Wildflowers.
24p small format stapled booklet, card cover in very good condition, clean full colour pages, well ...
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Light. Colour and Life for the World.
51p hardback, dustjacket in good condition overall, clean pages, firm, a very useful copy
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The Common Objects of the Sea Shore: Including Hints for an Aquarium.
viii 204p original red patterned cloth with gilt design to spine (dull), colour frontispiece and ...
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Class Book of Botany, being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable Kingdom.
xxiii 1114p full calf volume, title label to spine, spine well gilt, very small hurt to top of ...
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The Angler's Guide, being a New, Plain and Complete Practical Treatise on the Art of Angling for Sea, River and Pond Fish, to which is Added a Treatise on Trolling, with Numerous New Cuts and Engravings. Sixth Edition.
viii 382p full calf binding a little aged, inner hinges repaired, spine with gilt décor, including ...
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The Material Universe, its Vastness and Durability.
vi 248p original blue cloth blindstamped and with gilt lettering to spine and front, colour ...
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Hiroshige Birds and Flowers.
192p large format hardback with blue illustrated dustjacket, lovely copy with 91 colour plates ...
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The Fine Structure of Electrocytes in Weakly Electric Teleosts.
30p offprint with plates, together with a few related offprints by the same entitled Mode of ...
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction.
300p hardback, tighly bound with no previous signs of use, contains some black and white ...
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The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions.
xvii 199p red hardback with photograph on dustjacket, tighly bound, 16 plates many illusrtations, a ...
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Plant Life on Land, Considered in some of its Biological Aspects.
172p red cloth with frame design, index, nice fresh copy, first edition, name in pencil to ...
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British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. Illustrated by W Frohawk. Volume 2: Order Passeres.
folio size cloth volume, publisher's original bevelled green cloth, gilt design to spine and ...
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British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. Illustrated by W Frohawk. Volume 6: Order Gaviae, Order Pygopodes and Order Tubinares.
folio size cloth volume, publisher's original bevelled green cloth, gilt design to spine and ...
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British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. Illustrated by W Frohawk. Volume 3: Order Picariae, Orders Striges and Accipitres, Order Steganopodes.
folio size cloth volume, publisher's original bevelled green cloth, gilt design to spine and ...
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Phycology.
xii 478p large paperback, green illustrated cover, many illustrations in the text, excellent fresh ...
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A History of British Fishes. Illustrated by Nearly 400 Woodcuts. In Two Volumes. With Supplement Volume.
Together three volumes, supplement is in two parts (complete), bound in original cloth, main ...
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The Sea and its Living Wonders. A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Maritime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Fourth Edition.
xx 518p half calf binding binding expertly repaired, many illustrations throughout, also in colour ...
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