Books on Natural History
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Shade and Ornamental Trees. Their Origins and History.
282p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, name to endpaper
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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 fromntispiece (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.
xxii 528p original burgundy cloth blindstamped to boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece ...
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Familiar Wild Flowers. First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Series.
Complete set, each volume 160p in original green decorated cloth very bright and fresh, spine ...
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Reflections on the Being and Attributes of God; and on his Works, both in Nature and Providence, for every day of the Year. Volume 1 ONLY. (= Miscellaneous Works of Adam Clark, LLD FAS, Vol 3)
xx 424p original brown cloth with title lettering to spine, portrait frontispiece with tissue ...
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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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Wax and Gold. Tradition and Innovation in Ethopian Culture.
xvi 315p hardback, dustjacket in good overall condition, clean pages, firm binding, a very useful ...
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L'Histoire de Maghreb. Un Essai de Synthèse.
390p paperback, cover in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, a nice copy
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High Arctic. An Expedition to the Unspoiled North.
viii 116p A4 format hardback, dustjacket in very good condition, clean pages, firm binding, a well ...
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The Lost Giants. A Tale of Tortoises in the Seychelles.
87p booklet, illustrated, fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, a well preserved copy
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An Historical Geography of Europe 450 BC - AD 1330.
xiv 475p thick paperback, illustrated, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, a well preserved ...
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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 excelletn 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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The Painted Hills. Rock Art of the Matopos, Zimbabwe.
102p landscape format paperback, cover a bit worn, all pages are clean, some excess adhesive ...
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Flowers of the Holy Land. Blumen des Heiligen Lande.
12 specimens neatly arranged on their pages with individual tissue guards to eack, burgundy leather ...
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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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History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on Wood by T Bewick. Vol 1. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Vol 2. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds.
two volumes bound in full morocco (?1950), title labels to spine, fresh and clean set, first ...
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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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Half Hours in Air and Sky. Marvels of the Universe.
375p blue cloth ornately decorated in black and gilt, hot air balloon to front, telescope to spine, ...
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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 Science of Dry Fly Fishing.
xii 142p xxviii large hardback, illustrated green boards, some foxing particularly to endpapers, ...
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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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The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters.
vii 356p hardback with dustjacket, red spine, tightly bound, no signs of previous use, a clean and ...
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Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect Life.
xx 229p hardback with purple dustjacket, no previous signs of use, tightly bound, clean and fresh ...
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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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Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets.
xiii 239p hardback with blue dustjacket, tightly bound, an excellent copy, no wearing or signs of ...
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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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British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. Illustrated by W Frohawk. Volume 2: Orders Gallinae, Fulicariæ, and Alectorides, Order Limicolae.
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 Royal Natural History. Six Volumes in Twelve Parts.
this is an excellent bright set in twelve cloth volumes, all corners sharp, cloth bright gilt, all ...
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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.
xx 518p half calf binding a little soft in the hinges but boards still holding well, many ...
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton.
xxii 568p original green cloth fresh and gilt design still quite fresh, inner hinges intact, all ...
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Hedgehog, Squirrel and Dormouse.
24p small hardback, green unclipped illustrated dustjacket, very good condition, clean and fresh, ...
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Badger, Mole and Rabbit.
2p small hardback with green unclipped illustrated dustjacket, very good condition, clean and ...
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Otter, Weasel and Watervole.
2p small orange hardback, illustrated boards, very good condition, clean and fresh, first edition
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