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$22.50
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An Introduction to the Freshwater Crustacea of New Zealand


CHAPMAN, ANN & LEWIS, MAUREEN H.

Ex library, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Collins 1976

KEYWORDS: specials M A Ann Chapman M H Maureen Lewis New Zealand freshwater crustacea crustaceans marine life natural history

$9.50
xxkvb70698

The Mentality of Apes


KOHLER, WOLFGANG & WINTER, ELLA (Trans)

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Pelican/Penguin 1957

KEYWORDS: specials Wolfgang Kohler Ella Winter chimpanzees animal behaviour psychology natural history biology science research

$245.00
1a3a/13

Atlas der Alpenflora herausgegeben von Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein


PALLA, DR

Five-volume set, octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, all edges stained red, 500 pp in five volumes (100 full-page photolithographic colour plates per volume), illus, VG (archival tape repair to sides/edges of spines on three vols, light bruising & fraying to board edges & corners & spine extrems, light tanning) TEXT IN GERMAN

PUBLISHER: Lindauer'schen Buchhandlung 1897

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN Dr Palla Germany Austrian flora mountain alpines flowers natural history botany

$25.00
xxhqx72369

The Animals of New Zealand


An Account of the Dominion's Air-Breathing Vertebrates

HUTTON, CAPTAIN F. W. & DRUMMOND, JAMES

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1923

KEYWORDS: specials Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton James Drummond New Zealand natural history fauna animals birds ornithology marine mammals reptiles

$100.00
1d26/3

The Girl's Own Annual Illustrated Volume 37 (XXXVII)


KLICKMAN, FLORA (Ed)

Quarto, brown illus cloth boards with yellow lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, black & yellow decorative rule to spine & front boad, illus eps, title page with tissue guard, 720pp, illus, VG- (binding loose & cracked at page 2/3 gutter, some fraying to spine extrems & board corners, slight staining to rear board, fraying to front hinge, some browning to page edges & to tissue guard, occasional foxing)

PUBLISHER: 4 Bouverie St 1916 (?)

KEYWORDS: Girls Own Annual literature fiction arts crafts sport fashion clothing natural history cooking art entertainment housekeeping

$75.00
1d26/4

The Girl's Own Annual Illustrated Volume 48 (XLVIII)


KLICKMAN, FLORA (Ed)

Quarto, green cloth boards with red lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, green & red holly motif to spine & front board,, mounted illus panel to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page with tissue guard, 704pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, some foxing & tanning)

PUBLISHER: 4 Bouverie St 1928

KEYWORDS: Girls Own Annual literature fiction arts crafts sport fashion clothing natural history cooking art entertainment housekeeping

$100.00
1d26/5

The Girl's Own Annual Illustrated Volume 44 (XLIV)


KLICKMAN, FLORA (Ed)

Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & green lettering to front board, illus to front board, black&white decorative rule to front board & spine, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page with tissue guard, 704pp, illus, VG (bruising to spine extrems, 1cm tear to cloth of board fore-edge, slight fraying to board corners, light browning to page edges, owner'sname & date in ink to prelim, light tanning to tissue guard, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: 4 Bouverie St 1923

KEYWORDS: Girls Own Annual literature fiction arts crafts sport fashion clothing natural history cooking art entertainment housekeeping

$8.50
xxkxb73510

The Overloaded Ark


DURRELL, GERALD

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1959

KEYWORDS: specials Gerald Durrell Africa travel autobiography memoir literature natural history

$22.50
xxkxu74334

The Story of Fish-Life


PYCRAFT, W. P.

Duodecimo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton (nd)

KEYWORDS: specials W P Pycraft fish natural history science biology

$25.00
xxkxt74321

Remote the Land's Heart: Wildlife and Landscape in Southern New Zealand


GASKIN, CHRIS

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe

KEYWORDS: specials Chris Gaskin New Zealand South Island wildlife landscape natural history

$100.00
1d28/20

Gamekeepers For The Nation


The Story Of New Zealand's Acclimatisation Societies 1861-1990

MCDOWALL, R. M.

small quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus, ix + 508pp, near fine in d/w nr fine (slight creasing)

PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: R M McDowall new zealand natural history pest control hunting fishing gamekeepers sport

$22.50
xxfaa75647

Journal of Researches inot the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle round the World


with a biographical introduction

DARWIN, CHARLES

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & CO (n/d)

KEYWORDS: specials Charles Darwin travel science geology HMS Beagle journals diaries natural history

$22.50
xxfbf76243

Vanuatu: 10 Years of Independence; 10 Yia Blong Independens; Dix Ans d'Independence


WHYTE, JENNY (Ed)

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Other People Publications 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Vanuatu history economy natural resources government religion politics

$13.50
xxfbg76299

Birds of New Zealand


Museum Pictorial No. 11

BAILEY, ALFRED M.

Super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Denver Museum of Natural History 1955

KEYWORDS: specials Alfred M Bailey New Zealand birds natural history ornithology

$32.50
xxfbi76442

Out in the Open


POTTS, T. H.

Capper Press facsimile reprint, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1976

KEYWORDS: specials T H Potts New Zealand wildlife plants animals science natural history conservation

$22.50
xxfbi76428

The Death of Old Yokohama in the Great Japanese Earthquake of September I, 1923


POOLE, OTIS MANCHESTER

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: George Allen and Unwin 1968

KEYWORDS: specials Otis Manchester Poole Japan Japanese earthquake Yokohama natural disaster history first edition

$19.50
xxfbg76294

Australian Native Plants


BLOMBERY, A. M.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1986

KEYWORDS: specials A M Blombery Australia Australian native plants trees natural history reference

$165.00
1d32/14

Wild Life in Southern Seas


BECKE, LOUIS / BECKE, GEORGE LEWIS

First edition (colonial edition), ownership signature & date of historian AA Grace, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 369pp + 6pp book adverts, VG- (some rubbing to spine & boards, some bruising to spine extrems, light bruising & fraying to board edges & corners, front gutter cracked & binding sloppy, moderate browning to eps & page edges, annotation in pencil to rear ep)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1897

KEYWORDS: first colonial edition Louis Becke Pacific Australia Polynesia travel wildlife natural history literature

$120.00
1d32/21

Dragonflies


With 53 Colour Plates by S Beaufoy, 16 Photographs in Black & White, 200 Maps and Diagrams with Key to Larvae by AE Gardner

CORBET, PHILIP & LONGFIELD, CYNTHIA & MOORE, N. W.

First edition, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii +260pp, illus, VG (some tanning to eps, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light browning to spine, heavy tanning & foxing to inside & to rear, light bruising & 1cm closed tear to upper spine extre)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1960

KEYWORDS: first edition Philip Corbet Cynthia Longfield NW Moore natural history dragonflies insects entomology biology zoology

$65.00
1d32/28

The New Naturalist: Hedges


POLLARD, E. & HOOPER, M. D. & MOORE, N. W.

First edition, octavof, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, VG+ (v slight fading to board edges & spine extrems, light tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Collins 1974

KEYWORDS: first edition E Pollard MD Hooper NW Moore Hedges Britain British countryside wildlife natural history ecology environment

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