Books - "natural history"
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Australia's Butterflies
Imperial Octavo softcover (VG) illus; 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: Kangaroo 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Wilson Australian butterlies natural history insects photography
150 Treasures
Limited numbered edition (153 of 200) in slipcase, folio, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus mounted to front board, brown eps, 195pp, illus, nr fine, in slipcase, black cloth boards with silver lettering & mounted illus to board, VG+ (v slight rubbing to boards)
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2001
KEYWORDS: Krzysztof Pfeiffer Auckland War Memorial Museum New Zealand artefacts treasures art collections science natural history craft
Currents & Eddies: Chips from the Log of an Artist-Angler; Coverts & Casts: Field Sports and Angling in Words & Pictures
Two-volume set in slipcase, large quarto, red boards with gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt fish motif to front boards, frontispiece, xii + 138pp, xiv + 138pp, illus, nr fine (slight staining to spines) in matching slipcase, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Freshnet Press 1970
KEYWORDS: William J Schaldach sport fishing angling art painting natural history
The Story of New Zealand Volcanoes
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 1977
KEYWORDS: specials GL Pearce New Zealand volcanoes geology volcanology natural history
Wetlands of New Zealand: A Bitter-Sweet Story
Folio, illus heavy card boads with white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, nr. fine
PUBLISHER: Random House2007
KEYWORDS: Janet Hunt New Zealand natural history wetlands ecology flora fauna
Dark Estuary
First edition, quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained red, frontispiece, xii + 164pp, illus, VG- (some staining to boards, moderate foxing & browning to page edges and eps, some foxing throughout, inscription in ink to fep, bookseler's stamp to fep) in d/w, G+ (price clipped, heavy creasing & tatty tears to edges, some staining)
PUBLISHER: Hollis & Carter 1953
KEYWORDS: first edition DJ Watkins-Pitchford BB natural history wildfowl birds ornithology art painting hunting shooting sport
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, a Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883
First edition, recased ex library, folding maps all present and clean, suer octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xx + 536 +32pp book catalogue, folding maps, illus, VG (usual library markings, v light soiling to boards, light tanning esp to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle& Rivington 1885
KEYWORDS: Henry O Forbes travel exploration natural history first edition
Grub The Bush Baby
Scarce in such tidy condition, small quarto, illus heavy card boards with white lettering to spine & front board, green eps, unpaginated, illus, VG (light soiling to rear, slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small stain spot to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1970
KEYWORDS: Jane Goodall Grub Hugo Africa childhood photography photographs natural history
The Royal Natural History
Illustrated with Seventy-two Coloured Plates and Sixteen Hundred Engravings
12 volume set, a handsome set with lovely bindings, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black & gilt tooled decoration to front board & spine, a.e.g, yellow eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, about 300pp per volume, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, some bruising & light fraying to spine extrems, some rubbing to board edges & corners, some fraying to board corners, v light foxing & tanning to prelims including tissue gurd but not affecting frontis, f.e.p. of volume 1 nearly loose, 2cm chip from edge of f.e.p. of vol VII)
PUBLISHER: Frederick Warne & Co. 1894
KEYWORDS: Richard Lydekker PL Sclater natural history animals biology ecology
Two in the Bush
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: Fontana / Collins 1973
KEYWORDS: specials Gerald Durrell travel memoir natural history
Terra Australia 14: 30,000 Years of Aboriginal Occupation: Kimberley, North West Australia
Folio, illus light card covers, xviii + 155pp, illus, VG+ (slight creasing to front & rear cover upper corners)
PUBLISHER: ANH Publications / Australian National University 1999
KEYWORDS: Sue O'Connor archaeology natural history Australia Aboriginal Aborigine Kimberley
Castle Hill
Octavo, green boards with orange cloth spine, frontispiece, vii + 58pp, illus, VG (slight staining to rear board, some tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG (browning to spine & less so to edges, light creasing to edges, bruising & chipping to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams Ltd 1951
KEYWORDS: EC Richards New Zealand Enys W Izard Mrs Brittan Canterbury Castle HillTrelissick local natural history Haast
Recent Brachiopods from New Zealand: Collected Offprints of a Suite of Eleven Papers Published in New Zealand Journal of Zoology Vol. 8 (1981) No. 2
Imperial octavo, green light card covers, printed eps, 115pp (numbered 133-248), illus, VG- (moderate soiling to covers, light crease to rear cover, owner's name stamp to front cover & f.e.p., light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Science Information Division DSIR 1981
KEYWORDS: Joyce Richardson New Zealand brachiopods marine biology zoology science ecology natural history
An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agricuture and Plants in New Zealand: The Scale-Insects (Coccididae)
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & motif to front board, patterned eps, 116pp + xxiii plates with descriptions on facing pages, VG- (mottled heavy fading to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, rubbing with slight loss of surface to board edges. some tanning to eps & page edges, owner's bookplate to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Geo. Didsbury, Government Printer 1887
KEYWORDS: WM Maske New Zealand agriculture scale insects coccididae entomology ecology pests natural history
A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda, Based on the Collections in the British Museum (Natural History: Part I, Octopodinae and Part II, The Octopoda
2 volume set, imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, blind rule to boards, xi + 236 + 7 plates (vol I), xi + 359pp + 6 plates (vol II), illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, slight fading to spines, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The British Museum 1929
KEYWORDS: GC Robson cephalopoda octopdinae octopoda octopus marine biology zoology natural history science
Diatomees des Alpes et du Jura et de la Region Suisse et Francaise des Environs de Geneve and Vegetations Pelagiques et Microscopiques du Lac de Geneve (Au Printemps de 1884)
TEXT IN FRENCH, octavo, quarter- bound patterned red boards with gilt lettering & bands to black leather spine, marbled eps, 146pp + 9 plates + 17pp, illus, VG- (moderate-heavy rubbing to boards & spine, light bruising to board corners, bookseller's sticker to upper front pastedown, rear gutter cracked, gutters towards rear cracked, some foxing to prelims, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: H. Georg / Georges Massonn 1880
KEYWORDS: J Jacques Brun TEXT IN FRENCH diatomees diatoms jura marine biology science pelagiques natural history
Die Osterreichischen Diatomaceen Nebst Anschluss Einiger Neuen Arten Von Andern Lokalitaten und Einer Kritischen Uebersicht der Bisher Bekannten Gallungen und Arten
TEXT IN GERMAN, octavo, half-bound marbled boards with gilt lettering to brown leather spine, blue eps, 158pp + plates at rear, VG (moderate rubbing to boards & spine, light soiling to boards, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: 1862
KEYWORDS: A Grunow TEXT IN GERMAN diatomaceen diatoms marine biology science natural history
Botany of the Manawtu District New Zealand
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: E.C. Keating Government 1978
KEYWORDS: specials A.E. Elser botany New Zealand natural history
A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus 1758-1840
Imperial 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: Smithsonian Institution 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Alan J. Kohn taxonomy natural history conus
Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America: An Illustrated Key
Quarto hardcover (VG+) 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Myra Keen Eugene Coan natural history marine life molluscs North America