Books - "natural history"
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Marine Molluscs of Victoria
Super octavo 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: Cambridge 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Hope J Macpherson & C.J. Gabriel marine molluscs natural history
Exotic Conchology, or Drawings and Descriptions of Rare, Beautiful or Undescribed Shells
Drawn on Stone from the Most Select Specimens; the Descriptions Systematically Arranged on the Principles of the Natural System
1968 facsimile reprint, large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, a.e.g., marbled eps, xxiv + 48pp + 48 plates, illus, VG (some soiling & rubbing to boards, light foxing, some soiling to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: D. Van Nostrand Company / Delaware Museum of Natural History 1968
KEYWORDS: William Swainsom Sylvanus Hanley conchology shells shell collecting marine biology science zoology natural history
The Cambridge Natural History: Crustacea and Arachnids
Ex library, 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: Macmillan & Co 1909
KEYWORDS: specials F. Harmer A. E. Shipley science natural history zoology
Mollusca of the Southern Islands of New Zealand
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Department of Scientific and Industrial Reseach 1955
KEYWORDS: specials A. W. B. Powell New Zealand natural history mollusca science biology
Cephalopods of the Philippine Islands
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 1963
KEYWORDS: specials Gilbert L. Voss cephalopods natural history Philippine Islands sea animals science biology
Orchid Hunting in Otago, New Zealand
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie 1937
KEYWORDS: specials H. K. Dalrymple orchid flowers natural history refernce Otago New Zealand
Indexes to the Nautilus: Geographical (Vols. 1-90) and Scientific Names (Vols. 61-90)
Quarto 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: American Malacologists 1979
KEYWORDS: specials R. Tucker Abbott geography earth science natural history index reference
A Monograph of the Fresh-water Polyzoa, including All the Known Species, Both British and Foreign
Folio, half--bound, dark green heavy boards with dark green leather spine & corners, gilt lettering & 5 raised bands to spine, marbled eps, a.e.g., viii + 121pp + 11 plates with descriptions on facing pages, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to board corners & edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing to plates, some puckering to f.e.p.)
PUBLISHER: The Ray Society 1856
KEYWORDS: George James Allman freshwater fresh-water polyzoa marine biology science zoology natural history
A History of Silence: A Memoir
Signed, First edition, Super 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: Text 2013
KEYWORDS: specials Lloyd Jones memoir Christchurch earthquake natural disaster New Zealand history
Wild South's Living Treasures of New Zealand
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Rod Morris Peter Hayden New Zealand natural history fauna flora plants animals
The Language of Smell
Ex library, Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1976
KEYWORDS: specials Robert Burton natural history wildlife zoology
Bird Life on Island and Shore
First edition, imperial octavo, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xix + 195pp, illus, VG- (moderately heavy foxing & tanning to page edgs, light bruising & creasing spine extrems, lower 8cm of frontispiece loose at hinge) in d/w, VG- (heavy browning to spine & rear, staining to front upper edge, 4cm tatty tear & creasing to lower spine extrem, nicks & creasing to upper spine extrem, 1cm tears with loss to corners, moderate creasing to rear lower edge)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1925
KEYWORDS: first edition H Guthrie-Smith New Zealand ornithology birds natural history
Marine Shells of the Pacific: Revised 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Pacific Publications 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Walter O Cernohorsky Pacific marine shells conchology natural history science zoology
Furred Animals of Australia
Super 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Halstead Press 1946
KEYWORDS: Specials Ellis Troughton furred animals Australia natural history zoology
Amphibians of South Australia
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: Adelaide Dept of Zoology 1978
KEYWORDS: Amphibians South Australia Zoology Michael J Tyler natural history
What Grass is That? , A Guide to Identification of Some Introduced Grasses in New Zealand by Vegetative Characters
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Crown 1975
KEYWORDS: specials N C Lambrechtsen New Zealand natural history Grasses vegetation plants
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol.LV, Part II, No.V 1886
Re-bound, super octavo, heavy card boards with black cloth spine & black cloth board corners, original title labels mounted to front board, iv + pages 413 to 450, illus with colour plates, most pages as yet unopened (uncut), VG- (closed tears to fore-edge of most pages, page 455 torn in half but all present, heavy tanning)
PUBLISHER: Asiatic Society 1887
KEYWORDS: Asiatic Society Bengal Siam natural history science insects butterflies lepidoptery entomology
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XLVII, Part II Physical Science, No.1 1878
Original wrappers but rebound as hardcover, super octavo, heavy card boards with blue cloth spine, original title & contents pasted to front board, blue illus cover page, 52pp, illus with three plates to rear - two hand-coloured, VG- (moderately heavy browning & foxing, repair to last colour plate, nicks & tears with loss to original cover page edges)
PUBLISHER: Asiatic Society of Bengal 1878
KEYWORDS: natural history WT Blandford R Lydekker Col. RH Keatinge Lieut Col HH Godwin-Austen Col JT Walker Captain J Waterhouse Asiatic Society of Bengal
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II: Natural Science Supplement / Volume LVII, Part II, No. III.-1888
9 plates, two of them hand coloured, original wrappers but bound as hardcover, super octavo, patterned heavy card boards with pale red cloth spine, original title & contents pasted to front board, 53pp + 9 plates, VG (light bruising to lower spine extrem, light rubbing to boards, light-moderate tanning, light foxing, slight chipping to original cover edges)
PUBLISHER: The Asiatic Society of Bengal 1888
KEYWORDS: Alfred Carpenter GM Giles Oldfield Thomas WT Blanford Asiatic Society of Bengal natural history science
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: Part II, Extra Number, August 1875: Chatalogue of Animals and Birds in Burma
Original wrappers but bound as hardcover, super octavo, patterened heavy card boards with black cloth spine, original title & contents pasted to front board, xxiv + 167pp, pages unopened (uncut), VG (light rubbing to boards, light tanning, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: The Asiatic Society of Bengal 1875
KEYWORDS: Mr Ed Blyth Arthur Grote Dr J Anderson GE Dobson Arthur Viscount Walden Asiatic Society of Bengal Burma animals birds natural history