Books - "natural history"
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Straight Through from London: The Antipodes and Bounty Islands, New Zealand
Small quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 415pp, illus, VG+ (slight creasing to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Heritage Expeditions 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Antipodes Bounty Islands Isles history natural history
Year Away: Wartime Coastwatching on the Auckland Islands, 1944
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to brown spine, frontispiece, xiv + 153pp, VG+ (v. v. slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: Department of Conservation 2002
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland Islands history natural history
Macquarie Island
Small quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering in darker green decorative panel to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 380pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (some tanning to spine & flap folds, light creasing to spine extrems, archival tape repair to spine head & 3cm tear to front upper edge)
PUBLISHER: Antarctic Division Dept of Internal Affairs Australia 1968
KEYWORDS: Macquarie Island history natural history exploration Antarctic
The Little World of Stewart Island
Signed 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: A.H & A.W.Reed 1964
KEYWORDS: Biography history natural history Stewart Island New Zealand
The Natural World of the Maori
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: David Bateman 1996
KEYWORDS: Maori New Zealand culture history natural history
Natural History of Canterbury: A series of articles on the early history of the province and on the history of scientific investigation, up til 1926, as well as on some results of this investigation
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, 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: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 1927
KEYWORDS: natural history Canterbury New Zealand history science
Cultures of Natural History
SIGNED & DATED BY PREVIOUS OWNER BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, Imperial octavo illus light card covers, gold and purple lettering to spine and covers, printed fep, frontispiece, xxi+501pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing and light denting to spine & covers, sl. scuffing to covers, light soiling to front cover, v. sl soiling to page edges, previous owners name in ink and stamp to fep)
PUBLISHER: University of Cambridge Press 1996
KEYWORDS: natural history culture essays history science research ecology environment illustrated
The Bass Rock: Its Civil and Ecclesiastic History, Geology, Martyrology, Zoology and Botany
FIRST EDITION?, DELIGHTFUL BINDING octavo full leather binding with gilt embossed emblem to front board, gilt tooling, lettering & raised bands to spines, marbled edges, viii+436pp, illus. (all plates PRESENT), VG+ (presentation school prize note from 1866 to pastedown, library stamps & cartalogue numbers in pen to interior, library catalogue number to spine (v. small, unobtrusive), light scuffing and soiling to boards & spines, light foxing within)
PUBLISHER: John Greig & Son [1847]
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish Scots history Bass Rock North Berwick Am Bas Firth of Forth Christian Christianity hermits hermit hermitage John Spreul natural history geology martyrology zoology botany biology science
The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
Quarto illus. heavy card covers, x+319pp, nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: MIT Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology science natural history evolution life history fossils fossil record palentology zoology
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations (4 volume set)
4x VOLUME SET; ex-library; quarter bound super ocatvo rebind, vol. i: xi+387pp; vol. ii: VG- except vol. iii G+ (spine cracked and coming loose to vol iii., water stain to boards & fep. torn out also; otherwise, usual stamps and markings to all, labels to spines almost completely effaced,407pp; vol. iii: 388pp; vol. iv: 342pp+adverts; with moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards; moderate tanning and foxing within)
PUBLISHER: G. and W. B. Whittaker 1823 (second edition)
KEYWORDS: nature anthropology comparitive history nineteenth 19th c century charles bucke natural history laws customs manners sociology
The Mystic Garden
Copy of NZ lichenologist David Galloway, w/ small cache of correspondance with author loosley enclosed (one signed typed letter from author); FIRST EDITION, octavo green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine, 150pp, illus., VG+ (light scuffing to boards, ownership signature and notes to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & v. sl. soiling)
PUBLISHER: Halsgrove Press 1992
KEYWORDS: garden garden art design history plants botany natural history signed modern first edition
Cultures of Natural History
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN HARDCOVER; small quarto maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxi+501pp, illus., VG+ (occasional light foxing within) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing. light fading to spine, moderate foxing confined to reverse only)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: natural history history philosophy of science biology ecology art collecting gardening colonial gender economics
Studies in Dutch Books with Coloured Plates Published 1662-1875
Very tidy ex-library; quarto green cloth boards, gilt lettering and emblem, ix+605pp, illus., VG (light soiling and tape stains to eps. and boards, usual stamps and markings; otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w VG (usual markings; plastic covered with adhesive strips top and bottom, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Dr. W. Junk B. V. 1976
KEYWORDS: dutch book books art history coloured plates natural history topography travel costumes uniforms
Thames Sacred River
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in half height decorative 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: Chatto & Windus 2007
KEYWORDS: history geography natural history thames travel nature
The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901- 2001
Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr FINE) in d/w (nr FINE); 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: Melbourne University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: aus australia ornithology birds history zoology natural history
The Streets of Hampstead: A New Survey of Their Origins and Names, Their Historic Houses and Notable Residents
Oblong super octavo stapled wrappers (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: High Hill Press 1984
KEYWORDS: England English history London Hampstead topography natural history
Notable Trees of the Strath Taieri; A collection of the 22 best trees in the area with historical information (Second Edition)
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Anne Elliot 2005
KEYWORDS: signed new zealand south island otago strath taieri dunedin history significant notable trees flora nature natural history illustrated
The Arctic Ocean and Its Coast in the Cenozoic Era (Severnyi Ledovityi Okean i Ego Poberezh'e v Kainozoe)
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Amerind Publishing Co 1982
KEYWORDS: paleogeogrpahy arctic ocean ancient history geology cenozoic era flora fauna nature natural history
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
SIGNED, DATED & INSCRIBED, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Reed New Holland 2001
KEYWORDS: ecology history Australia Australasian anthropology natural history signed
VerledenLand: Archeologische opgravingen in Nederland
TEXT IN DUTCH, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Meulenhoff Informatief BV, Amsterdam 1981
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH archaeology soil geography nederlands dutch natural history early architecture settlement pre history