WHITE, GILBERT

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: Blackie & Son 1895

KEYWORDS: natural history nature English towns villages Selborne Hampshire

HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY & HUXLEY, LEONARD

2 VOL. SET; Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces, xi + 539pp / vii + 541pp, illus, VG/VG- (moderate chipping to spine extrems of Vol. II, boards slightly cocked & soiled, light cracking to gutters on both volumes, a few pages coming loose & one or two small open tears not impacting text, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to Vol. I fep)

PUBLISHER: D. Appleton and Company 1901

KEYWORDS: england english history letters writings autobiography autobiographies memoirs biography biographies thomas henry h huxley biology biologists anthropology anthropologists science scientists theory of evolution natural selection darwin

DARWIN, CHARLES

EARLY EDITION; Sm. octavo, half bound in brown leather with marbled heavy card boards; gilt lettering, decorative tooling & raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, marbled eps, x + 519pp, illus figures & tables, VG- (heavy cracking to hinges & gutters, with attempted tape repairs - but spine still almost entirely detached & moderately chipped, front board also slightly shaky, light scuffing & soiling to boards, fep partially detached, light foxing & tanning to pages)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1888

KEYWORDS: early editions science natural history evolution geology zoology naturalists nature naturalism exploration travel writing charles darwin voyage of hms beagle

HUME, DAVID & GREEN, T. H. & GROSE, T. H. (ed. & prelim. dissertations & notes)

2 VOL. SET; ARCHIVAL TAPE REPAIRS TO SPINE HINGES; Super octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, xxii + 565pp / xxi + 472pp + 24pp publisher's catalogue at rear, G+ (heavy cracking to hinges with archival tape repairs, heavy cracking to gutters - boards slightly shaky and a few pages loose but still present, moderate soiling, bruising & sun-fading to board, some surface loss to spine extrems, light foxing & tanning to pages, slight pencil notes/markings to prelims/terminals, prev. owners & bookseller's labels to feps)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890

KEYWORDS: philosophy philosophical empiricism scepticism naturalism natural religion humanity human nature morality reason reasoning david hume history historical

WHITE, Rev. GILBERT & BROWN, Captain THOMAS (with extensive additions)

Sm. octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling to spine, blind-stamped lettering & decorative rule to boards, frontispiece, illus half-title page, xii + 348pp, illus plates, VG- (moderate rubbing & soiling to boards, boards sl. cocked, light cracking to gutters, light soiling to pages, moderate discolouration to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Richard Griffin and Company 1853

KEYWORDS: england english selborne hampshire natural history science nature naturalists animals zoology fauna

MOREAU, SIMEON

Sm. octavo, half-bound in maroon/tan leather with marbled heavy card boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, frontispiece, vii + 208pp, illus plates, VG- (heavy scuffing to boards, leather binding almost entirely worn away at corners, moderate surface loss to spine extrems., light cracking to gutters, p.32 plate missing, moderately heavy soiling to front section of pages, otherwise light soiling/tanning throughout, small closed tear to table of contents, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown

PUBLISHER: R. Cruttwell 1797

KEYWORDS: england english gloucestershire cheltenham guides guidebooks handbooks tours royal spa natural health resorts towns cities city history

GOULD, STEPHEN JAY

FIRST EDITION, 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: Jonathan Cape 2002

KEYWORDS: first editions natural history science Stephen Jay Gould evolution

OSLUND, KAREN & CRONON, WILLIAM (Fore)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2013

KEYWORDS: human ecology Iceland natural history ethnology folklore lore customs anthropology

PEAT, NEVILLE

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 2002

KEYWORDS: signed Neville Peat New Zealand Otago Museum exhibitions natural history guides

LEAKEY, MEAVE & LEAKEY, SAMIRA

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: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

KEYWORDS: ancient natural history paleontology anthropology

NUNN, PATRICK

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: Bloomsbury Sigma 2021

KEYWORDS: ancient natural history geology land Patrick Nunn

GLANCEY, JONATHAN

HEAVY lg 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: Goodman 2008

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings demolished destroyed history war conflict natural disasters

CARVAN, AMBER (Ed & Preface)

Duodecimo 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: Fiji Museum 1999

KEYWORDS: natural history birds Fiji species identification

BATES, MARSTON & HORN, HENRY S (New Preface)

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: Princeton University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: natural history biology science evolution geography

GILLHAM, MARY E

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: A H & A W Reed 1965

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history nature ecology botany

WHISTLER, HUGH

LACKS D/W & FEP, scruffy ex-library, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, 223pp, illus/plates- some loose and/or missing, G (heavy rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, heavy wrinkling to spine, usual library labels/markings, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, v heavy cracking to gutters- boads sl shaky, prelim pgs clipped at lower corner, moderate foxing to prelims & throughout, numerous pgs detached with some plates missing)

PUBLISHER: H F & G Witherby 1924

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Himalayas natural history Hugh Whistler

EGGERS, DAVE

Ex-library, 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: Penguin 2011

KEYWORDS: modern history natural disasters floods flooding New Orleans US America American biography biographies Abdulrahman Zeitoun true stories

FLINT, BRIAN

Imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 164pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate water damage to base of page block & boards- boards lightly warped & stained, light tanning & foxing/water staining to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, otherwise still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing, moderate damp wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 1979

KEYWORDS: England English history natural resources energy windmills Suffolk East Anglia

AN AUTHOR'S COLLECTIVE OF THE NATIONAL OFFICE FOR ANCIENT SOIL RESEARCH. VAN ES, W.A. (editor) & SARFATIJ, H. (editor) & WOLTERING, P.J. (editor)

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: Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek, Amersfoort and Meulenhoff Informatief, Amsterdam 1988

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH archaeology soil geography nederlands dutch natural history

GENTRY, STEVEN

Quarto, white faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 346pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (sl wrinkling & chafing)

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2013

KEYWORDS: natural history Kermadec islands New Zealand Pacific landscape geology nature wildlife