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$245.00
1q1a/14

New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History with Special Reference to the Results of Government Expeditions in the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson


VON HOCHSTETTER, Dr FERDINAND & SAUTER, EDWARD (Trans)

ALL PLATES & BOTH MAPS PRESENT, imperial octavo, teal/blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind decoration to spine, gilt illus & blind decoration to front board, marbled page edges, illus/patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 515pp, folding maps to rear, G+ (spine completely detached but present- with minor chipping also, moderate scuffing to board extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, 5cm tear to front gutter, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lettering to rear eps in pencil, minor closed tearing & foxing to folding maps)

PUBLISHER: J G Cotta 1867

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geography natural history geology Auckland Nelson

$475.00
1y33b/17

Tree Kangaroos: A Curious Natural History


FLANNERY, TIMOTHY FRIDTJOF & MARTIN, ROGER & SZALAY, ALEXANDRA & JOHNSON, PETER & LEAHY, PHILLIP & SCHOUTEN, PETER (Illus)

SLIPCASED FIRST EDITION, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Lg quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt bordered glossy illus plates to boards, illus title page, xiii + 202pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to board & spine edges, light soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light scuffing & rubbing to edges/corners, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1996

KEYWORDS: natural history animals species tree kangaroos art biology zoology signed Timothy Fridtjof Flannery

$22.50
xx182pol208128

New Guinea: An Island Apart


NIGHTINGALE, NEIL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: BBC Books 1992

KEYWORDS: nature wildlife New Guinea natural history

$25.00
xx182pol208130

A Handbook of New Guinea Marsupials & Monotremes


MENZIES, JAMES

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: Kristen Pres Inc 1991

KEYWORDS: PNG Papua New Guinea animals wildlife marsupials monotremes nature natural history

$27.50
xx182pol208147

The Natural History of Wales


CONDRY, WILLIAM

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: Williams Collins Sons & Co 1981

KEYWORDS: first editions natural history Wales Welsh geography landscape

$27.50
xx172pol208214

Bones of Contention: The Archaeopteryx Scandals


CHAMBERS, PAUL

8vo 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: John Murray 2002

KEYWORDS: Archaeopteryx Charles Darwin fossil fossils 19th century natural history

$24.50
xx189pol208422

Subantarctic Campbell Island


BAILEY, ALFRED M & SORENSEN, J H

Super 8vo 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: Denver Museum of Natural History 1962

KEYWORDS: Campbell Island natural history subantarctic New Zealand

$100.00
2g30b/16

Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed with a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to Sportsmen, Anecdotes, Etc.


SCROPE, WILLIAM

Super royal 8vo, pp. xvi + 268; green buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; edges deckled, frontis., plates, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; heavy cracking to front & central gutters; pp. ix-xxiv & plate opposite p. 49 loose).

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1898

KEYWORDS: William Scrope fish fishing angler angling salmon sport game natural history 19th century

$300.00
ak2/13a/33

The Banks Letters: A Calendar of the Manuscript Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks


BANKS, Sir JOSEPH & DAWSON, WARREN R (Ed)

Imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xlii + 965pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to top edges, light tanning to spine, light scuffing to spine & rear)

PUBLISHER: British Museum (Natural History) 1958

KEYWORDS: Sir Joseph Banks British Museum Natural History manuscripts

$25.00
xx147pol208887

The Butterfly and Common Moths of New Zealand


GASKIN, D E

8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G); 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 and Tombs 1966

KEYWORDS: D E Gaskin zoology butterfly butterflies moth moths natural history

$15.00
xxkwe209930

Darwin: A Life in Science


WHITE, MICHAEL & GRIBBIN, JOHN

Super 8vo 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: Simon & Schuster 1995

KEYWORDS: Chalres Darwin 19th century life lives biography biology biologist natural history

$15.00
xxrbb210079

The Natural History of an English Forest


HICKIN, NORMAN E

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: Arrow Books 1972

KEYWORDS: natural history trees forests nature England English

$25.00
xxrfg210163

No Surrender: Greymouth's battle to Beat the Floods


CARSON, KIT (ed)

4to stapled light card covers (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: the Greymouth Evening Star 1990

KEYWORDS: Kit Carson New Zealand history natural disaster flood floods flooding Greymouth

$15.00
xxrfh210166

The Great Drought of 1976


COX, EVELYN

Ex-library. 8vo 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: Hutchinson & Co. 1978

KEYWORDS: Evelyn Cox 20th century history natural disaster drought

$22.50
xxria210211

NZ Wildlife: Introducing the Weird and Wonderful Character of Natural New Zealand


TREWICK, STEVE & MORGAN-RICHARDS, MARY

8vo 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: Penguin Books 2014

KEYWORDS: New Zealand wildlife environment animals natural history plantlife

$34.50
xxpag210281

Manual of Cultivated Conifers: Hardy in the Cold- and Warm-Temperate Zone


OUDEN, P DEN & BOOM, B K

Imp. 8vo 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: Martinus Nijhoff 1965

KEYWORDS: P Den Ouden B K Boom conifers botanical plants plantlife natural history

$20.00
xxpbd210329

Popular Ecology of the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker


KOENIG, WALTER D & MUMME, RONALD L

8vo 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: Princeton University Press 1987

KEYWORDS: acorn woodpecker ornithology breeding natural history zoology ecology birds

$20.00
xxpbl210434

The Living Pythons


WALLS, JERRY G

Super 8vo 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: T. F. H. Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: Jerry G Walls snakes natural history pythons

$24.50
xxpgj210665

Pyramid Valley: Waikari, North Canterbury


DUFF, ROGER

Imperial octavo softcover (VG-) water staining to bottom corners; 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: Association of Friends of the Canterbury Museum Christchurch 1949

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Moa swamps Waikari North Canterbury natural history

$25.00
xxpgj210667

The Island of Penguins (Second Impression)


KEARTON, CHERRY

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: Longmans, Green and Co 1930

KEYWORDS: nature wildlife penguins natural history biology

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