SPINAGE C A

Animals of East Africa

London, Collins & Brown. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW light edge and corner wear with short splits to ends of joints, book clean, name to fep, 160pp + b&w and colour photo plates, top edge dust foxed. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003800

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Safari Africa Wildlife Savannah Big Game Conservation Hunting East Africa Photographs Photographic Elephant Lion Rhino Hippo

DEFRIES A.

The Book of the Mushroom

London, Garden Book Club. 1942, First Thus. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) dust jacket has some wear and edge tears or chips, boards mildy bumped, tidy enough copy, 130pp + plates. Good/Good.

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Book number: 007169

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Mushrooms Cultivation Farm Farming Fungi War Era

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Pruning

Sydney, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales. 1949, reprint. Quarter cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. blue linen cloth over printed boards, title has small insect damage hole and minor foxing,rest of book clean, thirteenth edition, boards dust soiled, 100pp with illustrations in the text, fruit trees, nuts and vines. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008090

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Gardening Fruit Trees Arborism Agriculture Crops Pruning

HINTON ALAN

Shells of New Guinea and the Central indo-Pacific

The Jacaranda Press. 1984, reprint. (ISBN: 0701681144) Hard Cover. Ill.: A G Hinton. excellent copy of the reprint, name at top of free end paper, colour photo plates, covers the area between Southern Japan, Northern Australia and Fiji, 94pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011367

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Mollusc, Malacology, Conchology, Pacific, Indonesia, Borneo, Shells, Photographs, Tudy, Natural History, New Guinea, Solomons, Japan, Australia, Fiji 0701681144 a G Hinton

JOHNS C A EDITED W B ALEXANDER

British Birds in Their Haunts

London, Routledge. 1948, revised. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: William Foster & Roland Green. teal cloth with blind embossed falcon to upper board, gilt titled spine, unclipped DW some splits along the joints and folds, pasted colour plate to upper panel, small area of label lift hard to spot it, illustrated with 64 coloured plates and 251 figures, ' with a glossary of common and provincial names and of technical terms' twenty-fifth edition, xv 286pp + 69 plates at rear, revised edition of a work originally published in 1862. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012949

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Britsh Birds Ornithology Plates Wildlife Natural History Fauna William Foster & Roland Green

SINGH ARJAN

Tiger! Tiger!

London, Cape. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224022652) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. faintly sunned DW spine, map endpapers, 218pp + plates, the foremost Indian naturalist surveys the history of the tiger in India including the problem of Man-Eaters. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 012386

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: India Natural History Wildlife Tigers Big Cats Felines Safari Jungle Conservation Hunting 0224022652

DENIS ARMAND

On Safari; the Story of My Life

London, Collins. 1963, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped dust jacketunder plastic sleeve, some rubbing and short tears to spine ends, a few minor tape stains to feps. tiny pen price top corner of fep, map endpapers, quite tidy, 320pp + plates, life story of a wild life conservator and film maker. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005930

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Africa Safari Native Wild Life Armand Denis Congo Lhasa Nepal Australasia South America Bolivia New Guinea

HUBBARD CLIFFORD L B

Dogs in Britain; a Description of All Native Breeds and Most Foreign Breeds in Britain

London, MacMillan. 1948, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Stuart Tresilian. (1500 grams) green cloth with gilt medallion of dog's head, light rubbing to boards, some light watermarking near front of book causes page rippling and faint discolouration to some pages, else good copy, x 471pp + 8 colour litho plates by Stuart Tresilian including frontis, good overview of dog breeds and their history, includes chapter on Dogs in Art. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004808

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Dogs Canine Canines Dog Breeds Breeding Briatin British History Art Plates Colour Lithographs Stuart Tresilian

ROBERTSON R B

Of Whales and Men

London, Reprint Society. 1958, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) shows careful reading wear, unclipped DW lightly browned to spine, 255pp + plates, map end papers, factory whaling in the southern oceans south of South Georgia off the coast of South America and the Antarctic. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003640

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Whales Whaling Cetacean Blue Whales Factory Whaling Antarctic South Georgia Falklands

ROBERTSON R B

Of Whales and Men

London, Reprint Society. 1958, First Thus. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) shows careful reading wear, unclipped dust jacket lightly browned to spine, 255pp + plates, map end papers, factory whaling in the southern oceans south of South Georgia off the coast of South America and the Antarctic. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 008304

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Whales Whaling Cetacean Blue Whales Factory Whaling Antarctic South Georgia Falklands

BARBOUR, BURK & PITTS

Terrestrial Plant Ecology

California, Benjamin / Cummings. 1987, Second Edition. (ISBN: 0805305416) Pictorial Boards, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. (2000 grams so double shipping rate) near fine, light bruising to corners, 634pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004685

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Botany Ecology North America Ecology Second Edition Textbook Study Guide 0805305416

BERG BENGT

Gypaetus, den Flyvende Drage I Himalaya

Kobenhaven, Gyldendalske boghandel nordisk Forlag. 1932, First Edition. Quarter cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 213 sider. Illustreret med fotos i sort/hvid. Nydeligt Halvl?erbind. Red leatherette cloth spine, marbled boards, name and date to fep, first plate detached but present, 213pp includes the plates (many) of Himalayan landscape, wild life and peoples, Danish language text. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005987

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Himalaya Tibet Nepal Natural History Ornithology Eagle Adler Danish Language Photography Dansk

ACWORTH BERNARD

This Bondage, A Study of the Migration of Birds, Insects, and Aircraft, with Some Reflections on Evolution and Relativity

London, John Murray. 1929, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. unclipped dust jacket is uniformly sun faded to panels and backstrip, backstrip slighlty browned with light chipping to ends, inscripiton to fep, otherwside clean copy, xxiv 229pp, investigates the seemingly supernatural abilities of nature's navigators. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007468

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Navigation Homing Instinct Birds Ornithology Aviation Supernatural Powers Extra Sensory Perception

NICHOLS BEVERLEY

Cats' X Y Z

London, Jonathan Cape. 1961, First Edition. Pictorial Cover, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Derrick Sayer. (500 gram rate) pictorial papered boards with same design to the dust jacket, which has some minor adhesive residue to edges with short splits at the spine ends, price unclipped but the four corners of the fold in flaps are clipped to the extremities, inscription to the pictorial fep corner, beautiful heavily illustrated books about cat lovers and their cats, in the form of an A-Z of cat traits etc. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005525

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Illustrated Cat Cats Felines Animal Non Fiction Memoir Pictorial Derrick Sayer

NICHOLS BEVERLEY

Cats' A B C and Cats' X Y Z

London, Reprint Society. 1962, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Derrick Sayer. original two works were separately published by Jonathan Cape, they have been bound into one volume in this Member's Only edition, two tone decorative cloth, unclipped dust jacket minor wear with one small water spot, beautiful heavily illustrated book about cat lovers and their cats, both books are in the form of an A-Z of cat traits etc and both cover A-Z in each book. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 006376

Catalogue: Natural History & Farming

Keywords: Illustrated Cat Cats Felines Animal Non Fiction Memoir Pictorial Derrick Sayer