Haas,Emmy

PRIDE'S PROGRESS the story of a family of Lions

London, Collins 1st UK edition 1968 Photos (168) by Emmy Haas to each opening . Small quarto boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 115pp small bookplate removed from FEP else V.G+ in V.G jacket *New York's Bronx Zoo lion pride

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Hart,Susanne

LIFE WITH DAKTARI two Vets in East Africa

London, Bles/Collins 1st edition 1969 Color & b/w photos + drawings throughout . Octavo boards in slightly torn dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 224pp V.G+ in essentially complete jacket *Vet married to the original of the TV series

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Kipps,C.

SOLD FOR A SONG (A Study of an Arabian Mongoose)

London, Muller 2nd edition 1956 Illustrated by L.R. Brightwell . Small octavo boards in dust jacket torn without loss 57pgs slight foxing to enpapers else V.G.

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Kranz,Dr.C.A. (J.C. Weber illustrator)

ALPEN-PFLANZEN DEUTSCHLANDS UND DER SCHWEIZ. Volume 1 + Vol. 2 + vol.3 + vol.4 (complete set with supplement)

Munich, Christian Kaiser 2nd edition 1867-1868 Hand-colored engravings & lithographs (400) by Weber . 4 Volumes complete set 139x95mm original green gilt pictorial cloth cover and spine (v.sl.rubbed to edges, worn corners) Vol. I 21pp +100 pls +16pp=index Vol. II 19pp + pl.101-200 +16pp=index Vol.III 19pp + pl. 201-300 +16p=index Vol.4 27pp + pl. 301-400 +6pp=index +[2p= bookseller's list] Ribbon bookmarks to 3 volumes but supplement seems not to have one. Very clean no inscriptions on illustrations, 400 illustrations included. Plant names in Latin, and German. Inscription on frontispeice of 2nd edition. *The first three volumes appeared in the years 1847-1856, the 4th volume (supplement volume) came out in 1868. Studies of plants of the alps, covering Switzerland, Bavaria, Savoy, and Tyrol. All illustrations in fine condition.

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Leakey,Richard

HUMAN ORIGINS

London, Hamilton first edition 1982 Illustrated with photographs, line illustrations & reconstructions . Large octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 87pp Price erasure on FEP else near Fine in V.G jacket. *Evolution of man.

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Maberly,C.T. Astley

ANIMALS OF KRUGER NATIONAL PARK a guide to animals which visitors may see.

South Africa, White P & P Co. 7th edition 1952) Line illustrations by Maberly . Paperback octavo 112pp slight rusting to staples and slight rubbing to edges else G+

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MacEwen,Malcolm edits with foreword by Duke of Edinburgh

FUTURE LANDSCAPES

London, Chatto&Windus 1st edition 1976 Illustrations and maps throughout . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips sl.bumped and rubbed) 224pp V.G+ in V.G jacket. *Impact of changes on farming, landscape & wildlife.

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MANSFIELD,T.C.

ALPINES IN COLOUR & CULTIVATION

London, Collins reprint 1947 Color plates (80)+ 30 illustrations . Octavo green gilt cloth (tips bumped & slightly worn/ spine & edges browned) 283pp front inner hinge strengthened else V.G

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Matt,Uncle

AROUND A CORNFIELD in a Ramble after Wild Flowers

London, Nelson 1895 Chromolith frontis. of bunch of flowers + 26 line illustrations . Small octavo glazed pictorial boards (corners worn /hinges chipped) 98pgs+16p of pictorial book adverts. Tear to two leaves else very clean and neat.

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McNulty,Faith

WHOOPING CRANE the bird that defies extinction

New York, Dutton & Co 2nd impression same year as first 1966 Text illustrations, drawings and maps throughout . Octavo cloth spined boards in price clipped dust jacket (tips sl.rubbed) 190pp 2 newspaper articles tipped to blank prelim. *Winner of the Dutton Animal Book Award for this work. V.G+ in V.G jacket

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Newman,Edward

FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF INSECTS Being a New and Greatly Improved Edition of the Grammar of Entomology

London, Van Voorst 1841 Charming detailed engravings by Edward Newman & his brother all but a very few being from nature and expressly done for this edition . Octavo original green cloth (spine split 3/4 of the way/tips slightly worn & bumped) xiv+288pp+illustrated catalogue of natural history books. EPs dusty - mainly REP else a clean neat copy owned by Mrs. Player Cornish and signed to half title margin in 1843.

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Nuttall,G. Clarke - revised Roland Luff

BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING SHRUBS TREES & Heather

London, Cassell & Co revised edition 1944 Color plates (48) . Octavo cloth in torn dust jacket (tips rubbed) xiii+258pp V.G+ in jacket lacking 1" sq.to head and some losses to spine still essentially OK

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Nuttall,G. Clarke

FLOWERS AS THEY GROW

London, Cassell and Co 1913 Color plates (25 as listed, autochromes) by H. Essenhigh Corke + text illustrations . Octavo blue cloth with pictorial onlay (tips worn/head of spine chipped) viii+199pp Some light paper toning with only the EPs foxed else V.G

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Palmer,Eileen M. & David Balance

BIRDS OF SOMERSET

London, Longmans 1st edition 1968 Plates on 12 pages . Octavo green cloth in dust jacket (tips slightly bumped/sl.marked with library number to spine) x+204pp ex library but no stamps except number to spine & EP, lacks outer 1/4 of FEP & the plates have suffered from dampness & have slight adhesion damage else the book is nearly unused. The definitive survey of migrant, indiginous and occasional visiting birds of Suffolk.

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Pettengell,Jim

ROTTWEILER essential reading for owners, breeders and judges.

London, David & Charles 1st edition 1988 Color and b/w photos, diagrams, maps etc. throughout . Octavo brown boards (tips sl.rubbed) 271pp V.G+ *History of the breed, standards, care and breeding, training etc.

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