The history of insects.

London: The Religious Tract Society; Instituted 1799. Sold at the depository ... and by the booksellers, 1839. Small 8vo. xii, frontis, 15 plates. Original decorated blindstamped black cloth gilt, aeg. Extremes very lightly rubbed; 'tide-mark' to lower margins of plates. One of the scarcer and more substantial RTS publications. COPAC: Nottingham, TCD. Osborne, page 825.

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Book number: 43527

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History Insects

M'ALPINE, D.

The Botanical Atlas: a guide to the practical study of plants containing representatives if the leading forms of plant life with explanatory letterpress.

Edinburgh: W & A K Johnston, 1883. Fo. [10]pp, colour frontis, 52 colour plates each with accompanying text leaf, ii, iii[i]pp indices. Original decorated green cloth gilt, bevelled edges, floral endpapers, coloured leaf-edges. Extremes lightly rubbed; small repair to front joint; occasional light soiling to margins.

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Book number: 41972

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History Botany Illustrated

BARKAS, Thomas Pallister.

Illustrated guide to the fish, amphibian, reptilian, and supposed mammalian remains of the Northumberland carboniferous strata.

London: W. M. Hutchings, 1873. 24cm. 117[1]pp. Original blindstamped brown grained-cloth gilt. Re-spined with near matching cloth; printed paper spine label. Published originally with an atlas volume. Dedicated to 'the working miners of Northumberland'.

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Book number: 45317

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: natural history Paleontology England Northumberland. Paleontology Carboniferous. Paleontology Great Britain. Northumberland (England) Paleontology.

The Naturalist's Note Book ...

[Comprising 36 issues (1867-1869) bound in one volume + 4 loose issues of the New Series, in original printed pictorial blue-paper wraps, for February -May inclusive.] (All published).

London: Reeves and Turner; Bemrose and Sons (New Series), 1867-1869. Square 8vo. [iv], vi, 356pp; [ii], iv, 382pp, vii[i], 376pp; frontis to each volume + 8vo. Various pagings, plates. Contemporary half grained-calf gilt, raised bands, olive-green calf gilt spine label, marbled sides and eps. Binding rubbed with light wear; wraps lightly chipped and spotted. * Pagination indicates that there was no issue for January 1870.

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Book number: 41255

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: natural history Periodical Publication

BOURLIERE, F.

Ecology and management of wild grazing animals in temperate zones.

Warsaw: International Union of Conservation of nature and natural resources, 1960. 8vo. 358pp, plates, text maps, figures and tables. Original printed red card wraps. Spine sun-faded.

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Book number: 30849

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History Ecology

BROWN, Thomas, Captain.

The Conchologist's Text-Book, embracing the arrangements of Lamarck and Linnaeus, with a glossary of technical terms.

Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton & Co, 1835 3rd edition. 12mo in sixes. 180pp, 19 plates, 2 text illustrations. Original printed green paper boards, uncut. Re-spine with matching plain paper; boards rubbed with slight wear; boards lightly soiled; light vertical crease to first few leaves; plates lightly spotted; occasional light spotting and soiling to text.

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Book number: 37971

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY Marine Sea Shells

BROWNE, Montagu.

The vertebrate animals of Leicestershire and Rutland. With four plates and a map.

Birmingham and Leicester: Midland Educational Company, 1889 [limited edition of 300 copies]. 25cm. xi[1], 223[1]pp, 4 plates (2 coloured), coloured map, text tables. Original brown cloth gilt; fully interleaved with blanks for notes. Spine tips very lightly rubbed; occasional light spotting. Bookplate of one of the original subscribers to front paste-down.

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Book number: 45357

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History Midlands Vertebrates England Leicestershire. Vertebrates England Rutland. Vertebrates. Vertebrates Great Britain Leicestershire. Vertebrates Great Britain Rutland. Birds England Leicestershire. Birds England Rutland. I. Fa

CHALMERS, Patrick R.

Birds Ashore and A-Foreshore. With ... illustrations ... by Winifred Austen ...

London: Collins, 1935. Large 4to. 180pp, title-page vignette, 16 colour plates, text illustrations. Modern green cloth gilt. Extremes rubbed; cloth lightly soiled. Ex-reference library with minimal evidence - none to plates.

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Book number: 33556

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History Ornithology Illustrated

CHARLESON, M. M. (Editor).

Orcadian Papers: being selections from the proceedings of the Orkney Natural History Society, from 1887 to 1904

Stromness: printed for the Society by William Rendall, 1905. 19cm. xv[i], 160pp, frontis, plates, text illustrations. Original rose grained cloth gilt. Spine and part of boards faded; extremes rubbed with wear. Contains inter alia: Glaciation in Orkney. By M. Spence. Observations on some Birds in the mainland of Orkney. By J.G.H. Marwick. Habits of Birds frequenting Sule Skerry. By J. Tomison. The migration of Birds as observed from Sule Skerry. By J. Tomison. The identification of Birds. By H.W. Robinson.

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Book number: 45404

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History scotland Natural history. Birds. Geology. Antiquities. Birds. Geology. Natural history. Natural history Scotland Orkney. Birds Scotland Orkney. Geology Scotland Orkney. Orkney (Scotland) Orkney (Scotland) Description

TYNESIDE NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB.

Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. 1851-1854 Vol II.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: F. & W. Dodsworth. 1854. 8vo. [ii], 351[1]pp, 5 litho plates. Modern maroon cloth gilt. Ex-reference library with minimal evidence. * Contains parts ii and iii of 'A Catalogue of Insects of Northumberland and Durham', pp 21-97, 164-276, plus 11pp of 'Observations'.

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Book number: 33387

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History North East England

DARWIN, Charles.

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. (Volume II only).

Lomdon: John Murray, 1871 2nd issue. 8vo. viii, 475[1]pp, 16pp publisher's list at rear, text illustrations. Original decorated green cloth gilt, uncut Volume II only; front hinge gone; lacks front free endpaper; fore-edge margin of prelims 'tide-marked' - not affecting text. Half-title present.

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Book number: 46053

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History Evolution. Natural selection. Heredity. Human beings Origin. Evolution (Biology) Biological Evolution Biological Phenomena Genetics E´volution. Hérédité. Êtres humains Origines. Évolution (Biologie) evolution. Ev

DELACOUR, Jean.

The Pheasants of the World.

London: Country Life Limited, 1964 3rd impression. 4to in eights. 351[1]pp, 32 coloured and b/w plates after J.C. Harrison, 21 maps and diagrams. Original cloth with d/w covered with library glassine. Ex-library with usual external evidence but internally only to title-page verso and fpdep. Sl wear to spine extremes.

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Book number: 16254

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: natural history NATURAL HISTORY

DEWAR, Douglas.

Game Birds.

London: Chapman Hall Ltd, 1928 Wood cuts by E. Fitch Daglish. Large 8vo. ix[i], 256pp, 19 wood cuts tipped in, title-page vignette, 3 woodcut text ills. Original green cloth gilt, teg o/w uncut, printed tissue guards to plts. Minor worming to rear board and preliminaries not affecting text or plates. Boards very lightly soiled, eps & title-page very slightly spotted.

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Book number: 15888

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: natural history NATURAL HISTORY Ornithology Daglish SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Shooting

DUNCAN, J. B.

A List of the Bryophytes of Northumberland. [Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle Upon Tyne (New Series) Vol. X,- Part I.]

Newcastle upon Tyne: printed for the Society by W L Large & Sons, 1950. 8vo. 80pp. Original wraps laid down on boards with typescript label to front wrap and glassine covering. Ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 35589

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History North East England

EASTMAN, Rosemary.

The Kingfisher.

London: Collins, 1969. 8vo. 159pp, title-page vignette, 2 double-sided colour plates, 2 double-sided b/w plates, full-page text plan. Original blue cloth gilt, glassine-protected chipped and soiled d/w. Very light spotting to leaf-edges.

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Book number: 30785

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Natural History Ornithology