HILL John E.

Bats. A Natural History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

British Museum (Natural History),, [1984]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 42883

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, mammals, bats, british museum, bm, bmnh, john hill, james smith

HOSKING Eric

More Birds of the Day.

Collins,, 1946. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 83 full-page photographs in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a good, clean copy.

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Book number: 9797

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, hosking, wildlife photography, eric hosking, c.w. newberry, natural history, birds, more, birds, day

HUDSON W. H.

Adventures among Birds. With a Portrait. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Hutchinson,, 1913. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, half-title lightly spotted; green cloth, upper board framed in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, fore-edge faintly spotted, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Payne, A31A; Wilson 30.

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Book number: 48586

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, birds, hudson, william henry hudson, w.h. hudson

HUDSON W. H.

Birds in a Village. IN PUBLISHER'S SCARCE VARIANT BINDING

Chapman & Hall,, 1893. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black; cloth, gilt back, front cover blocked with design of birds partly enclosing title and author's name, publisher's initials blocked in brown on lower cover, uncut, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy. PUBLISHER'S SCARCE ALTERNATIVE BINDING. Freeman 1810; Payne, A8 variant 2; Tate, p.223; Wilson 9

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Book number: 294

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, birds, william henry hudson, w.h. hudson, natural history, birds, birds, village

HURRELL H.G.

Forest Record No. 64. Pine Martens. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS

HMSO,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, three punch holes for filiing, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 49211

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, mammals, pine martens, hurrell, forestry commission

HUXLEY Leonard

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. By his Son Leonard Huxley. Second Impression]. THE LIFE OF DARWIN'S 'BULLDOG'

Macmillan,, 1900. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 2 fine portrait frontispieces toned in sepia (original tissue guards present), 9 plates (original tissue guards present where called for) and an illustration in the text, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary of first volume; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrips faded (but all lettering just legible), backstrips slightly pulled at heads else a very good, crisp, clean set. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of both volumes. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front paste-downs and front free endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Published a month after the first edition.

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Book number: 19687

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, darwin, thomas huxley, evolution, leonard huxley, natural history, darwin, evolution, life, letters, thomas, henry, huxley

HUXLEY Leonard

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. By his Son. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH

Macmillan,, 1908. 3 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with 3 portrait frontispieces in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper of first volume; red cloth, gilt backs, uncut, boards of first volume lightly age-marked at fore-edge only, else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end of third volume. Bright copy of the standard life and letters of 'Darwin's bulldog'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. First published in 1902.

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Book number: 42053

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, huxley, thomas henry huxley, darwin, charles darwin, evolution, genetics, leonard huxley

HUXLEY Leonard

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. By his Son. [Third Impression.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Macmillan,, [1900]. 2 vols., 8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates, and illustrations and facsimiles in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original burgundy cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of each volume. Published a month after the first edition. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45806

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, science, darwin, evolution, huxley, thomas huxley, thomas henry huxley, darwiniana

HUXLEY Elspeth

Peter Scott. Painter and Naturalist. With an Introduction by Sir David Attenborough. SIGNED BY PHILIPPA SCOTT

Faber,, [1993]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and numerous coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY PHILIPPA SCOTT ON HALF-TITLE. 'The Scott partnership put conservation on the map, at a time when conservation was not a word that most people understood' (Sir David Attenborough). Cross & Perkin A48.

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Book number: 30516

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, peter scott, philippa scott, wildfowl trust, slimbridge, wwt, wetlands

HUXLEY Thomas Henry

Physiography. An Introduction to the Study of Nature. [Second Edition, Ninth Thousand].

Macmillan,, 1878. 8vo., Second Edition, Ninth Thousand, with a double-page coloured map as frontispiece, a coloured plate, 2 coloured maps (one double-page; one full-page) and 122 engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original red cloth, upper board framed, blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, yellow endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), case a little shaken else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1877, this is a systematic approach to natural science presented with characteristic clarity by 'Darwin's Bulldog'. Freeman, 1866 (recording the first edition).

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Book number: 15002

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, thomas huxley, physiography, natural sciences, thomas henry huxley, natural history, darwin, evolution, physiography

IMMS A.D.

New Naturalist 8. Insect Natural History. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with 40 coloured plates, 32 monchrome plates, 40 illustrations in the text and 8 maps; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a sound, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little marked and frayed at head and tail of backstrip. New Naturalist, 8. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

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Book number: 313

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, new naturalists, new nats, insects, entomology, a.d. imms, natural history, new naturalists, insect, natural, history

JAMESON A. Pringle

Report on the Diseases of Silkworms in India. [Ex- Zoological Society of London copy.] BRIGHT, CLEAN XL COPY

Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta,, 1922. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates (a number in colour), and illustrations and tables in the text; buff boards, black cloth back, boards lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. This copy was formerly in the library of the Zoological Society of London with its neat accession and withdrawal stamps on front free endpaper. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 49246

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, insects, silkworms, pringle jameson, zoological society

JENKINS J. Travis

The Fishes of the British Isles both Fresh Water and Salt. [Wayside & Woodland series. Second Edition, First Impression].

Warne,, [1936]. Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, First Impression, with a coloured frontispiece, 128 fine coloured plates, 117 plates in monochrome and pictorial endpapers, small neat signature on half-title; original series binding of green coarse-grain pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, blue sprinkled edges, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper (retaining original price of 12/6), the latter lightly age-soiled and browned at backstrip. Lovely copy of a scarce title in this much sought-after series. First published in 1925, Jenkins' mammoth compilation was the first illustrated guide to all our fish since 1884. This second edition is revised by the author with new appendix and text drawings. Very scarce in this condition. Marren, p.158.

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Book number: 17651

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, fish, fishes, angling, fishing, coarse fishing, fly fishing, wayside, woodland, j. travis jenkins, natural history, wayside, woodland, fishes, british, isles, both, fresh, water, salt

JOHNS C.A.

British Trees including the finer Shrubs for Garden and Woodland. Edited by T.A. Cook and W. Dallimore.

c.1912]. 8vo., with a coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 32 monochrome plates and numerous illustrations in the text, some occasional light spotting, pencilled signature on front free endpaper, pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, bevelled edges, back faded, hinges weak but sound else a good, clean copy.

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Book number: 300

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, trees, forestry, arboriculture, c.a. johns, natural history, plants, british, trees, including, finer, shrubs, garden, woodland

JOHNS Rev. Charles Alexander

Flowers of the Field. Revised throughout and edited by Clarence Elliott. With an Appendix including the Pipe-Wort Tribe (Eriocauleae), the Sedge Tribe (Cyperaceae) and the Grass Tribe (Gramineae). [Twelfth Impression thus.] UNUSUALLY CRISP, NEAR FINE COPY

Routledge,, n.d. [c.1925]. 8vo., Twelfth Impression thus, with coloured frontispiece, (original tissue guard present), 95 fine coloured plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; originl green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and letterd in gilt, a near fine copy. Includes glossary, and English and Latin indexes. Johns' classic handbook was first published in two volumes in 1853 and several times reissued as a single volume. In 1892 an Appendix entitled 'Grasses' was compiled by the author's son from Bentham & Hooker. The work was revised substantially by Boulger for the twenty-ninth edition of 1899, with Grace Layton's fine coloured plates appearing for the first time in the thirty-second edition of 1910. Elliott's major revision was first published in 1907; he founded the Six Hills Nursery, renowned for its alpines and allied rock plants. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Freeman 1974.

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Book number: 44933

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, plants, botany, flowers, wild flowers, horticulture, johns, clarence elliott, gwatkin