CLOUGH C.T.

The Geology of West-Central Skye with Soay. Explanation of Sheet 70. Geological Survey of Scotland. STRONGLY BOUND IN BOARDS

Printed for HMSO, Hedderwick & Sons, Glasgow,, 1904. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; strongly bound in boards, upper board with paper label, original printed wrappers (worn) preserved, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front wrapper and pocket on title. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 28494

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, geology, geological survey, geological survey of scotland, scotland, skye, soay

COCKER Mark

Crow Country. A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Jonathan Cape,, [2007]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovingly written celebration of the complex relationship between rooks, jackdaws and man. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 44140

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, birds, crows, jackdaws, rooks, cocker, mark cocker, crow country

COLYER Charles N.

Flies of the British Isles. Wayside and Woodland series. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Warne,, [1968]. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and hundreds of illustrations and diagrams in the text; original series binding of red faux-morocco cloth, upper board and and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in the larger 'reference' format', this version contains virtually the same text as the first edition (1951) but with an extended bibliography. 'It is still the only modern work on the Diptera' (Marren). Marren, pp. 175-176.

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Book number: 42403

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, ww, wayside and woodland, flies, colyer, charles colyer, hammond, cyril hammond

COOKE M.C.

Fungoid Pests of Cultivated Plants.

Spottiswoode & Co.,, 1906. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 22 fine coloured plates and 2 monochrome plates depicting hundreds of plant conditions, and several illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, title lightly spotted; original buckram, gilt back, an unusually bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. Reprinted from the 'Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society', vols. XXVII-XXIX.

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Book number: 2705

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: botany, horticulture, gardening, m.c. cooke, natural history, plants, fungoid, pests, cultivated, plants

COOKE Mordecai Cubitt

Our Reptiles. A Plain and Easy Account of the Lizards, Snakes, Newts, Toads, Frogs and Tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. With original Figures of every Species and numerous woodcuts. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY WITH PLAIN PLATES

Robert Hardwicke,, 1865. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, 10 engraved plates (uncoloured) and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original plum cloth, upper board framed and blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, brown endpapers, covers mildly age-soiled, corners bruised else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With taxonomic appendix, and 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Deceptively detailed work, sometimes found with the plates coloured by hand. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 783.

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Book number: 47961

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, reptiles & amphibians, reptiles, lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs, tortoises, mordecai cooke

CORBET, Philip S.

New Naturalist 41. Dragonflies. With Key to Larvae by A. E. Gardner. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip and a little browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. New Naturalist 41. One of the scarcest titles in this famous series. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

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Book number: 28136

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Keywords: natural history, newnats, new naturalists, philip corbet, cynthia longfield, n.w. moore, dragonflies, dragonflies

CORDEAUX J.

Birds of the Humber District. NEAR FINE COPY WITH THE ERRATA LEAF

John Van Voorst,, 1872. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece; original green cloth, sides with double frame border in blind, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, a near fine copy. With a fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and errata leaf facing text. A beautiful copy of an important avifauna. Rare, especially in this condition. Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann, p.144.

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Book number: 20040

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Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, county avifaunas, humber, yorkshire, john cordeaux, j. cordeaux, natural history, birds, birds, humber, district

COWARD T. A.

Birds of the Wayside and Woodland. Based upon the Standard Work 'The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs' by T. Coward. Edited by Enid Blyton. With Introductory Chapters by Maurice Burton. [Wayside Pocket Guide]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Warne,, [1961]. Sm. 4to., with coloured frontispiece, 82 coloured plates containing 300 illustrations, 8 photographs in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text; original red pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. One of the three 'Wayside Pocket Guides' of the Wayside and Woodland series, Coward's 'Birds of the Wayside and Woodland' was distilled from his original three-volume work, (1920-26) and first published in 1936. Several times reissued, it remains one of the best and most popular volumes of the famous series. Very uncommon in this condition. See Marren, pp.196-7.

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Book number: 44790

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, wayside woodland, ww, t.a. coward, natural history, wayside, woodland, birds, wayside, woodland

COWARD T.A.

Life of the Wayside and Woodland. When, Where and What to Observe and Collect. [Wayside and Woodland series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Warne,, n.d. [?1929/1936]. Sm. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of tan leatherette, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, brown sprinkled edges, radial corners, fore-edges lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Probably either second impression [1929] or third impression [1936] but certainly a near fine copy. First published in 1923 and one of the few W&W titles never to have been revised (it was last reprinted in 1948). 'It is a real period piece and belongs to a lost world of nature study and domestic museums' (Marren). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Marren, pp. 156-158.

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Book number: 17902

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, ww, wayside woodland, t.a. coward, natural history, wayside, woodland, life, wayside, woodland

CRABTREE J.H.

British Insects and how to identity them.

Epworth Press,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured double-page plate as frontispiece and numerous monochrome photographs in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, coloured illustration (repeated from frontispiece) mounted in frame on upper board, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-soiled and with short closed tear. Published as no. 17 in the 'How to Identify' series. Scarce in anything like this condition.

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Book number: 12340

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Keywords: natural history, insects, entomology, how to identify, epworth, j.h. crabtree, natural history, insects, british, insects, how, identity, them

CRAMP, ed. Stanley

Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Birds of the Western Palearctic. [THE ORIGINAL OUP EDITION.] NEAR FINE SET OF THE OXFORD EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Oxford University Press,, [1977-1994]. 9 vols., 4to., First Edition, with titles in red and black, and many hundreds and coloured plates, illustrations and maps, small neat signature on front free endpaper versos; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The standard reference, compiled and published over nearly two decades. The set comprises: Vol. I: Ostrich to Ducks (1977); Vol. II: Hawks to Bustards (1980); Vol. III: Waders to Gulls (1983); Vol. IV: Terns to Woodpeckers (1985); Vol. V: Tyrant Flycatchers to Thrushes (1988); Vol. VI: Warblers (1992); Vol. VII: Flycatchers to Shrikes (1993); Vol. VIII: Crows to Finches (1994): Vol. IX: Buntings and New World Warblers (1994). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE

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Book number: 40864

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CURLE Richard

The Ray Society. A Bibliographical History.

Ray Society,, 1954. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and a plate; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 181

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Keywords: bibliography, ray society, natural history, richard curle, natural history, ray society, the, ray, society

DANCE S. Peter

The Art of Natural History. Animal Illustrators and their Work. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

Country Life,, [1978]. Folio, First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous illustrations and reproductions throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's laminated pictorial board slip-case. Scarce.

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Book number: 20318

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, illustration, wildlife illustrators, s. peter dance, natural history, general, art, natural, history

DARLING Frank Fraser

New Naturalist 6. Natural History in the Highlands and Islands. [Publisher's facsimile of First Edition.] FINE COPY OF PUBLISHER'S FACSIMILE EDITION

Collins,, [1947] [2009]. 8vo., with 45 coloured plates, 55 plates in monochrome and 24 maps and diagram (several full page) in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fine copy of the publisher's facsimile edition of the original edition of 1947. New Naturalist 6. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

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Book number: 41525

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, new naturalists, nn, newnats, darling, scotland, highlands, islands, frank fraser darling

DARLING Frank Fraser

New Naturalist 6. Natural history of the Highlands and Islands. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with 45 coloured plates, 55 plates in monochrome, and 24 maps and diagrams (several full page) in the text, endpapers very faintly spotted; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, covers lightly faded, else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and spotted on fold-ins and (predominantly white) rear panel. New Naturalist, 6. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Marren 6a.

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Book number: 43660

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