Miller, Nancy:

First Book Of Wild Flowers.

London, W & R Chambers, 1960 Blue limp linen-style wraps, Good, a little creased in corner, contents nice and tight with full-pge colour plates, pp35, a little light handling wear, neat prize inscript. to title.

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Book number: 10528

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: flowers nature natural history wild flowers Wood Anemone Woody Nightshade Honeysuckle Wood Sorrel Wild Hyacinth Bindweed Wild Strawberry Wood Loosestrife Wild Arum Basil St John's Wort Primrose

Mookherjee, Kushal:

Birds And Trees Of Tolly.

Calcutta, Tollygunge Club Ltd, 1995 Inscribed by the writer of the Foreword - Bob Wright, Paperback, VG, a little scuffing to edge in places, contents fine and tight, pp129 +map at rear, with many colour photographic illust.s.

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Book number: 10481

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Calcutta Tolly birds trees natural history India Indian Tollygunge Club flora mammals reptiles amphibians field guide wildlife Robert Wright

Mudd, Jack:

Here's Mudd In Your Eye. Bush Tales From 1960 - 2002.

Johannesburg, High Branching, 2002 Soft wraps, VG, a little scuffing to edges in places, contents clean and tight, pp120. These are bush tales about the amazing animals that have featured in his life.

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Book number: 10608

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: South Africa tales stories wild animals wildlife anecdotes autobiography rock python birds el nino natural history African bush 1919931449

Murray, Stuart:

Birds of St Kilda. Scottish Birds - the Journal of the SOC Supplement to Volume 23 (2002).

Musselburgh, The Scottish Ornithologists' Club, 2002 Pbk, stapled booklet, Nr Fine, pp64, contents fine and tight.

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Book number: 15302

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: St Kilda Scotland birds ornithology Scottish Birds Ornithologists club Volume 23 00369144

Murray, John A (Ed. By):

The Islands And The Sea: Five Centuries of Nature Writing from the Caribbean.

Oxford University Press, 1991 Hard cover olive green paper bds with turquoise cloth to spine, Nr Fine, bk leans a little, unclipped dust jacket, Nr Fine, contents fine and tight, pp329. Contents range from: The First Letter of Columbus; A Gererall Historie of the Indies; Th eSea Turtles of the Caribbean Islands; the Voiage of Captain Rene Laudonniere to Florida; The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana; A True Reportory of the Wrack; A Plague of Rats Upon Bermuda; The Manatee or Sea Cow; Robinson Crusoe; A Country Walk in Antigua; The Alligator; Cay Bonito, Cuba; A Horseride Over the Portland Mountains, Jamaica to Cancun and Cozumel; The Grand Tour Up River; La Pelee; The Banana Plantations of Costa Rica; Folk Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas; Letter to Maxwell Perkins; The Nature of the Everglades; The World of Reef Flats; Trinidad; The Passing Wisdom of Birds; Bernhardsdorp and The Coral Reef at Akumal etc...etc...

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Book number: 14255

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Caribbean nature writing natural history Columbus Cozumel Hernando Coretes Indies history Ferdinando de Soto sea turtles Captain Rene Laudonniere Sir John Hawkins Knight West Indies Guiana Wracke 0195066774

Netboy, Anthony:

The Atlantic Salmon: A Vanishing Species?

London, Faber And Faber, 1968 1st Ed., hard cover red cloth bds, Good, clipped but still priced dust jacket, small chip/closed tear to spine tip, a few age-marks, Good, contents clean and tight, pp457, illust. with tables, charts and b/w photographs.

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Book number: 14259

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: atlantic salmon life history migrations Spanish slamon French salmon Baltic norway Welsh Scottish Ireland Amercan Greenland fisher Icelandic fishery Salmo salar Canada rivers

Nordhagen, Rolf Miranda Bodtker (Tegninger Av):

Norsk flora - Illustrasjonsbind. Forste Hefte Karsporeplanter og bartraer.

Oslo, H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1944 Hard cover brown cloth bds, gilt surname of author to spine, VG+, no dust jacket, contents fine and tight, neat name to top corner of front pastedown and inititls to top corner of title pge, pp64 + I-IV Alfabetisk register til forste hefte.

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Book number: 15588

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Norsk flora natural history latin names plants Juniper Miranda Bodtker illustrated forste ferns

Northesk, Robin Illust. by Catherine James:

Diary of An Island Glen.

Malew, Isle of Man, Close Clark Ltd, 1988 SIGNED by the author to half title, Oversized glossy pbk, VG++, contents fine and tight, lovely colour and b/w illustrations by Catherine James, pp52. "The Earl of Northesk owns a small glen, high up in the hills near his home in the Isle of Man. Over the years he has painstakingly encouraged and protected the indigenous plants an dbirds. This diary is a loving account of just on eyear's efforts, its successes and failures, and he asks pertinent questions about the true purpose of conservation and the marvels and mysteries of Nature..."

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Book number: 15272

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Isle of Man diary glen Earl of Northesk conservation plants birds protection protected indigenous success failure nature butterflies 0951405802

The Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union:

Check-List of North American Birds: The Species of Birds of North America from the Arctic Through Panama, Including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands.

American Ornithologists' Union, 1998 Oversized hard cover, green cloth bds, VG, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket, contents fine and tight, maps to endpapers, neat prev. owners label to ffep verso, pp829. Due to weight this book may incur extra postage.

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Book number: 15317

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: birds ornithology North America American check list species Arctic Panama West Indies Hawaiian Islands classification French names tinamiformes Procellariiformes Pelecaniformes Ciconiiformes 189127600X

Peel, J. H. B.:

Portrait of The Thames From Teddington To The Source.

London, Robert Hale, 1976 Hard cover blue cloth bds, unclipped dust jacket, flaps stuck down to pastedowns, VG+, a little wavy at rear, edges slightly furled, ffep has been torn away, lib. stamps to half title and title verso, contents nice and tight, b/w plates through text, map, pp207, small age-spot to leading pge edge block leaks in to pges 97-101 - very shallow. "...the Thames is more than a history book, more than a galaxy of splendid architecture. This protrait reveals those features; but chiefly it is an evocation of the river between Teddington and its source in a Gloucestershire meadow, by day and night, through the four seasons of the year."

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Book number: 15472

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: river Cookham Thames source seasons Sonning Mapledurham Goring Radley Eynsham Lechlade Kemble Runnymede Hampton Court history Windsor Castle Cliveden Oxford Hurley Lock 070910748X

Martin R. Perrow:

Norfolk Bird & Mammal Report: 1996.

Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist's Society, Volume 31 Part 2 October 1997. Soft pict. wraps, VG, pp266, sl. bent at top, contents tight and bright with colour photographs and b/w drawings.

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Book number: 10380

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Norfolk, birds, mammals, report, 1996, naturalists, waxwings Foxley wood ornithology 03757226

Perry, Richard:

In The High Grampians.

London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd, 1948 Hard cover green cloth bds, small bump to leading edge otherwise VG, unclipped d/w, some wear and tear, btm corner missing, contents fine and tight, pges just tanning, pp173 + fold-out map to rear.

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Book number: 10959

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Grampians natural history Scotland ornithology animals insects nature British Isles Scottish highlands 0000000

Pitt, Frances:

Nature Through The Year.

London, Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1950 1st Ed., Hard cover green cloth bds, VG, unclipped d/w, Fair with some chipping, tear across the rear, small pieces missing at top and btm of spine, contents clean and tight, b/w plates, pp300.

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Book number: 10915

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: nature natural history countryside year seasons hares birds orchard red squirrels fish bird migration harvest heron badger woods farmyard wildlife cuckoo mammals London birds mice Christmastide 0000

Preston-Mafham, Ken:

Frogs and Toads: The Illustrated Identifier to over 100 Species.

London, The Apple Press, 1999 Hard cover with green cloth bds, and unclipped dust jacket completely enclosed in protective film, Good+, ex-lib, contents fine and tight with colour plates for each frog or toad, pp80.

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Book number: 14781

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: frogs toads identifier species reference variety world location activity habitat rarity directory 1840922052

Lady Taylor Illust. by William Reeves:

Introduction To The Birds Of Jamaica.

London, Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1955 Paperback, stapled, almost VG, contents clean and bright, pp114.

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Book number: 10211

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Jamaica birds ornithology identification description avifauna lawns gardens countryside sea birds ponds rivers reservoirs upper air high hills forests classicication names