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Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
Basil Blackwell 1989 xi, 300, 21 b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w.. What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind their secure middle-class homes and undertake perilous journeys of thousands of miles, tramping through tropical forests, caravanning across deserts, and scaling mountain ranges? And how were they able to travel so freely in exotic lands, when at home such independence was denied to them? This book draws upon the diaries and writings of more than 50 such women to describe their experiences and aspirations. Many of the journeys they made are re-constructed - Mary Gaunt's voyage along the West African coast, Mary Kingsley's jungle treks, Amelia Edwards's thousand-mile journey up the Nile and Isabella Bird's ascent of the Rocky Mountains are just a few. Were women such as Mary Kingsley and Isabella Bird simply the intrepid blue-stockings of popular history, or early feminists? Dea Birkett aruges that they were in fact neither - dissatisfied with the restricted lives prescribed for them by Victorian society, they sought and found new horizons abroad, and a degree of freedom and respect only afforded in their own countries to men.. [9780631156048]
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Keywords: Victorian Natural History; Women Explorers
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 xii, 355, 24 col plates, b/w photos, text figs. . HB. NEW. . Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, Willughby was determined to overhaul the whole of natural history and impose order on its complexity. It was exhilarating, exacting and exhausting work. Yet before Willughby and Ray could complete their monumental encyclopaedia of birds, Ornithology, Willughby died. In the centuries since, Ray's reputation has grown, obscuring that of his collaborator. Now, for the first time, Willughby's own story and genius are given the attention they deserve.. [9781408878484]
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Keywords: History of Natural History; Ornithology
Thomas Birch Freeman: West African Pioneer
Cargate Press 1950 xvi, 112, b/w frontis, b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, cloth, edges lightly spotted, endpapers browned; owner's name to endpaper. Vg in d/w (several tape repairs; price clipped).. .
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Keywords: Africa; British Empire; Christianity; Missionary Work
The Personal Life of David Livingstone
John Murray 1881 xix, 526 + 32, b/w portrait frontis, folding col map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt title to spine, black stamped decorative band to centre of boards and spine, rubbed, minor wear, faint mark to front board; edges spotted, some foxing to prelims. Previous owners' names to endpaper. Vg.. Second edition. Chiefly from his unpublished journals his unpublished journals and correspondence in the possession of his family. 32-page publisher's catalogue of new and recent publications bound at rear..
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GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 41 US$ 44.32 | JP¥ 6904]
Keywords: Africa; Biography; PBFA; Travel & Exploration
The Illustration of Books
Faber & Faber 1962 200, 110 b/w illus. 8vo. HB. In d/w with some wear to corners and fading to spine. Vg.. 3rd edition (enlarged).
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The Art of Botanical Illustration (New Naturalist 14)
Collins 1950 xxxi, 304, col frontis, 46 col plates, 32 b/w plates, 75 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, minor spotting to edges. Endpapers partly browned. Vg in d/w (price-clipped; spine darkened; small chip to spine; foxing to fore-edge of panels).. First edition..
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GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 52.5 US$ 56.98 | JP¥ 8876]
Keywords: Art of Natural History; Botany; History of Natural History
The Art of Botanical Illustration
Antique Collectors' Club 1995 368, 126 col, 140 b/w illus. . HB. Fine in d/w.. 5th edition (1994), reprint. A new edition of this classic work first published in the "New Naturalist" series in 1950.. [9781851491773]
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Keywords: Botany; History of Natural History; Natural History Illustration
The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus
Frances Lincoln 2001 264, col + b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Name and ownership stamp to endpaper.. Newly revised and updated edition of the definitive biography of Linnaeus. Introduction by W.T. Stearn.. [9780711218413]
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Keywords: Biography; History of Biology; History of Natural History; Linnaeus
L'histoire de la connaissance du comportement animal / The History of the Knowledge of Animal Behaviour
Universite de Liege 1993 xvii, 553, b/w photos, text figs. . PB. Vg in d/w.. Text French, English, Italian. Proceedings of the Interanational Conference, University of Liege, 1992. Colloques d'histoire des connaissances zoologiques no. 4.
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Keywords: Ethology; Animal Behaviour
Frederick William Frohawk: A Memoir by his daughter
Classey 1977 16, 3 b/w photos. . PB. Fine.. . [9780900848988]
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Keywords: Biography; History of Entomology
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals (1665 to 1882) Together with Chronological Tables and a Library Check-List
Smithsonian Institution 1885 x, 773, . . HB. 8vo, later green half morocco, rubbed, red leather title pieces to spine, orig. wrappers retained. Withdrawn from an institutional library with a few neat ink stamps. Good.. First edition..
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Art Forms in Nature The Prints of Ernst Haeckel
Prestel 1998 139, 100 col plates. 4to. PB. As new.. . [9783791319902]
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August Kappel (1840-1915)
Linnean Society 1996 10, b/w photos. . PB. Wrappers. Vg.. The Linnean Vol. 12(3). Complete issue (October 1996), including this paper (pp. 26-35). August Wilhelm Kappel co-authored several works on butterflies, moths and other insects with W.E. Kirby..
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Natural History Manuscript Resources in the British Isles
Mansell 1980 xxxiv, 473, . 4to. HB. Vg. From the library of Michael P. Cooper (1964-2008), respected amateur mineralogist and historian, with his bookplate and signature to endpaper.. . [9780720115598]
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Keywords: Bibliography; Britain; Natural History
More about Eleanor Glanville (1654-1708)
1975 11, 1 plate. A5. Unbound. Vg.. Reprinted from Entomologist's Gazette Vol. 26 1975..
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GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7 US$ 7.6 | JP¥ 1183]
Keywords: Biography; C1385; Natural History
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