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$365.00
1b46a/8

A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, a Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883


FORBES, HENRY O.

First edition, recased ex library, folding maps all present and clean, suer octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xx + 536 +32pp book catalogue, folding maps, illus, VG (usual library markings, v light soiling to boards, light tanning esp to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle& Rivington 1885

KEYWORDS: Henry O Forbes travel exploration natural history first edition

$125.00
1b46a/25

Grub The Bush Baby


GOODALL, JANE

Scarce in such tidy condition, small quarto, illus heavy card boards with white lettering to spine & front board, green eps, unpaginated, illus, VG (light soiling to rear, slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small stain spot to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1970

KEYWORDS: Jane Goodall Grub Hugo Africa childhood photography photographs natural history

$500.00
1d30a/4

The Royal Natural History


Illustrated with Seventy-two Coloured Plates and Sixteen Hundred Engravings

LYDEKKER, RICHARD (Ed) & SCLATER, P. L. (Preface)

12 volume set, a handsome set with lovely bindings, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black & gilt tooled decoration to front board & spine, a.e.g, yellow eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, about 300pp per volume, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, some bruising & light fraying to spine extrems, some rubbing to board edges & corners, some fraying to board corners, v light foxing & tanning to prelims including tissue gurd but not affecting frontis, f.e.p. of volume 1 nearly loose, 2cm chip from edge of f.e.p. of vol VII)

PUBLISHER: Frederick Warne & Co. 1894

KEYWORDS: Richard Lydekker PL Sclater natural history animals biology ecology

$8.50
xxcti91836

Two in the Bush


DURRELL, GERALD

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Fontana / Collins 1973

KEYWORDS: specials Gerald Durrell travel memoir natural history

$165.00
1d30a/13

Terra Australia 14: 30,000 Years of Aboriginal Occupation: Kimberley, North West Australia


O'CONNOR, SUE

Folio, illus light card covers, xviii + 155pp, illus, VG+ (slight creasing to front & rear cover upper corners)

PUBLISHER: ANH Publications / Australian National University 1999

KEYWORDS: Sue O'Connor archaeology natural history Australia Aboriginal Aborigine Kimberley

$60.00
1j42a/21

Plants of the Fiji Islands


Revised Edition

PARHAM, J. W.

Revised edition, imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 462pp + xxix index, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, owner's name stamp to page edges, light soiling to eps)

PUBLISHER: The Government Printer, Suva / Government of Fiji 1972

KEYWORDS: JW Parham Fiji Islands plants flora botany natural history

$55.00
1j42a/22

Castle Hill


RICHARDS, E. C. (Ed)

Octavo, green boards with orange cloth spine, frontispiece, vii + 58pp, illus, VG (slight staining to rear board, some tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG (browning to spine & less so to edges, light creasing to edges, bruising & chipping to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams Ltd 1951

KEYWORDS: EC Richards New Zealand Enys W Izard Mrs Brittan Canterbury Castle HillTrelissick local natural history Haast

$45.00
2f26a/22

Recent Brachiopods from New Zealand: Collected Offprints of a Suite of Eleven Papers Published in New Zealand Journal of Zoology Vol. 8 (1981) No. 2


RICHARDSON, JOYCE . (Compiler)

Imperial octavo, green light card covers, printed eps, 115pp (numbered 133-248), illus, VG- (moderate soiling to covers, light crease to rear cover, owner's name stamp to front cover & f.e.p., light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Science Information Division DSIR 1981

KEYWORDS: Joyce Richardson New Zealand brachiopods marine biology zoology science ecology natural history

$40.00
2f26a/24

An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agricuture and Plants in New Zealand: The Scale-Insects (Coccididae)


MASKELL, W. M.

Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & motif to front board, patterned eps, 116pp + xxiii plates with descriptions on facing pages, VG- (mottled heavy fading to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, rubbing with slight loss of surface to board edges. some tanning to eps & page edges, owner's bookplate to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Geo. Didsbury, Government Printer 1887

KEYWORDS: WM Maske New Zealand agriculture scale insects coccididae entomology ecology pests natural history

$365.00
2f26a/35

A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda, Based on the Collections in the British Museum (Natural History: Part I, Octopodinae and Part II, The Octopoda


ROBSON, G. C.

2 volume set, imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, blind rule to boards, xi + 236 + 7 plates (vol I), xi + 359pp + 6 plates (vol II), illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, slight fading to spines, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The British Museum 1929

KEYWORDS: GC Robson cephalopoda octopdinae octopoda octopus marine biology zoology natural history science

$225.00
1w16a/9

Diatomees des Alpes et du Jura et de la Region Suisse et Francaise des Environs de Geneve and Vegetations Pelagiques et Microscopiques du Lac de Geneve (Au Printemps de 1884)


BRUN, JACQUES

TEXT IN FRENCH, octavo, quarter- bound patterned red boards with gilt lettering & bands to black leather spine, marbled eps, 146pp + 9 plates + 17pp, illus, VG- (moderate-heavy rubbing to boards & spine, light bruising to board corners, bookseller's sticker to upper front pastedown, rear gutter cracked, gutters towards rear cracked, some foxing to prelims, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: H. Georg / Georges Massonn 1880

KEYWORDS: J Jacques Brun TEXT IN FRENCH diatomees diatoms jura marine biology science pelagiques natural history

$185.00
1w16a/10

Die Osterreichischen Diatomaceen Nebst Anschluss Einiger Neuen Arten Von Andern Lokalitaten und Einer Kritischen Uebersicht der Bisher Bekannten Gallungen und Arten


GRUNOW, A.

TEXT IN GERMAN, octavo, half-bound marbled boards with gilt lettering to brown leather spine, blue eps, 158pp + plates at rear, VG (moderate rubbing to boards & spine, light soiling to boards, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: 1862

KEYWORDS: A Grunow TEXT IN GERMAN diatomaceen diatoms marine biology science natural history

$28.50
xxfnk92122

Botany of the Manawtu District New Zealand


ELSER, A.E.

Octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: E.C. Keating Government 1978

KEYWORDS: specials A.E. Elser botany New Zealand natural history

$20.00
xxfnk92126

A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus 1758-1840


KOHN, ALAN J.

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution 1992

KEYWORDS: specials Alan J. Kohn taxonomy natural history conus

$24.50
xxfnk92127

Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America: An Illustrated Key


KEEN, MYRA & COAN, EUGENE

Quarto hardcover (VG+) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: specials Myra Keen Eugene Coan natural history marine life molluscs North America

$17.50
xxfnk92129

Marine Molluscs of Victoria


MACPHERSON, HOPE J. & GABRIEL C.J.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge 1972

KEYWORDS: specials Hope J Macpherson & C.J. Gabriel marine molluscs natural history

$50.00
1s8a/39

Exotic Conchology, or Drawings and Descriptions of Rare, Beautiful or Undescribed Shells


Drawn on Stone from the Most Select Specimens; the Descriptions Systematically Arranged on the Principles of the Natural System

SWAINSON, WILLIAM & HANLEY, SYLVANUS (Ed)

1968 facsimile reprint, large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, a.e.g., marbled eps, xxiv + 48pp + 48 plates, illus, VG (some soiling & rubbing to boards, light foxing, some soiling to rear ep)

PUBLISHER: D. Van Nostrand Company / Delaware Museum of Natural History 1968

KEYWORDS: William Swainsom Sylvanus Hanley conchology shells shell collecting marine biology science zoology natural history

$38.50
xxfnl92163

The Cambridge Natural History: Crustacea and Arachnids


HARMER, F. & SHIPLEY, A. E.

Ex library, Imperial octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1909

KEYWORDS: specials F. Harmer A. E. Shipley science natural history zoology

$24.50
xxfnl92173

Mollusca of the Southern Islands of New Zealand


POWELL, A. W. B.

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Department of Scientific and Industrial Reseach 1955

KEYWORDS: specials A. W. B. Powell New Zealand natural history mollusca science biology

$20.00
xxfnl92175

Cephalopods of the Philippine Islands


VOSS, GILBERT L.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution 1963

KEYWORDS: specials Gilbert L. Voss cephalopods natural history Philippine Islands sea animals science biology

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