Books - "natural history"
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Lories & Lorikeets: The Brush-Tongued Parrots
Small quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: Inkata 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Rosemary Low parrots birds animals natural history reference
Wading Birds of the World
Small quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: Blanford 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Richard Soothill Eric Soothill wading birds animals natural history reference
The Pheasants of the World
Quarto, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stainied red, frontispiece, 395pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page lower corner edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, some creasing to spine extrems, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: Spur Publications / World Pheasant Assn 1977 (Second Edition)
KEYWORDS: Jean Delacour JC Harrison ornithology natural history pheasants birds animal husbandry breeding hatching aviculture
Wildfowl of the World
Small quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: Blanford 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Eric Soothill Peter Whitehead wildfowl birds pictorial animals wildlife natural history
Seeds of Change
Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 372pp, illus, Near FINE in Near FINE slipcase
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2007
KEYWORDS: Henry Hobhouse plants agriculture natural history Folio Society
A Field Companion to the Butterflies of Australia and New Zealand
Octavo hardcover (VG+) illus; 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: Five Mile 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Bernard D'Abrera field guide manual butterflies natural history biology Australia New Zealand
The Chatham Islands: Their Plants, Birds and People
Octavo, pale blue boards with black lettering to spine, ix + 177pp, illus, VG (heavy bruising to upper spine extrem with small tear to cloth, sl bruising to other extrems, light foxing to eps and page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate soiling & rubbing, creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Simpson and Williams Ltd 1952
KEYWORDS: EC Richards Chatham Islands plants flora fauna birds ornithology natural social history
Flight of the Huia: Ecology and Conservation of New Zealand's Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals
Super octavo, illus blue light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, xii + 411pp, illus, VG+ (soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: Kerry0Jayne Wilson New Zealand animal conservation ecology environment natural history endangered extinct species
Australia's Butterflies
Imperial Octavo softcover (VG) illus; 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: Kangaroo 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Wilson Australian butterlies natural history insects photography
150 Treasures
Limited numbered edition (153 of 200) in slipcase, folio, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus mounted to front board, brown eps, 195pp, illus, nr fine, in slipcase, black cloth boards with silver lettering & mounted illus to board, VG+ (v slight rubbing to boards)
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2001
KEYWORDS: Krzysztof Pfeiffer Auckland War Memorial Museum New Zealand artefacts treasures art collections science natural history craft
Currents & Eddies: Chips from the Log of an Artist-Angler; Coverts & Casts: Field Sports and Angling in Words & Pictures
Two-volume set in slipcase, large quarto, red boards with gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt fish motif to front boards, frontispiece, xii + 138pp, xiv + 138pp, illus, nr fine (slight staining to spines) in matching slipcase, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Freshnet Press 1970
KEYWORDS: William J Schaldach sport fishing angling art painting natural history
The Story of New Zealand Volcanoes
Octavo hardcover (VG) in 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Collins 1977
KEYWORDS: specials GL Pearce New Zealand volcanoes geology volcanology natural history
Wetlands of New Zealand: A Bitter-Sweet Story
Folio, illus heavy card boads with white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, nr. fine
PUBLISHER: Random House2007
KEYWORDS: Janet Hunt New Zealand natural history wetlands ecology flora fauna
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, a Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883
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
Grub The Bush Baby
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
The Royal Natural History
Illustrated with Seventy-two Coloured Plates and Sixteen Hundred Engravings
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
Two in the Bush
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
Terra Australia 14: 30,000 Years of Aboriginal Occupation: Kimberley, North West Australia
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
Plants of the Fiji Islands
Revised Edition
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
Castle Hill
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