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$18.50
xxsds90804

Lories & Lorikeets: The Brush-Tongued Parrots


LOW, ROSEMARY

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

$22.50
xxsds90805

Wading Birds of the World


SOOTHILL, RICHARD & ERIC

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

$60.00
2g24a/19

The Pheasants of the World


DELACOUR, JEAN & HARRISON, J. C. (Illus)

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

$15.00
xxsds90815

Wildfowl of the World


SOOTHILL, ERIC & WHITEHEAD, PETER

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

$40.00
2d23/2

Seeds of Change


HOBHOUSE, HENRY

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

$24.50
xxsdi91017

A Field Companion to the Butterflies of Australia and New Zealand


D'ABRERA, BERNARD

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

$125.00
1a3d/9

The Chatham Islands: Their Plants, Birds and People


RICHARDS, E. C.

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

$45.00
1a3d/14

Flight of the Huia: Ecology and Conservation of New Zealand's Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals


WILSON, KERRY-JAYNE

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

$12.00
xxsdp91422

Australia's Butterflies


WILSON, PETER

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

$40.00
1b27a/48

150 Treasures


STEAD, OLIVER (Ed) & PFEIFFER, KRZYSZTOF (Photog)

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

$85.00
2f11b/3

Currents & Eddies: Chips from the Log of an Artist-Angler; Coverts & Casts: Field Sports and Angling in Words & Pictures


SCHALDACH, WILLIAM J.

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

$14.50
xxsdr91485

The Story of New Zealand Volcanoes


PEARCE, G. L.

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

$40.00
2f11b/21

Wetlands of New Zealand: A Bitter-Sweet Story


HUNT, JANET

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

$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

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