DEMPSEY, GERTRUDE

Signed 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: A.H & A.W.Reed 1964

KEYWORDS: Biography history natural history Stewart Island New Zealand

ORBELL, MARGARET & MOON, GEOFF (phot)

Quarto 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: David Bateman 1996

KEYWORDS: Maori New Zealand culture history natural history

SPEIGHT, R. & WALL, ARNOLD & LAING, R. M. (eds)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, Super 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 1927

KEYWORDS: natural history Canterbury New Zealand history science

JARDINE, N. (ed) & SECORD, J. A. (ed) & SPARY, E. C. (ed)

SIGNED & DATED BY PREVIOUS OWNER BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, Imperial octavo illus light card covers, gold and purple lettering to spine and covers, printed fep, frontispiece, xxi+501pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing and light denting to spine & covers, sl. scuffing to covers, light soiling to front cover, v. sl soiling to page edges, previous owners name in ink and stamp to fep)

PUBLISHER: University of Cambridge Press 1996

KEYWORDS: natural history culture essays history science research ecology environment illustrated

M'CRIE, REV. THOMAS; MILLER, HUGH; ANDERSON, REV. JAMES; FLEMING, PROFESSOR; & BALFOUR, PROFESSOR

FIRST EDITION?, DELIGHTFUL BINDING octavo full leather binding with gilt embossed emblem to front board, gilt tooling, lettering & raised bands to spines, marbled edges, viii+436pp, illus. (all plates PRESENT), VG+ (presentation school prize note from 1866 to pastedown, library stamps & cartalogue numbers in pen to interior, library catalogue number to spine (v. small, unobtrusive), light scuffing and soiling to boards & spines, light foxing within)

PUBLISHER: John Greig & Son [1847]

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish Scots history Bass Rock North Berwick Am Bas Firth of Forth Christian Christianity hermits hermit hermitage John Spreul natural history geology martyrology zoology botany biology science

CALCOTT, BRETT & STERELNY, KIM

Quarto illus. heavy card covers, x+319pp, nr. FINE

PUBLISHER: MIT Press 2011

KEYWORDS: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology science natural history evolution life history fossils fossil record palentology zoology

TUBBS, COLIN R.

FIRST EDITION, octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 300pp, nr. FINE in d/w VG+ (would also be nr. FINE but for moderate fading to spine and v. sl. unobtrusive scuffing to rear)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1986

KEYWORDS: New Naturalist series forest biology British natural history science ecology New Hampshire Verderers history medieval England English

N/A [BUCKE, CHARLES]

4x VOLUME SET; ex-library; quarter bound super ocatvo rebind, vol. i: xi+387pp; vol. ii: VG- except vol. iii G+ (spine cracked and coming loose to vol iii., water stain to boards & fep. torn out also; otherwise, usual stamps and markings to all, labels to spines almost completely effaced,407pp; vol. iii: 388pp; vol. iv: 342pp+adverts; with moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards; moderate tanning and foxing within)

PUBLISHER: G. and W. B. Whittaker 1823 (second edition)

KEYWORDS: nature anthropology comparitive history nineteenth 19th c century charles bucke natural history laws customs manners sociology

SWINSCOW, DOUGLAS & ROWAN, CYNTHIA

Copy of NZ lichenologist David Galloway, w/ small cache of correspondance with author loosley enclosed (one signed typed letter from author); FIRST EDITION, octavo green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine, 150pp, illus., VG+ (light scuffing to boards, ownership signature and notes to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & v. sl. soiling)

PUBLISHER: Halsgrove Press 1992

KEYWORDS: garden garden art design history plants botany natural history signed modern first edition

JARDINE, N; SECORD, J. A.; & SPARY, E. C. (ed.'s)

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN HARDCOVER; small quarto maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxi+501pp, illus., VG+ (occasional light foxing within) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing. light fading to spine, moderate foxing confined to reverse only)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: natural history history philosophy of science biology ecology art collecting gardening colonial gender economics

LANDWEHR, JOHN

Very tidy ex-library; quarto green cloth boards, gilt lettering and emblem, ix+605pp, illus., VG (light soiling and tape stains to eps. and boards, usual stamps and markings; otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w VG (usual markings; plastic covered with adhesive strips top and bottom, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Dr. W. Junk B. V. 1976

KEYWORDS: dutch book books art history coloured plates natural history topography travel costumes uniforms

ACKROYD, PETER

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in half height decorative 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: Chatto & Windus 2007

KEYWORDS: history geography natural history thames travel nature

ROBIN, LIBBY

Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr FINE) in d/w (nr FINE); 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: Melbourne University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: aus australia ornithology birds history zoology natural history

WADE, CHRISTOPHER

Oblong super octavo stapled wrappers (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: High Hill Press 1984

KEYWORDS: England English history London Hampstead topography natural history

BAIRD, DAVID & ELLIOT, ANNE

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Anne Elliot 2005

KEYWORDS: signed new zealand south island otago strath taieri dunedin history significant notable trees flora nature natural history illustrated

COLLENETTE, C. L:

reprint ex libris (usual cancellation stamps pkts etc)164pp folding map rear VG+(v sl gum stains to fep's and boards,bumped spine head & foot,rubbed) d/w VG(in plastic,minor tears lower edge)

PUBLISHER: sr publishers yorkshire 1971

KEYWORDS: natural history richmond park

HUDSON, W. H.

Second edition 307pp incl 9pp index with 26 illus (B & W plates & drawings throughout text) green cloth boards with gilt embossed lettering & emblem on front & spine, VG+ (sl cocked, mod shelf wear, mod bruised cnrs, sl rubbing to boards & spine, mod wear to spine head & foot, mod browning to edges & ep's, sl foxing throughout, sl sunned spine)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co. London 1900

KEYWORDS: English natural history

THOMSON GEORGE M.

first edition 132pp ills.VG (sl.rubbed and stained,sl.bumpsand wear to extrems.,owner's name to title-page,some sl.foxing to contents,edges sl.soiled)

PUBLISHER: george robertson melbourne 1882

KEYWORDS: new zealand natural history

COOKE M.C.

373pp ills. VG- (sl.rubbed and stained,sl.sunned,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,ep sl.creased,some sl.foxing to contents,edges sl.soiled,sl.cocked w.sl.shaky spine)

PUBLISHER: soc.for promoting christian knowledge london 1889

KEYWORDS: natural history

JACKSON J.R.

first edition rebound in 1998 464pp (col.frontis.) VG- (red cloth rebind w.original cloth cover/rear and title from spine laid down,sl.rubbed and stained w.sl.bumps to extrems.,modern eps,sl.stains to prelims.incl.frontis.,blind stamp and owner's sign.to title-page,sl.stains and foxing to contents,edges soiled,tight)

PUBLISHER: john w.parker london 1849

KEYWORDS: minerals geology science natural history