Books - "natural history"
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Classical and Middle Armenian Bird Names:a Linguistic, Taxonomic, and Mythological Study
Super octavo, creme cloth boards with blue lettering to spine & front boards, xxi + 290pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Caravan Books 1978
KEYWORDS: birds ornithology natural history Armenia mythology reference
Zoo Quest to Guiana
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: The Reprint Society 1958
KEYWORDS: Biography natural history Guiana
New Zealand Birds
First edition, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, viii + 541pp, illus, VG (very light foxing to eps & page edges, bookshop ink stamp on front pastedown, slight crack to gutter around p515, minor bruising to extrems) in d/w VG- (moderate browning, creasing to extrems, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Fine Arts (NZ) Ltd 1930
KEYWORDS: Birds ornithology New Zealand natural history
Hongos: Especies Alucinogenas
Text in Spanish, super octavo, illus light card covers, 120pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to covers, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Diana 1995
KEYWORDS: text in Spanish mushrooms natural history culture
The Kea: A New Zealand Problem
Ex-library, Super octavo, green cloth boards with green lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 151pp, illus, VG (light library markings, moderate tanning to boards, moderate bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to boards, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Marriner Bros & Co. 1908
KEYWORDS: ornithology Kea New Zealand natural history birds
The Mentality of Apes
Very Early primatology, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontipiece, viii + 336pp, illus, VG (light soiling & light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co. 1931
KEYWORDS: apes primatology natural history primates animals
Arthur's Pass and the Otira Gorge
Octavo, purple light card covers with yapp edges, green & red lettering and lovely colour bird illus to front cover, frontispiece, 68pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited 1925 (?)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Arthur's Pass Otira Gorge souvenir guide tourism natural history
Pacific Sea Shells: A Handbook fo Common Marine Molluscs of Hawaii and the South Seas
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: Charles E Tuttle 1970
KEYWORDS: sea shells moluscs Pacific marine natural history Hawaii South Seas
Kapiti Bird Sanctuary: A Natural History of the Island
octavo, light-blue heavy card board covers, dark blue lettering to spine and front cover, bird/landscape illus to front cover, illus title page, frontispiece, illus, 190pp, VG ( v.slight tanning & foxing to spine, covers, page edges & eps, v. few pencil notes/underlinings, rep is water-marked) in d/w shabby (moderately bruised; faded, particularly spine; moderate rubbing & slight soiling - has been put in protective plastic cover- 1.5x3cm hole in spine) a very pretty book
PUBLISHER: R. H. D. Stidolph 1952
KEYWORDS: Kapiti bird ornithology nature natural history New Zealand birds
The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
Ownership signature of NZ author & archaeologist Ian Smith, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 839pp, NR FINE in NR FINE d/w
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: zooarchaeology archaeology zoology animals natural history
Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: natural history western ocean sea marine animals illustrated fossil
Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore
Super octavo, stapled light card covers (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: The Cataloochee Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Great Smoky Mountains natural history illustrated US America culture hunting
The Great English Earthquake
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: Robert Hale 1976
KEYWORDS: earthquakes England history natural disasters Essex
Nature Guide to Wales
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: Usborne 1981
KEYWORDS: Wales natural history walks plants animals birds
Amazonia
Quarto softcover with french flaps (Near 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 cost
PUBLISHER: University of Oregon Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Natural history art photography Amazon Amazonia
The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner: Natural History: Taxidermy, Bibliography, and Biography
FIRST EDITION. octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to title plate on spine, 16pp adverts + 392pp, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, heavy discolouration to spine & board edges, moderate loss to edges of title plate on spine, moderatew chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, spine completely detached from binding, buckram sl detached from front board at internal edge)
PUBLISHER: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans and John Taylor 1840
KEYWORDS: taxidermy zoology first edition science animals natural history
Marvels of Ant Life
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: S.W. Patridge & Co 1898
KEYWORDS: ants natural history illustrated
The Full Story of the Great Earthquake Disaster at Hawke's Bay, New Zealand on 3rd February, 1931
Quarto, red stapled light card covers, black lettering to covers, adverts to eps, unpaginated, illus, VG- (heavy creasing & scuffing to covers with moderate soiling, moderate creasing & staining to page egdes, heavy rusting to staples with staining, central pgs completely detached but present)
PUBLISHER: The Weekender 1931
KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural disasters media journalism history earthquakes illustrated pictorial Hawke's Bay north island
The Hawke's Bay Tribune: Emergency Earthquake Editions (Souvenir Issue)
Quarto, illus stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus, VG- (moderate chipping to spine extrems, moderate creasing & staining to covers, moderate rusting to staples with some closed tearing, 1cm segment clipped from bottom corner of rear cover, moderate tanning & scuffing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: W. C. Whitlock/H.B. Tribune 1931
KEYWORDS: Hawke's Bay New Zealand earthquake natural disaster illustrated history tribune
A Journal of Researches
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: Ward, Lock & Co Ltd. 1910
KEYWORDS: Darwin research biology natural history