HUME, DAVID & GREEN, T. H. & GROSE, T. H. (ed. & prelim. dissertations & notes)

2 VOL. SET; ARCHIVAL TAPE REPAIRS TO SPINE HINGES; Super octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, xxii + 565pp / xxi + 472pp + 24pp publisher's catalogue at rear, G+ (heavy cracking to hinges with archival tape repairs, heavy cracking to gutters - boards slightly shaky and a few pages loose but still present, moderate soiling, bruising & sun-fading to board, some surface loss to spine extrems, light foxing & tanning to pages, slight pencil notes/markings to prelims/terminals, prev. owners & bookseller's labels to feps)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890

KEYWORDS: philosophy philosophical empiricism scepticism naturalism natural religion humanity human nature morality reason reasoning david hume history historical

WHITE, Rev. GILBERT & BROWN, Captain THOMAS (with extensive additions)

Sm. octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling to spine, blind-stamped lettering & decorative rule to boards, frontispiece, illus half-title page, xii + 348pp, illus plates, VG- (moderate rubbing & soiling to boards, boards sl. cocked, light cracking to gutters, light soiling to pages, moderate discolouration to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Richard Griffin and Company 1853

KEYWORDS: england english selborne hampshire natural history science nature naturalists animals zoology fauna

MOREAU, SIMEON

Sm. octavo, half-bound in maroon/tan leather with marbled heavy card boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, frontispiece, vii + 208pp, illus plates, VG- (heavy scuffing to boards, leather binding almost entirely worn away at corners, moderate surface loss to spine extrems., light cracking to gutters, p.32 plate missing, moderately heavy soiling to front section of pages, otherwise light soiling/tanning throughout, small closed tear to table of contents, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown

PUBLISHER: R. Cruttwell 1797

KEYWORDS: england english gloucestershire cheltenham guides guidebooks handbooks tours royal spa natural health resorts towns cities city history

OSLUND, KAREN & CRONON, WILLIAM (Fore)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2013

KEYWORDS: human ecology Iceland natural history ethnology folklore lore customs anthropology

PEAT, NEVILLE

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

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 2002

KEYWORDS: signed Neville Peat New Zealand Otago Museum exhibitions natural history guides

LEAKEY, MEAVE & LEAKEY, SAMIRA

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

KEYWORDS: ancient natural history paleontology anthropology

NUNN, PATRICK

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: Bloomsbury Sigma 2021

KEYWORDS: ancient natural history geology land Patrick Nunn

GLANCEY, JONATHAN

HEAVY lg 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Goodman 2008

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings demolished destroyed history war conflict natural disasters

BATES, MARSTON & HORN, HENRY S (New Preface)

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: Princeton University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: natural history biology science evolution geography

GILLHAM, MARY E

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1965

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history nature ecology botany

WHISTLER, HUGH

LACKS D/W & FEP, scruffy ex-library, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, 223pp, illus/plates- some loose and/or missing, G (heavy rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, heavy wrinkling to spine, usual library labels/markings, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, v heavy cracking to gutters- boads sl shaky, prelim pgs clipped at lower corner, moderate foxing to prelims & throughout, numerous pgs detached with some plates missing)

PUBLISHER: H F & G Witherby 1924

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Himalayas natural history Hugh Whistler

EGGERS, DAVE

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PUBLISHER: Penguin 2011

KEYWORDS: modern history natural disasters floods flooding New Orleans US America American biography biographies Abdulrahman Zeitoun true stories

FLINT, BRIAN

Imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 164pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate water damage to base of page block & boards- boards lightly warped & stained, light tanning & foxing/water staining to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, otherwise still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing, moderate damp wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 1979

KEYWORDS: England English history natural resources energy windmills Suffolk East Anglia

AN AUTHOR'S COLLECTIVE OF THE NATIONAL OFFICE FOR ANCIENT SOIL RESEARCH. VAN ES, W.A. (editor) & SARFATIJ, H. (editor) & WOLTERING, P.J. (editor)

TEXT IN DUTCH, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek, Amersfoort and Meulenhoff Informatief, Amsterdam 1988

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH archaeology soil geography nederlands dutch natural history

GENTRY, STEVEN

Quarto, white faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 346pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (sl wrinkling & chafing)

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2013

KEYWORDS: natural history Kermadec islands New Zealand Pacific landscape geology nature wildlife

WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

2 VOL SET, super octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine & front board, deckled/rough cut edges, frontispieces- tissue guard to vol 1, teg, vol 1- xii + 435pp, vol 2- vi + 464pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate rubbing/surface loss & bruising to board edges & extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning/soiling to page edges, minor insect damage to spine of vol 2, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedowns of both vols, light to moderate insect damage to front gutters of vol 2, heavy cracking to front gutters of vol 1- pgs i-vi detached but present, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims of vol 1, varying degrees of foxing throughout- mostly quite minor)

PUBLISHER: Dodd, Mead & Company 1905

KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Alfred Russel Wallace nature naturalists natural history exploration

MACLEAN, NORMAN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1980

KEYWORDS: hobbies angling fly fishing flyfishing trout grayling biology marine life natural history zoology

BROOKES, RICHARD

Sm octavo, marbled heavy half leather bound boards, ornate woodcut to full title page, unpaginated prelims, 249pp + unpaginate dindex to rear, illus/woodcuts, G- (heavy vertical crack to spine- page block completely cracked in half at spine, v heavy cracking to front gutter- front board partially detached, heavy cracking to rear gutter, v heavy rubbing to spine & boards/edges- some surface loss, 2cm loss to top spine extrem, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, age appropriate staining to pages- esp. prelims & terminals, insect damage to terminals- moderate loss to last index page & glued to rear ep, historic prev. owner's name in ink to title page, light to moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Watts at the Printing Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields 1740

KEYWORDS: hobbies angling flyfishing fly fishing sea-fishing natural history marine life antiquarian books antique

SCROPE, WILLIAM & HAGHE, L (Illus) & LANDSEER, T (Illus) & WILLIAMS, S (Illus)

Super octavo, black half leather bound boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, teg, frontispiece, xvii + 298pp, plates/illus with loosely enclosed tissue guards, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl chafing to boards, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, minor tanning & foxing to plates although largely still very tidy)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1843

KEYWORDS: angling fly fishing flyfishing salmon hobbies historical natural history fish tweed

SCOTT, PETER & WESTON-SMITH, MIRANDA (ed) & SCOTT, PHILIPPA (photos)

Imperial 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 1985

KEYWORDS: natural history naturalist memoir autobiography