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$275.00
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature


WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

OWNERSHIP OF JOHN HARRE- NZ ETHNOLOGIST/HISTORIAN, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 515pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing & fraying to spine & extrems, moderate scuffing & soiling to boards & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, v heavy cracking to gutters- boards sl shaky, light foxing & tanning to prelims, inscription in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1898

KEYWORDS: Malay archipelago nature natural history

$30.00
xxkxo190274

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings


CHAMBERS, ROBERT & SECORD, JAMES A. (Ed & Intro)

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. All online listings are held in Dunedin

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1994

KEYWORDS: creation evolution biology natural history science

$30.00
xxa3ab190560

The New Naturalist Butterflies


FORD, E. B.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty): 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. All online listings are held in Dunedin

PUBLISHER: Collins 1946

KEYWORDS: natural history bugs insects entomology butterflies

$15.00
xxa3ac190607

The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation


KRUTCH, JOSEPH WOOD

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. All online listings are held in Dunedin

PUBLISHER: Morrow Quill 1980

KEYWORDS: desert life Joseph Wood Krutch natural history

$22.50
xxa3cb171102

Continent of Curiosities: A Journey Through Australian Natural History


CLODE, DANIELLE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs. All online listings are held in Dunedin

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian natural history nature animals

$45.00
1h16a/1

Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy


FINDLEN, PAULA

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, xvi + 449pp, illus, VG (light creasing & bruising/wrinkling tospine & covers, light fading to lettering on spine, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to inside front cover, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1996

KEYWORDS: science museums Italy Italian natural history

$40.00
1i33a/36

The Life-History of the Salmon


HUTTON, J ARTHUR & THOMSON, Prof J ARTHUR (Intro)

Imperial octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to brown buckram spine, xvi + 56pp + plates to rear- uncounted presumed all present, VG- (spine heavily cocked, heavy scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning to half title page)

PUBLISHER: University of Aberdeen Press 1924

KEYWORDS: salmon fish natural history

$60.00
1i33a/37

Anglers' Fishes & Their Natural History


TAVERNER, ERIC

Octavo, peach buckram boards, copper gilt lettering to beige buckram spine, top page edges stained brown, frontispiece, 284pp, illus, VG+ (moderate staining to board edges, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, sl foxing to eps, ex-libris plate tipped in to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, heavy tanning to spine & edges, light tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: Seeley, Service & Co C.1957

KEYWORDS: fish natural history angling

$20.00
xxzck172204

The Curious World of Frank Buckland


BURGESS, G H O

LACKS D/W, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: John Baker 1967

KEYWORDS: Frank Buckland natural history fisheries biographies memoir

$17.50
xxzdc172209

The Running of the Salmon


TAVERNER, ERIC & BROWNE, W BARRINGTON

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: Geoffrey Bles 1954

KEYWORDS: salmon fishing natural history

$16.50
xxzdc172210

The Ever-Rolling Stream


ALDRICH, BERNARD & SMITH, MANUELA (Illus)

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: George Allen & Unwin 1984

KEYWORDS: natural history waterways streams Broadlands royal estates conservation nature

$100.00
1i41a/34

The Natural History of the Salmon / The Stormontfield Experiment on the Salmon


BROWN, WILLIAM

Duodecimo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board only, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, frontispiece, 136pp, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light discolouration to spine, moderate chafing & dsicolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light smatterings of foxing throughout, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Murray and Son 1862

KEYWORDS: fish salmon natural history zoology Stormontfield spawning hatching rearing

$40.00
1i41a/35

The Salmon


RUSSEL, ALEX

Octavo, half leather bound patterned heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, red speckling to page edges, viii + 248pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork on spine & boards, moderate chipping to top spine extrem- sl loss, light tanning to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, ffep attached to front pastedown, heavy cracking to front gutters- half title page loose but still attached)

PUBLISHER: Edmonston and Douglas 1864

KEYWORDS: fish zoology natural history salmon legislation agriculture

$16.50
xxe3aa172349

A guidebook to the Awaruku Bush Reserve


WILLIS, HUGH (compiled by)

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: Awaruku Bush Society 1980

KEYWORDS: hugh willis awakuru bush reserve society guides guidebooks north shore auckland north island new zealand natural history flora native trees plants illustrated

$30.00
xxe3ag172578

Saving the Ranges: The First 40 Years of the Waitakere Ranges Protection Society


HARVEY, TRIXIE & HARVEY, BRUCE

SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Waitakere Ranges Protection Society 2013

KEYWORDS: signed waitakere ranges protection society auckland new zealand nature conservation preservation natural history trixie bruce harvey

$35.00
xxe3bg172918

The Tectonic Plates are Moving!


LIVERMORE, ROY

EX-LIBRARY, LACKS D/W; 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2018

KEYWORDS: roy livermore plate tectonics earth science geology earthquakes natural history tsunamis ocean oceans

$65.00
1j48/35

Natural History in America 1609-1860


TUCHER, ANDREA J (Compiled by)

Tidy ex-library, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 287pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, sl staining to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1985

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues American Philosophical Society Historical Society of Pennsylvania Library Company of Philadelphia natural history

$22.50
xxrgb193541

Index to Illustrations of the Natural World


THOMPSON, JOHN W. (compiled by) & SLAUSON, NEDRA (ed)

Very tidy ex-library - unread; Sm. quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Gaylord Bros., Inc. 1977

KEYWORDS: ex-library index indices illustrations natural world history zoology pictorial botany north america reference guides

$15.00
xxrfL193597

A Life of Science; A Tribute to Charles Alexander Fleming


N/A

Super octavo stapled illus. 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Royal Society of New Zealand 1988

KEYWORDS: royal society of new zealand tribute to charles alexander fleming science scientists natural history biographies biography

$50.00
1t9a/13

Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand (Fully Revised Edition)


GIBBS, GEORGE

FULLY REVISED ENLARGED 2016 EDITION, quarto, illus heavy boards, green lettering to spine, illus eps, 367pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light soiling & fading)

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2016

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history nature geography evolution

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