Books - "natural history"
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Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
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: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: natural history evolution biology paleontology
Totara: A Natural and Cultural History
Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to front board only, frontispiece, xii + 288pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light soiling to spine)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand indigenous trees native Totara culture natural history nature
New Zealand Disasters
Super octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: A H & A W Reed 1963
KEYWORDS: new zealand history disaster natural earthquake
The Road to Gondwana: In Search of the Lost Supercontinent
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Exisle 2022
KEYWORDS: gondwana prehistory tectonic drift supercontinent natural history
The Great Tide: The Story of the 1953 Flood Disaster in Essex
FOLDING MAP AT REAR POCKET, tidy ex-libray, imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 883pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, minor tape staining to board edges & eps, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to rear gutter, light foxing to rear eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate wrinkling & chafing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: County Council of Essex 1959
KEYWORDS: Great Britain England British English history flooding disaster floods Essex 20th twentieth century natural disasters
The Ivory King: A Popular History of the Elephant and its Allies
Crown 8vo, pp. xiv + 330; brown buckram bds, black label to spine lettered in gilt, spine & front board lettered in black & decorated in red; frontis., plates; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in pencil to ffep; light cracking to front & central gutters).
PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1891
KEYWORDS: Charles Frederick Holder 19th century elephant wildlife animals natural history zoology
The Gamekeeper at Homes: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
8vo 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: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1906
KEYWORDS: 20th century game sport rural life natural history
New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History with Special Reference to the Results of Government Expeditions in the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson
ALL PLATES & BOTH MAPS PRESENT, imperial octavo, teal/blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind decoration to spine, gilt illus & blind decoration to front board, marbled page edges, illus/patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 515pp, folding maps to rear, G+ (spine completely detached but present- with minor chipping also, moderate scuffing to board extrems, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, 5cm tear to front gutter, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lettering to rear eps in pencil, minor closed tearing & foxing to folding maps)
PUBLISHER: J G Cotta 1867
KEYWORDS: New Zealand geography natural history geology Auckland Nelson
New Guinea: An Island Apart
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.
PUBLISHER: BBC Books 1992
KEYWORDS: nature wildlife New Guinea natural history
A Handbook of New Guinea Marsupials & Monotremes
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: Kristen Pres Inc 1991
KEYWORDS: PNG Papua New Guinea animals wildlife marsupials monotremes nature natural history
The Natural History of Wales
FIRST EDITION, 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: Williams Collins Sons & Co 1981
KEYWORDS: first editions natural history Wales Welsh geography landscape
Bones of Contention: The Archaeopteryx Scandals
8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: John Murray 2002
KEYWORDS: Archaeopteryx Charles Darwin fossil fossils 19th century natural history
Subantarctic Campbell Island
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Denver Museum of Natural History 1962
KEYWORDS: Campbell Island natural history subantarctic New Zealand
Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed with a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to Sportsmen, Anecdotes, Etc.
Super royal 8vo, pp. xvi + 268; green buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; edges deckled, frontis., plates, illus.; VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; heavy cracking to front & central gutters; pp. ix-xxiv & plate opposite p. 49 loose).
PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1898
KEYWORDS: William Scrope fish fishing angler angling salmon sport game natural history 19th century
The Banks Letters: A Calendar of the Manuscript Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks
Imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xlii + 965pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to top edges, light tanning to spine, light scuffing to spine & rear)
PUBLISHER: British Museum (Natural History) 1958
KEYWORDS: Sir Joseph Banks British Museum Natural History manuscripts
The Butterfly and Common Moths of New Zealand
8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G); 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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1966
KEYWORDS: D E Gaskin zoology butterfly butterflies moth moths natural history
Darwin: A Life in Science
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 1995
KEYWORDS: Chalres Darwin 19th century life lives biography biology biologist natural history
The Natural History of an English Forest
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: Arrow Books 1972
KEYWORDS: natural history trees forests nature England English
No Surrender: Greymouth's battle to Beat the Floods
4to 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 costs
PUBLISHER: the Greymouth Evening Star 1990
KEYWORDS: Kit Carson New Zealand history natural disaster flood floods flooding Greymouth
The Great Drought of 1976
Ex-library. 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: Evelyn Cox 20th century history natural disaster drought