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$50.00
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The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China


NAPPI, CARLA

Super octavo, dark green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + (4) + 234pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to rear board, prev owner's name in ink to ffep, minor underlining in ink)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: natural history China Chinese naturalists scholars

$20.00
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Ferdinand Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings


NORST, MARLENE J

Quarto 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: British Museum of Natural History 1989

KEYWORDS: Australia natural history animals nature art Ferdinand Bauer

$22.50
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Trail of the Money Bird


RIPLEY, DILLON

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: Longmans, Green and Co 1947

KEYWORDS: birds nature ornithology Dillon Ripley natural science history money bird

$40.00
ak5/18/3

A Handlist of the Birds of Southern Mocambique


CLANCEY, P A

Super octavo, black & white marbled boards, gilt lettering to brown spine, pgs 145-302, illus, VG+ (sl tanning & rubbing to boards/edges, sl soiling to page edges, sl foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated

KEYWORDS: birds exotic southern Mocambique ornithology natural history

$25.00
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Kapiti Bird Sanctuary: A Natural History of the Island


WILKINSON, A S and late AMY

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: Masterton Printing Company 1952

KEYWORDS: New Zealand birds ornithology natural history Kapiti Coast

$180.00
ak5/19/49

Abyssinian Birds and Mammals


FUERTES, LOUIS AGASSIZ

FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE IN 30 COLOUR PLATES, quarto, grey stiff card boards, black lettering to title plate to front board, illus, VG- (heavy battering & archival tape repair to spine & gutters, light foxing & soiling to boards, museum ink stamps/pockets to inside front cover & text pamphlet inside, light foxing to pamphlet, museum ink stamps to rear of each plate, plates themselves are in great condition with no marks detected) in slipcase, G+ (heavy bruising & scuffing/chipping with loss & archival tape repairs, moderate soiling, moderate scuffing & soiling to spine)

PUBLISHER: Field Museum of Natural History 1930

KEYWORDS: ornithological art paintings natural history Louis Agassiz Fuertes birds mammals first editions

$22.50
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Wilderness Essays


MUIR, JOHN

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: Gibbs Smith 2015

KEYWORDS: natural history essays literature John Muir

$17.50
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Kakadu: Natural and Cultural Heritage and Management


PRESS, TONY (Ed) & LEA, DAVID (Ed) & WEBB, ANN (Ed) & GRAHAM, ALISTAIR (Ed)

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: Australian Nature Conservation Agency & North Australia Research Unit 1995

KEYWORDS: Australia natural history culture heritage Kakadu NT Northern Territory conservation

$95.00
2g43/1

My Life With the Eskimos (New Edition, Revised and Abridged)


STEFANSSON, VILHJALMUR & OSBORN, HENRY FAIRFIELD (Fore) & BROCK, REGINALD WALTER (Fore)

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xii + 308pp, illus/photos, VG (minor rubbing & bruising to extrems, minor tanning to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps & prelims , prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, occasional minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co 1924

KEYWORDS: Vilhjalmur Stefansson anthropology eskimos natural history exploration

$38.50
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New Zealand Seabirds: A Natural History


WILSON, KERRY-JAYNE

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand seabirds ornithology natural history

$20.00
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Big Pacific


TANSLEY, REBECCA

Oblong quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) 1cm closed tear to base of rear cover; 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: David Bateman 2017

KEYWORDS: Pacific ocean natural history marine wildlife geography geology maritime

$16.50
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Wild Dunedin: Enjoying the Natural History of New Zealand's Wildlife Capital


PEAT, NEVILLE & PATRICK, BRIAN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin wildlife nature natural history Neville Peat

$30.00
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Upriver: From the Sea to the Southern Alps


HEINZ, COLIN

Imperial octavo stiff 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: Quentin Wilson Publishing 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rivers natural history south island southern alps landscapes

$20.00
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The Ecological Thought


MORTON, TIMOTHY

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: Harvard University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: Ecology Timothy Morton nature natural history environment

$25.00
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The Wrath of the Waters: The 1983 Takaka Valley Flood


CLARK, ARNOLD

Quarto 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: Arnold Clark 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand modern history floods natural disasters flooding Takaka Valley 1983 civil defence

$16.50
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The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution


GRIBBIN, JOHN

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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2005

KEYWORDS: Royal Society natural philosophy historical biography 17th Century British history Renaissance Francis Bacon William Harvey Christopher Wren Isaac Newton Robert Moray Robert Hooke

$25.00
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The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Shells


WYE, KENNETH R

INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Headline 1991

KEYWORDS: shell marine natural history kenneth r wye

$75.00
2w6/14

The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China


NAPPI, CARLA

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + (4) + 234pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & soiling to spine, label residue to rear, light general soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese natural history bencao gangmu systematic materia medica herbal medicine

$15.00
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism


PRINCE-HUGHES, DAWN

Octavo hardcover (near FINE) 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: Souvenir Press 2004

KEYWORDS: autism memoir gorillas natural history

$16.50
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African Birds of Prey


BROWN, LESLIE

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: Collins 1970

KEYWORDS: African birds of prey raptors owls ornithology natural history

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