Books - "natural history"
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Abyssinian Birds and Mammals
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
Wilderness Essays
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
Kakadu: Natural and Cultural Heritage and Management
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
My Life With the Eskimos (New Edition, Revised and Abridged)
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
New Zealand Seabirds: A Natural History
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
Big Pacific
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
Wild Dunedin: Enjoying the Natural History of New Zealand's Wildlife Capital
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
Upriver: From the Sea to the Southern Alps
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
The Ecological Thought
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
The Wrath of the Waters: The 1983 Takaka Valley Flood
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
The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution
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
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Shells
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
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China
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
Buffon: A Life in Natural History
Super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 492pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light wrinkling at spine area, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: natural history Georges Buffon naturalists biography nature
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
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
African Birds of Prey
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
Pyramids of Life: An Investigation of Nature's Fearful Symmetry
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: Collins 1977
KEYWORDS: natural history African ecosystem wildlife ecology b&w photos
Native New Zealand Flowering Plants
FIRST EDITION 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Reed 1991
KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand flowering plants native flora natural history guide colour photos
The Universe, or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & gilt/coloured illus to spine & front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 576pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, light bruising ot extrems, light chafing & soiling/discolouration to boards, prize presentation plate to front pastedown, light tanning to eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to rear gutter, sporadic minor foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Blackie & Son 1902
KEYWORDS: natural history nature biology geology environment
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Eurpoe, 900-1900 [Second Edition]
SECOND EDITION 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: Cambridge University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: global colonial history European expansionism ecological biopolitics invasive species disease displacement of natural ecosystems colonialism