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xxama220360

The Life of the Bee


MAETERLINCK, MAURICE & SUTRO, ALFRED (trans.) & TEALE, EDWIN WAY (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Dover 2015

KEYWORDS: natural history philosophy bees

$60.00
3b4/39

Catching Nature in the Act: Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century


TERRALL, MARY

Super octavo, grey buckram boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 275pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2014

KEYWORDS: natural history 18th eighteenth century Reaumur naturalists

$70.00
3b2/10

Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd; Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History: Volume III


PLUCHE, NOEL ANTOINE & HUMPHREYS, Mr SAMUEL (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, sm octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering to spine (rubbed off) with raised bands also, frontispiece, 400pp, illus, G+ (heavy cracking to front & rear hinges/gutters- front board shaky, leather peeling from front board, other moderate rubbing & soiling/chafing to boards & spine, heavy tannin & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, moderate foxing & soiling throughout, illus opp. pg61 has heavy creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Printed by A Reilly, for Edw. Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork Hill, M,DCC,XLII (1742)

KEYWORDS: antiquarian books leather bindings natural history Noel Antoine Pluche historical

$25.00
xxzbh220487

Wild Flowers: Botanising in Britain [The New Naturalist]


GILMOUR, JOHN & WALTERS, MAX

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: Collins 1955

KEYWORDS: British wildflowers natural history New Naturalist series

$25.00
xxzbh220488

Trees, Woods and Man [The New Naturalist]


EDLIN, H. L.

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: Collins 1978

KEYWORDS: trees woodlands replanting natural history New Naturalist series

$30.00
xxzbh220489

Man and the Land [The New Naturalist]


STAMP, L. DUDLEY

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: Collins 1969

KEYWORDS: British natural history New Naturalist series

$40.00
xxzbh220490

Wild Orchids of Britain: With a Key to the Species [The New Naturalist]


SUMMERHAYES, V. S.

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Collins 1951

KEYWORDS: first edition British orchids natural history New Naturalist series

$35.00
xxzbh220491

Flowers of the Coast [The New Naturalist]


HEPBURN, IAN

FIRST EDITION super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) tear to 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: Collins 1952

KEYWORDS: first edition British coastal wildflowers natural history New Naturalist series

$20.00
xxzbh220492

The Sea Shore [The New Naturalist]


YONGE, C. M.

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Collins 1949

KEYWORDS: first edition British coastal wildlife seashore natural history New Naturalist series

$10.00
xxfbd220523

Queenstown: The Stories Behind the Scenery


HOLLMAN, MIKE & HALL, SUE (photos)

Imperial 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: Hodder Moa 2009

KEYWORDS: Queenstown New Zealand photography scenery natural history colour photographs

$25.00
xxfbd220526

Attitude & Heart: The Horse in New Zealand


MINCHAM, CAROLYN

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: David Bateman 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand horses natural history domestic racing military transport Maori Pakeha

$9.00
xxfbd220529

A Pocketful of Penguins


FALLA, MOLLY

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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1970

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history memoir penguins illustrated colour illustrations

$18.50
xxfbk220540

Dodo: A Brief History


FULLER, ERROL

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: Universe 2002

KEYWORDS: dodos natural history colour illutrations dodo

$95.00
3c2/6

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

TENTH EDITION (COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME), WITH FOLDING MAP, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus title page, folding map to prelims, xvii + 515pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising & light rubbing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl fading/discolouration to spine, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges &eps, prev. owner's name in ink & stamp to ffep, moderate foxing to folding map, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, light cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1906

KEYWORDS: Malay archipelago nature natural history travel exploration Alfred Russel Wallace

$80.00
3c2/18

Wild Life in New Zealand: Part I- Mammalia, Part II- Introduced Birds and Fish (in single volume)


THOMSON, Hon Geo M

Octavo, pink light card wrappers, black lettering to front cover, part 1- 112pp, part 2- 110pp [222pp total], illus, VG- (heavy creasing & cracking to spine, moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, minor soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to front cover & title page, botton half of front cover torn at spine hinge, minor foxing & tanning/soiling to title page, 2cm closed tear & prev. bookseller's ink stamp to base of page, heavy crack to rear gutter, staples rusted, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Marcus F Marks, Government Printer 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history animals mammals fish birds marine biology ornithology mammalia nature

$45.00
3c2/28

Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins


VITALIANO, DOROTHY B

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, blue gilt lettering & illus to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 305pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing/rubbing to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, light creasing to front flap, minro soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1973

KEYWORDS: geology natural history geomythology myths folklore Dorothy B Vitaliano

$35.00
xxfgl220705

Field Guide to New Zealand Geology: An Introduction toRocks, Minerals and Fossils


THORNTON, JOCELYN

SIGNED & INSCRIBED 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: Reed Methuen 1985

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand geology natural history rocks fossils minerals

$35.00
xxfgl220717

Pyramid Valley: Waikari, North Canterbury


DUFF, ROGER

Super octavo stapled wrappers (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: Association of Friends of the Canterbury Museum 1949

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history moa Pyramid Valley archaeology moas b&w photos

$15.00
xxfnc220821

Plants, Man and Life: Illustrated


ANDERSON, EDGAR

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: Dover 2005

KEYWORDS: natural history human plant interactions

$100.00
3c1/15

Essay on the Theory of the Earth (Fifth Edition)


CUVIER, Baron G [GEORGES] & JAMESON, Professor (Geological Illus)

FIFTH EDITION, FRONTIS LOOSE, super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 16pp + xxiv + 550pp, VG- (leather title plate on spine heavily cracked, moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine, moderate chafing to boards, light to moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to page edges, light tanning & moderate soiling to eps, prev. owners' names/details in ink to ffep, moderate soiling to prelims, ffep detached but present, moderate foxing & age appropriate staining to pages throughout, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T Cadell, Strand, London MDCCCXXVII (1827)

KEYWORDS: natural history literature essays Baron Georges G Cuvier

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