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The Natural History of Insects
London John Murray 1829 Hard Cover Good No Jacket 16mo
313 pp, 351 pp. Two volumes bound together, Vol I publ. 1829, Vol II publ. 1835. Half-leather, marbled boards. Leather is chipped and worn. Gilt over bands and edging leather. Title on backstrip is "History of Insects" with no author or publisher. No author on title page. Marbled endpapers and all edges are marbled. Foxing to first and last few pages. Pencilled notes and inked names to front flyleaf. Interior clean bar one or two tidy inked notations and a few splotches. Small chips to a few page edges. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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35.00 AUD
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'BB' (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) The Naturalist's Bedside Book
London Michael Joseph 1980 0718119274 / 9780718119270 First Hard Cover Good + Good + Octavo D.J. Watkins-Pritchford
192 pp. Very light general and edgewear to unclipped dw; small closed dent on back panel. Light foxing to upper edge of text block. Internally bright, unmarked and well bound. Black-and-white illustrations in the text. Collection of BB's articles for The Shooting Times.
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45.00 AUD
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Ackerman, Diane The Human Age: The World Shaped by US
London Headline 2014 0755364996 / 9780755364992 First Paperback Very Good Octavo
344 pp. Very light scuffing to covers. Short crease to upper corner of back cover (and to the last ten or so pages). Otherwise, internally as new. "Our relationship with nature has changed -- radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable."
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18.00 AUD
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Adams, Douglas and Mark Carwardine Last Chance to See
London Heinemann 1990 0434009245 / 9780434009244 First Hard Cover Very Good Good + Octavo
208 pp. Very light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket. Yellowing to edges of text block and outer margins. Previous owner's name inked to front free endpaper. Internally unmarked and solidly bound. Illustrated with colour plates.
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20.00 AUD
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Barnes, Simon Planet Zoo: One Hundred Animals We Can't Afford to Lose
London Orion 2000 185881488X / 9781858814889 First Hard Cover Fine Fine Quarto Alan Marks
264 pp. "...presents us with a challenging, at times highly emotive, account of 100 animals threatened by extinction and in need of human help as we enter the new millennium. Each chapter presents us afresh with the knock-on effect of the animal's likely disappearance: how the future of the planet itself ultimately depends on the creatures that live on it. ...Alan Marks's beautiful, detailed watercolours make this a spectacular book to look at."
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30.00 AUD
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Beshlie Traveller's Joy
Great Britain Granada 1980 0246112468 / 9780246112460 First Hard Cover Good+ Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped but has a little general and edgewear. Green cloth boards sunned along the edges. Internally clean and solidly bound.
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15.00 AUD
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Bradley Trevor Greive Priceless: The vanishing Beauty of a Fragile Planet
Australia Random House 2002 1740511786 / 9781740511780 First Soft Cover Very Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Mitsuaki Iwago
152pp. Numerous colour illustrations. Contains index of animals with species and habitat information. "...shines a bright and beautiful light upon the countless animals sharing our world that are endangered or whose habitats are shrinking." Book and wraps are in excellent condition.
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22.00 AUD
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Burton, Robert The Mouse in the Barn: Animal Habitats series
London Methuen / Belitha Press 1988 0416065627 / 9780416065626 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket Octavo Oxford Scientific Films (photographs)
31 pp. Illustrated boards slightly dented. Internally clean, bright and tightly bound. "Animal Habitats: A series which explains the life of each species in its natural habitat, showing its feeding habits, struggle for survival, defence mechanisms and breeding techniques."
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12.00 AUD
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Butler, Colin G. The World of the Honeybee
London Collins 1962 Reprint Hard Cover Good Good Octavo
223 pp. No. 29 in the series "The New Naturalist: A Survey of British Natural History." Numerous colour and b&w plates. Previous owner's name inked to front free endpaper. Page edges lightly yellowed. Boards with light general and edgewear. Dustjacket price-clipped with very light general and edgewear.
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25.00 AUD
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Clark, Samuel The Ocean and Its Inhabitants with their Uses to Man
London The Bodley Head 1982 Facsimile Edition Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket Octavo
Originally published by Darton and Clark, London, 1844. This facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1982. Previous owner's inked name to front pastedown, otherwise as new. Slipcase is Good, with light general wear and sticker residue to the back. Full-page colour illustrations.
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30.00 AUD
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Coburn, F. D. Alfalfa, Lucerne, Spanish Trefoil, Chilian Clover, Brazilian Clover, French Clover, Medic, Purple Medic... (Medicago sativa): Practical Information on its Production, Qualities, Worth and Uses, Especially in the United States and Canada
New York Orange Judd Company 1909 Reprint Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12mo
163pp + ads. Tables, B&W photographs, diagrams. Occasional pencil notation and underlining. One or two pages with some foxing. Page edges yellowed. Boards with moderate general and edgewear, spine quite faded and worn.
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17.00 AUD
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Darwin, Charles (Abridged & Introduced By Richard E. Leakey The Illustrated Origin of Species
London Faber and Faber 1986 0571145868 / 9780571145867 Reprint Paperback Good Octavo
240pp. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations, photos and maps/diagrams. "...encompasses both Darwin's final thoughts on the question of evolution and his elegant refutations of the many vigorous arguments put up against it." Internally unmarked, light yellowing to page edges. Wraps with some fading towards spine, as well as some light general and edgewear, mostly at corners.
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15.00 AUD
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Day, David. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh The Doomsday Book of Animals. A Unique Natural History of Vanished Species.
London Ebury Press 1981 0 85223 183 0 / 9780852231838 Hard Cover Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Tim Bramfitt, Peter Hayman, Mick Loates, Maurice Wilson
288 pp. Edgewear, including chipping, wrinkling, discolouration, to unclipped dw. Faint discolouration and a couple of light splotches to edges of text block. Faint yellowing to outer page margins. Internally unmarked, bright, solidly bound. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. "David Day documents for the first time the extinction of almost 300 species and subspecies over the last 300 years ... (and) gives a 'waiting list' of 400 critically endangered species which will concern all readers of this immensely valuable book."
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35.00 AUD
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Alfalfa, Lucerne, Spanish Trefoil, Chilian Clover, Brazilian Clover, French Clover, Medic, Purple Medic... (Medicago sativa): Practical Information on its Production, Qualities, Worth and Uses, Especially in the United States and Canada
Coburn, F. D.
17.00 AUD
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Cousteau's Papua New Guinea Journey
Cousteau, Jean-Michel, & Mose Richards
18.00 AUD
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There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story
Larson, Gary
14.00 AUD
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The World of the Honeybee
Butler, Colin G.
25.00 AUD
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The Sea Shore
Yonge, C.M.
12.00 AUD
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