Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 190, very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly worn. [Russian text with just one page of English summary. The Aksu-Dzhabagly is the oldest nature reserve of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, in the Western Tien-Shan mountains. Most images have birds, plants and mamals identified with Latin names.] View More...
Large 8vo, pp (4), 292, paperback, wrappers very slightly worn, otherwise a good copy. [An extensive scientific bibliography, with detailed subject cross references.] View More...
Journal of Arid Environments. Volume 1 (1978) - Volume 71 (2007) [LACKING Volumes 55 part 2 through to Volume 58 part 1, and parts 42 (4), 46 (3), 51 (3) and 54 (2 & 4). Extremely scarce - an almost complete set to 2007. Paperbacks, in parts as issued, very good condition. {Because of the extreme weight, delivery can really only be contemplated within most of mainland UK.} View More...
Quarto, pp (2), 488, typewritten and xeroxed, limp cloth, fore-edge very slightly marked, otherwise a very good copy with the pencilled signature of John lewis on the front endpaper. (Heavy - extra postage may be required, please enquire). View More...
Three booklets : Meteorological Office Centenary 1855-1955 (40 pages, being The Meteorological Magazine number 996, Vol 84); Research in the Meteorological Office (1967, with 24 pages); Look into the Future (1965 / , 8 pages). All three paperbacks. [Postage will be reduced] View More...
Ten volumes (of 12 published), small thick octavo, all edges gilt, original cloth, with a full complement of 64 colour printed plates and 55 tinted plates, plus many dozens of text engravings, remarkably clean internally with just the very occasional mark or small stain. The cloth bindings are original, but changed in colour and style during the course of publication and are slightly worn overall; the first five volumes are faded and bleached, the upper cover of Volume XI is stained, the spines of the last five volumes are wrinkled, and Volume VII is slightly weak at the front and rear hinges;... View More...
Fourth edition. Large octavo, pp xvi, 843, very slightly used internally, endpapers and fore-edge lightly foxed, the hinge after the title page cracking slightly, cloth slightly worn and marked, the spine faded. View More...
First edition. NEW. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 500; the dustwrapper is not faded and is not price-clipped, STILL ENCLOSED IN THE PUBLISHER'S CELLOPHANE. [Ever since man first cultivated plants and grew crops, insects, mites and other creatures have risen to prominence as pests, but it is only throughout the last two centuries that we have come to study them in detail. Drawing on a lifetime of experience, David V. Alford provides a fascinating account of the natural history of the insects and mites that inhabit our farms and gardens, and feed on our cultivated plants. Coverage of pe... View More...
Illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 452, immaculately clean internally, green cloth in fine condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is in excellent condition and now protected in a removable clear cover. As new. [A complete natural history and the first large-scale survey of this unique part of the country. The borderland between England and Wales has long been a region of contention. Its distinctive geography, wedged roughly between Welsh mountains and English river beds has not only isolated this rural, sparsely-populated slice of land, but created a unique identity. Stretching alo... View More...
Illustrated, octavo, pp 496, green cloth, a very good NEW copy, still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. [The Peak District, Britain's first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year. This New Naturalist volume on the region highlights the wonder and magic of its windswept vistas, rock formations, storied history and fantastic wildlife, revealing its ecological foundations, showing how it has fared over the centuries and projecting what the future might hold. As a botanist and ecologist who has spent her working life in the Peak District, P... View More...
First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scienti... View More...
Italian text. Well illustrated, small octavo, pp 131, paperback, a very good copy. With the bookplate of the botanist David Mabberley. [[Catalogue of an exhibition which took place between 14th November 2008 and 31st January 2009.] View More...
Small octavo, not illustrated, pp 245, + publisher's catalogue 8 pages, fore-edge a little foxed and also pages 6/7. otherwise clean internally, green cloth, the spine head slightly bruised, otherwise very good. {Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books}. [Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626, also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are seen as contributing to the scientific method and remained influential through the later stages of the scientific revolution. Bacon's seminal work Novum Organum was influen... View More...
Illustrated, large octavo, pp 47, a photo copy, bound up in card covers. TOGETHER WITH Westerkov - " General description and account of early investigations on the Island, together with a list of scientific references.", pp 30, octavo, photo copied, and bound in card. Very good. View More...
Slender octavo, pp 12, (i), clean internally, paperback, the covers very slightly marked and worn. Presumably issued in very small numbers ? I have not been able to identify the artist of the woodcut on the cover. [A Keepsake, issued by the Editors of Chronica Botanica, for the members of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, attending the Cornell University Meetings.] View More...
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