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Cook, Cays and Corals - a Bibliography of Publications About the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Cairns Section.

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Queensland, Australia, 1982

Seller ID: 002728

ISBN: 0642522979

Large 8vo, pp (4), 292, paperback, wrappers very slightly worn, otherwise a good copy. [An extensive scientific bibliography, with detailed subject cross references.]
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LIST OF SERIAL PUBLICATIONS IN THE GENERAL LIBRARY BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, 1969

Seller ID: 005592

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).
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The Mount Tomah Book

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Sydney, The Mount Tomah Society & The Royal Botanic Gardens: 1987

Seller ID: 006269

ISBN: 0959127100

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 128, paperback, covers slightly faded and very slightly worn, a long inscription on the front endpaper. [A useful general guide to the history, flora, insects and birds of the area.]
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Journal of Arid Environments. Volume 1 (1978) through to Volume 71 (2007) [lacking a few parts)

By: N/A

Price: £1,500.00

Seller ID: 007793

Condition: Very Good

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.}
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Meteorological Office History - three booklets

By: N/A

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Bracknell,

Seller ID: 014786

Condition: Good

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]
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Image for Wildlife Introductions to Great Britain : the introduction, re-introduction and restocking of species in Great Britain - some policy implications for nature conservation

Wildlife Introductions to Great Britain : the introduction, re-introduction and restocking of species in Great Britain - some policy implications for nature conservation

By: N/A

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Nature Conservancy Council: 1979

Seller ID: 015716

ISBN: 0861390903

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 32, paperback, very slight sigs of use, an old price on the upper cover. [Postage will be reduced.]
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The Eco-Activists : youth fights for a human environment

By: Allaby, Michael

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Charles Knight & Co Ltd: 1971

Seller ID: 005271

ISBN: 0853141150

8vo, pp xii, 226, paperback, a little worn throughout. Covers slightly scuffed, creased and marked. SCARCE. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his brief notes on the lower cover].
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Image for The Romance of the Rostrum - being the business life of Henry Stevens and the history of thirty-eight King Street, together with some account of famous sales held there during the last hundred years

The Romance of the Rostrum - being the business life of Henry Stevens and the history of thirty-eight King Street, together with some account of famous sales held there during the last hundred years

By: Allingham, E.G.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, H.F. & G. Witherby: 1924

Seller ID: 011124

Condition: Fair

Illustrated with 12 plates (of 13 - lacking plate at page 234), lge thick 8vo, pp 333, a little foxing, ageing and marking throughout, signature and address on front endpaper, the plate at page 18 a little marginally frayed, slightly weak internally, cloth a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly pulled at the head and foot, joints rubbed. [Remarkably scarce: according to a Wheldon & Wesley catalogue the print run was only 750 copies].
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The Natural History of the Land of the Bible (Anthony Huxley's copy)

By: Alon, Azaria

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London, Paul Hamlyn: 1969

Seller ID: 013723

ISBN: 060002816x

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 276, very slightly worn in a very worn dustwrapper. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley.]
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The Nature and Origin of the Biological World

By: Ambrose, E.J.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Chichester, Ellis Horwood Limited: 1982

Seller ID: 014814

ISBN: 085312454x

Condition: Very Good

Illustrations and diagrams within the text, octavo, pp 190, pictorial boards, a very good copy indeed - virtually as new. VERY SCARCE.
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Towards Gondwana Alive - promoting biodiversity and stemming the Sixth Extinction

By: Anderson, John M. (editor)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pretoria, Gondwana Alive Society: 1999

Seller ID: 007685

ISBN: 191979543X

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 140, very clean internally, paperback, only very slight signs of wear to the covers. SCARCE.
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A Naturalist in the Guianas

By: Andre, Eugene

Price: £85.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co: 1904

Seller ID: 015762

Condition: Good

First English edition. Octavo, pp xii, 310 + two-page publisher's catalogue, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a folding map at the rear, slightly age-toned internally, slightly foxed on the last page, red cloth with gilt orchid on the upper cover, slightly worn and rubbed, the spine slightly worn at head and tail but now strengthened, recased with new endpapers. With a signed presentation inscription from the author on the half-title - "to my dear old friend 'Mac', this copy is lovingly inscribed, 30th March 1910". [Andre was an explorer and collector of nat...
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Animali Reali e Fantastici in Biblioteca

By: Antetomaso. Ebe; Romanello, Alessandro & Trentini, , Andrea

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Rome, Biblioteca dell' Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana: 2008

Seller ID: 012562

Condition: Very Good

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.]
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Le Bestiare, ou Cortege d'Orphee

By: Apollinaire

Price: £11.50

Publisher: London, Marlborough Fine Art: 1979

Seller ID: 015362

Condition: Good

Quarto, illustrated with aquatint plates and drawings by Graham Sutherland, pp (84), clean internally, paperback, covers a bit marked.
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The Kangaroo

By: Archer, Michael

Price: £12.50

Publisher: McMahons Point, Kevin Weldon: 1985

Seller ID: 009747

ISBN: 0949708224

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, small folio, pp 263. very clean internally. red cloth with pictorial inlay, slightly worn, binding leaning slightly. [Very heavy - extra postage may be necessary]
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Atlas of Mammals in Britain

By: Arnold, H.R.

Price: £16.50

Publisher: London, HMSO (Natural Environment Research Council): 1993

Seller ID: 010014

ISBN: 0117016675

Condition: Very Good

Tall quarto, pp 145, many distribution maps, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly age-toned and very slightly worn.
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Subantarctic Campbell Island

By: Bailey, A.M. & Sorenson, J.H.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Denver Museum of Natural History: 1962

Seller ID: 015593

Condition: Good

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.
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Discovering Nature in the Maltese Islands

By: Baldacchino, Alfredo E.; Lanfranco, Edwin & Schembri, Patrick J.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Blata L-Bajda, Merlin Library Ltd: 1990

Seller ID: 013431

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 104, paperback, covers very slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE.
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The Confessions of a Beachcomber

By: Banfield, E.J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1968

Seller ID: 006289

Condition: Very Good

(Originally published in1908). Reprint, illustrated, pp xxii, 221, a good copy in dustwrapper.
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High Arctic

By: Banks, Mike

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co,: 1957

Seller ID: 014579

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 276, fore-edge slightly marked and age-toned, very slightly used internally, one plate creased, maroon cloth slightly worn, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but it is rather rubbed and frayed around the margins; it is now nicely protected in a removable plastic film. [The British North Greenland expedition was a British scientific mission, led by Commander James Simpson RN, which lasted from July 1952 to August 1954. A total of 30 men took part, though not all stayed for both years. The purpose of BNGE was primarily to carry out scientific studies in glaciology...
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