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By: ATACK, Katherine
Price: £22.50
Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, 2006
Seller ID: 003684
ISBN: 9838121134
Condition: New
NEW. Well illustrated, pp xii, 200, a good copy in dustwrapper. [Introduces the non-taxonomic reader to the variety of fish species in the mostly estuarine rivers running through the city of Kuching. Many of the species are illustrated with some of the most stunning photography yet seen in any fish guide. One hundred and two species are described with detailed information on the appearance, habitat and distribution. These species range from freshwater species that can tolerate low salinity levels to marine species that visit freshwater. This book covers the species most likely to be seen, and ... View more info
By: Axelrod, Herbert & Vorderwinkler, William
Price: £4.50
Publisher: Jersey City, TFH Publications: 1965
Seller ID: 008068
Condition: Good
Revised edition, 1965. Well illustrated, 352 pages, pictorial laminated boards, a little worn throughout, previous owner's neat name stamp on the endpapers. [ Setting-up, feeding, diseases, wrasses, blowfishes, clown fish, scorpion fish. trunkfishes, squirrel fishes, sea horses, pipe fishes, gobies, goatfishes, theraponids, scats, croakers, cardinals, man-of-war and many more.] View more info
By: Barman, R.P.
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013395
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, slim octavo, pp (2), 86, extremely clean internally, paperback, covers slighly curled, otherwise a very good copy, virtually as new. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Constable & Company: 1909
Seller ID: 009994
Condition: Good
Second ("cheaper") reissue. With photographic plates and line drawings within the text by Gambier Bolton and Winifred Austin, pp x, 310, uncut, slight adhesion markes on title pages with very tiny loss of the printed surface, contemporary inscription on front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, red decorated cloth, slightly worn and marked, spine very slightly faded. View more info
By: Beebe, William
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London & New York, Putnams: 1932
Seller ID: 005969
Illustrated, pp xvi, 245, edges uncut, a little worn internally with some marking, one neat signature on the front endpaper, cloth dull and slightly worn, spine rubbed and wrinkled. Almost certainly a Boots ex-library copy - there is the very faintest sign of a shield label on the upper cover, and the reamins of a label on the rear endpaper. (Marine research in the Bermudas) View more info
By: Beebe, William
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London & New York, Putnams: 1926
Seller ID: 005970
Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xx, 439, a few pages a little marked, generally slightly age-toned, attractive period pictorial endpapers, rear hinge slightly cracked, cloth a little worn and faded, spine very dull. (Marine expedition to the Galapagos via the Sargasso Sea and the Cocos) View more info
![Image for Les Poissons des Eaux Douces de la France [Alan Davidson's copy]](/assets/images/product/009154.jpg)
By: Blanchard, Emile
Price: £135.00
Publisher: Paris, J.B. Bailliere et Fils: 1866
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009154
Condition: Good
Illustrated with text engravings, large thick 8vo, pp xvi, 656, some foxing and age-staining, rather heavy and dis-figuring on some pages, quarter morocco and marbled boards, a little rubbed. [Stamp of "Bibliotheque Maurice Hofer" on the half-title.]. The scarce first edition. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxfo... View more info
By: Brewster, Bernice; Chapple, Nicky; Davies, Mark (et al) [Anne Mcdowall - editor]
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Dorking, Interpet Publishing: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013865
ISBN: 1902389735
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 208, pictorial boards, a very good copy. [A comprehensive introduction to keeping and displaying these magnificent ornamental fish, from choosing healthy stock to installing a fully equipped koi pond. Plus a full-colour survey of all the major varieties.] View more info
By: Carpenter, Stephen R. & Mitchell, James F. (editors)
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1996
Seller ID: 010901
ISBN: 0521566843
Condition: Very Good
A few illustrations, pp xiv, 385, paperback, the very slightest signs of use to the covers, but virtually an as new copy of the original printing. [Fluctuations in fish populations in lakes can cascade through food webs to alter nutrient cycling, algal biomass and primary production. Trophic cascades may interact with nutrients and physical factors to explain most of the variance in lake ecosystem process rates. In this 1993 book, a multidisciplinary research team tests this idea by manipulating whole lakes experimentally, and coordinating this with palaeolimnological studies, simulation model... View more info
![Image for La Lamproie, ou les eaux limoneuses de la memoire [Alan Davidson's copy]](/assets/images/product/009333.jpg)
By: Chapuis, Lise; Meller-Liron, Elisabeth & Rives, Caroline
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Cognac, Editions Ke Temps qu'il Fait: 1994
Seller ID: 009333
ISBN: 286853189X
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 128, paperback, a very good copy. [Scarce, and one of the few books on lampreys]. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was am... View more info
By: Cohen, Daniel M.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Linnean Society: 1974
Seller ID: 006777
Illustrated 32 page article contained in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society Volume 55 Number 2. A good copy in original wrappers. [Also contains Murray Itzkowitz's Behavioural Reconnaissance of Some Jamaican Reef Fishes.] View more info
![Image for The Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay - Two volumes [Richard Fitter's copy]](/assets/images/product/013587.jpg)
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Witherby & Co.: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013587
Condition: Very Good
Two volumes, illustrated, large octavo, pp xxxii, 472; xl, 210, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, a little scattered foxing, slightly heavier on the preliminary pages, otherwise very clean internally, spines very age-toned, otherwise the cloth is in very good condition. {Volume 1 contains the birds and mammals; Volume 2 the fishes, reptiles and amphibians. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpapers.] View more info
Price: £98.50
Publisher: Oxford, Fishing News Books (an imprint of Blackwell Science Ltd: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010899
ISBN: 0852382839
Condition: Very Good
Large 8vo, pp xii, 401, immaculately clean internally, decorated cloth, the lower cornes very slightly bumped otherwise this copy would be as new. [In this comprehensive edited book, international experts in fisheries management and ecology review and appraise the status of lake and reservoir fisheries, assessment of fisheries yields, trophic ecology, rehabilitation and conservation, including a special section on African lakes where so much information of huge relevance to fisheries managers is now available. Contributions come from around the world. Carefully edited by an internationally res... View more info
By: Daniel, J, Frank
Price: £4.50
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012395
Condition: Poor
Large octavo, illustrated, pp xii, 334, name neatly blacked out on title page and last page, the hinge at the title page is cracked, the half-title is detached, (possibly lacking a frontispiece ?), otherwise tight and sound, some pencilled underlining throughout, cloth marked and a bit worn, the spine very worn and bleached. A working copy only of the very scarce first edition. [A note on the front endpaper states that this was presented to the noted palaeontologist and expert on fossil fish Arthur Smith Woodward by Carl Epling's wife.] View more info
By: DAVIDSON, Alan
Price: £3.00
Publisher: New York, Cambridge, London, Harper & Row: 1989
Seller ID: 006216
ISBN: 0060971940
Condition: Very Good
["A comprehensive guide, with recipes, to all the fish and shellfish from the coasts of Europe to the shores of North America"]. Illustrated with line drawings throughout the text, paperback, pp 512, a very slight suggestion of age-toning, otherwise a very good copy. [A classic standard work]. View more info
By: De Beer, Sir Gavin; Burton, Robert & Maurice; Bourliere, Francois (et al) (editors)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: J & H International Corporation: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010068
Condition: Good
Very well illustrated, slim quarto, 21 volumes, pp 2032, pictorial laminated boards, a few spine heads pulled, but otherwise only very slightly worn.Complete sets seem to be very scarce. [A detailed work, and quite scientific in-depth accounts. This is far more than a "popular" work. A glance at a few consecutive pages at random show : prawns, precious coral, predation, preen gland, powder post beetles, pratincoles, potto, potoo, priapulus, primates, prions, problem solving, proboscis monkey, proconsul, pronghorn antelopes, proteidae etc.]. Very heavy, weighing 13.5 kilos before pa... View more info
By: Emmens, Cliff W.
Price: £3.90
Publisher: New Jersey, T.F.H. Publications: 1970
Seller ID: 014647
ISBN: 0876660847
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, 12mo, pp 128, paperback, very slight signs of wear to the covers, but a very good copy. [Postage will be reduced.] View more info
By: Esdaile, David
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1865
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015001
Condition: Very Good
Octavo, pp viii, 364, slight age-toning, otherwise clean and sound internally, front and rear hinges cracking but sound, green cloth only slightly worn. Quite a presentable copy. [A fascinating work on the dietary aspects of much of the subjects - oysters, salmon, herrings and other fish, fungi, horses. Little seems to be known of the author, apart from the fact that he was a Scottish minister; he was obviously much concerned on improving the diet of the Scottish people.] View more info
Price: £4.50
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press: 1967
Seller ID: 012583
Condition: Very Good
Third impression. Illustrated with line drawings, octavo, pp 307, endpapers slightly browned, otherwise very clean internally, cloth slightly marked and spottes, spine slightly faded, otherwise very good and sound. View more info
![Image for Les Peches d'Amateurs en Mediterranee [Alan Davidson's copy]](/assets/images/product/008675.jpg)
By: Euziere, Jean
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Cannes, Robaudy: 1961
Seller ID: 008675
Condition: Good
Second edition, revised. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 305, age-toned, slightly weak internally, paperback, covers slightly worn, spine creased. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Ha... View more info
