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By: Abeloos, Marcel
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Paris, Collection Armand Colin: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011483
Condition: Good
Illustrated with line drawings with in the text, small 12mo, pp 208, very age-toned, a small piece torn from one page margin, otherwise sound, a neat owner's signature on the front endpaper, and his tiny stamp on the half-title and title page, neatly bound in red cloth with the original paper covers bound in. View more info
By: Arnold, E.N.; Burton, J.A. & Ovenden, D.W.
Price: £7.00
Publisher: London, Collins: 1992
Seller ID: 013381
ISBN: 0002193183
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, small octavo, pp 272, pictorial boards, spine slightly dull otherwise a very good copy. View more info
By: Arnold, E.N.; Burton, J.A. & Ovenden, D.W.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Collins: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013991
ISBN: 0002193183
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Very well illustrated, small octavo, pp 272, pictorial cloth showing very faint signs of age-toning, lower cover soiled, otherwise a very good clean copy indeed. View more info
Price: £4.50
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications, Inc.: 1971
Seller ID: 005230
ISBN: 0486205029
(1919, reprinted by Dover 1971). Illustrated, small 8vo, pp (2), 105, paperback, slightly worn. View more info
By: Ballasina, D.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1984
Seller ID: 005014
ISBN: 0715386034
Condition: Good
Well illustrated, small tall 8vo, pp 132, (symbols slip loosely inserted), pictorial boards slightly worn, lower cover slightly creased, otherwise a very good sound copy. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart ltd:
Seller ID: 005234
Fourth edition, not dated. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp viii, 352, neat contemporary inscription on the front endpaper, cloth very slightly worn, but a bright copy. (Not dated, c.1920 ?) 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: Beebee, Trevor & Griffiths, Richard
Price: £55.00
Publisher: London, Harper Collins: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009427
ISBN: 000220083X
Condition: As New
Illustrated, large octavo, pp 270, a really very good copy in unfaded dustwrapper. The very faintest of abrasions to the dustwrapper upper cover (barely perceptable) prevent this being listed as a new copy. [Building on the solid foundations established by the two earlier New Naturalist volumes on this subject, eminent herpetologists Trevor Beebee and Richard Griffiths have brought together a wealth of new and fascinating information on the British amphibians and reptiles. An introductory chapter looks at the subject of biogeography and how factors such as geological history, latitude and clim... View more info
By: Boulenger, G.A.
Price: £350.00
Publisher: London, The Ray Society:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008916
Condition: Very Good
1896-7. Two volumes, with 24 plates (of which 16 are coloured), plus folding maps and text illustrations, pp iii, 210; (211-376), 31; neat and tiny owner's signature and stamp on front endpaper of each volume, original dark blue decorated cloth. [The first volume is becoming weak internally, otherwise this is an exceptionally clean copy in a very bright binding. Very scarce.] View more info
By: Burton, Maurice
Price: £3.00
Publisher: London, Longacre Press ltd: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013988
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, small horizontal 12mo, (measures 126mm x 99mm), very clean and sound internally, pictorial boards showing only very slight signs of wear. [Postage will be reduced] View more info
By: Carl, Clifford
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia Provincial Museum: 1943
Seller ID: 005235
Illustrated, pp 62, paperback, slightly worn and marked. View more info
By: Charlton, Tom
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, 2020
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015518
ISBN: 9838121967
Condition: New
Very well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 300, pictorial boards, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [Long considered one of the major biodiversity hotspots of the world, Peninsular Malaysia is renowned for its richness of fauna and flora, and snakes are included amongst the great diversity of wildlife found here. Over 160 species can be found occupying most habitat types from hot and humid lowland rainforest to mountain summits, in and around towns and cities and even in the ocean. Lying to the south of Peninsular Malaysia across the Johor Strait is the highly urbanised island nation of Singap... View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Washington, The Smithsonian Institution: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013989
Condition: Good
Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp (6), 37, neat owner's name in three places on front endpapers, a slight fold to the pages throughout, simply bound in boards with typed label on upper cover, original paperback wrappers bound in. [Presumably a reference copy, as the upper paperback cover has a large "do not remove" stamp, otherwise very clean internally]. SCARCE. View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1965
Seller ID: 006405
Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xiv, 228, a stain to the corner of the last sixty pages or so, in torn and price-clipped dustwrapper. View more info
By: Cooke, M.C.
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, W.H.Allen & Co: 1893
Seller ID: 005238
Condition: Very Good
New and revised edition. Extra colour litho title page and 11 colour litho plates, small 8vo, pp xii, 200, ( + 47 page publisher's catalogue at rear), most pages are unopened at the top edge, very slight foxing internally, original blue cloth faded on the spine but otherwise very bright, a much better than average copy. 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
By: DAS, Indraneil
Price: £11.50
Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, 2007
Seller ID: 004620
ISBN: 9838121193
Condition: New
NEW. Well illustrated, 12mo, pp viii, 200, paperback, a very good copy. [Describes and illustrates in colour all amphibians and reptiles that are likely to be seen by the average visitor or resident of Brunei Darussalam, and is a suitable introduction to the herpetofauna of the tropical island of Borneo. This handy little guide lists a total of 162 species, and for every species, there is a suggested English name, the current scientific name and the maximum size and the species account, which contains a brief description, including distinguishing characters, natural history notes and local and... View more info
By: DAS, Indraneil
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Sabah, 2002
Seller ID: 003448
ISBN: 9838120537
Condition: New
Well illustrated, 8vo, pp vi, 207, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [Tropical Asia, including countries of southern and south-eastern Asia, hosts an immensely rich biodiversity. The present work is an introduction to the herpetological diversity of this fascinating region, and includes accounts of the history of explorations, historical biogeography, methodologies for field research, evaluates conservation problems and lists legal instruments and identification resources that make the fauna accessible to people. Separate tables and appendices presents numbers of species recorded from each ... 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: DEORAS, P.J.
Price: £7.00
Seller ID: 005219
Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 148, a good copy in torn and frayed dustwrapper. View more info
