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Price: £4.00
Publisher: Baltimore & London, The John Hopkins University Press: 1996
Seller ID: 005479
ISBN: 0801853915
Condition: Very Good
(1905). Facsimile reprint 1996. Small 8vo, pp xxxviii, 230, paperback, a very good copy. View more info
By: Cameron, T.W.M.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co, and The English Language Book Society: 1965
Seller ID: 013303
Condition: Very Good
A few text illustrations, large octavo, pp xx, 322, clean internally, soft cloth showing very slight signs of wear. View more info
By: Crothers, J.H.
Price: £12.50
Publisher: Taunton, Field Studies Council: 1985
Seller ID: 008376
ISBN: 1851531718
Condition: Good
Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp (70), clean internally, paperback, covers slightly foxed and age-toned, otherwise a good copy. SCARCE. View more info
By: Dall, William H.; Nutting, C.C.
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Washington, The Smithsonian Institution: 1910
Seller ID: 012205
Condition: Good
Illustrated with 15 plates and 118 text illustrations, large octavo, pp (12), 250, a little age-toning throughout, top edge gilt, the other edges uncut, one inner hinge cracking but sound, endpapers unevenly faded, green cloth with gilt decoration, very slightly marked, lacking part of the label at the base of the spine. [Contains the 1910 Smithsonian title page, as well as the original red and black Doubleday, New York title page of 1905.] View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Blandford Press: 1974
Seller ID: 012663
ISBN: 0713706988
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp 288, fore-edge slightly foxed, endpapers slightly marked, otherwise extremely clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a very glood dustwrapper which is lightly price-clipped. View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Penguin Books: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011186
Condition: Fair
Illustrated with 16 colour plates, 12mo, pp 32, slight foxing to the title page, very slight foxing to the plates, otherwise clean and sound internally, pictorial boards a little stained along the top margin, a bit marked and rubbed, corners slightly worn, spine fraying but virtually complete (lacking a tiny portion at the head, and a small piece of the lower joint). Postage will be reduced. View more info
By: Flattely, F.W. & Walton, C.L.
Price: £3.50
Publisher: lo, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1946
Seller ID: 013582
Condition: Very Good
Second impression. Illustrated, two folding charts, octavo, pp xvi, 336, pages uniformly age-toned, a neat signature on the front endpaper, cloth very slightly worn, the spine faded, but still a very good sound copy. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Maryland, Cornell Maritime Press: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013497
Condition: Good
Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 146, a neat owner;s name on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth slightly rubbed, spine head very slightly pulled. View more info
By: Hawkins, Stephen J. & Jones, Hugh D.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Immel Publishing: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013720
ISBN: 0907151582
Condition: Good
Well illustrated, large horizontal octavo, pp 144, corners slightly bumped, paperback, covers slightly worn. View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Taunton, Field Studies Council: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012678
Condition: Very Good
Large slim octavo, pp 16, a neat signature and date on the title page, paperback, covers very slightly age-toned and worn. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced]. View more info
Price: £3.75
Publisher: Cambridge, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010694
ISBN: 0904282023
Condition: Good
Large quarto, pp (6), 199, (3), slightly used and age-toned internally, paperback, covers slightly worn, the spine head is torn at the top. View more info
By: Khan, S. Ajmal & Natarajan, R.
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013925
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated with 10 plates, slim octavo, pp (ii), 25, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. View more info
By: Little, Colin & Kitching, J.A.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014850
ISBN: 0521252180
Condition: Good
Illustrated, quarto, pp viii, 290, a small letter stamped on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, pictorial boards rubbed and a little worn. Still a good sound copy. [The book traces the ways in which terrestrial animals have evolved from aquatic ancestors and discusses the means by which they are adapted to life on land. The most important physiological adaptations are those involving salt and water balance, the excretion of nitrogen, reproductive mechanisms and the sense organ and these are given priority. Evidence from fossil history is combined with that from the ecology and p... View more info
![Image for Guide de la Faune Sous-Marine des Cotes Mediterraneennes. [Alan Davidson's copy]](/assets/images/product/009147.jpg)
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Neuchatel & Paris, Delachaux et Niestle: 1965
Seller ID: 009147
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 270, the dustwrapper is slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good copy. With an extra two little plates of fishes loosely inserted. [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, Bruss... View more info
By: Mookherjee, H.P.
Price: £3.50
Publisher: Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014277
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated with 15 black and white plates, octavo, pp 93, very clean internally, paperback, covers showing very slight signs of use. View more info
![Image for Notes on Trochus niloticus. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, Scientific Reports, Volume III number 5 [Geoffrey Tandy's copy]](/assets/images/product/014251.jpg)
By: Moorhouse, F.W.
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, British Museum (Natural History): 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014251
Condition: Very Good
Slim quarto, pp (11), paperback, a very good copy. [With the signature of Geoffrey Tandy on the upper cover. Tandy (1900-1969) was a British marine biologist and broadcaster. A friend of T. S. Eliot, Tandy was the first to broadcast Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 1937. During the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park, allegedly invited there after the Ministry of Defence confused the word "cryptogamist" with "cryptogramist" ! But whilst at Bletchley his technical expertise allowed him to salvage a waterlogged codebook which helped crack the Enigma code.] View more info
By: Norman, J.R.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, The Trustees of the British Museum: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015633
Condition: As New
Illustrated with 41 text figures, slim quarto, pp 116, paperback, a very slight crease to the lower cover, otherwise a fine copy, virtually as new. [ 'This valuable collection of fishes consists of about 2700 specimens, exclusive of a small number of larval and post-larval forms which have been omitted from this report. Altogether 276 species are represented, of which 28 are believed to be new to science, and 56 were previously unrepresented in the British Museum collection. The fishes were obtained in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, South Arabian Coast, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, and in the Zanzi... View more info
Price: £18.50
Publisher: New York, AMS Press, Inc: 1967
Seller ID: 014179
Condition: Very Good
[Originally published in 1896]. An excellent reprint, a few illustrations, octavo, pp xvi, 281, blue cloth, very good, almost like new. View more info
By: Rainbow, P.S.
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Taunton, Field Studies Council: 1985
Seller ID: 012696
Condition: Good
Illustrated, large slim octavo, pp 51, a neat name and date on title page, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers a little age-toned and marked. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013422
Condition: Good
Illustrated, large octavo, pp (2), 151, paperback, slightly worn. SCARCE. View more info
