Category: Molluscs & Conchology

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.]
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The Encyclopedia of Shells

By: Dance, S. Peter (editor)

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.
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British Shells

By: Duncan, F. Martin

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Penguin Books: 1943

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.
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Dangerous Marine Animals

By: Halstead, Bruce W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Maryland, Cornell Maritime Press: 1959

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.
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Rocky Shores (Marine Field Course Guide 1)

By: Hawkins, Stephen J. & Jones, Hugh D.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Immel Publishing: 1992

Seller ID: 013720

ISBN: 0907151582

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, large horizontal octavo, pp 144, corners slightly bumped, paperback, covers slightly worn.
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Habitat Survey Cards for the Shores of the British Isles

By: Holme, N.A. & Nichols, D.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Taunton, Field Studies Council: 1980

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].
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Hermit Crabs of Portonovo Coast (Decapoda: Anomura)

By: Khan, S. Ajmal & Natarajan, R.

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India: 1984

Seller ID: 013925

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with 10 plates, slim octavo, pp (ii), 25, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn.
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The Colonisation of Land: Origins and Adaptations of Terrestrial Animals

By: Little, Colin & Kitching, J.A.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1983

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...
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Guide de la Faune Sous-Marine des Cotes Mediterraneennes. [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Luther, W. & Fiedler K.

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...
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Contributions to the Molluscan Fauna of India, Part III. Marine Molluscs of the Coromandel Coast, Palk Bay, and Gulf of Mannar - Gastropoda: Mesogastropoda (part 2)

By: Mookherjee, H.P.

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India: 1985

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.
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Notes on Trochus niloticus. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, Scientific Reports, Volume III number 5 [Geoffrey Tandy's copy]

By: Moorhouse, F.W.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, British Museum (Natural History): 1932

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.]
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Fishes - The John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, Scientific Reports

By: Norman, J.R.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, The Trustees of the British Museum: 1939

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...
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A Naturalist in the Bahamas. A memorial volume, edited with a biographical introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn

By: Northrop, John I.

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.
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An Introduction to the Biology of British Littoral Barnacles

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.
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Pestiferous Land Snails of India

By: Raut, S.K. & Ghose, K.C.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India: 1984

Seller ID: 013422

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp (2), 151, paperback, slightly worn. SCARCE.
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Introduction and List of Stations - The John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, Scientific Reports

By: Sewell, R.B.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Trustees of the British Museum: 1935

Seller ID: 015631

Condition: As New

Frontispiece, a folding map at the rear, slim quarto, pp 41, paperback, a fine copy, virtually as new. [The John Murray Expedition of 1933-1934 ‘pioneered bilateral relations in the field of oceanography, at a time when the Law of the Sea was not even an embryonic concept’ (Aleem & Morcos, 1984). Funded by a £20,000 bequest from oceanographer, John Murray, this expedition was a collaboration between Britain and Egypt. Aboard HEMS Mabahiss, British zoologist Lt. Col. Dr R.B. Seymour Sewell led a team of scientists to research the oceanography, geology, and mineralogy of the Red Sea and the...
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An Account of Horsburgh or Goifurfehendu Atoll - The John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, Scientific Reports

By: Sewell, R.B.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Trustees of the British Museum: 1936

Seller ID: 015632

Condition: Good

Illustrated with six photographic plates, slim quarto, pp (16), paperback, a tear and crease to the lower cover, otherwise a fine copy, virtually as new. [The John Murray Expedition of 1933-1934 ‘pioneered bilateral relations in the field of oceanography, at a time when the Law of the Sea was not even an embryonic concept’ (Aleem & Morcos, 1984). Funded by a £20,000 bequest from oceanographer, John Murray, this expedition was a collaboration between Britain and Egypt. Aboard HEMS Mabahiss, British zoologist Lt. Col. Dr R.B. Seymour Sewell led a team of scientists to research the oceanogra...
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An Outline of the Natural History of our Shores - with chapters on collecting and preserving marine specimens, methods of microscopic mounting etc, and on the marine aquarium

By: Sinel, Joseph

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Lim: 1906

Seller ID: 012355

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, small octavo, pp xvi, 347, extremely clean and sound internally, decorated cloth gilt, very slightly marked, spine very slightly faded.
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