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Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
The Crystal Desert
by David G Campbell
THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.
Natural Sciences Books & Ephemera
ECOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS AND ESTUARIES
by George Kell Reid
Pictorial Hardcover, no DJ.
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The Nature and Property of Soils; Their Connexion with the Geological Formation on which They Rest; The Best Means of Permanently Increasing Their Productiveness and on the Rent and Profits of Agriculture
by John Morton
London: James Ridgway, 1842. Hardback. Good. 9" by 5.5". None. A third edition of this important work on agriculture. 'To Which is added an account of the proceedings at Whitfield example-farm; the system to agriculture recommended on the estates of the Earl of Ducie; a Letter to Mr. Pusey's tenants; and the mode of cultivation adopted on Stinchcombe farm. With a folding coloured plan opposite page 241. With a 16 page publisher's catalogue to the rear. John Morton was a Scottish agriculturist...
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$114.03
Ravenna Park Seattle
by [SEATTLE]
[Seattle]: NP, ND. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Very Good+. Small oblong 4to. Pp. [20]. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photo reproductions. Original stapled gray wraps with titles and illustration in brown on the front cover. Light wear to spine. A handsome photo-tribute to a crown jewel in the Seattle Parks Department, one of the few pockets of forest that escaped logging in the late 1800s. That was probably owing to its incarnation as Ravenna Springs Park, a private wonderland that...
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$150.00
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
U.S.A.: The Viking Press, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. An Excellent Reading Copy - Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have The Tiniest Bit Of Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Has Been Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy..
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$20.00
The Problem of Man's Ancestry
by Frederic Wood-Jones
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart first edition of Frederic Wood-Jones' very scarce work on the ancestry of man. Expanded from a lecture given by the author, this work provides a new idea regarding the origin of man.Written by Frederic Wood Jones, a British naturalist and anthropologist and critic of Darwinism.From Prinknash Abbey library; with their bookplates to the front endpaper and pastedown and a stamp to the title page. Prinknash...
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$152.04
Plants of the Fiji Islands
by PARHAM, J. W
Suva, Fiji: By Authority of the Government Printer, 1972. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w photographs. 8vo. Pp. x, 462, xxix. Color frontispiece. Four color plates. With b/w illus., including some photo reproductions. With a section on Fijian orthography and a couple-page biography of Berthold Seemann. In addition, a brief history of botanical explorations in Fiji. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Full green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. This copy in...
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$50.00
A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature with accurate representations of the most curious and beautiful animals, elegantly coloured
by William Frederic Martyn
London : Harrison and Co , 1785 A rare and beautiful introduction to natural history. In 2 folio volumes with 99 (of 100) hand coloured plates by Moses Harris and others after his style. Martyn is a pseudonym for William Fordyce Mavor, who authored a wide range of works. The books are set out alphabetically, with the plates reflecting this classification, so they can portray lizards and lynx side by side on the same plate. The pages are double column and unpaginated. The text for each animal is...
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$3,167.50
The Naturalist's Bedside Book
by BB
London: Michael Joseph, 1980. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 6". D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. A smart first edition of a later work by naturalist Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writing under the pseudonym BB. This work concerns the hidden life of the wood and field, with the author sharing observations of wildlife. It is the fifth Bedside Book to be written by the author.Written by Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990), a British naturalist and illustrator who published under the pen name BB. His other...
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$107.70
Rhododendrons and the various Hybrids
by Millais, John Guille
Millais, John Guille Rhododendrons and the various Hybrids.Rare Complete 2 volume matching set (series 1 and series 2) of thislimited (only 550 copies of this book have been printed) and numbered first edition.1th Series;The first series is numbered 381London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1917, folio (42 x 32 cm)Original maroon red cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, gilt letters on front and spine, protective tissue guard on every plate.xi + 268 pp, frontispiece coloured plate, title page, with 17 (fs...
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$1,628.40
Silton Seasons: From the Diary of a Countryman
by Symons, R. D
Doubleday, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1975. Brown Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-Unclipped ($6.95) DJ . First Edition Thus. Frontis by author ('65) The village of Silton was Symons' retirement home. He tells of the simple joys of this new home and writes about the land he loved so dearly. 193 pp. plus:Bibliography, Notes. Shiny light brown cloth has...
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The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri
by Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza
(Persian) Falconry.Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri. A Persian Treatise on Falconry, translated by D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott, 1st edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, One of 500 copies.Description: halftone illustrations in the text, original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gilt reproduction of ancient Persian ms. with falconer on horseback, gilt-lettered spine, one minor worm hole through bottom margin first few pages, 8vo 25.5 x 17 cm. Kept in, and comes with, non adhesive...
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$2,714.00
The Hoard's Dairyman Feed Guide: Dairy Cattle, Poultry, Horses, Swine
by W. D. Hoard & Sons Co
Fort Atkinson, WI: Self Published, 1943 124pp. Stapled Wraps. Staples are rusty. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Wraps have assorted stains. Lower tip of last page has a small diagonal crease. Book has signs of biopredation in the form of bookworming at lower edge of first 46 pages. Pages are toning. Edges of text block are dust stained. Inside rear wrap has a stain. Text is unmarked. . Fourth Printing. Paperback. Fair.
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$19.95
RACCOLTA DI 62 FASCICOLI DI MISCELLANEA APPARTENUTTI AL BOTANICO RODOLFO PICHI SERMOLLI
Raccolta unica di 62 pubblicazioni ed estratti di botanica appartenuti al celebre botanico Rodolfo PichiSermolli (Florence 1912-2005). Rodolfo Pichi Sermolli fu un grande botanico specializzato nelle felci Pterodofite. Viaggiò per tutto il mondo in cerca di campioni da utilizzare per il suo erbario: in Africa (Libia, Lagon Tana in Etiopia) Messico, Hawai, Nuova Zelanda, Polinesia ecc… Le più prestigiose istituzioni come il British Museum o il Smithsonian Institution di Washington...
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$759.92
A Report on the Progress of Vegetable Physiology During the Year 1837
by F. J. F. Meyer, M.D
London : R. and J. E. Taylor, 1839. Paperback. Good. 6" by 9". None. A Report on the Progress of the Vegetable Physiology during the year 1837, written by F. J. F. Meyen, professor of Botany in the University of Berlin. Translated from the German by William Francis, associate of the Linnean Society. In original publishers paper wraps. Externally, a trifle rubbed with some general marks and spotting. Internally, firmly bound, bright and lightly foxed throughout with many sections remaining uncut. Good
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$158.38
Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire ; Or, a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast, Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections and Plates of the Fossil Plants and Animals
by Phillips, John
York, Yorkshire, UK: Printed for the Author by Thomas Wilson and Sons, 1829. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition (a second part, published by John Murray, followed in 1835/6). xvi, 192pp plus ten maps and charts, all but one of which are hand-coloured, and 14 further plates of monochrome line drawings. Slip bound in giving additional subscribers. In a later library binding of green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Rubbed...
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$5,068.00
Volume II. Scientists
by A. N. L. Munby (General Editor); H. A. Feisenberger (Edited)
[London]: Mansell with Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications , 1975. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10" by 7.5". None. A very scarce work compiled and edited by A. N. L. Munby charting the libraries of several eminent people. Volume II only. Part of a wider series titled Sales Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons, being a 12 volume set. This volume includes a catalogue of the libraries of the following eminent persons: Elias Ashmole 22 February 1694; Robert Hooke 29 April 1703; John...
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$63.35
Animal Life Under Water
by Francis Ward
London: Cassell and Company , 1919. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated . The first edition of this fascinating volume by Francis War on animal life underwater. The first edition of this work by Francis Ward. Looking at animal life underwater, with chapters on cormorant and other divers, otters, herons, gulls, kingfishers, anglers, and miscellaneous observations. Illustrated with five coloured plates and forty-eight half-tone plates. Collated, complete. In the original...
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$88.69
Class Book of Botany
by J. H. Balfour
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1854. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Various. The second volume in this work on botany by J. H. Balfour, with information on vegetable physiology, bound in half-calf on marbled boards. Second Edition. This is the second volume of this two-volume work, bound in half-calf on marbled boards.Illustrations include a range of in-text illustration, from various sources including Jussieu, Mirbel, Payer, and St. Hilaire, as well as an illustrated plate of 'Humboldt's...
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$62.08
Timmy: The Story of a Sparrow
by Clare Kipps; James Fisher
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1962. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Peter Newbolt. A very smart copy of this charming story of a sparrow taken in by Mrs. Kipps, signed by the author with an inscription. Reprinted March 1962, originally published March 1962. Signed by the author to the title page with the inscription: "To Jean and Daisy Maynard, with the Author's & Timmy's Love, April 1962." Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen photographs over eight plates....
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Physiognomy; Or, The Corresponding Analogy Between The Conformation of The Features And The Ruling Passions of The Mind
by J. C. Lavater
London: Thomas Tegg, 1844. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 4.5". Unamed. A very scarce and pleasing copy of this work of nineteenth century scientific study, discussing the then popular practice of Physiognomy. Translated from the original work into English. Twentieth edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. Written by Johann Kaspar Lavater, the noted Swis poet and physiognomist. This work of physiognomy from the mid-19th century. Physiognomy is the practice of evaluating...
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$120.36
Studies in Animal Life
by George Henry Lewes
London: Smith, Elder and Co. , 1862. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A first edition of this illustrated work on wildlife and organisms, by the philosopher and physiologist George Henry Lewes. The first edition in book form of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board and spine. Ink inscription to the front free end paper, dated 1862. Tipped in to the verso of the half title page is a newspaper article on water telescopes....
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$114.03
Purpleleaf Plums
by JACOBSON, Arthur Lee
Portland (OR): Timber Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 183. Appendices. Indices (People; Subject; Species; Varieties). Glossary. Chapters on identification, cultivation, classification, etc. With 12pp. of color photos. Plum-colored paper-covered boards with silver stamped lettering on spine. Bottom edge of front cover with a gouge, else an attractive copy in a perfect dust jacket. Another worthy and informed title from the Seattle writer and plant expert. This copy in...
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$20.00
The Natural History of the Hitchin Region
by Reginald L. Hine
Hitchin: Hitchin & District Regional Survey Association, 1934. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated. A very smart first edition of this illustrated study on the natural history of the town of Hitchin. First edition. Illustrated with colour frontispiece, forty images across thirty plates, one of which is in colour, many in-text images, with a folding chart and a folding colour map in the pocket to the rear. Collated complete. A detailed study of the market town of Hitchin,...
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$76.02
Technical Methods of Ore Analysis for Chemists and Colleges
by Weinig, Arthur J. And William P. Schoder
London: John Wiley and Sons, 1939 325pp. Spine is a bit shaken. Tips and spine ends are rubbed. Spine ends are bumped. Boards have light scuffs. Large former owner book stamp inside front board. Former owner notations on front endpaper. Edges have light dust staining. Pages are toning. Text is unmarked.. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/No Dust Jacket.
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$19.95
Garden Party: Collected Writings 1979 - 1999
by Strong, Roy
Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in... Read more about this item
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in... Read more about this item
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$33.07
