New Naturalist No. 121 PARTRIDGES Countryside Barometer by Potts, G. R. (Dick) - 2013

London: Collins, 2013. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xi, [1], 516. Colour photographs and diagrams throughout. Dust jacket fine. Cloth covered boards fine. Contents clean and tight, with very faint dust soiling to the top of the text block only, otherwise unmarked. A near fine, first edition hardback copy.[Collecting the New Naturalists NN121A].

London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Collins, 2012, 1st Edition. 8vo, xi + pp465 illustrated throughout. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ in near fine condition. Green buckram binding with gilt lettering to spine in near fine condition. Inside in near fine condition. An Excellent copy.

Collins, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a near fine tightly bound copy in a very well preserved pictorial dust jacket and with a clean and unmarked text. Illustrated in colour, xi + 465pp.

London: Collins, 2013. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xi, [1], 516. Colour photographs and diagrams throughout. Dust jacket fine. Cloth covered boards fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A fine, unread first edition hardback copy.[Collecting the New Naturalists NN121A].

London: Collins, 2013. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xi, [1], 516. Colour photographs and diagrams throughout. Dust jacket fine. Cloth covered boards fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A fine, unread first edition hardback copy.[Collecting the New Naturalists NN121A].

London: Harper Collins, 2012. 480, col illus. . HB. 8vo, publisher's orig. green buckram. As new in d/w - still sealed in original cellophane.. . [9780007418701]

Published by Collins, 2012. 1st edition.. Hardback. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. New Naturalist series 121. A complex and fascinating story, with a heady mix of hunting, farming, predation, parasites, disease and climate change. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos and charts. Blue endpapers with repeating NN logo. Very minor foxing to top edge of text block else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed to rear panel.

London: Harper Collins, 2012. 480, col illus. . HB. NEW. . . [9780007418701]

London: Collins, 2012 465pp+2. Illustrated in colour throughout.

London: Collins, 2012. First edition, 2012. Hardback. xi, 465pp plus two pages of other New Naturalist titles at rear. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The author explores how mankind and partridges have evolved together, both ultimately dependent on grasslands rather than forests. For thousands of years. both ate grass seeds and this continued until cereals largely replaced them. Hundreds of species of plant and insect that partridges and other birds eat thrived on farms for thousands of years until the dawn of pesticides. Since then the long decline in partridge abundance has been a barometer for biodiversity across the Northern Hemisphere. This is a complex and fascinating story, with a mix oh hunting, farming, predation, parasites, disease and climate change. The way these factors have interacted tells us a lot about how lesser-known species have fared and how they might be conserved in the future. The author stresses the importance of these conservation efforts, as farmers respond to the… Read More