Search Results: Authors starting with S from Pemberley Natural History Books

Sante Fe: Sunstone Press, 1981. 159, frontis, numerous b/w photos. . PB. Vg, spine slightly faded.. 1st edition.. [9780913270912]

Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo 'Nauka', 1971. 168, 85 figs (including 4 col plates). . HB. Orig. cloth-backed boards. Paper browned. Good.. Text Russian..

Helsinki, 1957. 480, 20, b/w illus. . HB. 8vo, buckram. Ex-lib. with withdrawn stamps. Good.. Text Finnish, summary chapter in German. Historiallisia Tutkimuksia no. 47. A major work on the life and times of one of Finland's most famous entomologists, Carl Reinhold Sahlberg (1779-1860)..

Lyon: EMCC, 2004. 124, col photos and drawings. . PB. Vg.. Text French.. [9782908291599]

Paris: E.N.S.B.- C.T.H.S., 1984. 289, 189 text figs. . PB. Vg. Front cover has one crease. . .

Penguin, 1999. ix, 223, 11 b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded; price-clipped).. How Botany's "Piltdown Man" was unmasked. The story of Prof. Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic, who strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by "planting" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then "discovering" it. John Raven believed that he had caught him red-handed on the Isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks and Heslop-Harrison continued to dominate British botany for the next decade.. [9780713992779]

Penguin, 1999. ix, 223, 11 b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w.. How Botany's "Piltdown Man" was unmasked. The story of Prof. Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic, who strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by "planting" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then "discovering" it. John Raven believed that he had caught him red-handed on the Isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks and Heslop-Harrison continued to dominate British botany for the next decade.. [9780713992779]

Da Capo Press, 2001. viii, 276, 11 b/w photos. . PB. Vg.. How Botany's "Piltdown Man" was unmasked. The story of Prof. Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic, who strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by "planting" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then "discovering" it. John Raven believed that he had caught him red-handed on the Isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks and Heslop-Harrison continued to dominate British botany for the next decade.. [9780306810602]

Cairo: Les Editions Univ. d'Egypte, 1955. 75, 15 plates (7 folding maps). . PB. 4to. Orig wrapper- worn and spine torn. Ministry of Commerce and Industry Mineral Resources Dept. Geological Survey of Egypt. Text English with a few pages of Arabic text.

London: Linnean Society, 1822. 18, . . Unbound. 4to, disbound in card folder.. From the Trans. Linn. Soc., 13( 2): 561-578. Joseph Sabine (1770 - 1837) was an English lawyer, naturalist and author on horticultural subjects..

Leiden: Backhuys, 1999. vi, 576, b/w portrait. . HB. Vg.. MYIA, Vol. 10.. [9789057820267]

São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, 1984. 63, . . Unbound. Vg.. .

Leiden: Backhuys, 1999. vi, 576, b/w portrait. . HB. Corners slightly bumped. Vg. From the library of Roger Crosskey (1930-2017) (British entomologist, Natural History Museum, London, specialist in the Simuliidae), with his name to endpaper.. MYIA, Vol. 10.. [9789057820267]

English Nature, 2000. 27, text figs, maps, tables. A4. PB. Vg.. .

Christopher Helm, 2015. 336, 124 col plates, 350 maps. . PB. NEW. . The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. This new field guide covers the whole of the Malagasy region, which comprises Madagascar and the various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including the Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarenes (Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues). Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail, each with a colour distibution map. Includes vagrants. All species are illustrated in the colour plates with artwork by John Gale and Brian Small. Conveniently, the plates have been arranged so that all the key species of the various archipelagos are placed together in sections. This is a major work of reference on the birds of the region and will remain the standard text for many years to come. [9781472924094]

London: Croom Helm, 1986. 190, col photos. . HB. Vg in d/w. From the library of Trevor James (1947-2020), Hertfordshire naturalist and coleopterist, with his bookplate. Signed by the author.. . [9780709933212]

London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1959. xvi, 245, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in d/w.. With a Foreword by Peter Scott..

London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1959. xvi, 245, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, lightly marked. Endpapers partly browned; foxing to edges of text block, occasional spotting to page margins. Good in worn d/w (wear to head of spine; in removable, protective sleeve). From the library of Trevor James (1947-2020), Hertfordshire naturalist and coleopterist, with his bookplate. Also with his neat marginal annotations, mostly relating to notes of particular species from the bird register at Saffron Walden museum and a few of his own observations, initialed TJ.. With a Foreword by Peter Scott..

London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1959. xvi, 245, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Lightly spotted to fore-edge. Vg in d/w. From the library of Hertfordshire naturalist and entomologist, Bernard Nau (1937-2021), with his name to endpaper.. With a Foreword by Peter Scott..

Hertfordshire County Council, 1966. 186, b/w frontis, b/w photos, 22 plain plates, text figs. . HB. Vg.. Reprint. Northaw Great Wood, Hertfordshire is a site of Special Scientific Interest..