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THE WORLD OF SPIDERS (NN 38)
Written by W.S. Bristowe.
Stock no. 1827241
Published by Collins. 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Revised Edition. New Naturalist series. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 14 plates of photographs of which 4 are in colour. 22 half-tone plates and 116 text figures. ISBN: 0002195585. Light mottling to boards. Foxing to text block. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is faded to spine (normal for early editions of NN), minor damp stain to lower edge of rear panel, rear panel lightly browned, foxing to verso (not visible to front).

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DRAGONFLIES (NN 106)
Written by Philip S. Corbet; Stephen J. Brooks.
Stock no. 1827235
Published by Collins. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series 106. A fascinating outlook on the natural history of dragonflies. Green cloth boards. Colour photos, charts, b/w illustrations and distribution charts. Green endpapers with repeating New Naturalist logo. ISBN: 9780007151684. A few minor pale foxspots to top edge of text block else a very nice copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly scuffed at rear panel edges.

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THE WORLD OF THE HONEYBEE (NN 29)
Written by Colin G. Butler.
Stock no. 1827224
Published by Collins. 1958. Good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 29. Green cloth, gilt titles. Two colour photos and 87 b/w photos. Reprint. Text block browned and foxed. Pastedowns have surface paper loss (tape removal?). Front endpaper has previous owner's personalised bookplate and date in ink. A few pencil annotations to margins else clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine (normal for this series) and a little grubby to rear panel.

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MOTHS (NN 90)
Written by Michael E.N. Majerus.
Stock no. 1827218
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 90. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0002201410. Foxing to outer page edges else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly faded, lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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WILDFLOWERS, BUTTERFLIES & TREES OF THE SLAD VALLEY AND THE COTSWOLDS
Written by Richard Morris.
Stock no. 1326540
Published by Richard Morris. 1st 2014. Nearly fine condition.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. A book of colour photographs. ISBN: 9780953633968. SIGNED by the author/photographer to title-page. Contents fine. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners.

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AS LIBELULAS DE PORTUGAL THE DRAGONFLIES OF PORTUGAL
Written by Ernestino Maravalhas; Albano Soares.
Stock no. 1326423
Published by Booky Publisher. Circa 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

Text in Portugese and English. More than 600 photos and maps of the 67 species that are known in Portugal. Cardwraps. 335 pages. ISBN: 9789899861404. Minimal rubbing to cover edges. Contents fine.

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A COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITISH DRAGONFLIES
Written by Andrew McGeeney.
Stock no. 1326420
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

More than 200 colour photos of the 41 species of dragonflies found in the UK and Ireland together with detailed descriptions of larvae, behaviour and habitat. ISBN: 0224023071. Spine and corners bumped. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed.

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THE DRAGONFLIES OF EUROPE
Written by R.R. Askew.
Stock no. 1326419
Published by Harley Books. 2004. Very good condition.

Revised edition. Green cardwraps. 308 pages. ISBN: 0946589755. Covers slightly edge rubbed and light crease to lower corner of front cover. Contents fine.

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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Richard South.
Stock no. 1326418
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1943. Almost very good condition.

Wayside and Woodland Series. Small format. Blue cloth, gilt decoration, colour and b/w plates. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Front joint at title-page has cracked. Spine browned. Spine and corners bumped.

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FIELD GUIDE TO THE DRAGONFLIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND EUROPE
Written by Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra. Illustrated by Richard Lewington.
Stock no. 1326416
Published by British Wildlife Publishing. 2014. Very good condition.

All the resident and migrant dragonflies and damselflies from the Arctic to the Sahara with almost 1,000 illustrations. 320 pages. Cardwraps. ISBN: 9780953139941. Slight crease to top corner of front cover and a small mark to front cover. Contents fine.

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THE CATERPILLARS OF THE BRITISH MOTHS FIRST SERIES
Written by W.J. Stokoe; G.H.T. Stovin. Illustrated by J.C. Dollman.
Stock no. 1326415
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. Colour and b/w plates. First series only. 408 pages. New edition. Wayside and Woodland Series. New endpapers. Spine slightly bumped else covers bright. Wrapper price-clipped, edge-chipped with slight loss and faded spine.

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THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES SERIES I
Written by Richard South.
Stock no. 1326414
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1972. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New Edition. 4.75 x 6". Plain endpapers. Coloured frontis plus colour black and white illustrations. With accurately coloured figures of every species also drawings of eggs, caterpillars, chrysalids and food plants. Series I. Dark blue boards, gilt titles. Minimal bumping to spine. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some slight loss.

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