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OUR FRIEND YAMBO
Written by Andre Mercier.
Stock no. 1325820
Published by Souvenir Press. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author attempts to bring up a cheetah cub as a domestic pet right in the centre of busy city life. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 160 pages. B/w photos. Slight bumping to spine, corners and cover edges. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and a little grubby to rear panel.

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LIFE
Written by Richard Fortey.
Stock no. 1826417
Published by Folio Society. Nearly fine condition.

An Unauthorised Biography. A Natural History of the First Four Thousand Million Years of Life on Earth. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine, gilt & peach floral design to front. Colour endpapers showing fish fossils. Colour photos throughout. Still in original shrinkwrap which is split to vertical end. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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ROCKHOPPING
Written by Trace Balla. Illustrated by Trace Balla.
Stock no. 1826365
Published by Allen & Unwin. 1st thus 2016. Nearly fine condition.

Join Clancy and Uncle Egg on a rambling, rockhopping adventure in Gariwerd (the Grampians), to find the source of the Glenelg River. A story about following your flow and the unexpected places you may go. Oblong format. Matt pictorial boards. Story told in comic strip style with colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9781760112349. Spine lightly bumped with minor nick to rear edge. Else contents are fine.

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THOMAS BEWICK: A RESUME OF HIS LIFE AND WORK
Written by Graham Reynolds. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick.
Stock no. 1826352
Published by Art & Technics Limited. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine (reads 'The Engravings of Thomas Bewick'). B/w illustrations. A few minor knocks to board edges. Text block browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby, worn at corners and browned to rear panel.

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WILD FLOWERS OF THE YEAR
Written by George Henslow. Illustrated by Anne Pratt.
Stock no. 1826346
Published by R.T.S.. Good condition.

Forty-eight hand-coloured plates (actually forty-seven listed) of ninety-five flowers selected and described in an appendix by Rev. Professor George Henslow. xii & 284 pages including index plus 4 pages publisher adverts to rear. Green cloth boards, yellow titles and borders. Spine browned, title to spine almost illegible. Text block browned. Foxing throughout, some larger spots also affect the plates. Plates are still bright despite browning.

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A HISTORY OF ORNITHOLOGY (NN 104)
Written by Peter Bircham.
Stock no. 1325758
Published by Collins. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 104. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780007199693. Foxing to top edge of textblock and a couple of light marks to textblock. Dustwrapper spine is slightly faded and creased at front edge. Rear panel of wrapper is very slightly grubby.

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OWLS OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
Written by Karel H. Voous. Illustrated by Ad Cameron.
Stock no. 1325737
Published by Collins. 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Cream boards, gilt title to spine. 320 pages. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0002194937. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper has light edge-creasing with a couple of tiny nicks.

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THE OWLS OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by Allan W. Eckert. Illustrated by Karl E. Karalus.
Stock no. 1325736
Published by Weathervane Books. Circa 1987. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. All the species fully described and illustrated. American edition. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0517632209. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Browning to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with fading to spine and a couple of edges.

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THE HERPETOCULTURE OF LEOPARD GECKOS: TWENTY-SEVEN GENERATIONS OF LIVING ART
Written by Philippe De Vosjoli; Ron Tremper; Roger Klingenberg.
Stock no. 1325733
Published by Advanced Visions Inc.. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

Information on husbandry, veterinary medicine, breeding and vivarium design. Card wraps. Colour photos. ISBN: 0974297127. Covers slightly edge worn. Light creasing to edges of preliminary pages.

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ART OF THE NEW NATURALISTS
Written by Peter Marren; Robert Gillmor.
Stock no. 1325702
Published by Collins. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

The history of the artwork of the dustwrappers, describing the frantic workings behind the seemingly serene collection of illustrations that have shaped Britain's most iconic natural history series. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. ix and 310 pages including index. ISBN: 9780007284719. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Blue wrap around label is torn at spine.

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IRELAND (NN 84)
Written by David Cabot.
Stock no. 1826119
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1999. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 84. A fascinating and highly detailed account of the natural history of Ireland, from biological history, geology and climate, to wildlife and nature conservation. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0002200791. Boards clean and bright. A few tiny foxspots to top edge of text block else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine (as is normal for this series of books).

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MAN AND THE LAND (NN 31)
Written by L. Dudley Stamp.
Stock no. 1826109
Published by Collins. 2nd 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series no. 31. Green cloth. 6 x 8.5". 272 pages. A new and unusual portrait of our islands. 35 colour photos, 46 b/w photos, 52 illustrations in the text. A little bumping to top corner of front board. Minor mottling to rear board. Some foxing mainly to text block and rear endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and worn at corners with minor loss, some foxing, a few grubby marks.

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