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HANDBOOK OF THE MAMMALS OF THE WORLD 3. PRIMATES
Written by Russell A. Mittermeier; Anthony B. Rylands; Don E. Wilson; et al.
Stock no. 1820160
Published by Lynx Edicions. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Heavy volume! Black boards, white titles. Stunning colour photography throughout. Published in association with Conservation International and IUCN. ISBN: 9788496553897. Rear panel of dustwrapper slightly scuffed. Sweet odour present. Otherwise a lovely copy.

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HANDBOOK OF THE MAMMALS OF THE WORLD 4. SEA MAMMALS
Written by Don E. Wilson; Russell A. Mittermeier; et al.
Stock no. 1820159
Published by Lynx Edicions. 1st 2014. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Heavy volume! Black boards, white titles. Stunning colour photography throughout. Published in association with Conservation International and IUCN. ISBN: 9788496553934. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel. Otherwise a lovely copy!

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GALLOWAY AND THE BORDERS (NN 101)
Written by Derek Ratcliffe.
Stock no. 1319046
Published by Collins. 1st 2007. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series 101. Colour plates plus b/w photos and drawings. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780007174010. Still in original shrinkwrap. Dustwrapper spine is ever so slightly faded.

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PREHISTORIC MAN AND BEAST
Written by H.N. Hutchinson. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1819575
Published by Smith, Elder & Co.. 1st 1896. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. 10 b/w plates. xxii and 298 pages including index. Top & tail of spine rubbed with slight fraying and loss of cloth, spine lightly browned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some scattered foxspots and pencil annotation to margins. All plates present.

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THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 5 PART 6
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819481
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1971. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pages 399-500, April 1971. Green cardwraps. Contents include: John Woodward F.R.S. F.R.C.P., M.D. (1665-1728): a bio-bibliographical account of his life and work; Thomas Webster (circa 1772-1844); The reading of the Darwin and Wallace papers: an historical "non-event"; and more. Spine slightly faded with pencil annotation. Contents clean.

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ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 12 PART 2
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819477
Published by Society For The History Of Natural History. 1985. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pages 175-252, October 1985. Green Cardwraps. B/w illustrations. Contents include: Separately published prints of fossils in nineteenth century Britain; The 'fish-frog' and the Surinam toad; The zoological notes by Johann Reinhold and George Forster included in Buffon's Historie Naturelle (1782); and more. Spine faded, top corner crease to prelims.

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ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 27 2000
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819476
Published by Science History Publications Ltd.. 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Volume 27 part 1; Pages 1-156, February 2000. Cardwraps. Colour frontis & b/w illustrations. Contents include: John Christopher Thackeray 1948-1999; Confessions of a geological book-collector; The two states of Mantell's Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex: 1827 and c. 1829; Georges Cuvier's paper museum of fossil bones; and more.

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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 9 PART 1
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819474
Published by Society For The Bibliography Of Natural History. 1978. Nearly fine condition.

Pages 1-94. November 1978. Green cardwraps, b/w illustrations. Contents include: V.A. Eyles (1895-1978) - an obituary and bibliography; H.C. Richter - John Gould's unknown bird artist; The missing volume of John Gould's working notebook for his Birds of Europe; Two collections of rhinoceros plates compiled by James Douglas and James Parsons in the eighteenth century; and more. Spine slightly faded.

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THE PUZZLE OF LIFE; AND HOW IT HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER
Written by Arthur Nicols.
Stock no. 1819467
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 2nd 1877. Slightly better than good condition.

Second Edition. A Short History of the Formation of the Earth, with its Vegetable and Animal Life, from the Earliest Times. Including an account of pre-historic man, his weapons, tools and works. Small format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine & vignette to front, black title to front. B/w plates. 173 pages. Top & tail of spine rubbed & worn, a few scuffs and marks to covers. Lengthy inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Joints cracked, hinges pulled, binding still feels tight. Pages 30-31 heavily foxed, scattered foxspots otherwise. All plates present.

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ECOLOGY OF SALT MARSHES AND SAND DUNES
Written by D.S Ranwell.
Stock no. 2132736
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Comparing and contrasting the salt marsh and sand dune habitats and the ecological processes operating within them. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates and charts. ISBN: 0412105004. Ink stamp to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine and edges.

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THE LIVES OF BATS
Written by Wilfried Schober.
Stock no. 2132665
Published by Croom Helm. 1984. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Translated from the German by Sylvia Furness. Revised by A.M. Hutson. Large format. Blue cloth with white title to spine and vignette of bat to front cover. B/w and colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0709923899. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut.

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THE SYLVAN YEAR
Written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton.
Stock no. 1818309
Published by Seeley & Co.. 4th 1887. Good condition.

Fourth Edition. Leaves from the Note-Book of Raoul Dubois. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and brown borders. 8 b/w etchings including frontispiece. 243 pages including index. Top edge gilt. Deckle-edged. Cloth to top of spine worn and frayed. Spine browned, gilt title faded. Heavy foxing to prelims and last few pages. Some margin marks, mainly foxing.

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