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THE EARTH'S DYNAMIC SYSTEMS
Written by W. Kenneth Hamblin.
Stock no. 1320366
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co.. 1989. Very good condition.

A Textbook In Physical Geology. Focusing on the two major energy systems that make the earth a dynamic planet - the Hydrologic system and the tectonic system. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 576 pages includes index. photos. 5th edition, revised. ISBN: 002349381X. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Contents clean.

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CAMP AND TRAIL METHODS
Written by E. Kreps.
Stock no. 1320193
Published by A.R. Harding. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Interesting information for all lovers of nature... What to take and what to do. Yellow cardwraps. 273 pages. B/w diagrams and photos. Some heavy foxing and light page browning. Covers are slightly faded at edges.

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THE FORMS OF WATER IN CLOUDS & RIVERS, ICE & GLACIERS
Written by John Tyndall.
Stock no. 1820171
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.. 12th 1899. Good condition.

Twelfth Edition. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, blind series logo to front and rear board. The International Scientific Series. B/w frontis and text illustrations. xix and 192 pages. Spine browned, boards unevenly faded and marked. Text block browned. Hinges pulled but binding is tight. A few scattered foxspots and margin marks to contents.

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HANDBOOK OF THE MAMMALS OF THE WORLD 2. HOOFED MAMMALS
Written by Don E. Wilson; Russell A. Mittermeier; et al.
Stock no. 1820164
Published by Lynx Edicions. 1st 2011. 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: 9788496553774. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel. Else a lovely copy!

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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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