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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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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BURREN
Written by Gordon D'Arcy; John Hayward.
Stock no. 1818236
Published by Immel. 2002. Slightly better than very good condition.

The limestone Karst landscape of the Burren, (Ireland), its Clints and Grykes, home to an enormous variety of plants and animals. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. ISBN: 1898162514. Spine lightly faded.

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FAUNA BRITANNICA
Written by Stefan Buczacki.
Stock no. 1818234
Published by Hamlyn. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A unique celebration of British wildlife and its role in our cultural history. Large format. Colour photos. ISBN: 0600598675. A few minor marks to boards. Text block a little grubby. Free front endpaper lightly creased. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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NATURAL SCIENCE BOOKS IN ENGLISH 1600 - 1900
Written by David M. Knight.
Stock no. 1818229
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 262 pages. The collector of scientific books will particularly value the extended bibliographies which follow each chapter. 4 colour and 56 black and white illustrations. Top edge green. ISBN: 071340728X. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards. A few minor grubby marks to text block. Pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, worn at top & tail of spine.

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THE HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MAMMALS
Written by Gordon B. Corbet; H.N. Southern.
Stock no. 2130901
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 2nd 1977. Very good condition.

B/w photos and drawings. 2nd edition. ISBN: 0632090804. Spine is faded. Light wrinkling to a few pages.

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A TIGER'S TALE
Written by Anup Shah; Manoj Shah.
Stock no. 2129865
Published by Fountain Press. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Maroon boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. The Indian Tiger's Struggle for Survival in the Wild. ISBN: 9780863433917. Some wear to top of spine. Contents are excellent! Wrapper is creased with a few small nicks.

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INDEX 1888-1988
Written by Willbur E. Garrett.
Stock no. 1816940
Published by National Geographic Society. 1989. Fine condition.

One Hundred Years of the National Geographic magazine. Brown leather spine with gilt title, black cloth boards with gilt vignette to front. Marbled endpapers. Colour & b/w photos throughout. 1215 pages. All edges gilt. Also includes Maps of the United States and the World in slipcase with booklet. Second printing. Contained in publisher's slipcase. Map supplement also present.

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IBP I NORDEN No. 9 MAY 1972
Written by Rolf Vik; Sten Jonsson; et al.
Stock no. 2127991
Published by Scandinavian National Committees Of The Internation Biology Programme. 1972. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. Proceedings of Nordic Symposium on Biological Parameters For Measuring Global Pollution. Spine faded. Light creasing to a couple of corners.

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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND THE NICHE
Written by Paul S. Giller.
Stock no. 2127989
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w graphs and illustrations. ISBN: 0412251108. Spine is faded. Couple of corners are a little creased. Bookplate to inside front cover. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author.

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