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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WRENS, DIPPERS AND THRASHERS (HELM IDENTIFICATION GUIDES)
Written by David Brewer. Illustrated by Barry Kent Mackay.
Stock no. 1319289
Published by Christopher Helm. 1st 2001. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The first comprehensive guide to the world's 83 wrens, 5 dippers and 36 thrashers. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 272 pages. 32 colour plates illustrating all 124 species plus b/w maps. ISBN: 187340395X. Surface paper damage to pastedowns (removal of tape?) else contents fine. Dustwrapper is price-cut.

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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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A HISTORY OF BRITISH MOLLUSCA, AND THEIR SHELLS (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Edward Forbes; Sylvanus Hanley.
Stock no. 2133307
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1853. Almost very good condition.

Leather spines and corners. Maroon title blocks to spines, gilt titles. Marbled outer page edges and endpapers. 203 hand-coloured plates. Bookplates of 'The Wheelton hind Collection 1920' to front pastedown of each book. Rear join at rear of Volume 1 (on outside); leather has split, but still holding together well. Some scuffs and chips of leather spines and corners. Foxing to prelims of books; some margin marks; page browning. Hand-coloured illustrations are still nice and bright.

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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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TRANSACTIONS OF THE MIDLAND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION WINTER SESSION OF 1864-5
No author listed.
Stock no. 1819468
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1865. Good condition.

Contents include: On Thor's Cave; On the Nest of the Ten Spined Stickleback; On the Embryo of the Pike; On the Jaw of the British Leopard; On some Peculiarities in the growth of the Hawthorn Tree; and much more. Pink cardwraps. 19 plates at rear. Writing in blue pencil to front cover, covers are unevenly faded and marked/grubby. Backstrip worn and front cover just starting to split from contents because of this. A little unobtrusive annotation to contents in pencil. Text block browned. Plates have some foxing present.

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TEXT-BOOK OF PALAEONTOLOGY VOL II
Written by Karl A. Von Zittel; Charles R. Eastman; Arthur Smith Woodward.
Stock no. 2133147
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1932. Very good condition.

Translated and edited by Eastman. Second English edition revised with additions by Woodward. Green cloth, gilt title, to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. 464 pages includes index. Volume II only. Spine very slightly bumped at top and tail, corners lightly rubbed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Pages lightly tanned, contents clean.

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MOSSES & LIVERWORTS (NN 97)
Written by Ron Porley; Nick Hodgetts.
Stock no. 1318782
Published by Collins. Circa 2005. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series. Green cloth. 179 colour and b/w photographs. ISBN: 0002202123. Still in original shrinkwrap which is splitting at joins.

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TEXT-BOOK OF PALAEONTOLOGY VOL. III MAMMALIA
Written by Karl A. Von Zittel; Max Schlosser; et al.
Stock no. 2132742
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Revised by Schlosser. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some uneven fading/mottling to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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