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HUNTERS OF LONGTREE
Written by David Walker. Illustrated by David Walker.
Stock no. 2105047
Published by Orpheus Press. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A Cotswold Tale. Written in the great and much loved tradition of Gilbert white, Hunters of Longtree can be described as a real-life drama of survival in the natural world. ISBN: 0954036603. Light wear to wrapper edges.

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AFRICAN RAINBOW
Written by H.K. Binks.
Stock no. 1206071
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The author's adventures in Kenya illustrated by his own b/w photographs. From farming to nature photography and ivory hunting. 264 pages. SIGNED by author. Corners bumped. Wrapper price-cut, somewhat browned and a little edge-chipped.

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NATURE CONSERVATION IN BRITAIN (NN 49)
Written by L. Dudley Stamp.
Stock no. 1205420
Published by Collins. 2nd 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. New Naturalist no. 49. Second edition with revised lists and maps. ISBN: 0002131528. Book: name in ink to front endpaper. Spine slightly faded. Wrapper price-cut and the publisher's laminate crinkled.

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THOMAS JOHNSON JOURNEYS IN KENT & HAMPSTEAD
Written by J.S.L. Gilmour; Thomas Johnson.
Stock no. 1205366
Published by The Hunt Botanical Library. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A facsimile reprint with introduction and translation of Johnson's Iter Plantarum 1629 and Descriptio Itineris Plantarum 1632 edited by Gilmour. 167 pages. 2 large folding b/w maps. Wrapper edge-torn but with only slight loss.

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FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by H.J. Riddelsdell; G.W. Hedley; W.R. Price.
Stock no. 1804541
Published by The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club. Circa 1948. Very good condition.

Phanerograms, vascular cryptograms, charophyta. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Two fold-out maps to text, four maps in pocket inside back cover. B/w plates. clxxxii and 667 pages including index. Boards a little marked. Front hinge pulled. Some pencil annotation else a very nice copy.

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ATLAS OF EUROPEAN BIRDS
Written by K.H. Voous.
Stock no. 1204992
Published by Nelson. 1st 1960. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. B/w photos. Two-tone distribution maps. Complete Index of English and Latin names. Wrapper has a closed edge-tear.

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BRITISH BIRDS VOL. LXIX
Written by Stanley Cramp.
Stock no. 1204453
Published by H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd.. 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt titles; B/w photos. Spine slightly bumped. Small dent to top edge of front cover. Address label to front endpaper. Contents fine.

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BIRDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
Written by Paul A. Johnsgard.
Stock no. 1204425
Published by University of Nebraska. 1st 1979. As new condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Breeding accounts by states or regions of the Great Plains in the USA. Colour photos. B/w distribution maps. 539 pages. ISBN: 0803225504.

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THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by Jacob H. Studer.
Stock no. 1804391
Published by The Natural Science Association Of America. 1897. Very good condition.

Re-issue. 119 artistic colored plates (lithographs) representing the different species and varieties drawn and colored from nature including a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on observations made in the field by the most eminent writers on ornithology prefaced by a systematic table and index to page, plate and figure. Very large format. Full red morocco binding with gilt title to front and spine. All edges gilt. 182 pages plus index. Spine faded, edges rubbed, a few scuff marks to front & rear board. Corners worn. Front joint between title page and frontis pulled. Some scattered foxing. A few closed margin tears. Some grubby margin marks (fingering). All plates present and beautifully bright.

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BIRDS OF IDAHO
Written by Thomas D. Burleigh.
Stock no. 1804143
Published by The Caxton Printers Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Buff boards, blue titles and vignettes. Colour & b/w photos. xiii and 467 pages including index. ISBN: 0870042084. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Text block a little foxed, contents clean. Yellow wrapper is faded at spine, edge-worn and grubby.

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HUMMINGBIRDS FLYING JEWELS
Written by Walter Scheithauer; Gwynne Vevers.
Stock no. 1804111
Published by Arthur Barker Limited. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Translated from the German by Vevers. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. 176 pages including index. Bumping to top edge of front board and first few pages at top edge. Pictorial wrapper is edge worn with a couple of chips to top edge and a little grubby.

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LA PASSION DES OISEAUX
Written by John A. Burton; D.H.S. Risdon.
Stock no. 1204229
Published by Grund. 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Text in French. Large format. Colour photos. ISBN: 270005007X. Wrapper corners are worn.

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