THE BIRDS OF AFRICA (7 VOLUMES)
Written by Leslie H. Brown; Emil K. Urban; Kenneth Newman; C. Hilary Fry. Illustrated by Martin W. Woodcock; Peter Hayman; Ian Willis.
Stock no. 1817550
Published by Academic Press. 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w illustrations. The most authorative and comprehensive work ever published on the birds of Africa. Includes full bibliographies, acoustic references and indexes. Volume I is a second printing with corrections. Volume II-VII are first editions, ascending years. Some text blocks a little grubby with minor foxing or shelf wear. Contents are fine. Dustwrappers are faded at spines. Volume V has a small closed tear to top front edge of dustwrapper and top of spine, Volume III has a small stain and closed tear to top rear edge of spine (minor). Some dustwrappers have creasing at vertical spine edge. Overall a very nice set.
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THE BIRD COLLECTORS
Written by Barbara Mearns; Richard Mearns.
Stock no. 2127810
Published by Academic Press. 1st USA 1998. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A review of bird collecting form the late eighteenth century to the present day. Turquoise boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xvi and 472 pages including index. ISBN: 0124874401. Bump to base of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Wrapper is edge-creased with small tear to top of spine
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AVIAN GENETICS A POPULATION AND ECOLOGICAL APPROACH
Written by F. Cooke; P.A. Buckley; John Maynard Smith.
Stock no. 2127758
Published by Academic Press. 1ST THUS 1989. Very good condition.

Card wraps. ISBN: 0121875717. Spine and cover edges are browned. Bookplate to inside front cover. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author.
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BIRD CENSUS TECHNIQUES
Written by Bibby Colin J.; Neil Burgess; David A. Hill. Illustrated by Sandra Lambton.
Stock no. 2127530
Published by Academic Press. 1992. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0120958309. Spine and couple of edges are faded. Bumping to spine and corners. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.
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PASTURE AND POLITICS
Written by Richard Tapper.
Stock no. 2126439
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Economics, conflict and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of north western Iran. Studies in Anthropology Series. ISBN: 0126836604. Wrapper is edge-creased with some rubbing.
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BIOGRAPHIES FOR BIRDWATCHERS
Written by Barbara Mearns; Richard Mearns; Peter Scott.
Stock no. 2124705
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names. Looks at many from Edward Adams to Gilbert White. ISBN: 0124874223. Wrapper is edge-creased with some grubby marks.
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THE BIRDS OF AFRICA VOLUME I
Written by Leslie H. Brown; Emil K. Urban; Kenneth Newman. Illustrated by Martin Woodcock; Peter Hayman.
Stock no. 1609818
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown boards, gilt titles. 521 pages. Colour plates, b/w illustrations, and distribution maps. ISBN: 0121373010. Some spotting to rear board.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
Written by Howard G. Tucker.
Stock no. 2120322
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Designed for under-graduate university students majoring in mathematics. Gilt titles. xii and 228 pages including index. Some page browning. Wrapper is faded to spine, with scuffing and edge-tears and chips, with a little loss.
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GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY
Written by James C. Cantrell.
Stock no. 2120124
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

Green cloth with dark green titles. Part I: Low Dimensional Manifolds; Part II: Topology of Manifolds; Part III: Shape Theory and Infinite Dimensional Topology; Part IV: Miscellaneous Problems. ISBN: 0121588602. A few marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.
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DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING AND ITS APPLICATION TO OPTIMAL CONTROL
Written by R. Boudarel; J. Delmas; P. Guichet.
Stock no. 1811757
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Mathematics in Science and Engineering Volume 81. A lucid and intuitively appealing introduction to modern optimal control theory. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt titles. xiv and 252 pages including index. ISBN: 0121189503. Minor foxing to endpapers and text block. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is scuffed.
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GAME THEORY
Written by Guillermo Owen.
Stock no. 1811755
Published by Academic Press. 2nd 1982. Very good condition.

Second edition. ISBN: 0125311508. Ex-library with library number in white to base of spine and inkstamp to front pastedown. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean.
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ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS VOL. 1, FACICLE 2, 1964
Written by Herbert Busemann.
Stock no. 1607730
Published by Academic Press. 1964. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Contains: Die Theorie der geometrischen Ordnungen by Hermann Kunneth (Text in GERMAN); Lie Groups in the Foundations of Geometry by Hans Freudenthal; Some Results on Surface Theory in the Large by A.V. Pgorelov. Front cover is foxed. Contents generally clean and bright.
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