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London : Lovell Reeve, 1857 A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 20 hand coloured plates by G B Sowerby. This volume is part of Lovell Reeve's Popular Natural History series designed for young people and those starting out to study the natural world. The binding has gilt decoration and titles to the spine and a gilt crab design to the front board, with blind stamped decoration to both boards. Internally a list of Reeve's publications has been inserted before the front endpaper. With half title, frontispiece, title page, text with 19 further plates, and publisher's advert at the rear. The cloth binding has been rebacked, relaying the original spine, so it is sound and tight. The cloth has some fading particularly to the spine but is clean with a bright gilt crab. There is an armorial bookplate of James Cowan to the front pastedown which is a little grubby.The contents are in very good clean condition. The rear endpaper has a slight fold. Light toning to page edges.…
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The Biography of an Arctic Fox
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NY: Appleton, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First Edition, (1) on last page; INSCRIBED by Seton on half-title page with author's characteristic pawprint and dated 27 July 1945; 8vo, red cloth; vg (spine ends bumped and worn; owner's name stamped twice on ffep with a number stamp; eps and pages toned) in fair dj (about a fifth of the top right front panel missing; missing another very large piece from top of rear panel; spine chipped down to the 'g' in biography; spine tail chipped); 126pp.
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Large Hand Colored Engraved Plate Of Mecynorhina torquata and Acrocinus longimanus Beetles, from C.F.A. Kolb’s Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs
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Stuttgart Verlag v. Krais & Hoffmann, Stuttgart, 1868; Large hand colored copper engraving of Mecynorhina torquata Drury and Acrocinus longimanus, together with sixteen other species of beetle. Contrary to its ferocious appearance, Mecynorhina is actually a pollen eater, native to tropical Africa, and among the largest of the world’s flower beetles, attaining a body length of more than 3". The South American Acrocinus or "Harlequin Beetle" depicted at right is of equivalent body size, but with long articulated forelegs that add an additional 6" to its overall length. Engraved identification key in the lower margin lists the Latin binomial and German common name for all beetles shown. An original double plate from C.F.A. Kolb’s Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs, published at Stuttgart in 1868. Hinged and matted entirely acid free, ready for framing. Full sheet size 13 1/4" x 16", matte window 12 3/4" x 14 1/4", outside matte dimensions 18" x 19 1/2".…
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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1899 A very good copy in the original cloth binding with faded titles to spine. There is an armorial bookplate of James Donald Dobson to the front pastedown endpaper. Top page edges gilt - remainder rough cut where pages have been opened. Contents: half title (which refers to A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland - the intention being to cover the whole of Scotland in time), title with photographic background, preface, contents, illustration list, introduction and bibliography pp 1-xxix; text 248 pp with 12 full page photographic plates and 2 photographs in text. Folding colour map at the rear. Contents in very good clean condition. Some of the pages are very roughly opened with varying margin sizes.
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Stuttgart Verlag v. Krais & Hoffmann, Germany, 1868; Magnificent hand colored copper engraving of the colossal Macrodontia cervicornis or "Sabertooth Longhorn Beetle," pictured together with 20 additional species of exotic beetle. Macrodontia, native to the South American rain forest, is one of the world’s largest beetles, reaching an adult size of over 8 1/4". An original double plate illustration plate from C.F.A. Kolb’s Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs, published at Stuttgart in 1868. An engraved identification key in the bottom margin lists theLatin binomial and German common name for each beetle pictured. Hinged and matted entirely acid free, ready for framing. Full sheet 13 1/4" x 16", matte window 12 3/4" x 14 1/4", outside matte dimensions 18" x 19 1/2". Fine condition, clean, bright, colors vivid. Scarce.
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The Hague: W. Junk, 1978. Two volumes, large octavo, pp xvi, 1439, a slight mark to one fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrappers are slightly rubbed and age-toned. SCARCE. [A heavy set - extra postage may be needed.]. [Southern Africa is certainly not a naturally bounded area so that there are several possibilities for delineating it and concepts about its extent. Wellington discussed the various possibilities for delineation and suggested that one line stands out more clearly and definitely as a physical boundary than any other, namely the South Equatorial Divide, the watershed between the ZaIre, Cuanza and Rufiji Rivers on the one hand and the Zambezi, Cunene and Rovuma Rivers on the other. This South Equatorial Divide is indeed a major line of separation for some organisms and is also applicable in a certain geographical sense, though it does not possess the slightest significance for many other groups of organisms, ecosystems or geographical…
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The Biography of an Arctic Fox
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New York:D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2015/06/0_062.jpg. New York:D. Appleton-Century Company. 1937. 126pp. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Decorated blue boards clean and bright. Internally, pages clean and bright with no previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with small tears and chipping to edges. A near fine book with a very good dust jacket.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2006. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Inscribed & signed by both authors on the title page. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Text unmarked. Jacket clean and bright. Laid-in tri-fold pamphlet from the Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxvi + 230 pages. Crossing stick bridges over swollen rivers and battling swarms of tsetse flies, Mark and Delia Owens found their way into one of the most startlingly beautiful, wild places on earth, the northern Luangwa Valley in Zambia. As they were setting up camp to launch their lion research, gunfire echoed off the cliffs nearby. Gangs of ivory poachers were not only shooting the elephants but also virtually enslaving local villagers. Against unimaginable odds, Mark and Delia stopped the poaching by helping the villagers find other work, start small businesses, and improve their health care and education. Living with wild creatures all around (lions sleeping…
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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Coniglicoltura Pratica
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Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1911. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Very good, with only a little wear to extremities. 12 colour plates, and 67 sketches and photos. 268 pages of text, and 69 pages of index and adverts. Pictorial cover still bright..
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