Search Results: Molluscs & Conchology from Mike Park Ltd

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1936. Illustrated with six photographic plates, slim quarto, pp (16), paperback, a tear and crease to the lower cover, otherwise a fine copy, virtually as new. [The John Murray Expedition of 1933-1934 ‘pioneered bilateral relations in the field of oceanography, at a time when the Law of the Sea was not even an embryonic concept’ (Aleem & Morcos, 1984). Funded by a £20,000 bequest from oceanographer, John Murray, this expedition was a collaboration between Britain and Egypt. Aboard HEMS Mabahiss, British zoologist Lt. Col. Dr R.B. Seymour Sewell led a team of scientists to research the oceanography, geology, and mineralogy of the Red Sea and the Indian and Arabian Oceans. The trip took nine months and eleven volumes of data collected were published from 1935 to 1970.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. Small folio, pp iv, 117 plus 115 plates {numbered 1 - 98, + bis plates numbered 3*, 20*, 20**, 21*, 29*, 33*, 37*, 52*, 53*, 54*, 55*, 56*, 61*, 61**, 61***, 66*, 66**, 72*}, slight foxing and marking internally, occasionally a suggestion of darkening round the plate margins, plate 9 is marked and oxidised around the margins, one internal hinge cracking a little, original red and green cloth, a little scuffed and worn, the lower joint splitting but still sound, the upper joint with a small split. An owner's tiny stamp on the front endpaper - "Horace W. Sanders". [A publisher's note explains that the authors "Illustrations of the Fossil Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland" had already become extremely rare, and it was decided to re-issue the illustrations as engravings made from the original steel plates. In its turn, this work has now perhaps become equally rare.]. First Edition thus. Cloth. Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Well illustrtaed, 12mo, pp 799, very slightly used internally, soft cloth with paper wrap, very slightly worn. . First Edition. Soft Cloth. Good.

Belfast: Ulster Museum, 1984. Quarto, with 150 distribution maps, pp vi, 160, exceptionally clean internally, paperback, in very good condition. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Colchester: Colne Fishery Board, 1916. Illustrated, small octavo, pp (6), 92, very clean internally, green decorated cloth, just very slightly worn. A good bright copy of a scarce work. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1983. Illustrated, quarto, pp viii, 290, a small letter stamped on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, pictorial boards rubbed and a little worn. Still a good sound copy. [The book traces the ways in which terrestrial animals have evolved from aquatic ancestors and discusses the means by which they are adapted to life on land. The most important physiological adaptations are those involving salt and water balance, the excretion of nitrogen, reproductive mechanisms and the sense organ and these are given priority. Evidence from fossil history is combined with that from the ecology and physiology of present-day species to assess the probable routes along which various evolutionary lines had moved on to land. Individual chapters are concerned with specific animal groups and emphasis is placed on comparisons of physiological mechanisms between closely related animals before attempting wider generalisations. The book closes with a brief account of the… Read More

Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1985. Illustrated with 15 black and white plates, octavo, pp 93, very clean internally, paperback, covers showing very slight signs of use.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1984. With three plates, slim octavo, pp 48, a little age-toned, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn.. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Taunton: Field Studies Council, 1985. Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp (70), clean internally, paperback, covers slightly foxed and age-toned, otherwise a good copy. SCARCE.. Paperback. Good.

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1939. Illustrated with 41 text figures, slim quarto, pp 116, paperback, a very slight crease to the lower cover, otherwise a fine copy, virtually as new. [ 'This valuable collection of fishes consists of about 2700 specimens, exclusive of a small number of larval and post-larval forms which have been omitted from this report. Altogether 276 species are represented, of which 28 are believed to be new to science, and 56 were previously unrepresented in the British Museum collection. The fishes were obtained in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, South Arabian Coast, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, and in the Zanzibar and Maldive areas.'. The John Murray Expedition of 1933-1934 ‘pioneered bilateral relations in the field of oceanography, at a time when the Law of the Sea was not even an embryonic concept’ (Aleem & Morcos, 1984). Funded by a £20,000 bequest from oceanographer, John Murray, this expedition was a collaboration between Britain and… Read More

Manila: Natural Resources managemant Centre & University of the Philippines, 1986. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xviii, 268, title page and endpapers slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. SCARCE . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Taunton: Field Studies Council, 1980. Large slim octavo, pp 16, a neat signature and date on the title page, paperback, covers very slightly age-toned and worn. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced].. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1984. Illustrated with 10 plates, slim octavo, pp (ii), 25, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Taunton: Field Studies Council, 1985. Illustrated, large slim octavo, pp 51, a neat name and date on title page, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers a little age-toned and marked.. Paperback. Good.

London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1935. Frontispiece, a folding map at the rear, slim quarto, pp 41, paperback, a fine copy, virtually as new. [The John Murray Expedition of 1933-1934 ‘pioneered bilateral relations in the field of oceanography, at a time when the Law of the Sea was not even an embryonic concept’ (Aleem & Morcos, 1984). Funded by a £20,000 bequest from oceanographer, John Murray, this expedition was a collaboration between Britain and Egypt. Aboard HEMS Mabahiss, British zoologist Lt. Col. Dr R.B. Seymour Sewell led a team of scientists to research the oceanography, geology, and mineralogy of the Red Sea and the Indian and Arabian Oceans. The trip took nine months and eleven volumes of data collected were published from 1935 to 1970.]. First Edition. Paperback. As New.

Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1910. Illustrated with 15 plates and 118 text illustrations, large octavo, pp (12), 250, a little age-toning throughout, top edge gilt, the other edges uncut, one inner hinge cracking but sound, endpapers unevenly faded, green cloth with gilt decoration, very slightly marked, lacking part of the label at the base of the spine. [Contains the 1910 Smithsonian title page, as well as the original red and black Doubleday, New York title page of 1905.]. Cloth. Good.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Ltd, 1907. Fourth revised edition. Illustrated with line drawings in the text, 12mo, pp 112, a duplicate from a public library, occasional small stamps internally, a label on the front endpaper, hinge at title page a little weak, otherwise fairly clean and sound internally, soft decorated cloth, slightly rubbd and marked, the upper cover wrinkled at the fore-edge. . Soft Cloth. Good.

Copenhagen: Danish Science Press, Ltd, 1959. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 234, very clean internally, paperback, the slightest signs of use to the covers, from the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his stamp on both covers, otherwise nearly as new. [Scientific results of the Danish Rennell Expedition, 1951 and The British Museum (NH) Expedition 1953. This volume covers Earthworms, Isoptera, Macroheterocera, Odonata, Scorpiones, Microlepidoptera, Mallophaga, Land Freshwater and Marine Molluscs, Millipeds and Centipeds, and others.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1932. Slim quarto, pp (11), paperback, a very good copy. [With the signature of Geoffrey Tandy on the upper cover. Tandy (1900-1969) was a British marine biologist and broadcaster. A friend of T. S. Eliot, Tandy was the first to broadcast Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 1937. During the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park, allegedly invited there after the Ministry of Defence confused the word "cryptogamist" with "cryptogramist" ! But whilst at Bletchley his technical expertise allowed him to salvage a waterlogged codebook which helped crack the Enigma code.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Bury Street, London: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1896. New edition. A few line drawings in the text, 12mo, pp viii, 215, a college bookplate and stamp on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, green cloth with gilt decoration, very slightly rubbed. [Includes geological specimens. bones, birds' eggs, butterflies, beetles, hymenoptera,, shells, plants and ferns, grasses, mosses, lichens, fungi and seaweeds.] 1896 £15.00. New Edition. Cloth. Good.