Search Results: Fishes from Mike Park Ltd

Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1979. Illustrated with line drawings, slim octavo, pp (ii), 62, very clean internally, paperback, covers very lightly worn. [Sisoridae are a family of Asian catfishes.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Calcutta: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1940. With seven pages of plates, pp (100), a little worn internally, paperback, covers a bit worn and marked. VERY SCARCE. [ Memoirs of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol XII number 2.] . Paperback. Good.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2006. A few illustrations, large quarto, pp 579, as new internally, paperback, covers very slightly used. SCARCE, [History of research and management; protected species; fish, shellfish and fisheries; oceanography and mapping; ecology and environmental impacts.] {Very heavy - extra postage may be needed}. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Lansing: Michigan Geological and Biological Survey, 1911. Illustrated, pp 347, one folding map, the first few pages worn and chipped at the lower margin and corner, otherwise fairly clean and tight internally, cloth-backed paper covers, very worn fragile and browned, lacking many pieces, lower cover with horizontal tear. SCARCE. [Flora, mollusca, thysanoptera and orthoptera, mallophaga, fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles.]. First Edition. Cloth-backed paperback. Fair.

Washington: The Pacific Science Board, 1955. Large octavo, pp 51, typed, xeroxed and stapled, slightly worn and dog-eared, a duplicate from the British museum with stamps, presentation copy from the first author, signed on upper cover. The work is not illustrated, but there is a page of illustrations from an unrelated work at the rear. SCARCE. [A short survey of the natural history of the island following the establishment of a U.S. airbase.]. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son, 1912. Large slim octavo, pp xiv, 80, a little age-toned, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, folding map, cloth slightly dusty, spine slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. [With two short typed letters to the notable ornithologist Rev F.L. Blathwayt, signed by the author.] RARE [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. Signed letter from author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Paris: Blondel La Rougery [1924 - 1925 ?]. Two vols bound in one, illustrated, large quarto, pp 220, 196, very slightly aged internally, signature on front endpaper, bound in a simple buckram, very slightly worn. (Poissons osseux, poissons cartilagineux, mollusques, crustaces etc.) Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original manuscript was copied with a… Read More

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.

Published by the author, 1968. Illustrated with mounted photographs and charts, large octavo, typewritten and xeroxed, pp 89 (printed on one side only) + tables, black cloth very slightly worn and marked. [A Master of Science thesis for the University of East Africa. The family Istiophoridae contains about 10 species, of which the best known is the marlin.. It has an elongated body, a spear-like snout or bill, and a long, rigid dorsal fin which extends forward to form a crest. Its common name is thought to derive from its resemblance to a sailor's marlinspike. Even more so than their close relatives, the scombrids, marlins are fast swimmers, reaching speeds of about 80 km/h (50 mph)].. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1865. Octavo, pp viii, 364, slight age-toning, otherwise clean and sound internally, front and rear hinges cracking but sound, green cloth only slightly worn. Quite a presentable copy. [A fascinating work on the dietary aspects of much of the subjects - oysters, salmon, herrings and other fish, fungi, horses. Little seems to be known of the author, apart from the fact that he was a Scottish minister; he was obviously much concerned on improving the diet of the Scottish people.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Weltevreden: N.V. Boekhandel Visser & Co. Yearbook V for 1916, and X for 1921. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 192; xii, 192, the first volume is bound without its index and has a signature written over the first page, otherwise very clean internally, bound in contemporary half cloth and boards, not matching, slightly worn and marked.. Half cloth and boards. Good.

Belo Horizonte: Editora Briguiet, 1996. Three tiny volumes. Illustrated with simple line drawings, small 12mo, pp 50; 42; 48, very good clean copies. [Postage will be reduced.]. First British edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1978. Illustrated, octavo, pp 192, a slight spot to the fore-edge, a tiny marginal tear to page 77/78, otherwise clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper has just slight signs of wear. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: John Murray, 1972. Illustrated, octavo, pp x, 270, errata slip tipped in, a corner snipped from the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1932. Illustrated with five plates and five text figures, slim quarto, pp (49), 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.

Reno: University of Nevada, 1994. Reprint of the standard 1962 work, with updated nomenclature. Illustrated, pp 781, no dustwrapper, a very good copy. NEW.. Cloth. As New.

London: Penguin Books, 1943. 16 colour plates (from Donovan's work of 1802-1808), 12mo, pp 32, hinge slightly cracked before the plates section but still strong, pictorial boards a bit worn, spine lacking tiny portions at head and foot, lower margin of the upper cover shelf-worn, corners a bit worn. Postage will be reduced.. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fair.

Auckland: Auckland Institute and Museum, 1944. Fourth impression. 12mo, (measures 105mm x 132mm], illustrated with line drawings, pp 72, (4), slightly used internally, paperback, the covers slightly worn and creased. From the library of the botanist F.R. Irvine and originally gifted to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh with their small stamp inside the front cover. RARE. [Prepared for the wartime use of castaway airman and military. A guide to useful plants and useful and harmful sea creatures. This fourth printing has a four page supplement on coconuts, toddy, making foot protection and fish spears.]. Paperback. Good.

Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1995. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 192, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper with a slight tear at the head of its spine. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: Pan Books, 1985. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 144, top edge and fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise a very good hardback edition, in a slightly worn and marked dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and marked.