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Close To Shore
by Michael Capuzzo
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times and a National Magazine Award finalist, Michael Capuzzo has been a feature writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Miami Herald. His stories have also appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Life, and Reader's Digest. He lives with his wife and two children in rural New Jersey.
The Search For the Giant Squid
by Richard Ellis
The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threatening undersea presence, Architeuthis has remained a mystery. Until now. In this marvelous and beautifully illustrated book, marine biologist, explorer, and artist Richard Ellis presents all that is known about the giant squid. Delving into myth, literature, popular culture, and science, he brings readers face...
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Peterson Field Guide To Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition
by Lawrence M ; Burr, Brooks M Page
There are nearly 1,000 species of freshwater fishes in North America alone, and identifying them can sometimes be a daunting task. In fact, in just the twenty years since publication of the first edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, the number of species has risen by almost 150, including 19 marine invaders and 16 newly established nonnative species. This second edition incorporates all of these new species, plus all-new maps and a collection of new and revised plates. Some of the...
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Marine Algae Of the Eastern Tropical and Subtropical Coasts Of the Americas
by William Randolph Taylor
Marine Life Books & Ephemera
Close to Shore : The Terrifying Shark Attacks Of 1916
by Michael Capuzzo
Crown/Archetype, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.28
A Place on the Water - An Angler's Reflections on Home
by Dennis, Jerry
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Glenn Wolff. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the half-title page, "To Paul Solli, Best wishes to a fellow angler - Jerry Dennis, Glenn Wolff." Tan hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. A very good book in a good+ jacket. Minor lift to the textblock, corners straight and binding and hinges are solid. Clean and unmarked, tight as if unread. Unclipped jacket is not quite as good with creasing and chipping along...
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A$34.86
DISCOVERY REPORTS: Vol VI. pp165-190, plates VII-XLII, On the distribution and movements of whales on the South Georgia and South Shetland whaling grounds
by Kemp, Stanley & Bennett, A.G
Cambridge University Press, UK, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Original Report: pages 65-190, plates VII-XLII, BGLE on front cover. Original wrappers, from Colin Bertrams Collection. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Whales; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 706. .
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A$34.89
A Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, with a view chiefly to objects of Natural History, but including also occasional remarks on the state of the inhabitants, their husbandry, and fisheries.
by Patrick Neill
Edinburgh, London: A Constable and Company, and John Murray, 1806 A very good copy of Patrick Neill's description of his tour in Orkney and Shetland in probably contemporary half leather binding. Patrick Neill (1776-1851) was a printer who became particularly known for his 'interests' in botany and horticulture. He was a founding Member and first Secretary of the Wernerian Natural History Society. He visited Orkney and Shetland in 1804/5 and his account was initially published in parts through The Scots...
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A$465.17
OF WHALES AND MEN
by Robertson, R.B
Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 1st Edition: xi, 255pages, illustrated, b/w photographs, map end papers. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in illustrated dustjacket. Fascinating account by a doctor of his whaling expedition experiences in the 1950's around South Georgia and the Antarctic waters. Shelfware, dustjacket has tears and is grubby, covers clean, end papers discoloured due to dustjacket as usual, contents clean. This is the first UK...
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A$29.07
FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC: An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee expedition of 1892-1893 by W.G. Murdoch with a chapter by W.S. Bruce naturalist of the Barque 'Balaena'
by Murdoch, William Gordon Burn
Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1894. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; ix, 364 pages, 2 maps (1 folding, 1 full-page, 1 in text). 120 illustrations (8 full-page), 32 pages publisher's advertisements. Original decorative cloth covers with silver titling. Shelfware, spine softening, covers bumped and corners beginning to fray but overall still good. Some foxing throughout, more so to prelims. A nice copy. "This was an important whaling expedition to the Weddell...
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A$969.10
An artist's catch : watercolors
by Stick, Frank; Stick, David
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press (©1981), 1981. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in publisher's slip-case in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 256 pages; Description: xxxvi, 256 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 21 x 23 cm. Subject: Stick, Frank. Fishes in art. Art.
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A$46.48
Warmwater Game Fishes of California
by California Dept. of Fish and Game
California Dept. of Fish and Game. Very Good-. 1981. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Fourth printing (revised). Very good staplebound paperback with tight binding and clean pages. Minor shelf wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. Some discoloration/yellowing to edges of covers. ; 6.60 x 5 x 0.15 inches .
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A$6.97
Red Sea Invertebrates
by Vine, Peter
London: Immel Publishing, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Stark, Jane. 224 pages including an Index, Reference lists, Glossary. Illustrated throughout with color photographs and black & white drawings. Several color illustrations. small chip on back panel of jacket at upprt spine corner. Light general wear.
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A$46.48
Notes on a collection of cold-blooded vertebrates from the Olympic Mountains
by Meek, Seth E
Meek, Seth E. 1899. Notes on a collection of cold-blooded vertebrates from the Olympic Mountains. Field Columbian Museum. 1 (12): 225-236. Salmo bathoecetor sp. nov., Salmo clarki jordani subsp. nov., Salmo clarki declivifrons subsp. nov., Thamnophis leptocephala olympia subsp. nov., Thamnophis rubristriata sp. nov.
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A$4.65
Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida Volume Ii. Fishes
by Gilbert, C. R. (ed.)
Gainesville: Univerisity of Florida Press, 1992. New.
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A$15.49
Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada
by G,V.Wilbey
Ottawa: Fisheries Research board of Canada, Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canadaby WAClements and GVWilbey Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa 1967 443 pages most species pictured Very good reference book in good condition for its age 1967. 1967.
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A$9.69
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry A Grown Man's Game
by Newell, Diane (Editor)
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773507175 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, DJ is sun-faded on spine.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.1 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 336 pages; "(Henry) Doyle (1874-1961) was founder and first general manager of a major consolidation of packing companies, British Columbia Packers Association (established in 1902), which became British Columbia...
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A$30.99
Whale Song. Journeys into the Secret Lives of the North Atlantic Humpbacks
by Stevenson, Andrew
London: Constable. 2011. Square Quarto Size [approx 27x23cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 165 pages. Published in collaboration with the Humpback Whale Reseaerch Project, Bermuda. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$15.00
The World of the Arctic Whales Belugas, Bowheads, and Narwhals
by Paine, Stefani
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. 1995. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ has tiny graze to top of spine. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 116 pages. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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A$25.00
THE ANTARCTIC TODAY: A MID-CENTURY SURVEY BY THE NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY
by Simpson, F.A (Editor)
A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 389pp, frontispiece, 45 plates, numerous illustrations in text, large coloured folding map in pocket. Ex libris with embossed library stamp on front cover, library stamps on end paper, title page and verso title page. Red Cloth covers with gilt vignette of New Zealand Antarctic Society on front cover, Gilt titling to spine, spine splitting and covers faded, no dustjacket. The first major New Zealand...
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A$58.15
THE ARCTIC WHALERS
by Lubbock, Basil
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, Glasgow, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 1st Edition; xi, 483pages; frontispiece, 85 illustrations, mostly reproductions of old paintings & prints.(1 folding plan), end paper maps. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine, in unclipped dust jacket. The amazing life of the whale hunters amid the hardships and dangers of the Northern Sea. The book has been written after examining the most famous and exclusive collection of whaling logs and...
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A$106.60
A review of the family Centropomidae (Pisces, Perciformes).
by Greenwood, P. H:
London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1976. . 1st edn. Cr. 4to pp. 1-81. Printed paper wrappers, 37 text figs (inc. 1 map), 2 tables. Fine. (The Centropomidae, a family of tropical estuarine, marine and freshwater percoid fishes, from the New World, Africa and Asia are reviewed. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool), Vol. 29, No. 1). . Catalogs: Fishes, previously owned.
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A$26.17
ICE FLOES AND FLAMING WATER: A TRUE ADVENTURE IN MELVILLE BAY
by Freuchen, Peter (Translated from the Danish by Johan Hambro)
Victor Gollancz Ltd., Travel Book Club, London, 1956. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Travel Bookclub Edition; 251pages, photographic frontispiece. Cream cloth covers with black titling to spine in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, corners bumped, old Sellotape repairs to rear dust jacket. Contents clean. The true story of the rescue of 5 survivors from a whaling boat in Melville Bay in the Arctic. 1st Travel Book Club Edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram....
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A$67.84
Rainbowfishes: Keeping & Breeding Them in Captivity
by Lambert, Derek
New Jersey: TFH Publications, A fully detailed tome on Rainbowfishes. Well illustrated and photographed . Paperback.
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A$13.37
THE ANTARCTIC ON BOARD S.V. "JOHN BISCOE" 1952/53
by Allan, John Robert
Author, Falkland Islands, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 118 pages, illustrated with b/w plates. True story based on experiences of the author who initially went to the Falklands Islands for two seasons sealing in the 1950s but was then persuaded to stay and serve on the Antarctic Survey Vessel "John Biscoe". This vessel was to supply personnel and supplies to the Falkland Islands Dependencies in Antarctica. The author also brings together...
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A$106.60
Records of the South Australian Museum Volume IV No 3, June 30th, 1931
by Hale, Herbert H. [Edited by]
Adelaide: South Australia Museum. 1931. Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and Diagrams. Original contents in facsimile covers. 133 pages. Contains articles on Beaked Whales from South Australia, the Goose-beaked Whale in New Ireland, the Pigmy Right Whale in South Australian Waters, the Australian Xanthid Crab, Pelecypoda from the "Flindersian" Region, South Australia, Staphylinidae in the South Australian Museum and Australian Coleoptera....
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A$20.00
