London: Profile Books, 2013. Octavo, boards, BRAND NEW. This is an extraordinary investigation into the world of trees - and the inspiring story of one man's quest to help save the world's oldest and greatest specimens. When the oldest trees in the world suddenly start dying - across North America..... More
Newcastle: Author, 1887. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth with paper label, some light shelf wear otherwise a very good copy. More
Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. About half of all species under threat of extinction in the world today are plants. The loss of plant biodiversity is disturbing for many reasons, but especially because it is a reflection of the growing disconnect..... More
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New York: Martino Fine Books & Publishing, (1994. reprint). Octavo, Standard bibliography of ornithological books and periodicals published in French or Latin, covering France and French colonies. More
Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1948. Octavo, binder's cloth, contents fine and crisp. Standard bibliography of ornithological books and periodicals published in French or Latin, covering France and French colonies. More
Paris: Éditions du Muséum, 1957. Octavo, illustration, publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy. Mémoires du Muséum National d’histoire naturelle. nouvelle série. Série A. Zoologie. Tome 15, fascicule one. More
Birmingham: Wilderness Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback. In a unique treatment that will appeal to world-wide fans of John Muir, Ann Rowthorn weaves the story of the great naturalist's life through an extraordinary new assemblage of his most evocative writings, representative of Muir the boy, Muir the young man, and Muir..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1990. Octavo, paperback, Very comprehensive bibliographical reference to international, national and local literature on plant conservaton - over 10,000 references. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1999. second edition). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. "No other account of the Darwinian Revolution provides so detailed and sympathetic an account of the framework within which the scientific debates took place." Peter J. Bowler, Canadian Journal of History. Also available in hardcover [stock id 27289]... More
Kansas City: Author, 1977. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
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Staten Island: Martino Fine Books & Publishing, 1996. Octavo, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $75. The world is facing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Unless there are radical changes in human behaviour, we can expect significant and alarming species loss in the near future. DNA and tissue banks have great potential as tools..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. Using the sometimes vicious academic debates and the powerful personalities of scientists as background, Schilthuizen explores the meandering path of species research and sets it out in the clearest possible terms. From looking at how we define a species, to exploring..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white illustrations. The first half of the nineteenth century saw new scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while new concepts of the natural world and its processes - concepts of evolution and the vastness of geological time - began..... More
London: Pitman Publishing, (1935. first edition). Octavo, More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1949. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. David Seth-smith was curator of birds at London Zoo at the turn of the twentieth century. He was also the foundation editor of the Avicultural Society Journal. He visited Australia twice and befriend, among others, A. J. Campbell. More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1937. first edition). Octavo, photographs, text illustations, bookplate, fine copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, corner of endpaper removed, chipped dustwrapper. More
East Grinstead: RD & AS Shepherd, (2005. reprint). Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. A stunning collection of the best of David's wildlife art. More
London: Hutchinson, 1976. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
London: H F & G Witherby, (1990. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slightly sunned dustwrapper. First published 1953 in folio and one of the best bird book bibliographies. This smaller format second edition has an additional appendix by Handasyde Buchanan on printing techniques and is a lot..... More
New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2016. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University has for 150 years acquired, studied, protected, and displayed its ever-expanding collections. Among the museum's 13,000,000 items are iconic fossils, striking ethnographic pieces, historical flora..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs and illustrations. A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings. Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship..... More
Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij N.V., 1971. Octavo, black and white illustrations, occasional pencil annotations, very good copy dustwrapper. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More