London: The Avicultural Society, 1894-1921. Octavo, Publisher’s cloth, gilt-decorated in the two later series, the final three volumes in binder’s cloth, most volumes retaining the printed wrappers. The Avicultural magazine was the first journal devoted to cage-birds and, along with Bird notes which it absorbed in 1926, is the finest..... More
London: Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1905. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed boards. More
London: The Clayton Dyestuffs Company. Octavo, twenty six colour plates, bookplate, publisher's cloth. "The following illustrations were included in a series of trade journal advertisements, and are produced here in response to many requests" More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2010. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 112. Natural history, perhaps more than any other pursuit or study, has always relied very heavily on books to help it develop and gain momentum. Without a way of defining and categorizing the many thousands of species..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. New Naturalist 118. A complete natural history and the first large-scale survey of this unique part of the country. The borderland between England and Wales has long been a region of contention. Its distinctive geography, wedged roughly between Welsh mountains..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1993. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Pelagic Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark's early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow. In this book, Mark mixes a great many stories from his..... More
Sydney: The Book Guild, 1992. Octavo, photographs, fine birds dustwrapper. More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1923. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's boards. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2016. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. A naturalist's equivalent to the Dangerous Book for Boys, this book includes tips on everything from beachcombing, snorkelling and building your own hedgehog hotel, to tree climbing, natural foods and how to make traps for insects and mammals. This hands-on..... More
Melbourne: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of mushroom and toadstool most commonly found in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, habitats, mushroom structure and nomenclature. There is useful..... More
Melbourne: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, the anatomy of a mushroom, nomenclature and useful information on hunting for and cooking with mushrooms. The identification section then divides into three categories: edible mushrooms, inedible (but not poisonous) mushrooms, and poisonous..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1981. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's quarter cloth. More
London: Gordon Fraser, 1981. Octavo, uncoloured plates. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, a fine set. More
London: Ray Society, 1958. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
New Jersey: Princeton University Press/WILDGuides, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain, focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible and designed to appeal to a wide audience, the book contains more than 500..... More
London: Imperial College Press, 2000. Octavo, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. A magnificent contribution to ornithological history in the United Kingdom. Includes all known books, pamphlets and papers which contain substantial studies of the birds of local areas. Each county has an introduction on its boundaries and the history of..... More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Quarto, 26 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Quarto, colour plates and text illustrations by D. M. Reid Henry. Bookplate in each volume, very good set in lightly worn dustwrappers. Volume four is titled History of the birds of Cape Verde Islands. Freight will be extra. More
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London: Oliver and Boyd, 1953-1963. Quarto, colour plates by George E. Lodge, fine set in dustwrappers. Freight will be extra. David Armitage Bannerman (1886-1979) was a British ornithologist, curator of birds at the British Museum of Natural history, and a prolific writer of multi volume ornithological tomes... More
London: J. Sewell, 1781. Quarto, 22 (three folding) handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled boards, new endpapers, all edges coloured, a very good copy Text in English and French, this copy with the French title page only. More
London: Granta, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland. A few survive for months..... More