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Leicester: Windward, (1980. reprint). Octavo, illustrations, owner's signature, very good in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the animals..... More
London: The Fine Art Society, 1881. Quarto, 32 illustrations from original wood blocks. Publisher's leather-grained cloth, all edges coloured, a few spots throughout, otherwise a very good copy. More
Cape Town: South African Natural History Publication Company, 1976. Folio, tipped in colour frontispiece, 56 colour plates. Publisher's full blue morocco, limited to 300 numbered copies, a fine copy. More
New York: Griffin Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of..... More
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1972. Octavo, More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Octavo, colour plates, illustrations , fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1954. reprint). Octavo, colour frontispiece, illustrations, endpaper maps, bookplate, signature, lacks dustwrapper. More
San Francisco: W H Freeman, 1976. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1984. first edition). Quarto, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards, spine sunned. More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1985. reprint). Octavo, text illustrations, maps, laminated boards, More
Paris: Orstom, 1977. Octavo, photographs, softcover. Faune de Madagascar, 45. More
Gland: IUCN, 2003. Quarto, paperback, tables, maps. The African elephant is the largest living land mammal, and their potential impact on their habitats raises important management issues both for protected areas and unprotected land. This report is rich in data and information on numbers, distribution and current issues, and provides..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper. Pigeons are athletes of the highest caliber. While racehorses receive all the glory with their 35 mph sprints around a one-mile racetrack, homing pigeons--a mere pound of flesh and feathers--routinely fly more than five hundred miles in a single day at speeds exceeding..... More
Arbroath: Carlisle Natural History Society, 1943. Octavo, photographs, bookplate. More
Arbroath: Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society, 1946. Octavo, photographs, folded maps in pocket at back, signature, bookplate. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Small octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. In this entertaining and illuminating book, the biopsychologist Mark Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals (including humans). More
London: George Rainbird, 1957. Folio, eight plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Poole: Blandford Press, 1982. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Quarto, illustrations, softcover. A richly illustrated archeological and economic history of the whaling industry. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 2006. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations. Waterbirds are one the world's most attractive group of birds and among the most threatened. These include albatrosses, flamingos, swans, geese, ducks, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and auks... They share a dependency on the world's wetlands-seas, coasts, estuaries, lagoons, lochs, rivers, marshlands..... More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1940. Large quarto, Publisher's wrappers, partly unopened, a fine copy. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 77, article one. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1940. Quarto, photographs, softcover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 83, article six. More
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume explores hominoid evolution in Eurasia during the Miocene. What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? Whilst our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more..... More