Search Results: Natural History from Neil Williams, Bookseller

Victoria : British Columbia Provincial Museum , 1962 . First Edition . VG in Wraps . 12MO . Handbook #19. With black and white drawings. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Very light wear. Postage will be reduced for this item.

Victoria : British Columbia Provincial Museum , 1962 . First Edition . VG in Wraps . 12MO . Handbook #19. With black and white drawings. Very light wear. Postage will be reduced for this item.

London : John Murray , 1918 . First Edition . Very Good . 8VO . Nicely illustrated with two page black and white period illustrations. Two page holograph letter by the author taped to the front endpaper. Ex-library from a marine research centre with several stamps, institutional bookplate on front pastedown and pocket on rear. Light wear.

London : John Van Voorst , 1871-1885 . Fourth Edition . Very Good . 8VO . With 564 wood engravings. A landmark in British ornithology. Revised and endlarged by Alfred Newton. In the prize bindings of Stonyhurst School in mottled calf with circular vignette of the school building on front cover, gilt lettering on both boards and spine, six spine compartments, inside dentelles. Marbled endpapers, AEG. Bound by Mudie. Prize bookplate in all volumes. Covers scuffed, worn but solid. Leather crackling on the spine. Volume 3 has been partially rebacked. A heavy set, special shipping considerations may apply.

Toronto : Doubleday Canada , 2000 . Trade Paperback . VG in Wraps . 8VO . Black and white illustrations. Light wear.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1963(1932) . Second Printing of the Fourth Edition . VG . 8VO . Illustrated with 523 figures. A standard work. Owner's name and address on FFEP, spine sunned.

London : British Museum , 1916 . First Edition . Near Fine in Wraps . Folio . British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report. Zoology Vol 1 No 4 pp 125-156. Five Figures in the Text and 10 large plates, each with multiple images. Very light wear, some toning to covers, owner's signature on front cover

New York : Oxford University Press , 1935(1950) . Second Edition . VG . 8VO . Large and comprehensive reference work illustrated in black and white.

London : Chapman and Hall , 1892 . Second Printing . VG . 8VO . Hudson's classic on his travels and the natural history of Argentina. Black and white illustrations by J Smit. This is the second printing of only 750 copies; the first was limited to 1000. Bound in dark green cloth with cover vignette and gilt titling on spine. Front hinge exposed but solid, fraying at upper front hinge, wear to corners.

Vancouver : Discovery Press , 1973 . First Edition . F/NF . 8VO . A study of plants, insects, birds, mammals and marine life as seen in Lighthouse Park near Vancouver. A very attractive book filled with lovely black and white illustrations.

London : Bloomsbury , 1990 . First Bloomsbury Printing . NF/NF . 8VO . Extensively ilustrated in black and white. Lightest of wear to book and unpriceclipped jacket.

London : Jonathan Cape , 1921 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . Illlustrated with black and white plates by Charles Livingston Bull and Warwick Reynolds. Light wear but the wilderness has intruded with a number of tiny perfect wormholes penetrating both boards and into the following pages. The original borers are long gone and the tiny tunnels add some character to the book. Otherwise very light wear and quite an attractiv copy.

Philadelphia : LIPPINCOTT , 1947 . First Edition . NF/G . 4TO . Bound in beige buckram with gold duck onlay. Extraordinary photographs of waterfowl in flight complented by black and white drawings and tissue-guarded colour frontis by Bishop. Book in lovely condition, the fragile jacket very worn with a number of chips and missing pieces.

Pacific Grove, CA : Woodstock Publications , 1980 . First Edition . F/VG . 8VO . Errata snd Addendum sheet laid in. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings, maps and colour plates. Jacket edgeworn along top edge with several chips and tears.

: Biodiveristy Centre for Wildlife Studies , . . . . A history to 1990 with appended data to 2019. Detailed accounts of nest sites on the coast of Vancouver Island. Extensively illustrated in black and white with colour photos and art at front and rear. Colour maps on verso of front and rear covers. Light wear, some rippling of covers.

Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1970 . First Edition . F/NF . 8VO . Ecosystem of a fictional gulf modeled on the Gulf of St Lawrence by one of our best nature writers. Very light wear to unpriceclipped jacket.

New York : Stein and Day , 1969 . First US Edition . Good . 8VO . Exlib with usual markings and pocket on pastedown but a tight copy in worn but unmarked jacket.

New York : Simon and Schuster , 1994 . Trade Paperback . Nf In Wraps . 8VO . Illustrated by Jared Thomas Williams. A marvellous book on cats.

Victoria : Royal British Columbia Museum , 1992 . First Edition . Near Fine in Stapled Wraps . 4TO . A complete catalogue of type specimens in the museum. Lightest of wear. Shipping will be reduced for this item.

New York : Lyons & Burford , 1991 . First Edition . F/NF . 8VO . Well illustrated in black and white and colour.