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Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Resoureces Committee, 1995. Advance proof. very good. 1st Paperback Edition. 176pp. Square quarto. Illustrated with coloured photos, maps. Original pictorial wrappers with gold lettering. very good 1995

London: Printed by the Order of the Trustees [Of the British Museum], 1862. Undetermined. 1st Edition. iv,296 + 7 page bibliographypp. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth with blindstamped decoration to boards and spines. Gilt titles to spines, quite faded. Boards and corners rubbed, cloth perished to very tip of head and tail of spine. Front hinge starting with first gathering loose. Clean internally with almost no foxing. A list of the skeletons, skulls and other bones of mammals contained in the collection of the British Museum. Also contains a useful bibliography of zoological books held by the British Library. 1862

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1955. Hardcover. good to very good. 1st Edition. x,807pp. Small Quarto with plate and illustrations in text from photos and drawings. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown. good to very good Contents: Classifications of the Algae; Mycology; Bryology; Pteridology; Systematics of the Gymnosperms; Systematics of the Angiosperms; Systematic Entomolgy; Herpetology; Ornithology; Mammalogy in N.A.; Invertebrate Paleontology and Historical geology from 1850-1950; Plant and Animal Geography; and the Conservation of Wildlife. 1955

London: Trubner & Co., [1884]. (viii), 64pp. Octavo (140 x 220mm). Publisher's green cloth with gold gilt lettering stamped to the front board. Brown coated endpapers. Fine Woodburytype portrait of Darwin by Captain [Leonard] Darwin with facsimile signature below, 4 plates, facsimile autograph letter on 2 sides, 2 text woodcuts. Occasional foxing. Ex-libris of Darwin bibliographer, Richard Freeman. A near fine copy of this scarce book. Apparently, the photographic image used here is not listed in Freeman's Charles Darwin: A Companion. 1884

London: British Museum Natural History, 1951. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 810pp. Small Quarto in original green cloth with frontispiece folding map of the Palearctic and Indian regions and photocopy list of amendments and names overlooked in the first printing laid in. very good A revision based on the collections of the British Museum in attempt to remedy the lack of balance in the field of systematical mammalogy. 1951

Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. Hardcover. very good. 4th Edition. 7p.l.,673pp. Quarto in original gilt lettered green cloth with 4 colour plates (both sides) and B&W illustrations in text from photos and drawings (diagrams). Signed on front free end paper. Dust jacket with closed tear on front. very good A comprehensive look at the work of Dr. Goodall with the chimpanzees of Gombe. Warmly inscribed by the author. 1986

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1927. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xvii,72pp. Octavo in original tan cloth with 18 colour plates from illustrations by Miss Ivy Abercrombie and 19 b&w plates from drawings and photos (including frontispiece). Inscribed and signed by the illustrator and Baroness Steenwyk on front free endpaper. very good 1927

Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Limited, 1952. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xix, 215pp. Octavo. Photographically-illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Shelfwear and bumping to corners and edges of boards. Chipping and creases to edges of jacket with small piece missing to upper right corner. Name crossed out in pen on ffep, else internally tight and clean. very good A fascinating guide to the conservation issues in Canada in the middle of the 20th century. Heavily illustrated with numerous photographs, maps and diagrams. 1952

London: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series., 1960. Undetermined. fine. 1st Edition. [2], 25-73; [2], 77-117; [2] 121-150; [2] 153-183; [2] 187- 200; [2] 131-176pp. Six seperate parts. Quarto. Light green wrappers. Staple bound. Black lettering on front cover. Generally in excellent condition with only a little rust to a couple of the staples and slight fading to spines of a couple. Text block of each part is clean and bright. Illustrations in first part. A nice set in wonderful condition. fine Freeman 1574. Part I: Vol. 2, No. 2 - First Notebook (July 1837-February 1838), 1960; Part II: Vol. 2, No. 3. - Second Notebook (Feb. To July 1838), 1960; Part III: Vol. 2, No. 4 - Third Notebook (July 15th 1838 - Oct. 2nd 1838), 1960; Part IV: Vol. 2, No. 5 - Fourth Notebook (Oct. 1838-10 July 1839), 1960; Vol. 2, No. 6 - Addenda and Corrigenda, 1961 edited with notes by de Beer and Rowlands; Part VI: Vol. 3, No. 5 - Pages Excised by Darwin, 1967 edited by de Beer, Rowlands… Read More

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930. Hardcover. fine. 1st edition. 192pp. Octavo in original black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt dinosaur decoration on front cover. 12 listed plates (incl. Frontis) as well as 8 listed sketches. Very clean & tight copy. Small ex-libris plate inside front cover (2.5 inches by.5 inches) fine John Parkinson covering the Tendaguru reptile beds. 1930

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 192pp. Octavo in original black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt dinosaur decoration on front cover. 12 listed plates (incl. Frontis) as well as 8 listed sketches. Boards slightly bowed. Minor foxing throughout text; all plates present. very good John Parkinson's account of the Tendaguru reptile beds. Fascinating black and white photographs of the region, as well as some imaginative illustrations, found throughout. 1930

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1911. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xvi, 497pp. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding a touch shaken. Light shelfwear and bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Front and bottom edge uncut. Endpapers age-toned, else internally clean. With ownership signature of W.H. Thorpe to ffep. very good William Homan Thorpe's copy of this treatise on the distribution of animals. Prior to the understanding of plate tectonics in the 1960s, zoologists were largely at a loss to explain the global distribution of animals. This book attempts to explain distributions across continents with ancient land bridges connecting the continents. W.H. Thorpe was an influential British zoologist at the University of Cambridge who helped to advance behavioural biology and ecology. 1911

London: John Murray, 1876. Hardcover. 1st Edition. viii,482pp. Octavo. Original green blind stamped cloth. Gilt title on spine. Top edge untrimmed. Coated brown endpapers. Armorial bookplate on front paste down. Errata slip. Tables in text. A touch of very light wear otherwise a very attractive bright copy. Freeman 1249. A survey of the nature of the mechanisms favouring cross fertilisation and the advantages to be gained by it. 1876

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xiii,410pp. Octavo in original brown cloth and dust jacket with plates (both sides) from photos and illustrations in text from drawings, etc. very good 1979

Syracuse: Moser, Truax & de Golia, 1889. Hardcover. 302pp. Octavo. Illustrated with drawings and portrait engraving. Original green cloth with black lettering on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Wear to ends of spine. Covers rubbed and mottled. 1889

London: Royal Society, 1982. Undetermined. very good. 1st thus. 338pp. Quarto, in khaki cloth over boards, with unclipped green pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated. Five pages dog-eared at bottom. Dust jacket scuffed, mildly edgeworn, not price-clipped. Very good condition. Recounts advances in the field by a group of international authorities. 1982

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xv,209,(7 ads) pp.pp. Small octavo. Original green straight grained cloth. Gilt title on spine. Black decoration on front board. Spine just slightly darkened. End papers a bit browned. Frontis illustration. Illustration on title page. 40 figures either full page or intext. A very clean attractive copy. very good Scarce. Seems to be one of the earliest books on ferrets and well illustrated and quite detailed. 1897

Kentfield, California: Newton K. Gregg / Publisher, 1971. Hardcover. very good. Facsimile Reprint of 1866 Edition ltd to 350 copies. 32pp. (new introduction) + xiv,153pp. Small Folio in original cloth with 21 plates, including 6 hand coloured. very good 1971

Edinburgh: University Press of Edinburgh, 1967. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. 581pp. Octavo. Original blue cloth, green endpapers. Previous owner's name written inside of covers, striked-out with black ink. Illustrated with 68 listed maps and 16 listed figures. Minor wear to boards. Small holes to front of jacket. Tape repair to top spine of jacket. Scarce. very good "The Flora covers Turkey and the adjacent east Aegean islands. The Turkish flora has hitherto only been covered by Boissier's Flora Orientalis (1867-1888), and since then a great deal of material and information has accumulated. The work is therefore the first Flora devoted to Turkey, and includes much basic taxonomic revision that will affect the classification of genera in Europe, western Asia and north Africa." from jacket. 1967

Ottawa: Caanda Dept of Agriculture. Research Barnch, 1968. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xiii,659,[1];ix,148pp. Two volumes Octavo. Colour and black and white illustrations from photos, line drawings, etc. Original orange cloth. very good A survey of the flaura of the Queen Charlotte Islands, on the west coast of British Columbia, and home of the Haida nation. 1968