Books - "natural history"
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Plants of the Fiji Islands
Revised Edition
Revised edition, imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 462pp + xxix index, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, owner's name stamp to page edges, light soiling to eps)
PUBLISHER: The Government Printer, Suva / Government of Fiji 1972
KEYWORDS: JW Parham Fiji Islands plants flora botany natural history
Castle Hill
Octavo, green boards with orange cloth spine, frontispiece, vii + 58pp, illus, VG (slight staining to rear board, some tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG (browning to spine & less so to edges, light creasing to edges, bruising & chipping to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams Ltd 1951
KEYWORDS: EC Richards New Zealand Enys W Izard Mrs Brittan Canterbury Castle HillTrelissick local natural history Haast
Recent Brachiopods from New Zealand: Collected Offprints of a Suite of Eleven Papers Published in New Zealand Journal of Zoology Vol. 8 (1981) No. 2
Imperial octavo, green light card covers, printed eps, 115pp (numbered 133-248), illus, VG- (moderate soiling to covers, light crease to rear cover, owner's name stamp to front cover & f.e.p., light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Science Information Division DSIR 1981
KEYWORDS: Joyce Richardson New Zealand brachiopods marine biology zoology science ecology natural history
An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agricuture and Plants in New Zealand: The Scale-Insects (Coccididae)
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & motif to front board, patterned eps, 116pp + xxiii plates with descriptions on facing pages, VG- (mottled heavy fading to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, rubbing with slight loss of surface to board edges. some tanning to eps & page edges, owner's bookplate to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Geo. Didsbury, Government Printer 1887
KEYWORDS: WM Maske New Zealand agriculture scale insects coccididae entomology ecology pests natural history
A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda, Based on the Collections in the British Museum (Natural History: Part I, Octopodinae and Part II, The Octopoda
2 volume set, imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, blind rule to boards, xi + 236 + 7 plates (vol I), xi + 359pp + 6 plates (vol II), illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, slight fading to spines, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The British Museum 1929
KEYWORDS: GC Robson cephalopoda octopdinae octopoda octopus marine biology zoology natural history science
Diatomees des Alpes et du Jura et de la Region Suisse et Francaise des Environs de Geneve and Vegetations Pelagiques et Microscopiques du Lac de Geneve (Au Printemps de 1884)
TEXT IN FRENCH, octavo, quarter- bound patterned red boards with gilt lettering & bands to black leather spine, marbled eps, 146pp + 9 plates + 17pp, illus, VG- (moderate-heavy rubbing to boards & spine, light bruising to board corners, bookseller's sticker to upper front pastedown, rear gutter cracked, gutters towards rear cracked, some foxing to prelims, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: H. Georg / Georges Massonn 1880
KEYWORDS: J Jacques Brun TEXT IN FRENCH diatomees diatoms jura marine biology science pelagiques natural history
Die Osterreichischen Diatomaceen Nebst Anschluss Einiger Neuen Arten Von Andern Lokalitaten und Einer Kritischen Uebersicht der Bisher Bekannten Gallungen und Arten
TEXT IN GERMAN, octavo, half-bound marbled boards with gilt lettering to brown leather spine, blue eps, 158pp + plates at rear, VG (moderate rubbing to boards & spine, light soiling to boards, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: 1862
KEYWORDS: A Grunow TEXT IN GERMAN diatomaceen diatoms marine biology science natural history
Botany of the Manawtu District New Zealand
Octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: E.C. Keating Government 1978
KEYWORDS: specials A.E. Elser botany New Zealand natural history
A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus 1758-1840
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Alan J. Kohn taxonomy natural history conus
Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America: An Illustrated Key
Quarto hardcover (VG+) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Myra Keen Eugene Coan natural history marine life molluscs North America
Marine Molluscs of Victoria
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Hope J Macpherson & C.J. Gabriel marine molluscs natural history
Exotic Conchology, or Drawings and Descriptions of Rare, Beautiful or Undescribed Shells
Drawn on Stone from the Most Select Specimens; the Descriptions Systematically Arranged on the Principles of the Natural System
1968 facsimile reprint, large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, a.e.g., marbled eps, xxiv + 48pp + 48 plates, illus, VG (some soiling & rubbing to boards, light foxing, some soiling to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: D. Van Nostrand Company / Delaware Museum of Natural History 1968
KEYWORDS: William Swainsom Sylvanus Hanley conchology shells shell collecting marine biology science zoology natural history
The Cambridge Natural History: Crustacea and Arachnids
Ex library, Imperial octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1909
KEYWORDS: specials F. Harmer A. E. Shipley science natural history zoology
Mollusca of the Southern Islands of New Zealand
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Department of Scientific and Industrial Reseach 1955
KEYWORDS: specials A. W. B. Powell New Zealand natural history mollusca science biology
Cephalopods of the Philippine Islands
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution 1963
KEYWORDS: specials Gilbert L. Voss cephalopods natural history Philippine Islands sea animals science biology
Orchid Hunting in Otago, New Zealand
Octavo softcover (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie 1937
KEYWORDS: specials H. K. Dalrymple orchid flowers natural history refernce Otago New Zealand
Indexes to the Nautilus: Geographical (Vols. 1-90) and Scientific Names (Vols. 61-90)
Quarto hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: American Malacologists 1979
KEYWORDS: specials R. Tucker Abbott geography earth science natural history index reference
A Monograph of the Fresh-water Polyzoa, including All the Known Species, Both British and Foreign
Folio, half--bound, dark green heavy boards with dark green leather spine & corners, gilt lettering & 5 raised bands to spine, marbled eps, a.e.g., viii + 121pp + 11 plates with descriptions on facing pages, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to board corners & edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing to plates, some puckering to f.e.p.)
PUBLISHER: The Ray Society 1856
KEYWORDS: George James Allman freshwater fresh-water polyzoa marine biology science zoology natural history
A History of Silence: A Memoir
Signed, First edition, Super octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Text 2013
KEYWORDS: specials Lloyd Jones memoir Christchurch earthquake natural disaster New Zealand history
Wild South's Living Treasures of New Zealand
Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Rod Morris Peter Hayden New Zealand natural history fauna flora plants animals