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By: Budgen, L.M. (Acheta Domestica)
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Reeve, Benham and Reeve: 1849
Seller ID: 002931
Condition: Fair
NB: Page xvii of the contents and page 1-2 of the text missing. Navy blue cloth covers with ornate gilt decoration to front and rear covers depicting a cricket (acheta domestica) telling stories to listening insects. All edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Condition: Fair, spine has been rebacked (not recently), and has remains of a handwritten paper label with titles. Covers are generally faded and shelfworn. Binding cracked internally at the section where the preface begins, otherwise binding sound. No inscriptions. Occasional light foxing and soiling to text. 320pp. plus publishers list. Han... View more info
By: Chapman, Abel
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson: 1930
Seller ID: 003157
Condition: Good
Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding sound. Text clean apart from small note to text on p.xii of the memoir by George Bolam at the beginning of the book. 257pp. Many illustrations in the text by the author, and coloured and half-tone plates by W.H.Riddell. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: D'Arcy, Gordon
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Immel Publishing Ltd.: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003638
ISBN: 0907151647
Condition: As New
Green hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: As new, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 168pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. This book is aimed primarily at the layperson, with a straightforward format and many illustrations to inform the reader of the Burren's natural wonders, their significance and when and what time to go looking. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View more info
By: Furneaux, W.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1897
Seller ID: 004764
Condition: Good
New edition. Dark red cloth with image in gilt of a butterfly on front cover and title in gilt on spine. Black endpapers. All edges gilt. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers and slightly more rubbing to spine. Light bumping to head and tail of spine and cover corners. Inscription to previous owner on blank page preceding half-title. Light foxing to endpapers and occasionally within book. 358pp. 12 coloured plates, all present, some missing tissue guards. Many b/w illustrations within text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: Gilbert, H.A.
Price: £65.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1953
Seller ID: 006444
Condition: Very Good
Revised edition (first published 1928). Turquoise cloth with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Preivous owners name on front endpaper and half-title. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, slightly more so around spine, and small chip missing to head of spine.Some light general soiling to rear of jacket. Not price-clipped. 224pp. 12 b/w illustrations (inc.frontispiece). The author tells the story of the river Wye from its earliest recorded times to the date of pulication. It is a story of strife, of clinflicts beween fishermen and ... View more info
By: Grant, Lavinia
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Silent Books: 1995
Seller ID: 006188
ISBN: 1851830820
Condition: Good
Dark brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Light foxing to half-title, title page and rear endpapers. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear. 140pp. Many colour illustrations by the author. Loosely inserted is a letter from the author to Elspeth Huxley, the African travel writer, whose collection this book came from. This book is about natural history on a Kenya ranch. Recorded with illustrations by the author, it depicts life in many forms fro the smallest insects to elephants and a wealth of plants. View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1890
Seller ID: 001850
Condition: Fair
Maroon cloth with titles in gilt on spine and the initials C K in a gilt motif on front cover. Condition: Fair to good, spine is sunned, covers are shelfworn, head and tail of spine, and cover corners are bumped. Binding sound. Endpapers browned. Previous owners name in ink on fep, together with a pasted in obituary of Kingsleys' wife. Text is clean. 245pp. Twelve colour plates (inc.frontispiece) and three wood engravings within text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: Kinloch, Bruce
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Southampton, Ashford Press Publishing: 1988
Seller ID: 006151
ISBN: 1852530359
Condition: Very Good
Revised edition (first published by Collins and Harvill Press 1972). Red hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condiiton: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers and light bumping to lower right corner of front cover. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 405pp. Several b/w illustrations. vividly and humorously written, this book on African wildlife, particularly in relation to African elephants, reveals the struggle to preserve East Africa's wildlife, with the unceasing war against poachers. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Malmesbury, Wiltshire, Duncan Mackintosh: 1977
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006161
Condition: Good
Privately published. Dark green hardcover with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Good, with light foxing to endpapers and textblock edges. Inscribed on the front endpaper to the previous owner, the African travel writer Elspeth Huxley. 114pp. Folding map of Egypt to rear (lightly foxed) 7 colour photographic illustrations. This book is an abridged edition of the authors diaries and field records, kept over some thirteen years from 1933. What he found significant was that the resident and visiting birds recorded up to 5000 years ago in the mural paintings and tombs oaf ancient ... View more info
By: Mansell-Pleydell, John Clavell
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Dorchester, Dorset, "Dorset County Chronicle" Printing Works: 1898
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006460
Condition: Very Good
Brown cloth with title in gilt on spine and image of a snail in gilt on front cover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear and scuffing to covers and light bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding sound. Signed, inscribed and dated 1899 by the author to the previous owner on the reverse of the front endpaper. Folding map opposite title page (map has a 3.5 inch horizontal tear to base). Light foxing to rear endpapers. 110pp. plus an errata page. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, The Roxburghe Press: 0
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003634
Condition: Good
Undated, but c.1897 (written in pencil on title page). Green buckram with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Pages untrimmed. Condition: Good, with some bumping to cover corners and head and tail of spine. Cloth of front cover has some light foxing. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, apart from an occasional S written in pencil to some margins. 274pp. Four plates plus a fold-out summary of Editions. The chapters include Gilbert White, the Naturalist, his books, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, bibliographies... View more info
By: Moore, Thomas
Price: £28.00
Publisher: London, Reeve and Co.: 1867
Seller ID: 002808
Condition: Good
Green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and bouquet of wild flowers in gilt on front cover. Yellow endpapers. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Rear cover has a small dent to top. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Some pages uncut. 424pp. plus publishers list. 24 coloured plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, George G Harrap & Co.: 1937
Seller ID: 002226
Condition: Good
Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on spine within maroon background. Condition: Good, binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on fep. Very occasional pencil notes within text. Very light browning to text throughout. 384pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Pycraft, W.P.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, SPCK: 1920
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 002421
Condition: Good
Part of the Nature-Lover's Series. Sea green cloth with titles and decoration in yellow and orange on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Endpapers browned. Inscription on fep from the author to the previous owner. Binding sound, text clean. 156pp. Coloured frontispiece, numerous other illustrations and two maps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: St.John, Charles
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas: 1863
Seller ID: 001531
Condition: Fair
Pebble-grain brown cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers and spine are quite worn and bumped around edges. Faint watersplash mark to front cover next to spine. Gilt on spine titles is dulled. Dark brown endpapers. Binding is cracked internally in a couple of places, otherwise sound. Top eighth of the front endpaper has been cut out, presumably to remove a name. Page edges very lightly browned. 336pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: £28.00
Publisher: London, Longmans Green and Co.: 1874
Seller ID: 004465
Condition: Good
Full leather school prize binding (Cheltenham College) with "quilt" effect ruling to leather on front and rear covers, five raised bands to spine with gilt tolling within the compartments and title in gilt within black label within one of the compartments. Marbled textblock edges and endpapers. Crest of Cheltenham College in gilt on front cover. Condition: Good, with lights shelfwear and rubbing to covers. Prize bookplate dated 1880 to front pastedown, and another previous owners name in ink on blank page before half-title. Some foxing to inner endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. 342... View more info
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