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John Mitchell
£30.00

Loch Lomondside: Gateway to the Western Highlands of Scotland

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PUBLISHERHarper Collins.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, few signs of wear. Text and images are clear with no noticeable marks. 
DUST JACKETVery good, a little slight creasing to very edges.
EDITIONNumber 88 of The New Naturalist Library series. A Survey of British Natural History, published...

Peter Marren
£30.00

Nature Conservation: A Review of the Conservation of Wildlife in Britain 1950-2001

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PUBLISHERHarper Collins.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, few signs of wear. Text and images are clear with no noticeable marks. 
DUST JACKETVery good, a little slight creasing to very edges.
EDITIONNumber 91 of The New Naturalist Library series. A Survey of British Natural History, published...

Angus Lunn
£35.00

Northumberland, With Alston Moor

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PUBLISHERHarper Collins.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, few signs of wear. Text and images are clear with no noticeable marks. 
DUST JACKETVery good, a little slight creasing to very edges.
EDITIONNumber 95 of The New Naturalist Library series. A Survey of British Natural History, published...

Stephen and Margaret Ionides
£25.00

One Day Telleth Another

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PUBLISHEREdward Arnold & Co. London.
BINDINGRoyal blue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally shelf worn, with a few white marks and some scratching. A little...

John Lubbock
£55.00

Origin and Metamorphosis of Insects

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A Victorian scholarly guide to many common insects and their stages of life. 

T.H. Gillespie
£18.00

Our Friends the Spiders

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One of a series of nature study books for young readers, written and illustrated by experts. By the author of the Zoo Man series.

William A. Poucher
£35.00

Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps; With Especial Reference to Synthetics. Volume I, Being a Dictionary of Raw Materials

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PUBLISHERChapman & Hall, Ltd. London.
BINDINGLight blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and design.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn. Fraying, scuffing and bumping to edges...

Crichton Porteous
£25.00

Pioneers of Fertility

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Contains 22 short histories of pioneers of soil science. Examining how and why plants grow and methods of improving soil to increase their health and yield. Written shortly after WWII, when the necessity of "digging for victory" made an understanding of how to overcome the difficulties of different soil types especially urgent. Written in a charming and non-academic style accompanied by many light-hearted illustrations.

David Evgene Smith
£80.00

Rara Arithmetica, Volume II

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PUBLISHERGinn and Company Publishers, Boston and London.
BINDINGIvory paper covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Gilt top block edge.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn,...

Marie Stopes
£15.00

Sleep

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Chapters covering all aspects of sleep by Dr Stopes, a subject that is today perhaps even more pertinent than when it was written.

William Blasius
£24.00

Storms: Their Classification, Nature and Laws

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PUBLISHERPorter & Coates, Philadelphia.
BINDINGBrown cloth boards with gilt lettering and design on spine.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn with scuffing at edges, corners bumped. Several fairly faint marks and a small tear to the cloth on front. The endpapers and the back of the frontispiece fold out...

The Art-Journal
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The Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue of The International Exhibition 1862

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PUBLISHERJames S. Virtue
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Half bound leather and green cloth boards. Banded spine, gilt lettering and design. Marbled endpapers. Gilt block edges.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards...

Malcolm Smith
£15.00

The British Amphibians and Reptiles

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A scholarly and interesting guide to a previously neglected part of British natural history.

Karl Von Frisch
£42.00

The Dancing Bees: An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee

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A fascinating account of the language and behaviour of bees, written in a charmingly simple style by the German scientist.

Arthur C. Clarke
£95.00

The Exploration of Space (first edition proof copy)

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PUBLISHERTemple Press Ltd. London.
BINDINGBlack cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONSome general wear and scuffing to boards, with faded patches. Printed pages and images remain in good...

Richard Kearton
£30.00

The Fairy-Land of Living Things

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PUBLISHERCassell and Company Limited.
BINDINGRed leather boards with banded spine. Gilt lettering and decoration. Attractive marbled endpapers and block edges.
BOOK CONDITIONThe spine has detached from the binding, but otherwise the book is in fair condition for age. Leather is scuffed at edges, with some scratching and discolouration....

Shirley Hibberd
£25.00

The Fresh-Water Aquarium

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Subtitled Practical instructions on the formation, stocking, and management in all seasons, of collections of river animals and plants.

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