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Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back bound in publisher's original green buckram cloth covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo 8¾'' x 6¼''. Contains 305 pp with 40 monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper, 6 maps and drawings in monochrome. Very Good condition book in dust wrapper with rear cover absent, not price clipped, 30s. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. NEW NATURALIST (Series).…

Green hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 305pp + plates. 24 b/w plates.

Mixed edns. 20 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green buckram cloth (older vols with spotting on page edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (older vols with light wear at edges - otherwise VG in protective covers, vols 2,3,5,6, 11, 15, 16 price clipped). Pp. various, illus with coloured and b&w photos (previous owners' neat inscriptions on front endpapers of vols 1, 4, 6, 10, 13, 14, 17). Butterflies (3rd edn 3rd printing 1967), British Game (1st edn 2nd printing 1946), London's Natural History (1st edn 1945), Britain's Structure and Scenery (6th edn 1970), Wild Flowers (4th edn 1969), Natural History in the Highlands and Islands (1st edn 1947), Mushrooms and Toadstools (1st edn 6th imp 1972), Insect Natural History (3rd edn 1971), A Country Parish (facsimile edn 2008), British Plant Life (3rd edn 1962), Mountains and Moorlands (revised edn 2nd printing 1977), The Sea Shore (revised edn 3rd printing 1976), Snowdonia (1st edn 1949), Art of Botanical Illustration (1st edn 1950), Life in Lakes and Rivers (3rd edn 2nd printing 1974), Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone (2nd edn 2nd printing 1976), Birds and Men (1st edn 1951), A Natural History of Man in Britain (1st edn 1951), Wild Orchids (2nd edn 3rd printing 1976), British Amphibians and Reptiles (4th edn 1969).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1954). (ND 1937) 1954 revised edition. Small 8vo (124 x 190mm). Ppiv,64. B/w photographs, b/w line illustrations, advertisements. Professionally re-bound in green half-leather, marbled boards, decorative gilt titles to spine. Near fine in modern green leather binding. The original orange card covers are included as pages i-iv. An exceptionally good copy. "Whippets in a small nutshell. There are 12 pages of lists of winners and some fascinating advertisements showing dogs that are now 'pillars of the breed'. The first edition, of 1937, is very rare and very expensive." Walsh, The English Whippet. The post-war revised edition is as hard to obtain, especially in really good condition. Chapters include: The antiquity of the whippet; The ideal show whippet - what to look for; Housing and feeding; How to start a stud, breeding, etc; Exercise, grooming, training; Clothing; Exhibiting, show rules, ringcraft; Judging; The whippet clubs; Championship and other shows; The champion's honour list; Advice to the stud dog owner also the art of canine portraiture. .…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. A fine set of these first facsimile editions of the first ten volumes of the New Naturalist series, in a handsome slipcase. The first facsimile edition of these works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers, in a cloth slipcase. A smart collection of facsimiles of the ten first volumes from the New Naturalist Library, comprising:Butterflies by E. B. Ford (48 colour plates; 24 monochrome plates)British Game by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (24 colour plates; 48 monochrome plates)London's Natural History by R. S. R Fitter (40 colour plates; 32 monochrome plates)Britain's Structure and Scenery by L. Dudley Stamp (32 colour plates; 32 monochrome plates)Wild Flowers: Botanising in Britain by John Gilmour and Max Walters (32 colour plates; 24 monochrome plates)Natural History in the Highlands and Islands by F. Fraser Darling (32 colour plates; 32 monochrome plates)Mushrooms & Toadstools: A Study of the Activities of Fungi by John Ramsbottom (46 colour plates; 24 monochrome plates)Insect Natural History by A. D. Imms (40 colour plates; 32 monochrome plates)A Country Parish - Great Budworth in the County of Chester by A.W. Boyd (32 colour plates; 32 monochrome plates)British Plant Life by W. B. Turrill (48 colour plates; 24 monochrome plates) The New Naturalist Libraryis a series of books, written by experts, concerning a variety of natural history topics, aiming to interest general readers in the wildlife of the British Isles. They have had considerable influence on many, such as W.D. Hamilton and Mike Majerus, who later became professional biologists.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers, in a cloth slipcase. Externally, cloth is in immaculate condition to all volumes. Internally, firmly bound. Pages and plates are very bright and clean. Dust wrappers are in lovely bright condition. Small closed tear to the head of the spine to Wild Flowers and to A Country Parish. Fine. S. Beaufoy; Eric Hosking; (illustrator). book.…