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Zustand: Fair. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 133 pages. Brown dust jacket over grey cloth boards with lettering. Part I. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hbk, 133p., ill. Glasgow: Blackie, 1957. One 'withdrawn from stock' stamp on ffep (no other ex lib stamps or markings) o/w a clean sound copy in very good condition. Foxing to rear of dustwrapper but still in pretty good condition. 'the topography and waters of the loch are here described . from plankton, snails, midges .' b302 / m4155.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Pp. x,133; 4 plates, 3 maps, 21 figures. Dust jacket very good with some wear to the top edge, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve; contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. Provenance: from the library of John Mitchell with small blue bookplate, featuring a peregrine, to the inside front cover "From the library of John Mitchell, author and naturalist"; Mitchell was an authority on Loch Lomonside and wrote New Naturalist No. 88 Loch Lomondside. A very good copy. This title examines the topography and waters of the loch along with its fauna from plankton to snails and midges and the unique "freshwater herring" or powan. Size: 8vo. Book.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1957). 1957 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 222mm). Ppx,133. B/w photographs and illustrations, graphs, tables and map. Pale blue/grey boards, spine titled in black. Good-plus in dust-wrapper. "Continuous study of the largest lake in Great Britain began in 1946 with the establishment on Loch Lomond of the University of Glasgow Field Station. The topography and waters of the loch are here described and also its contained life from microscopic plankton to snails and midges and the unique "freshwater herring" or Powan." With contributions by A.C.J. Weerekoon, W. Russell Hunter, J.W.H. Lawson, J.D. Hamilton, F.W.K. Gervers and W.O. Copland. The foreword is by Professor C.M. Yonge. Chapters include: The topography of the lake; Physical and chemical data; The lake-bed in relation to its flora and fauna; The fauna of the lake; The maintenance of isolated faunas; Studies on freshwater snails at Loch Lomond; The biting midges and the dancing midges; The biology of the powan; The parasites of Loch Lomond fishes. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Two volumes, 1957 - 1966, small 8vo. Volume 1, i-x, 133 pp, 4 black and white plates, 21 black and white figures, includes a number of contributions, Volume 2 'The Fauna of the River Endrick' by Maitland, i-vi, 194 pp, 6 black and white plates, 24 black and white figures, some very light spotting but otherwise near fine copies in protected dust wrappers.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Two volumes, Owner's name on free front endpaper of volume I. Buff printed dustjacket, yellowed to spine.