naturalist 1925 (6 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Good. ORIGINAL 1925 Reprint/Offprint of journal article; no covers issued; light browning of leaves; small chjps on corners of leaves; light creasing of corners of leaves; o/w in good condition. Journal.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. The South-Eastern Naturalist. Being the Proceedings and Transactions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies For 1925. Congress at Folkestone. Foxing to top Slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine. Sunned spine. Hastings Museum stamp to inside cover. 126 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 12 issues bound in one volume with original wraps at rear. Blue cloth slightly bowed, bumped and worn at edges. Internally, pages slightly tanned, one or two spots on outer block but largely clean and tight.

Paper covers. Zustand: New. No Jacket. 1st edition. Biography of an expert taxonomist of the Copepods (more specifically, the Amphipods) who owned a lead smelting works in Wales and a paint and lead shot factory in Chester. Written by a marine biologist and historian of natural history, it offers an illuminating insight into the life and work of a Victorian polymath. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

1st Edn,. 399 pages, 4to., colour and b/w illustrations mostly from period photographs and drawings, a fine copy in dj. Limited to 1000 copies signed and numbered by Monty Brown this being number 2. Cunninghame one of the great African hunters who accompanied Roosevelt and Carl Akeley and others as a hunter and guide on their safaris, a fellow of the R.G.S., he lived through the heyday of African hunting safaris. A prolific big game hunter and naturalist.

saying that "it was marvellous meeting you, and the longer you stay in Copenhagen the more it will incite me to come back and attack your wine cellar, but I hope by then you will have some decent records to play! Seriously, though, you entertained us wonderfully well and I am most grateful for all you did, and even if we don't meet in Copenhagen I hope that you will come over to Jersey one day and get drunk on my wine.", 1 side A4 on his headed paper with a dodo in a red circle at the top, Les Augres Manor, Jersey, together with a fine unsigned photo by Sven Aage Andersen showing him half length kissing a goat, 8" x 6½", 8th October Durrell founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote approximately forty books, mainly about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals (1956). Those memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into two television series (My Family and Other Animals, 1987, and The Durrells, 20162019) and one television film (My Family and Other Animals, 2005). He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell.