Published by Collins, London, 1949 UK hardback,
3rd edition in very good condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is a bit rubbed and worn at the edges with some small tears and small areas of loss at the top and bottom of the spine otherwise also very good and unclipped. Superb colour plates throughout and many black and white drawings by Tunnicliffe.
2231 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Pure Curiosity : Botanical Letters and Notes towards a Dictionary of Botanical Terms
1979 Paddington Press,
This 1st UK edition hardback book is in fine condition, there is minimal shelfwear, the boards are in a marbles green with marble end papers, the book has no previous owner names or inscriptions.. The dust wrapper is in near fine condition, it has not been price clipped.
An elegant and enchanting excursion into the world of botanical observation, Pure Curiosity combines the acute perception and sensitivity of the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau with the skill and artistry of one of the greatest names in history of botanical illustration, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, the celebrated Salon painter once hailed as the 'Raphael of flowers'. Translation of the letters by Kate Ottevanger. A beautifully illustrated book.
1082 RUSSELL, VALERIE
HEAVY HORSES OF THE WORLD
1983 COUNTRY LIFE
1st EDITION. VERY Nr FINE UNCLIPPED D/W HAS MINOR EDGE WEAR. BOOK IS FINE. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT IN COLOUR & B+W. EXAMINING 21 BREEDS OF DRAUGHT HORSE IN DETAIL. FROM THEIR EARLY HISTORY TO THEIR PRESENT-DAY REVIVAL.
Published by Phaidon Press, Oxford.1980.
1st edition hardback. Both book and dust wrapper are fine in condition although the jacket is very slightly rubbed at the edges. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. A superbly illustrated book. "Observations of Wildlife" is both a collection of paintings and a self-portrait of the man who created them. Many of Scott's finest works are here reproduced, along with some fascinating pages and sketches from his notebooks, while in the text he discusses his career as a painter, his work with the Wildfowl Trust, his other efforts to save the earth's natural heritage from destruction by humans, and his travels-including a recent visit to China."
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1965
Hardback reprint, very good book in a very good price clipped dust wrapper that is very slightly darkened at the spine. Grey cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration at the spine and upper board, darkened page edges. Previous owners stamp at the front and rear pastedowns, both hidden by the jacket, One at the top of the introduction page and another on the last page after the index otherwise fine. A comprehensive reference book written by members of the Mammal Society of the British Isles.
1423 SOWERBY, G.B.
SHELLS OF THE WORLD
1996 BRACKEN BOOKS
1ST IN THIS EDITION. VERY Nr FINE IN LIKE D/W. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS "A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUAL" BY HENRY G. BOHN IN 1852. THIS EDITION CONTAINS ADDITIONAL PRINTS TAKEN FROM "DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE" BY CHARLES D'ORBIGNY.
1588 SPOTTISWOODE, J.
THE MOORLAND GAMEKEEPER
1977 READERS UNION
BOOK CLUB EDITION OF THE D&C 1ST. Nr FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D/W. B+W PHOTO ILLUSTRATED.
Published by Collins, London, 1967
Sixth edition hardback. Front board cracked with a school presentation label to the front paste down otherwise very good. The price clipped dust wrapper is slightly soiled and darkened at the spine otherwise in very good condition. There are no previous owner names.
A PLANK BRIDGE BY A POOL
1978 B.C.A.
SUN FADED SPINE TO OTHERWISE FINE D/W. BROWN BOARDS WITH EMBOSSED HERON TO UPPER AND GILT PRINT AND DECORATION TO SPINE. B/W ILLUSTRATIONS BY AUTHOR THROUGHOUT. FINE
Published by Faber & Faber, London. 1972
1st edition hardback. Possibly ex-lib as the half-title page has been removed. Otherwise the book is very good in a very good+ unclipped dust wrapper. Edited by John Piper. The Shell Guides were originally a 20th-century series of guidebooks on the counties of Britain. They were aimed at a new breed of car-driving metropolitan tourist, and for those who sought guides that were neither too serious nor too shallow and who took pleasure in the ordinary and peculiar culture of small town Britain. In the three decades after the Second World War the Shell Guides provided a surreptitiously subversive synthesis of the British countryside.
Published by Faber & Faber, London. 1984
1st edition paperback. The book is in fine/as new condition. The Shell Guides were originally a 20th-century series of guidebooks on the counties of Britain. They were aimed at a new breed of car-driving metropolitan tourist, and for those who sought guides that were neither too serious nor too shallow and who took pleasure in the ordinary and peculiar culture of small town Britain. In the three decades after the Second World War the Shell Guides provided a surreptitiously subversive synthesis of the British countryside.
Published by Faber & Faber, London. 1984
1st edition hardback. The book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. The Shell Guides were originally a 20th-century series of guidebooks on the counties of Britain. They were aimed at a new breed of car-driving metropolitan tourist, and for those who sought guides that were neither too serious nor too shallow and who took pleasure in the ordinary and peculiar culture of small town Britain. In the three decades after the Second World War the Shell Guides provided a surreptitiously subversive synthesis of the British countryside.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 1992
1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and also fine. This is the tenth and last book that recounts the author's 20 years working with Highland wildlife. The book begins with a struggle for survival in the harshest winter he has ever known. Now approaching 60, the author watches the slow destruction of his Highland paradise. In a final gesture, he devotes everything to the task of filming single-handed and throughout the seasons, the eagles, peregrines, rare black-throated divers, foxes, wildcats, badgers, pine marten and red deer that have been his nearest neighbours.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 1985
1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and also fine. The story of a man who can communicate with wild creatures of many kinds. Bathing a wounded badger in a kitchen sink, allowing a rare Pine Marten the run of his home or having a wild Tawny owl perched on his shoulder - this is domestic life for Mike Tomkies. These are just some of the creatures he comes home to from his eagle treks into the mountains surrounding the stone lochside cottage where he lives without gas, electricity, telephone, postal service or even a road. A field naturalist of exceptional perception and practical knowledge.
IN THE SHADOW OF MAN
1971 COLLINS
1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD IN A VERY GOOD PRICE CLIPPED D/W. TEN YEARS OBSERVING THE CHIMPANZEES ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE ABOVE LAKE TANGANYIKA. ILLUSTRATED WITH HER HUSBANDS PHOTOS.
Published by Westmorland Gazette, Kendal
Fifty-third impression, hardback, date unknown. A fine book in a very good dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is not clipped there are no previous owner names or marks. Originally compiled in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Wainwright walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. The result of painstaking and lengthy research by their namesake and author over a period of thirteen years, the guides have retained their original format and design to this day. The books contain intricate hand drawn sketches by the author, detailing routes of ascent, and gradients of the hills in and around the Lake District and outlying regions.
Published by Westmorland Gazette, Kendal
Fifty-second impression, hardback, date unknown. A fine book in a fine dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is not clipped there are no previous owner names or marks. Originally compiled in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Wainwright walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. The result of painstaking and lengthy research by their namesake and author over a period of thirteen years, the guides have retained their original format and design to this day. The books contain intricate hand drawn sketches by the author, detailing routes of ascent, and gradients of the hills in and around the Lake District and outlying regions.
THE ENGLISH SCENE: In the Works of Prose-Writers since 1700
1941 BATSFORD
1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ BOOK IN A VERY GOOD D/W. JACKET HAS A STAINED BACK PANEL AND A COUPLE OF SMALL CLOSED TEARS. PREVIOUS OWNER NAME TO FEP. Foreword by Sir John Squire. Illustrated from contemporary pictures and prints.
417 WARREN, C.H.
WEST COUNTRY
1939 BATSFORD
HARDBACK
GOOD, VERY GOOD
2337 Watson, John
Poachers & Poaching
1978 EP Publishing, Yorkshire.
Hardback
Hardcover 8vo. viii, 327 p. Frontispiece. A fine copy in a sun faded but un-clipped dustwrapper. Facsimile reprint of the scarce 1891 edition. The story of how the poacher lived and went about his dubious profession.
TARKA THE OTTER
1982 BODLEY HEAD
1ST IN THIS EDITION. TAPE RESIDUE TO FRONT ENDPAPER AND A CRAYON MARK TO REAR PASTEDOWN OTHERWISE FINE IN A LIKE D/W. ILLUSTRATED BY C.F. TUNNICLIFFE.
1081 WILLIAMSON, HENRY
THE ILLUSTRATED SALAR THE SALMON
1987 WEBB & BOWER
1st IN THIS EDITION. FROM THE AUTHOR OF TARKA THE OTTER. QUITE A LARGE SECTION OF THE FFEP HAS BEEN TORN OUT, PRESUMABLY TO REMOVE A PREVIOUS OWNER NAME ETC. A BIT DRASTIC AND RATHER SPOILS AN OTHERWISE FINE BOOK. D/W IS FINE. INTRO BY WILLIAMSON'S SON, RICHARD. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED IN B+W & COLOUR BY MICHAEL J. LOATES.
1161 WILLIAMSON, HENRY DARVALL
THE YEAR OF THE KANGAROO
1977 SCRIBNERS
1st US EDITION. VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED D/W. VERY GOOD BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY ROY B. DOYLE.