COASTS AND SEAS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Region 2 Orkney. Coastal Directories Project of the JNCC 1997.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 195pp. Numerous ills. Original laminated boards.
Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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FISHES OF FIJI. Foreword by B.E.V. Parham. Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji 1959.
Large 8vo. [viii] + 670pp. Map frontis., 246 figures. E.ps. lightly browned, ownership signature, original gilt lettered green cloth crudely varnished?, some brown staining from dribbles of varnish to top edge of upper e.ps. and title page, gilt lettering dulled, in lightly browned and sl. chipped d/w. browned moreso to spine and edges.
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A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH SEA-ANEMONES AND CORALS. With Coloured Figures of the Species and Principal Varieties. London: Van Voorst 1860.
1st Ed. xl + 362pp. 12 lithographic plates by W. Dickes, including 11 chromolithographs, several text ills. From the library of Herbert Price Lewis, some sporadic spotting and very light marginal browning, ownership signature to top edge of front pastedown, original dec. gilt lettered dark green cloth ruled in black to upper board, some minor soiling and rubbing, joints rubbed, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped.
Actinologia Britannica.
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GLAUCUS; Or, The Wonders of the Shore. Cambridge Macmillan and Co. 1859.
4th Ed. Corrected and Enlarged. Sm. 8vo. [vi] + 230pp. 12 colour printed plates. Inscribed ‘H.R. Cook Epsom with Ro 10th April 1946’, light browning, marbled e.ps., prize bookplate, prize calf binding with double gilt rule rule to edges of boards, gilt armorial shield to upper board, gilt compartments and gilt lettered label to spine, some marking and wear.
£35.00 [ref: 288660]
GIANT FISHES, WHALES AND DOLPHINS. Putnam 1937.
1st Ed. [xxx] + 361pp. 8 cold. plates, 97 figures by Lieut.-Col. W.P.C. Tenison. Sporadic spotting, from the library of Ann Savours Shirley, contemporary pencil inscription, original gilt lettered blue cloth, lightly soiled and rubbed, corners and head and tail of spine bumped.
A complete Guide for Naturalists, Sportsmen and Ocean Travellers.
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ICHTHYOLOGY Fishes of British Guiana - Part II. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars 1852.
Sm. 8vo. 214pp. Port. frontis., vignette title page, 32 partially hand coloured plates. Some light marginal browning, lower hinge tender, head of lower joint split, half green calf with marbled boards, joints and corners scuffed and worn, upper board detached, gilt filleted raised bands dec. gilt compartments and 1 [only of 2] gilt lettered leather title label to browned and rubbed spine with loss at head and tail.
The Naturalist’s Library, Volume XL, edited by Sir William Jardine.
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LES ABîMES DE LA MER. Récits des Expéditions de Draguage des Vaissaux de S.M. Pcocupine & Le Lightning pendant les Étés de 1868, 1869 & 1870 Sous la Direction Scientifique du Dr Carpenter, J. Gwyn Jeffreys and Dr Wyville Thomson. Ouvrage Traduit avec l’Autorisation de l’Auteur par les Dr Lortet. Paris Librairie Hachette 1875.
1st French Ed. Royal 8vo. 454pp. 11 vignettes, 84 figures, 8 maps and plans colour and double page/folding. From the Library of Ann Savours Shirley, some occasional spotting, silken e.ps., plate split to hinges, gilt tooled brown morocco backed blind embossed cloth boards, minor wear.
£75.00 [ref: 282231]