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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:
Published by Collins, London, 1946
Seller: Westwood Books, Cramlington, United Kingdom
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. S. Beaufoy (illustrator). 1946. Collins, London, 1946. Hard cover, green boards, Book Condition : Very good, very clean unmarked text. Appears little read. Covers are faded. Book will be sent by UK postal servive. Bookseller Inventory #011483. N/A.
Published by Collins, 1955
ISBN 10: 0955335922ISBN 13: 9780955335921
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 1955. Collins. Hardcover. GOOD.
Published by Collins 1946, 1946
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Published by Collins, London, 1945
Seller: Ely Books, ELY, CAMBS, United Kingdom
First Edition
56 colour photographs of living specimens by S. Beaufoy, 24 plates in black and white, 32 distribution maps, and 9 other diagrams. (illustrator). First Edition. BINDING: Original publishers cloth. CONDITION: Spine and part of covers faded and with few dark spots, former owners name and date 1945 to front blank endpaper, foxing to endpapers; otherwise very good. Size: 22 X 15.5 Cms.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. S. Beaufoy (illustrator). An impressive depiction of the history and genealogy of butterflies, complete with colour plates and illustrations. This is the second edition of the work, in original publisher's cloth binding. The First Edition was published in 1945. This work is part of The New Naturalist series, which was a collection published by Collins with the aim to interest the general reader in British wildlife. There were many different works published as part of this series, including books on Wild Flower, Life in Lakes and Rivers, and Mushrooms and Toadstools. This work on Butterflies was the first in the series. Many of these, including this work, have since been republished as a Bloomsbury Edition. With 48 colour plates, 24 plates in black and white, and 32 distribution maps. Collated, complete. With an ink inscription to front endpaper, dates 25th December '47. In original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart, with minor shelf wear. Slight fading to the cloth with the occasional mark to boards. Light age toning and the occasional spot to endpapers. Ink inscription to front endpaper dated 25th Dec '47. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light age toning. Very Good. book.
Published by Collins 1951-1958, London, 1951
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Robert Atkinson; J. A. Steers; E. H. Ware; S. Beaufoy; Arthur Smith (illustrator). First edition. Five very smart first edition volumes from the New Naturalist series, with illustrations throughout. Five volumes. First edition. From the New Naturalist series. This set includes: Wild Orchids of Britain, 1951. Illustrated with sixty-one photographs in colour, thirty-nine photographs in black-and-white, and many in-text figures including maps. Collated complete. Written by Victor Samuel Summerhayes, an English botanist who was appointed the head of the orchid herbarium at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew for 39 years. Illustrated by Robert Atkinson, an English painter and illustrator. The Sea Coast, 1953. Illustrated with ten photographs in colour, twenty-four photographs in black-and-white, and many in-text figures including maps. Collated complete. Written and illustrated by James Alfred Steers, an English coastal geomorphologist who was Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge from 1949 to 1966. Dartmoor, 1953. Illustrated with seventeen photographs in colour, thirty-six photographs in black-and-white, and three maps of the area. Collated complete. Written by L. A. Harvey and Douglas St. Leger-Gordon, an English writer of many books on Devon and Dartmoor. Illustrated by E. H. Ware, a British artist and illustrator. Moths, 1955. Illustrated with seventy-seven photographs in colour, seventy-one photographs in black-and-white, and many in-text figures including maps. Collated complete. Written by Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford, a British ecological geneticist. Illustrated by Samuel Beaufoy, a British illustrator. The World of Spiders, 1958. Illustrated with four photographs in colour, thirty-two plates in black-and-white, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. Written by William Syer Bristowe, an English naturalist, a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders. Illustrated by Arthur Smith, a British natural history illustrator who specialised in entomology. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear and the odd small mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine, particularly of The Sea Coast. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of Wild Orchids of Britain, Dartmoor, and Moths. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of World of Spiders. Near Fine. book.
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. S. Beaufoy; Eric Hosking; (illustrator). 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. book.