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The New Naturalist: A Survey of British Natural History
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.
