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2004046903Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution and Avian Demography Unit 2004. xv 360pp index glossary references appendix bw & col ills maps. Or pictorial card. Minor thumb soiling to bottom corner otherwsie excellent. SIGNED with lengthy personalised inscription by one of the editors/authors LR Minter. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Smithsonian Institution and Avian Demography Unit Paperback
1992044006Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1992. HEAVY. xv 495pp further reading indexes num col photographs distribution maps. Or cloth boards in jacket. Minor wear to bottom edge of boards minor edge wear to jacket prev owner name on front free endpaper. An exceptional resource for the herpetologist or reptile enthusiast covering hundreds of species of snake lizard crocodilian turtle and tortoise. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
1976002457New York: Academic Press 1976. 388pp. ills. photos. Twelve contributors on evolutionary biology anatomy/physiology of the frog retina visual pathways in the frog spatial vision in the frog visual system of the toad salamder visual systems developmental neurobiology standards for laboratory amphibians. Bibliography index. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Academic Press Hardcover
1962002454Cape Town: Purnell and Sons 1962. 424pp. ills. maps color frontis and 74 color plates by P.J. Smits. 16 pages b&w photos. Systemic account of all species of snakes in Southern Africa. Introductory essays key systemic index. bibliography indices of common and scientific names. Name in ink inside front cover. Foxed spots effecting pages facing color plates. Small stain front cover edge slightly shaken corners bumped. Occasional underlining in red pencil. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Smit P.J. 4to. Purnell and Sons Hardcover
1934005196Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1934. Illustrated large 8vo pp xxxii 381 black buckram slightly worn a very slight tear to the spine head. Neat ownership stamp on front endpaper and verso of frontispiece. VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press hardcover
1912013084Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son 1912. Large slim octavo pp xiv 80 a little age-toned top edge gilt other edges uncut folding map cloth slightly dusty spine slightly faded otherwise a very good copy. With two short typed letters to the notable ornithologist Rev F.L. Blathwayt signed by the author. RARE From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper. Signed letter from author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. J. Maxwell & Son Hardcover
2015036284Brittany: Locus Solus 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 312 pages; nearly 70 species 350 images and 150 maps. Laminated binding fine. Contents clean and tight unmarked no inscriptions. A fine copy virtually as new. Locus Solus Hardcover
1895020567Edinburgh: David Douglas 1895. Two volumes. Illustrated large ocyavo pp xxii ii 306; 309 publisher's catalogue 18 pages a folding map at the rear in good condition slight age-toning to the page margins slight adhesion damage to the front endpapers of the second volume otherwise very good internally green cloth very slightly worn the spines very slightly faded the upper cover of volume two is rather marked and blotched. The Oates Library copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates and his blind-stamp on the front endpapers also the blind-stamp of Durrant House Bournemouth and the small Bibliotheca Oatesiana stamp on the half titles and the last page. The first volume also has the earlier armorial bookplte of R.D. Jackson. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
2014010214Kota Kinabalu 2014. Illustrated quarto pp xiv 382 a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary. Amphibians by virtue of their thin moist permeable skins are poorly protected from harsh environments and are especially susceptible to chemical changes desiccation and alteration of their habitat. Accordingly it is not surprising that they have manifest proportionately high extinction rates and suffer more severe declines than most other taxa in an environment undergoing unprecedented anthropogenic change. First Edition. Pictorial laminated boards. New/New. Hardcover
2005039824Abu Dhabi: Trident Press 2005. VERY HEAVY-additional postage will be requested for orders outside Australia. 428pp index bibliography references hundreds col ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Near new. The most comprehensive book on the entire range of wildlife in the UAE written by 34 different experts in their fields. As well as mammals birds marine life reptiles amphibians and insects the book also covers geology fossils habitats plants and conservation. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio. Trident Press Hardcover
0282430857.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1968074567Egypt: SPecial Publication United States Naval Medical Research Unit 1968. Trade Paperback. Slight foxing to front cover. Contents: Introduction. Zoogeography. Species List. Key to Orders and Suborders. Sauria Lizards - Key to Families. Gekkonidae - Key to Species. Agamidae - Key to Species. Lacertidae - Key to Species. Varanidae - Key to Species. Scincidae - Key to Species. Chamaeleontidae. Serpentes Snakes - Key to Species. Typhlopidae. Leptotyphlopidae. Boidae. Colubridae. Elapidae. Viperidae. Crocodilia. Testudinata Turtles Key to Species. Testudinidae. Cheloniidae. Dermochelyidae. Trionychidae. Salient Frogs and Toads - Key to Species. Bufonidae. Ranidae. References. Maps. 91 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 etc. 1st Trade Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade Paperback. SPecial Publication, United States Naval Medical Research Unit Paperback
1991055031Brisbane: Queensland Museum 1991. 391pp index distribution maps. Pictorial card covers. SIGNED Glen and inscribed to Peter by author. A nice gently used copy. . Inscribed by Author. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Queensland Museum Paperback
1965014468New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1965. 254 pages. photos. Ionides tells of his life in Africa as a conservationist hunter and naturalist and how he learned to capture venomous snakes in particular mambas and vipers. Appendix of notes on rare mammal species collected by Ionides. Nice copy dust jacket with very minimal wear. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Holt, Rinehart & Winston Hardcover
2017025059Melbourne VIC Australia: CSIRO Publishing 2017. Illustrated laminated boards. 448 pages with colour illustrations. Australia is home to a diverse freshwater turtle fauna including more than 25 species and an array of side-necked turtle subspecies. . UPDATED EDITION. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Small Folio. CSIRO Publishing Hardcover
021058Kyoto University: Fauna and Flora Research Society 1955 - 1956. Two volumes large octavo pp 4 viii 390 viiix x; x vi 530m viii vii well illustrated a fodling map in each volume blue cloth just very slightly worn the frint and rear hinges of the second volume have been strenthened with white tape very clean internally the dustwrappers are very thin and flimsy and rather badly torn. SCARCE. A heavy set - extra postage may be needed. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor. Fauna and Flora Research Society Hardcover
1950006565London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies 1950. Illustrated pp x 142 endpapers unevenly faded neat library stamp on front endpaper otherwise a good copy in a worn and torn dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE. The Crown Agents for the Colonies unknown
2000056379Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2000. HEAVY. xiii 444pp index references glossary tables bw ills. Pictorial card. Prev owner name stamp on half-title light foxing to page edges. A number of scientific papers on tadpoles. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. University of Chicago Press Paperback
1702017826The Bible near the Piazza's of the Royal Exchange: J.R. for Ralph South 1702. Illustrated with a folding plate at the rear small octavo pp xiv 175 i age-toned endpapers unevenly browned but otherwise clean and sound internally contemporary calf rather worn and bleached rebacked at some point with the original spine laid down the corners repaired probably at the same time all still tight and sound. An early signature on the front endpaper - S. Smith Prior Park 1784. Richard Mead 1673 - 1754 was an English physician. His work "A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion and the Method to be used to prevent it "1720 was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases. The present work on poisons "fully displayed his commitment to Pitcairne's style of iatromechanics stating that mathematical learning would soon distinguish a physician from a quack. His most original contribution was his discussion of venomous snakes which had been instigated by his studies with Paul Hermann at Leiden. Mead dissected several vipers and accurately described the mechanism of the fang and its operation. He also confirmed Galen's observation that a puncture wound was necessary for the venom to take effect in part by swallowing a sample of venom without ill effect - ODNB". The other poisons and antidotes discussed cover tarantulas and rabid dogs through to poisonous minerals and plants opium and noxious vapours. First Edition. Full Leather. Good. J.R. for Ralph South Hardcover
1886024132Washington: The Smithsonian Institution 1886. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. Folio. From Smithsonian Contributions to knowledge vol. XXVI dated 1890; pp ix 1 186; 5 chromolithographic plates. Modern blue cloth binding fine. Contents clean and tight pages crisp discreet contemporary Geological Society of London stamps to the reverse of the plates and general title otherwise unmarked. A fine tight copy. The Smithsonian Institution Hardcover
1893036558Sydney: L. Bruck 1893. vi 85pp frontis portrait. Contemporary original brown cloth titled in gilt. Ex-museum library with several oval stamps throughout has cancelled stamp on front free endpaper faded spine label some minor surface abrasion to cloth. Some foxing to endpapers and preliminary blanks. Scarce Australian publication on snake venom its action and antidote. Includes historical overview and case studies. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. L. Bruck Hardcover
1990041132Basel: Birkhauser Verlag 1990. xi 270pp references bw ills. Or yellow boards. Ex-university library with less than usual stamps labels etc inc withdrawn stamp on top edge Collection of technical papers on amphibian and reptile cytogenetics. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Ex-Library. Birkhauser Verlag Hardcover
188842799London Harrison and Sons 1888. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 471-480 a. 4 lithographed plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the two new finds of dinosaurs from Lord Howe's Island New South Wales. They belongs to the Megalania a word coined by Owen himself.Megalania Great roamer is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard.It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhibited Southern Australia during the Pleistocene and appears to have disappeared around 40.ooo years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania. </em> unknown
1875055542Salem MA: Peabody Academy of Science 1875. Title continues: Preserving and Transporting Specimens of Natural History prepared for the use of the smithsonian Institution 1859. Irregularly paginated in parts bw ills. Half-leather marbled boards with leather spine and corners. Top of spine chipped otherwise minor rubbing to covers small prev owner stamp to front endpaper page edges evenly toned. A sammelband of 3 volumes of American Naturalist the first two Michigan State Fisheries reports Wallaces Monthly June 1878 on horse racing; and Directions for Collecting etc Specimens of Natural Hisotry for the Smithsonian. A very interesting 19th century miscellany. Periodical. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Peabody Academy of Science Hardcover
2008008440Kota Kinabalu 2008. A NEW COPY. Well illustrated large 8vo pp vi 147 a very good copy in dustwrapper. Madagascar has a rich and diverse reptile fauna including several species of chelonians that are found nowhere else. It is home to such spectacular species as the Radiated Tortoise Astrochelys radiata the Spider Tortoise Pyxis arachnoides and the Ploughshare Tortoise Astrochelys yniphora; which is considered to be the worlds rarest tortoise and one of the most endangered reptiles. The Tortoises and Turtles of Madagascar is the first book to cover all the living and extinct chelonians of Madagascar. This book is an authoritative and comprehensive guide covering every known aspect of their natural history. Recent field studies that have been carried out by the author and others to provide a better understanding of these species ecology are synthesised in this publication. Practical species accounts provide accurate details of species identification distribution ecology and conservation and are complemented by numerous beautiful photographs of Malagasy tortoises and turtles in the wild. Up-to-date information on the status of their populations is also presented and there are details on the best sites to observe tortoises and turtles in Madagascar. Pictorial Cloth. New/New. Hardcover