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The Wonderful Animal Book

By: Anon.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son Limited: 1934

Seller ID: 002558

Slim small folio (12 by 9 inches) undated but circa 1934, with 36 colour plates on 18 leaves, pictorial covers, no text apart from the title page, corners rubbed and bumped, rear cover with some minor marking, contents clean. A children's picture book with sentimental colour plates, mostly of domestic animals, dogs, cats, rabbits etc. drawn by A F Kennedy and Albert Kaye. Scarce. Only one copy listed in Copac. £18.00.
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Wild Flowers of the Ceylon Hills

By: Bond, Thomas

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1953

Seller ID: 003592

octavo (22 by 14.8 cms) text of 240 pages including index, with a coloured frontispiece, illustrated throughout with line drawings, mainly full-page, original cloth in unclipped dust wrapper, signature on front end-paper, small mark on front of dust jackt which has a few signs of use otherwise a nice clean copy £18.00
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School of the Woods. Some Life studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training

By: Long William J

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Boston, Ginn and company: 1903

Seller ID: 003390

square octavo (8 by 5.8 inches) text of 364 pages, illustrated throughout with full-page and text illustrations by Charles Copeland, original decorative green cloth. very slight lean, ink name and date on front end-paper otherwise an unusually bright, clean and sound copy
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The Ways Of Man And Beast In India

By: Martin, D King

Price: £32.00

Publisher: London, Wright and Brown: 1935

Seller ID: 004181

Octavo 22 by 15 cms (8.75 by 6 inches). Offered here is a copy of the very rare original edition. Text of 288 pages, illustrated with 16 plates of black and white photographs, original navy blue cloth. There is much on the wild life of the country, especially tigers,and the native peoples. The author spent almost fifty years working in the Forest Service of India and writes entirely from personal experience and observation. An ex-Boots library copy with the front cover marked where the old label has been removed, front inner hinge strengthened, small old date stamp imside rear cover, a few ...
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The Geology of the Country near Saffron Walden

By: Osborne White, H J

Price: £26.00

Publisher: London, HMSO: 1932

Seller ID: 003587

large slim octavo 24.5 by 15 cms text of 125 pages including index plus 2 leaves of advertisements illustrated with 3 plates of photographs, 2 folding charts and 15 text illustrations, original printed boards which are damp mottled and rubbed at the corners but a clean, sound and complete copy £26.00
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Locusts and Grasshopppers. A handbook for their study and control

By: Uvarov, B P

Price: £42.00

Publisher: London, Imperial Bureau of Entomology: 1928

Seller ID: 004345

Small folio 27 by 19.5 cms (10.5 by 7.75 inches) This is a serious scientific work by a noted Russian entomologist who came to Britain in 1920. The text of 352 pages is very well illustrated with drawings plus 9 plates, including 1 coloured, at the end. Bound in the original dark red cloth. A very clean and sound copy-no internal marks signatures or inscriptions.
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