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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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Birds and Their Ways

By: Armstrong, Jessie F

Price: £42.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein and Co: 1886

Seller ID: 004429

This is a very rare bird book, written for children, and illustrated with 10 full-page and 6 text wood engravings of birds. octavo 19 by 13 cms. (7.5 by 5 inches) Text of 137 pages. Original pictorial cloth, gilt edges. It's not listed in any of the standard bibliographies of bird books and there is currently no other copy listed online. It's undated but the publishers, Swan Sonnenschein, list it in their catalogue for 1886. A very clean copy, firm and sound in the covers, no internal marks Signature inside front cover, a few very small and faint spots to the cover-see photo, corners bent, ...
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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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British Dragonflies (Odonata)

By: J W Lucas edits

Price: £110.00

Publisher: London, Upcott Gill: 1900

Seller ID: 004438

large octavo 23 by 15.5 cms (9 by 6.25 inches A serious study. Text of 350 pages plus the list of subscribers. Illustrated with 27 coloured plates and 57 text drawings. Finely printed on art paper and in the original decorative cloth binding, text edges untrimmed. One of the very few works on the subject. A very clean and sound copy, no signatures or inscriptions. Old notes, faintly written in pencil, on some text pages and on most plates, rear cover with a few small faint marks
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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 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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