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THE PEAK DISTRICT. By K. C. Edwards assisted by H. H. Swinnerton and R. H. Hall. With 7 colour photographs 49 photographs in black and white and 15 maps and diagrams. The New Naturalist.
London: Collins, 1962. Hard cover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Name and purchase details on fixed fornt endpaper; wrapper has a piece missing at the head of the spine, and some shorts tears and chips; else a very good, bright copy.
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THE RHODODENDRON SPECIES. Volume I Lepidotes. Volume II Elepidote Species. Volume III Elepidotes Series Meriiflorum - Thomsonii.
London: B. T. Batsford, 1982. 1989. 1992. Complete set of three volumes. Original cloth. Dust-wrappers. First editions. Few short tears in head and heel of dust-wrapper of volume I; else an excellent set.
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THE SPARROWHAWK. Illustrated by Keith Brockie.
London: T & A D Poyser, 1986. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like wrapper.
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UNTERHALTUNGEN IN DER NATURGESCHICHTE aller arten insekten zum nützlichen gebrauch für die jugend sowohl aus verschiedenen schriften berühmter naturforscher zusammen getragen, als auch, vorzüglich in disesem band, aus eigener beobachtung u. fleiß verfsertiget von F. A. S. Die Schmetterlinge, Mit kupfern.
Altona und Leipzig: Johann Heinrich Kaven, 1799. [8], 517[518] pages. Illustrated with a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 48 hand-coloured plates of butterflies, moths and their respective caterpillars at the rear of the book, the vast majority hand-coloured as issued. Contemporary half sheep, gilt. Binding quite worn; short tear in the frontispiece at the joint between it and the title; some light wrinkling to the very outer blank edges of the folding plates; else a very good copy.
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VICTORIAN GARDENS.
London. B. T. Batsford, 1986. Hardcover. Original price-clipped pictorial dust-wrapper. 285 pages. Illustrated throughout. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. Loosely laid in is an essay by Brent Elliott entitled 'Victorian gardeners and botanical nomenclature,' cut from the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
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ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS.
London: Henry Colburn, 1847. viii, [4], 380, [4 ad's], 24 pages ad's. Original green embossed cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Light rubbing of cloth; few occasional light spots; else an excellent copy.
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