Harris, J.C. Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Mushrooms.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2014 pp.192 with numerous colour photos., throughout. 8vo. A new softback.
Covers 158 of the most common mushrooms found in the UK, northern and central Europe. Includes details of key features, habitiat and season.
£11.99 [ref: 54406]

Harris, T. & Franklin, K. Shrikes & Bush-Shrikes. Including wood-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, flycatcher-shrikes, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helm. 2000 pp.392 with 41 fine colour plates of illustrations. Royal 8vo. A new hdbk. in new dw. RRP £50.00.
£45.00 [ref: 49778]

Harrison, C. & Luscombe, D. Bedgebury Florilegium. Celebrating 100 years of the Bedgebury National Pinetum.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2025 pp.103 with colour and monochrome illus. throughout. 8vo. New hardback. RRP. £18.00.
Today, Bedgebury is home to nearly 12,000 tree specimens and is a centre for conifer science and conservation. At the heart of the book are the botanical paintings by the Bedgebury National Pinetum Florilegium Society.
£16.00 [ref: 71342]

Harrison, Peter (et al). Seabirds. The New Identification Guide.
1st. Ed. thus Pub. Lynx. 2021 pp.600 with 239 full-colour plates illustrating more than 3,800 individual figures. 8vo. Hardback. New.
This is the first comprehensive guide to the world’s 434 species of seabirds, to be published since the 1983 publication of Harrison’s ‘Seabirds: An Identification Guide’. It covers all known seabirds, beginning with seaducks and grebes and ending with cormorants and pelicans.
£68.99 [ref: 72296]

Hart, Ian & Edmundson, William. A History of Whaling in Brazil. From royal fish to Japanese delicacy.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2017 pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback.
This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.
£20.00 [ref: 55141]

Hart, Ian. Austral Enterprises. A History of shore, bay-based and pelagic whaling and sealing in the Southern Ocean encompassing the Southern Whaling & Sealing Company, The Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Company and their associated enterprises at South Georgia, the Antarctic peninsula, the South Indian Ocean and South Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2020 pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author.
There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.
£30.00 [ref: 58836]

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Hart, Ian. Pesca. The History of Compania Argentina de Pesca Sociedad Anonima of Buenos Aires. An Account of the Pioneer Modern Whaling Company in the Antarctic.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2021 pp.674 with over 500 b/w. photographs plus maps and illus. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Signed by author. Print run of just 400 copies.
A monumental work. This much expanded second edition includes new information and photographs, courtesy of contact with yet more of those who served the company in one capacity or another, and the opportunity to delve into further company reports, papers and correspondence. In doing so it provides not only a history of the company, but a feel for whaling and its consequences for both humans and mammals in the Southern Ocean.
£40.00 [ref: 61724]

Hawkins, F et al. Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands. Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius, Reunion and Rodrigues.
1st. Ed. Pub. Helm. 2015 pp.336 with 124 plates of colour illustrations & 350 colour distribution maps. 8vo. New softback. RRP £30.00.
Every resident and migrant species is covered in full detail with a colour distribution map for each species. Vagrants are also treated in detail, but without maps.
£27.00 [ref: 53648]

Heaf, D. Treatment-Free Beekeeping.
1st. Ed. Pub. NBB & IBRA. 2021 pp.120 with colour photos. Large 8vo. New softback.
With the help of 30 examples of treatment-free European beekeepers, this book documents the success of beekeeping without chemicals and gives details of the bee husbandries of the beekeepers presented.
£24.95 [ref: 61013]

Heath, A. & R. Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana. Including the Okavango Delta.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2008 pp.593 with 2,000 colour photographs. Large 8vo. New hardback. RRP £84.99.
Includes over 500 flowering herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, sedges and their allies.
£49.99 [ref: 58194]