Bircham, P.M.M. (et al). An Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Cambridgeshire. (Vice County 29) using 2 x 2 kilometre squares (tetrads) 1988-92.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Cambridge Bird Club. 1994 pp.173 with b/w. dist. maps & illus. 8vo. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine softback.
By the late 1980s most English counties had produced a 2 kilometre square analysis of breeding birds, known as a Tetrad Atlas. This book contains the results carried with the assistance of the Cambridge Bird Club.
£12.50 [ref: 69104]

Bird, R. Cassell’s Directory of Climbers and Wall Shrubs. Everything you need to create a garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cassell. 2000 pp.112 with colour photos and illus., throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
An instant reference to more than 250 plants.
£5.00 [ref: 46995]

Birding World Complete List of the Birds of the Western Palearctic.
1st. Ed. Pub. Birding World. 1995 pp.21. 8vo. Fine softback. Out-of-print. Complete checklist with columns for recording sightings.
£7.50 [ref: 55875]

Birk, L.A. The Paphiopedilum Grower’s Manual.
2nd. Rev. Ed. Pub. Pisang Press. 2004 pp.xii, 281 with col. & b/w. photos. 4to. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
The first edition of this detailed work was very well received. This second revised and expanded edition picks up where the first left off and provides the information needed to become successful.
£85.00 [ref: 61607]

Birkhead, T. Great Auk Islands. A field biologist in the Arctic.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1993 pp.viii, 275 with colour, b/w. photos and illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
In this book Tim Birkhead describes in personal detail the different facets of research and brings to life both the difficulties and the excitement of working in the Arctic.
£40.00 [ref: 68216]

Birkhead, T. The Wonderful Mr Willughby. The First True Ornithologist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2018 pp.xii, 353 with colour photos. and b/w. illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw.
Willughby's ‘Ornithologiae libri tres’, published posthumously in 1676 by his friend and tutor John Ray, is considered the beginning of scientific ornithology in Europe. In this book Tim Birkhead celebrates his short life and pays tribute to the insight and scientific rigour he brought to the study of birds.
£25.00 [ref: 55367]

Birks, J.D.S. & Kitchener, A.C. (Eds.). The Distribution and Status of the Polecat Mustela Putorius in Britain in the 1990s.
Pub. The Vincent Wildlife Trust & National Museums of Scotland. 1994 pp.152 with colour photos and text figs. 4to. Fine softback.
£7.50 [ref: 48974]

Bishop, Billy. Cley Marsh and its Birds. Fifty years as Warden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Boydell Press. 1983 pp.133 with colour frontis., b/w. photos., illus., and map endpapers. 8vo. Bookplate. Dedication “Best Wishes, April 1983, Billy Bishop” below frontis., and article about Billy Bishop from the Eastern Daily Press, 1983, neatly tipped in on rfep. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. A unique copy.
Comes with two copies of ‘History of Cley Marshes’ by Lieut.-Col. Hubert Blount (1964 & 1968 respectively). The 1968 copy is revised and updated.
£75.00 [ref: 55917]

Bishop, David. Causal Botany; or A Treatise on the causes and Character of Changes in Plants, especially of changes which are productive of Subspecies or Varieties.
1st. Ed. Pub. H. and W. Wright. 1829 pp.viii, 184. 8vo. Hardback. Marbled endpapers and matching marbling to fore-edges of text block. Minor bump to top-corner o/w. contents fine. Full-calf boards with decorative gilt borders and spine in vg. plus condition. Scarce.
Bishop’s comprehensive treatise on the causes and character of changes in plants. The book mainly focuses on the changes that lead to the development of subspecies or varieties in plants. The author examines the reasons behind the changes in plants, including the effect of the environment, the influence of cultivation, and the impact of hybridization. The book also explores the role of genetics in plant variation and the importance of selective breeding in the development of new plant varieties.
£200.00 [ref: 68317]

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Bishop, Gillian. The Ecology of the Rocky Shores of Sherkin Island. A Twenty-Year Perspective.
Pub. Sherkin Island Marine Station. 2003 pp.xiv, 305 with colour and b/w. photographs and text figs. 4to. A fine softback. In-print at £33.00.
£20.00 [ref: 49081]