Alcock, Ian. Deer. A Personal View.
1st. Ed. Pub. Swan-Hill Press. 1996 pp. 224 with b/w. text illus. throughout. 8vo. ‘Christmas 1996’ calligraphically inscribed to ffep. Some spotting to ffep., o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw., spine gently sunned. Charming, illustrated, card with a note written and signed by the author, loosely inserted.
An informative and highly readable book, the result of thirty years studying and observing deer in the wild.
£12.00 [ref: 72122]

Alcock, Ian. Kia. A Study of Red Deer.
1st. Ed. Pub. Swan Hill. 1999 pp.171 with b/w. photographs and illus. Large 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP £19.95.
A fascinating account of Ian Alcock’s relationship with a tame red deer hind, from birth to early adulthood.
£16.00 [ref: 51619]

Alcock, J. An Enthusiasm for Orchids. Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution.
1st. Ed. Oxford Univ. Press. 2006 pp.xi, 302 with col. photos. throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
This book abounds with clever explanations for how these exceptionally complex flowers came to be shaped as they are. The reader can explore many aspects of orchid biology and history ranging from how some species avoid inbreeding, to the origins of orchids from an ancestor that belonged to the asparagus family.
£25.00 [ref: 68150]

Alder, J. A Catalogue of the Zoophytes of Northumberland and Durham.
1st. Ed. thus Pub. F. & W. Dodsworth. 1857 pp.72 with 8 b/w. plates. 8vo. Hardback. Ex. academic lib. Neat note (dated 1972) about the publication to ffep. Minor spotting to some plates, o/w. contents fine. Original quarter leather binding in vg. condition. Scarce.
With three additional papers, by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman, bound at rear, viz ‘On Merona, an undescribed Genus of British Hydrozoa’ (1865) pp.1; ‘On undescribed British Hydrozoa, Actinozoa, and Polyzoa’ (1864) pp.9 with 3 b/w. plates; and ‘Notes on some Rare British Polyzoa, with Descriptions of New Species’ (c.1867) pp.11 with 3 b/w. plates.
£90.00 [ref: 62039]

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Alder, J. & Hancock, A. (Hopkinson, J. (Ed.)). The British Tunicata. An Unfinished Monograph.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Ray Society. 1905 - 1912 Three volume set with 66 plates, many in colour, and b/w. illus within text. 8vo. TEG. Ex-lib. Contents fine. Original decorated blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines which show a little wear (Vols. I and II), o/w., thor. vg.
£85.00 [ref: 59039]

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Alder, J. & Hancock, A. (Hopkinson, J. (Ed.)). The British Tunicata. An Unfinished Monograph.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Ray Society. 1905-1912 Three volume set with 66 plates, many in colour, and b/w. illus within text. 8vo. TEG. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text-block, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines in fine condition. With plain, brown paper wrappers.
£120.00 [ref: 65732]

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Alderton, D. Crocodiles and Alligators of the World.
Pub. Facts on File. 1998 pp.190 with colour and b/w. photographs throughout. A fine copy in illus. boards.
£12.50 [ref: 41490]

Alerstam, Thomas. Bird Migration.
1st. Pbk. Ed. Rep. Pub. Cambridge. 1994 pp.vii, 420 with b/w. text figs. Royal 8vo. A nr. fine softback, gently sunned along spine and edges.
£38.00 [ref: 50946]

Alexander, W.B. An Annotated List of the Birds of Berkshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Ornithological Soc. 1952 pp.42. 8vo. Bookplate. Thor. vg. softback. Very scarce.
£48.00 [ref: 55908]

Alfadhel, A.F. Birds of Kuwait. A Portrait.
1st. Ed. Pub. Abdullah F. Alfadhel. 2005 pp.304 with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Text in Arabic with English and Latin names and Indexes and with a chapter on Bird-Watching Sites in Kuwait in English. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Includes a complete list of all 380 recorded birds in Kuwait, and more than 400 superb photographs.
£40.00 [ref: 60153]