Audubon, John James and Bachman, The Rev. J. The Imperial Collection of Audubon Animals. The Quadrupeds of North America.
1st. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1968 pp.xvi, 307 with colour plates throughout. Large 4to. Hardback. Contents fine. Original green cloth binding in vg. condition with gilt lettering, with light bumping to fore-corners and a little loss to foot of spine.
These paintings capture in great detail the breathtaking beauty of the four-footed creatures that populated the North American forests and plains of his time.
£10.00 [ref: 63643]

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Baker-Gabb, R. Hills and Vales of the Black Mountain District. On the Borders of Brecon, Monmouth and Hereford.
2nd. Ed. Pub. The Author. [1918] pp.118 with fold-out map and b/w. photos., one a fold-out panorma. 8vo. Hardback. Contents nr. fine. Original cloth boards vg.
A revised edition of this book, first published in 1913.
£10.00 [ref: 68520]

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Baldwin, R. Marine Life of Arabian Seas.
Pub. SeaWords. 2005 pp.v, 209 with excellent colour photography throughout. A thoroughly vg. copy in dw. wich is a little bumped at corners. Text duplicated in English and Arabic. Scarce.
£20.00 [ref: 46836]

Baltscheffsky, H. (Ed.). Origin and Evolution of Biological Energy Conversion.
1st. Ed. Pub. Wiley. 1996 pp.xiii, 313 with b/w. figs. 8vo. A nr. fine hardback. In-print at £104.00.
An examination of how bioenergetic reactions and systems may have originated and evolved. Also includes a discussion on the evolution of the most essential components of photosynthetic and respiratory energy conversion.
£40.00 [ref: 54754]

Barnes, R.S.K. The Brackish-Water Fauna of Northwestern Europe.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge. 1994 pp.xvi, 287 with b/w. line drawings. 4to. A fine hdbk. RRP £110.00.
£30.00 [ref: 50213]

Barnett, P. Sea Safari with Professor Smith.
1st. Ed. Pub. the Author / S. African Assoc. for Marine Biological Research. [1953] pp.158 with b/w photos. 8vo. Small address label to paste down and signature to ffep. Nr. fine hardback. Special Private Edition, ‘limited to 250 copies for the British Empire’ this copy No. 126, inscribed by the author.
Author was member of the 1951 J.L.B. Smith fishing expedition to the islands of Mozambique and Ibo. He tells the story from his own point of view as photographer and general assistant, with interesting comments on J.L.B. Smith and his wife Margaret.
£60.00 [ref: 67252]

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Bartlett, E. (Ed. et al). The Breconshire Naturalist. Journal of the Brecknock County Naturalists’ Trust. Number 10 to 62.
1st. Ed. Pub. B.C.N.T. 1969-1987 Thirty five parts. 4to. Softbacks. VG. to vg. plus condition. Comprises all but three periodicals - Numbers 36, 46 and 51.
A periodical devoted to all matters concerning the flora and fauna of Breconshire.
£50.00 [ref: 63121]

Bate, C.S. & Westwood, J.O. A History of the British Sessile-Eyed Crustacea.
1st. Ed. Pub. Van Voorst. 1868 Two vol. set with text figs. and vignettes. 8vo. Hardbacks. Contents exceptionally clean and nr. fine. Original cloth boards in fine condition with just a hint of sunning to spine. A most pleasing set.
£90.00 [ref: 65912]

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Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the Equator, during eleven years of travel. With a memoir of the author by Edward Clodd.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. John Murray. 1892 pp.lxxxix, 395 with b/w. frontis. portrait, plates and illus. to text, maps (one being fold-out). 8vo. Hardback. Bookplate and insc. With numerous, informed notes to contents, o/w. contents fine. Internal hinges strengthened with black tape. Original cloth with gilt title and decoration to front, in good to vg. conditon with tape repair to head of spine.
Henry Walter Bates and his co-naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace embarked together, in 1848, on an expedition to the forests of the Amazon in search of plants and animals that would help solve the problems of the origin of species. Originally published in 1863, this book catalogues a wondrous range of natural life in vivid description and detail.
£39.50 [ref: 64524]

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Bates, Tony. et al. The Natural History of Dorset.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Dorset Wildlife Trust/ The Dovecote Press. 1997 pp.167 with many colour photos. 4to. A thor. vg. softback, very gently sunned on front and spine of card covers.
£10.00 [ref: 52284]