Attenborough, David. The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
1st. Ed. Pub. BBC. 1995 pp.320 with col. photos. throughout. Small 4to. Signed by David Attenborough to half-title. Fine hardback in fine dw. Not price clipped. Now protected in clear, removable, plastic cover.
David Attenborough brought into focus to a much wider audience, the hidden lives of plants.
£125.00 [ref: 66506]

Auden, W.H. and MacNeice, L. Letters from Iceland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Faber and Faber. 1937 pp.268 with b/w. photos. & illus. and folding map. 8vo. Hardback. Spotting to fore-edges of text block, ends and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg. With the author W.H. Auden’s signature to ffep.
This highly amusing and unorthodox travel book resulted from a light-hearted summer journey by the young poets Auden and MacNeice in 1936.
£195.00 [ref: 71716]

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]

Barer, R. Lecture Notes on the Use of the Microscope.
2nd. Ed. Rep. Pub. Blackwell. 1959 pp.vii, 76 with text figs. 8vo. Very minor spotting o/w. contents fine. Cloth boards nr. fine with a little spotting in vg. dw.
A scientific introduction to the use of the microscope.
£12.50 [ref: 70263]

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]

Bassett, M.G. (Ed.). Geological Excursions in Dyfed, South-West Wales.
1st. Ed. Pub. Nat. Museum of Wales. 1982 pp.327 with b/w. figs. & geological maps. 8vo. Fine softback with gently sunned spine and a light crease to rear.
The long coastline of Dyfed includes numerous sections of outstanding natural beauty, with magnificent outcrops of Precambrian and Palaeozoic rocks ranging up to the Triassic, so that the area has long been a centre of geomorphological and geological attraction. This book offers a collection of nineteen excursions in the area.
£50.00 [ref: 73014]

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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