Brown, R.N.R. The Polar Regions. A Physical and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Antarctic.
1st. Ed. Pub. Methuen. 1927 pp.ix, 245 with maps. Hdbk. Ffep. removed. VG.
Considers arctic exploration, climate, natural history, vegetation, the Eskimo, whaling, colonization and more.
£23.00 [ref: 44404]

Browne, Montagu. Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy and Modelling. A manual of instruction in the methods of preserving and reproducing the correct form of all natural objects including a chapter on the modelling of foliage.
1st. Ed. Pub. A.& C. Black. 1896 pp.xii, 463 with b/w. photographic plates. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. With Rotherham Naturalists Society neat stamp to ffep., half-title and titlepage. Contents fine. Original gilt lettered blue cloth boards gently sunned, o/w. thor. vg.
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Brunton, Paul. (Ed.). Matthew Flinders. Personal letters from an extaordinary life.
1st. Ed. Pub. Hordern House. 2002 pp.262 with colour illus. 8vo. Only 2,000 copies printed. A nr. fine hdbk.
£35.00 [ref: 49504]

Buczacki, Stefan. Fauna Britannica.
1st. Ed. Pub. Hamlyn. 2002 pp.528 with colour photographs. 4to. Part of front board top edge rubbed o/w. fine hdbk. in good plus, repaired dw.
Fauna Britannica is both an authoritative reference work on British wildlife and an illuminating look into our heritage and beliefs.
£10.00 [ref: 49937]

Budge, Sir E.A. Wallis. The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China.
1st. Ed. Pub. Religious Tract Society. 1928 pp.xvi, 335 with 16 plates. 8vo. Hardback. Signature of H.M. Darlow to front pastedown. Scattered spotting, o/w. contents fine. Bound in original publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, all in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition.
The long-title continues ‘Or the history of the life and travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe, and Markos who as Mar Yahbhallaha III became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church in Asia’.
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Burger, Joanna. (Ed.). Seabirds & Other Marine Vertebrates. Competition, Predation, and Other Interactions.
1st. Ed. Pub. Columbia Uni. 1988 pp.x, 339 with b/w. text figs. Royal 8vo. A nr. fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.
£12.00 [ref: 50147]

Burgis, M. J. & Morris, P. The Natural History of Lakes.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1987. pp.218 with colour photos., and b/w. illus. Small 4to. Thor. vg. hardback in gently sunned, thor. vg. dw. A paper entitled ‘Ecological aspects of the introduction of fish species into natural habitats in Europe, with special reference to the Netherlands’ by C.M. Vooren (1971) loosely inserted.
A comprehensive introduction to lakes of the world covering fauna and flora, geology and ecology.
£10.00 [ref: 57393]

Burgis, M. J. & Morris, Pat. The Natural History of Lakes.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge. 1987 pp.218 with colour photographs and b/w. text figs. 8vo. A nr. fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.
£10.00 [ref: 49960]

Burgis, Mary, J. & Morris, P. The Natural History of Lakes.
1st. Pub. C.U.P. 1987 pp.218 with coloured photographs and other text illus.VG. in dw.
The Natural History of Lakes provides a fully illustrated clearly written introduction to the fascinating world of lakes and lake communities.
£8.50 [ref: 26631]

Burton, J.S. Sir Joseph Banks. Rooted in Lincolnshire.
Pub. Sir Joseph Banks Society. 2012 pp.127 with illus. and colour plates throughout. A new copy in card covers.
Focusing on the life of Sir Joseph Banks and Lincolnshire’s connections with Australia.
£27.50 [ref: 44707]