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]

BB. A Summer on the Nene. Illustrated by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford.
1st. Ed. Thus. Pub. The Little Egret Press. 2005 pp.ix, 158 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. A limited edition of 600 signed copies, this being copy No. 189.

£60.00 [ref: 65731]

Beaglehole, J.C. The Exploration of the Pacific.
3rd. Ed. Rep. Pub. Adam & Charles Black. 1975 pp.viii, 346 with b/w. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. with gently sunned spine, price-clipped.
An account of Pacific exploration by navigators from Magellan to Cook.
£9.50 [ref: 66871]

Beaglehole, J.C. (Ed.). Cook and the Russians.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Hakluyt Society. 1973 pp.9. 8vo. Nr. fine softback with gently sunned card covers.
£10.00 [ref: 66844]

Beaglehole, J.C. (Ed.). Cook and the Russians.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Hakluyt Society. 1973 pp.9. 8vo. Nr. fine softback with gently sunned card covers, lower corner a little bumped.
£9.00 [ref: 66836]

Beaglehole, Prof. J.C. Cook the Navigator.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Royal Society. 1969 pp.27-38. Large 8vo. Nr. fine softback.

£20.00 [ref: 66843]

Beaglehole, Prof. J.C. The Eva G.R.Taylor Memorial Lecture.
1969 pp.365-382. Large 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
£15.00 [ref: 66845]

Beckingham, Prof. C.F. 2. Annual Report and Statement of Acounts for 1979.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Hakluyt Society. 1980 pp.27. 8vo. Top corner crease o/w. fine softback.
£10.00 [ref: 66885]

Bell, Thomas, A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea.
1st. Ed. Pub. Van Voorst. 1853 pp.lxv, 386 with 174 fine wood engravings. 8vo. Signature. Very minor amount of spotting indeed, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg. with two small closed tears to top of spine.
£20.00 [ref: 65623]

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