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Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828 First President of the Linnean Society of London

Walker, M. · 1988 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Linnean Society London vii, 60, 15 b/w figs. . PB. Vg. From the library of Keith Hyatt (1932-2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, with his name inside front cover.. . [9780950620718]

Captain Cook: Obsession and Betrayal in the New World

Collingridge, V. · 2002 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Ebury Press vii, 376, text illus, maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. Light browning to paper. From the library of Keith Hyatt (1932-2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, with his name to the front pastedown.. Captain Cook was a man making two journeys, one public and o...

Tropical Renaissance: North American Artists Exploring Latin America 1839-1879

Manthorne, K.E. · 1989 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Smithsonian Washington x, 235, Numerous b/w & col illus. . PB. Vg in d/w.. . [9780874747140]

Huxley at Work: With the Scientific Correspondence of T.H. Huxley and the Rev. Dr George: With the Scientific Correspondence of T.H.Huxley and Rev.Dr.George Gordon

Collie, M. · 1991 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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MacMillan Press xii, 158, 8 b/w plates. . HB. Vg in slightly creased d/w. Signature of Dr Paul G. Davis, Registrar at the Natural History Museum, London to endpaper.. This work provides evidence for a new interpretation of Huxley, an insight into the development of his views o...

The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin

Herbert, S. (Ed.) · 1980 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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British Museum (Natural History) London 164, b/w photos, text figs. . PB. Orig. printed wrappers, typed title-label to spine. Vg.. Bull. BM(NM) Hist. Series Vol. 7. The Red Notebook is one of a series of notebooks kept by Charles Darwin during and immediately following his ser...

The History of the Geological Society of London

Woodward, H.B. · 1907 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Geological Society London xix, 336, col frontis, 26 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, minor wear, shelf label removed from spine. Binding cracked in couple places, but holding firm. Ex-lib. from an institutional library with several stamps. Book-plate of James Marmaduke Edmo...

Birds, Beasts, and Men: A Humanists History of Zoology

Hays, H.R. · 1973 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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J.M. Dent 383, . . HB. Vg in slightly worn d/w.. . [9780460041294]

Naturalist at Large

Barbour, T. · 1950 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Robert Hale London 258, frontis, 22 b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg.. A fascinating autobiographical memoir by Thomas Barbour(1884-1946), American herpetologist, from 1927 to 1946 he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Th...

Traveller in a Vanished Landscape: The Life and Times of David Douglas

Morwood, W. · 1973 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Gentry Books London 244, b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w.. Between 1823 and 1834 Douglas travelled in North America, collecting plants on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society of London.. [9780856140228]

Miss Jekyll: Portrait of a Great Gardener

Massingham, B. · 1973 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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David & Charles Newton Abbot 195, 59 b/w photos. . HB. Some marginal spotting. Good in d/w.. Biography of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), British pioneering garden designer.. [9780715357576]

The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants

Pavord, A. · 2005 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Bloomsbury London 471, 158 col + b/w plates. 255x195mm. HB. Vg in d/w. Gift inscription to endpaper.. . [9780747579526]

Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed in the Netherlands and Belgium and of Dutch and Flemish Books printed in other Countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum

Johnson, A.F.; Scholderer, V. (Eds) · 1965 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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British Museum viii, 274, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg.. .

Recollections of a Half-Century's Association with the House of Batsford (1893-1943)

Hanneford-Smith, W. · 1943 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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W. Hanneford-Smith 32, b/w illus. . PB. Wrappers (partly faded). Vg.. Provides an personal overview of the history of the publishers B.T. Batsford Ltd, established in Holborn in 1843..

Henry Walter Bates: Naturalist of the Amazons

Woodcock, G. · 1969 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Faber London 269, b/w portrait frontis, b/w plates, maps. . HB. Vg in price-clipped d/w. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his name to endpaper.. . [9780571088003]

Charles Waterton: A Biography

Edginton, B. · 1996 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Lutterworth Press Cambridge xi, 254, text illus. . HB. Vg in d/w (light creasing to head of d/w spine). Owner's name to endpaper.. Biography of the remarkable naturalist, who travelled extensively in South America and founded the world's first nature reserve in the grounds of ...

Dr Martin Lister: A Bibliography

Keynes, G. · 1981 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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St Paul's Bibliographies xii, 52, 18 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, cloth, gt. Vg.. This edition limited to 350 copies. First published in <i>The Book Collector</i> (1979-80).. [9780906795040]

The Huxley Papers: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Correspondence, Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Papers of The Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. preserved in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London

Dawson, Warren, R. · 1946 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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MacMillan London xii, 201, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt title to front board. Vg.. .

Thomas Beddoes, 1760-1808

Fox, R. · 2009 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Royal Society 111, b/w illus. . PB. Vg in d/w.. Notes & Records of the Royal Society Vol 63(3). Beddoes was an English physician and scientific writer and an associate of leading scientific figures of the time..

Darwin

Desmond, A.; Moore, J. · 1991 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Michael Joseph London xxi, 808, 91 b/w illus. . PB. Vg. Some light creases to spine, crease to rear wrapper.. . [9780718134303]

The Naturalists: Pioneers of Natural History

Jenkins, A.C. · 1978 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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Hamish Hamilton New York 200, col and b/w illus.. . HB. Vg in d/w. Owner's bookplate to endpaper.. . [9780241899991]