Biology & Natural History from Duck Cottage Books

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1899. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1513 8vo. Co-author Hans Gadow. "Cheap Issue" edition; large octavo in size (approximately 230 mm high). Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 1088 pages, illustrated with line drawings in run of text. Condition notes: Boards scuffed and worn, age darkening and spotting to pages especially earliest… Read more about this item

1883. 2nd. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1176 8vo. Title continues: "Being local and personal records towards shewing the distribution of British plants traced through the 112 counties and vice-counties of England, Wales, and Scotland". Dark green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, Introduction etc to xlvii then 612 pages. Coloured folding plant distribution map bound in… Read more about this item

London: West, Newman and Co, 1914. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 621 8vo. Title continues: "with Papers on Climate, Soils, Physiography and Plant Distribution, By Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society". With a signed note from the author to Mrs C A Hammond to front paste down, and a subsequent letter from him pasted in… Read more about this item

North Scituate, Massachusetts: Duxbury Press, 1979. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 1056 8vo. Gift inscription from editor ("Nap" at my best reading) to Pat Bateson. Co-editor William Irons. Papers developed from twp symposia on Sociobiology in 1976. Cream-coloured dust jacket, red cloth-covered boards, white titles to spine, 623 pages. Condition notes: Dust jacket edge-worn, small… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 731 8vo. Co-editors Elizabeth Heitman and Stanley Joel Reiser. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, 294 pages. Condition notes: Light wear to boards, some creasing to earliest pages.

London: Methuen, 1968. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 716 8vo. First English edition. Translated from the Russian. Edited by Professor O W Richards and Sir Boris Uvarov. Cream coloured dust jacket,green cloth-covered boards, silver titles to spine, 319 pages. Condition notes: Dust jacket torn (with no loss), edge-worn and grubby, book clean and bright. Ownership stamp of… Read more about this item

New York and London: Garland STPM Press, 1978. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 946 8vo. Co-editor Marc Bekoff. Based on the proceedings of a symposium in June 1977 at the Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society at Pennsylvania State University. Pictorial dust jacket, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 429 pages. Previous owner's name… Read more about this item

London: Royal Society Publishing, 2010. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 413 4to. A Theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 365 Number 1543 pp 999-1147. Introduction and ten papers, edited by Arhat Abzhanov. ISSN 09628436. Condition notes: A little bumping, but clean, bright and unmarked.

London: Royal Society Publishing, 2013. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 408 4to. A Theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 368 Number 1618. Introduction and 12 papers, compiled and edited by Peter M Kappeler et al. ISSN 09628436. Condition notes: A little bumping, but clean, bright and unmarked.

London: Royal Society Publishing, 2011. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 669 4to. An issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 366 Number 1567 pp935-1187. Papers from a Discussion Meeting organized and edited by Andrew Whiten, Robert Hinde, Christopher B Stringer and Kevin N Laland. ISSN 09628436. Condition notes: A little bumping, but clean, bright… Read more about this item

London: T. & A. D. Poyser Ltd, 1996. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1331 4to. Pictorial dust jacket, light brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 476 pages, Condition notes: Front board and dust jacket bumped to bottom front corner, but a sound, bright, unmarked copy.

Colchester: Harley Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 1566 4to. Co-editor A. Maitland Emmet. Condition notes: Some edge wear and sunning to the dust jacket, which is price-clipped; book clean, firm and bright, but with just a little bumping to top and bottom of spine.

Palhot. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 189 4to. Photographs by Yossi Eshbol. Undated, but gift inscription dated 1997. Condition notes: A little wear to the covers, but overall a bright, firm copy. Bookplate of Jeffery Boswall to inside cover, with a gift inscription.

London: Curwen Books, 1979. Hardback. Good/Good. 1192 4to. Co-editor A. Maitland Emmet. Condition notes: Some edge wear and sunning to the dust jacket, front free end paper with tanning, some dust soiling to fore-edges, fading or rubbing to top of spine, book otherwise clean and sound.

London: Batsford, 1984. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 466 8vo. Co-author Turhan Baytop. Illustrations include 120 colour photographs as well as line drawings and monochrome plates. With a bibliography and index. Condition notes: A little rubbing to the dust jacket (which is unclipped), book in excellent condition.

London: Phoenix, 1962. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 420 8vo. Described by the publishers as a short pioneer work on the relation of birds to the countryside in which they live, and the other creatures that live there. Condition notes: A little bumping to the boards, but internally clean, bright and sound. Some rubbing and chipping to… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1837. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 311 12mo. Eight plates (biological drawings, including sections through the brain) bound in together at end, preceded by pages of keys to plates. Bookeller's cloth-covered boards, with paper label to spine ('Price 5s'). Condition notes: Boards grubby and bumped, with the spine strip split for… Read more about this item

London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1814. 2nd edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 327 12mo. Green leather-covered boards, gilt titles (early 20th century binding?). The introduction is addressed to the authors' grandsons, and the volume is written as a series of letters between two friends, recounting episodes that throw light on instinctive behaviour in animals, as well as… Read more about this item

Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm Ltd, 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 1206 4to. Published for the Ecological Parks Trust. A book intended as a reference source for those involved in creating City Nature Parks. It includes practical advice on tree and shrub management, including, for example, a table of workloads involved in coppicing at four… Read more about this item

Colchester: Harley Books, 1989. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 1534 4to. Co-editor John Heath. Condition notes: A little edge wear to the dust jacket, book clean, firm and bright.