Search Results: Natural History from Neil Williams, Bookseller

Washington : U.S. Department of Commerce , 2008 . First Edition . Near Fine . 8VO . A handsome production bound in gilt stampe green faux-leather with marbled edges and endpapers. Well illustrated with both period and contemporary photographs. Lightest of wear. Very mildly ex-marine research facility library with stamps on half-title and on blank rear page.

Ottawa : National Museum of Canada , 1957 . First Edition . . . Bulletin # 150, Biological Series 52. Not illustrated, comprehensive. Owner's name on FEP and title page.

Montreal : Canadian Wildlife Service , 1996 . First Edition . Near Fine/Near Fine . 4TO . Co-published with L'Association Quebecoise Des Groupes d'Ornithologues and The Province of Quebec Society for the Protection of Birds. A beautifully produced and meticulously researched work on the birds of Quebec. Profusely illustrated with maps, charts and photographs. Lightest of wear to book and jacket. An enormous and very heavy book, special shipping considerations may apply.

London : Gurney and Jackson , 1889 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . Extensively illustrated with wood engravings, some full page, others vignettes. In the prize binding of Stonyhurst School in mottled calf with circular vignette of the school building on front cover, gilt lettering on both boards and spine, inside dentelles. Marbled endpapers, AEG. Bound by Mudie. Covers worn and scuffed, prize bookplate. Somewhat worn and a very attractive book.

San Diego : Natural History Museum , 1959 . First Edition . VG in Stapled Wraps . 12MO . Light wear.

Victoria : King's Printer , 1931 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . A rather wonderful bird book produced for BC schools with colour illustrations and black and white photos printed on glossy stock. Colour illustrations by Alan Brooks and F C Hennessey. Text pages browning, very light wear, all in all a very respectable copy of an attractive book.

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart , 1966 . First Edition . NF/VG . Folio . An absolutely superb groundbreaking book. Beautiful accurate reproductions of painting by J F Lansdowne. Jacket toned along spine, several tiny tears, some wear to upper spine tip. A large and heavy book, special shipping considerations may apply.

London : Pelican , 1938 . First Edition . VG in Wraps/V Poor . 12MO . With colour frontis, thirty wood-engravings and sixteen photogravure plates. A pelican Special. With panel of dj describing Gibbings and his work laid in.

New York : Chemical Publishing Inc , 1948(1945) . New Edition . VG . 8VO . Ex-library, usual marks, missing FEP. Forty attractive colour plates of minerals

London : Andre Deutsch , 1976 . First Edition . F/NF . 8VO . Illustrated by David Thelwell, A wide ranging guide to the English countryside. Nice book in very lightly worn jacket.

Berlin : Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vosen , 1933 . . VG . 8VO . Text in German, Deutsch. Illustrated with black and white pictures of nesting eagles. Very light wear.

New York : Knopf , 1971 . First Edition . NF/VG . 8VO . Profusely illustrated. Retraces the trail of ingenious argument, inspired guesswork and passionate and eccentric devotion by which the great astronomers charted the galaxy in which we spin.

New York : W W Norton , 1993 . First Edition . F/NF . 8VO . Essays originally published in Natural History magazine. Lightest of wear to unclipped jacket.

Vancouver : Greystone Press , 2007 . First Edition . F/F . 8VO . A memoir by one of British Columbia's best known birders and ornithologists. A fine copy in like jacket.

Boston : Hougton Mifflin , 1963 . Book Club Edition . VG/VG- . 8VO . Introduction by Marston Bates, drawings by Jerome Connoly.

New York : Delacorte Press , 1978 . First Edition . F/VG . 8VO . Illustrated by D D Tyler. A lovely little production with line drawings by Tyler. Several small tears to priceclipped jacket.

Toronto : Little Brown , 1995 . First Edition . NF/NF . 8VO . Remarkable story with equally remarkable photographs of Lishman's extraordinary migration in an ultralight with a flock of geese. Gift inscription, otherwise very light wear to book and unpriceclipped jacket.

Glebe, NSW : Australasian Medical Publishing , 1946(1938) . Fourth Printing . NF . 8VO . A very attractive book with 21 mounted plates by Evans showing various Australian gum trees. Gift inscription, very light wear.

New York : Oxford University Press , 1977(1951) . Second Edition . VG/VG . 8VO . Nice copy in jacket with 2 inch tear on rear cover.

Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii , 1972 . First Edition . VG/VG . 4TO . Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and drawing with some lovely colour reproductions of paintings. Lightest of wear to book, jacket worn at extremities. A large and heavy book.