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Peterson Field Guide To Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition
by Lawrence M ; Burr, Brooks M Page
There are nearly 1,000 species of freshwater fishes in North America alone, and identifying them can sometimes be a daunting task. In fact, in just the twenty years since publication of the first edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, the number of species has risen by almost 150, including 19 marine invaders and 16 newly established nonnative species. This second edition incorporates all of these new species, plus all-new maps and a collection of new and revised plates. Some of the...
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The Search For the Giant Squid
by Richard Ellis
The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threatening undersea presence, Architeuthis has remained a mystery. Until now. In this marvelous and beautifully illustrated book, marine biologist, explorer, and artist Richard Ellis presents all that is known about the giant squid. Delving into myth, literature, popular culture, and science, he brings readers face...
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Biotopes Of the Western Arabian Gulf
by Philip W Basson; John E Burchard Jr ; John T Hardy; Andrew R G Price; Illustrator-Lisa Bobrowski
Marine Life Books & Ephemera
A FINE VICTORIAN COLLECTION OF 50 SEAWEED SPECIMENS MOUNTED ONTO DISPLAY CARDS
by Anonymous
1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 40mm x 85mm. No date but the nature of the postcard format suggests Victorian around 1890. 50 sea-weed specimens numbered 5 to 54, each individually carefully pressed and mounted, untitled, but numbered onto uniform display cards (40mm x 85mm). The specimens are generally in a good state of preservation with just a few with light loss. The paper mounts have a single wave, bend to them and lightly toned with very few marks. A very good collection..
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£380.00
Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay
by Sargent, William
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Very clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with small shorebird on cover, blue lettering on spine. No bumping, soiling or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean blue endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Beautifully illustrated with map, photographs in black and white and full color. 139 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, has a couple of very short...
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£17.89
The Book of Sharks
by Richard Ellis
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£7.28
Fish. Classic Natural History Prints
by Dance, S. Peter, Swinney, Geoffrey N
Folio, 128p., green cloth, ill dj, full page color plates. very nice state.
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£26.55
community and evolutionary ecology of North American stream fishes
by matthews and heins
clean, no writing except for previous owner name in ink front cover and front flyleaf. many contributors add to the science of native fish and the conditions of streams. Plenty of data. charts , maps and equations
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£81.34
CEYLON MARINE BIOLOGICAL REPORTS NO. 4 ECOLOGICAL ANS SYSTEMATIC STUDIES OF THE CEYLON SPECIES OF CAULERPA
by Nils Svedelius
Ceylon, 1906. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. b/w illustrations throughout. Covers very good, name to top of front cover, light general wear and fading only. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..
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£24.00
The World of the Arctic Whales Belugas, Bowheads, and Narwhals
by Paine, Stefani
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. 1995. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ has tiny graze to top of spine. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 116 pages. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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£13.05
Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada
by G,V.Wilbey
Ottawa: Fisheries Research board of Canada, Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canadaby WAClements and GVWilbey Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa 1967 443 pages most species pictured Very good reference book in good condition for its age 1967. 1967.
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£5.00
Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
by Matthiessen, Peter
Paperback. Acceptable.
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£8.59
The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry A Grown Man's Game
by Newell, Diane (Editor)
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773507175 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, DJ is sun-faded on spine.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.1 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 336 pages; "(Henry) Doyle (1874-1961) was founder and first general manager of a major consolidation of packing companies, British Columbia Packers Association (established in 1902), which became British Columbia...
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£16.27
CLOSE TO SHORE: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence.
by Capuzzo, Michael
New York:: Broadway Books,, (2001.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Fascinating account of the events of the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the NJ shore - and even a mile from the coast in a creek - killing three adults and one boy, and leaving another badly injured, triggering mass hysteria & launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. While modern science now tells us that shark attacks are...
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£17.49
A Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, with a view chiefly to objects of Natural History, but including also occasional remarks on the state of the inhabitants, their husbandry, and fisheries.
by Patrick Neill
Edinburgh, London: A Constable and Company, and John Murray, 1806 A very good copy of Patrick Neill's description of his tour in Orkney and Shetland in probably contemporary half leather binding. Patrick Neill (1776-1851) was a printer who became particularly known for his 'interests' in botany and horticulture. He was a founding Member and first Secretary of the Wernerian Natural History Society. He visited Orkney and Shetland in 1804/5 and his account was initially published in parts through The Scots...
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£240.00
Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef : Pacific Marine Fishes Book 7
by Burgess, Warren E.; Axelrod, Herbert R
Neptune City, New Jersey, U.S.A.: T.F.H. Publications, 1976. Illustrated laminated boards. Foxing to endpapers. 270 pages with colour illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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£13.05
Records of the South Australian Museum Volume IV No 3, June 30th, 1931
by Hale, Herbert H. [Edited by]
Adelaide: South Australia Museum. 1931. Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and Diagrams. Original contents in facsimile covers. 133 pages. Contains articles on Beaked Whales from South Australia, the Goose-beaked Whale in New Ireland, the Pigmy Right Whale in South Australian Waters, the Australian Xanthid Crab, Pelecypoda from the "Flindersian" Region, South Australia, Staphylinidae in the South Australian Museum and Australian Coleoptera....
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£10.44
THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. ICHTHYOLOGY VOL. I - THE PERCH FAMILY VOL. I
by Jardine, Sir William. Bushnan, J. S
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1835. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Pp.177 ; [40 advert.]engraved frontispiece plate of Joseph Banks, 36 plates, hand coloured from nature, Memoir of sir Joseph Banks. Bound in original plum cloth, a little faded to the spine, near fine. Contents good and tight, untrimmed plates, original green endpapers unmarked, a few uncut pages, no inscriptions. A near fine copy with wonderful hand coloured plates..
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£160.00
Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida Volume Ii. Fishes
by Gilbert, C. R. (ed.)
Gainesville: Univerisity of Florida Press, 1992. New.
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£8.13
New Naturalist Monograph No. 16 THE SALMON
by Jones, J. W
London: Collins, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 192, b/w photographs, illustrations & maps. Dust jacket fine and bright with no fading, not price clipped, now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Green buckram boards, fine. Contents clean and tight, some irregular toning to the first few pages,fore-edges dust soiled and spotted, no inscriptions. A very good copy in a fine jacket..
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£45.00
Lord Howe Island Marine Park
by Coleman, Neville
Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd, 2002. 96 pages with 750 colour photo's. A comprehensive marine life identification guide for the South Pacific. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£18.27
Warmwater Game Fishes of California
by California Dept. of Fish and Game
California Dept. of Fish and Game. Very Good-. 1981. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Fourth printing (revised). Very good staplebound paperback with tight binding and clean pages. Minor shelf wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. Some discoloration/yellowing to edges of covers. ; 6.60 x 5 x 0.15 inches .
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£3.66
Red Sea Invertebrates
by Vine, Peter
London: Immel Publishing, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Stark, Jane. 224 pages including an Index, Reference lists, Glossary. Illustrated throughout with color photographs and black & white drawings. Several color illustrations. small chip on back panel of jacket at upprt spine corner. Light general wear.
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£24.40
The Fishes and the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History
by Goulding, Michael
University of California Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£6.45
Notes on a collection of cold-blooded vertebrates from the Olympic Mountains
by Meek, Seth E
Meek, Seth E. 1899. Notes on a collection of cold-blooded vertebrates from the Olympic Mountains. Field Columbian Museum. 1 (12): 225-236. Salmo bathoecetor sp. nov., Salmo clarki jordani subsp. nov., Salmo clarki declivifrons subsp. nov., Thamnophis leptocephala olympia subsp. nov., Thamnophis rubristriata sp. nov.
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£2.44
Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia : Dugongs and Manatees
by Helene Marsh, Thomas J. O'Shea and John E. Reynolds III
Cambridge University Press, 2011. 521 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£44.36
An Artist's Catch: Watercolors
by Stick, Frank
Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1981-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x8x1. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores. Hard cover with slipcase. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to boards and slipcase. Clean, tight binding. First edition. First printing. Full number line and/or stated 1st edition. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.
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£23.58
