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Close To Shore
by Michael Capuzzo
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times and a National Magazine Award finalist, Michael Capuzzo has been a feature writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Miami Herald. His stories have also appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Life, and Reader's Digest. He lives with his wife and two children in rural New Jersey.
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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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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Marine Algae Of the Eastern Tropical and Subtropical Coasts Of the Americas
by William Randolph Taylor
Marine Life Books & Ephemera
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Vol 104, Parts 3 & 4 1980
by Tyler, M. [Edited by]
Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia. 1980. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Card covers. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings. Spine a little faded. 42 pages. Natural history and Geological papers presented to the Society. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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£6.35
Meet The Great Ones: An Introduction to Whales and Other Cetaceans
by Barstow, Robbins
Wethersfield, Connecticut: Cetacean Society International, 1987. Third printing. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good. Sineti, Donald.
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£9.71
SOUTH LATITUDE
by Ommanney, F.D
Longmans,Green & Co, London, 1940. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Readers Union Edition; (3), 308 pages, illustrated, map on front end papers, 8 b/w photos. No dust jacket, Pictorial Laminated Covers. Shelf wear, Spine faded and split, previous owners signature in pencil on half title, contents clean. The author was a lecturer in zoology and made this voyage with the Discovery II expedition. ''It was written in odd half-hours in the routine of a ship's...
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£3.00
THE MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED:
by Scammon, Charles M
Quarto (12 by 9 1/2 inches) San Francisco: John H. Carmany and Company, 1874. Original First Edition. 319 + v pages, hardcover, bound in original green pebble cloth, with title in gilt on spine, and gilt vignette of a seal on upper front cover; 27 lithographic plates drawn by the author, and printed by Britton and Rey, plus many other fine lithographs (a few drawn by another hand) of whaling equipment, seals, dolphins and porpoises. Neat nineteenth century inked gift inscription on front fly leaf; minor...
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£769.02
SOUTH LATITUDE
by Ommanney, F.D
Longmans,Green & Co, London, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. 1st Edition; x, 308 pages, map end papers, illustrated, frontispiece of the Royal Research Ship Discovery II and sixteen plates. Original covers in PHOTOCOPIED dust jacket. Previous owners bookplate to verso map otherwise contents clean. A nice copy. The author was a lecturer in Zoology & made this voyage on the Discovery II expedition. ''It was written in odd half-hours in the routine of a...
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£10.00
Discovery Reports Vol.II, The age of Fin Whales at physical maturity, pages 403-434,plate V
by Wheeler, J.F.G
Cambridge University Press, UK, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Original Report: BGLE on front cover,pages 403-434,plate V, damp staining and wrinkling to bottom of pages, contents clean. BGLE on front cover, from Colin Bertrams collection. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biology; Whales; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3487. .
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£12.00
History of Fishes: A Complete Known Account of Fishes
by J.R. Norman
Hardback. New.
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£37.14
DISCOVERY REPORTS: Vol VII, pp363-406, plate XV. Some aspects of respiration in Blue and Fin Whales
by Laurie, Alec H
Cambridge University Press, UK, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Original Report: Some aspects of respiration in Blue and Fin Whales, pp363-406, plate XV, 4 figures in text,. Original wrappers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biology; Whales; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3489. .
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£18.00
The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific
by Love, M. S., M. Yoklavich, L. Thorsteinson and J. Butler
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Clothbound
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£32.38
Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling
by Chapman, Charles F
NY: Motor Boating. NF. 1963. Reprint. Hardcover. 1964-1965 edition. 8 3/4" x 11 3/4" hardcover bound in blue cloth. A n ear fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Name inked on the book's fro nt endpaper. Dust soiling to the edges of the upper page block. Shelf wear to spine tips and corners. The dust jacket has chips/rubs to its corners and along the head and base of its spine. The front panel has small tears and creasing to its upper and lower edges. The rear panel has a 2" tear with creasing along...
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£12.14
Records of the South Australian Museum Volume II No 2
by Edited by the Museum Director [Edgar R. Waite]
Adelaide: of South Australia. 1922. Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. Original contents bound in facsimile covers. Illustrated with Black & White Plates and Drawings. 171 pages. Includes articles on: 1. two Ziphioid Whales, not previously recorded in South Australia; 2. Description of a New Australian Fish of the Genus Congiopus; 3. Studies in Australian Sharks No. 4; 4. Record of a European Mollusc not previously reported from Australia; 5. Undescribed Crane-Flies in the South Australian...
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£7.94
A Fishkeeper's Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Aquarium.
by Carrington, N:
London: Salamander Books, 1985. . 8vo pp. 116. Illustrated, laminated boards, 105 colour photos, 14 illustrations. Fine. (Provides essential advice on all aspects of aquarium care). . Catalogs: Fishes, previously owned.
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£4.00
The freshwater fishes of rivers Mungo and Meme and Lakes Kotto, Mboandong and Soden, West Cameroon.
by Trewavas, E:
London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1974. . Cr. 4to pp. 329-419 (+ pls). Printed paper wrappers, 5 plates (inc. 1 colour), 17 text figs, 19 tables. Fine. (Collections of fishes from the upper Mungo and its tributaries and from lakes Kotto, Mboandong and Soden are described and their relationships discussed. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool), Vol. 26, No. 5). . Catalogs: Fishes, previously owned.
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£16.50
DISCOVERY REPORTS: Vol V, pp363-466, plates II and III text figures 1-39 The Urino-Genital Systgem of the Fin Whale
by Ommanney, F.D. & Harrison Matthews, L
Cambridge University Press, UK, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. SIGNED Original Report: The urino-genital system of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) with appendix The dimensions and growth of the kidney of blue and fin whales. Signed "With compliments FD Ommanney"on front cover. Contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biology; Whales; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not...
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£30.00
Eyewonder: Ocean: Enter A World of Discovery
by Samantha Gray
Dorling Kindersley, Great Britain, 2010. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 48 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children's; Children; Marine Life. ISBN/EAN: 9781405361293. Inventory No: 247058. . 9781405361293
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£3.70
DISCOVERY REPORTS: Vol V, pp327-362, text figures 1-10 The Vascular Networks of the Fin Whale
by Ommanney, F.D. & Harrison Matthews, L
Cambridge University Press, UK, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. SIGNED Original Report: The vascular networks (retia mirabilia) of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), Signed "With compliments FD Ommanney"on front cover. Contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biology; Whales; Animals & Birds. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No:...
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£30.00
Australia's Underwater Wilderness
by Hughes, Roland
Ure Smith, Sydney, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Size: Over 12" Tall. Spine Sunned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Natural History & Resources; Nature; ISBN: 0725408057. ISBN/EAN: 9780725408053. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 48728. . 9780725408053
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£15.87
THE VOYAGE OF THE HURON AND THE HUNTRESS:The American Sealers and the Discovery of the Continent of Antarctica
by Stackpole, Edouard A
The Marine Historical Association, 1955. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good/No Dust Jacket. 1955 Edition, 86 pages, illustrated with maps and plates. Original stapled wrappers, wrappers stained from staples as expected, previous owners signature on front cover, contents clean. Folding map is a modern copy laid in (Rosove states this is often missing) This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Whales;...
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£26.50
Mind in the Waters: A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales and Dolphins
by McIntyre, Joan (editor)
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. lite soiling; owner's name; 240 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by B/w. 4 vo.
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£7.25
A VOYAGE TO THE ARCTIC IN THE WHALER AURORA
by Lindsay, David Moore
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, London, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition. ASSOCIATION COPY. ix,11-223 pages, illustrated, frontispiece, 55 b/w plates. Original pictorial hardcover, previous owners bookplate (Henry Brocklehurst) on front pastedown, contents clean. Arctic Bibl. 10168. The author's narrative of an 1884 cruise out of Dundee, to Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound, polar bear shooting, optical phenomena,...
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£225.00
Italian Sea Fishes A Calypso Pocket field guide
by Gerald Jennings
1996: 1996, 1996: One copy only signed by the Author Fish names given in Italian, English and Maltese .
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£59.90
SUCH IS THE ANTARCTIC
by Christensen, Lars
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st English Translation; 1st UK Edition 1st printing. A very scarce first impression, which has no folding maps. The maps were not made in time for this issue, and therefore were only published with the second issue. xiii,15-265 pages, maps on end papers, 45 tinted plates from photos, including frontispiece portrait. Original covers with gilt titling in photocopied dust jacket for protection....
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£105.00
Wielka Encyklopedia Ryb Slodkowodne I Morskie Ryby Europy W Ponad 500 Barwnych Ilustracjacj I Ponad 200 Podwodnych Zdjeciach
by Reichholf, Josef H. and Gunter Steinbach
Warsaw, Poland: Muza SA. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 8370793177 . Book is clean and tight. Corners and ends of spine are bumped and shelf worn. Dust jacket has a tear at the back fold. WRITTEN IN POLISH. Seems to be an atlas or encyclopedia of fishes. Lots of illustrations. Big, heavy book. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 358 pages .
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£40.48
The Natural History of British Shells including figures and descriptions of All the Species Hitherto discovered in Great Britain Systematically Arranged in the Linnean Manner with scientific and general observations on each. Vols I-V
by Edward Donovan
London : Rivington and Co, 1799 A fair copy of Edward Donovan's work on British Shells, in contemporary half morocco bindings with 180 hand coloured plates. Donovan is justly famed for his accurately observed and delicate illustrations of wildlife - mainly birds, insects, fish and shells. He took advantage of the large numbers of specimens being brought back to museums and private collections from voyages and expeditions. British Shells was issued in parts between 1799 and 1803 and subscribers would...
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£1,300.00
Close to Shore : A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence
by Michael Capuzzo
Broadway Books, 2001. 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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£4.95
