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N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1975. pp.540 with plates. Rubbed covers, contents vg. Softback.

Botany Orchids . 1st. Ed. Pub. Timber Press. 1997. pp.379 with 103 colour photos. plus b/w. text figs. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. Africa has some 1,550 species from 99 genera of orchids. This book covers the orchids of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding Madagascar and other Indian Ocean Islands.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. The Hakluyt Society. 2000. pp.xv, 139 with col. frontis. portrait and b/w. maps. Large 8vo. Two indentations to front board and dw. o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw. This volume begins with an introductory biography and presents Van den Broeke’s account of his four trading voyages to Africa in the early seventeenth century.

Flammarion, La Maison Rustique., 1986. 1st. Ed.. pp.238 with colour photos. and b/w. illus. Small 8vo. French with scientific and English names. Neat dedication by Author to verso of half-title. Near fine hardback.

North Wales Naturalists� Trust Bangor., 1970. pp.xiv, 185 with fold-out map at rear. A thor. very good hdbk. in vg. Tunnicliffe illustrated, dw.

Clarendon Press., 1966. 1st. Ed.. pp. 341 with line drawings and figs. throughout. A vg. copy in chipped dw.

Univ. of Calif. Press, Berkeley., 1976. 1st. Ed.. pp. xvi, 445 with text figs. A vg. copy in dw.

Ornithology Monographs . 1st. Ed. Reissue Pub. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1983. pp.liii, 208 with frontis. portrait of Lack and eight b/w. and col. plates and b/w. figs. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. Re-issued with an introduction and notes. Described by him as "a work of natural history, based on a study of living birds in the Galapagos and of dead specimens in museums", Lack has attemped to trace the successive stages of the evolution of Galapagos finches from trivial differences between species to much more striking adaptations.

Cambridge Uni. Press., 1983. 1st. Ed. Reissue. pp.liii, 208 with colour plates, b/w. illus., maps and tables. 8vo. Fine softback. This edition contains a new introduction and notes not present in the first edition Described by him as "a work of natural history, based on a study of living birds in the Galapagos and of dead specimens in museums", Lack has attemped to trace the successive stages of the evolution of Galapagos finches from trivial differences between species to much more striking adaptations.

Blackwell., 1976. pp.xv, 445 with figs. in text. VG. in similar dw.

Ornithology Monographs . 4th. Ed. Rep. Pub. Witherby. 1965. pp.240 with b/w. illus., by Robert Gillmor. 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw., showing some sunning on spine. David Lack added information as it came to light for each new edition of �The Life of the Robin�. This fourth edition also contains an entirely fresh set of illustrations prepared by Robert Gillmor (1936-2022).

Cambridge Bird Club., 1934. 1st. Ed.. pp. 118 with folding map. 8vo. With bookplate and signature. VG. Hardback. Scarce.

Ornithology Monographs . 3rd. Ed. Rep. Pub. Witherby. 1944. pp.200 with 6 b/w. photographic plates plus illus. Small 8vo. Thor. vg. hardback. David Lack added information as it came to light for each new edition of �The Life of the Robin�.

Blackwell., 1976. 1st. Ed.. pp.xvi, 445 with b/w. photos., maps and figs. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.

Cambridge Uni. Press., 1983. 1st. Ed. Reissue. pp.liii, 208 with colour, b/w. plates and illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. This edition contains a new introduction and notes not present in the first edition Described by him as "a work of natural history, based on a study of living birds in the Galapagos and of dead specimens in museums", Lack has attemped to trace the successive stages of the evolution of Galapagos finches from trivial differences between species to much more striking adaptations.

Cambridge Bird Club., 1934. 1st. Ed.. pp.118 with folding map. 8vo. Bookplate. Nr. fine hardback in original blue cloth boards. A very pleasing copy. David Lack�s first book.

Edward Grey Inst. of Field Ornithology. -, 19391944. Two volume set with b/w. photos. and figs. 8vo. & Large 8vo. Hardbacks. Ownership insc. to Vol. I, neat stamp of R.S.R. Fitter to both vols. Thor. vg. set. Ornithological articles reprinted from Journal of Animal Ecology, British Birds and Proceeding of the Zoological Society, plus Report of the Little Owl Food Inquiry (1936-37) by Alice Hibbert-Ware, bound into two volumes. Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter (1913-2005) was a British naturalist, author and expert of wildflowers.

Ornithology County avifaunas . 1st. Ed. Pub. Buckinghamshire Bird Club. 1993. pp.344 with b/w. photos., illus., and dist. maps throughout. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. The first comprehensive guide to all of the birds that breed and that have been seen in the county since records began.

Botany Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. Prestel. 2006. pp.303 with text figs. and 120 full-page colour plates. Large 4to. Fine hardback with decorative cloth binding in publisher�s card sleeve. Out-of-print. Francis I of Austria, the last monarch to rule over the Holy Roman Empire, was obsessed with flowers. His imperial gardens, where he realized his passion for flowers, remain one of Vienna's most beloved treasures. In 1791, Francis I commissioned Matthias Schmutzer to paint portraits of every flower in the garden and this collection features 120 of the most outstanding of Schmutzer's watercolours.

Botany Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz 1987. pp.216 with col. and b/w illus. 4to. Fine softback. Dual text in Geman and English. The catalogue to the exhibition ‘100 Botanical Jewels’ illustrating many fine examples from the collections of the Berlin Botanical Gardens and Museum.