Search Results: Authors starting with L from Pemberley Natural History Books

American Orchid Society, 2022. 228, 270 col photos. 255x190mm. HB. NEW. . 2nd edition. The genus <i>Aerangis</i> is the focus of this spectacular book by Isobyl la Croix who spent many years studying African orchids in their native habitat.It features detailed descriptions of the 59 species, accounts of the terrain, climate and habitats in which they live, and cultivation advice. These orchids, which grow on branches and rocks in the forests of Africa and Madagascar, have long nectar-filled spurs that release a delicate scent at night attracting hawk moths. This feature, along with their often disproportionately large flowers, make them rewarding to grow and, given the right conditions, they will flower year after year.Many are threatened in their native habitat and home cultivation makes an important contribution to their long-term welfare. Beautiful photographs of the plants and essential botanical information make this a unique reference that will delight orchid lovers.. [9798985958003]

Basel: Schweighauser, 1838-1845. , 128 plates (126 hand-col). . PB. 16 parts (of 19), 8vo (208x125mm), unbound in orig. printed blue/brown wrappers (Heft 2 + 4 in brown wrappers, rest in blue), several covers detached, some wear; some pages unopened; light foxing to text, plates mostly clean. Very good set.. Text Latin and German. One of the rarest works on Coleoptera. Originally intended to be published in two volumes, each consisting of 10 Hefte (fascicules) (each with 8 plates and 8 leaves of descriptive text), however the final part of the second volume was never published. Of the 19 published Hefte, we offer here 16 (1-14, 17, 18), with 128 (of 152) mostly hand-coloured plates. Co-authored by two Swiss naturalists, Jonas David Labram (1785-1852), a botanical and entomological artist, and Ludwig Imhoff (1801-1868) a physician and zoologist. It is very unusual to find this work in its original state, with original parts in their printed wrappers. The 'Heft' numbers are hand written on each… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1954. xxii, 345, map frontis, 9 b/w plates, 140 text figs, 6 tables (2 folded). . HB. Cloth, gt, light fading. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg.. Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New Series, No. 6.

1883. 160, 8 col plates. 290x230mm. HB. 4to, well bound in blue buckram with contrasting title label to spine. Marginal tears to some pages (one extending into text, but without loss) and four plates (neatly repaired). Some foxing.. Text French. Memoires de l'Académie des Sciences, XLII (2). Chromolithographic plates by the author..

Sciences Nat, 1983. 67, 48 colour plates. 290x210mm. HB. NEW. . Genera Goliathus, Argyrophegges, Formasinus, Hegemus. [9782857240235]

London: Chapman and Hall, 1956. 239, 19 b/w photos, 24 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. blue cloth. Partial browning to endpapers. Good in worn d/w (2.5cm section missing from foot of spine; ink annotations to rear flap; unclipped, in a removable protective sleeve). Owner's name to endpaper.. First edition. Scarce classic giving astonishing insights into swifts’ private lives along with thoughts about their life style and wider issues. Based on observations of the swifts nesting in the tower of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History..

Oxford: Blackwell, 1976. xviii, 445, line drawings, maps. . HB. Vg in d/w.. Studies in Ecology Vol. 3.. [9780632003914]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. liii, 208, 27 text figs, 8 plates (4 in col.). . PB. Vg (spine slightly faded).. With introduction and notes by Laurene Ratcliffe and Peter T. Boag.. [9780521272421]

London: Witherby, 1946. xvi, 224, col frontis, 7 b/w plates. . HB. Sm. 8vo, orig. cloth, some spotting to edges. Vg in d/w (not price-clipped; slight edge-wear; spine faded). From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Society, with his name to front pastedown. RSPB bird recorder's prize for 1949 presentation bookplate and accompanying letter to Keith Hyatt tipped in at front, '… for the careful work received from you throughout 1949 in connection with the Junior Bird Recorders' Club.' Obituary for the author tipped in facing dedication page.. Second, revised edition..

London: Methuen, 1968. xii, 409, 21 illus, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Tape marks to endpaper. Vg in d/w.. First edition. Illustrations by R. Gillmor..

Cambridge: Cambridge Bird Club, [1934]. 118, folding map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, minor rubbing, edges slightly spotted. Short marginal tear to folding map. Vg. From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate.. With an Account of the Birds of the Undrained Fen by H. C. Darby..

London: Chapman and Hall, 1974. 239, 19 b/w photos, 24 text figs. . HB. Vg in price-clipped d/w. 5-line note in ink to rear endpaper. From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate.. Reprint. First published in 1956 by Methuen & Co. Scarce classic giving astonishing insights into swifts’ private lives along with thoughts about their life style and wider issues. Based on observations of the swifts nesting in the tower of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.. [9780412121708]

1942-1943. 24; 27, 2 text figs. . Unbound. 2 parts (complete), unbound.. Two offprints from <i>The Ibis</i> 1942: 461-484 and 1943: 1-27. A survey of the breeding birds of all the main islands made during a period of National Service when David Lack was based in Orkney, March to August 1941, 'with one free day each week and nine day's leave at the height of the breeding season'..

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. liv, 208, 27 text figs, 8 plates (4 in col). . PB. Vg. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his name to endpaper.. With introduction and notes by Laurene Ratcliffe and Peter T. Boag.. [9780521272421]

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. 341, b/w frontis, text figs, drawings. . HB. Good in d/w. Some foxing to dust wrapper and edges of text block.. .

Oxford: Blackwell, 1971. xii, 404, 58 text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w (small tear to foot). From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate.. First edition. Main illustrations by Robert Gillmor.. [9780632068708]

London: Methuen, 1968. xii, 409, 21 illus, text figs. . HB. From the library of Prof. J. Green with his name to endpaper. Vg in d/w.. 1st edition. Illustrations by R. Gillmor..

Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1974. 96, b/w text illus. . PB. Vg.. First edition. Illustrations by Robert Gillmore.. [9780632082506]

London: Methuen, 1965. 264, 3 b/w plates, text illus.. . HB. Vg in price clipped d/w; corner slightly bumped.. First edition. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor.

London: Witherby, 1943. 200, b/w frontis, 5 b/w plates. . HB. Vg in d/w.. Second issue..