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

Japan, 1994. 148, 24 plates(3 col), 96 text figs, 1 folding map, 1 folding table. . Unbound. Vg. Inscription from author to front wrapper. Offprint from Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist.,13:107-254.

Osaka: Hoikusha, 1974. (viii), 206, 56 col plates, 52 b/w photos, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in d/w and orig. illustrated slipcase.. Text Japanese. Revised and enlarged edition, reprint..

David & Charles, 1975. 247, 14 b/w photos, 49 text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w.. . [9780715367995]

Poyser, 1999. 305, frontis, illus, maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. A number of newspaper cuttings relating to mammals loosely inserted. An obituary of the author, from <i>The London Naturalist</i>, tipped in at front.. Illustrated by P. Barrett and the author.. [9780856611100]

1990. 189, 365 text figs. . PB. Vg. Inscribed to British hymenopterist, M.E. Archer, from the author.. Reprinted from <i>Insecta Matsumurana</i> New Series 43..

Taiwan: Taiwan Museum, 1989. 205, Text figs. . PB. . Text English.

Princeton University Press, 2023. 672, c. 4000 col illus.. . PB. NEW. . A comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide to the birds of China.China is home to some of the most spectacular birdlife to be found anywhere in the world. This richly illustrated field guide covers every species found throughout the region, including numerous endemic and globally threatened species. Detailed species accounts cover everything from biometrics and habitat to behavior, distribution, and voice, and each one comes with illustrations of the species and a color distribution map. A landmark achievement, <i>Birds of China</i> is the ideal companion for travelers to China and a must for any birder's bookshelf.* The first complete English-language field guide to China's wondrously diverse birdlife * Covers nearly 1,500 species, including endemics and threatened birds * Features a wealth of breathtaking colour plates painted by leading Chinese artists * Includes some 4,000 images that illustrate every… Read More

Leningrad: Nauka, 1973. 356, 200 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Paper browned. From the library of Prof. J. Green with his name to endpaper.. Text Russian..

London: Athlone Press, 1999. xvi, 199, b/w photos, b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w.. Focusing on the Oxford University Museum, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and the Natural History Museum, London, the author explores how such institutions reflected varying concepts of nature, from the handiwork of God, to a resource to be exploited.. [9780485004052]

Dilmah Conservation, 2017. 142, col photos. A5. PB. NEW. . . [9789550081257]

London: Oxford University Press, 1962. xii, 308, 16 b/w illus, 12 plates, 24 text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. Owner's name to endpaper.. Frontis by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Chapter headings illustrated by works by Bewick..

London: John van Voorst, 1871-1874. xii, 646; vii, 494; xvi, 684; viii, 531, 564 wood engravings, vignettes. . HB. 4 vols, 8vo, orig. cloth, gt title to spines, minor rubbing to extremities, a few corners bumped; gatherings unpopened, endpapers browned. A very good set. Bookplate of Danish ornithologist, Finn Salomonsen (1909-1983), to Vol. I. He was best known for his work on the Birds of Greenland.. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged by Alfred Newton (Vols I+II) and Howard Saunders (Vols III+IV). Illustrated with wood-engravings of each species.Freeman, 4177; Mullens & Swann, p. 670..

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1994. 191, col frontis, 514 figs. . PB. Vg. Author's inscription to front wrapper.. <i>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History</i> 219..

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1994. 191, col frontis, 514 figs. . PB. Vg.. <i>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History</i> 219..

Philip Allan, 1937. xiii, 113, 38 b/w plates. . HB. Large 8vo, some light foxing (heavier to preface). Inscription to endpaper. Vg.. .

London: Faber and Faber, 1948. 175, 3 col plates, 115 b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, orig cloth. Vg in d/w (slightly rubbed, minor edge wear; in removable protective sleeve).. .

London: Faber and Faber, 1947. 112, 99 b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in worn d/w (some loss to spine; in removable protective sleeve).. .

Faber & Faber, 1947. 120, 48 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine faded, endpapers browned. Vg.. George K. Yeates born 1910 became one of Britain's leading wildlife photographers. Includes chapters on apparatus, hides, techniques etc. The photographs depict visually various points and problems referred to in the text..

London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1871]. xvi, 440, 16, col map frontis. . HB. Sm. 8vo, cloth, gt, rubbed/minor wear. Book-plate of the Private Library of R.W. Gray, 373 Morphett Road, Warradale, Australia, to endpaper. Shelf number to spine. A good copy.. 2nd revised edition, with glosssary. Publisher's catalogue bound at rear..

London: MacMillan & Co, 1922. xiii,363, . . HB. 8vo,Orig. green cloth, blind embossed design to front board, gilt title to spine (slightly faded). Light tape marks to hinges. A few pages untidily opened. Stamp and inscription to endpaper, The Sister's Library, Burnham Abbey, Maidenhead, Berkshire, an Anglican Augustinian Community of nuns, The Society of the Precious Blood. Vg.. Scarce. 2nd edition, published December 1922, a month after the first edition. Preface by Yeats states ' This book contains all poetry not in dramatic form that I have written between my seven-and-twentieth year and the year 1921. I have included one long poem in dramatic form, of which a more shortened version, intended for stage representation, is in my book of plays'..