Search Results: Titles starting with O from Pemberley Natural History Books

CineButterflies, 2006. , . . DVD. NEW. . No. 9 in John Banks' series of films on the World's Butterflies. A thirty minute film in English and Portuguese showing the riches of the Amazon forest and the Cristalino Natural Heritage Reserve and serving as an introduction to the butterflies of the Amazon forest. Latin America houses the greatest variety of life of any continent. The butterflies are a precious example of the world's greatest biodiversity. As well as many species of butterfly the film also shows giant otters, jaguar, beetles and wasps, & an ant-lion . [10844]

Lisbon: Ministerio do Ultramar, 1956. 174, 53 figs. . HB. 8vo, (245x175mm), orig. cloth, worn with repair to head of spine and front joint, chipped to foot of spine. In worn d/w (loss to head of spine).. <i>Estudos, Ensaios e Documentos</i> XV. Text Portuguese..

Rio de Janeiro, 1949. 251, 11 b/w plates. . PB. Wrappers. Front wrapper detached, spine worn. Fair.. Text Portuguese. Boletim do Parque Nacional do Itatiaia 1.

Organisation Cetacea, 2001-2003. , . . PB. Vg.. .

Canongate Books Ltd, 2020. 256, . 220x144mm. HB. NEW. . A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week described by Peter Wohlleben as 'a profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature'.The author spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Inevitably he needs to slow down in order to appreciate it fully, to tune in to its slower time frame, to connect with the ecosystem that lives around it, inside it and beneath it. He examines our long-standing dependency on oak trees, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer build our houses and boats from them or grind their acorns into flour in times of famine; physically we don't need them in the same way now. Or do we? The Oak Papers is a stunning, meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.. [9781838851507]

Upperville, VA.: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989. xxvii, 147, 112 col + b/w illus. . HB. Oblong 4to (295x254mm), orig. cloth, patterned endpapers. Withdrawn from an institutional library, a few ink stamps, label to spine. Good in d/w (in removable protective sleeve).. . [9780300046526]

Upperville, VA.: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990. xxxvi, 276, frontis, 168 col + b/w illus. . HB. Oblong 4to (295x254mm), orig. cloth, patterned endpapers. Withdrawn from an institutional library, a few ink stamps, shelf label to spine. Good in d/w (in removable protective sleeve, spine slightly faded).. . [9780300049367]

Vanellus Publications, 2009. 2 vols, 227:227, line drawings. A4. PB. Vg. Owner's name to title pages.. Brings together fresh and already published information on oak-galls and their inhabitants in Great Britain. Spiral bound in 2 volumes:- Part 1: Introduction and Keys; Part 2: Appendices - Descriptions and Glossary.

Basel: Birkhauser, 1963. 112, 38 text figs, 4 folding (2 col) charts in rear pocket. . PB. Orig. wrappers. Vg. From the library of Hugh Jenkyns, emeritus Professor of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, with his name to wrapper.. Text German. PhD thesis, University of Basel. Offprint from <i>Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae</i> Vol. 56: 529-640.

1869-1873. 3; 5, 1 col + 1 plain plate. . HB. 2 papers bound together in a single volume, cloth. Paper browned, with some dust soiling to margins. Good ex-lib. (single stamp to endpaper).. Text French. Offprints from Annales de la Societe Malacologique de Belgique (T. IV + VIII). Two papers on molluscs by Alfred E. Craven (1848-1937), a British malacologist who collected in East Africa, Indian and Pacific Oceans, Brazil and west coast of India..

London: Royal Society, 1923. xxxv, portrait frontispiece. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers, stitched, some wear to spine, lightly bumped to top corner, small label (partly removed) to front wrapper. From the library of K.G.V. Smith (1929-2017) with his signature to wrapper and occasional light pencil markings/annotations to margins; also with faint name stamp of previous owner.. Offprint from <i>Proceedings of he Royal Society</i>, B. Vol. 95. Obituary notice of the famous explorer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), who independently of Charles Darwin, proposed the idea of evolution by natural selection..

Academia, 2019. 464, col photos. . HB. NEW. . Text Czech. The aim of the book is to acquaint the reader with all species of amphibians and reptiles found in the Czech Republic. The photographs illustrate the typical appearance and characteristics of each species. Images show the differences between males and females as well as between adults and immature individuals, as well as seasonal and other colour variations. Larvae of amphibians are also illustrated. The text summarizes current knowledge about the taxonomy, morphology, distribution and biology of the species.. [9788020029843]

Rio de Janeiro: Museo Nacional, 1949. 48, 23 plates (1 col). . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers. Withdrawn from an institutional library, with ink stamps to wrapper, title, final page and some plates. Good.. Text Portuguese. Introdution by H.A. Torres. Observations on the Xingu river region in Northern Brazil, including notes on zoology and the Xingu peoples who inhabit the region around the river. Museu Nacional Publicações Avulsas No. 5..

Truebner & Co., 1886. xiv, 326, 32 plates. . HB. 4to, orig. cloth, lacks spine, small loss to front board, joints broken only attached by cords. Internally clean. Fair.. Fort Rae was first established on the north shore Great Slave Lake, Canada in 1852 as a provision post for the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1882, Fort Rae was selected as meteorological observation station for the International Polar Year research, as it was the nearest of the company's station to the Magnetic Pole. An observation station was established by Captain H.P. Dawson. This work contains details of meteorological and magnetical observations..

Paris: Chez Fortin-Masson et Cie, 1841. 110, 8 folding plates (4 hand-col). 270x210mm. HB. Orig. boards over cloth, worn and spotted; presentation inscription to front board. Some scattered foxing; several pencil annotations to text and plates; 14 cm closed tear to one plate.. Text French..

London: HMSO, 1962. vi, 230, b/w frontis, line drawings, tables (some folding). . HB. Vg in d/w. Owner's name to endpaper.. Colonial Office Fishery Publications No. 17. Concerns the Penaeid prawns which have a wide distribution in the seas about Malaya and are one of the most valuable products of tropical fisheries..

1864. 63, 10 plates (2 lithographed), 104 text figs. . HB. 8vo, later cloth. Withdrawn from the Zoological Society of London.. From the <i>Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History</i>..

1933. 45; 124, 16+12 b/w plates, text figs. . HB. 8vo, nicely bound in buckram, gt leather title piece to spine. Owner's name to endpaper; small tape repair to one plate. Vg.. Two papers bound together (with a collective printed Titlepage) the first by Rich and Pocock, the second by Pocock - extracted from Ann. S. Afr. Mus., Vol. XVI: 427-471 & 523-646..

Singapore, 1966. (6), 158, 14 b/w plates. . HB. Half leather, some rubbing + scuffing to binding. Spine titled "Tioman Expedition - 1962". Bull. Nat. Mus. Singapore 34. Bound with 2 reprints from Federation Museums Journal: "Archaeological Notes from Pulau Tioman", 9pp, (1962) by Lord Medway, and "Some General Aspects of, and Speculations on, the Fauna of Pulau Tioman", 22pp, (1966) by J.A. Bullock.

London: Royal Entomological Society, 1945. 16, 1 fig. . PB. Vg in wrapper.. Trans. R.Ent.Soc Vol.95(5)..