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LOT 2944
British Wildlife Book Group - 5 Titles
1901-1979 A.D.
7 x 4 3/4 - 10 x 7 5/8 in. (1.28 kg total, 17.7 x 12 - 25.3 x 19.5 cm).
Rev. Prof. G. Henslow - Prof. Henslow's Botany for Beginners- London, 1901, card covers, 103 pp, monochrome plates; R.M. Lockley - Birds of the Sea - London and New York, 1945, card covers, 24pp, colour plates; B. Vesey-Fitzgerald - A Second Book of British Birds and their Nests - Loughborough, 2nd edition, 1954, hardback, colour images; R.L.E. Ford - British Reptiles and Amphibians - London, first published 1954, hardcover with dustjacket, 86 pp, monochrome and colour illustrations; R. Wilson - The Backgarden Wildlife Sanctuary Book - London, 1979, hardcover with dustjacket, 152 pp, monochrome illustrations. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
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LOT 2944
British Wildlife Book Group - 5 Titles
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
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Books on Wildlife by David Attenborough - 5 Titles
1980-1990 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
David Attenborough - Journeys to the Past. Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of Australia - London, 1981, hardcover with dustjacket, monochrome images; Life on Earth - A Natural History, London, 1980, hardcover with dustjacket, 319 pp, colour images; The Trials of Life. A Natural History of Animal Behaviour, London, 1990, hardcover with dustjacket, 319 pp, colour images; The Living Planet. Reader's Digest Augmented and Enlarged Edition, London, 1984, hardcover with dustjacket, 368 pp, colour images; Life on Earth. Reader's Digest Augmented and Enlarged Edition, London, 1980, hardcover, 368 pp, colour images. 6.86 kg total, 24.2 x 16.5 - 26.2 x 26 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
Books on Birds - 8 Titles
1960-1984 A.D. and earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: G. Evans - The Observer's Book of Birds' Eggs - London, 1969, hardcover, 224 pp, colour illustrations; Miklos D.F. Udvardy - The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds. Western region - New York, 1977, card covers, 855 pp, colour images; W. Swaysland - Familiar Wild Birds, part 12 - booklet, colour and monochrome illustrations; W. Swaysland - Familiar Wild Birds, part 13 - booklet, colour and monochrome illustrations; Foreign Birds. The Magazine of the Foreign Bird League. Volume 26, number 4, July/August 1960, colour and monochrome illustrations; E.D. Cuming - The Bodley Head Natural History. Volume I British Birds. Passers - hardcover, 122 pp, colour and monochrome illustrations; Lars Svensson - Identification Guide to European Passerines - Stockholm, 1984, card cover, 312 pp, monochrome illustrations; A. Rutger - The Handbook of Foreign Birds in Colour. Their Care in cage and Aviary - London, 1968, hardcover, 262 pp, colour illustrations. 1.97 kg total, 14.5 x 9 - 21.7 x 14 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
Expedition and Natural History Books - 7 Titles
1963-1985 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
William Laird McKinlay - Karluk. The great untold story of Arctic exploration - London, 1976, hardcover with dustjacket, 170 pp, monochrome images; Tony Morrison, Ann Brown & Anne Rose - Lizzie. A Victorian Lady's Amazon Adventure - London, 1985, hardcover with dustjacket, 160 pp, colour images; Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton - Among the Elephants - London, 1975, hardcover with dustjacket, 285 pp, colour images; Jane van Lawick-Goodall - In the Shadow of Man - London, 1971, hardcover with dustjacket, 256 pp, colour and monochrome images; Robin Hanbury-Tenison - Mulu. The Rain Forest - London, 1980, hardback with dustjacket, 176 pp, monochrome images; Stella Brewer - The Forest Dwellers -London, 1978, hardcover with dustjacket, 254 pp, monochrome images; Sadio Garavini Di Turno - Diamond River - London, 1963, hardcover, 208 pp. 4.43 kg total, 22.3 x 14.5 - 25.5 x 18 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
