Antarctic Ecology. Volume 1
by Holdgate, M. W. (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London, Academic Press, 1970). 8vo; original red cloth; spine gilt; pictorial dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, his ex libris hand-stamp here and elsewhere; pp. xx + 604; illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates, tables, graphs, line drawings; rear endpapers pasted together; hand-stamp of RGS in a few places. Very good condition. Contents of Volume 1: Past Environments, Marine Ecosystems, Plankton and its Pelagic Consumers, The Pelagic Resources of the Southern Ocean, Marine Benthos, Fishes, The Biology of Seals, Adaptation in Seals, Ecology of Antarctic Birds. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1604
- Title
- Antarctic Ecology. Volume 1
- Author
- Holdgate, M. W. (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London, Academic Press, 1970)
- Keywords
- Antarctic. Antarctica. Ecology. Krill. Polar research. Seals. Penguins. Plankton. Albatrosses. Skuas. Benthos. Pelagic fisheries Antarctica
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antarctica;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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