Natural Sciences from Lansdowne Books

This is a high quality publication delivering a comprehensive guide to the flora of the UAE. Contains descriptions and geographical locations of 550 wild plants in full detail with another 205 species recorded briefly. The scientific index serves as a checklist of 775 local species in 81 families. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF.… Read more about this item

1st edition. Very Good octavo with card covers & 32pp with collected and lithographed illustrations. Signed by Herbert Dickens on the title-page. And also signed to Jas Barr Esq. with compliments H P Dickens Xmas 1933. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight some browning with age. Overall a very good copy.

Condition: V. Good+. Very attractive Green cloth cover with Gilt, Black and Red Birds (including Barn Owl Decoration and Lettering to Front & Spine. Binding & pages clean and tight and Illustrations in very good, clean condition. Very slight edge wear. Overall a very good copy now with protective removable sleeve. Frontispiece Illustration shows nests of Song Thrush… Read more about this item

Tan leather binding with gilt lettering and vignette on spine with embossed symbol in gilt on cover. Slight rubbing to cover. Endpapers and page edges marbled. A near fine copy with pages clean and tight throughout with 37 illustrations from drawings by Thomas Bewick & index. Overall a fine copy

Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria. A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and… Read more about this item

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight. Black and white illustrations, numerous colour plates,

Orig. Green papered boards with blue spine-strip. D.j slightly chipped but now in protective mylar cover. Charming book filled with the photographs of Monro, who was an official war photographer during WWII.. 116 pages of Black/white photography with blue and white illustrated end pages. A clean, straight book. Size: 10 X 7 1/2"

First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Pages clean with B&W illustrations throughout. Hardcover. with Dust Jacket and mylar protective cover, no names or marks inside. B&W Illustrations. Dust Jacket unclipped. The Corfu Trilogy #2 Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood… Read more about this item

Michael Joseph, 1977. Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1977. Michael Joseph. First UK. Hard Cover. Book-VG. Unclipped price DJ-VG in protective cover, 9x5.5. 256pp. 24 b/w line drawings by Larry as chapter headings.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. Hardcover. 1st edition. 1 vol: I. Text. xlix, 604 p. 22.5 cm. Extensive index and table of contents. In VG original condition with olive brown cloth set with some cracking at hinges. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we… Read more about this item

London & Toronto, J. M. Dent; New York, E- P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First English language edition. Very well Illustrated throughout with 600 black-and-white illustrations, drawings and photographs. Dark Blue cloth covers with Gilt Peacock and Fountain Designs to fronts and spines. Top page edges Dark Green. Vol 1, 459 Pages and Vol 2, 486. 11" Tall. No inscriptions. The… Read more about this item

SIGNED BY Sepplets family - [ see photograph] Hard Cover. Near Fine with fading to front and back cover. First Edition. 9 X 6". Being an Historical Record of the Life and Times of the Seppelt Family through Four Generations. 51 pages. B/w and colour illustrations. Comes with an old Seppelts Compliment Slip. Illust. end-papers. 12 photographic plates, some colour. Decorated… Read more about this item

Pale green boards with gold Lettering to spine. In original dust jacket unclipped which is now in a mylar protective covering. First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine, clean copy. Gerald Durrell helped establish a model zoo on the Isle of Jersey, an experience that caused him to reconsider the whole question of wild… Read more about this item

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1914. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition to which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of recently discovered flowering plants by John W Salter and the Ferns, Horsetails and Club-Mosses by John E Sowerby. Described with an introduction and a key to the natural orders By C. Pierpoint Johnson. Weight 1.6

Introduction by Gertrude Jekyll. London: 1924, First edition. Illus. w. 47 color plates from flower paintings by Miss M. Walter Anson and 11 halftone plates from photographs of gardens.