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Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
The Crystal Desert
by David G Campbell
THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.
Natural Sciences Books & Ephemera
Statical Essays: containing VEGETABLE STATICKS; Or an Account of some STATICAL EXPERIMENTS on the SAP in VEGETABLES.
by Stephen Hales
Third edition, with amendments. Small octavo, pp xiv, 376, illustrated with 18 engraved plates, very clean and crisp internally, plain endpapers browned, pre-title page detached. Contemporary full polished calf, somewhat marked and worn, the spine gilt decorated with raised bands, gilt stamped decoration. A very attractive copy with a prestigious provenance:Image 4 shows the manuscript ownership inscription on 1st. FEP. This reads:Louis Odier. Dr & Prof. me. 1809Ex dono Dr . J. P. MaunoirOdier (see Wiki)...
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SGD 1,469.30
Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered In It's Present State Of Improvement. Volume 2. (1794 1st ed.)
by George Adams
1794 first UK edition. Volume is very good condition: no interior markings of any kind, most pages are uncut. Text block is soundly sewn with protective cardboard covers but has never been formally bound. Volume 2 of 5 volume set. (Volumes 1-4 are text; volume 5 is index and 39 plates.) This volume is complete as issued with all blanks. Collates: i-vii, 1-561, [2]. Adams was scientific instrument maker to George III. Adams is important in the history of the progress of science as he strongly advocated...
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SGD 310.34
The Book of Nature
by Jan Swammerdam, John Hill
Complete set of the 53 copperplate engravings only from this seminal work of microscopy by Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), the pioneering Dutch biologist. Swammerdam was one of the outstanding comparative anatomists of the seventeenth century. His most remarkable work was in the field of insect anatomy, which he undertook in order to disprove Aristotle's claims that insects lack internal anatomy, develop by metamorphosis and arise from spontaneous generation. By refining his techniques of micro-dissection...
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SGD 2,758.60SGD 2,344.81
Le rire des arbres, les pleurs des forêts
by Fournier, Luc
Québec: Lanctôt éditeur, 2003 «Ouvrage documenté et illustré sur les arbres du Québec et d'ailleurs, Le rire des arbres, les pleurs des forêts propose pour chacune des 52 espèces choisies par l'auteur un bref historique où sont expliqués l'origine de l'arbre, ses caractéristiques et ses vertus, son symbolisme, ainsi que son résonnement chez les poètes et écrivains. Mais avant tout...
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SGD 14.53
Urocharis longicauda
by John Gould
Long-tailed flower-pecker, lemon-breasted berrypecker or mid-mountain berrypecker, Melanocharis longicauda. (Urocharis longicauda, Salvad.)Handcoloured lithograph by William Matthew Hart from John Gould's The Birds of New Guinea, London, 1875-88. William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) was a bird illustrator and lithographer who worked for John Gould from 1851. He began by making the patterns for the lithographic plates for Gould's monograph on Hummingbirds, as well as working on The Birds of Great Britain with...
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SGD 1,241.37SGD 1,055.16
Illustrated Index of British Shells
by George Brettingham Sowerby
Bright copy of this attractive overview of British conchology.Second edition with 26 finely engraved hand-coloured plates by George Brettingham Sowerby II.Includes attractive plates of mussels, scallops, razor shells, cockles, chitons, limpets, whelks, freshwater snails, ear-shells, etc., arranged as if in a case in a cabinet of wonders.Total of 711 species of British shells on 26 plates: 642 figures on the 24 plates from the first edition of 1859, and 69 figures on two extra lithographs by...
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SGD 620.68SGD 527.58
MEMOIR'S (sic) FOR A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS. Containing The Anatomical Descriptions of Several Creatures Dissected By The Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Englished by Alexander Pitfeild, Fellow of the Royal Society.
by Perrault, Claude
Quarto (12 by 8 1/4 inches) London: "Printed by Joseph Streater, and are to be Sold by T. Basset, at the George in Fleet-Street. J Robinson, at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard. B. Ayimer, at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal-Exchange. Job. Southby at the Harrow in Cornhil. And by W. Canning, in the Temple." 1688. (16) 267 (12) & (3) 40 pages.
TWO works bound together, as published, in original full mottled calf, with raised bands and gilt ornaments on spine.
Good condition, with some... Read more about this item
TWO works bound together, as published, in original full mottled calf, with raised bands and gilt ornaments on spine.
Good condition, with some... Read more about this item
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SGD 2,172.40
Maori
by Mitcalfe, Barry
Coromandel Press, 1981. Uncertain . Soft cover. Very Good-. From the cover "the origin, art and culture of the Maori people of New Zealand." Format paperback slender oblong. Likely intended for YA persons in NZ. Scholarly in emphasis. Trace wear, clean.
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SGD 15.74
L'oeil américain
by Morency, Pierre
Les Éditiond du Boréal, 1989 Illustrations en n./b. « Avoir l'il américain n'est-ce pas jouir de l'habilité qui nous fait entendre ce que nous écoutons, qui nous fait voir ce qui est derrière quand on regarde devant ? [.] L'acquisition de l'il américain n¿avait de sens pour moi que si elle permettait de sortir hors de soi, d'aller à la rencontre des choses, même menues, de voir soudainement le monde...
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SGD 17.60
Birds of the Northern Forest
by Livingston, John A
Canada: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1966 This is an introduction to some of the birds that live in the great evergreen forest of North America. Every reader, expert or not, will be delighted by the superb full-color reproductions of the work of J. F> Lansdowne, one of the world's foremost bird painters. The lively and stimulating text by John A. Livingston will not only interest students of birds but will also inspire the general readr to explore for himself the endless variety of this most...
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SGD 47.59
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
by Quammen, David
New York: Scribner, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. SIGNED. 287 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. 1/4 blue paper over green speckled boards. With original dust jacket, which is in fine conditon. Front board cocked; otherwise no visible flaws. Beloved nature writer who for fifteen years detailed his travels and passions in "Outside" magazine takes us around the world, describing his adventures in the Amazon, Indonesia, Jordan, Baja, and his home state Montana.
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SGD 68.96
A Digitized Systematic Classification for Ecosystems with an Illustrated Summary of the Natural Vegetation of North America
by Brown, David E.; Charles H. Lowe and Charles P. Pase
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980. Paperback. 93pp. Thin quarto [28 cm] Stapled white and brown illustrated wraps. Very good. There are a handful of very small stains on the covers, and there is a previous owner's name is small pen on the front cover. There are tiny stains in the bottom margins of many of the pages. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-73, June 1980.
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SGD 20.69
Nature's Wonderland (Four Volumes) : Or Short Talks on Natural History for Young and Old
by Kingsley, J. Sterling; Brec, Edward
NY: F. R. Niglutsch. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, spines . sunned and stained, faint foxing to endpapers, but otherwise clean and . bright interiors.. 1894. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of 1890 edition. In four volumes, uniformly bound in brown gilt-blocked cloth. All edges gilt. Each volume contains hundreds of black and white plates and small engravings, as well as some chromolithograph plates. Tight bindings. Vol. I - Invertebrates, Crustacea, and Insects. Color...
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SGD 482.76
Spotter's Guide to Birds
by Holden, Peter
64 pages. Printed in Spain. With colour illustrations, a spotter's checklist, index and more. In very good condition, bright.
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SGD 17.16
Milkweed Butterflies: Their Cladistics and Biology: Being an Account of the Natural History of the Danainae, a Subfamily of the Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae
by Ackery, P. R. ; Vane-Wright, R. I
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and British Museum. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; A few small dots of foxing on verso of . jacket.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0801416884 . vii, 425 pp, systematic index, geographical index, bibliography Many black and white photos and illustrations and 12 color plates plus color frontispiece photo. The amazing migration champion monarch butterfly is the best known milkweed butterfly and this scholarly volume describes its biology and that of its...
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SGD 137.93
TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST
by Boucard, A
Boucard, A.Travels of a Naturalist. London 1894. Published by the Author. First edition 8vo., viii, ii, 204 pages. Publisher's Brown Pebbled Cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Boucard, Half Titles. Boards are in Fine condition with no scuffing, fading or wear. SIGNED inscription by Boucard to Edmound Perrier, Director du Museum de Paris. Text block is in Fine condition without any markings, or discoloration, and is bright, clean, and tight. A very attractive copy is seldom found in commerce in this...
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SGD 1,310.34
Bibliography Of Forest Service Range, Wildlife And Fish Habitat, And Related Research Publications: 1977-89
by Wolters, Gale L
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 1990. Paperback. 288pp. Quarto [28 cm] Yellow and black illustrated wraps. Very good plus. The spine and surrounding areas are very subtly faded. There is a previous owner's name on the top edge of the front cover. The pages are clean and bright. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture No. 95.
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SGD 68.96
Sicklebird, Epimachus speciosus
by Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Black Sicklebill, Epimachus fastuosus (formerly great sickle-billed bird of paradise, Epimachus speciosus).Original hand-coloured lithograph by William Matthew Hart for Richard Bowdler Sharpe's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-birds. London, 1891-1898.
One of the most beautiful bird illustrations ever produced from the last of the great ornithological books of the 19th century.
William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) was a bird illustrator and lithographer who... Read more about this item
One of the most beautiful bird illustrations ever produced from the last of the great ornithological books of the 19th century.
William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) was a bird illustrator and lithographer who... Read more about this item
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SGD 2,758.60SGD 2,344.81
ECOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS AND ESTUARIES
by George Kell Reid
Pictorial Hardcover, no DJ.
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SGD 13.79
Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds,
by William Hayes
First volume only of the two-volume set with 100 plates published from 1794 to 1799.56 finely hand-colored etched and stipple- and line-engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic, by William Hayes and members of his family. [The family worked chaotically, issuing volumes with different numbers of plates to subscribers.] With two unnumbered plates (the Erne and King of the Vultures) and 54 numbered plates (Pl. 3 to Pl. 56) with their text pages.Second edition of this work on the birds of the famous...
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SGD 6,896.50SGD 5,862.02
Legalize It!
by Dr. Max Rendall
Surgeon Max Randall book proposing that prohibition of drugs has failed and legalisation is the preferred option to narco-terrorism. 176 pages. Inscribed "For Goody and John, Max". In near fine condition.
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SGD 25.74
General Conchology
by William Wood
Very good copy of William Wood's influential guidebook to conchology first published in 1815.With [2], iv, 8, lxii, 246 pages of text and 60 delicately hand-coloured engraved plates with tissue guardsPlates numbered 1-59 with one bis plate 4* illustrating 260 species of shellsWilliam Wood (1774–1857) was an English surgeon, zoologist, conchologist and entomologist. Among his works are Zoography, 1807, Index testaceologicus, 1818, Index entomologicus, 1839, British Marine Conchology with G.B. Sowerby,...
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SGD 2,068.95SGD 1,758.61
Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles
by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Very good copy of the Shells volume from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 114 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of cephalopods and molluscs, including octopus, squid, shellfish, mussels, cones, cowries, volutes, sea snails, ammonites, nautilus, etc.
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Madame Rebel, Guyard, Bourey, Giraud, Coutant, etc.
Conchyliogie et Malacologie: Title page,... Read more about this item
Complete with all 114 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of cephalopods and molluscs, including octopus, squid, shellfish, mussels, cones, cowries, volutes, sea snails, ammonites, nautilus, etc.
All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin, and engraved by Louis Massard, Madame Rebel, Guyard, Bourey, Giraud, Coutant, etc.
Conchyliogie et Malacologie: Title page,... Read more about this item
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SGD 1,379.30SGD 1,172.40
Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen
by Eugen Johann Christoph Esper
Very good copies of Volumes 3 and 4 only of the very rare four-volume, first edition of this beautiful German entomological classic.
Complete with 189 beautifully handcoloured engraved plates in two volumes. (The four-volume set contains 438 plates.)
Engraved and delicately hand-coloured by Johann Carl Bock, Johan Georg Sturm, Johann Georg Klinger, and others, after drawings by Esper.
Esper's illustrations depict the complete life cycles of many European butterflies and moths, many along with their host... Read more about this item
Complete with 189 beautifully handcoloured engraved plates in two volumes. (The four-volume set contains 438 plates.)
Engraved and delicately hand-coloured by Johann Carl Bock, Johan Georg Sturm, Johann Georg Klinger, and others, after drawings by Esper.
Esper's illustrations depict the complete life cycles of many European butterflies and moths, many along with their host... Read more about this item
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SGD 5,517.20SGD 4,689.62
Une montagne, mille mystères
by Vanderheyden, Kees
Québec: Éditions de la Paix (Collection Pratique et société), 2010 Textes sur la faune et la flore saisonnières du Mont Saint-Hilaire.. Couverture souple. Comme neuf.
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SGD 15.70
