Search Results: Natural History & Environment from Lawrence Jones

Columbus, OH.: Ohio State University Press, 1973. HEAVY. 2 volume set. 297, v, 416pp; indexes, glossary, bibliography, line drawings. Black cloth, no jackets. Name/details of prev owner on front free endpaper of each volume. . Sixth Edition, Third Printin. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

London: Macmillan, 2002. VERY HEAVY-will require additional postage to most destinations. 2 volume set in slipcase. 491pp, index, glossary, bibliography, num col ills; 539pp, index, glossary, bibliography, num col ills. Green cloth in jackets with green card slipcase. Jacket spines faded otherwise as new. 2 volume reference work covering over 1000 genera bridging the divide between scientific texts and everyday horticultural books, providing an insight into the relationships between garden plants and the natural environment from which they come. All genera are lavishly illustrated.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Surrey Beatty & Sons Limited, 1989. HEAVY. 2 volume set. xvi, 835pp, index, references, tables, bw & col ills. Or brown cloth in jackets. Light edge wear to jackets, a couple of tiny spots of foxing to edges. The first comprehensive modern review of the macropods of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Each of seven sections deals with a major field of research into macropod biology- Evolution, zoogeography and community ecology; diet, feeding and digestion; energy, water and temperature relations; reproductive biology; development, growth and sexual dimorphism; social organization and behavioural ecology; population ecology and management. There also a further 16 papers reporting results from individual projects.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Raleigh, NC: Department of Plant Patholgy / US Agency for International Developemnt., 1985. HEAVY. 2 volumes. vii, 422; iv, 223pp; indexes, bibliography, bw ills. Ex-government library with usual stamps, card pocket, numbers etc. Or cloth boards in jackets. Technical set on Meloidogyne parasitic plant nematodes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Near Very Good. 4to.

London: Academic Press, 1970. 2 VOLUMES-COMPLETE. xx, 604pp; x, pp608-998pp, index, maps (1 folding), tables, diagrams, references. Or red cloth in jackets. Volume 2 price clipped. Prev owner name on front free endpapers. Minor wear to bottom edges of boards. published for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1958. 224pp, 40 bw ills, map. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, faded on spine with several small chips. Bookseller label to front pastedown. 20000 miles (30000km) in a small car through the jungles of Africa with a camera-plenty of adventures along the way. The journey takes in Belgian Congo, Tanganyika, Uganda, Bechuanaland, the Rhodesias, Mozambique, French Equatorial Africa and the north of South Africa in a circuitous and winding route.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Hobart: The Adult Education Board of Tasmania., 1959. 15pp. Or light tan wraps titled in red. Near new. A biologist looks at what the future held... First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co. (printer), 1899. HEAVY. 6 volumes- complete except for index volume. 1899-1902. Over 2000pp, index; bw plates (some folding). Or thick card covers with cloth spines. Light toning to page edges and covers, prev owner name to front of each volume. Internally clean and tight. Scarce set published from 1899-1902, lacking only the index volume issued later. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1883. HEAVY. 6 volumes 1883-1892 (lacks Part VII Lichens & Hepaticae published almost 10 years after the last of those present). ix, 192pp; iv, pp193-394; pp395-623; ii, 248pp; iv, pp249-428; v, 295; indexes. Rebound in green cloth incorporating original wrappers. Ex-University library with usual stamps etc (inc cancelled stamps). Top corner of pages in Part II bumped/creased, several small chips/short tears mainly confined to wrappers, but generally a nice, clean, complete set to the end of Part VI. Issued over a period of years the publication dates are Part I 1883; Part II 1884; Part III 1886; Part IV 1888; Part V 1890; Part VI 1892. The misisng seventh part was publsihed in 1902.. First Editions. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: UNSW Press, 1995. ix, 160pp, index, bibliography, endnotes. Pictorial card. Light crease to front cover, small stain on last (blank) page. SIGNED (Jim) and inscribed (to Julia) by author on half-title page. For 50000 years before white settlement the Aboriginal people were an integral part of the environment. They harvested the land and they changed the environment to suit themselves. Fire was their tool for doing this.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: UNSW, 1995. ix, 160pp, index, bibliography, endnotes. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover, very light foxing to page edges. For 50000 years before white settlement the Aboriginal people were an integral part of the Australian environment. They harvested the land and changed the environment to suit themselves. Fire was their tool for doing this. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Foreword by Maurice Ewing. ix, 223pp, map showing the cruises of the Vema 1953-1961, illustrated throughout with text-figures, 19 tables, bibliography. Green cloth boards, silver spine titles, in dust-jacket. The book introduces a series presenting the findings of research vessel Vema. Thre three papers in this volume record important new discoveries relating to the orders Amphipoda, Isopoda, and Cumaca.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

London: Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1984. HEAVY. 2 volumes. x; xii, 1296pp; indices, hundreds bw ills. Or pictorial laminated boards (hardcovers). Both volumes bumped at corners. Prev owners name on 1/2 titles. Volume 2 covered in plastic with associated tape stains, and faded at spine and top edge. Monumental 2 volume work on the emerging discipline of acarology with numerous articles on mites and ticks, their effects in agriculture/animal husbandry, their role as disease vectors and their control by both biological and chemical methods.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Sml 4to.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 223pp, index, references, glossary, bw ills, diagrams, charts, graphs. Or green cloth in jacket. Near new. Extensive research into the genetics, ecology, morphology, and systematics of cave crustacean Gammarus minus this detailed study of a single organism in a particular environment advances Gammarus minus as a paradigm for cave colonization and adaptation, and as a general case study of the role of natural selection and adaptation in evolution.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Adelaide: BioCity: Centre for Urban Habitats., 2005. HEAVY. 609pp, index, 2 appendices (animals/plants), references, maps, num bw & col ills. Or glossy pictorial boards in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket. Tracks changes to biological communities, plants and animals, and the structure and nature of the built environment of the city of Adelaide from its inception in 1836 to the present, and predicts the future through to 2036. Describes and analyses the local environment, species loss and gain, biodiversity change and community structures.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Norwalk, Cn.: Easton Press, 1990. xiv, 299pp, bw ills, bibliography, index endpapers: bird body parts and feathers. Original blue leather with gilt titles and bird decoration to front, all edges gilt, silk bookmark ribbon. Easton Press bookplate with Peterson artwork on front pastedown (with name filled in). Some spotting of edge gilt. Presented to the usual high standards of the Easton Press, this attractive volume is a useful field guide and begins where others leave off and is one for all seasons. One of the Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides Fiftieth Anniversary edition set.. Collector's Lifetime Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1944. 97 pages. Prelims, endpages and page edges foxed with occasional foxing throughout. Papered boards in edge-worn dust-jacket. An Australia's record of her time in the Warwickshire countryside.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Cambridge at the University Press, 1960. HEAVY. xii, 739pp, index, addenda, references, bw ills, tables. Or gray cloth, no jacket. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges, non-authorial presentation note to front free endpaper. A nice copy of this important work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Harare, Zimbabwe: Tutorial Press, 1994. 143pp, index, bibliography, num col photographs, bw sketches, maps, diagrams. Blue boards in jacket. Lightest of edge wear to jacket. The history of the falls, natural history and people of the region-with stunning photographs.. Revised Editio, Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Norton, Larry (sketches). 4to.

Washington D.C.: Department of the Navy., 1956. HEAVY. 1099pp, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or pictorial card. Front cover splitting at spine (approx 1/2), silverfishing to cover, crude label at top front corner, prev owner name on title page. Massive volume on Sudanese ticks by the head of Department of Medical Zoology, US Naval Research Unit No 3, Cairo. Includes preliminary reviews of 3 genera (Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma).. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to.