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In the Shadow Of Man

by Jane Goodall

World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall’s account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in the wild might shed light on the behavior of our closest living relatives. Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she set up camp in the remote Gombe... Read more about this item

A Brief History Of Time

by Stephen W Hawking

A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988. It became a best-seller and has sold more than 9 million copies. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for more than four years. There is also a documentary by the same name, directed by Errol Morris and released in 1991. Unlike the book, the documentary is primarily a biography of Stephen Hawking.

Finding the Mother Tree

by Suzanne Simard

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

by John Mann

The Birds Of British Columbia

by C J Guiguet

Wild Flowers Of the United States

by Harold William Rickett

The Correspondence Of Charles Darwin

by Charles Darwin

Biology

by Neil a Campbell

The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection

by Charles Darwin

Mind and Nature

by Gregory Bateson

The Theoretical Minimum

by George Hrabovsky

Rural Britain Then and Now

by Roger Hunt

Studies In Bird Migration

by William Eagle Clarke

The Undercliff

by Elaine Franks

Nature Magazine

by American Nature Association

The Medusa and The Snail

by Lewis Thomas

Freshwater Fishes Of South-eastern Australia, New South Wales, Victoria And Tasmania

by R M McDowell

Basic Inorganic Chemistry

by F Albert and Geoffrey Wilkinson and Paul L Gaus Cotton

Harpers Biochemistry

by Robert K Murray and Etc

DNA

by JAMES D And ANDREW BARRY WATSON

Essential Cell Biology

by Bruce and Bray, Dennis and Johnson, Alexander D and Lewis, Julian and Raff, Martin and Roberts, Keith and Walter, Peter Alberts

3 Volumes Of The Life Science Library

by The Editors Of Life

Julia At St Marks IV

by Julia Child

Natural Sciences Books & Ephemera

Pacific Discovery

by Sciences, California Academy Of

1817 Hand-Colored Antique Curtis Botanical Print, Helleborus Viridis (Green Hellebore)

by Curtis, William

London: George Graves and John Harding, 1817. Enlarged edition. Very good +. 11.75 X 18.75 We will be offering a number of original hand colored engravings from Curtis' FLORA LONDINENSIS. These are from the enlarged edition of 1817. The print measures 11.75 x 18.75 inches, with a plate mark of 10 x 16 inches. This is a hand colored engraving on high quality watermarked paper dated 1815 and made by W.Balston & Co. It is a beautiful decorative antique print expertly colored and beautifully composed.... Read more about this item

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NZ$238.31

Tertiary History of the Grand Canon [Canyon]; with Atlas

by Dutton, Clarence E

Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1977. Book. Very Good-. Half-Leather. Limited Edition Reprint. Comprises two parts: Book: half leather (imitation?) hardcover with oatmeal cloth boards; no jacket; brown endpapers; 265 pages; color frontispiece; b&w plates; limited edition facsimile reprint 244/1500; approx. 11-3/8" tall by 8-3/4" wide; very good minus condition with wear to spine and a very slight curve to the binding. The portfolio that holds the maps has matching binding; approx. 20" tall and... Read more about this item

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NZ$510.66

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

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NZ$1,702.20NZ$1,446.87

Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey

by John B. Wyeth

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

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NZ$34.04

Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale

by Peter Oikarinen

Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A... Read more about this item

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NZ$54.47

ECOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS AND ESTUARIES

by George Kell Reid

Pictorial Hardcover, no DJ.

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NZ$17.02

Remarkable Trees of the Montréal Botanical Garden

by Beaudon, Marie-Fleurette; Charpentier, Anne

Québec: Éditions du Trécarré (Sajib Series), 1990 Profusely illustrated with color photos throughout. Itineraries on a folding map at the end of the book. « The Botanical Garden presents fifty (50) trees that are remarkable for their economic importance, their ornamental value, their adaptation to our climate, their ecology, their impressive size, or their beauty.». Soft cover. New.

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NZ$36.77

Introduction to Directional and Horizontal Drilling

by Short, J. A

Pennwell Corp, 1993-05-01. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x0. Name / short inscription on inside cover or title page. Additional pages appear to be clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Cover has chip on spine, mended with clear book binder tape, shows edge and shelf wear from normal use, storage. First edition, First Printing, Full Print Line Displayed. A currently OOP (out of print), uncommon, or hard to find book. Thank you for shopping with us!

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NZ$221.08

Recherches sur l'Usage des Feuilles dans les Plantes, et sur Quelques Autres Sujets Relatifs à l'Histoire de la Vegetation

by Bonnet, Charles

Göttingen, Germany: Elie Luzac, fils, 1754. Hardcover. Very Good. Imprint: A Gottingue & Leide, chez Elie Luzac, Fils. vii, [1], 343, [1] p., 31 leaves of folded plates; 26 cm. Signatures: *4 A-2V4 (4to). Contemporary full polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Reddish leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Recherch des Feuilles. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining spine compartments. All page edges speckled red. Title page printed in... Read more about this item

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NZ$1,446.87

The behavioural biology of aggression

by Archer, J

Cambridge University Press, 1988. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Owner's label on half title page; ffep excised.

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NZ$17.04

Histoire Naturelle Populaire L'Homme et les Animaux

by BROGNIART, Charles (F.E.)

Paris,: Librarie Marpon & Flammarion,, (1880).. [viii], 1039, [i] pp. Large 8vo (20.5 x 27.5 cm.). Contemporary half dark blue morocco, spine, with raised bands, gilt lettered (partly slightly rubbed; a bit discoloured). Richly illustrated with 870 plates and figures in wood engraving, and 8 coloured plates (chromolithographs from the press of Lemercier at Paris). A nicelly illustrated general zoology (from the mollusc to the mammal).

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NZ$143.46

Mendel's Principles of Heredity

by Bateson

Description:Description: A very early detailed exposition of Genetic Theory. Includes translations of Mendel's papers at the end of the book.I believe this is a first edition, first printing, 1909. See photo - verso of tittle page states "Printed by John Clay at the University Press" only.Text block solid, inside hinges intact, with minimal foxing and all colour plates/tissue protectors intact. Cracking of the cover cloth at front and back hinge. Back cover has bottom corner bent and cracked. Creasing... Read more about this item

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NZ$595.77

Ivory Knights: Man, Magic and Elephants.

by Gordon, Nicholas

London:: Chapmans, 1991.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; library ownership stamp on the front endpaper (no other evidence of library ownership), otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Description: Includes a double page map plus a section of color photo plates. From the jacket blurb: ''Against a background of crisis and corruption, journalist Nicholas Gordon criss-crossed... Read more about this item

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NZ$21.28

Histoire abregée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; Dans laquelle ces Animaux font rangés suivant un ordre méthodique, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].

by (Geoffroy, Étienne-Louis)

Paris, Durand, 1762. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Two volumes. Crown quarto. xxvii, 523; 690. Plus 22 folding engraved plates (10 to 1st volume, 12 to the 2nd, bound at end). With large folding chart to volume I. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in contemporary full mottled calf, worn and with defects, nevertheless strong. Wormholes throughout (how appropriate!), practically all meticulously restored by fine expert hand, remaining traces at few text leaves and plates; some old institutional stamps, some... Read more about this item

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NZ$729.52

Music of the Wild (Inscribed By the author)

by Stratton-Porter, Gene

Cincinnati; (1910): Jennings and Graham. First Edition. Octavo. . [8], 11-429, pp. Inscribed by the author to a close friend "For Eleanor Saunderson (or Launderson)/ Come with me, and you shall know/The garden where God's flowers grow. /Come with me and you shall hear/His waters whisper songs of cheer. / Gene Stratton-Porter, /Limberlost Cabin/Wildflower Woods, /Indiana./Christmas of/Nineteen hundred and sixteen. There are two small advertisements laid in. One has a photographic image of the author and... Read more about this item

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NZ$2,127.75

The Naturalist’s Library, Mammalia… Marsupialia or Pouched Animals.

by JARDINE, Sir William

1841 Naturalists Jardine Mammalia Marsupial Kangaroo Koala Color Illustrated
Sir William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist most known for his extensive series of books on natural history, 'The Naturalist's Library'.

This undated edition of Jardine's 'Mammalia' is beautifully color illustrated with 37 engravings of various species of 'Marsupial and Pouched Animals'! The plates from Jardine's works are exceedingly desirable and are found framed and displayed by themselves. This volume... Read more about this item

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NZ$849.40

Signals for survival

by Tinbergen, N.; Falkus, H

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Little used.

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NZ$34.07

The Birds of British Columbia (10) Goatsuckers, Swifts, Hummingbirds and Swallows - British Columbia Provincial Museum Handbook No. 37

by Guiguet, C. J

Province of British Columbia Ministry of the Provincial Secretary and Travel Industry, 1978. 1st printing. Stapled binding. Unmarked copy with sticker shadows on back. 58pp.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Taylor, Keith. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall.

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NZ$42.56

Animal behaviour

by Tinbergen, N

Time-Life International, n.d. (c. 1960). 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

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NZ$25.55

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: Eine systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. I. Abt. 4. Band: Die palaearktischen Spanner (Tafeln)

by Adalbert Seitz

Text in German/Deutsch. Dark green linen-grain cloth over boards with dark brown morocco-grain cloth at fore corners and back; gilt spine titles; black end papers with cloth hinges. Lightly scuffed covers and spine; light colored spotty stains on covers; scraped at front cover lower fore corner with tears in cloth, boards exposed; tightly bound; clean interior; few interior plates with light foxing. Table of Contents with 25 color litho plates. Cf, OCLC #634343809. Folio.

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NZ$638.32

On aggression

by Lorenz, K

Methuen, 1966. 1st English edition, translated from the German edition of 1963. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Little used. Owner's signature.

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NZ$21.30

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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NZ$31.94

Mind and Nature; A Necessary Unity

by Bateson, Gregory

New York: E.P. Dutton [1979], 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [10], xi-xii, [6], 3-238, [2] pp. Quarter blue cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A meditation on concepts in biology, psychology, and the philosophy of science. Bateson made significant contributions to psychology and the study of schizophrenia, as well as to various social sciences. A name on the corner... Read more about this item

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NZ$280.86

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)... Read more about this item

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NZ$1,823.80

Mind and Nature

by Bateson, Gregory

Bantam Books, 1984. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.