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Winter Sale -15% Discount
As a valued subscriber to Pemberley Books Newsletters, you have access to an exclusive 15% discount on used and antiquarian books in our Winter Sale. Just enter the discount code WINTER15 during checkout. You may use this code to receive a discount off any title from the list below, as well as any other book from our entire selection of used and antiquarian books.
This special offer is valid until 18th February, so be sure to take advantage of it before it expires.
Ian and Julie Johnson and all the team at Pemberley Books
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by Morey, F. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 51301, Published : 1909, Illustrations : frontis + 30 b/w plates, folding map
Hardback £75.00
A series of contributions by specialists relating to the various branches of Natural History and kindred subjects. (more)
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by Bewick, Thomas
Cat No. : 56718, Published : 1790, 1797, 1804, Illustrations : woodcuts to text
Hardback £750.00
First editions. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was a passionate naturalist, ‘a son of nature’, as Audubon called him, a man immersed in the English countryside. He is considered as England’s most (more)
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by Mawer, W.
Cat No. : 56766, Published : 1889, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 1 b/w plate
Hardback £350.00
First edition. Rare. Only four copies listed on Copac. A biographical account of Darwin's life by Walter Mawer, editor of a short lived natural history periodical for boys, Life-Lore. This (more)
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by White, Gilbert; Bell, Thomas (Ed.)
Cat No. : 56948, Published : 1877, Illustrations : 9 plates (1 col), 6 engravings in text
Hardback £90.00
Vol. I: Natural History, Antiquities, Naturalist's Calendar, Observations on various Parts of Nature, and Poems; Vol. II: Correspondence, Sermon, Account-book, Garden Kalendar, Animals and Plants, (more)
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by Seebohm, Henry
Cat No. : 59713, Published : 1883-1885, Illustrations : 68 col plates, wood engravings to text
Hardback £450.00
First edition. Fine colour plates of eggs lithographed by Hanhart. Henry Seebohm (1832-1895) was a British steel manufacturer, amateur ornithologist and oologist. He travelled widely in Europe in (more)
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by Agassiz, Louis; Strickland, H.E.
Cat No. : 59831, Published : 1848-1854
Hardback £250.00
First edition. This four-volume catalogue, published between 1848 and 1854, was compiled ‘during the leisure moments of a life of almost incessant scientific research’, by the eminent Swiss-born (more)
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by Archer, M.E.
Cat No. : 61376, Published : 2000, Illustrations : text figs, distr maps
Paperback £20.00
First edition. Contains a review of the natural history of the eumenines, together with an illustrated key to the species, and details on status, flight period and distribution in the British Isles (more)
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by Verrall, G.H.
Cat No. : 61378, Published : 1909, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 406 text figs
Hardback £125.00
First edition. Scarce. Includes 'Systematic List of the Palaearctic Diptera Brachycera'. Covers families: Stratiomyidae, Leptidae, Tabanidae, Nemestrinidae, Cyrtidae, Bombylidae, Therevidae, (more)
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by Collin, J.E.
Cat No. : 61377, Published : 1961, Illustrations : b/w portrait frontis, 317 text figs
Hardback £120.00
Bound edition comprising parts I-III, supplementary notes, index. (more)
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by Verrall, G.H.
Cat No. : 61417, Published : 1969, Illustrations : frontis, 458 text figs
Hardback £50.00
Reprint (originally published 1901, Gurney & Jackson). Includes 'Catalogue of the Platypezidae' (first published 1900). Scarce, even as reprint. (more)
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by Balfour-Browne, F.
Cat No. : 61447, Published : 1940-1958, Illustrations : 5 plates, 266 text figs, 67 maps
Hardback £150.00
First edition. Only 450 copies of vol. I and 800 copies of Vol. II were printed. (more)
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by Joy, N.H.; Hodge, P.J.; Jones, R.A.
Cat No. : 61635, Published : 1932-1995, Illustrations : 169 plates of line drawings, 1 map
Hardback £175.00
Vol. I: Text; Vol. II: Plates. 1st edition. Includes the 1995 Supplement, New British Beetles by Hodge & Jones, which includes species not in Joy's original Handbook. (more)
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by Pont, A.C.; Meier, R.
Cat No. : 61701, Published : 2002, Illustrations : 487 line drawings, 2 b/w plates
Hardback £65.00
Revision of taxonomy, biology and faunistics of all European species (9 genera, 44 species, one new species described). Keys to genera for eggs, larvae and adults, and to species for adults. (more)
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by Seguy, E.
Cat No. : 61555, Published : 1934, Illustrations : 27 plates, 903 text figs
Hardback £65.00
Text French. (more)
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by Chalmers-Hunt, J.M.
Cat No. : 61740, Published : 1960-1968, Illustrations : 1 folding map
Hardback £65.00
Scarce. Originally published as supplements to Entomologist's Record 72-80, and also issued in a collected edition of 75 copies with printed covers. A third volume was also published (more)
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by Knaggs, H.G.
Cat No. : 61743, Published : 1869, 1870
Paperback £30.00
Scarce local list of Lepidoptera. This is a separately issued and extended version of a paper first published in Quarterly Journal of the Folkestone Natural History Society 1869, pt 4, pp. (more)
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by Aurivillius, C.; Spessivtseff, P.
Cat No. : 61755, Published : 1920-1925, Illustrations : 59 text figs
Paperback £42.00
Text Swedish. Includes identification keys to species of Curculionidae (including Scolytidae) of Sweden. (more)
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by Palm, T.
Cat No. : 61756, Published : (1948)-1972, Illustrations : 21 plates, 43 text figs
Paperback £100.00
Text Swedish. These 7 parts cover the rove beetles (Staphylinidae) of Sweden, with identification keys to species. Original printings apart from Pt 1, which is a later reprint, slightly shorter in (more)
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by Lindroth, C.H.
Cat No. : 61757, Published : 1933, Illustrations : 49 text figs
Paperback £35.00
Text Swedish. Includes identification keys to Swedish species of beetles belonging to the diverse families formerly included in the group Heteromera. (more)
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by Scheerpeltz, O.; Hoefler, K.
Cat No. : 59601, Published : 1948, Illustrations : 9 plates (8 col), 19 text figs
Hardback £35.00
Text German. (more)
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by Berland, L.
Cat No. : 61547, Published : 1925-1938, Illustrations : 1136 text figs
Hardback £120.00
Text French. I: Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae; II: Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae; III: Cleptidae, Chrysidae, Trigonalidae. Complete (more)
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by M'Crie, T.; Miller, H.; Anderson, J.; Fleming, J.; Balfour, J.H.
Cat No. : 61761, Published : [1855], Illustrations : frontis + 7 plain plates
Hardback £85.00
Undated reissue (first published 1848). Title page printed in black and red. Scarce. Freeman 2392. (more)
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by National Trust
Cat No. : 61563, Published : 1967-1973, Illustrations : text figs, maps
Paperback £25.00
Scarce. No. 2: Mollusca of the Wicken Sedge Fen (C.R.C. Paul); No. 5: List of the Bryophytes of Wicken Fen (J.M. Lock); No. 6: The Freshwater Triclads of Wicken Fen (I.R. Ball); No. 7: The Spiders of (more)
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by Ridgely, R.S.; Tudor, G.
Cat No. : 61677, Published : 1989-1994, Illustrations : 83 col plates, distribution maps, endpaper maps
Hardback £50.00
Vol. I. The Oscine Passerines; Vol. II. The Suboscine Passerines. (more)
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by Arnell, S.; Nyholm, E.
Cat No. : 61451, Published : 1956-1969, Illustrations : 98 + 497 figs, 2 folding maps
Paperback £85.00
Complete in 7 parts: Vol. I + II (1-3) first editions; Vol. II (4-6), second edition. (more)
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Cat No. : 61765, Published : 1906-2011
Hardback £360.00
Containing the names and parentages of all the known hybrid orchids, whether introduced or artificially raised. In 1895, Messrs Sander & Sons, Orchid growers of St. Albans, England, instituted a (more)
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by Williams, Benjamin Samuel
Cat No. : 61796, Published : 1877, Illustrations : folding coi frontis, 40 plain plates (many folding), 12 text figs
Hardback £75.00
Fifth edition, enlarged and revised. Fine chromolithographic frontispiece by W.H. Fitch, printed by G. Severeyns, Brussels. (more)
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by Barretto, G.; Cribb, P.; Gale, S.
Cat No. : 61049, Published : 2011, Illustrations : 297 col + 14 b/w photos, 184 line drawings, 25 watercolour paintings, 3 maps
Hardback £75.00
First authoritative account of all Hong Kong's 126 native species and varieties of orchid. (more)
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by Braem, G.J.; Chiron, G.; Öhlund, S.L.
Cat No. : 61133, Published : 2016, Illustrations : 247 illus (222 col)
Hardback £90.00
Second edition. The most complete monograph about the genus of slipper orchids. The extensive text is scientifically correct, but written to be accessible to commercial and amateur orchid growers, (more)
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by Szlachetko, D.L.; Veyret, Y.; Mytnik-Ejsmont, J.; Sawicka, M.; Rutkowski, P.; Baranow, P.
Cat No. : 61191, Published : 2012, Illustrations : 877 col photos, 589 text figs
Hardback £125.00
First edition. An illustrated investigation of the orchid flora of the tropical rainforests of French Guiana. Based on herbarium materials and field expeditions carried out by Dariusz Szlachetko in (more)
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by The National Trust
Cat No. : 56437, Published : 2001
Paperback £25.00
This manual forms part of the National Trust's Manual of Building. (more)
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by Auerbach, R.D.
Cat No. : 59878, Published : 1987, Illustrations : 132 col photos (on 6 plates), b/w photos, line drawings, distribution maps
Hardback £175.00
First edition. Scarce. Detailed descriptions of more than 200 species with notes on reproductive biology, ecology and distribution. (more)
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by Clark, A.M.; Downey, M.E.
Cat No. : 55739, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 113 b/w plates, 75 figs
Hardback £200.00
Complete taxonomic guide to the wide range of starfish (Asteroidea) that inhabit the Atlantic Ocean. Provides a comprehensive review of the taxonomy and geographical distribution of Atlantic (more)
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by Oliver, P.G.
Cat No. : 60458, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 46 col plates, line drawings
Hardback £35.00
Comprehensive guide to the Bivalve molluscs of the Red Sea (including the Gulf of Aden). Includes illustrated identification keys. Species descriptions include Scientific name, Synonyms, Description, (more)
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by Delamotte, M.; Vardala-Theodorou, E.
Cat No. : 60459, Published : 2001, Illustrations : col + b/w photos, text figs
Hardback £85.00
English edition, translated from the original Greek edition (1994). A beautifully illustrated guide to the most beautiful and outstanding shells of the Greek shores, with 360 species described and (more)
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by Whitehead, P.J.P.; Bauchot, M.-L.; Hureau, J.-C.; Nielsen, J.; Tortonese, E. (Eds)
Cat No. : 60702, Published : 1989, 1986, 1986, Illustrations : line drawings, distribution maps
Hardback £180.00
Vol. 1 (1989): reprinted with corrections (first published 1984); Vol. 2 & 3 (1986): first editions. Text English (preliminary sections (Preface, Foreword, Editor's Note) bilingual English/French). (more)
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by Einav, R.
Cat No. : 60936, Published : 2007, Illustrations : col photos, col illus, line drawings
Hardback £75.00
A welcome addition to the sparse literature on seaweeds of the Eastern Mediterranean. There are introductory chapters on bioecology, reproduction and life-cycles, the economic value of seaweeds, sea (more)
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