Category: Biographies

Small tear at tip of spine of jacket. Sir Joseph Hooker is well known as Director of Kew Gardens, but his explorations of the Himalayas and the Southern Hemisphere are equally distinguished aspects of his career. A close friend of Charles Darwin, he too derived scientific insights and inspiration from his visits to the exotic island floras of New Zealand, Australia and the Falklands, as well as encountering the very distinctive Cape Flora of South Africa. The exquisitely... View more info

The world of Roger Tory Peterson: an authorized biography

By: Devlin, J.C. & Naismith, G.

Price: £9.00

Publisher: David & Charles: 1978

Edition: 1st UK edition, originally published 1977

Seller ID: 11184

Little used. xxi, 266 pp. View more info

Mrs Delany

By: Dewes, Simon

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Rich & Cowan: n.d. [1940]

Seller ID: 13561

Owner's stamp on ffep, small indentation at foot of front hinge, internally v.g. The author's name is a pseudonym; it was written by John Saint Clair Muriel, according to the BL catalogue. xii, (13)-320 pp. View more info

Charles Raven: naturalist, historian, and theologian

By: Dillistone, F.W.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1975

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: 5410

Hard bound, with jacket showing slight edge wear. Sir Julian Huxley's copy (owner's stamp on ffep) with loosely inserted letter to Sir Julian from the publisher (Eric Major) soliciting a quote. Spopt on extreme margin of p. 11. 448 pp. View more info

Thomas Bewick and his pupils

By: Dobson, A.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1889

Edition: New edition

Seller ID: 15475

Some browning of end papers. View more info

Conservators of the Hunterian Museum

By: Dobson, J.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Royal College of Surgeons of England: n.d. [?1979]

Seller ID: 11772

Boards very slightly bowed. 39 pp. Reprinted from the Annals of the R.C.S. View more info

Friedrich Welwitsch vida e obra

By: Dolezal, H.

Price: £48.00

Publisher: Junta de Investigašes cient’ficas do Ultramar, Lisboa: 1974

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: 11830

Limited edition reprint (100 copies). View more info

In the footsteps of the naturalists

By: Doncaster, I.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Phoenix House, London: 1961

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: 19075

Ex-library copy with stamps etc. View more info

The university-based consultant

By: Doorncamp, J.C.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: M1 Press Ltd, Long Eaton: 1991

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: 2003

A University geography lecturer with wide experience of consultancy work gives advice to the would-be chaser-after commissions. (8), 99 pp. View more info

Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America 1823-1827

By: Douglas, David

Price: £80.00

Publisher: Antiquarian Press: 1959

Edition: Limited Edition reprint of 1914 edition

Seller ID: 11057

A limited edition reprint of the 1914 edition, printed Ôunder the direction of the Royal Horticultural Society'. A fascinating account which also contains numbered lists of plants collected. (10), 364 pp. View more info