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Botany British floras . 1st. Ed. Pub. Sussex Botanical Recording Soc. 1994. pp.28 with fold out map. 8vo. Nr. fine softback. A transcription of the only surviving manuscript copy of W.H. Coleman�s catalogue of plants of East Grinstead, now in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Includes a brief biography of William Higgins Coleman.

Ornithology Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. WSG. 1970-1989. All fifty-seven bulletins bound in four volumes. 4to. Hardback. Contents fine. Bound in blue cloth lettered in silver to spine all in fine condition. The ‘Wader Study Group Bulletin’ was the principle journal of the IWSG from 1970 to 2014, when it was renamed and relaunched as the journal Wader Study. The Bulletin published peer-reviewed papers on the results of wader (shorebird) research from all parts of the world.

Collins. , 1982. 1st. Ed. Rep.. 8vo. A nr. fine hardback in vg. dw., sunned on spine. Not price clipped.

Collins. , 1980. 1st. Ed.. pp.320 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A nr. fine hdbk. in vg., lightly shelf rubbed dw. Not price clipped.

Natural history New Naturalists . 1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1980. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. in publisher’s duraseal cover. Pencil signature of Paul Heppleston (one of the contributing authors to NN 70 - Orkney) to ffep. Price clipped.

Poyser., 1986. 1st. Ed.. pp.400 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Inscription to ffep. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.

Poyser., 1986. 1st. Ed.. pp.400 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.

Ornithology Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1986. pp.400 with b/w. photos., illus. and sonagrams. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. Dr. Desmond Nethersole-Thompson's life-long interest in waders gives this work its exceptional quality and authority. For well over fifty years the study of waders and their behaviour has been his passion, and his great knowledge and experience are internationally recognised. There is a bonus, too, for the reader in the particular freshness and style of his writing which conveys not only his closely observed, patient study but also the joy and satisfaction he has known in watching such intriguing and beautiful birds, mainly in their Scottish habitats.

Poyser., 1986. 1st. Ed.. pp.400 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in fine dw., just gently sunned to spine. From Eric Hosking�s library with reduced-size copy of his bookplate loosely inserted. With lengthy, very personal, dedication from Desmond and Maimie Nethersole-Thompson to "Eric and Dorothy" which begins "Friends of nearly fifty years....." to half-title, and a handwritten letter (dated 29: XII: 86) from Desmond which talks of the 1930s and also of the death and funeral of a friend, Marjorie Fergusson, earlier in 1986. In his acknowledgements (and in part in his handwritten dedication), Nethersole-Thompson wrote fondly �Eric and Dorothy Hosking, friends of many years, worked with me in Spey Valley in 1940 and 1947; and in 1976 they visited our Sutherland wader camp where Eric took a grand series of photographs.�. Some of Eric�s photographs are featured in �Waders�.

Wader Study Group., 1991. pp. 107 with distrbution maps. VG. in card covers. Recommendations are provided in the languages of English, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portugese, Swedish, German, French, Spanish and Greek. The Wader Study Group organized a workshop held in 1989 whose objectives were to review the situation of wetlands in Europe, to review population sizes and trends of waders breeding on wetlands, to give examples of research and applied research on grasslands waders and habitat management and to draw conclusions and make recommendations for all involved in the conservation of wet grasslands and their biota.

Struik Winchester., 1995. 1st. Ed.. pp.288 with fine colour illus. by Clare Douie throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. In fine publisher's slipcase. The author provides a fascinating insight into the lives and lifestyles of waders: their food and foraging ecology, distribution and breeding habits.

Helm., 2005. 1st.. pp.224 with 77 plates. A new copy. Softback. Save �9.99. RRP �29.99. A definitive field guide to 124 species of northern hemisphere waders with dist. maps.

Blandford., 1982. 1st.. pp.xvii, 334 with many coloured plates and numerous dist. maps. VG. copy in dw.

Gardening Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society. 1989-2015. Twenty six parts. Illustrated. 8vo. Nr. fine softbacks.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. pp.vi, 226 with b/w. photos. 4to. Fine softback. Three relevant newspaper articles loosely inserted. An authoritative and engaging volume on marsupials, pouched animals whose unusual method of reproduction-between egg-laying and placental birth- places them in a unique category among mammals.

Country Life Library., 1913. 5th. Ed.. pp.xvi, 214 with colour frontis and numerous b/w. plates throughout. 8vo. A vg. hardback copy in green cloth boards.

Gardening Monographs . 6th. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1920. pp.xvi, 214 with b/w. photos. throughout plus 16-page catalogue. 8vo. Contents fine. Original cloth boards in vg. plus condition.

Country Life. , 1928. 7th. Ed.. pp.xvi, 214 with b/w. photos. throughout. Large 8vo. Contents very clean and nr. fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.

Country Life Library. [c.], 1910. 3rd. Ed.. pp.xv, 177 with b/w. photos., throughout. 8vo. Signature dated 1908 to ffep. Scattered foxing, o/w. contents thor. vg. Original blue cloth boards, sunned in places, in vg. condition.

HMSO., 1992. pp.73 with portraits and numerous colour reproductions of Fitch�s paintings. A vg. copy in part faded dustwrapper.