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1959[1] The Frogs: translated from the Greek by William James Rickie with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes and wood engravings by John Austin. 62p. [Bound Dos-A- Dos together with] [2] The Birds : with an introduction by Dudley Fitts" Six Greek Plays" issued by the Dryden Press.) 52 p.. 114p; Shligh shelf waer eap to foot of soune. " Spine just a little damaged at foot Book
2014"... the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these Raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own." Winner of the Costa Award and the This book won both the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in 2014. 200p. bibliography Book
1965Collection of ancient Greek comedies by various translators Edited by Robert W.Corrigan. Includes Aristophanes : Lysistrata,The Birds, Peace,Plutus. and Menander : The Grouch Book
1962New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" 341p.index Book
2003"Greece is a wonderfully varied and exciting country, with unspoilt scenery, from hot, barren, sun-baked rocky wastes to snow-capped mountains, forests, abundant natural lakes, many of the deepest gorges in Europe, and Vast areas of saltmarsh and coastal lagoons, all relatively undiscovered. This fabulously illustrated new travel guide describes hundreds of places where these landscapes and their inhabitants can be seen at their best, all in easy reach of the travelling naturalist." 317p. illus (col) index Book
2 Vols., 4to, numerous coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, 990 lots.
First edition, 193pp., 8 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
[45]-55pp., 1 illustration, orig. printed wrappers, staples rusted.
First edition, 270pp., limited edition, 1 plate, orig. cloth, d.w. A working collection of considerable scope and breadth, it is rich in rare coloured plate books and strongly supported by scientific texts.
2 Vols., large 8vo, xxix, 259; [4], 176pp., orig. printed wrappers.
12mo (178 x 102mm), [2], 24, [2, adverts]pp., presentation inscription at head of title page, 8 coloured illustrations on 4 plates, some light spotting, orig. printed wrappers, spine lightly chiped.
Contemporary ownership inscription on title, hand-coloured vignette on title and 8 hand-coloured illustrations on 4 plates, some minor browning of the text, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, [2], 24 pp., contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt lettering on spine. Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Henry Dawkins Esq. Harris, 217, 1.
Second enlarged edition, folio (395 x 240 mm), iv, 110pp., printed in double-column, engraved portrait and 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets, recent quarter red morocco, new marbled endpapers, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered direct in gilt in second and third compartments, a fine copy with some minor browning and offsetting from the plates. Richard Pulteney (1730-1801) was principally known as a botanist, but started out life apprenticed for seven years to an apothecary in his local town of Loughborough, Leicestershire. After which he practised as a surgeon and apothecary at Leicester; but he met with little success owing to his nonconformist convictions. He eventually secured a practice as physician at Blanford, Dorset, and occupied his leisure time with the study of botany, conchology, etc. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1790 and bequeathed to them his museum and herbarium. First published in 1799 in a limited number, many of which were destroyed by a fire at Nichols' warehouse in 1808. This second enlarged edition, edited with additions by Reckett, was the first to be illustrated. A republication of Da Costa's Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae 1778 plates, with six additional ones, omitting some of Da Costa's figures, and inserting others, corresponding with the locality of the subject. The plates contain about 230 figures of British shells, and the letter-press gives a brief description of them. Nissen ZBI, 3250.
First edition, 157pp., frontis., orig. cloth, inner hinges shaken, head and foot of spine slightly frayed.
2 volumes In-4, XXI-766-870p. Edition française par Z. Gerbe. Illustré de 39 planches hors texte et d'environ 750 figures dans le texte. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Exemplaires en parfaite condition.
1999Fotografias en color.
1998Fotografias en color.
2002Fotografias en color.
1990Publicado en ECOLOGIA Nº 4.
2001Publicado en ECOLOGIA Nº 15.
1993Publicado en ECOLOGIA Nº 7.
2002Publicado en ECOLOGIA Nº 16.