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Actinopterygians from the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean

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Actinopterygians from the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean

 

 

Guide to Mediterranean Fish

A high quality fish laminated Identification card printed onto a plastic core which is then laminated, these cards are totally waterproof .Printed on both sides with over 60 high quality images of the most common marine species to be found in this area.

£5.99 plus £2 UK Postage

Versions supplied may vary from the picture, Some are bound with a dust jacket. Some have plasticised board covers. Please state your preference when ordering

COLLSEA

ISBN:  

0 00219258 6

0 00 212058 5

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Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of Britain and North-Western Europe  

by Muus and Dahlstrom HB. Superbly collated information.  Hundreds of sketches, maps and full colour illustrations

Hard  worn 244 pages size 4.5 x 8 inches approx

£14.99 plus £2.90UK  postahe

Covers vary. All good condition or new.

Fishes of the Sea  Fishes of the sea by Lithgoe. British sea fish identification guide Lythgoe Fishes

 

ISBN: 

0 7137 0539 6 

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FISHES OF THE SEA

by John Lythgoe. Published by Blandford Press et al. Varoius editions

Identification guide to All the fishes in European Seas. HB.pp 320

Our Price £7.50 plus £3.50 part UK postage. Click LEFT

(We also have one very well thumbed copy for £0.50 plus £3.50 postage) Click BELOW

 

We also have the latest edition of this title using a  larger format (see below )

  ALWYNESALT

  

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*** The Sea Fishes of Britain and Europe

 RARE

One of the best books on these fishes by Alwyne Wheeler (The "saltwater" section of "key" in a different form. We also have the freshwater version. LINK

£6.60 per copy plus £2.90 Recorded delivery in UK while stocks last.

  BILINGUAL  MALTA 3

ISBN:  

978 99909 3 146 4

THE FISH AROUND MALTA

by Guido Lanfranco

Progress Press 1999 pp.130

Colour illustrated and updated version of the title further down this page

Our Price £ 28.00 plus £2.50 U.K.postage

  HANDGUIDE

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A Handguide to the Fishes of Britain and Europe   

James Nichols and Peter Miller  

COVERS VARY HB Edition 1988 HANDGUIDE  Our Price £3.90 plus £240 postage 

COVERS VARY

Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean Including Marine Invertebrates Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean Including Marine Invertebrates

SEA FISHES MEDITERRANEAN

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Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean Including Marine Invertebrates
Author: Wood,

Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd
Published: 5 Aug 2011
Pages: 128 A superbly colour illustrated guide to the fishes and invertebrates of the area

£19.90 plus £2 .90postage

   EURO 22Moller

ISBN:  

0 014063 001 5

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Fishes of the British and Northern European Seas  

J. Moller Christensen

Penguin Nature Guide        Pages: 128    Year:-   1978

OUR PRICE £4.99   plus £2.80 U K postage

PLUS: One slightly damaged but intact and reasonable copy.£1 plus £1.90 U.K.postage

  LESSEPSIANS

ISBN: 

 9789546425263

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FISH INVASIONS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Golani and Golani

2009

Edited By: Daniel Golani and Brenda Appelbaum-Golani
332 pages, col photos, maps, illus
Pensoft Publishers

Our price NEW  £85 including worldwide registered postage

FISHES OF GREECE

ISBN: 

 9602261986

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FISHES OF GREECE by George Svikas

pp 86. Efstathiadis Group

One copy only £29.99 including EU postage

SEA FISHES NORTH

ISBN: 

978184773 125 8

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SEA FISHES AND INVERTEBRATES OF THE NORTH SEA AND ENGLISH CHANNEL

Lawson Wood

2008 pp 128 NEW

A superbly colour illustrated guide to the fishes and invertebrates of the area

Our Price £9.90 plus £3.00 Recorded delivery postage in the UK

Key to the fishes WHEELERKEY   

 

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KEY TO THE FISHES OF NORTHERN EUROPE 

 by Alwyne Wheeler. This must be the most popular and hardest to obtain book on fishes in the United Kingdom.

£25.50 including UK recorded Postage

Very rare  document - The BOUND HARDBACK PREDECESSOR to Alwyne Wheeler's "Key" in Paperback

The Fishes of the British Isles and North West Europe by Alwyne Wheeler

  ALWYNE BRIT 

 

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WE HAVE TWO COPIES OF THIS VERY RARE TITLE

The Fishes of the British Isles and North West Europe by Alwyne Wheeler.

 HARDBACK . 1969 Octavo 614 pages. Fully Illustrated. with area maps on each species

By the foremost Curator of Fishes at the British Museum (Natural History) - an expertly written guide by a foremost authority. 

    ALWYNESALT

  

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The SALTWATER Fishes of Britain and Europe

RARE LOOSELEAF RING BOUND EDITION

 by Alwyne Wheeler (The "saltwater" section of "key" in a different form. We also have the freshwater version. LINK

£14.50 per copy plus £3 Recorded delivery in UK while stocks last.

Travis Jenkins

  

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Minimum Reading Age

15

THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES BOTH FRESHWATER AND SALT

by J. Travis Jenkins

TALL 8vo.( 9 x 6 INCHES in remarkably good condition considering its age. Leatherette gold embossed cover with rounded corner pages. Truly a one-off for our bookshop. Loads of hand coloured plates.

Our Price £17.50 plus £3.55 UK Postage

All Mediterranean sea-life, the Marine Pictolife describes more than 250 marine species. With its completely waterproof, plasticized pages, it easily fits into a diving vest pocket or a beachbag.

All Mediterranean sea-life, the Marine Pictolife describes more than 250 marine species Marine Pictolife 1

The readily accesssible species information is provided through original and simple pictograms,

ISBN: 

ISBN number 978-2-9527809-1-9

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Marine Pictolife 1


Multilingual (5 languages)
More than 250 species packed into 56 pages
Paper captions in all 5 languages
 Format: 12.5 X 16.3 cm ;  all names translated into 5 languages (English, German, Dutch, French and Spanish).
Totally waterproof


£22.99
includes Recorded post paid in the UK

GREECE

 

ISBN:  

10: 9602265345
13:

978-9602265345

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COASTAL FISHES OF GREECE

by I.E. Batjakas & A.E. Economakis

Paperback: 130 pages
Publisher: Efstathiadis Group

Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 12.4 x 1 cm .

£29.99 Plus £2 postage

SHOREFISH      Book £10

 

Photocopy £5

    

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FIELD KEY TO THE SHORE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES 

by Alwyne Wheeler

pp.40. A Very rare publication.  Book £10  Photocopy £5

European Sea Fishes

 

ISBN:  

0906301 41 6

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G 

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All ages

EUROPEAN SEA FISHES Gibraltar to Norway  The 1996 Pocketbook . An identification Guide to Recorded Species A Calypso Pocket field guide. Signed Copy by author Gerald Jennings. One only. £79.90

pp 225 Calypso Publications London 1996

This is an excellent source not only for fisheries scientists, but also for marine biologists, environmentalists and students. All text is hyperlinked: an illustrated glossary defines more than 500 scientific terms. All principle literature references (more than 5000!) are included in this program. Windows CD. 

CD ONLY - Also Printed in three volumes (scroll up for details)

ATMED1 

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Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic & Mediterranean 

Biodiversity CD-ROM. 

J.-C. Hureau (editor)

This standard reference work was made in cooperation with the United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and more than 60 ichthyologists. It contains updated information on 1287 fish species along with a fully illustrated interactive identification key, drawings, color illustrations, photographs and distribution maps. 
Price: £125.95 plus 1.55p postage 

ITAL 1

 

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G 

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Italian Sea Fishes  

A Calypso Pocket field guide. Gerald Jennings    .For a full list of Calypso Field Guides please follow this link GUIDES 

One copy only signed by the Author

 Our Price £79.90

 

ISBN:  

0906301 13 0

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  All ages

 

MEDITERRANEAN GOBIES, BLENNIES, WRASSES AND SHORE FISHES

A Calypso Pocket field guide. Gerald Jennings    .For a full list of Calypso Field Guides please follow this link GUIDES 

One copy only signed by the Author

 Our Price £79.90

 

SPAN 1

 

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Sea Fishes of the Spanish Mediterranean Coasts and Islands.

 A Calypso Pocket field guide. Gerald Jennings    .For a full list of Calypso Field Guides please follow this link GUIDES

One copy only signed by the Author Our Price £79.90

MALTA 1

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A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE FISHES OF MALTA by Guido Lanfranco Progress Press 1965 pp.120

Old and many pages carry original researcher's notes but a valued document

Our Price £ 3.00 plus £1.50 postage

MALTA 2

ISBN:  

99909 3 003 1

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THE FISH AROUND MALTA by Guido Lanfranco 

Progress Press 1999 pp.130

Colour illustrated and updated version of the title immediately above

Our Price £ 18.00 plus £1.50 postage

FIRST EDITION 1904.

We have two copies. One has a much darker green leatherette/cloth cover and both are gold embossed.

BSWF 

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British Salt Water Fish. 

By F.G. Aflalo with a chapter on the artificial culture of sea fish by R.B. Marston, Editor “The Fishing Gazette”. Published by The Woburn Library of Natural History. Edited by His Grace The Duke of Bedford, K G. 
Chapters include: The Sharks & Rays, The Bass, Bream & Red Mullet, The Mackerels, The Gurnards, The Gobies, The Conger Eel, The Grey Mullets, The Wrasses, The Herring Family, The Flatfish, The Cod Family & Sand-Eels, Some Rare & Unknown Fish. 
Damage to top & bottom of spine board, foxing to first few pages & index, otherwise plates clean with blank verso, all pages intact & book looks unread 
No tears, faded name on inside front cover. Internally very good~ 17 beautifully illustrated fish prints on 12 coloured plates with minor handling marks, otherwise in Fine condition. ~
£20 inc postage

Mediterranean Fishes

 

ISBN:  

0906301 97 1

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Mediterranean Fishes.

Calypso Publications

pp 231  The 3rd Edition. Includes a waterproof fish identification chart for beach or diving use

Our Price £35.90

READ A REVIEW

GUIDE

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British Inshore Fish Guide.

  Pocketable. Laminated. An Illustrated Guide to the Coastal Fishes of Britain

£4.99 plus £2 postage

 

 

  IN GERMAN ! MEDITERRANEAN

ISBN:  

3925919546 / 3-925919-54-6

 Price Group:

F

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Mediterranean and Atlantic Fish Guide
Debelius, Helmut 
ConchBooks, Germany, 1997. Book Condition: as new. colour photographs (illustrator). Retail Price £39.95,plus £4.50 postage
MEDSHARKS

ISBN:  

92-5-105291-3

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Field identification guide to the Sharks and Rays of the Mediterranean and Black Sea 

By: Fabrizio Serena
FAO Species Identification Guides for Fishery Purposes
Rome, 2005, 136 pp.
ISSN 1020-6868
TC/M/Y5945/E
US $22.00 plus postage at cost from Rome

SEA WATER AQUARIA

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SEA WATER AQUARIA by L.A.J.Jackman. The classic book of its genre. A must for all interested in maintaining a coldwater marine aquarium.

£12.00 plus £2.20 postage in UK

 

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  DIPPER  

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British Sea Fishes 

by Dr. F. Dipper

If you are a diver, snorkeller, sports fisherman, sea shore enthusiast, interested in sea fishes or are in any way interested in the natural history of Britain’s marine wildlife then this is the book for you! Unusually it is devoted entirely to the fish around the coasts of Great Britain, and most of the 103 species described are illustrated with colour photographs of the fishes in their natural habitat.

£14.99 plus £3 Recorded UK postage

 

  LITTLEGUIDE

 

Pre ISBN

FISHES -A GUIDE TO EUROPEAN SEA FISHES AND FISHING

A Little Guide - in colour with 157 Illustrations

Hamlyn 1966. Great for the pocket. pp 160

£5.50 including postage

 

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Aegean, Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Fishes  

by Gerald Jennings. Calypso Publications, London. Dodecalingual index to species. Easy visual Guide.

Our Price £19.90

FAO Species Identification Sheets for Fishery Purposes. Mediterranean and Black Sea. Fishing Area 37. Volume I.
Please enquire for price and availability on CD only
  

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