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Guide to Atlantic Game Fish


This is a high quality fish Identification card for Atlantic Game fish. Printed onto a plastic core which is then laminated, these cards are totally waterproof and more robust than paper laminated versions. Printed on both sides with over 60 high quality images of the most common fish to be found in this area.
CLOFNWA

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The Sea Fishes of the North-Western Atlantic. Greenland to the Carolinas. Taxonomic Classification. 

CLOFNWA £19.90

0 906301 78 5

ALSO AVAILABLE ON CD

DOWNLOADABLE

FWNA1 to 6

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FISHES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC - PART ONE TO SIX

Bigelow, H. B., et al.
Sears Foundation for Marine Research. 1948-73, 1948. 6 parts with b/w. illustrations throughout. Original cloth bds. Vol.1 lacking dw, Vol.2 dw. torn with considerable loss. The remaining dw’s have minor wear, o/w. a vg. set Price:

£ 350.00 plus £12.00 UK Recorded Postage

 

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Fishes of the Atlantic Coast : Canada to Brazil, Including the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean. 

by Gar Goodson.

Paperback: 204 pages (1985)

Stanford University Press

 £7.16  FOTAC

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

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

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A Handguide to the Fishes of Britain and Europe   

James Nichols and Peter Miller  

COVERS VARY HB Edition 1988 EURO 2 Our Price £3.90 plus £240 postage 

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FIELD BOOK OF MARINE FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC COAST by Charles M.Breder Jr.

The first comprehensive pocket book on marine fishes of this area. This is the 1948 revised edition of the 1929 original text by a very famous ichthyologist and naturalist. A rare title.

Original Dust jacket is a little scruffy but the book is in  superb condition. Excepting an inscription on the flyleaf dated 1959

£10.99 plus recorded postage (£3 in UK )

   EURO 22Moller

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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

GUIDE

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British Inshore Fish Guide.

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

£4.99 plus £1 postage

 

 

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SEA ANGLING

 

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SEA ANGLING FISH IDENTIFICATION

32 page colour illustrated pocket-sized pamphlet-guide to all commonly caught U.K. sea fishes

Our Price £3.45 plus 1.55p postage in the UK

SEA FISHES NORTH

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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

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

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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

£9.99 plus £2.90UK  postahe

FNEAM VOL1

B. Ex-library but still very good copy

 

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92 3 002215 2/

002611 5

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FISHES OF THE NORTH-EASTERN ATLANTIC AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

POISSONS DE L'ATLANTIQUE DU NORD-EST ET DE LA MEDITERRANEE

Volume 1 of 3 UNESCO

Families 1 to 64  pp510 HB

B. Ex-library good copy 1984but stamped

Our Price £39 plus £5 UK Recorded Postage

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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

Lythgoe Fishes

 

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0 7137 0539 6 

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FISHES OF THE SEA

by John Lythgoe. Published by Blandford Press

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

Our Price £7.35 plus £2 part UK postage. Click LEFT

(We also have one very well thumbed copy for £3 plus£2 postage) Click BELOW

(Awaiting fresh stock of this item)

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

 

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SEA AND FRESHWATER FISH

 by Alwyne Wheeler.

A superb full colour pocket guide to both fresh and seawater fishes. NEW - with internet links

Our Price £4.99 plus £1.50 UK recorded post

Please email us for further information on this product

UK Postage Paid on all orders

These charts can also be supplied laminated at a small additional cost

WALL CHARTS OF BRITISH SEA FISHES - 4 REPRODUCTION  CHARTS AVAILABLE IN A4 OR A3 SIZES

Available singly or as a set

Set of A4   £10

Set of A3   £20

Single A4 ( State which chart)    £4.90

Single A3 Chart( State which chart)    £9.90

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VINTAGE CHARTS

These charts are larger than the bed of our scanner. (Originals are not cropped )

BRITISH SEA FISHES 1

A. Size A3  £4.99

B. Size A3  Laminated £7.99

C Size A2  £15.90

D.Size A1  £25.99

Please email us for further information on this product

BRITISH SEA FISHES 2

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VINTAGE CHARTS

These charts are larger than the bed of our scanner. (Originals are not cropped )

BRITISH SEA FISHES 2

A. Size A3  £4.99

B. Size A3  Laminated £7.99

C Size A2  £15.90

D.Size A1  £25.99

Please email us for further information on this product

BRITISH MARINE

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 INVERTEBRATES

VINTAGE CHARTS

These charts are larger than the bed of our scanner. (Originals are not cropped )

BRITISH MARINE INVERTEBRATES

A. A4 £4.99

B. A3 Laminated £7.99

Scilly Isles Fish Guide.pdf Free Download ISLES OF SCILLY DOWNLOADABLE ONLINE FISH IDENTIFICATION GUIDE

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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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15

THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES BOTH FRESHWATER AND SALT

by J. Travis Perkins

TALL 8vo.( 9 x 6 INCHES ) Published in 1946 and in remarkably good condition considering its age. Leatherette gold embossed cover with rounded corner pages.  Loads of hand coloured plates.

Our Price £21.05 including Recorded UK  postage

Front Cover Illustration is of the 1946 Edition

Travis Jenkins

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15

 

 

THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES BOTH FRESHWATER AND SALT

by J. Travis Jenkins

1925 EDITION. WE HAVE MOST EDITIONS IN STOCK

TALL 8vo.( 9 x 6 INCHES ) Published in 1925 and in  good condition considering its age. Leatherette card gold embossed cover with rounded corner pages.  Loads of hand coloured plates.

Our Price £37.50 plus £3.55 UK Postage

London: F. Warne & Co, 1925, London, 1925. Green Decorated Cloth.  First Edition. 16mo.

BRITISH ISLES ID GUIDE

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Guide to British Fish

This is a high quality fish Identification card for the British Isles and Northern Europe. Printed onto a plastic core which is then laminated, these cards are totally waterproof and more robust than paper laminated versions. Printed on both sides

£5.99 plus £2 UK Postage

     

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0 7137 2225 8 

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FISHES OF THE SEA

by John Lythgoe.1991 Published by Blandford Press.pp 256. HB Dust Cover. Ink smudge on leading blank page of foreward but otherwise very good RRP £25

Identification guide to All the fishes in European Seas.

Our Price £11.99 plus £3 postage

 

THE OBSERVERS BOOK OF SEA FISHES. 1962

OBSERVERS BOOK

 

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THE OBSERVERS BOOK OF SEA FISHES. 1962 Edition. HB pp160.No dust cover but spine, binding and cover are intact .Well illustrated pocket sized.

Our Price £1.50 plus £1.50 postage in UK

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.

£55.50 including UK recorded Postage

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

Our second copy is an ex-library and well-worn copy with some spinal damage

  ALWYNE BRIT  VGC

 

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Over 15 years

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. 

(1)  Very Good Condition   Our Price £165.00 plus £7.50 insured registered delivery. ORIGINAL Dust Jacket

 

(2) Slightly Poorer condition  Our Price £120 including insured Registered Delivery. Dust Jacket is not an original

 

SHOREFISH

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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 plus £1.55 UK postage

Photocopy £5

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012 7455205

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A LIST OF THE COMMON AND SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES by Alwyne Wheeler

A very rare limited edition document published by Academic Press specifically for the Fisheries Society of the British Isles. Superb condition but one library imprint on front cover

£17.99 plus £3 Recorded UK postage

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  format  (ALSO AVAILABLE IN BOOK FORM SCROLL UP THIS PAGE FOR A LISTING)

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 

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

   

FNEAM THE SET

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.  ONLY VOLS 1 and 2 now available

Now available FREE online at:http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=fnam&menuentry=groepen

ALL 3 VOLUMES IIN VERY GOOD CONDITION

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A VERY RARE COMPLETE SET

FISHES OF THE NORTH-EASTERN ATLANTIC AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

POISSONS DE L'ATLANTIQUE DU NORD-EST ET DE LA MEDITERRANEE

All 3 Volumes UNESCO 1989

£80 plus £9.00 UK registered and insured postage

Hardback copies on very good condition

ALSO AVAILABLE AS A  CD SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE FOR A LISTING

USBORNEIDENT

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Fishes

Alwyne Wheeler in the Usborne Spotters Guide Series. " One of the best little books on fishes I have ever read,"  Gerald Jennings

Really good novices guide to all types of European fresh and saltwater fishes.

Last copy with creased cover

USBORNEIDENT

£4.55 including postage

Now available FREE online at:http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=fnam&menuentry=groepen

ISBN:  

92 3 002309 4

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E

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FISHES OF THE NORTH-EASTERN ATLANTIC AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

POISSONS DE L'ATLANTIQUE DU NORD-EST ET DE LA MEDITERRANEE

Volume 3 UNESCO

Families 162 to 220

 Hardback.Good clean copy

Our Price £25 plus £4 UK Recorded Postage

 

CERATIOIDS

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The Ceratioid Fishes.

A VERY RARE bound manuscript of the Ceratioid fishes by
E Bertelsen Published by
Bianco Luno,Copenhagen
1951 Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1951, 4to, pp 281, ½ blue calf over decorative paper covered boards, corners and spine heavily rubbed resulting in small sections of loss, 3in split to spine, author’s signature and inscription to front blank leaf, 141 figures in the text and one black and white plate. Reprinted from Dana-Report No. 39,

Our Price £21 includes UK Recorded Postage

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