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AHISTORY OF BRITISH
FISHES BY
WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.Z.S. F.L.S.
FIRST
EDITION 2 VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY 400 WOOD ENGRAVED
ILLUSTRATIONS
ALWYNE BRIT
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AHISTORY OF BRITISH
FISHES BY
WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.Z.S. F.L.S.
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TEXT: 408pp.PLUS 2pp. ADVERTS 472pp.
INTERNALLY THE BOOK B;OCK IS PRETTY SOLID but could do with some TLC.. JOHN VAN VOORST. LONDON.
1836
£69.90 including UK Recorded Postage
WILLIAM YARRELL (1784-1856), British naturalist, was born in London on the 3rd of June 1784. His father was a newspaper agent, and he succeeded to the business, and prosecuted it till within a few years of his death. He acquired the reputation of being the best shot and the first angler in the metropolis, and soon also became an expert naturalist. In 1825 he was elected a fellow of the
Linnaean Society
Decorative Cloth. . First. Octavo. 1931 Edition An interesting
treatise on unusual fish and their natural history. Illustrated with
sketches, many from nature, by L.R.Brightwell
contents: 1) Introduction. 2) Walking and Climbing Fish. 3) Electric Fish.
4) Blind Fish. 5) Armoured Fish. 6) Flying-Fish. 7) Lung-Fish. 8) Flat-Fish.
9) Goldfish. 10) Giant Fish. 11) Nursing Fish. 12) Nest-Building Fish. 13)
Fish and Their Travels. 14) Luminous Fish. 15) Baby Fish. 16) Fighting-Fish.
17) Other Queer Fish. 18) Food Fish. 19) Fossil Fish. 20) Shell Fish. 21)
Aquatic Mammals
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CEYLON
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The Marine and Fresh Water Fishes
of Ceylon
Munro, I. S. R.
Dept. of External
Affairs, Canberra, 1955. No dust jacket. Cover worn. Title page is torn.
Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round
condition suitable as a reading copy.
£17.50 plus £3.50 UK Postage
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FISHES
THEIR WAYS OF LIFE
LOUIS ROULE
Published by George Routledge in 1935, this is a nice first edition of Prof.
Roule's scholarly and fascinating study of marine life, translated from the
French by Conrad Elphinstone.
£17.50 plus £3.50 UK Postage
1897 GUIDE
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A HANDY
GUIDE TO FISH CULTURE OF FISH CULTURE MADE EASY Made especially designed
for the use of amateurs.pp218 Green leatherette Binding. Gold embossed
title on spine
BY
J.J.Armistrad 1897
An EXTREMELY RARE manuscript
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Front Cover Illustration is of the 1946 Edition
Travis Jenkins
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THE FISHES OF THE
BRITISH ISLES BOTH FRESHWATER AND SALT
by J. Travis Jenkins
1925 EDITION
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. Truly a one-off for our
bookshop. Loads of hand coloured plates.
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London: F. Warne & Co, 1925, London, 1925. Green Decorated
Cloth. Book Condition: Excellent. First Edition. 16mo. Green Decorated
Cloth. First Edition. 16mo. Apart from a very slight tear to top of
spine-1/4" an excellent example.
Travis Jenkins
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THE FISHES OF THE
BRITISH ISLES BOTH FRESHWATER AND SALT
by J. Travis Jenkins
TALL 8vo.( 9 x 6 INCHES )
1946 EDITION and 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.
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BMNH Guide
GUIDE TO THE
BRITISH FRESH-WATER FISHES' EXHIBITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)
BY C. TATE REGAN (DIRECTOR)
39 PAGES
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BOOKLET SIZE 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" INCHES
AMATEUR AQUARIST 1894
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THE
AMATEUR AQUARIST
by
Mark Samuel, Aquarist to Columbia College, New York . 1894
116
pages. Bound.In reasonable condition and very well illustrated
How
to maintain and Equip a self-sustaining aquarium
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HODGSON
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FRESHWATER
FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES by N. Barrie Hodgson. Crowther
1947 HB 60 pp. Good condition for its age. (also listed on European
Freshwater Fishes page )
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postage in the UK
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:
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FIRST EDITION 1904.
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and both are gold embossed.
BSWF
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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 UK postage
NEW GUINEA
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THE
FISHES OF NEW GUINEA by Ian S Munro
A VERY RARE TITLE
Dept Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries Port Moresby New Guinea 1967.
First edition. Illustrated boards, colour & b & w plates, line
illustrations, 650pp + plates. F/o inscription o/w very good. Jacket -
edgeworn, lightly stained spine inside.
Our price £99.50 including UK postage
JTN1
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Representative
North American Freshwater Fishes by John T Nichols, American Museum of
Natural History. An unusual pocket-sized and superbly illustrated cloth
cover book . A paperback in its own cardboard custom
sleeve. Extremely rare title. McMillan 1943.
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Price £12.50 plus £2.30 UK postage
INNESOLD
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Goldfish Varieties and
Tropical Aquarium Fishes
by
W. T. Innes
The 1921 Edition
The Original "The Aquarists Bible" and is still hard to beat for pure
historical information
£30.00 UK post paid
HORNIMAN
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A
handbook to the marine aquaria
3rd
Edition 1921
From the Horniman Museum and
Library in South London
pp 68 Two plates. Preface by
the Curator, H.S.Harrison
An irreplaceable text
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TSITSIKAMA SMITH
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Fishes
of the Tsitsikama Coastal National Park (SOUTHERN AFRICA
by
the late professor J.L.B.Smith and Margaret Smith, of Coelacanth fame
A VERY RARE BOOK beautifully colour illustrated by the authors
Our Price £15 post paid in UK
CAPE FISHES
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SEA
ANGLING FISHES OF THE CAPE
A very rare publication. Juta South
Africa. pp 302 HB C.Leo Biden
3rd Edition 1954
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FIELDATLAN
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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 )
EXTREMELY RARE DOCUMENT
Our copy is slightly damaged on the front cover but still
basically intact and readable
Iraqifish
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The Marine And Fresh Water Fishes Of Iraq
by Kamel T. Khalaf,
Professor Of Zoology, College Of Education, University Of Baghdad-Published
by a Grant from the University Of Baghdad--July, 1961, Ar-Rabitta Press,
Baghdad--Softcover--164 Pages Including Index--Softcover--Inside is
Clean and Binding is Tight--Cover is Stained and Taped--Handwritten
Title on Spine--Some Separation of Cover from Binding which Could Easily
be Reglued
SMALLFRY
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SMALL FRY AND HOW TO
CATCH THEM. Bait fish
Minnows, Tiddlers and more How To Catch Them .
Small Fry and Bait Fishes by Kenneth Mansfield First
Edition 1958
A SUPERB Old little book minus dust cover . A mine of current
information
£7.90 including UK postage
YONGE
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BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES.BRITISH
MARINE LIFE
BY C M YONGE.
1944 FIRST EDITION PICTORIAL PAPER COVERED BOARDS
48 PP WITH 8 SUPERB HAND CRAFTED COLOURPLATES
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RARITY1
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A Home Aquarium on a Small Income
by A. Fraser-Brunner (Curator: London Zoo
Aquarium). Early 1950's (Undated) by Hutchinson's of London. Early
Paperback. Originally.Priced 2/6d!
Reasonable condition for age but a little fragile. Our
price £6.90. UK post included.
NB. Our regular discount system does not apply to this item.
There are many, many photographs and SUPER colour plates in this book.
. It
measures about 6" X 9". It is in excellent shape, the corners show wear, as does the dust jacket.
COLOR
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Records of Changes in
Color Among Fishes.
by Charles Haskins Townsend--Director, New York Aquarium.
1930 A VERY RARE old book in good condition
Our Price £14 plus £4.90 postage
This is a fantastic book that was published in 1930 by the New York Zoological Society. The beginning states, in part: "Most of
the tropical fishes on exhibition in the New York Aquarium have the capacity of making instantaneous changes in
colour according to their moods or to artificial excitements. The men who feed and care for these fishes become acquainted with their different phases of coloration and detect them readily while the casual visitor passes by unaware that the black and the white and the showily
coloured specimens in a certain tank are all of the same species and may all look alike a quarter of an hour later".
FGB1939
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The Littoral Fauna of Great Britain
A Handbook for Collectors
by N B Eales, D.Sc. Foreword by
Stanley Kemp Cambridge, University Press, 1939, 8vo, pp xvi, 300, green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine, spine and edges faded, previous owner’s neat inscription to fep (dated 1948), black and white illustrated frontispiece, black and white plates throughout. This
comprehensive book was aimed at Zoology students beginning work on the marine fauna of the British coasts.
Our Price £ 15.95 plus 4.30 UK postage
HOUGHTON
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British Freshwater
Fishes
by Rev. Houghton. HB An authentic reproduction of the
two-volume 1879 text in one modern volume. Superb engravings. Peerage
Books 1981. 260 4to pages
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ELEC
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Electricity in the Aquarium
by
L.Warburton.
PB
An early 50's book of historical interest
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NATGEO1940
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National Geographic 1940
Edition FISHES
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FOWLER
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Fishes of the Red Sea
and Southern Arabia.
by H. W. Fowler. Volume 1.
VERY
RARE BOOK Weizemann 1956 240 pages
Our price including postage £15.90
INNES47
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Exotic Aquarium Fishes
by
W. T. Innes
The 1946/7 Edition
Cover stained but
pages intact with a little browning at the edges. This was for many
years "The Aquarists Bible" and is still hard to beat for pure
information £40.00 post paid
More modern editions are also in - see Pet Fish section
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FISHLORE
BY A.F. MAGRI MacMAHON
ILLUSTRATED
Date - First Penguin edition 1946
Published in the UK A Pelican Book
A very clean and bright book
The original publishers covers and spine are complete
Showing some light shelf rubbing and minor nicks to edges
No repairs or restoration
Inner hinges & binding tight
No previous owners name ,
No library marks
208 + pages £5.20 including postage
CARSON
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The Sea Around Us
by
Rachel Carson 238 pages. 1952. Staples Press London. Good for age but
dust cover a little worse for wear
A Classic.
Our price £7.20 plus postage £4.30
RARE 2
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Fishes of Britain's
Rivers and Lakes.
A Classic original publication by J. R. Norman of the BMNH.
1943
VERY RARE and fair condition for its age and the poor paper quality
£14 post inclusive
HASS
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Fishes of the World
by
Hans Hass
HB. Methuen. 1965. pp160 Superb text and illustrations (though the dust cover has
seen better days. Translation by Dr. Gwynne Vevers of the Zoological
Society of London
Our Price £9.50 plus £3.00 postage
OLDFISH1
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The Fish We Catch
A very rare old paperback. Pages browning
but a collector's item
£1.99 plus 0.80p postage
OLDFISH1
GoingFishing
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Going Fishing. by
Negley Farson, illustrated by C.F.Tunnicliffe . Country Life. 1949.HB
Cloth cover. pp145 General reminiscences of a world
travelling fisherman describing a world that no longer exists and
techniques that have long been forgotten
Foxing on pre-intro and last blank pages. Text good.
Our price £ 5.00 plus £2 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,
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1897 GUIDE
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BMNH Guide
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