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Antique and Collector's Books and Plates

(All items on this page are at least 50 years old and many over 100 years old)

Authors include: H.W.Fowler. A.Fraser-Brunner, J.R. Norman, F.G.Aflalo, W.T.Innes, A.F.Magi MacMahon,, William Yarrell

Price Groups: A = 1p to £5  B = £5.01 to £10  C = £10.01-15  D = £15.01 to £25  E = £25 to £30.  F = £31 to £50  G £51 to £99. H = Over £100

The Best Book in Our Bookshop

 A HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES
BY
WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.Z.S.  F.L.S.
FIRST EDITION    2 VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY 400 WOOD ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS

******

TALL 8vo.( 9 x 6 INCHES ) PUBLISHERS ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH, GILT THE BINDINGS ARE IN GOOD AND BRIGHT CONDITION

TEXT: 408pp.PLUS 2pp. ADVERTS 472pp. 
INTERNALLY THE BOOKS ARE TIGHTLY BOUND AND VERY CLEAN  JOHN VAN VOORST. LONDON.
1836

Our Price £99.90 including worldwide 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

THIS TITLE IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR ELECTRONIC DOWNLOAD

 

AMATEUR AQUARIST 1894

 

 

Price Group

B

Minimum Reading Age

15+

 

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

£13.90 post paid in the UK

Travis Jenkins

Price Group

D

Minimum Reading Age

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. Truly a one-off for our bookshop. Loads of hand coloured plates.

Our Price £17.00 including UK  postage

 

 

NEW GUINEA

 
  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

 

FIELDATLAN

Pre ISBN

PRICE GROUP:

 

READING LEVEL  

All levels

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 )

  FISHES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC - PART SIX

Published by the Sears Foundation for Marine Research

This title is coming soon. More details on its arrival

Price will be around £25

JTN1

 

ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

C

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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.

Our Price  £12.50 plus £2.30 UK postage

INNESOLD

 

ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

E

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

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

 

Pre ISBN

 

Band B

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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

Our Price £10.00 plus £2.50 postage

 

 

No Dust Jacket - Cloth Cover

  ALWYNE BRIT

Very rare old document - The forerunner to Alwyne Wheeler's "Key" in Paperback

 

Our PrIce £90.00 plus £8 part UK Postage 

 

 

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Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

The Fishes of the British Isles and North West Europe

 by Alwyne Wheeler. HARDBACK Macmillan and Co. 1969 Octavo 614 pages. Fully Illustrated. with area maps on each species

  

TSITSIKAMA SMITH

 

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Price Group Band:

D

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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

Iraqifish

 

ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

D

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

EXTREMELY RARE DOCUMENT

Our copy is slightly damaged on the front cover but still basically intact and readable

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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Price Group Band:

B

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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 postage 

YONGE

 

ISBN No.
Price Group Band:

B

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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 

£8.90 plus £1.50 postage

 RARITY1

ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

B

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

** VERY RARE OLD BOOK **

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. 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

 

ISBN No.
 

Price Group Band:

C

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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

 

ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

D

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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 postage

BSWF 

 
ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

D

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

British Salt Water Fish. 

FIRST EDITION 1904. 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.
£41 inc UKpostage

HOUGHTON
 
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Price Group Band:

D

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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

Our Price £17.50 plus £5.50 Postage

ELEC
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Price Group Band:

A

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

Electricity  in the Aquarium by L. Warburton

PB  An early 50's book of historical interest

Our Price 0.99p plus £1 postage

NATGEO1940
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Price Group Band:

C

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

National Geographic 1940 Edition FISHES

More data to follow

Our Price £14

 

FOWLER
ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

D

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
ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

E

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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

 £30.00 post paid

More modern editions are also in - see Pet Fish section

ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

B

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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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Price Group Band:

B

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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
ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

C

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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

NB. Our regular discount system does not apply to this item.

£14 post inclusive

HASS
ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

B

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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
ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

A

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

The Fish We Catch  

A very rare old paperback. Pages browning but a collector's item

£1.99 plus 0.80p postage

OLDFISH1

GoingFishing
ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

A

Minimum Reading Age:

15 plus

 

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

ISBN No.

 

Price Group Band:

D

Minimum Reading Age:

n/a

 

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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