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Yarrell Old and antique fish books

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

YARRELL 

 

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A HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES
BY
WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.Z.S.  F.L.S.

TALL 8vo.( 9 x 6 INCHES ) PUBLISHERS ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH, GILT THE BINDINGS ARE IN RATHER POOR CONDITION WHICH IS REFLECTED IN THE LOW PRICE

TEXT: 408pp.PLUS 2pp. ADVERTS 472pp. 
INTERNALLY THE BOOK B;OCK IS PREETY SOLID.  JOHN VAN VOORST. LONDON.
1836

£69.90 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 

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9786000048136
 

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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. 

(1)  Good Condition   Our Price £190.00 plus £7.50 insured registered delivery. Dust Jacket is not an original

 

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

 

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

   FAO 8

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An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cods, Hakes, Grenadiers and Other Gadiform Fishes Known to Date. 
ISBN 9251028907 FAO Species Catalogue Vol.10. 1990. 30cm. Pp.x,442. 828 figures & maps , keys Hardbound. Provides a convenient means for the identification of gadiform species most likely to be encountered by fisheries workers,  and to illustrate the wide diversity of this group of fishes.  Price: £51.00 
MARCENAT

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The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic.  THE SET OF 3 VOLUMES

Individual Volumes are also available
Volume 1. Introduction, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes and Chimaeras. Volume 2. Bony Fishes, Part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). Volume 3. Bony Fishes, Part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae), Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals. FAO. 2002. 3 volumes. 30cm. Pp.614; 782; 758. Paperback.This three volume field guide covers the species of interest to fisheries of the major marine resource groups exploited in the Western Central Atlantic. The area of coverage includes FAO Fishing Area 31. The marine resource groups included are the bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, stomatopods, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes, sea turtles and marine mammals.

Price £97.50 plus £8.50 postage

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Field Guide to the Commercial Marine and Brackish Water Resources of The Northern Coast of South America 
ISBN 9251031290 
FAO. 1993. 28cm. Pp.538. colour photos, line illustrations. Paperback. This field guide covers the major resource groups likely to be encountered in the fisheries of the area.  An annotated checklist of sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes and marine mammals as well as a list of important references are appended. The introduction and guide sections are fully indexed. 
Price: £68.00 
We anticipate that the atlas will be useful in studies of biogeography, systematics, and ecology, and to persons involved in fisheries management and environmental assessment. It should also be quite important to educators, and to fishermen and general outdoorsmen in the United States and Canada.

ATLAS

This book is in good condition with a slight amount of wear to the binding. It measures 8.5 x 11 inches, has 854 pages with glossary. It is profusely illustrated with range maps and line drawings or black & white photographs

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ATLAS OF NORTH AMERICAN FRESHWATER FISHES 

  Edited by David S. Lee et al.

This atlas attempts to summarize available distributional information on all the freshwater fishes of the United States and Canada, and to provide some information on their biology. Although the many needs for such a volume have long been obvious, only in the last few years has a work of this nature been feasible. The large number of regional faunal works that have recently appeared, the publication of cumulative locality records, and the expansion of museum and other ichthyological collections provide extensive and reasonably complete data for most North American species. Thus, a "first approximation" atlas is now possible.
The desirability of this compilation is perhaps best attested to by the large number of individuals from many agencies and institutions in both countries who volunteered their services to make it a reality. Probably no other single zoological work has been so willingly supported by such a wide spectrum of enthusiastic contributors. 

Our Price £50.00 plus £6.50 part 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 + 78 plates. F/o inscription o/w very good condition plus dust cover.lightly stained spine inside.

Our price £99.50 including UK postage

DAWSON PIPEFISH

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0 917235 00 2

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Indo-Pacific Pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas) published by the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory  HB. DJ Intact.1985 by C.E.Dawson.pp 230

The DEFINITIVE STUDY OF PIPEFISHES FOR THE AREA

Comprehensively illustrated. Rare Out-of-print book

One copy only £58.00 plus £5 UK postage

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. We have TWO copIES in stock

£49.50 post paid

  MOYLE 3

Now reduced in price. Go to TAXONOMICS  page For a sper deal on this title

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Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology. by Peter B. Moyle et al.

Hardcover: 590 pages (1995) 3rd Edition

 Very similar a lesser priced edition on our main Taxonomics page.

Prentice Hall

 $118.25 (US) plus postage ( Will be posted from US) NOW REDUCED -see opposite

  Our scanner does not do justice to this superb publication

    SALVADOR

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Marine Fishes of El Salvador (Los Cabanos) in English

pp14x11 126 pages  Embossed cover. Cloth bound HB. A superb range of full page lithograph plates by Juan Amador, (Division of National Parks of El Salvador ) Published by the Sigma Foundation. New York.1985. Absolutely beautiful Rare Book with 50 amazing full page full plate illustrations.

£56 including postage to UK

 

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