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Round the Year with Enid Blyton: Summer Book.

BLYTON, ENID. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Evans Brothers Ltd, nd. (c.1934). A Year's Nature Study in Four Books of which this is the second. 19.5cms x 13.5cms. Pp.96, many black & white photos and figure illustrations, endpapers browned, top corner of front free endpaper clipped. Fawn illustrated card covers (...

Lime Creek Odyssey.

MEYERS, STEVEN J. · 2016 · Chilton Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Portland: Westwinds Press, 2016. 9780871083258. "First drawn to Lime Ceek for its fly fishing, this stream serves as Meyers's muse in seven transcendent essays that explore journeys in the discovery of self, of home, and what it means to be human. The essays also explore loss ...

Atlas of Mammals in Britain.

ARNOLD, H.R. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London: HMSO, 1994. 0117016675. ITE Research Publication No.6. "Over 115,000 sightings records of British mammals have been collected between 1959 and 1991..Each mammal species is described individually, a table provides basic record details, and a clear map illustrates the ma...

A Flora of Suffolk.

SANFORD, MARTIN AND FISK, RICHARD. · 2010 · Chilton Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Ipswich: D.K and M.N. Sanford, 2010. 980956458407. 1st edition. "Attractively illustrated throughout, with a lively text, useful identification tips, historicl notes and anecdotal information on past uses. Covers over 2,500 species and hybrids of plants and 400 mosses recorded...

Kearton's Nature Pictures Beautifully Reproduced In Photogravure, Colour, and Black and White from photographs By Richard and Cherry Kearton.

KEARTON, RICHARD (1862-1928) / KEARTON, CHERRY (1871-1940) . · 1910 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1910 . 0. Deluxe half leather binding. First edition. 30cm x 23.0cm x 3.3cm. Matching black leather spine and corners over green buckram covered bords. Each spine 5 raised bands, gilt volume number and original red leather title label: "Ke...

Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary. With a Prefatory Note by Her Grace The Duchess of Bedford.

PATTERSON, ARTHUR H. · 1907 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Methuen & Co, 36 Essex Street, 1907 . 0. First edition. A good tight binding. pp.15/1p.]/pp.352/pp.40 [Catalogue of books]. Original blue cloth with bright gilt titles to front board. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine dulled with gilt titles and small white blemis...

I Watch and Listen. A Book About Birds.

PRICE, NANCY. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: The Bodley Head, 1957. 1st edition. Nancy Price's love of Birds, inherited from her parents who had a bird sanctuary in the grounds of their home, has developed through a long life of watching and listening. In this book she writes not for the expert ornithologist but ...

Wild Life in East Anglia.

DUTT, WILLIAM A. · 1906 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Methuen & Co, 1906. 2nd edition. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by F.Southgate, R.B.A. Pp.x/370/40(publisher's catalogue), colour frontispiece + 16 further plates (15 in colour), spotting to closed page edges occasionally encroaching onto margins. Blue cloth, gil...

The Barley Bird. Notes on the Suffolk Nightingale.

MABEY, RICHARD. · 2010 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Woodbridge: Full Circle Editions, 2010. 9780956186911. 1st edition. "In this enchanting and intensely personal exploration of the nightingales links with the Suffolk landscape and with its local culture, Richard Mabey also traces the bird's course through myth, lore, tradition...

Mad About The Dog. (Signed).

HARLEY, BELINDA. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Souvenir Press, 2009. 9780285638631. 1st edition. "Goofy was a ragamuffin and an enchanting rogue: the unwanted dog on the Greek island of Paxos who simply adopted Belinda Harley and laid his heart at her feet.." 18.5cms x 11.5cms. Pp.96, signed by the author to title ...

My Friends Are A Mixed Bunch. True Tales for Animal Lovers.

SHOTT, PATSY. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Bury St Edmunds: Privately Published, 1996. 0952873303. "Encounters with animals which lead to care at your home should never be undertaken lightly. I cannot think of any family which have devoted more of their lives to the welfare of the contents of cardboard boxes brought to...

The Butterflies of Suffolk. An Atlas and History.

MENDEL, HOWARD AND PIOTROWSKI, STEVEN H. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Ipswich: The Suffolk Naturalists Society, 1986. 0950815411. 1st edition. Contents includes: The County of Suffolk; Climate; Geology and Soils; Suffolk Butterfly Habitats - Woodland - Grassland - Heathland; History of Recording; Conservation; The Suffolk Butterfly Survey; The C...

The Strange Death of British Birdsong.

WATERHOUSE, MICHAEL. · 2004 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2004. 1843061260. 1st edition. "This book examines the fluctuating fortunes of 137 species of birds. Many are birds of farmland in all its guises, from rich, intensively cultivated arable land to the sheep-grazed upland moors. Yet it is the loss...

The Historic Countryside of the Saxon Villages of Southern Transylvania.

AKEROYD, JOHN. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Mures: Fundatia Adept, 2006. 9789730045338. 1st edition. "One of Europe's least known cultural treasures, the countryside presents a remarkable survival of medieval landscape: fortified churches, unspoilt villages, non-intensive mixed farming in ecological balance with nature ...

British Birds. An Illustrated Magazine Devoted Chiefly to the Birds on the British List. April 1, 1936. Vol.XXIX. No.11.

WITHERBY, H.F. · 1936 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: H.F.& G.Witherby, 1936. Contents includes: Young Rooks, their Survival and Habits by J.P.Burkitt; The "British Birds" Marking Scheme. Progress for 1935 by H.F.Witherby; Birds of Inner London by A.Holte Macpherson; Notes from Reservoirs and Sewage Farms:- Altrincham Sew...

British Birds. An Illustrated Magazine Devoted Chiefly to the Birds on the British List. March 2, 1936. Vol.XXIX. No.10.

WITHERBY, H.F. · 1936 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: H.F.& G.Witherby, 1936. Contents includes: Report of an Investigation of the Food of Captive Little Owls by Miss A.Hibbert-Ware; Habits of the Rook by James W.Campbell; Recovery of Marked Birds; Starlings Fighting for Nesting Sites by George Marples. Notes:- Continenta...

Retrievers: Some Hints on Breaking and Handling for Amateurs.

RIVIERE, B.B. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, nd.(c.1948). "Should prove invaluable to gamekeepers and owners who wish to break their own dogs, and the author hopes that other breakers will be encouraged to discuss their own particular methods..Unlike most trainers, he himself never puts a dog...

The Running of the Salmon.

TAVERNER, ERIC & BARRINGTON BROWNE, W. · 1954 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954. 1st edition. "Eric Taverner and W.Barrington Browne have combined in word and picture to describe this wonderful journey as it concerns ten salmon in British waters, from the time they leave the sea until the only survivor begins to return there ag...

Suffolk Birds. Vol.46. (Incorporating a review of birds in Suffolk in 1996).

CREWE, M.D.(EDITOR). · 1998 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ipswich: Suffolk Naturalists Society, 1998. 0. Articles include: The Changing Fortunes of the Red Kite in Suffolk; Sawbill Movements at Languard Point, Suffolk 1983-96; Seabird Movements and Abundance off Covehithe, Suffolk 1994-96; Suffolk Bird Report; Night Migrants over Fel...

The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs.(First Series).

COWARD, T.A. · 1943 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1943. 0. 6th edition, rep. A Handy Pocket Guide with Descriptive Text. Comprising Families Corvidae to Sulidae with 242 Accurately Coloured Illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and Others Reproduced from Lord Lilford's Work "Coloured Figures o...