Octavo, softbound (stiff white printed wrappers). 436 pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed covers & former owner signature to upper cover. Text in English and French. Illustrated with b & w photos. View More...
Quarto, softbound (slick, stiff, full-color photo. illustrated wrappers), cover flaps, 121 pp. Fine (As New). From upper cover flap: Sea turtles play a myriad of roles in the marine ecosystem. As predator and prey, competitors and hosts, and conduits for energy and nutrient movement, these amazing, imperilled creatures are vital to the continued ecological balance of the seas. This book explores the ecology and natural history of sea turtles in an easy-to-read, yet comprehensive format suitable for amateurs and experts alike. Educators will find a thorough, stand-alone lesson on the intr... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., [1988].
Seller ID: 90198sc
Octavo, softbound, 416 pp. Near-Fine. Illustrated. ÒTo the eyes of the uneducated observer, the pampas -- vast treeless plains stretching across central Argentina -- represent a monotonous and unending sea of grass. To author, naturalish and ornithologist William Henry Hudson (1841-1922), this land devoid of mountains, woods, lakes and riverrs was a fascinating showcase for natur'es masterpeices, a place where he spent his childhood studying plant and animal life and becoming an acute observer of countless human and natural dramas...Hudson's celebrated classic, reprinted here in an unabrid... View More...
Octavo, softbound, 142 pp. Fine. Charts, diagrams, b & w ports. Contents: Variability of the Skull Shape in Hybrids Between European Bison and Domestic Cattle; Effects of Resource Limitation on the Physical and Reproductive Condition of Sika Deer on Nakanoshima Island, Hokkaido; Red Deer Stags Rank Position, Body Weight and Antler Growth; Heavy Metals in Roe-Deer Liver and Alimentary Tract and Their Content in Soil and Plants in Central Poland; Genetic Variation in the Bank Vole Clethrionomys glareolus: Biochemical Differentiation Among Populations Over Short Geographic Distances; Is Weight a... View More...
First Edition, As Stated. Large octavo, red cloth, gilt letters and stamped decoration to uppper cover, uncut, xviii, 510, xiv pp. Illustrated. Very Good, with fading to spine, bumped corners. Contents: The Animal Tale -- A History and Analysis; The Forests of Guinea; Mauretania; The Mediterranean; Temperate Europe; The British Isles; The European Tundras; The Arctic; The Canadian Pine Forests; The Great Lakes Region; The Depths of the Ocean; Warm Temperate North America; The West; Central America; Amazonia; The Andean Puna; The Argentine Pampas; The Antarctic; Astralia; The East Indies; T... View More...
Publisher:
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1960. First Edition.
Seller ID: ess4739
Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xiv + 200 pp. Neat former-owner inscription and former-owner stamps; otherwise, Fine; in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The Check List of Plant and Soil Nematodes -- A Nomenclatorial Compilation...presents to the plant and soil nematologist an unbiased catalogue of published nomenclatorial information in which he will find the species, subspecies, and infrasubspecies forms classified by accepted names and in accordance with the author's interpretations of the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature. View More...
