Nature & Natural History from Ariadne Books

London: The Chiswick Press, 1960. Hardback. [i - iv], v - xviii, 1 - 315pp. Green cloth binding with gilt to upper board and spine. No jacket. A very useful bibliographical reference work. Book in very good condition. Slight fade to spine and very slight toning to endpapers. A little spotting to text block edges - mostly to… Read more about this item

Mansfield, CT.: Maurizio Martino. First published in 1951, this is a reprint limited to 225 copies. Two volumes in one. Hardback. [i - v], v - vii, 264: 1 - 324pp.Red cloth binding with gilt to spine on printed black panels. Still a standard reference text for Illustrated Botanical Books. Text in German. Book near fine. Bonhams… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1976. Hardback. 222pp plus illustrations at end. Blue cloth binding with gilt to upper board and spine. No jacket. Originally published 1953 and still a valuable reference work for illustrated books on ornithology. Text in German. Book in near fine condition.

London: Little, Brown, 2021. First edition, 2021. Hardback. 488pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. "When There Were Birds" is a social history of Britain that charts the complex connections between people and birds, set against a background of changes in the landscape and evolving tastes, beliefs and behaviour. Birds have always been key elements of the nation's history,… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1986. First edition, 1986. From the library of Eric Hosking with his bookplate. Hardback. 223pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Britain's lowland heaths are a vital and precious habitat, an absorbing area of study for every naturalist, with some of Britain's most appealing and endangered plants and animals (eg the Marsh Gentian, the Dartford Warbler, the… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1986. First edition, 1986. From the library of Eric Hosking with his bookplate. Hardback. 300pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The unparalleled diversity of the New Forest, its extent and the pattern of its habitats and its favoured climatic position, shelter an incredible variety of plant, insect and animal life. The ancient woodlands, heaths and mires… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1985. First edition, 1985. From the library of Eric Hosking with his bookplate. Hardback. 304 pages. Orkney is a very special place for naturalists. Closer to Oslo than to London, its geography and climate create quite environmental conditions - even though it is only six miles from the Scottish mainland. Fierce gales, long summer days and… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1977. First edition, 1977. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 350pp. Dust jacket with publisher's Duraseal protected sleeve. This absorbing book is about genetics as it applies to the world around us. Its main aim is to show the ways in which inherited variation can help to explain the properties of natural… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 1982. First edition, 1982. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 207pp. Dust jacket in publisher's Duraseal protector. This volume offers a synthesis of knowledge derived from living mammals studied in the field and covering all facets of mammalian life in the British Isles. The book is full of fascinating detail -… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1976. First edition 1976. Eric Hosking's bookplate to front pastedown. Hardback. xii, 400pp.. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The diurnal raptors are among the most arresting and dramatic of British birds, from the magnificent and immense golden eagle to the much smaller but equally spectacular kestrel. Leslie Brown's account of our 15 resident, 7 vagrant and… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1977. First edition 1977 (Primary binding variant). Bookplate of Eric Hosking to front pastedown. Hardback. 223pp. Green cloth boards. Dust jacket with publisher's Duraseal protector. Ants have always exercised a fascination that extends beyond the world of biology. They have attracted the attention of poets and dramatists and political theorists who have envied their apparent industry and… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 1983. First edition 1983. Eric Hosking's bookplate to front pastedown. Hardback. 256pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Britain has six native amphibian species, of which at least two are on the danger list. The same is true of two of the six reptiles. Even the once ubiquitous frog is an increasingly rare sight. A greater… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1980. First edition, 1980. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 380pp. Dust jacket with publisher's Duraseal protector. The Shetland Islands are the northernmost part of the British Isles, lying midway between Norway and Scotland, near the edge of the Continental Shelf. Their isolation and mixture of oceanic and Arctic ecologies have given rise… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1978. Collins, London, 1978. First edition. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 304pp. Dust jacket with publisher's Duraseal protective sleeve. The thrushes are among the most ubiquitous of birds, as well as the most melodious. There are six true species of thrush breeding in the British Isles: Blackbird, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush,… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1974. First edition, 1974. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 256pp Dust jacket in publisher's Duraseal protected sleeve. Seals (with sea-lions and walruses) are one of three Orders of marine mammals - warm-blooded, air-breathing, originally terrestrial animals which have taken to the sea. The others are Cetacea - whales, porpoises, dolphins; and… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 1988. First edition, 1988. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 430pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Ferns, horsetails and clubmosses, or to use their technical term the Pteridophyta, are a fascinating area of the British flora that ranges from the prehistoric looking horsetails to the delicate beauty of the Aspleniaceae family… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1973. Collins, London. 1973. First edition. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 320pp. Dust jacket with publisher's Duraseal protective sleeve. Between the Morecambe and Solway sands lies this region of unique beauty, spectacular in the stark grandeur of its mountains; the lakes themselves; the sheer crags of volcanic Scafell and Great Gable contrasting… Read more about this item

London: The King Penguin Books, 1950. First edition, 1950. Hardback. 40 pages of text followed by 16 pages of colour illustrations. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Professor Richards wrote this small book to describe the life history of a moss and the homes of mosses. It gives all the necessary information for collecting, identifying and cultivating mosses. The… Read more about this item

London: The King Penguin Books, 1946. First edition, 1946. Hardback. 38 pages of text followed by 16 pages of colour illustrations. No dust jacket. Coiver design and drawings by Noel Rooke Book in very good condition. Slight discolouration to spine and around edges of boards. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Faint toning to endpapers, otherwise internally… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. First edition. Hardback. 192pp. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt to spine. Tope edge of text block tinted. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The island is Skokholm, tiny and remote, off the coast of Pembrokeshire. It was there that Ronald Lockley went as a young man, to study the tens of thousands of wild… Read more about this item