Lot 296 , Collins The New Naturalist Series, 56 vols, almost all good copies in dust wrappers, 8 vols are duplicated, a few with revised editions
Collins The New Naturalist Series, 56 vols, almost all good copies in dust wrappers, 8 vols are duplicated, a few with revised editions also
Estimate £250-350
Duplicates - Simms's Woodland Birds (repr. 1976);
Woolridge & Goldring's The Weald (5th imp. 1972);
Darling's Highlands and Islands (Ist ed. 1947);
Hoskins & Stamp's Common Lands (repr. 1964);
Pearsall's Mountains & Moorlands (Ist ed. 1950);
Imms's Insect Natural History (Ist ed. 1947);
Additionally-Stamp's Britains Structure and Scenery (5th ed. 1960 plus 6th ed. 1967, 'minor changes);
Woolridge & Goldrings The Weald (a 3rd copy, but ex-lib);
Gilmour & Walkers's Wild Flowers (5th ed. repr. 1978, a 2nd copy is ex-lib.),
Imms's Insect Natural History (also has a 3rd edition, repr. 1973 - sl. revisions);
Harrison's Mammals (both original and revised editions are present) as is Fleure's A Natural History of Man (rev. with Davies);
Russell's World of the Soil is ex-lib.,
Mullard's Gower (2006, is paperback);
Newton's Bird Migration (2010, no. 113 is the latest; the others - apart from Gower are pre 100 numbers)
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Sold for £320