Rothschild clay (40 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. 1952. 1952 Reprint. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Front endpaper has been removed. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. …

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Book Club Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards without a jacket, title on spine a bit rubbed, ownership label on the front paste down, foxing mostly on the first and last few pages and on the closed page edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Michigan State College stamped inside.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Parasite Birds Animals).

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 1961, Grey Arrow Edition. Paperback in good condition. Age tone to the pages, shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition, reprinted 1952. Near fine hardcover in a mylar-protected dust jacket. First Edition (reprinted 1952). Inscribed to previous owner on ffep. Number 7 in the New Naturalist Monographs series.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. xiv, 304pp, [2]pp publisher's ads. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine and rear board, rubbed spine ends, top front corner bumped. Text block edges tanning and foxing. Endpapers starting to fox, tanning, tape residue on front pastedown. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring some foxing to prelims. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Ex-lib, scuffed covers, conteents are clean, bright, very good.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition thus. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 304pp + plates. 40 b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Removable protective cover fitted. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> BIRDS, a distinguished naturalist, A. E. Shipley, once wrote," are not only birds but aviating zoological gardens." Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos is, in fact, an exploration of these zoological gardens. The three groups which give the book its title provide excellent examples of the wide variety of animals which live in intimate association with the bird and prosper at its expense. The structure and life histories of these parasites, which range from the micro-scopical virus to the much-loved cuckoo, combine to form an unusually entertaining scientific work. The authors are zoologists who have specialised for many years in the study and collection of bird parasites. Miss Rothschild, who is a great authority on bird fleas and bird flukes, comes from the famous family of merchant bankers which has pro-vided so many talented amateurs in various fields, including science and natural history. Miss Clay is a member of the staff of the British Museum (Natural History), and i.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Rothschild, Miriam and Theresa Clay. Fleas, flukes and cuckoos : a study of bird parasites. London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1961. A Grey Arrow. (Originally published in the New Naturalist Series). Paperback, Good. Illustrated card covers with light shelfwear and creasing, a little age-discolouration to the white background on reverse. Binding strong. Light smudging to half-title. 304pp., central section of b/w plates. Light tanning to page edges, contents clean and bright. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Reprint. Hardcover octavo (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Second Edition. xiv, 305 pp, index, bibliography, appendix, 90 bw photos, 4 maps & 22 drawings. Or green cloth in jacket. Moderate to heavy foxing on endpapers, prelims and edges-internally quite clean. Some surface damage to cloth at head of spine, and bottom of rear board. Jacket faded on spine, several long tears and large chip near head of spine, stained on rear panel. Volume in the New Naturalist Library series of monographs. Deals with the parasitology of avian life. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Very good tight copy, light age spotting to top page edges, light wear to wtop edges of wrapper, minor marks.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Publisher - Collins, London, 1952. 2nd printing, same year as 1st edition. Good condition, foxing to endpapers and page edges, bumping to corners and spine tips. Clipped jacket good with rubbing and small chips and tears, loss of 2cm to spine head.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. British edition, second printing, 1952 (first printing was also 1952). With original unclipped jacket (21s). A New Naturalist Special Volume. Index. Profusely illustrated. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, few marks, patchy browning, numerous small (largest approx. 1cm) tears, patchy creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, pushing/bumping to corners, crease to spine, a few spots of foxing, very small patchy loss (mainly to head of spine and to a couple of corners), browning/few marks/minor foxing to reverse (white side), creasing to upper edge, a little browning/creasing/few marks to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with the odd mark, crease to spine, a hint of pushing/bumping to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Inside boards/end-papers tanned with a few small marks/minor foxing. Small mark to lower corner of most pages. Odd small mark/minor foxing to top edge of pages. Previous owner's name and date in pen to front end-paper. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Novitates Zoologicae, Vol. XLI, No. 4, 1939, 305-315 S. , (St)br-2).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. RU ed. of the Collins ed. New Naturalist Series. pp.xiv.304. Illus. Unread copy.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. RU ed. of the Collins ed. New Naturalist Series. pp.xiv.304. Illus. Unread copy.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1952). (1952) 1957 reprint. 8vo (152 x 222mm). Ppxiv,305. B/w photographs plates, b/w line illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. End-paper names, some foxing but good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. This is an extremely detailed survey by an enthusiast, well in the tradition of this excellent series. You will want to scratch while you're reading this book, and you will probably never handle a bird again, except with coal-tongs. British fresh water pearls are usually formed around bird parasites the authors tell us, very often nematodes and tape-worms. Cubic zirconium from now on then. Chapters include; parasitism; commensalism; symbiosis; the effect of parasites on the host; the effect of parasitism on the parasite; the origins of parasitism and the evolution of parasites; fleas; feather lice; protozoa; worms; flies; mites; micro-parasites; the fauna of birds' nests; skuas; the European cuckoo. .…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. New Naturalist Series. pp304.Illus. Minor sunning. Library of Cloudesley-Thompson. Tipped in review by him from 'The Naturalist' with a thank you card from the editor, a newspaper review, and a newspaper obituary of Rothschild.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. New Naturalist Series. Readers Union printing. pp304.Illus.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. New Naturalist Series. RU edition of the Collins. pp304.Illus. Minor sunning to base of cover; see photo.