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New Books - December 2023
Offered here are some newly published titles, many suitable as Christmas gifts. Also some forthcoming titles, expected in December and early 2024.
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May we take this opportunity to wish all our customers around the world a very Happy Christmas and a healthy and peaceful 2024.
Last posting dates for Christmas delivery to UK addresses - 18/12/2023.
If you are visiting London or the south-east of England, you might like to consider arranging a visit to our shop, in Iver. We are close to London and Heathrow airport and just two minutes walk from Iver station on the new Elizabeth line (an easy journey from central London). You will then have the opportunity to browse our large stock of new, second-hand and antiquarian books on natural history.
Ian & Julie Johnson
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by Sterling, P.; Parsons, M.; Lewington, R. (Illus.)
Cat No. : 54581, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 1500 col photos + illus, 900 col distribution maps
Paperback £29.95
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Cat No. : 54580, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 1500 col photos + illus, 900 col distribution maps
Hardback £44.95
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The fully revised and expanded second edition of the ground-breaking book that made the fascinating micro-moth group accessible to the general naturalist. Written by a team of moth experts under (more)
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by Leraut, P.
Cat No. : 56785, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 79 col plates, line drawings, distribution maps
Hardback £76.00
This final volume in the series deals with about 30 families of Microlepidoptera from Epipyropidae to Pterophoridae (the first volume on Microlepidoptera (Vol. 7) covers the Micropterygidae to (more)
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by Sheldrake, M.
Cat No. : 56057, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 100+ col photos
Hardback £24.00
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Illustrated hardback edition. The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller, now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never (more)
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by Boddy, L.; Ashby, A.
Cat No. : 56052, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col illus throughout
Hardback £20.00
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Discover the fascinating stories behind 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before! Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavour in chocolate? (more)
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by James, D.G.; Lohman, D.J.
Cat No. : 51407, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 150 col illus
Hardback £18.99
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A beautifully illustrated introduction to the lives of butterflies around the world. There are more than fifteen thousand butterfly species in the world, fluttering through a wide variety of (more)
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by Parsons, M.; Clancy, S.
Cat No. : 49336, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, distribution maps
Hardback £79.95
The first comprehensive review of this popular group of moths in Britain and Ireland since Barry Goater’s British Pyralid Moths (Harley Books, 1986). Include specimens and live photos, (more)
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by Staude, H.; Picker, M.; Griffiths, C.
Cat No. : 54610, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col distribution maps
Paperback £40.00
Southern Africa boasts wonderful invertebrate diversity and abundance. In this book, approximately 1,500 species of the region's moths - and most of their caterpillars - are illustrated with images (more)
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by Hutton, S.; Barlow, H.; Whitaker, T.
Cat No. : 56153, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 33 col plates
Hardback £79.99
The second of three volumes covering species historically treated as 'Pyralidae,' but now divided between the superfamily Thyridoidea and the families Pyralidae and Crambidae in the superfamily (more)
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by Barclay, M.V.L.; Bouchard, P.
Cat No. : 54606, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 150 col illus, col distribution maps
Hardback £18.75
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A richly illustrated guide to the astonishing variety of beetles around the world. Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on (more)
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by Sama, G.
Cat No. : 55870, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 29 colour plates (600 specimens), 649 figs
Hardback £135.00
Text English. Second of a series of 5 volumes (Vol. 1 was published in 2002). Photograph of each species (typical male), plus female / forms, where polymorphism occurs. Species information: range, (more)
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by Yi, Dooseok
Cat No. : 53357, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 160 col plates
Hardback £245.00
Text English, with bilingual Foreword in English and Korean. 1,050 species of Lucanidae are illustrated. (more)
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by Bot, S.; Meutter, F. van de
Cat No. : 53429, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col distribution maps
Paperback £26.25
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The most complete photographic field guide to hoverflies of Britain and North-west Europe ever written. An essential part of our eco-systems, hoverflies are the second most important pollinators (more)
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by Wiesbauer, H.
Cat No. : 56878, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £58.95
Third enlarged and updated edition. Text German. Presents over 510 central European species, representing all genera, through colour photos and short species accounts. Offers an insight into the (more)
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by Boyer, P.
Cat No. : 56924, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 133 col photos
Hardback £22.50
Text German. Wild bees also live in your garden - busy looking for flowers as a source of food and for nesting places in the ground, in plants or in insect hotels. In this book you will find out how (more)
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by Nicholls, S.
Cat No. : 51017, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 200 col illus
Hardback £35.00
An ambitious and beautifully illustrated account of the evolution and biology of insects. Insects are the busy, teeming arthropods on whose activities much of life on earth depends, and whose (more)
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by Moss, S.
Cat No. : 56347, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col illus, b&w photos
Hardback £12.99
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From the renowned naturalist Stephen Moss, bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Swan comes a new instalment in his beloved bird biography series. Uncover the secret (more)
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by Davidson-Watts, I.; Zeale, M.
Cat No. : 42574, Published : 2023
Paperback £34.99
Cat No. : 42575, Published : NOV 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £59.99
Foreword by Chris Packham. The Barbastelle Bat Conservation Handbook is a long-awaited guide to barbastelle bat ecology, behaviour, conservation management and threats, the first publication (more)
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by Phillips, J.A.
Cat No. : 46452, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 150 col photos + illus
Hardback £19.99
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Presents an inside look at the remarkable world of seaweeds and other algae. Coming in all colors, shapes, and sizes, from unicellular and bioluminescent algae to giant kelps, seaweeds and algae are (more)
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by Schou, J.C.; Moeslund, B.; Weyer, K. van de; Wiegleb, G.; Lansdown, R.; Holm, P.; Bastrup-Spohr, L.; Sand-Jensen, K.
Cat No. : 54061, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 1400 col photos, 358 b/w illus
Hardback £66.99
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The first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the region. Beneath the surface of bodies of freshwater - springs, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes - there is a world of plants of great (more)
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by Sterry, P.
Cat No. : 54851, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 900 col photos.
Hardback £18.75
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A personal account of - and guide to - unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland Britain. Over the past decade, wildlife author and photographer Paul Sterry has (more)
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by Sjöeman, H.; Anderson, A.
Cat No. : 55936, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £39.99
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Published in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. There has never been a better time to plant trees. As well as playing a vital role in the health of the natural world and of us humans, (more)
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by Way, T.
Cat No. : 56895, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 22 b/w illus
Paperback £14.99
From the early misfortunes of Eve, condemning her descendants to a dubious reputation for fruit management, to the acclaimed successes of plant breeders such as the eccentric Ellen Willmott who (more)
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by Bernaud, D.
Cat No. : 55396, Published : DEC 2023, Illustrations : c. 346 illus, c. 170 distribution maps
Paperback £90.00
Three-volume set. Treats all Afrotropical species with their distribution and currently known foodplants in three volumes. Vol. I: Sources of the biogeography of afrotropical Acraea, (more)
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by Strunc, V.
Cat No. : 56586, Published : DEC 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £115.00
This unique pictorial guide aims to introduce these amazing predators of the insect world to all nature lovers. This book is the first in a series of books on tiger beetles organized by zoo area. The (more)
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by de Keyzer, R.; Slipinski, A.; Jin, M.
Cat No. : 56690, Published : DEC 2023, Illustrations : col illus, col photos, maps
Hardback £135.00
Longhorn beetles - Cerambycidae - are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a cosmopolitan family that encompasses more than 33,000 species in 5,200 genera worldwide. Out of the 117 (more)
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by Biggs, J.; Williams, P.
Cat No. : 4167, Published : JAN 2024, Illustrations : 150 b/w illus, 32 col photos
Hardback £47.50
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Cat No. : 4168, Published : JAN 2024, Illustrations : 150 b/w illus, 32 col photos
Paperback £27.50
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Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape - there are at least ten times as many ponds as lakes in the UK - and they are also important wildlife habitats. This book provides a (more)
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by Ali, H.; Hou, Y.; Bilal Tahir, M. (Eds)
Cat No. : 56074, Published : DEC 2023, Illustrations : 34 col, 2 b/w illus
Hardback £150.00
This up-to-date reference book discusses the effects of climate change on the biodiversity of insect pests. The changing climate and agricultural intensification practices impact negatively on insect (more)
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by Harley, A.; Harrington, C. (Eds)
Cat No. : 56077, Published : DEC 2023, Illustrations : 3 b/w illus
Hardback £119.99
The long nineteenth century (1789-1914) has been described as an axial age in the history of both bees and literature. It was the period in which the ecological and agronomic values that are still (more)
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by Blasco Zumeta, J.; Gerd-Michael, H.
Cat No. : 56897, Published : DEC 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £84.99
This work is an advanced bird identification manual focusing on the details of moulting strategy, sex and age characters. It is designed for the study of birds in hand, but a good part of the (more)
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by Yang, L.; Shuihua, C.
Cat No. : 54578, Published : 2023, Illustrations : c.4000 col illus.
Paperback £24.99
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A comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide to the birds of China. China is home to some of the most spectacular birdlife to be found anywhere in the world. This richly illustrated field guide (more)
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by Larramendy, M.L.; Liwszyc, G.E. (Eds)
Cat No. : 56692, Published : DEC 2023
Hardback £159.00
With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought about by human activity and pollutants, toxicology and risk assessment of amphibian species has become increasingly of (more)
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by Blackburn, T.
Cat No. : 53720, Published : 2023, Illustrations : b/w photos
Hardback £16.00
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Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on the roof of his London flat. Beautiful, ineffably mysterious organisms, these moths offer (more)
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by Eeles, P.
Cat No. : 54115, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, distribution maps
Hardback £24.50
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This is the first book to focus solely on those butterfly species regarded as extinctions, rare migrants or introductions. There are 59 butterfly species that are considered resident or regular (more)
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by Jones, R.
Cat No. : 42438, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £46.99
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Cat No. : 42439, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col + b/w photos
Paperback £26.99
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An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series. The shieldbug is an amazing and beautiful species, rich with diversity in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology (more)
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by Benton, T.; Owens, N.
Cat No. : 48849, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col illus
Hardback £46.99
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Cat No. : 48850, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col illus
Paperback £26.99
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Bees, for most people, mean honey or bumble bees. In fact, the honey bees and bumblebees make up only a small proportion of the bee species that live in Britain, while the other bees are the great (more)
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by Marshall, S.A.
Cat No. : 51205, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £60.00
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Comprehensive and packed with richly illustrated keys and thousands of colour photographs identified with help from nearly 100 of the world’s best hymenopterists, this volume provides the reader with (more)
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by Llobet, T. et al
Cat No. : 54516, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 7349 col illus, 6459 col distribution maps
Hardback £69.99
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For the first time ever, you can contemplate All the Mammals of the World together in a single easy-to-use, fully illustrated volume. Created for a broad public, from wildlife enthusiasts to (more)
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by McPherson, S.
Cat No. : 49585, Published : 2023, Illustrations : 3000+ col photos
Hardback £149.97
This three-volume set is a seminal work that documents all currently recognised species of Nepenthes for the first time. Fifteen years in the making and the result of more than three hundred (more)
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by Tree, I.; Burrell, C.
Cat No. : 53735, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col + b/w illus
Hardback £27.50
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The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. How can an individual ever make a difference? Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how (more)
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