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Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First edition. An eleven volume collection of heavily illustrated volumes from the popular 'New Naturalist' series, all in their original dust wrappers. The first edition to "Man & Birds", the first edition to "Woodland Birds", the second edition to "Britain"s Structure and Scenery", the revised edition to "Mountains & Moorlands, the second impression of the revised edition of "The Sea Shore", the first edition fourth impression to "Climate and the British Scene", the second edition, second impression to "The Open Sea", the first edition fourth impression to "The Open Sea Part II", the second impression of the revised edition to "The World of Spiders", the first edition, fourth impression to "Fossils", and the first edition, second impression to "The Common Lands of England and Wales".Illustrated with monochrome plates, monochrome vignettes and forty-seven colour plates to "Britain"s Structure and Scenery', forty-seven to "Mountains & Moorlands", sixty-one to "The Sea Shore", forty-one to "Climate and the British Scene", one hundred and forty-two watercolour drawings to "The Open Sea Part 1", sixteen colour plates to "The Open Sea Part II", four to "World of Spiders", one to "Fossils", six to "The Common Lands of England & Wales" and four to "Woodland Birds". Collated, all complete. An eleven volume set.This set features a collection of volumes from Collins' 'New Naturalist' series, an influential natural history series which provided interesting studies covering subjects such as plant life, animals, ornithology, insects, sea life and much more. This set includes; "Britain"s Nature Structure & Scenery" by L. Dudley Stamp, "Mountains & Moorlands" by W. H. Pearsall, "The Sea Shore" by C. M. Yonge, "Climate and the British Scene" by Gordon Manley, "The Open Sea Part 1: The World of Plankton" by Alister Hardy, "The Open Sea: Its Natural History Part II: Fish and Fisheries" by Alister Hardy, "The World of Spiders" by W. S. Bristowe, "Fossils" by H. H. Swinnerton, The Common Lands of England & Wales by W. G. Hoskins and L. Dudley Stamp, "Man & Birds" by R. K. Murton, and "Woodland Birds" by Eric Simms. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrappers to all but "Sea Shore", Climate and the British Scene", "The Open Sea" part one and two, "The World of Spiders", Fossils" and Man & Birds, which are clipped. Externally lovely to all but 'Britain's Structure & Scenery', to which the dust wrapper is adhered to the endpapers with adhesive marks to the endpapers, with a generally smart wrap with sunning, creasing and light spotting. The rest of the wraps are all excellent with only occasional minor handling marks, light sunning to the odd spine, and a very minimal closed tear to the tail of the spine to 'Man & Birds'. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Near Fine. None stated (ilustrador). book. …