Ragge David (29 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red cover with gilt image and lettering;; professor's stamp on ffep; not exlibrary;; No marks or writing, clean tight binding; Comprehensive handbook on British Orthoptera & Acrididae, their language, food, and characteristics; 300 pages Very Good- minor rubbing on spine edges No marks or writing, clean tight binding;

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. with 22 colour plates from drawings by the Late H.D. Swain and 130 text figures by David R. Ragge (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, maroon cloth boards with extensive fading and marks on cover probably from damp, small sticker on the spine. Marks on the end papers. Label of Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society on the half title page. No jacket.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, octavo, brief gift inscription to a previous owner on the front free endpaper, the body of text clean and unmarked. the pictorial dust jacket is creased, has closed tears and with some strengthening to the verso. Colour plates, b&w illustrations, xii + 299pp. Mild smell of mustiness.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'Grasshoppers, Crickets and Cockroaches of the British Isles' by David R. Ragge. Frederick Warne and Co Ltd 1965 first edition. The book appears to be bound without the title page and frontispiece. Otherwise very good and a good working copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 299pp hardback, purple textured cloth in wrapper with removable clear plastic sleeve, (Wayside and Woodland series).

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 131pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, heavy discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xii, 299pp, index, glossary, aooendices, bw ills, map, col frontis, pictorial endpapers. Or maroon cloth, no jacket. Title and vignette of grasshopper in gilt to front. Some minor spotting to cloth, light foxing, prev owner name to verso of front free endpaper. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Wayside & Woodland series. Book - very good, dust jacket - none. 22 colour plates & 130 text figures.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Swain, H.D. (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Burgundy imitation leather boards with gilt titles, gilt vignette to front. 22 colour plates and 130 text figures. Top edge red. Larger format for this series. 8.75" x 6". Includes a companion vinyl record "Songs of the British Grasshoppers & Crickets". Top front corner of board lightly bent. Rubber stamped black symbol to front pastedown. Text block lightly browned. One or two light margin marks else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn with loss - large piece of loss to top front panel affects the title. Companion record is NOT included (is MISSING). Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., London. 1965. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated. Corners and edges of maroon cloth boards are slightly bumped and rubbed. Wrapper browned, creased and shelf worn and covered with sticky plastic. Contents clean.

Octavo,300 pp.,colour plates, worn dustwrapper. The Wayside and Woodlands Series.

London & New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [1965]. XII,299 pp. 22 col. plts & 130 b./w. text-ills. Orig. hardcover (maroon imit. leather with gilt lettering), no d./j. - Part of dust jacket mounted on first free endpaper. Wayside and Woodland Series).

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket in clear protective wrap. Front and rear jacket panels cellotaped to paste downs. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xii, 299pp. 22 colour plates and 130 text figures. Wayside and Woodland Series. Maroon hardback leatherette cover.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorDavid Ragge, formerly Head of the Orthoptera Section and Deputy Keeper of Entomology at The Natural History Museum, is author of the classic work, Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles.J.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Most of the 170 species of grasshoppers and crickets included in this book can be identified instantly by their songs - and often more reliably than from their appearance. Orthopterans have recently become important subjects in evolutionary biological studies and are also increasingly used in the field of conservation as indicators of undisturbed habitat.The book comprises the following chapters: Introduction; Acoustic Methods; Sound Production and Reception of European Orthoptera; The Nature and Function of the Songs; The Value of the Songs in Taxonomy and Identification; Key to the singing Orthoptera of Western Europe, based primarily on their Songs; and other Animal Sounds that could be confused with Orthoptera Songs - illustrated with over 1600 oscillograms; three Appendixes (Check-list of the species included; Summary of Nomenclatural Changes; Data for the Song Recordings); Glossary; References; Index to Vernacular Names; and General Index.

Condition: gut. VI, 159 S., Abb., 26 cm, Schutzumschlag fleckig und mit Läsuren, leicht gebräunt. Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii, 299 pages 22 full page coloured plates from drawings by H D Swain , and 130 text figures by the author.Contents clean and tight ownership name to front end paper.Publishers maroon rexine binding gilt title and grasshopper vignette to upper cover.The binding bright and clean and tight with no splits or damage.DJ complete ,closed tear to front panel chipping to head of spine (repaired) light rubbing to edges. Published in the Wayside and Woodland series.

1965. Hard Cover. l 299 p. Kleur- en zwart wit tekeningen. Colourillustrations.

London & New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [1965]. XII,299 pp. 22 col. plts & 130 b./w. text-ills. Orig. hardcover (maroon imit. leather with gilt lettering), no d./j. 8vo. ( Wayside and Woodland Series).

8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of maroon faux-morocco, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, maroon top, a near fine copy. The first title in the series to appear in enlarged 'reference' format. 'This is one of the most accomplished works in the series, written by the lead authority and describing and illustrating all the British species of Orthoptera' (Marren). See Marren, pp.187-189.

Hardback in very good condition with good dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. H. D. Swain and David Ragge (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first issue in superb condition. The first title in the acclaimed Wayside & Woodland Series to appear in the enlarged "reference" format. Handsome, maroon, faux-morocco leather binding, with gilt titles and grasshopper on front and gilt titles on spine, in fine, tight, crisp condition. Text in fine, tight, clean condition with no inscriptions. Illustrated end papers. 22 colour plates and 130 text figures. 299 pages. See photographs of this book attached.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet Rexene covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine, red dyed upper edges. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 299 pp with 22 colour plates on glossy paper and 130 text figures. Very Good condition book, water damage to the front free end paper, in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubs to the corners, shallow rubs to the fore edges, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. WAYSIDE WOODLAND (Series).

Hard. Condition: Ex Academic Library. Swain, H.D (illustrator). 1st. Excellent for an ex-library book. 2 stamps and an ink date to f-fep, else perfect. With 22 colour plates. D/W with a small library sticker and some light rubbing. Rear quite discoloured. In protective film wrap. Size: 8vo.

FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD IN CHIPPED DUSTWRAPPER. 22 COLOUR PLATES FROM DRAWINGS BY THE LATE H.D. SWAIN AND 130 TEXT FIGURES BY THE AUTHOR.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. With Dust Cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 33 1/3 RPM vinyl record produced to accompany the title ''Grasshoppers, Crickets and Cockroaches of the British Isles'' by David R Ragge and published by Warne in their 'Wayside and Woodland series. The record is contained in its original sleeve and appears unused, the sleeve has some light staining where the original sealing tape has become marked at the edges but is in very good condition. Peter Marren in ''The Observer's Book of Wayside and Woodland'' states ''Long playing record published by Warne. Around 500 were pressed. These sold out by 1972, and another 100 were produced in 1974, selling out by 1978. The record therefore, must be quite scarce''. This is an original pressing and consequently a scarce survival.

Condition: new. Questo è un articolo print on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 596 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.