The Book of Nature – W. Percival Westell (1920s)

S$74.00

The Book of Nature – W. Percival Westell (1920s)

S$74.00

Title: The Book of Nature

Author: W. Percival Westell (ed.)

Publisher: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, London. No date, most likely 1920s.

Condition: Hardcover, decorative cloth. Good. Deckle edges and some foxing. Binding tight, text unmarked. With 8 colour plates and numerous black-and-white plates and drawings. 355pp., app 9.5″x6.5″. A heavy book, overseas shipping will cost extra.

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Contents:

  1. A Calendar of Nature’s Year
  2. A Chat About Rocks
  3. A Chat About the Weather
  4. The Life-Story of a Plant
  5. Something About Fossils
  6. A Chat About the Bramble
  7. Wild Flowers worth Notice
  8. Seen Through a Microscope
  9. Some British Beasties
  10. Summer and Winter Dresses of Animals
  11. How to Make an Aquarium and What to Keep In It
  12. The Large Garden White Butterfly
  13. Some Insect Friends
  14. Some Insect Foes
  15. A Wonderful Moth
  16. The Babyhood of the Cuckoo
  17. Some Birds of the Ocean
  18. Birds that Comes into My Garden
  19. Stalking the Pink-Footed Goose
  20. Bird Life at the Garden City
  21. A Chat about Birds’ Eggs
  22. Bird Life at Bourne mouth
  23. In the Bee-hive
  24. In the Ants’ Citadel
  25. In The Tree-Tops
  26. The Promise of Spring
  27. From a Naturalist’s Note-book
  28. Our Common in Winter
  29. The Young Naturalist in March
  30. Nature and the Scout
  31. The Birth and Song of the Burn
  32. The Sea and Its Wonders
  33. Broadland Memories
  34. Some Common Land and Fresh-Water Shells
  35. A Piece of Voal
  36. Various

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