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5-STAR FISH BOOKS

Price Groups: A = 1p to £5  B = £5.01 to £10  C = £10.01-15  D = £15.01 to £25  E = £25 to £30.  F = £31 to £50  G £51 to £99. H = Over £100

Authors on this page include: Antal Vida and Thomas Kotai, Peter Miller, Kishori Lal Tekriwal and Andrew Arunava Rao, Mark Samuel, I.E. Batjakas & A.E. Economakis, Ian S Munro ,David S. Lee ,J.R.Hartley, Jim Kelly, Lothar Wischnath, Chris Andrews, Adrian Excell and Dr. Neville Carrington, Ramshorst and A. Van Den Niewenhuisen, Alwyne Wheeler, Franco de Carli, Farid S. Atiya, M L J Stiassny, L.R.Parentl and G. David Johnson, John Dawes, Rev. Houghton ,Sally Morgan and Pauline Lalor, John T Nichols, Peter Moyle and Joseph Cech Jr., Heather Angel, Muus and Dahlstrom 

 

The fish is the most successful vertebrate in the world. Fishes outnumber all other species of backboned animals by twenty to one, and only their adaptability has enabled them to achieve their dominant position in the animal world and to be capable of colonising almost every stretch of water on the face of the earth.

AN AGE OF FISHES

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*****  AN AGE OF FISHES

by Joy O. I. Spoczynska
Illustrated by
Melchior Spoczynski

Description: Size: ( 17.5 cm by 23.5 cm approx.)
Number of pages: 152
Published: David & Charles
Edition : 1976 1st Ed.
Format: Green Hardback with gold titles
Book condition: Good: Some light foxing, otherwise very good. Dust jacket condition: Very Good in a plastic cover.


£5.50 plus £3.00 Recorded UK Postage

Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean Including Marine Invertebrates

SEA FISHES MEDITERRANEAN

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Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean Including Marine Invertebrates
Author: Wood,

Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd
Published: 5 Aug 2011
Pages: 128
A superbly colour illustrated guide to the fishes and invertebrates of the area

£11.90 plus £2 postage

THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE SALTWATER AQUARIUM Salt Aquarium

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 1-55407-182-8  

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THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE SALTWATER AQUARIUM by Greg Jennings. Large Format hardback pp 368.

***** 

One of the best Saltwater Aquarium books we have ever read. Fully colour illustrated  RRP £32.99

£14.50 post paid in the UK

THE BIG ATLAS OF AQUARIUM FISH BIG ATLAS

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  3 625 10371 0 

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**** THE BIG ATLAS OF AQUARIUM FISH

Claus Schaefer

pp.98 HB. Vemag, Cologne.

A superbly colour photographed large format introduction to Aquarium fishes

Our Price £7.20. plus £3.10 UK postage NEW. One only

REEF FISH IDENTIFICATION - GALAPAGOS GALAPAGOS

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1 878348-06-X

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***** REEF FISH IDENTIFICATION - GALAPAGOS

Paul Humann. pp 204 New World Publications Inc., Florida USA

Hundreds of species all illustrated in full colour. A "must have" book for anyone diving or visiting the Galapagos

One copy only. Our price £9.50 plus £3 UK postage

500 Full Colour Photographs

Complete Aquarium - Encyclopedia of Tropical Freshwater Fish

COMPLETE AQUARIUM

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ISBN-13: 9781856480130

ISBN: 1856480135

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**** Complete Aquarium - Encyclopedia of Tropical Freshwater Fish by Van Berkom, Bootsma, Van Bruggen, Geerts.et al
pp 391.
 Comprehensive handbook for the beginner and experienced hobbyist. Complete guide to the design, construction, lay-out and furnishing of the aquarium. Large, heavy hardback.  391 pages.

£8.20 plus £3.30 postage

Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island HELENA

ISBN No: 0951648004

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**** Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island.
by Alasdair Edwards, .
Govt. of St. Helena /University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990.
. Pp.vi, 152 with col. photos, line drawings, map & 38; figs. A4 paperback. 

£15.00 plus £3.90 U.K.Postage

THE AQUARIUM FISH SURVIVAL MANUAL SURVIVAL

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 1 85627 027 0

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** THE AQUARIUM FISH SURVIVAL MANUAL by Brian Ward. The QUILL Edition

Large format (11" x 8" )HB. pp 175. 1990 .300 full colour illustrations. All you will ever need to know about keeping all types of fishes happy and healthy. Dust Jacket slightly torn.

Our Price £4.99 plus £4.50 postage

The Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of Ceylon CEYLON

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The Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of Ceylon
Munro, I. S. R.

Dept. of External Affairs, Canberra, 1955. No dust jacket. Cover worn. Title page is torn. Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy.

£17.50 plus £3.50 UK Postage

365 FISH

365FISH

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3 8331 2070 3

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***** 365 FISH 

by Antal Vida and Thomas Kotai

Vince Books 2006

400 Pages

A superbly  illustrated coffee table book from a top Hungarian artist and ichthyologist

Our Price £5.99 including postage in the U.K.

Covers may vary in colour in the same edition !

QUEER FISH  by F.G.Boulenger

BOULENGER

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***** QUEER FISH

by F.G.Boulenger

Decorative Cloth. . First. Octavo. 1931 Edition An interesting treatise on unusual fish and their natural history. Illustrated with sketches, many from nature, by L.R.Brightwell
contents: 1) Introduction. 2) Walking and Climbing Fish. 3) Electric Fish. 4) Blind Fish. 5) Armoured Fish. 6) Flying-Fish. 7) Lung-Fish. 8) Flat-Fish. 9) Goldfish. 10) Giant Fish. 11) Nursing Fish. 12) Nest-Building Fish. 13) Fish and Their Travels. 14) Luminous Fish. 15) Baby Fish. 16) Fighting-Fish. 17) Other Queer Fish. 18) Food Fish. 19) Fossil Fish. 20) Shell Fish. 21) Aquatic Mammals

 £11.00 plus £3.60 Recorded UK Postage

Marine Fishes of El Salvador (Los Cabanos) 

    SALVADOR

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*****Marine Fishes of El Salvador (Los Cabanos) in English

pp14x11 126 pages  Embossed cover. Cloth bound HB. A superb range of full page lithograph plates by Juan Amador, (Division of National Parks of El Salvador) Published by the Sigma Foundation. New York.1985. Absolutely beautiful Rare Book with 50 amazing full page full plate illustrations. Our scanner does not do justice to this superb publication

£116 including postage to UK

 

THE AMATEUR AQUARIST 

AMATEUR AQUARIST 1894

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THE AMATEUR AQUARIST 

by Mark Samuel, Aquarist to Columbia College, New York . 1894

116 pages. Bound. In reasonable condition and very well illustrated. How to maintain and Equip a self-sustaining aquarium

£13.90 post paid in UK

COASTAL FISHES OF GREECE GREECE

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10: 9602265345
13: 978-9602265345

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COASTAL FISHES OF GREECE

by I.E. Batjakas & A.E. Economakis

Paperback: 130 pages
Publisher: Efstathiadis Group

Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 12.4 x 1 cm .

£6.99 Plus £2 postage

New Guinea Fishes

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**** THE FISHES OF NEW GUINEA

by Ian S Munro 

A VERY RARE TITLE

Dept Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries Port Moresby New Guinea 1967. First edition. Illustrated boards, colour & b & w plates, line illustrations, 650pp + plates. F/o inscription o/w very good. Jacket - edgeworn, lightly stained spine inside.

Our price £49.50 including UK postage

ATLAS OF NORTH AMERICAN FRESHWATER FISHES  ATLAS

This book is in good condition with a slight amount of wear to the binding. It measures 8.5 x 11 inches, has 854 pages with glossary. It is profusely illustrated with range maps and line drawings or black & white photographs

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***ATLAS OF NORTH AMERICAN FRESHWATER FISHES   

Edited by David S. Lee et al.

This atlas attempts to summarize available distributional information on all the freshwater fishes of the United States and Canada, and to provide some information on their biology. Although the many needs for such a volume have long been obvious, only in the last few years has a work of this nature been feasible.
The desirability of this compilation is perhaps best attested to by the large number of individuals from many agencies and institutions in both countries who volunteered their services to make it a reality. Probably no other single zoological work has been so willingly supported by such a wide spectrum of enthusiastic contributors. We anticipate that the atlas will be useful in studies of biogeography, systematics, and ecology, and to persons involved in fisheries management and environmental assessment. It should also be quite important to educators, and to fishermen and general outdoorsmen in the United States and Canada.

Our Price £48.00 plus £8.50 part postage

The Manual of Fish Health FishHealth

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***The Manual of Fish Health  

by Chris Andrews, Adrian Excell and Dr. Neville Carrington

A fully illustrated comprehensive hardback by Salamander Books originally £12.95

Our Price £4 plus £3.75 UK post and packing

The Complete Aquarium Encyclopedia of Tropical Freshwater Fish  VANDEN

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****The Complete Aquarium Encyclopedia of Tropical Freshwater Fish 

by Ramshorst and A. Van Den Niewenhuisen 

Octavo HB Original Price £30

Omega Books England

386 page large format Hardback book fully colour illustrated

Our Price £12 plus £6 UK postage

A Dictionary of the Fishes of the World ALWYNE2

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***** A Dictionary of the Fishes of the World 

by Alwyne Wheeler of the BMNH One of the best books from a foremost authority on fishes. A STAR BUY. HB  Huge and comprehensive.

Very hard to obtain book. Our price £12.00 plus postage £5.80

The World of Fishes. WorldFishes

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The World of Fishes.

 Franco de Carli. HB. 256 pp.

A superbly knowledgeable small hardback suitable for all ages as an excellent introduction into the lives of fishes

One Only. Our Price  £2.99 plus £2 part UK postage

The Red Sea in Egypt

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*** The Red Sea in Egypt - Part 1: FISHES 
Written by: Farid S. Atiya
Published by the author 
Year: 1991 
Format: First Edition Hardback book, with dustwrapper. 
Description: 232 pages fully illustrated throughout with 339 colour photographs and drawings.  Condition:
Book is in Very Good condition. Dustwrapper has a small amount of wear - Very Good+
  Arabic names given where known   "Excellent both technically and photographically"
Our price £16.99 plus £3 postage

Code:EGYPT

The Tidal Thames   by Wheeler WHEELERTHAMES

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***** The Tidal Thames  

by Alwyne Wheeler. A history of the river and its fishes by an expert. HB Virtually new. pp 228 Now out of print.

Our Price £12.99 plus £3 UK postage

Interrelationships of Fishes INTERFISH

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***** Interrelationships of Fishes.  

Hardback. New Stock just arrived. .8vo pp.500   Edited by M L J Stiassny, L.R.Parentl and G. David Johnson. Academic Press.

Original Price £68.00

Our Price £21.00 plus £5 postage

Aquarium Fish 

Aquariumfish

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  0760708533 

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 *** Aquarium Fish  

A beautifully texted and illustrated Hardback  book whose pages were too large for our scanner. pp.146

Published by Barnes and Noble

All fish types are covered but no author is listed? Originally listed at over £20.

Our Price £ 8.50 plus £4.90 postage

The second section examines the variety of fish and fish groups, discussing the general advantages, disadvantages, habitats, feeding and breeding requirements of many hundreds of fish in each group. For every lover of marine life, this book offers an in-depth study of the major fish groups, plus all the practical fundamentals of setting up and keeping a healthy tank environment.  The Ultimate Aquarium

 ULTAQUA

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  ****  The Ultimate Aquarium: 
A Definitive Guide to Identifying and Keeping Freshwater and Marine Fishes
With over 700 full-color photographs, and divided into two sections, the first section explains in very practical terms the fundamentals of setting up the aquarium, including equipment, food and feeding, water chemistry and quality, maintaining a healthy tank environment, decor, how to s
elect the types of fish, and how to breed them. 
256 pages. EXCELLENT condition! Large Page Paperback editions

£9.50 plus £5 postage

British Freshwater Fishes HOUGHTON

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0 906671 06 X

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British Freshwater Fishes  

by Rev. Houghton. HB An authentic reproduction of the two-volume 1879 text in one modern volume. Superb engravings. Peerage Books 1981. 260 4to pages

Published at £20.00

Our Price £4.50 plus £5.50 Postage

A Guide to Freshwater Fish  FRESHFISH

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**A Guide to Freshwater Fish 

by Treasure Press HB pp 184 NEW

A superb general guide to the freshwater fishes of the world, their biology. requirements  and distribution. High quality data in a very readable format

Our Price £5.75 plus £2 postage

OCEANLIFE OCEANS5

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***** OCEANLIFE

By Sally Morgan and Pauline Lalor.
Oceanlife is a journey into the seas, beautifully illustrated with a wealth of superb colour photography 
from around the world. Starting from the shore, where the oceans meet the land, and diving ever further down to the depths where darkness and enormous water pressure makes exploration almost impossible, it considers the very different life-forms that are found in the various habitats. With a number of special feature sections that look at subjects such as dolphins, hammerheads, coral photography and camouflage in detail, it includes chapters on Coral Reefs, The open Ocean and The Sea Beds.

This lavishly illustrated Hardback book in colour, with Dust cover. 512 pages is in mint condition 
with only very light wear to the dust cover


RRP £29.95. Our Price £7 plus £7 postage

Representative North American Freshwater Fishes JTN1

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***** Representative North American Freshwater Fishes  

by John T Nichols, American Museum of Natural History. An unusual pocket-sized and superbly illustrated cloth cover book . A paperback in its own cardboard custom sleeve. Extremely rare title. McMillan 1943.

Our Price  £12.50 plus £2.30 UK postage

Fishes, An introduction to Ichthyology  MOYLE

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0 13 319211 3   

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**** Fishes, An introduction to Ichthyology 

by Peter Moyle and Joseph Cech Jr. A Classic textbook. 2nd. Edn. Hardback. Prentice-Hall 1988.pp559

Our Price £20.00 plus £3.60 Postage

Life in the Oceans HAOCEANS

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Life in the Oceans  

by Heather Angel.  A superbly illustrated and well written text by a very well-respected natural history author, HB Large Format

Our Price £8.90 plus £3.50 postage in UK

Collins Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Britain and Europe COLLFRESH

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**** Collins Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Britain and Europe  

by Muus and Dahlstrom HB. Superbly collated information. A scarce titleSuperbly collated information. Published 1981 Hundreds of sketches, maps and full colour illustrations  Condition clean inside - little wear, Hard cover  slightly worn 244 pages size 4.5 x 8 inches approx

Our Price £9.50 plus £3.90 postage

A Mint Stamp Collection of Fishes from Ciskei

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** A Mint Stamp Collection of Fishes from Ciskei

(Four other stamps depicting invertebrates are not shown)

 

Our Price £7.50 including postage in the UK

Setting Up an Aquarium  by Jim Ke;;y SETUPKELLY

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***** Setting Up an Aquarium  

by Jim Kelly, President of the Fancy Guppy Association. TFH. Fully colour photo illustrated

pp.128 A very useful beginners guide.

Published price £4.99.

Our Price £2.99 plus £2 postage

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