We were very pleased to be able to acquire Professor David Bellamy's personal library of natural history and botany books. The library, which contains a number of elegant copies of collectable natural history volumes, is accompanied by a series of Bellamy's owner inscriptions and letters.

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David James Bellamy OBE (1933-1919), a celebrated television presenter, writer and environmental campaigner, was a professor of botany at Durham University, and a key figure popular science broadcasting and public awareness of environmental issues from the 1970s to the 1990s.