London: for J. Johnson, 1802. First edition. 28 doublepage engraved plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 92-pages. Recent half brown morocco, marbled boards, the spine with raised bands, unlettered. Browning to margins of title. A pleasing modern binding. Anon.
£125.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17078
London: Religious Tract Society, 1833. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, unusually many with tissue guards. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), pages: xii:492, contemporary half burgundy calf spine gilt, all edges gilt. Crack to paper at inner gutter beteen pages xii & 1 but very firm on cords. An excellent and attractive copy. Charming contemporary gift inscription from a father to his daughter on front fly. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17289
Newbury: Pisces, 1994. First edition.Coloured illustrations. 8vo (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 136-pages. Original cloth; fine in very good dust jacket.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17670
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1938. First edition. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), 60-pages. Original green cloth in browned and edgeworn price clipped dustwrapper. Manuscript notes on the inside of the dustwrapper. Prelims. foxed.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11238
Kuala Lumpur: Longman, 1975. First edition. Colour plates. 8vo, pp.viii:64, original pictorial boards; spine very slightly faded else very good.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No.6806
London : Taylor & Francis, 1928. 6 plates, of which 5 coloured. 9vo (9 1.4 x 6 1/2 inches), 467-pages, original maroon cloth; damp affecting lower margin of covers and endpapers, text and plates unaffected however.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17046
Tiverton: Devon Books, 1993. First edition. Coloured plates, distribution maps. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 151-pages. Original cloth; fine in fine price clipped dust jacket.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17674
Newbury: Pisces, 2011. First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour, 8vo ( 8 x 5 1/2 inches), 314-pages. Original coloured pictorial flexible laminated boards; fine.
£16.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17672
Lavenham, Suffolk: Terence Dalton, 1975. First edition. 8vo (9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches), 271-pages. Original white cloth; excellent in very good dustwrapper. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15083
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1908. All published. 39 coloured plates, other plates & illustrations in the text. 4to (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches), 211-pages. Original black cloth. Headbands ragged, binding marked. Rare.Endpapers foxed else internally very good. £200.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13279
London: Frederick Warne, 1951. First edition. Coloured plates. Small 8vo (7 x 5 inches), 383-pages. Original brown grained cloth blocked in gilt. Presentation label and name & address label to the reverse of the frontispiece, nick on margin of half-title; else almost fine. In torn, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper which has been repaired with sellotape but now protected in a rermovable plastic sleeve.
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14040
Glebe, N.S.W: Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1938. First edition. Tipped-in coloured plates throughout. 4to, original green cloth. Spine faded, signature on front free-endpaper.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 6352
London: Collins, 1966. Second edition. With 27 colour photographs, 30 photographs in black & white and 2 line drawings. Large 8vo, pp.x:272, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding good; dustwrapper headbands and corners chipped and slightly frayed; internally, a binding fault [one double leaf not stitched in but present], ink name on front free-endpaper, else good.
£14.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9501
London: British Museum, 1939. First edition. Frontispiece and 44 coloured plates. Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 inches), 156-pages, original maroon cloth. Short snag to bottom edge of upper cover; name on front free endpaper, endpapers foxed else very good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13287
Colchester: Harley, 1983. First English edition. A few illustrations in the text. 4to (9 3/4 x 8 inches), 176-pages. Softback, original coloured pictorial wrappers.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17679
London: Hutchinson, n.d. 1924. Two volumes, folio (15 X 10 inches), pages: 207 & 206 and with list of subscribers at end. Original blue cloth; boards spotted, spine unaffected. Headbands bumped, overall very good.
£225.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17668
Sheringham, Norfolk: Privately published by the author, 1982. Illustrations. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 104-pages. Original cloth-backed wrappers; very good. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12293
Newbury: Pisces, 2001. First edition. Coloured plates, distribution maps. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches), 261-pages. Original cloth; fine in fine dust jacket.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17675
Colchester: Harley Books, 1983. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inche), original cloth. Excellent in very good dust jacket which has a pink tinge to the fore-edges (effects of sunlight?).
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17683
Colchester: Harley Books, 1985. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inche), original cloth. Some light rippling of the text else excellent in very good dust jacket which has a pink tinge to the fore-edges (effects of sunlight?). Corrigenda loosely inserted.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17687
Colchester: Harley Books, 1991. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inche), original cloth. Excellent in very good edge curled dust jacket which has a pink tinge to the fore-edges (effects of sunlight?).
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17685
Colchester: Harley Books, 1989. Illustrations. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inche), original cloth. Excellent in very good dust jacket which has a pink tinge to the fore-edges (effects of sunlight?).
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17688
Brighton: Southern Publishing, 1964. First edition. 22 plates, some coloured. Large 8vo (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 248-pages. Original cloth lettered in white. Very good in very good but slightly edge chipped and lightly marked dust jacket.
Rare.
£140.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17669
London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, 1891. Portrait, 2 folding maps, folding panorama, plates & illustrations. 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), pages: xxxi:(1):574, contemporary half crimson calf, marbled boards, spine gilt with lettering piece; headbands chipped, extremities rubbed, some fading to boards, well and strongly bound however and very good internally. £30.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16642
London: Collins, 1973. Reprint. Coloured plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 317-pages. Original cloth; very light score mark or indent on upper cover else good in excellent dustwrapper now protected by a removable plastic sleeve. Two neat small name and address labels on front pastedown.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14058
Gillingham, Dorset: Orchid Sundries, 1995. First edition. Coloured plates, distribution maps. 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 inches), 198-pages. Original coloured pictorial laminated boards; very good.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17671
Lucas Art, 1992. Profusely illustrated in colour. Folio, pp. 142, original gilt lettered cloth in gilt blocked dustwrapper. Mint - New. £22.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 4328
London: Unwin Brothers, n.d. 10 mounted coloured plates by Miss A.E. Talbot Ponsonby with tissue guards. 4to, pp.40, original cloth, no dustwrapper; binding soiled and dusty, with splits to the cloth at top of spine (with fraying) and for approximately 14cm along edge of spine, boards warped; inner joints split, hinges weak, some foxing; a tired copy.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 399
London: George Allen, 1904. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 356-pages. Contemporary prize binding of full polished tan tree calf, decorative gilt border on sides enclosing the gilt arms of Queen Elizabeth's School at Wakefield, spine floral gilt extra with green lettering piece, all edges marbled. Excellent. With prize label to front pastedown. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16511
Plates and illustrations. The 30 numbers and the year book bound into two thick volumes 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches), pebble-grained dark green cloth ruled and lettered in gilt. Well and attractively bound. The original wrappers retained. Rare. Concerning Neoporteria and allied species Chileorebutia, Neochilenia, Horridocactus and Pyrrhocactus. £240.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14029
London: Wm. Heinemann, 1925. Four fold (32 x 12 inch) photographic frontispiece "Anvancing Elephants in the Lorian Swamp" and photographic plates throughout. 4to (12 1/4 x 10 inches), 206-pages. Original brown cloth. Binding a little marked, endpapers tanned; overall very good.
Very heavy (3kg), extra postage will be requested.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17766
London: Viking, 1997. First edition. Coloured plates. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 275-pages. Original cloth; fine in fine dust jacket.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17681
London: Viking, 1997. First edition. Coloured plates. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 275-pages. Original cloth; one corner slightly bumped else fine in fine dust jacket.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17680
London: Collins, 1973. First edition. Plates. 8vo, original cloth; very good in dust jacket now protected by a removable plastic sleeve. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17229
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1935. First edition. Plates, illustrations, coloured folding map. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 397-pages. Original fine ribbed green cloth. Spine unevenly faded, slight bubbling of cloth on upper cover, signature on front free endpaper, endpaper a little foxed. Actually a nice copy. £55.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12554
Hastings: Burfield & Pennells, 1902. 21 black & white plates, 16 drawings. Inscribed and with A.L.S. from the editor, Edward Connold, losely inserted. Corrigenda pasted onto pp.143. 8vo. pp.xi:149, original cloth; some creasing to upper backstrip, portrait detached, else an exceptional copy.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1069
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1998. First edition thus. Coloured plates. Large 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 357-pages. Original cloth. Slight spotting to top edge of text block else fine in like dustwrapper.
£17.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13439
London: Collins, 1961. First edition. With a colour frontispiece, 29 photographs in black & white and 34 line drawings, diagrams and maps by the author. Tall 8vo, pp.384, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper spine slightly faded, top edge of spine and two corners slightly bumped otherwise very good and bright; internally, the occasional light spotting to page edges, else extremely good.
£90.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11173
London: Frederick Warne, 1952. First edition. Coloured plates. Small 8vo (7 x 5 inches), 154-pages. Original green cloth blocked in black & gilt. Two spots of foxing on title else almost fine in rubbed price clipped dustwrapper with tears and creasing but without loss. Neat small name and address label on lower margin of front pastedown.
£32.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14030
Esslingen: J.F. Screiber, circa 1890. 30 attractive double-page coloured plates and descriptive text. Folio (13 x 9 inches), original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Snag to backstrip else excellent.
£100.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16579
London: Published for the Author by Hatchard, 1866. First edition. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 223-pages. Original bevelled green cloth blocked in gilt; headband rubbed else good. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16185
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Altoona: Times Tribune Company, 1921. First edition. Photographic plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches), 92-pages. Original roan backed boards lettered in gilt. Binding poor, the spine chipped with rusting staples showing through; internally very good. Inscribed and signed by the author to the writer J. E. Harting, author of "Recreations of a Naturalist", "Hints on Shore Shooting" and much else. Very rare. £200.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14531
London: Collins, 1954. First edition. Illustrated with 32 photographs in black & white, 22 maps and drawings. Tall 8vo, pp.212, original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with a tiny piece nicked from end of spine, tiny tiny tear to top edge of front cover, some very light foxing, else extremely bright; internally, page edges slightly foxed, generally extremely good.
£65.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11159
London: Robert Hardwicke, n.d. ca. 1866. First edition. Illustrations within the text. 8vo, pp.xi412, original green cloth ruled in blind and blocked in gilt. binding headbands bumped, a band of damp-marking on the lower edge of both covers (with some loss of colour to the cloth); internally, page edges browned, stitching partially broken at p.273 and that section partially detached, in all other respects, good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9808
Christchurch, N.Z.: Simpson & Williams, 1927. First edition. Black & white portraits, plates, & folding map. 8vo, pp.ix(including 2-page list of subscribers):299, original cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, else an excellent copy. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 186
London: Collins, 1952. First edition. Coloured plates and illustrations in the text. 4to (12 x 9 inches), 160-pages. Original red cloth blocked in gilt; light foxing to endpapers; overall very good. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16077
London: M. A. Nattali, [1822]. 20 hand-coloured plates. 4to (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: xlvii:279, contemporaryt half calf, marbled boards, spine floral gilt with lettering piece. Lacking upper 1 1/2 inches of backstrip, upper board almost detached. Some offsetting but the plates generally very good. Old annotaions to the text in pencil, in one instance in ink. Damp-marking to the last few leaves of index. £550.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11390
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. Illustrations by the author. 1st reprint. 8vo, pp.192, original 2-tone cloth; a very good copy.
£12.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 3007
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942. Reprint. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 258-pages. Original green cloth; very good in good, slightly edge worn, dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15429
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. Nineteen hand-coloured plates and half-title. 4to, pp.xl:140, original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped and rubbed, spine browned; foxing to page-edges, prelimins, tissue-guards and a small amount to plates; joints cracked and stitching slack with some sections quite loose. £75.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 8953
London: Henry Frowde, 1904. 12mo (6 x 3 3/4 inches) 263-pages. Contemporary full tan tree calf, narrow gilt rules to sides, spine gilt extra, some light rubbing, surface partially chipped from headband, upper joint partially cracked but very firm; overall attractive and sound. Signature and date, 1937, on verso of front free endpaper. £14.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16628
London: T & A.D. Poyser, 1997. First edition. Coloured plates. 8vo (9 1/2x 6 1/2 inches), 271-pages. Original cloth; fine in fine dust jacket.
£38.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17677
New York & London: Academic Press, 1964. First edition. Black & white illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.xv:562, original green cloth, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners rubbed, slight shelf-wear; ink name on front free-endpaper and ink annotation and underlining to a large part of the text.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9507