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Octavo, 92 volumes. Mostly bound (23 volumes unbound) in a mixture of publisher's boards and black half morocco with a red label, a very good set.


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Octavo, 95 volumes, numerous coloured plates (many handcoloured). A very good set in mixed bindings (binder's cloth and half morocco), the signature of E. Hopkinson on the pastedown of volume one and his ownership stamp in subsequent volumes, very scarce.


Stock ID: 15213 Add to Cart
$32,500.00 AU

The birds of America.

Audubon, John James.

Double elephant Folio, four volumes, 435 coloured plates. Publisher's spectacular full green morocco, four volumes, a fine set.


Stock ID: 28479 Add to Cart
Bailey, Fred[eric]k. Manson.

Octavo, 888 pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. SUPPLEMENTS: publisher's printed boards, some slight wear. The first supplement inscribed "Miss Flora H. Campbell with the author's compliments March 15th 1886", scarce particularly with all the supplements.


Stock ID: 30071 Add to Cart
Baker, E. C. Stuart.

Octavo, eight volumes, 3768 pp. 37 (34 coloured) plates. Publisher's red cloth, a handsome clean set.


Stock ID: 5210 Add to Cart
Baker, E. C. Stuart.

Tall octavo, 342 pp. 19 colour plates by H. Gronvold, photographs. Very good copy in publisher's brown half morocco.


Stock ID: 5209 Add to Cart
Banks, Joseph.

Eleven copper engraved plates, à la poupée and finished by hand, each with the publisher's and printer's blindstamp, numbered and initialed by the printer, in window mounts with title, loosely contained in cloth-backed portfolios, in the publisher's spectacular solander box as issued.


Stock ID: 31283 Add to Cart
Banks, Joseph.

65 copper engraved plates, à la poupée and finished by hand, each with the publisher's and printer's blindstamp, numbered and initialed by the printer, in window mounts with title, loosely contained in cloth-backed portfolios, in three publisher's spectacular solander boxes as issued.


Stock ID: 31284 Add to Cart
Bannerman, David Armitage.

Octavo, eight volumes, 3564 pp. 86 (85 coloured) plates, text illustrations, folding maps. Publisher's cloth, apart from a few minor corner bumps, a fine set.


Stock ID: 5239 Add to Cart
Bannerman, David Armitage.

Octavo, eight volumes, 3564 pp. colour plates, folding maps. Publisher's cloth, apart from a few minor corner bumps and slight wear, a good set with the ownership stamp of Joseph M. Forshaw.


Stock ID: 15740 Add to Cart
Bartlett, Edward.

Quarto, 31 lithographic plates (the first six plates handcoloured) by F. W. Frohawk. [5 parts] in a single volume [all published]. Contemporary half morocco, lacks title page, with the bookplates of John E. Thayer and H. Bradley Martin, a handsome copy free of blemishes.


Stock ID: 28144 Add to Cart
Beebe, William.

Folio, four volumes, 90 coloured plates by Thorburn, Grönvold, Lodge and others, 88 photographs, map. Handsome red publisher's cloth, limited to 600 numbered copies, a fine set.


Stock ID: 27606 Add to Cart
Beebe, William.

Folio, four volumes, 90 coloured plates by Thorburn, Grönvold, Lodge and others, 88 photographs, map. Handsome red publisher's cloth, limited to 600 numbered copies, a very good set with a few light blemishes and a small worm hole to the first few leaves of volume one, the bookplate of Herbert Rivington Pyne.


Stock ID: 33245 Add to Cart
$10,000.00 AU

Galapagos: world's end.

Beebe, William.

Quarto, 443 pp. portrait plate, nine tipped-in coloured plates and 55 uncoloured plates. Publisher's presentation blue morocco, some very minor shelf wear otherwise a fine copy.


Stock ID: 30802 Add to Cart
Belcher, Charles F.

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Bennett, George.

Octavo, two volumes, 870 pp.
uncoloured frontispieces. Attractive early binder's cloth, a few spots otherwise a bright pleasant copy.


Stock ID: 5337 Add to Cart
Bennett, George.

Octavo, two volumes, 870 pp. aquatint frontispieces. Later half calf, all edges speckled, a very good copy.


Stock ID: 28130 Add to Cart
Bernacchi, Louis.

Octavo, 348 pp. text illustrations, folding panorama, three maps. Contemporary red full morocco, marbled endpapers, a fine copy.


Stock ID: 30822 Add to Cart
Bewick, Thomas.

Octavo, two volumes 746 pp. wood engravings. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, some wear, a stain in volume two but not affecting text, a very good copy.


Stock ID: 20514 Add to Cart
Bewick, Thomas.

Octavo, two volumes 746 pp.
wood engravings. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked with modern spine and two coloured labels, new endpapers, a very good clean copy.


Stock ID: 21582 Add to Cart
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