Buckland's curiosities of natural history: a selection.
London: The Batchworth Press, 1948. Octavo, line drawings, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
London: The Batchworth Press, 1948. Octavo, line drawings, bookplate, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Greensborough: Author, 1974. Octavo, fine copy in publisher's cloth, tipped in a reprint of Wood Jones' obituary. More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Large octavo, colour illustrations, dustwrapper. From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-coloured plates and over 300 text..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed and cared for... More
London: George Kearsley, 1809. Octavo, Publisher's boards, uncut, paper spine label, a fine copy. Without the engraved plates. Shaw delivered twelve lectures to the Royal Society and this is how the book is arranged. Various Australian animals are discussed including Echidna, Platypus (Lecture three, pp. 75-81); Kangaroo, Greater Glider, Pygmy..... More
London: Oxford University Press, (1931. first edition). Quarto, coloured frontispiece. Binder's cloth with original label, tipped in an inscription from the author plus brochure. More