The Naturalist's Library. Entomology, volume two: beetles.
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1835. Duodecimo, coloured half-title, 30 handcoloured plates. contemporary half morooco and marbled boards, slight wear. More
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Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1835. Duodecimo, coloured half-title, 30 handcoloured plates. contemporary half morooco and marbled boards, slight wear. More
Melbourne: Victorian Department of Agriculture, 1893. Octavo, chromolithographs by G. C.Brittlebank, publisher's cloth. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, hinges slightly cracked, otherwsie a near fine copy (NOT AS PICTURED). Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1883. Octavo, colour plates. Publisher's gilt decorated cloth, all edges coloured, an excellent crisp copy. More
New York: Orange Judd Company, (1890. new edition). Octavo, colour plates, ex-library, publisher's cloth. More
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1837. Duodecimo, 30 handcoloured plates, bookplate. Contemporary blindstamped full morocco, gilt titled spine, all edges gilt. The naturalist's library. Mammalia, volume six: whales. More
Sydney: Department of Mines and Agriculture, 1895-1898. Quarto, 28 chromolithographs. Early binder's quarter velum and pebbled cloth, gilt title, a few spots, publisher's coloured wrappers not retained, a pleasant copy. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, eight chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened, a near fine copy. Volume 22 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's brown cloth, partly unopened, apart from a library pocket and a small paper library stamp on the bottom of the spine, a near fine copy. Volume 21 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1893. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's brown cloth, bookplate, a near fine copy. Volume 21 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. Wood p. 548; Zimmer p. 540. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1892. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, two small library stamps of the Royal Society of Victoria, the ownership signature of J. A. Kershaw (ornithologist of the Horn Expedition), a fine copy. Volume 16 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1896. Octavo, publisher's cloth, 8 chromolithograph plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear and blemishes, hinges cracked. Volume 25 of the Catalogue of birds in the British Museum edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1891. Octavo, 13 chromolithographic plates by Smit and Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened . Volume 19 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1891. Octavo, 13 chromolithographic plates by Smit and Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, a fine copy. Volume 19 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1886. Octavo, 18 handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eleven from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1888. Octavo, 26 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 14 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 20 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: The Ibis, 1917. Octavo, eleven plates. Binder's cloth, a very good copy. This volume has papers of Australian interest including The birds of Dirk Hartog Island by Thomas Carter with two handsome chromolithographic plates of wrens. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1894. Octavo, 9 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, fine copy. Volume 18 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1894. Octavo, 9 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps except for RAOU in red pencil on front endpaper, partly unopened, a very good copy. Volume 18 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1896. Octavo, 7 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 24 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1879. Octavo, 14 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume four from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, 15 handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume seven from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1885. Octavo, twelve handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume ten from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More