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London: Zoological Society of London, 1895. Quarto, 62 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, new endpapers, some plates spotted otherwise a very good copy. The papers are: 1. Stebbing, Thomas R. R. On the Genus Urothoe and a new Genus Urothoides. pp. 1-30 plates..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1885. Quarto, 97 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Restored green half morocco, marbled endpapers, a very good copy. The papers are: 1. Flower, William Henry. On the external characters of two species of British Dolphins (Delphinus delphis, Linn., and Delphinus tursio, Fabr.)..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1890. Quarto, 65 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Contemporary green half morocco, marbled endpapers, a few spots. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON In 1826 the Zoological society of London was formed with the specific intention of establishing a menagerie, museum..... More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1872. Quarto, 47 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Contemporary green half morroco, new endapers, a very good copy. With papers by Boulenger on fish and a handsomely illustrated paper on the mammals of the Philippines by John Whitehead. More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1872. Quarto, 73 handcoloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, some double page. Contemporary green half morroco, marbled endpapers, a few spots. Volume seven of the Transactions contains papers that were assembled to form part of Owen's Extinct and wingless birds ... plus Murie's classic papaers on..... More
Winnipeg: Ducks Unlimited Canada, 1987. Large oblong folio, 44 colour plates by 30 artists, each individually signed. Publisher's full brown leather binding and Solander box. Limited to 1,250 regular copies and 50 numbered artist proofs, a fine copy Freight will be extra. More
The Hague: Sam Broun, 1660. Duodecimo, engraved title page, four wood engraved plates. Early papered boards, old library stamp on verso of title page, an excellent copy contained in a half calf and marbled boards Solander box. Baldo Angelo Abati was an Italian physician and naturalist who lived in the..... More
Paris: {'an V. de la Republique Francaise, 1797. Quarto, 266 uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half morocco and blue papered boards, all edges uncut, a fine copy. Volume eighteen. More
Leiden: Mortier en Zoon, 1824. folding chart. Modern binder's cloth, small stamp on title page. More
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller..... More
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Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1912. Quarto, eight (including five coloured) photolithographic plates. Modern binder's cloth, owner's stamp, a fine clean copy. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 44, number one. More
Maidstone: Author, 1888. Quarto, [5 parts] in a single volume [all published]. Publisher's brown cloth, 31 (9 handcoloured) plates by F. W. Frohawk. Boards slightly buckled otherwise an excellent copy free of foxing and blemishes, scarce. The only monograph on weavers and sparrows. Copies with all plates handcoloured are rare..... More
New York: New York Zoological Society, 1918-1922. Folio, 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..... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, bookplate, some fading and blemishes otherwise a very good copy. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic. "The drawings, with a...... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, eight handcoloured lithographs by George French Angas. Publisher's blindstamped purple cloth, typically faded spine, a near fine copy. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of this extraordinary animal in Gatherings is a classic. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Octavo, aquatint frontispieces. Contemporary half calf, bookplates of the original owner with his signature on both title pages, the bookplate of F. G. Coles; a very good copy. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) settled permanently in Sydney in 1836 and died in 1893. He established a successful..... More
Newcastle: R. E. Bewick, (1805. second edition). Octavo, wood engravings. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, some wear, a stain in volume two but not affecting text, a very good copy. Volume one: History and description of land birds. Volume two: History and description of water birds. Anderson and Gibson..... More
Newcastle: R. E. Bewick, (1805. second edition). Octavo, wood engravings. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked with modern spine and two coloured labels, new endpapers, a very good clean copy. Volume one: History and description of land birds. Volume two: History and description of water birds. Anderson and Gibson 81; Freeman 306;..... More
London: Ray Society, 1861-1864. Folio, 29 handcoloured lithographed plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and papered boards with title labels, corners a little bumped but a very good copy. John Blackwall (1790-1881) was a pioneering arachnologist, correspondent of Charles Darwin, and one of the first naturalists to be interested in spiders of..... More
Amsterdam: C. G. Van Der Post, 1855. Quarto, one folding plate. Publisher's printed wrappers, rare. Not in Ferguson. More
London: British Museum, 1893-1896. Octavo, 73 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, some slight wear primarily to the top of the spine of volume three which has a split along the upper edge, library accession numbers in a copperplate hand on the title pages and endpapers, a very good set, scarce. Belgium..... More
London: W. Mears, 1721. Quarto, 28 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary full calf and maroon leather label, some wear and corners bumped, all edges coloured, a sound copy. Richard Bradley was appointed to the chair of botany at Cambridge University in 1724. This work is an early attempt to describe the..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History). 1893. Large quarto, 240 uncoloured photographs. Publisher's cloth, some wear, the upper spine of volume seven repaired, the title pages with the stamp of the "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales" plus a few stamps throughout, a sound set, scarce. Volume one: the genus..... More
London: The Folio Society, (1914. facsimile). Folio, 77 fine coloured plates and text illustrations; the plate volume in quarter morocco, top edge gilt, the text in cloth, the front boards of both volumes pictorially gilt: together in folding cloth box, gilt-decorated. With, as issued, 4 duplicate plates in paper sleeve..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates. A fine set in slightly chipped dustwrappers. "The Carpologia at the time of its publication (1861-1865) was an epoch-making work and [is] one of the great mycological classics. Its primary purpose was to demonstrate the pleomorphism of the Ascomycetes which had been..... More