Catalogue of the bones of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum, 1862. Octavo, Publisher's brown cloth, a very good copy. More
London: British Museum, 1862. Octavo, Publisher's brown cloth, a very good copy. More
Amsterdam: C. G. Ven der Post, 1857. Octavo, four uncoloured folded lithographic plates. binder's cloth, paper title on spine, library stamps, scarce. The Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. Willem Vrolik (1801-863) was a Dutch anatomist and..... More
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, spine badly split with pieces missing, ex-library. Morses are walrus. More
London: British Museum, 1850. Octavo, text illustrations. Original plain blue wrappers, detached and split. More
London: British Museum, 1850-1852. Octavo, 37 uncoloured lithographs. Early quarter cloth with blue papered boards, titles on spine, some wear, very scarce. Part one: Cetacea. Part two: Seals. Part three: Ungulata Furcipeda. More
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, a fine crisp copy. Morses are walrus. More
Colombo: The Colombo Apothecaries' Co., (1949. second edition), Quarto, 55 plates (many coloured). Publisher's boards, slightly buckled, with ragged dustrwrapper, signature, some pages with insect damage, a sound working copy. More
Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932. Octavo, Half green morocco with label, wrappers retained, the signature of Percival Serle (Dictionary of Australian Biography). An excellent bibliography with very useful biographical notes of important authors. More
Vaals: Asher, 1970. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
Madras: Diocesan Press, 1927. Octavo, 32 uncoloured plates. Publisher's red cloth, a very good copy. More
Dublin: Author, 1816. Octavo, nine uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary full gilt morocco and inner dentelles with silk endpapers, all edges gilt, a handsome copy. 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
London: George Kearsley, 1806. Octavo, 137 uncoloured engraved plates. Modern binder's cloth with label, some spotting and paper oxidation. Volume six, part one. More
Thomas Cotes, 1634. Quarto, woodcuts throughout. Modern polished full calf, bookplate, pages 45-48 misbound, one page restored. The first book on the entomology of the British Isles. According to Lisney (A bibliography of British Lepidoptera: 1608-1799. London,1960) this is the third variant issue of the first edition with the name..... More
London: The Ray Society, 1903. Octavo, 125 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's cloth, volume one expertly rebacked with new endpapers, a very good set. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890. Quarto, 38 unvoloured lithographs. Contemporary full polished calf, expertly respined with two coloured labels, library stamp on title page, a sound clean copy. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1828. Small quarto, seven handcoloured lithographs. Publisher's quarter cloth printed boards, a fine copy. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1934. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, colour plates. Publisher's green pebble-grained cloth lettered in silver, a contemporary ink inscription dated October 1934, a very good copy. The first true bird field guide and one of the most influential natural history books of all time. This copy is..... More
London: Scribe, 2020. Octavo, paperback, From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, here is a radical examination of the bird way of being and of recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds - how they live and how they think. 'There..... More
London: Printed by William Miller, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1811. Large folio, 61 fine handcoloured engraved plates, illustrating hundreds of specimens, and interleaved descriptive text. modern quarter calf and marbled boards, with red label; a fine tall, uncut copy with the plates clean and crisp. Perry's Conchology was the..... More
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Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1947. Octavo, softcover. Fieldiana: Zoology, volume 32, number four. More
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, tipped in photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's half blue morocco, a fine copy. More
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Small quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912. Octavo, eight colour plates, photographs. Inscription, publisher's boards. Peeps at Nature. More