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
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Specimen anatomica zoologicum de Phocis, speciatim de Phoca vitulina ...
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
Hand-list of seals, morses, sea-lions, and sea-bears in the British Museum.
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, spine badly split with pieces missing, ex-library. Morses are walrus. More
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Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, part two [only]: Seals.
London: British Museum, 1850. Octavo, text illustrations. Original plain blue wrappers, detached and split. More
Catalogue of the specimens of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum.
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
Hand-list of seals, morses, sea-lions, and sea-bears in the British Museum.
London: British Museum, 1874. Octavo, 30 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's brown cloth, a fine crisp copy. Morses are walrus. More
The butterfly fauna of Ceylon.
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
Bibliography of Australian entomology 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors.
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
Systema Antiliatorum.
Vaals: Asher, 1970. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
The identification of Indian butterflies.
Madras: Diocesan Press, 1927. Octavo, 32 uncoloured plates. Publisher's red cloth, a very good copy. More
The elements of conchology; or natural history of shells according to the Linnean system, with obserbvations on modern arrangements.
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
Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature [the insect plate volume only].
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
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General zoology or systematic natural history [Insecta].
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
Insectorum sive minimorum Animalium Theatrum. Olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum.
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
A monograph of the British Coccidae.
London: The Ray Society, 1903. Octavo, 125 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's cloth, volume one expertly rebacked with new endpapers, a very good set. More
The tertiary insects of North America.
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
Remarks on the Linnaen orders of insects, forming a short and familiar introduction to the study of entomology.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1828. Small quarto, seven handcoloured lithographs. Publisher's quarter cloth printed boards, a fine copy. More
A field guide to the birds: giving field marks of all species found in eastern North America.
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
The bird way: a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent and think.
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
Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries.
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
Gift Voucher from Andrew Isles Natural History Bookshop.
. Octavo, Gift vouchers are available for any amount. Please advise if you would like to purchase a voucher for a different value to those listed. THERE IS NO POSTAGE CHARGE FOR GIFT VOUCHERS After you place your order we will issue a gift voucher with a unique number, allowing..... More
Catalogue of type specimens of mammals in Chicago Natural History Museum.
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1947. Octavo, softcover. Fieldiana: Zoology, volume 32, number four. More
Charles Darwin 1809-1882: a centennial commemorative.
Wellington: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Small folio, tipped in photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's half blue morocco, a fine copy. More
Encyclopedia of South American aquatic insects: plecoptera.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Small quarto, text illustrations, laminated boards. More
British butterflies.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912. Octavo, eight colour plates, photographs. Inscription, publisher's boards. Peeps at Nature. More