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London: Zoological Society of London, 1909-1910. Quarto, 23 chromolithographic plates, one uncoloured. Contemporary half calf, some slight wear, all edges gilt, a fine clean copy. The entire volume nineteen of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. The expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains in what was then the British... More about Zoological results of the Ruwenzori Expedition, 1905-1906
London: Francis Edwards, 1916. Quarto, ten chromolithographs (including eight of birds by Gronvold, two of insects) and 27 uncoloured plates (including four of reptiles and one of fish). Publisher's blue wrappers, uncut and partly unopened, limited to 150 numbered copies (this copy is number 112), a fine set with both... More about Reports on the collections made by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston...
London: Threshold/Harrap, 1987. Folio, oblong format, 60 colour plates. Publisher's quarter blue calf and blue cloth, blue cloth case, limited edition of 350 copies signed and numbered by the author of the text, fine copy. More about The wildfowl paintings of Henry Jones
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, (1964. facsimile). Quarto, folding maps, plates, publisher's cloth. More about Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales
Kampala: Uganda Society, 1938. Quarto, 23 coloured plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and marbled boards with title label, some wear, scarce. Tipped in a typed letter on reptiles, quoting Pitman's book, from R. L. Knight, curator of the Natural History Museum in Khartoum. Bombay born Charles Pitman (1890-1975) was a trained... More about A guide to the snakes of Uganda
London: Taylor and Francis, 1881. Large quarto, eleven handcoloured plates by Smit, one coloured map, with an EXTRA 55 handcoloured plates. Contemporary binder's cloth, some wear, spines titled 'extra illustrated copy', the bookplate of Alan Francis Brooke, a unique copy. Colonel Arthur Hay, ninth Marquess of Tweedale (1824-1878), known before... More about The ornithological works of Arthur, ninth Marquis of Tweedale, reprinted from the originals by...
Kassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer, 1878-1883. Folio, 33 chromolithographic (finished by hand) plates and accompanying text leaves. Publisher's green blindstamped and gilt cloth, expertly rebacked, the standard issue, some foxing but not affecting images; additional typescript index in French plus typescript interleaved French text. Anton Reichenow (1847-1941) was the most... More about Vogelbilder aus fernen zonen. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien
Kassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer, 1878-1883. Folio, 33 chromolithographic (finished by hand) plates and accompanying text leaves. Publisher's green blindstamped and gilt cloth, a superb copy, very scarce in this condition. A FINE LARGE PAPER COPY. This copy appears to be a large paper variant, with a different publisher's cloth... More about Vogelbilder aus fernen zonen. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien
London: E. W. Janson, 1839-1843. Quarto, text double column, 60 lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco and boards, retaining original publisher's printed title wrapper, a fine copy. More about Ichthyology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James...
London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, all contained in a quarter calf box with marbled boards. The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the first fascicle... More about Icones piscium, or plates of rare fish
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927-1976. Small quarto, 125 colour plates by Gronvold. Publisher's red cloth (volume five in dustwrapper), a fine set. Volume five Conclusion and survey of every species was produced much later (1976) by Lord Medway and David R. Wells. More about The birds of the Malay Peninsula: a general account of the birds inhabiting the region from the...
London: Academic Press, 1981. Large folio, 24 colour plates by Celia E. Rosser. Publisher's half morocco, limited to 730 numbered copies, a fine copy. Celia Rosser is recognised as one of the great modern botanical artists. She has won many awards including the Jill Smythies Award for botanical illustration from... More about The banksias, volume one
![A monograph of the genus Casuarius ... [drop title]. Walter Rothschild, W. P. Pycraft](/pictures/thumb/40664.jpg?v=1566455420)
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1900. Quarto, 18 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans, four uncoloured photographic plates, two handcoloured maps. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, top edge coloured, publisher's blue wrappers retained, a fine copy. Extracted from the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 15... More about A monograph of the genus Casuarius ... [drop title
![The genus Dendrolagus [Tree kangaroos]. Rothschild, Guy Dollman, Walter](/pictures/thumb/7867.jpg?v=1556863230)
London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 21, 1935. Quarto, 16 chromolithographic plates by Frohawk, seven photographs. Quarter red morocco and papered boards, fine copy. The only monograph on all species of Tree kangaroos and the last colour plate mammal monograph ever published. Walter Rothschild maintained a keen... More about The genus Dendrolagus [Tree kangaroos
London: Trubner and Co, 1876-1876. Quarto, 104 handcoloured lithographs and chromolithographs by Keulemans and others. Publisher's green cloth, some occasional spots mainly to the endpapers and early leaves, the bookplate of H. Bradley Martin, a very good set. George Dawson Rowley (1822-1878) was an English amateur ornithologist, a friend of... More about Ornithological miscellany
London: Trubner and Co, 1876-1876. Quarto, three volumes, 104 handcoloured lithographs and chromolithographs by Keulemans and others. Contemporary green binder's cloth (a near match to the publisher's binding) with burgundy label, a few minor flecks and marks; the contents clean, a very good set. George Dawson Rowley (1822-1878) was an... More about Ornithological miscellany
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1898. Octavo, 18 chromolithographic plates by Keulemans. 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 20 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in... More about Catalogue of the Psittaci, or parrots in the collection of the British Museum
London: Chapman & Hall, 1897. Large quarto, photographs, three chromolithographs including one of Gouldian Finch by Keulemans. Publisher's handsome illustrated green cloth with contemporary spine and corners in heavily gilt-tooled calf to match, all edges gilt (the standard publisher's issue is top edge gilt only), a superb copy and very... More about The naturalist in Australia
London: R. H. Porter, 1894-1900. Quarto, 100 handcoloured lithographs by J. Smit. Publisher's gilt brown cloth, top edges gilt, some very light damp affected damage to outer corners cloth, otherwise an excellent set, with the contents in fine crisp condition. Inscribed in the first volume "C.H. Angas with best wishes... More about The book of antelopes
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1887-1888]. Quarto, 21 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Publisher's green panelled cloth, all edges uncut, a fine crisp copy, rare in this condition. The first, and superior, issue of the only monograph on the order Charadriiformes. Both first and second issue have the same date and... More about The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes and...
London: R. H. Porter, (1903. first edition). Octavo, 20 coloured (including 19 handcoloured) plates by Gronvold, Green and Goodchild. Contemporary half red morocco, top edge gilt, wrappers retained, owner's signature and price paid on front endpaper, a very good copy. A handsome publication and one of the last colour plate... More about Parrakeets: a handbook to the imported species
London: John Van Voorst, (1863. second edition). Octavo, frontispiece and 86 handcoloured steel engraved plates. Handsome contemporary full gilt morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, two nineteenth century ownership inscriptions (one dated 1863), an occasional spot, otherwise a fine crisp copy. The expanded reissue of Sowerby's classic work on British... More about British Wild Flowers ... described, with an introduction and key to the natural order by C....
![The ferns of Great Britain [with] The fern allies: a supplement. John E. Sowerby, Charles Johnson](/pictures/thumb/15220.jpg?v=1550795438)
London: Henry G Bohn, 1859. Octavo, 80 handcoloured plates. Publisher's handsome blindstamped and decorated cloth, all edges gilt, a few occasional spots and signature on front endpaper, a fine copy. BM(NH) p. 1984; Plesch; p. 414; Pritzel 8793. More about The ferns of Great Britain [with] The fern allies: a supplement
London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, four volumes, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition is... More about Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to central Australia
London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, four volumes, text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map with repairs. Modern blue half calf, top edges gilt, two perforated library stamps in volume... More about Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to central Australia