Les insectes, leurs metamorphoses, leur structure et leurs moeurs.
Paris: Rene Haton, 1882. Octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary quarter cald and marbled boards, some rubbing, all edges coloured. More
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A theatre of politicall flying-insects.
London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1657. Octavo, contemporary full calf, some damage, sympathetically rebacked. The full title reads: A theatre of politicall flying-insects.Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described. Together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning..... More
Miscellanea anatomico-physiologica de libellarum partibus genitalibus.
Regimonti: Apud Fratres Borntraeger, 1832. Quarto, three uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, duplicate library (Royal Society of London) stamps. More
Memoires pour servir L'Histoire des insects.
Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1734- 1742. Quarto, 247 uncoloured engraved plates (some folding). Contemporary full patterned calf, gilt spine with raised bands and red title label, all edges marbled, a fine set. More
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
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross: Insects.
London: E. W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, ten uncoloured lithograhic plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed stif card with title, a fine set The complete Janson printing of the Insect volume of the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror. The title page reads 'Insects by Adam White and Arthur Gardiner Butler'..... More
Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Ross.
London: E. W. Janson, 1844-1847. Quarto, 60 uncoloured lithographed plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, wrappers retained, uncut, a fine copy, scarce. The complete fishes section from The Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror edited by John Richardson and John Edward Gray. British Museum..... More
Ichthyology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.
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
Icones piscium, or plates of rare fish.
London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary binder's cloth, one leaf with circular tear into the bottom line of text, one plate with small circular tear to corner but not affecting image, otherwise a clean copy, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish..... More
Icones piscium, or plates of rare fish.
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, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the..... More
Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata.
Vitoduri Helvetorum, H. Steiner et Socios, 1789. Quarto, one handcoloured engraved title-vignette, 36 hand-coloured and one engraved plate uncoloured as issued. Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked with label, a very good copy. Plate four is defective with a single image cut out, but another plate four, smaller in size, is..... More
Extinct birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times- that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist.
London: Author, 1907. Small folio, 45 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans, Gronvold, Lodge and Frohawk. Publisher’s half calf gilt, limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy number 146) and signed by the author, a fine copy. The most famous book on extinct birds. Many of the original paintings including life sized..... More
Catalogue of the Psittaci, or parrots in the collection of the British Museum.
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
The naturalist in Australia.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1897. Large quarto, photographs, three chromolithographs including one of Gouldian Finch by Keulemans. Publisher's handsome illustrated green cloth and top edge gilt, a few spots otherwise a fine copy and very scarce in this condition. William Saville-Kent (1845-1908) was an English born marine biologist whose early..... More
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Essai sur la physionomie des serpens [atlas volume only].
La Haye: J. Kips, J. Hz. et W. P. Stockum, 1837. Folio, 21 uncoloured plates, three double page maps, one double page table, one large folding table. Binder's cloth, a few spots throughout, very scarce. Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) was a prominent German ornithologist and herpetologist who started his working life..... More
The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes and their allies.
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
The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes and their allies.
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1887-1888]. Quarto, 21 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Later half green morocco, all edges uncut and partly unopened, the signature of Lord Lilford, a few spots otherwise a very good copy. The first, and superior, issue of the only monograph on the order Charadriiformes. Both first..... More
The Macrolepidoptera of the world, a systematic description of the known Macrolepidoptera: the Indo-australian Rhopalocera [volume nine]
Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann Verlag, 1927. Quarto, 175 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's cloth (two volumes of text, two volumes of plates), a very good set. Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz (1860-1938), physican and Lepidopterist, is best known for his monumental work on butterflies. A total of twenty volumes were produced but the publcation..... More
Parrakeets: a handbook to the imported species.
London: R. H. Porter, (1903. first edition). Octavo, 20 coloured (including 19 handcoloured) plates by Gronvold, Green and Goodchild. Binder's red cloth, wrappers retained, bookplate, a fine crisp copy. A handsome publication and one of the last handcoloured bird books. The plates were first published in the Aviculture magazine. Wood..... More
Parrakeets: a handbook to the imported species.
London: R. H. Porter, (1903. first edition). Octavo, 20 coloured (including 19 handcoloured) plates by Gronvold, Green and Goodchild. Publisher's red cloth, some wear and hinges split, otherwise a sound clean copy. A handsome publication and one of the last handcoloured bird books. The plates were first published in the..... More
Parrakeets: a handbook to the imported species.
London: R. H. Porter, (1902-1903. first edition). Octavo, 20 coloured (including 19 handcoloured) plates by Gronvold, Green and Goodchild. Modern half red morocco with two spine labels, publisher's wrappers retained, a very good copy. A handsome publication, originally published in six wrappered parts, one of the last colour plate bird..... More
Aurora Australis.
Kensington: Bay Books, (1988. facsimile). Octavo, From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. More
Manual of entomology.
London: Edward Churton, 1836. Quarto, 31 uncoloured (some plates partially coloured) lithographs, a few spots, text illustrations. Contemporary quarter morocco, bookplate. More
Some account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates.
London: Nichols, 1781. Quarto, four folding handcoloured engraved plates, modestly inscribed by the author in red ink "The gift of the ingenious author to Granville Sharp". Contemporary full polished calf, expertly rebacked, rare. More
The age of the earth and other geological studies.
London: T Fisher Unwin, 1905. Small quarto, photographs. Publisher's dark blue cloth, top edge gilt, inscribed by the author, a very good copy. More