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

Madras: Higginbotham and Co., (1893. second edition). Octavo, 20 lithographic plates, many figures handcoloured. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt cobra, title page and early leaves laid down, otherwise a very good copy. More

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

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, (1964. facsimile). Quarto, folding maps, plates, publisher's cloth. More

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

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

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

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

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

London and Melbourne: Dulau and Co./Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896. Octavo, 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 three, a...... More

Lamarsh: Iain Grahame, 1985. Small folio, twelve coloured plates. Publisher's green half morocco marbled endpapers, slipcase, the collector's edition limited to 135 numbered copies, a fine copy. A handsome facsimile of the scarcest of all Thorburn's works. More

London: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1872. Quarto, coloured map and ten handcoloured plates. Contemporary brown half morocco and marbled boards, upper corner of drop title restored without affecting text, a very good copy. Transactions of the Zoological Society, volume eight part two. More

London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, ten handcoloured engraved plates of reptiles. Modern blue half calf with the bookplates of David McPhee. John White was chief surgeon of the First Fleet. He was also an interested amateur naturalist and after arriving at Port Jackson found time to accompany Governor Phillip on..... More