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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
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
Regimonti: Apud Fratres Borntraeger, 1832. Quarto, three uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, duplicate library (Royal Society of London) stamps. More
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
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
London: Academic Press, 1981. Large folio, 24 colour plates by Celia E. Rosser. Publisher's half morocco, slightly rubbed, limited to 730 numbered copies. 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 the..... More
![Stock ID 7867 The genus Dendrolagus [Tree kangaroos]. Rothschild, Guy Dollman, Walter](/pictures/thumb/7867.jpg?v=1660709796)
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: 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
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
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 and one of the last colour plate bird books, with many Australian species..... More
Kensington: Bay Books, (1988. facsimile). Octavo, From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. More
![Stock ID 42282 General zoology or systematic natural history [Insecta]. George Shaw](/pictures/thumb/42282.jpg?v=1641516364)
London: George Kearsley, 1806. Octavo, 137 uncoloured engraved plates. Modern binder's cloth with label, some spotting and paper oxidation. Volume six, parts one and two. More
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
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
![Stock ID 15220 The ferns of Great Britain [with] The fern allies: a supplement. John E. Sowerby,...](/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
London: Macmillan, 1927. Octavo, two volumes, photographs, fine set in dustwrappers, scarce in this condition. More
London: Dulau and Co., 1896. Quarto, uncoloured plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition was the most comprehensive record of a scientific expedition undertaken in Australia in the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer was the leader of the expedition and the principal editor of the official..... 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 bird plates by Neville Cayley senior; three mammal, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's dark blue cloth (a little tired and rubbed). The Horn Expedition..... More
London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-1911. Large quarto, 318 uncoloured plates by Lillian Medland. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, a few flecks, internally some light spotting. Lilian Medland married Tom Iredale and illustrated his Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 1953 and Birds of New Guinea, 1956. More
London: James Ridgway, [1827-1838]. Octavo, 56 handcoloured engraved plates with accompanying leaves and interleaving. Modern half morocco with gilt spine and cloth covered boards, a handsome crisp copy. One of the most attractive of all Australian botanical books and the first to use live specimens for illustration instead of dried..... More
Chiswick: C. and C. Whittingham, 1825. Sextodecimo, text illustrations. Full publisher's blindstamped morocco with label and all edges marbled, a fine set. More
Amsterdam: Erven Houtuin, 1781. Quarto, uncoloured engraved half title, three handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary (publisher's?) boards and red calf spine with all edges uncut and coloured, a superb copy contained in a modern Solander box. Dutch and French text in parallel column. Johannes van Lier (1726-1799) was a wealthy Dutch..... More
Colombo: H. R Cottle, 1921. Octavo, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, folding map. Publisher's dark cloth, slight wear to spine, two bookplates, a very good copy. More