British butterflies.
1859. Small quarto, 32 chromolithographs. Publisher's decorated cloth, grubby, contents crisp and sound. More
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1859. Small quarto, 32 chromolithographs. Publisher's decorated cloth, grubby, contents crisp and sound. More
London: William Smith, 1845. Quarto, TEXT ONLY, LACKS PLATES. Handsome later half blue calf. More
London: 1787. Quarto, eight folding uncoloured engraved plates. Early half calf and marbled boards. The entire volume 77 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. More
Sydney: Author, 1907. Quarto, photographs. Modern full polished calf, spine with raised bands and two coloured labels, title page grubby. S. W. Jackson (1873-1946) is best known for Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. This is a handsome production liberally illustrated with his pioneering photographs and has always been..... More
Paris: Author, 1849. Duodecimo, contemporary half morocco and marbled boards. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1850. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate, a fine copy in publisher's blue cloth. More
London: Williams and Norgate, 1862. Small octavo, illustrations. Annotations throughout, signature, very good copy in publisher's blindstamped cloth. More
Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1871. Folio, 16 uncoloured lithographs. Publisher's quarter cloth and stiff card wrappers, some typical rubbing, chipping and wear to upper wrapper, the plates sound, the bookplate of Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925, the first Government botanist of New South Wales and director of the Sydney Botanic..... More
Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1869. Quarto, twelve handcoloured lithographs. Modern half red morocco, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, publisher's stiff card wrappers retained, the title wrapper with a contemporary inscription dated 1889, small owner's stamp "R. Rendle" on title page, an excellent copy. Gerard Krefft (1830-1881) is rightly considered..... More
Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, Printers, 1865. Octavo, Modern binder's cloth with gilt title, very scarce. The author's reprint with a separately published title page. Originally published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. Both Krefft papers are of great interest, the first paper particularly so as..... More
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1867. Large octavo, 36 handcoloured engraved plates. Early brown calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few inoffensive spots, otherwise a handsome copy. This edition of Histoire naturelle de Lacepede was first published in 1856 and "the many subsequent volumes and editions [of treatises..... More
Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 1842. Octavo, publisher's plain papered boards with partial handwritten spine label. More
Paris: M Veuve Agasse, 1821. Quarto, 84 uncoloured engraved plates. Later half calf, some foxing throughout but a sound copy. Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux (1779-1825) was a French biologist and naturalist, best known for making the important distinctions between green, brown and red algae. He also wrote extensively on hydrozoa..... More
Kingston upon Hull: The Allen Publishing Co, 1988. Large folio, colour plates tipped in, monochrome plates. Publisher's quarter red calf, red cloth, raised bands, marbled endpapers, slipcase, wooden box, limited edition of 275 copies numbered and signed by editor, fine copy. Reproductions of the original sketches and the coloured plates..... More
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1902. Octavo, 33 lithographed plates, including nine coloured by H. Gronvold. Publisher's cloth, bookplate, signature on front endpaper, a bright crisp copy. More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three plates, including one chromolithograph of the Okapi. Binder's cloth, two small library stamps including one on the title page, corners of pages creased and crushed. The full volume of Transaction of the Zoological Society of London, volume 16, with the following papers..... More
Octavo, single sheet 22.5cm by 18cm, holograph letter in ink in the entire hand of John Latham. Original folds, some slight loss and tear. An excellent holograph letter in which Latham discusses the "publication of my long intended new work on birds" [A General History of Birds, 1821-1828]. Medical practitioner..... More
Sydney: Imprime, 1989. Elephant folio, 144 loose plates. Publisher's handsome green cloth Solander boxes with coloured label, limited to 200 numbered copies, a fine set. A magnificent modern reproduction of Le Vaillant's great work on parrots. The published price was $20,000. Freight is extra. More
London: Author, [1878]-1880- [1881]. Quarto, one coloured map, one coloured egg plate, 33 handcoloured plates by Keulemans of the Ceylonese endemics. Contemporary red calf and blue boards with gilt lettering "Royal Australasian Ornithologist Union/ presented to the R.A.O.U. by its first president/ the author". All edges speckled, the R.A.O.U. library..... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1839. Octavo, six uncoloured plates. Contemporary full marbled calf, some wear and hinges cracked, a few spots. More
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1832-1835]. Octavo, 60 handcoloured engraved plates with accompanying text leaves. Contemporary brown tree calf, raised bands and coloured labels, all edges coloured, a superb copy. The plates are very handsome and include fine images of Birds of Paradise and parrots, with male and female Cockatiel figured in..... More
[c1840's]. Quarto, 42 leaves of Whatman paper, some leaves watermarked 'J Whatman 1794'. A single leaf for the title page and table of contents (the wording a direct copy of the Lewin 1822 title page), then follows 13 watercolours and 13 accompanying manuscript text leaves ( a copy of the..... More
Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1911-1912. Quarto, 22 plates of birds, reptiles and mammals. Single volume binder's cloth with three parts, marbled boards with some damage, a sound copy. More
London: Rodolphe d'Erlanger/Basilisk Press, 1983. Folio, 25 tipped-in plates by Elizabeth Butterworth. Full red silk, all contained in a handsome black Solander box, limited to 515 numbered copies and signed by author and artist on the final leaf, a magnificent association copy inscribed "Rosemary Low- best wishes to Andrew Isles..... More
London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 folding colour plates. Binder's tan leather half-morocco and cloth boards, original wrappers retained. The plates are produced in folding chart form and are highly attractive examples of measured drawings. Published as a Supplement to The Ibis, Twelfth Series, Volume 6. More