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: 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

London: Trubner and Co, 1876-1876. Quarto, 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 English amateur..... 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

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