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London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 colour plates. Handsome publisher's "Ibis" red cloth, a very good copy. 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 six. More
London: The Ibis, 1930. Octavo, 20 folding colour plates. Binder's green cloth with red labels, all edges coloured, a fine copy. 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
(1706-1789. second edition), Quarto, 18 engraved plates on folding stubs. Contemporary full marbled calf with red label, some light wear, library stamp on red and black title page. More
Amsterdam: Author, [1767. Quarto, one engraved plate (lacking folding plates). Contemporary polished calf, rebacked, bookplates, small library stamp on title page. More
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1878-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Handsome modern half green morocco by the Dove Bindery, a fine set. The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates are handsome and..... More
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1885-1890. Large octavo, 199 handsome lithographed plates (including 172 chromolithographs) of mammals, reptiles and fish. Later binder's blue cloth, a very good clean set. The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria is an underrated work of Australian natural history; the plates are handsome and the text scholarly..... More
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1874-1882. Large octavo, 70 chromolithographs, publisher's printed stiff card wrappers (the front cover to decade two lacking), a very good set, all in a binder's box, scarce. A complete set. More
Brisbane: Department of Agriculture, 1889. Octavo, Binder's cloth, the signature of H. M. Whittell, a small lower corner missing from title page and subsequent leaves but not affecting text, rare. The three prominent members of the Bellenden-Ker expedition were Archibald Meston, a local sugar farmer and one-time editor of the..... More
London: R H Porter, 1890. Small quarto, 45 handcoloured lithographs by J. G. Keulemans, text illustrations. Modern half brown morocco (Period Binders of Bath), top edge gilt and other edges uncut, a fine copy with text and plates crisp and clean. St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900) was an active British..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, (1853. fourth edition). Octavo, two handcoloured frontispieces, two handcoloured title pages, seven handcoloured egg plates and other plates. Quarter calf and marbled boards, contemporary inscription. More
Stuttgart: Sumptibus J. G. Cottae, 1834. Octavo, bookplates. Handsome full polished calf with inner rule, gilt spine with labels, all edges coloured, a fine set. Text in Latin. More
London: R. H. Porter, 1864-1907. Large octavo, portrait, 37 lithographed plates mostly coloured, folding coloured map. Binder's cloth retaining the two printed front wrappers in each volume, top edges gilt, others uncut, a fine copy, scarce. John Wolley (1824-1859) assembled a fine egg collection and was deeply involved, with his..... 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
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1889. Octavo, 21 handcoloured egg plates. Contemporary full blue morocco, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, a few spots otherwise a superb copy. The 1889 edition of North is the precurser to his great four volume work on Nests and Eggs. A few copies were bound for..... More
Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914. Quarto, 25 handcoloured egg plates by Neville Henry Pennington Cayley (senior). Contemporary full blue morocco, all edges gilt, with inlaid gilt and title. THE ONLY COLOUR PLATE AUSTRALIAN BOOK, PRODUCED IN AUSTRALIA, OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY There are probably only two sets of coloured A. J...... More
London: Taylor & Francis, 1889-1890. Octavo, text illustrations, library stamps (Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union), publisher's cloth. The ornithological section of an eight volume series. A revised second edition by E. C. Stuart Baker was published 1922-1935. Casey Wood p. 497. 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: British Museum (Natural History), 1876. Quarto, 70 uncoloured lithographic plates (eight folding). Binder's cloth, the text mounted on stubs and configured to align in height with the larger plates, a cancelled library stamp on the title page, otherwise a fine clean copy. BM(NH) p. 1491. More
Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1914. Quarto, 93 (34 chromolithographs) plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth, expertly rebacked with new endpapers. More
London: Benjamin and John White, 1776-1796. Quarto, Profusely illustrated with engraved vignettes, frontispieces, maps, plates, etc. many of which are folding. The natural history plates are hand-coloured. Magnificently bound by L. Staggemeier and Welcher (with their binder's ticket in volume one) in a sequentially numbered uniform full crushed red morocco..... 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
Paris: Rene Haton, 1882. Octavo, text illustrations. Contemporary quarter cald and marbled boards, some rubbing, all edges coloured. More
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
Regimonti: Apud Fratres Borntraeger, 1832. Quarto, three uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, duplicate library (Royal Society of London) stamps. More
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