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London: Wheldon & Wesley, 1930-1945. Quarto, 41 coloured plates by Gronvold and 16 photogravure plates. Contemporary red half morocco, a fine set. The only true colour plate monograph of the birds of prey, limited to 412 copies. 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
San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1922. Quarto, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut and partly unopened. All housed in two matching fleece lined quarter green morocco folding Solander boxes, a superb set. Volume one: Lizards. Volume two: Snakes. "One of the best treatise on the subject extant" (Wood). Wood p.609..... More
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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
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Sarasota: Allyn Museum of Entomology, 1888. Quarto, 93 colour plates with text tissue guards. Publisher's full blue morocco and gilt spine, a fine copy. 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
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, (1855. second edition]. Duodecimo, handcoloured half title, 34 handcoloured plates. Publisher's cloth with new endpapers. The naturalist's library, volume 24. Most Australian species are covered with an accompanying handcoloured plate. More
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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
Adelaide: Reprinted from The Register, [1917]. Sextodecimo, photographs. Publisher's printed wrappers, very good copy, scarce. More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1833. Quarto, 16 engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked, a "prize" binding with a contemporary written inscription pasted in. Henry Witham (1779- 1844) was the first English person to investigate the internal structure of fossil plants by sectioning the specimens and was a founder..... More
London: Alexander MacMillan, 1874. Folio, 20 wood-cut plates. Handsome contemporary (publisher's?) full blue morocco with gilt design, all edges gilt, some minor wear, a very good copy. More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. Tall octavo, 108 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's blue blindstamped and gilt decorated cloth, some flecking otherwise a bright crisp set. More