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

London: Macmillan, 1927. Octavo, photographs, fine set in dustwrappers, scarce in this condition. 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

Amsterdam: Jan Christiaan Sepp, 1788. Quarto, coloured half title, 41 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, expertly respined with red label, marbled boards, all edges coloured, a very good copy. Caspar Stoll (1725-1791) was a naturalist and entomologist, best known for the completing Pieter Cramer's De Uitlandsche Kapellen. He also..... 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: C. G. Ven der Post, 1857. Octavo, four uncoloured folded lithographic plates. binder's cloth, paper title on spine, library stamps, scarce. The Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. Willem Vrolik (1801-863) was a Dutch anatomist and..... 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

London: William Smith, 1848. Quarto, four lithographic plates (three handcoloured). Red box with label, the upper cover title completely detached, the plates loose, chipped and edge-stained. With a previous bookseller pencil note " Remainder publication text and four plates (one uncoloured) only" More

London: Editions Renard, (2002. facsimile). Folio, 65 plates in two states, coloured and uncoloured, and vignette view from the original title-page; handsome green morocco (in a trial binding, similar to that ultimately adopted but the green morocco a darker shade), gilt edges, enlarged format, with bibliographical notes by Julien Renard..... More

London: 1768. Quarto, three uncoloured engraved folding plates. Modern full brown morocoo with labels, all edges uncut, a fine clean copy. More