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

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

London: E. W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, ten uncoloured lithograhic plates. Publisher's quarter cloth and printed stif card with title, a fine set The complete Janson printing of the Insect volume of the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror. The title page reads 'Insects by Adam White and Arthur Gardiner Butler'..... More

London: E. W. Janson, 1839-1843. Quarto, text double column, 60 lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco and boards, retaining original publisher's printed title wrapper, a fine copy. More

London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Quarto, five handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's printed wrappers, a fine copy, all contained in a quarter calf box with marbled boards, very scarce. The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the..... More

London: Author, 1907. Small folio, 45 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans, Gronvold, Lodge and Frohawk. Publisher’s half calf gilt, limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy number 146) and signed by the author, a fine copy. The most famous book on extinct birds. Many of the original paintings including life sized..... More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1897. Large quarto, photographs, three chromolithographs including one of Gouldian Finch by Keulemans. Publisher's handsome illustrated green cloth and top edge gilt, a few spots otherwise a fine copy and very scarce in this condition. William Saville-Kent (1845-1908) was an English born marine biologist whose early..... More

London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1887-1888]. Quarto, 21 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Publisher's green panelled cloth, all edges uncut, a fine crisp copy, rare in this condition. The first, and superior, issue of the only monograph on the order Charadriiformes. Both first and second issue have the same date and..... More

Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann Verlag, 1927. Quarto, 175 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's cloth (two volumes of text, two volumes of plates), a very good set. Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz (1860-1938), physican and Lepidopterist, is best known for his monumental work on butterflies. A total of twenty volumes were produced but the publcation..... More

London: R. H. Porter, (1903. first edition). Octavo, 20 coloured (including 19 handcoloured) plates by Gronvold, Green and Goodchild. Publisher's red cloth, some wear and hinges split, otherwise a sound clean copy. A handsome publication and one of the last handcoloured bird books. The plates were first published in the..... More

Kensington: Bay Books, (1988. facsimile). Octavo, From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. More

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: 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