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Recent Acquisitions - Antiquarian and Second-Hand Books
A lovely copy of Martin Lister’s Latin edition of Johannes Goedart's pioneering work on insect metamorphosis
A rare late 18th century work on beefly (Bombyliidae) species from Bohemia published in Prague
A rare first edition of The Minerals of Southern Africa (1893), one of the earliest works printed/published in Johannesburg
Scarce illustrated first edition of P.H. Gosse’s Tenby, A Sea-Side Holiday
A scarce first edition of G. Seton’s classic work on the island of St. Kilda
A copy of the 1753 act of Parliament establishing the British Museum as a corporation governed by a board of trustees
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by Adams, George [Jr]
Cat No. : 45318, Published : 1787, Illustrations : allegorical frontis, 32 engraved plates, text figs
Hardback £1,250.00
An account of the various species, and singular properties, of the Hydrae and Vorticellae: a description of three hundred and eighty-three Animalcula: With a concise catalogue of interesting objects: (more)
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by Lankester, R.
Cat No. : 45306, Published : 1919, Illustrations : col frontis, 1 b/w plate, 82 text illus
Hardback £45.00
13th edition. Sir (Edwin) Ray Lankester (1847–1929), British zoologist and Director of the natural history departments and keeper of zoology at the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington (more)
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by Goedart, Johannes; Lister, Martin
Cat No. : 45379, Published : 1685, Illustrations : 21 engraved plates (20 folding)
Hardback £850.00
Enlarged Latin edition. Martin Lister (1639-1712) first published an English edition in 1862, based on Dutch naturalist, Johannes Goedaert's treatise on insects (Metamorphosis Naturalis, 3 (more)
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by Kirby, W.F.
Cat No. : 39073, Published : 1898, Illustrations : 1 plain + 61 fine hand-col plates
Hardback £300.00
Third edition (first published 1882). (more)
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by Higgins, L.G.; Riley, N.D.; Hargreaves, B. (Illus.)
Cat No. : 45125, Published : 1970, Illustrations : 60 col plates
Hardback £50.00
First edition. (more)
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by Kudrna, O.
Cat No. : 45406, Published : 1983, Illustrations : Portrait
Paperback £25.00
J. Res. Lepid. 21/1 1982(83). (more)
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by Longfield, C.
Cat No. : 45265, Published : 1949, Illustrations : 58 plates (16 colour), text figs
Hardback £75.00
2nd (enlarged) edition. (more)
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by Locket, G.H.; Millidge, A.F.; Merrett, P.
Cat No. : 45129, Published : 1951-1974, Illustrations : col frontis, 471 text figs, 612 distribution maps
Hardback £150.00
Original edition in 3 vols. 12-page Index to Vol. III by N. Philip Ashmole (Privately published, 1979), loosely inserted. (more)
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by Arnold, G.
Cat No. : 44955, Published : 1915-1926, Illustrations : 4 plain plates, text figs
Paperback £150.00
Annals of the South African Museum. Vol. XIV: 1-766: Pt I+II (Ponerinae; Dorylinae); III-V (Myrmicinae); VI (Camponotinae) and Vol. XXIII: 191-275: Pt II (Addenda and Corrigenda, descriptions (more)
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by Mikan, J.C.
Cat No. : 44503, Published : 1796, Illustrations : 4 hand-col plates
Hardback £350.00
Rare. Descriptions of beefly (Bombyliidae) species from Bohemia. Attractive hand-coloured plates by the author. Horn-Schenkling 15112; Evenhuis (1997) Litteratura Taxonomica Dipterorum Vol. (more)
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by Walker, Francis
Cat No. : 44506, Published : 1854-1855, Illustrations : 5 plates
Hardback £90.00
With Introduction by John Edward Gray. The complete catalogue was published in 7 volumes with the intention of providing 'a complete list of the specimens of Dipterous Insects cotained in the (more)
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by Meigen, Johann Wilhelm
Cat No. : 44474, Published : 1818-1838, Illustrations : 74 plates (10 hand-col)
Hardback £1,250.00
First editons. Plates mounted allowing them to foldout. This work may be found with plates coloured or uncoloured. In this set most of the plates are uncoloured, but the 10 plates in Vol. II are (more)
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by Erwin, T.L.
Cat No. : 45281, Published : 2007-2011, Illustrations : 121 col plates
Hardback £180.00
Volume 1: Trachypachidae, Carabidae: Nebriiformes 1; Vol. 2: Carabidae - Nebriiformes 2 - Cicindelidae; Vol. 3: Carabidae - Loxomeriformes, Melaeniformes. (more)
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by Lindroth, C.H.
Cat No. : 45348, Published : 1988-1992, Illustrations : text figs, maps
Hardback £180.00
Pt. I: Specific knowledge regarding the species; Pt. II: Maps; Pt. III: General analysis with a discussion on biogeographic principles. (more)
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by Holmen, M.
Cat No. : 45292, Published : 1987, Illustrations : 1 col plate, 288 text figs
Hardback £65.00
Fauna Ent. Scand. 20. Original printing. (more)
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by Luff, M.
Cat No. : 45345, Published : 1993, Illustrations : 585 text figs
Hardback £95.00
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by Nilsson, A.N.; Holmen, M.
Cat No. : 45344, Published : 1995, Illustrations : 608 text figs
Hardback £120.00
Original printing. (more)
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by Balfour-Browne, F.
Cat No. : 45288, Published : 1940-1958, Illustrations : 5 plates, 266 text figs, 67 maps
Hardback £75.00
Complete in 3 volumes. Vol. I is the later reprint in black cloth. Vols II and III are 1st editions. (more)
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by Fowler, W.W.
Cat No. : 45293, Published : 1887-1913, Illustrations : 2 plain plates, text figs
Hardback £150.00
Small paper, unillustrated edition. With the sixth supplementary volume by Fowler & Donisthorpe, published was published in 1913. (more)
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by Baxter, W.
Cat No. : 43063, Published : 1834-1843, Illustrations : 509 hand-col plates
Hardback £890.00
First Edition. With hand-coloured engraved plates, mainly by W.A. Delamotte, C. Mathews and Isaac Russell. This work was first issued in parts from 1832, each with four plates and accompanying (more)
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by Da Silva, M.F.F.; Da Silva, B.F.
Cat No. : 45041, Published : 2010, Illustrations : col photos, line drawings
Hardback £95.00
Text Portuguese. Second revised edition. 134 genera, and 709 species. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs. (more)
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by McWilliam, Robert
Cat No. : 43770, Published : 1818, Illustrations : 3 engraved plates
Hardback £200.00
To which are annexed, suggestions on the cultivation of forest trees, and an abstract of the several forest laws, from the reign of Canute to the present time. First edition. Binder's (more)
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by Geologists' Association
Cat No. : 44964, Published : 1906-1936, Illustrations : text figs
Hardback £150.00
A fascinating collection of Notices of meetings and excursions of the Geologists' Society, London for the years 1906-1912 and 1925-1936, bound in two volumes. Detailed instructions are given for the (more)
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by Wilson-Moore, C.; Wilmer, W.H.C.
Cat No. : 44093, Published : 1893, Illustrations : text figs
Hardback £200.00
First edition. Rare. One of the earliest works printed/published in Johannesburg. 'The development of the Mineral resources of Southern Africa proceeds apace, but hitherto no attempt has been made (more)
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by Hinde, G.J.
Cat No. : 42918, Published : 1883, Illustrations : 38 lithographic plates
Hardback £165.00
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by Huxley, T.H.
Cat No. : 42175, Published : 1878, Illustrations : 5 col plates (3 double-page), 122 text figs
Hardback £75.00
Second edition, seventh thousand. (more)
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by Gosse, Philip Henry
Cat No. : 43347, Published : 1853, Illustrations : 12 col + 16 plain lithographic plates
Hardback £95.00
First edition. This is the first of Gosse's books on British natural history which is fully based on his own observations. Gosse's studies of the littoral fauna and flora are particularly important (more)
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by Gosse, Philip Henry
Cat No. : 14546, Published : 1860, Illustrations : 12 plates (11 col printed)
Hardback £150.00
1st and only edition. This study of the British sea-anemones and corals, which at the time was the first detailed investigation of the group, is one of Gosse's most important scientific works. (more)
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by Gosse, P.H.
Cat No. : 43069, Published : 1856, Illustrations : 20 col + 4 partly col lithographic plates
Hardback £175.00
Scarce illustrated first edition. 'This volume contains a detailed record of a summer holiday spent at Tenby. Nearly every day's occupation is set down, just as it occurred; tide-pool explorations, (more)
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by Gosse, Edmund
Cat No. : 40368, Published : 1896, Illustrations : portrait frontis
Hardback £150.00
A biography of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) by his son, Edmund Gosse. Portrait frontispiece of P.H. Gosse. Second issue, pulished in Heinemann's 'Great Lives and Events' series. (more)
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by Britton, J.; Brayley, E.W.
Cat No. : 39100, Published : 1832, Illustrations : 2 engraved titles, 2 engraved maps, 136 engravings (on 68 leaves)
Hardback £225.00
Illustrated in a series of Views of Cities, Towns, Public Buildings, Abbeys, Churches, Castles, Seats of the Nobility etc. First edition. (more)
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by Tugwell, George
Cat No. : 42112, Published : 1856, Illustrations : col folding frontis, 5 col + 1 plain plates
Hardback £125.00
First and only edition. Attractive chromolithographs from originals by William Broderick. Freeman 3755. (more)
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by Seton, G.
Cat No. : 40413, Published : 1878, Illustrations : 12 tinted lithographic plates, woodcut illus facing titlepage
Hardback £150.00
First edition. Scarce classic work on the island of St. Kilda. The attractive tinted lithographic plates include an illustration of the extinct Great Auk. Subjects covered in the work include: (more)
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by Johns, C.A.
Cat No. : 42039, Published : [1863], Illustrations : frontis, 4 plates, text illus
Hardback £85.00
First edition of a scarce and charming work. Engraved title is undated, Preface and original owner's inscription to endpaper dated 1863. The book comprised an account of the author's natural history (more)
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by Praeger, R.L.
Cat No. : 44685, Published : 1950, Illustrations : 3 text figs, end-paper map
Hardback £25.00
First edition. (more)
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by Kent Field Club
Cat No. : 45060, Published : 2014, Illustrations : col illus
Paperback £25.00
Transactions of the Kent Field Club 18. (more)
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by Smiles, Samuel
Cat No. : 42177, Published : 1897, Illustrations : portrait frontis, b/w plates, text illus, maps
Hardback £50.00
Popular edition. 'After a life of hard work, Thomas Edward [1814-1886] remained comparatively unknown, except to the natives of Banff. […] He had discovered, by much labour and perseverance, many (more)
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by Cramp, S.; Simmons, K.; Perrins, C.M. (Eds)
Cat No. : 45043, Published : 1977-1994, Illustrations : col plates, maps, text figs
Hardback £250.00
RSPB edition. (more)
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by Brown, L.H.; Urban, E.K.; Newman, K.; Fry, C.H.; Keith, S.; Safford, R.; Hawkins, F.
Cat No. : 44854, Published : 1982-2004, Illustrations : col + b/w plates, text figs
Hardback £450.00
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by Latham, John
Cat No. : 44103, Published : 1821-1828, Illustrations : 193 hand-coloured engraved plates
Hardback £4,750.00
This work considerably expanded Latham's earlier General Synopsis of Birds (1781-1785), and included information from the two supplements (1787-1801), and information discovered since the (more)
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Cat No. : 43475, Published : 1753
£150.00
This 1753 act of Parliament was the inception of the British Museum. Later in 1881 the natural history collections were transferred to the British Museum (Natural History), in South Kensington. (more)
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by Fortey, R.
Cat No. : 45217, Published : 2008, Illustrations : col + b/w photos
Hardback £30.00
2nd impression. (more)
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