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British Butterflies and their Transformations [with] British Moths and their Transformations. Vol. I-II

by Humphreys, H.N.; Westwood, J.O.

Cat No. : 43722, Published : 1841-1845, Illustrations : additional hand-col title, 42 + 124 fine hand-col plates

Hardback £2,500.00

All first editions, with superior colouring.

Nissen ZBI, 2049, 2050. (more)

British and European Butterflies and Moths (Macrolepidoptera)

by Kappel, A.W.; Kirby, W.E.

Cat No. : 48897, Published : [1895], Illustrations : 30 col plates, text figs

Hardback £175.00

Fine chromolithographic plates by H. Deuchert & S. Slocombe. (more)

Natural History of British Moths. Vol. I-IV

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 48881, Published : 1872, Illustrations : 132 hand-coloured plates

Hardback £300.00

Complete in four volumes. First published in parts 1859-1870. This copy is an early re-issue.

Freeman 2676. (more)

Flora of Cambridgeshire: or, a Catalogue of the Plants Found in the County of Cambridge, with References to Former Catalogues, and the Localities of the Rarer Species

by Babington, C.C.

Cat No. : 47755, Published : 1860, Illustrations : 1 folding map

Hardback £75.00

First edition. Charles Cardale Babington (1808 –1895) was a botanist and archaeologist. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, and while there met Charles Darwin. In 1829 they argued over (more)

The Game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon [Partridges]

by Baker, E.C.S.

Cat No. : 47281, Published : 1919-1925, Illustrations : 14 col plates

Hardback £70.00

17 offprints comprising a series of papers on Partidges of India, Burma and Ceylon, published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Pts XXVII-XXXIX. Illustrations by Henrik (more)

A History of the British Sessile-Eyed Crustacea

by Bate, C.S.; Westwood, J.O.

Cat No. : 48995, Published : 1863-1868, Illustrations : text wood engravings and vignettes

Hardback £80.00

The work includes many charming of vignettes mostly of coastal scenes, based on contributions by a number of artists and crustacea collectors. (more)

New Naturalist 70-83: 'The Golden 14': The Natural History of Orkney; British Warblers; Heathland; The New Forest; Ferns; Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles; The Hebrides; The Soil; British Larks, Pipits & Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; Wild and Garde

by Berry, R.J.; Simms, E.; Webb, N.; Tubbs, C.R.; Page, C.N.; Maitland, P.S.; Campbell, R.N.; Boyd, J.M.; Boyd, I.L.; Davis, B.; Walker, N.; Ball, D.; Chapman, P.; Walters, M.; Majerus, M.E.N.; Marren, P

Cat No. : 46353, Published : 1985-1996, Illustrations : col+b/w illus

Hardback £3,600.00

A set of the New Naturalist 'Golden 14' - All first editions, published in short print runs - the rarest titles in the series.

70: The Natural History of Orkney (1985) by R.J. Berry, and (more)

The Yellow Wagtail (New Naturalist Monograph 4)

by Smith, S.

Cat No. : 48335, Published : 1950, Illustrations : 8 col + 4 b/w plates

Hardback £45.00

First edition, first state. Wrapper design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

Bernhard & Loe, M4A. (more)

Naturalists' Handbooks 1-28

by

Cat No. : 49487, Published : 1984-2003, Illustrations : col + b/w plates, text figs

Paperback £225.00

28-volume set: 1: Insects on Nettles; 2: Grasshoppers; 3: Solitary Wasps; 4: Insects on Thistles; 5: Hoverflies; 6: Bumblebees; 7: Dragonflies; 8: Common Ground Beetles; 9: Animals on Seaweed; 10: (more)

A General History of Quadrupeds

by Bewick, Thomas

Cat No. : 48567, Published : 1791, Illustrations : wood engravings to text

Hardback £300.00

Second edition (considered the best), published only fourteen and a half months after the first (in May 1790). Roscoe describes the second edition as '... No mere reprint ... A largely revised, (more)

A Handbook of Narcissus

by Bowles, E.A.

Cat No. : 49419, Published : 1934, Illustrations : 24 b/w plates, text fig

Hardback £75.00

First edition. Scarce.

A standard work on Narcissus by renowned gardener, Edward Augustus Bowles (1865-1954) of Myddelton House, Bull's Cross. He wrote many books on gardening, and garden (more)

My Garden in Spring [... Summer] [Autumn and Winter]

by Bowles, E.A.

Cat No. : 49418, Published : 1997-1998, Illustrations : b/w illus

Hardback £60.00

Facsimile reprints of the author's trilogy of gardening classics (first published by T.C. & E.C. Jack in 1914), with the addition of a new Foreword by Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, new Prefaces by (more)

E.A. Bowles & his Garden at Myddelton House 1865-1954

by Allan, M.

Cat No. : 49284, Published : 1973, Illustrations : 8 col + 46 b/w plates

Hardback £35.00

First edition. (more)

The Crocus King: E.A. Bowles of Myddleton House / The Crocus King: E.A. Bowles of Myddleton House - the Gardens Restored

by Hewitt, B.

Cat No. : 49275, Published : 1997-2018, Illustrations : col + b/w illus

Hardback £30.00

Biography of Edward Augustus Bowles (1865-1954), a distinguished horticulturist. The original first edition together with the revised 2nd edition, the latter includes three additional chapters on the (more)

European Ferns

by Britten, J.

Cat No. : 47648, Published : [1881], Illustrations : 30 col plates, text illus

Hardback £250.00

Originally issued in parts 1879-1881. With attractive chromolithographic plates drawn from nature by D. Blair and woodcuts to text.

Stafleu & Cowan, 771. (more)

Butterflies of the Holarctic Region: Vol. 1-3

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 49501, Published : 1990-1993, Illustrations : colour plates

Hardback £360.00

Complete set on Holarctic Butterflies from the Butterflies of the World series. (Published price £495)

(more)

Butterflies of the Oriental Region. Parts 1-3

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 49500, Published : 1982-86, Illustrations : col photos throughout

Hardback £455.00

Complete set on the butterflies of the Oriental Region (including the very rare part 1) from the Butterflies of the World series

(more)

The Botanic Garden; A Poem, in Two Parts

by Darwin, Erasmus

Cat No. : 49206, Published : 1793-1796, Illustrations : 2 engraved plates

Hardback £180.00

Part I - Economy of Vegetation. With Additional Notes (following on from the first volume, with its own pagination pp. 1-153, includes notes on Meteors, Clouds, Comets, Steam Engine, Solar Volcanoes, (more)

The Natural History of British Insects. Vols 1-16

by Donovan, Edward

Cat No. : 49147, Published : 1792-1813, Illustrations : 576 engraved plates (569 hand coloured)

Hardback £6,000.00

An important work, with some species named and described for the first time. Donovan originally intended the work to be complete in 10 volumes, however, several years after publication of volume 10, (more)

Centipedes of the British Isles

by Eason, E.H.

Cat No. : 48765, Published : 1964, Illustrations : 1 col + 4 b/w plates, 495 line drawings

Hardback £75.00

1st edition. A classic work on British Centipedes and their relatives. Fewer copies of this book were printed than any other title in the series (Peter Marren, "The Observer's Book of 'Wayside and (more)

Flintoft's Collection of the British Ferns in the English Lake District

by Flintoft, [Joseph]

Cat No. : 46126, Published : [c. 1858]

Hardback £650.00

37 leaves of dried, mounted specimens of ferns and allied plants (clubmosses, horsetail, etc.) found in the Lake District, each with manuscript caption giving Latin name, English name and locality. (more)

The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4(1+2), 7(1+2), 9, 10

by Heath, J.; Emmet, A.M.; Langmaid, J.R.

Cat No. : 49179, Published : 1976-2002, Illustrations : numerous col plates, text figs, maps

Paperback £315.00

All published up to 2002 in this standard set on British & Irish Lepidoptera: 1: Micropterigidae - Heliozelidae; 2: Cossidae - Heliodinidae; 3: Yponomeutidae - Elachistidae; 4: Oecophoridae - (more)

Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds. Vol. I-II

by Hewitson, W.C.

Cat No. : 48293, Published : 1856, Illustrations : 149 fine hand-col plates

Hardback £500.00

Third edition, originally published in 38 parts between 1853 and 1856. Illustrated by fine hand-coloured, lithographic plates (numbered I-CXLV, XLV*, LI*, LIII*, XC*); also with additional leaves, (more)

Niger Flora; or an enumeration of the plants of western tropical Africa, collected by the late Dr. Theodore Vogel, botanist to the voyage of the expedition sent by Her Britannic Majesty to the River Niger in 1841, under the command of Capt. H.D. Trotter,

by Hooker, W.J.

Cat No. : 47194, Published : 1849, Illustrations : tinted lithographic frontis, 1 plain lithographic plate, 43 (7 double-page) folding plates, 1 map

Hardback £1,500.00

Including Spicilegia Gorgonea, by P.B. Webb Esq., and Flora Nigritiana, by Dr. J.D. Hooker, R.N., F.R.S., and George Bentham Esq., with a sketch of the life of Dr. Vogel. First edition. The German (more)

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

by Huxley, J.

Cat No. : 49073, Published : 1943

Hardback £50.00

Second impression (first published 1942). An important and influential work, in which Huxley presented his vision of a modern synthesis of evolutionary biology. (more)

Humming-Birds. Vol. I-II (Jardine's Naturalist's Library. Ornithology. Vol. I)

by Jardine, William

Cat No. : 47512, Published : 1833-1834, Illustrations : 2 engraved portrait frontis, 2 hand-coloured title vignettes, 64 hand-col plates

Hardback £400.00

Vol. I, title-page dated 1834 (first published 1833), Vol. II, first edition, 1833. Include memoirs of Linnaeus and Pennant with accompanying engraved portraits.

Anker 223. (more)

Ladies' Botany; or, A Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany

by Lindley, J.

Cat No. : 48067, Published : 1841, Illustrations : 50 hand-col text engravings

Hardback £85.00

'New edition. For the use of schools and young persons'. Cancel title-page with imprint of Henry G. Bohn mounted on stub (this abridged edition originally published by Ridgway, London, 1840 under the (more)

Ferns: British and Exotic. Vol. I-VIII

by Lowe, E.J.

Cat No. : 46014, Published : 1856-1860, Illustrations : 479 col plates, text figs

Hardback £1,200.00

First edition. Illustrated by A.F. Lydon. Coloured plates by Benjamin Fawcett, Driffield.

Nissen BBI 1243; Freeman 2326; McLean 23. (more)

Observations on the Fauna of Norfolk, and more particularly on the District of the Broads

by Lubbock, R.

Cat No. : 48996, Published : 1879, Illustrations : 1 folding map, 2 b/w plates

Hardback £55.00

New [second] edition. With additions from unpublished manuscripts of the author, and notes by Thomas Southwell; a memoir by Henry Stevenson and an appendix containing notes on hawking in Norfolk by (more)

Birds of Arabia

by Meinertzhagen, Col. R.

Cat No. : 46116, Published : 1980, Illustrations : 19 mounted col plates, 9 mounted photographic plates, 53 text figs, 35 text maps + 1 folding col map

Hardback £750.00

De Luxe Edition (first edition published in 1954 by Oliver and Boyd) limited to 295 numbered copies. Colour illustrations by George Lodge, D.M. Reid-Henry, and Miss Talbot Kelly. (more)

British Zoology. Vol. I-IV

by Pennant, Thomas

Cat No. : 49262, Published : 1776-1777, Illustrations : 3 engraved titles (1 with hand-col vignette), 280 engraved plates (2 hand-col, 3 folding), 1 folding musical composition

Hardback £800.00

Fourth edition. Vol. I (1776): Class I. Quadrupeds, Class II. Birds; Vol. II (1776): Class II. Division II. Water-Fowl. With an Appendix; Vol. III (1776): Class III. Reptiles, Class IV. Fish; Vol. IV (more)

Eggs of British Birds, with an Account of their Breeding-Habits. Limicolae

by Poynting, F.

Cat No. : 46190, Published : 1895-1896, Illustrations : 54 col plates

Hardback £550.00

First edition. Published in four parts. The completion of the work was prevented by the death of the author. The published section deals with the Limicolae (plovers and sandpipers). The work is (more)

Biology, Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. Vol. 1-2

by Raman, A.; Schaefer, C.W.; Withers, T.M. (Eds)

Cat No. : 49417, Published : 2005, Illustrations : text figs, tabs

Hardback £120.00

Biology, behavior, and evolution of the gall-inducing arthropod and of associated organisms. Biology and ecology of Acari, Hemiptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera as well several groups of minor (more)

The Geographical Distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies

by Seebohm, H.

Cat No. : 48603, Published : [1887-1888], Illustrations : 21 hand-col lithographic plates, text figs

Hardback £1,200.00

First edition, apparantly the second issue with the Chilean Dotterel as frontispiece; however, the plates appear well coloured in this copy. A classic monograph of the family Charadriidae of the (more)

Life in the Forests of the Far East; or Travels in Northern Borneo. Vol. I-II

by St. John, Spenser

Cat No. : 48993, Published : 1863, Illustrations : 4 hand-col + 12 tinted lithographic plates, 3 folding maps

Hardback £1,200.00

Second edition, revised. Published a year after the first, St. John added to this second edition an introduction, a chapter on pirates, another on animals, an index, and occasionally introduced some (more)

Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica Vol. 1-27

by Various authors

Cat No. : 48735, Published : 1973-1993, Illustrations : plates (some col), text figs, maps

£1,250.00

Includes the original editions of the first 27 volumes in the series: 1. Stratiomyioidea; 2. Sesiidae; 3. Tachydromiinae; 4. Sphecidae (2 vols); 5. Agromyzidae (2 vols); 6. Elachistidae; 7. (more)

Geological Conservation Review. Vol. 1-34

by Various authors

Cat No. : 45044, Published : 1989-2009, Illustrations : figs, maps

Hardback £900.00

The aim of the Geological Conservation Review series is to provide a public record of the features of interest and importance at localities already notified or being considered for (more)

Rules for Regulating Nomenclature with a View to Secure a Strict Application of the Law of Priority in Entomological Work

by Walsingham, Lord; Durrant, J.H.

Cat No. : 48902, Published : 1896

Hardback £35.00

Scarce. Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham (1843-1919), lived at Merton Hall, Norfolk, where he complied a vast and important collection of microlepidoptera, which was bequeathed to the British (more)

The Genus Rosa. Vol. I-II

by Willmott, Ellen

Cat No. : 48606, Published : [1910-]1914, Illustrations : 132 fine col plates, 15 uncolored plates, 68 full-page illustrations

Hardback £2,000.00

First edition, issued in parts between 1910 and 1914. With 132 fine chromolithographic plates after watercolours by Alfred Parsons, R.A. The Latin and English descriptions of the species concerned (more)

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