Collectable Natural History Books - October 2023

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The Natural History of the Tineina. Vol. I-XIII

by Stainton, H.T.

Cat No. : 56113, Published : 1855-1873, Illustrations : 104 hand-coloured plates

Hardback £1,200.00

Scarce complete set. Text English, French, German & Latin in parallel columns. The attractive plates illustrate adults, larvae and leaf mines, leaf damage, etc. This major work received contributions (more)

The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths. Vol. I-IX [with letters from Buckler and John Hellins]

by Buckler, W.; Stainton, H.T.; Porritt, G.T.

Cat No. : 55726, Published : 1886-1901, Illustrations : 164 colour plates (105 hand-col, the remainder colour printed)

Hardback £950.00

Scarce complete set. The definitive work on the larvae of British Lepidoptera. The work was published posthumously, with Vol. I-V edited by H.T. Stainton, and following his death, Vol. VI-IX by G.T. (more)

The Butterflies of Great Britain with their Transformations Delineated and Described

by Westwood, J.O.

Cat No. : 54351, Published : [c. 1870s], Illustrations : 2 plain, 19 hand-col lithographic plates, additional hand-col title-page

Hardback £165.00

Undated re-issue (first published in this form 1854). Printing and colouring in this copy is quite good. This work is an abridged version of the authors 'British Butterflies and their (more)

Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds

by Browne, Montagu

Cat No. : 55678, Published : n.d. [1884], Illustrations : 4 plates, folding plan, 58 text figs

Hardback £55.00

Second edition (first published 1884), undated reissue. Publisher's catalogue and advertisements to rear. (more)

Manual of Central American Diptera. Vol. 1-2

by Brown, B.V.; Borkent, A.; Cumming, J.M. et al

Cat No. : 56087, Published : 2009-2010, Illustrations : 1500 line drawings, 144 col photos

Paperback £180.00

Orig. hardback edition. Resource for the identification and understanding of Central American flies. Together, the two volumes treat all 106 families of flies found in the region, including biology, (more)

Die Wildbienen Baden-Württembergs. Bd I-II

by Westrich, P.

Cat No. : 53251, Published : 1990, Illustrations : 496 colour photos, 296 distribution maps

Hardback £340.00

I: Allgemeiner Teil: Lebensräume, Verhalten, Ökologie und Schutz; II: Spezieller Teil: Die Gattungen und Arten. Second revised edition. Text German. Very scarce work on the wild bees of (more)

British Waders

by Arnold, E.C.

Cat No. : 55677, Published : 1924, Illustrations : 51 col plates

Hardback £350.00

Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, with a small (54x110mm) original watercolour sketch by the author pasted in below the limitation statement. This copy No. 45. Illustrated with 51 (more)

Birds of the Atlantic Islands. Vol. 1-4

by Bannerman, D.A.; Bannerman, W.M.

Cat No. : 55567, Published : 1963-1968, Illustrations : 107 plates (34 col), 11 maps (1 folding), text figs

Hardback £240.00

Illustrated in colour by D.M. Reid-Henry, George Lodge and P.A. Clancey, text illustrations by D.M. Reid-Henry, Roland Green, Eric Gorton and C.F. Tunnicliffe. Vol. 1: A History of the Birds of the (more)

The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution and Migration. Vol. 1-2

by Baxter, E.V.; Rintoul, L.J.

Cat No. : 55248, Published : 1953, Illustrations : 2 col frontis, 24 b/w plates, col folding map

Hardback £100.00

First edition. Complete in two volumes. Colour frontispieces by G.E. Lodge. (more)

British Birds' Eggs: A Handbook of British Oölogy

by Butler, A.G.

Cat No. : 55654, Published : n.d. [1886], Illustrations : col frontis, 37 col plates

Hardback £275.00

First edition. Scarce. With fine chromolithographic plates by the author, printed by Mintern Bros.

Mullens & Swann p. 111. (more)

Woodcuts of British Birds

by Daglish, E.F.

Cat No. : 55681, Published : 1925, Illustrations : 20 plain illus

Hardback £175.00

Atttractive woodcut illustrations of 20 British birds, with descriptions by the artist. Limited edition of 500 copies. Scarce. (more)

John Gould in Australia Letters and Drawings

by Datta, A.

Cat No. : 55227, Published : 1997, Illustrations : col frontis, col + b/w drawings, sketches and other illus

Hardback £90.00

With a catalogue of manuscripts, correspondence and drawings relating to the birds and mammals of Australia held in The Natural History Museum, London. (more)

Game Birds

by Dewar, D.

Cat No. : 55693, Published : 1928, Illustrations : 19 plain plates, 4 b/w text illus

Hardback £395.00

Wood engravings by E. Fitch Daglish. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator, printed on English hand-made paper, with wood-engraved plates printed on Japanese (more)

Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands

by Dixon, C.

Cat No. : 55685, Published : 1900, Illustrations : 41 col plates

Hardback £295.00

Second edition, enlarged, improved and thoroughly revised. Attractive chromolithographic plates by Charles Whymper (numbered I-XXXIV, XXXVI-XL, IIa, XIa - Plate XXXV was not published).

Nissen IVB (more)

Natural History of British Butterflies. Vol. I-II

by Frohawk, F.W.

Cat No. : 54894, Published : [1924], Illustrations : 60 colour + 5 plain plates

Hardback £500.00

F.W. Frohawk (1861-1946) is considered by many to be the finest British butterfly illustrator of all times. Frohawk was the first person to rear every British species of lepidoptera from eggs to (more)

World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)

by Evenhuis, N.L.; Greathead, D.J.

Cat No. : 56060, Published : 1999, Illustrations : 2 plates (6 col photos)

Hardback £68.00

This catalogue assembles all the taxonomic information necessary for systematic reference on every name described in association with this large group of Diptera. (more)

Flies of the Nearctic Region Vol. V, Pt 13, No 1-6: Bombyliidae

by Hall, J.C.; Evenhuis, N.L.

Cat No. : 55998, Published : 1980-1987, Illustrations : 499 text figs

Paperback £175.00

First six (of seven) published parts. (more)

Australian Parrots

by Forshaw, J.M.; Cooper, W.T.

Cat No. : 55225, Published : 2002, Illustrations : full-page colour illustrations, col distribution maps

Hardback £75.00

Third revised edition of this classic work first published in 1969. Fine colour illustrations by Australia's top ornithological illustrator William T. Cooper. (more)

New Kreüterbuch

by Fuchs, Leonhard

Cat No. : 54180, Published : 1964, Illustrations : numerous illustrations

Hardback £100.00

Facsimile reprint of Leonhard Fuchs' 1543 herbal. Born in Wemding, Bavaria, in 1501, Fuchs was a physician and botanist, and a leading figure in the late German Renaissance. He is considered a (more)

A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second

by Halliwell, James Orchard (Ed.)

Cat No. : 42106, Published : 1841

Hardback £225.00

First edition. Includes 83 letters by, among others, Thomas Digges, Tycho Brache, John Dee, Thomas Lydyat, Charles Cavendish, John Pell. 'The contents of the present volume are so very miscellaneous, (more)

Excursions to Arran, Ailsa Craig, and the two Cumbraes, with Reference to the Natural History of these Islands

by Landsborough, D.

Cat No. : 54039, Published : 1851, Illustrations : folding map, additional engraved title, 2 engraved plates

Hardback £200.00

To which are added, directions for laying out seaweeds, and preparing them for the herbarium. This is a reissue of the author's earlier Arran a Poem ... And Excursions to Arran ... (1847), but (more)

British Birds: Their Haunts and Habits

by [Livingstone, George]

Cat No. : 50548, Published : 1868, Illustrations : title vignette

Hardback £300.00

First edition. Privately published and rare. Provides an account of British species, arranged alphabetically by common name. 'The Compiler of the following work, having devoted a considerable portion (more)

Colonsay and Oronsay in the Isles of Argyll: Their History, Flora, Fauna and Topography

by Loder, John de Vere

Cat No. : 55523, Published : 1935, Illustrations : 57 b/w plates, b/w folding view, 2 folding genealogical tables, text figs, 2 folding col maps

Hardback £250.00

First edition. Scarce. A detailed and indispensable reference work on the history, natural history, archaeology and topography of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides (Scotland), and the small tidal island (more)

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

by Lubbock, Richard

Cat No. : 53941, Published : 1845, Illustrations : folding map, 2 engraved plates

Hardback £65.00

First edition. Scarce. The natural history of Norfolk (Mammalia, Birds, River Fishes), with sections on Angling, Decoys, Falconry. The two plates illustrate decoys.

Freeman 2347. (more)

Diptera Danica: Genera and Species of Flies hitherto found in Denmark. Part I-VII

by Lundbeck, W.

Cat No. : 55946, Published : 1907-1922, Illustrations : portrait frontis, 816 line drawings

Hardback £195.00

Text English. Pt I: Stratiomyiidae, Xylophagidae, Coenomyiidae, Tabanidae, Leptididae, Acroceridae; Pt II: Asilidae, Bombyliidae, Therevidae, Scenopinidae; Pt III: Empididae; Part IV: (more)

The Birds of Staffordshire with Illustrations of Local Bird Haunts

by McAldowie, A.M.

Cat No. : 54027, Published : 1893, Illustrations : 7 b/w plates, engraved vignettes to text

Hardback £300.00

Printed for private circulation. Reprinted from the Transactions of the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. Edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, of which this is no. 45. (more)

A Classification of the Bees of Australian and South Pacific Regions

by Michener, C.D.

Cat No. : 53273, Published : 1965, Illustrations : 15 b/w plates, 789 text figs

Paperback £75.00

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. 130. Scarce. (more)

Natural History of British Moths. Vol. I-IV

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 55796, Published : 1872, Illustrations : 132 hand-coloured plates

Hardback £320.00

Complete in four volumes. An early re-issue (first published in parts 1859-1870). Publisher's catalogue dated January 1884 bound to rear of each volume. Small printed list of Natural History and (more)

The Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Ethiopian Region Vol. I. Haematopota and Hippocentrum; Vol II. Tabanus and related genera; Vol III. Chrysopanae

by Oldroyd, H.

Cat No. : 56069, Published : 1952-1957, Illustrations : b/w plates, text figs, maps

Hardback £75.00

A Biosystematic Study of the European Stratiomyidae (Diptera). Vol. 1-2

by Rozkosny, R.

Cat No. : 56062, Published : 1982-1983, Illustrations : 147 pages of line drawings, 136 maps

Hardback £375.00

Vol. 1: Introduction, Beridinae, Sarginae, Stratiomyinae; Vol. 2: Clitellariinae, Hermetiinae, Pachygasterinae, Bibliography. (more)

Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the Years 1860-61

by Seemann, Berthold

Cat No. : 47920, Published : 1862, Illustrations : 4 tinted lithographic plates, 1 folding map

Hardback £300.00

First edition. Berthold Carl Seemann (1825-1871) was a German botanist, who went to Kew in 1844 where he received training as a botanical collector. He travelled widely and collected a plants from (more)

A Tour of Sutherlandshire: with extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. Vol. I-II

by St. John, C.

Cat No. : 54149, Published : 1849, Illustrations : 10 full-page woodcut illus

Hardback £110.00

First edition. Publisher's catalogue to rear of Vol. II dated January 1849.

Freeman 3279. (more)

The Birds of Norfolk with Remarks on their Habits, Migration and Local Distribution. Vol. I-III

by Stevenson, H.; Southwell, T.

Cat No. : 53943, Published : 1866-1890, Illustrations : 1 portrait, 5 hand-col 3 tinted plates

Hardback £300.00

First edition. Complete in three volumes. Vol. III, published 18 years after Vol. II, was continued by Thomas Southwell after Henry Stevenson's death, and includes a Memoir and portrait of Stevenson. (more)

A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera. Vol. I-V

by Tutt, J.W.

Cat No. : 55800, Published : 1899-1906, Illustrations : b/w + col plates, text figs

Hardback £165.00

All published volumes on moths. Tutt's complete published set of volumes on British Lepidoptera comprises 9 volumes (1-5 on moths + 8-11 on butterflies); volumes 6+7 were not published. (more)

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