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Natural history: q - zGeology, Medicine, Science, Cookery, Sport and Pastimes
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First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo. Black and white maps and illustrations, light marginal browning throughout. Cloth, very good. £40
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 609, (1) pp. 172 illustrations, mostly in colour. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £75 New Naturalist series no. 100.
Eighth edition, 8vo, (iv), iv, 384, (14 Index, 2 advertisement) pp. Portrait frontispiece and 3 folding plates - one showing a stove and the other two table settings, some foxing throughout, inscription dated 1805 to front blank. Recently rebound in half calf, marbled sides, black label. £325 A very popular work, taken from the Author’s experience of service to several families, which up to 1806 had ran to 13 genuine and at least 23 pirated editions.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 299, (1) pp. Signed by the Author on the half title verso. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, slight rubbing to spine ends. £65
Fourth edition, 8vo, xiv, 349, (1) pp. Coloured geological map frontispiece plus 46 illustrations in the text, Malvern House Prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary full calf, gilt borders, gilt spine with an orange label, slightly darkened otherwise an excellent copy. £225
12mo, xxiv, 772 pp. Light foxing throughout, signature and small ink stamps to front endpapers. Original green cloth, a little marked and worn. £60 Pritzel 7414 has an 1842 edition.
First English edition, 12mo, 63, (1) pp, modern marbled wrappers, fine. £35
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 524 pp, illustrations in the text, two tone cloth, d.w. chipped and creased, price clipped from upper flap. £40
4to, 494 pp. Over 500 coloured illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £80 Collecting Redouté’s 8 renowned volumes on Lilies, originally published 1802-16.
Folio, 16 pp. 24 coloured plates. Pictorial wrappers, lower part of spine torn with loss, tissue wrapper torn and also with some tears and loss. £60
Folio, 16 pp, with 24 coloured plates, slight spotting to title and final blank but not the the plates, pictorial wrappers, browned with some tears, loss to the bottom of the spine. £60
Two volumes, 12mo, with engraved illustrations in the text, original green cloth, some light marks, gilt spines, sunned, else very good. £65 First published 1830-1 while Rennie was Professor of Natural History at King’s College London.
8vo, (ii), 32, 12 pp. 32 hand coloured double page maps plus a hand coloured folding map of Scotland and a frontispiece showing the heights of mountains and hills, plus a colour key in the text. Original cloth, recased with new endpapers, a well preserved clean copy. £250
First edition, 8vo, xii, 303, (1) pp. 19 plates plus a coloured folding map in a pocket at the end, the latter with one small tear along a fold crease, bookplate and inscriptions to front endpapers. Original brown cloth, light rubbing to spine. £80
16mo, 480 pp, frontispiece, second title and 24 coloured plates, showing 5 or 6 plants per plate, original gilt titled purple cloth, spine full, some wear to ends and to joints. £45
Two issues of this monthly publication, 4to. 4 fine coloured lithographs with tissues. Original wrappers, a little soiled, lower cover of the July issue torn with loss. £50
Second edition, small 8vo, x, 214 pp. 66 illustrations in the text, inscribed from the Author on a front blank, marbled endpaper. Contemporary calf, gilt borders, gilt spine with a green label, a couple of marks otherwise very good. £100 First published 1874. s - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, 237, (1) pp. 8 black and white photographic plates, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., a few light marks, small tear to foot of lower wrapper, very good. £65 Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme A48.
First edition, 8vo, 178, (2) pp. 8 photographic plates. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, slight chipping to top of spine otherwise a very good bright copy. £60 Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme A51a.
First edition, 8vo, 176 pp, 8 photographic plates, some light spots to preliminaries. Cloth, d.w, spine browned, a couple of marks, a very good copy. £65 Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme A.53a.
First edition, 8vo, 112, (2) pp, with a frontispiece and 62 pages of black and white illustrations at the end, cloth, d.w., with some light soiling else a very good copy. £60 Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A41a.
First edition, 8vo, 384 pp. Coloured frontispiece and 16 black and white plates. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, covered in a plastic covering which is stuck to the reverse, Library accession label to spine. £50 New Naturalist series no. 43.
First edition, 4to, 378, (4) pp. 13 coloured plates of flies and 30 maps - 17 folding, contemporary signature to paste down. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, some light wear to spine and extremities otherwise very good. £300
First edition, 8vo, xx, 400, 16 advertisement pp. 133 text figures, small label on paste down. Original cloth, slight rubbing to extremities, small mark on lower cover, very good. £100
Together 5 volumes bound in 4, large 8vo, some library stamps and signatures, original cloth, first volume marked and rubbed. £95
First edition, 8vo, (x), 598 pp, photogravure frontispiece and 19 black and white plates, a fine, unopened, copy in the original gilt decorated green buckram, t.e.g. £40 In “The American Sportsman’s Library” series.
Five volumes, large 8vo, orange cloth, a fine set. £300 A massive work of scholarship, collecting works about various societies and related subjects (palaeontology, oil exploration, voyages etc), arranged by country, and a large listing of biographical works with some potted biographies.
First edition, 8vo, (xliv), 216 pp, with a portrait and 8 engraved plates - not coloured, occasional spots, contemporary half calf, rubbed, gilt ruled spine with morocco label. £250 Saunders, a pupil of Astley Cooper, was an acknowledged authority on diseases of the ear and eye and founder of the first ophthalmological hospital in London.
SCAFE, John. King Coal’s Levee, or Geological Etiquette. With Explanatory Notes. To which is added the Council of the Metals. Alnwick: Printed by J. Graham 1819. Second edition, 8vo, (vi), 84 pp, light staining throughout to the top margin, contemporary inscription on fly leaf, recently bound in maroon half calf, marbled sides, gilt titled spine. £250 A 1,150 line poem which includes in its narrative all manner of rocks and geological terms, often giving them titles - “Sir Lawrence Limestone” or “poor Miss Gypsum” for example; and is followed by 31 pages of detailed notes explaining the language. The last section, “The Council of the Metals” is a shorter poem in the same vein. A delightful and very scarce work, dedicated to the Geological Society “to render more popular a Science of which daily experience proves the encreasing [sic] utility”. The Rev. Conybeare and William Buckland - two of the pioneers of early Geology - are thanked in the Preface for assistance with the Notes.
First English edition, 8vo, xxiv, 536, (10 Index, 4 Explanation of the Plates) pp, 3 extending plates at end all slightly foxed and damp-stained, text pages clean and crisp, lacking fly leaf, modern taped repairs to hinges, contemporary half calf, corners and edges worn, rebacked. £300 A rare copy of this classic work. Scarpa, 1747-1832, has been called “the father of Italian Ophthamology”. See Garrison & Morton 5835 for the first edition printed in Italy in 1801.
Large 8vo, (iv), 61, (2) pp. Some creasing to corners. Original wrappers, some light marks otherwise very good. £85
8vo, xii, 644 pp, 10 coloured plates (1 large and folding repaired on reverse), some browning and stains, stamp of the B.M.A. Library and the signature of a Surgeon of the 30th Regiment on endpapers, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, morocco label chipped. £40 “This book, translated into English in 1842, had an important influence on English dermatology. It contains one of the first classifications of skin diseases on an anomtomical basis.” Garrison and Morton 3990.
First edition, large 8vo, (xiv), 361, (1) pp. 12 plates. Original buckram, fine. £35
Second edition, 8vo, xviii, 258 pp, bound without half title and advertisement leaves. 17 plates on 15 leaves - 9 folding, plus 2 coloured folding maps in a pocket at the end, light foxing to endpapers, engraved King’s College Prize label to paste down. Finely bound in contemporary purple full morocco, blind stamped decoration, gilt arms to upper cover, gilt spine, a.e.g., a handsome copy. £450 First published in 1827 and instrumental in establishing the Uniformitarian doctrine as a result of its influence upon Charles Lyell. “...though two or three of his contemporaries... attained a higher eminence in the science, not one of them ever surpassed him in closeness and accuracy as an observer or in soundness of induction...” (DNB).
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 451, (1) pp, frontispiece map and 10 plates, signature on half title, original maroon cloth, extremities rubbed, small label to foot of spine. £40
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 3-49, (1) pp, inscribed on fly leaf from the Author, some spotting, contemporary paper wrappers, browned, missing parts of the spine. £75
4to, xvi, 174 pp, with 4 colour and 8 black and white plates, other illustrations in the text, original cloth, with some marks and fading. £45 16 articles, including those on fishing in America, Norway and Canada and one by Arthur Ransome.
Volumes I and II bound in one volume, 8vo, iv, 444, (8 Index), iv, 426, (6 Index) pp. Contemporary half calf, worn, marbled sides, binding cracked but with the ties holding firm. £450 A collection of learned essays, reviews and theorising on all manner of diseases and complaints, from aneurysms, corns and epilepsy to improvements in surgery, tumours and the effects of sea water by many of the leading Doctors in Europe. Scarce.
First edition, 8vo, 304 pp. 24 black and white photographic plates. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly sunned, a near fine copy. £60 New Naturalist series no. 63.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 76 pp, frontispiece and 12 woodcut illustrations, signed on the fly leaf by the Author, cloth, d.w. with some light marks else a fine copy. £45
First edition, large 8vo, (x), 604 pp. 29 coloured or partly coloured lithographic geological maps and sections of strata plus 10 chromolithographic plates showing 55 different minerals, one further black and white plate (with a small closed marginal tear) and 163 illustrations in the text, white moiré endpapers - marked, later bookplate, blank owner’s label to foot of Preface. Contemporary black morocco backed cloth, corners bumped, gilt spine, a.e.g., a very good copy. £220
First edition, large 8vo, (xii), 516 pp. 15 partly coloured lithographic sections and 6 coloured lithographic plates of minerals, plus numerous black and white engravings in the text, Library blind stamp to title and a couple of text leaves, previous owner’s hole punched name stamp to title, dedication leaf and several text leaves, but all plates sound. Contemporary red cloth, gilt spine, a.e.g., some light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £200
First edition, 16mo, xx, 202 pp. Colour photographic illustrations, former owner’s label to paste down. Original laminated boards, original price label to lower cover otherwise fine. £40 No. A2 in the Observer series.
8vo, (x), 481, (1) pp, portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Bedford County School on paste down, contemporary full calf, double gilt rules, gilt arms on upper cover, gilt spine with red and black labels, some light rubbing otherwise an attractive copy. £80
Tenth thousand, 8vo, xx, 436, (6 advertisement) pp, etched portrait frontispiece of Dick and 15 plates, engravings in the text, some foxing, otherwise good in the original cloth. £60
First edition, 8vo, xx, 376 pp, 16 plates, 46 text figures, in the original cloth, faded. £40
Third edition, 8vo, (xvi), 312, 31 advertisement, (1) pp. 32 plates, 3 in colour, some spotting. Original cloth, a couple of small marks to upper cover. £30
8vo, (iv), iv, 108 pp, 6 plates at the end, original cloth, spine dull, slight wear to ends. £100 Articles originally appearing in the “Annals and Magazine of Natural History” between August 1847 and March 1848. The first paper contains an angry attack on Gideon Mantell, whose work is referred to again at length in the second paper.
Second edition, 8vo, (xxviii), 533, (3 advertisement) pp. 15 plates, rather dampstained and with old pencil annotations, showing 214 specimens. Contemporary calf, gilt rule, gilt spine with a green label, some light wear. £105 The first President of the Linnean Society, holding the post until his death in 1828, Smith was a prolific writer and lecturer. First published two years earlier. Pritzel 8745. Freeman 3460.
Volume VIII only (of 36), 8vo. 160 hand coloured plates, some very occasional light marginal spots, but mostly in excellent clean condition, stamps and small label of Bromley College of Art to front endpapers and title verso - but not to the plates. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked with a label to the foot of the spine, some wear and marking. £275
Second edition, small 8vo, 4 advertisement, viii, 179, (1) pp, original cloth, faded and marked, paper spine label. £30
Volume I only (of 2), small 8vo, 267, (1) pp, engraved title, portrait frontispiece and 29 (of 30) hand coloured plates, plus 4 black and white plates of bones, cracking to hinges, original gilt decorated red cloth, dull, extremities worn. £65 Volume XVIII in Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library.
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 318, (4 advertisement) pp. 16 colour and 16 black and white plates. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly browned and creased, one small hole to the upper wrapper otherwise a very good copy. £65 New Naturalist series no. 20.
Two volumes, 8vo. Library label on paste downs, marginal browning throughout. Partly unopened in the original cloth, spine ends bumped. £125 Originally published with an Atlas volume not present here.
Fifth edition, small 8vo, viii, 146, (6 advertisement) pp, with 12 coloured plates of birds, browning to half title only, neat inscription on fly leaf dated 1885, original gilt and black decorated brown cloth, slight rubbing to joints and spine ends, a near fine copy. £50
First edition, small 8vo, iv, (iii-viii), 218 pp. 6 plates - 4 folding, one of which has a closed tear along a fold crease, some foxing and browning, particularly to the preliminaries, contemporary signature to paste down. Contemporary calf, rather marked and worn, neatly rebacked with a black label. £300 Short chapters dealing with everything from otters to hawks and owls as well as various types of rats and mice.
First edition, 8vo, xviii, 374 pp, with 10 pages of black and white illustrations, cloth, d.w. £95 A review copy with the compliments slip of the Columbia University Press loosely inserted.
First edition, 4to, 96 pp. 4 colour plates plus 78 black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., a little soiled and darkened, one small chip to the top edge. £185
Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 314 pp, frontispiece and 26 hand coloured plates, showing 564 examples, 2 folding tables, a few spots to preliminary leaves, plates with some trimming and occasional loss of imprint otherwise in good clean condition. Later red morocco backed cloth boards, gilt decoration and title on upper cover, spine a little sunned. £300 Freeman 3492. Agassiz IV p354.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 597, (1, 2 advertisement) pp, portrait frontispiece, engraved title and 7 plates, original gilt decorated red cloth, rebacked retaining most of the original backstrip, with also a new fly leaf. £300 An account of Soyer’s travels to the Crimea to reorganise the woeful arrangements for feeding the British troops, at times working closely with Florence Nightingale. A work of lasting importance for British military campaigns.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 212 pp. 40 fine coloured plates and 21 diagrams in the text, later bookplate. Original gilt titled red cloth, slight rubbing, a few marks, very good. £85
8vo, iv, 464, 140 pp, engraved title and 11 plates, showing horses and riding scenes, the plates lightly dampstained and one with minor edgewear, contemporary black half calf, extremities worn, marbled sides with loss to lower edges. £85 The last 140 pages comprise the “Racing and Steeple Chase Calendar for 1866-7”. Apart from racing articles, subjects include “Chamois Hunters of the Alps”, “A Few Days on the Illinois Prairie”, “Fishing in Nova Scotia” and “Angling in Germany”.
4to, (262) pp, with 97 full page black and white photographs, signed by 9 people on the fly leaf under the caption “Those who are about to part salute” and dated “Storrington 2 Aug. 43”, cloth, pictorial d.w. with loss to edges and some creasing. £65
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 272 pp. 24 colour and 32 black and white plates. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, one small tear and some minor marks to lower wrapper. £75 New Naturalist series no. 31.
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 273, (1) pp. 23 black and white illustrations and 5 maps. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some marking to lower wrapper, otherwise very good. £80 New Naturalist series no. 49.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 253, (1) pp, frontispiece plus a few illustrations in the text, cloth, d.w. with some light marks. £30
Second edition, small square 8vo, xx, 348 pp, 20 coloured plates, a few spots, original decorated green cloth, some rubbing, spine a little dull. £40 Pritzel 8906. Freeman 3541.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 276 pp. 8 colour and 24 black and white plates. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine browned with slight loss to ends. £55 New Naturalist series no. 25.
First edition, folio, viii, 155, (1) pp. 15 coloured plates. Original gilt titled blue cloth, a couple of very light marks otherwise near fine. £300
Oblong folio, (iii, 24, 3) pp. 12 black and white lithographs, lacking most of fly leaf, half title creased. Original gilt titled dark green cloth, extremities worn. £250
First reprint, small 8vo, 248 pp. 32 plates in both colour and black and white. Original gilt titled cloth, spine and edges faded, d.w. price-clipped and slightly browned. £50 Wayside and Woodland Series.
Fifth edition, “revised and largely re-written”, 8vo, (iv), xii, 355, 13 advertisement pp, 18 plates - 15 in colour, frontispiece foxed, otherwise very good in the original cloth, ends of spine rubbed. £150
First edition, 8vo, (ii), 264 pp, with an Errata leaf inserted in the preliminaries. 9 plates, 5 coloured and with 2 photographic plates of the Colesberg Kopje (Kimberley) diamond mine in South Africa, all with tissue guards - that to the frontispiece foxed, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Contemporary black full morocco, slight rubbing to spine, gilt title dull, a.e.g., a very good copy. £125
Fifteen volumes, 12mo, each of between 8 and 24 pp, original printed coloured wrappers, some tears to the first volume, some other marks and soiling. £100 A scarce run, numbered 1st to 4th and 6th to 16th in error - there was no fifth volume published, containing details of the Society’s Accounts, Membership, Library, papers read and other more general activities. The last 3 volumes contain greater detail of the meetings.
8vo, (viii), 331, (1, 4 advertisement) pp; numerous photographic illustrations and engravings in the text, original mustard cloth, a little soiled, extremities slightly worn. £50
First edition, small 8vo, (viii), 149, (1, 2 advertisement) pp, with 3 diagrams, inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf “To Miss Holland, with the kind regards of W.S. Symonds” and with several inked corrections and marginal notes in his hand, original green blind stamped cloth, spine and edges faded to brown, spine a little worn with slight loss. £125 Rector of Pendock, Symonds wrote widely on geological subjects and edited two of Hugh Miller’s books. t - Back to top
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xii, 526, (2 advertisement); (iv), 506, (2 advertisement) pp, with 7 engraved plates, lacking a plate in volume I but with 2 duplicate plates bound in instead, bookplates of Joseph Warner Henley, M.P. and President of the Board of Trade in the 1850s, a good clean copy partly unopened in the original boards, lightly browned with some wear to extremities. £350 Schwerdt II p248. Chute 620. Riling 340.
8vo, 448 pp. 65 photographic illustrations plus 91 illustrations in the text. Buckram, d.w. with much of the lower wrapper missing, further photographs to upper cover and spine. £30 The Lonsdale Library volume II.
First edition, small 8vo, xviii, 301, (1), 64 advertisement pp, 175 illustrations in the text, signature to half title, later black half cloth. £50
First edition, 8vo, xii, 331, (1) pp, with 331 illustrations in the text, original gilt and black decorated maroon cloth, extremities rubbed, the gilt rather dull. £50
8vo, 215, (1) pp, frontispiece, red cloth, a very good copy. £40
First edition, 8vo, (ii), ix, (1), 282 pp, woodcut illustrations in the text, some pencilled marginalia, bookplate, endpapers with light wear, original bead-grain green cloth with some light marks, spine ends bumped. £75 A popular scientific lecturer, Taylor founded the Norwich Geological Survey the same year as this book, his first, was published.
First edition, small 4to, x, 268 pp, black and white illustrations, signature on fly leaf, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £85
First edition, folio, 12, (28) pp. Two photographic plates and 15 plans, all but one of the latter in colour. Severe damp staining at the beginning and end, affecting both photographic plates and the final plan, tissues for both photographic plates torn with some loss and with pieces stuck to the margins of the plate, although both images are unaffected. Original paper covered boards, marked and with much loss to the upper cover, both boards lacking their lower corners. £50 A sadly defective copy of a remarkably scarce title.
Limited edition, no. 62 of 250 copies on hand-made paper, signed by the three contributors, folio, viii, 20 pp. 12 coloured and 21 black and white plates with tissues plus 2 facsimile pages and a portrait, a few light marginal spots. Original half morocco, one edge slightly worn, t.e.g., a very good copy in its slipcase, this with some wear. £450
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 296 pp, 38 illustrations, mostly portraits, marbled endpapers, Prize label of Dulwich College on paste down, contemporary dark blue half calf, blue cloth sides, gilt arms to upper cover, t.e.g., some light scuffing otherwise a near fine copy. £75
First edition, large 8vo, (xvi), 122 pp, black and white photographic illustrations, original quarter morocco, patterned paper boards, slipcase, a fine copy. £65
First edition, large 8vo, xiv, 503, (1) pp. 7 plates, including 2 folding maps - one hand coloured, plus a frontispiece and 59 woodcuts in the text, both maps with some foxing. Original gilt titled blind stamped cloth, spine sunned, some light wear. £225 One of the scarcer volumes in the series of Geological Society Memoirs.
First edition, large 8vo, xxxvi, 332 pp, with a facsimile frontispiece showing part of Topsell’s manuscript and small coloured vignette illustrations of birds in the text, cloth, d.w., a few minor marks else a fine copy. £40 Topsell composed 2 works, on quadrupeds and serpents, in the early 17th century, and this fragment, on birds A-C, has never before been published, being left uncompleted at his death.
First edition, 8vo, 300 pp. 20 colour photographic illustrations plus over 100 black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly sunned, a near fine copy. £300 New Naturalist series no. 73.
Second edition, 12mo, (iv), 154, (6) pp. 8 plates, including maps of Europe and of the hemispheres and a diagram of the solar system, signatures to fly leaf. Contemporary speckled sheep, gilt banded spine with slight loss, hinges cracked but sound. £200 First published 1783. Osborne I p142 has the fifth edition of 1795.
8vo, vi, 312, (4 advertisement) pp, with a hand coloured second title and 12 fine hand coloured plates, some spotting, largely to the text leaves, fly leaf removed, original gilt decorated blind stamped green cloth, spine and edges browned. £150 Freeman 3794. u - Back to top
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Third edition, 8vo, xx, 301, (1) pp, with 48 photographic plates, owner’s name on title, original green cloth, rather discoloured with some small marks, gilt tennis player on upper cover, t.e.g. £45
8vo, (ii), 350 pp, 18 plates and 63 illustrations in the text, some foxing, one plate with a closed tear, original gilt decorated brown cloth, spine ends rubbed. £80
Second edition, large 8vo, 256 pp, 14 colour and 16 black and white plates, numerous text illustrations, cloth, d.w. with a few chips, a very good copy. £50
First reprint, large 8vo, 250 pp. 10 colour and 4 black and white plates. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, old sellotaped repair to spine, original card slipcase, a little worn. £35 w - Back to top
First edition, 4to, (x), 1159, (1 blank) pp, printed in double column, with a coloured frontispiece, 18 illustrations from photographs and more than 180 diagrams in the text, end paper maps, a near fine copy in the original cloth and d.w. £60 More than 2080 species in 1008 genera and 218 families are fully described, clarifying much of the existing confusion in the knowledge of the vascular cryptograms and seed plants occurring in the area.
First edition, 4to, 91, (1) pp. Illustrations in colour and black and white, slight staining to top edge. Original green boards with some stains to edges. Scarce. £50
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 494, (2 advertisement) pp, portrait, extending coloured map and 37 text figures, original green cloth, spine ends and joints slightly rubbed. £250 Wallace’s letter to Darwin from the far east in 1858 led to their collaboration and prompted Darwin to publish “The Origin of Species” a year later. This work updates his theories for a society where evolution “is now universally accepted as the order of nature in the organic world” (Preface).
Second edition, 8vo, xvi, 494, (2 advertisement) pp. Portrait, extending coloured map and 37 text figures, ex-Library copy with stamps of Westfield College Library to title and final leaf, bookplates and label to paste down, marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in contemporary straight grained green half morocco, green cloth sides, gilt spine with a brown label, edges stained red, faint accession number to spine. £150 Wallace’s letter to Darwin from the far east in 1858 led to their collaboration and prompted Darwin to publish “The Origin of Species” a year later. This work updates his theories for a society where evolution “is now universally accepted as the order of nature in the organic world” (Preface).
8vo, xvii, (3), 515, (1) pp. 8 plates and 2 extending maps, plus 8 further maps and 43 illustrations in the text, some marginal browning and the odd spot, bookplate of John Fowles with his inscription to the half title. Original green cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed. £225 “...a magnificent combination of interesting sketches of travel and vivid pictures of natural history, together with a discussion of the great generalisations of evolutionary biology” (DNB). First published in 1869.
WALPOLE-BOND, John. A History of Sussex Birds. London (1938). First edition, 3 volumes, large 8vo. Inscription dated 1972 on the fly leaf in volume I, plus 53 coloured plates by Philip Rickman, and with an original water-colour in each volume by Rickman - opposite the title in volume I and on the half titles of volumes II and III, also signed by him on the title page of volume I. Buckram, a few light marks, t.e.g., a unique set. £1200 Tate p219.
First edition, 3 volumes, large 8vo. 53 coloured plates by Philip Rickman. Buckram, volume I with some marking, d.w.’s, soiled with some marks, spine ends creased with minor loss, t.e.g. £220 Tate p219.
Second Pickering edition, 16mo (covers measuring roughly 4 x 2 1/2 inches), xxv, (iii), 325, (1, 4 Index) pp. 2 portraits, an engraved title, 29 woodcuts and a page of music, some light browning, later inscription on front blank, marbled endpapers. Contemporary vellum, black spine label, a couple of marks and slight wear to the upper joint else an attractive copy complete with a brass clasp. £200 Coigney 31.
Large 8vo, 2 volumes. 14 plates, including 4 portraits and 2 facsimile titles, plus 47 engravings and headpieces in the text, foxing at the beginning and end of each volume, a few corners with fold creases. Contemporary red half morocco, marbled sides, gilt spines with raised bands, extremities with some rubbing, t.e.g. £450 Coigney 44. The first edition edited by Nicholas. “Pickering used 27 of the most prominent artists, painters and engravers of the time...”, including Thomas Stothard and James Inskipp.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 327, (1) pp, with a frontispiece, mark to two pages from being stuck together, original green cloth, spine ends bumped. £85
Bookclub edition (same year as first), 8vo, 223, (1) pp. 8 pages of colour photographs plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine sunned. £250 New Naturalist series no. 72. A later issue with no “NN” on the spine or price to the upper flap.
First edition, large 8vo, (x), 475, (1) pp, 271 text figures, foxing to endpapers only, original green cloth, slight wrinkling and marking, small mark to upper cover. £95 No second volume was ever published.
Oblong 8vo, (viii) pp, followed by 38 charts. Tide table for April to October 1894 bound in at the front, high water chart for Portsmouth loosely inserted. Original gilt titled cloth, extremities worn. £75
Third edition, seventh impression, 8vo, xvi, 279, (1) pp, coloured frontispiece and 107 illustrations, Wellington College Prize label on paste down, marbled endpapers and edges, finely bound in contemporary tree calf, School arms in gilt on upper cover, gilt spine with brown and green morocco labels, a lovely copy. £80
Small 8vo, xxiv, 416 pp. Engraved frontispiece showing Selborne plus 40 hand coloured plates of animals, some spotting to plates, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Forest School on paste down. Contemporary calf, covers a little marked and rubbed, school arms in faded gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked with a gilt banded spine, red morocco label. £295 Martin p143.
8vo, 248 pp. 4 plates, signature of John B. Glubb to front blank, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary red half calf, some light wear, gilt riding caps and horseshoes to spine, a very good copy. £80 Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), popularly known as “Glubb Pasha”, Commander of the Arab Legion 1939-1956 and Author of many books and articles on the middle east.
8vo, 66 pp, interleaved throughout with blanks and with pencil notes and annotations throughout, stamp to title verso of the Brighton & Hove Archaeological Club and with a presentation inscription to the same on the paste down, original cloth, gilt titled spine, some minor rubbing else very good. £125 A rare record of a unique collection of Sussex chalk fossils gathered over the previous decade, after the Author’s acquaintance with Gideon Mantell as a boy had sparked his interest.
Fourth edition, 8vo, (xxiv), 448 pp. Some occasional light foxing. 20th century half calf, marbled sides, a very good copy. £115 A popular work containing much sage advice on everything from the dangers of damp and smoking to the importance of cleaning your teeth plus a wealth of nutritional advice. First published 1799.
First edition, one of 1000 copies, 4to, 108 pp, frontispiece and 32 pages of plates at the end, a near fine copy, two toned cloth with gilt vignette on upper cover, slight browning to top edge of covers. £125
Fifth edition, “revised and enlarged”, small 8vo, 154, (14 advertisement) pp, with a coloured folding frontispiece map - torn and repaired, and 24 fine coloured plates showing several different plants per plate, interleaved throughout with blanks which have been heavily annotated in purple pencil, some further annotation to text, all of a high scientific standard concerning herbal preparation, rear free endpaper partly stuck to paste down, original gilt titled cloth, some light rubbing. £85
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 358 pp. Frontispiece and many illustrations in the text, some full page, upper hinge cracking. Original cloth, slight wear to ends of spine, t.e.g. £35 From “The Out of Door Library” series, and including pieces on Mounts Washington, Ararat and St. Elias. Neate 918.
First edition, 4to, (xiv), 88 pp, 22 coloured plates plus 48 black and white illustrations, cloth, spine slightly rubbed, d.w. chipped with loss to head of spine. £30
First edition, 8vo, 62, (4) pp. Original gilt and black decorated blue cloth, extremities slightly rubbed. £60 A curious treatise on hair, its use historically in literature, varieties between different races, and ways to maintain it. A printed note at the end reads “Mr. Winter May be consulted on Diseases of the Hair at his Residence... between the Hours of 10 and 4...”
First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 301, (1) pp. 10 plates, marbled endpapers. 20th century maroon quarter calf, an excellent copy. £100 The “first” list of Subscribers shows 159 copies sold.
Fifth impression, 5 volumes, 8vo, 147 plates, most in colour, cloth, d.w.’s with some chips and tears, particularly to the spine of volume I. £45
First edition, 8vo, 814, (2) pp, with 345 black and white illustrations, original buckram, lightly marked, spine sunned. £50
First edition, 8vo, (ii), 112 pp, original printed pink wrappers, spine sunned, else a fine copy. £30
Large 8vo, (x), 298 pp. 59 hand coloured plates showing over 2,000 examples, spotting to endpapers and some tissue guards - not affecting plates, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary green half morocco, rubbed, some repair to upper hinge, gilt spine, t.e.g. £300
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 242, (2) pp, with a coloured frontispiece and 130 black and white illustrations, bookplate, cloth, d.w. torn with slight loss. £30
First edition, 8vo, 431, (1) pp, frontispiece and 136 black and white, mostly photographic, cloth, d.w., price clipped, top of spine chipped, else very good. £50
First edition, 8vo, xii, 155, (1 blank) pp, library stamp on title and label on end paper, original cloth, a fine copy. £40 Details 197 genera and 1051 species and varieties found fossil in Britain.
First edition, small 8vo, 190, (2) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 17 illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled cloth, d.w. creased with some tears, spine with slight loss to foot and Dewey decimal number in ink. £65 Wayside and Woodland Series.
Six volumes, 4to, with 46 fine chromolithographed plates, plus engravings in the text, a fine set still bound in the original light blue cloth, slight rubbing to spine ends, a.e.g. £250
Third impression, small 8vo, 256 pp, frontispiece, 1 plate and 186 illustrations in the text, modern bookplate to fly leaf, original gilt decorated cloth, some minor marks. £30
4to, (iii)-x, 468, (88), 469-481, (1) pp, with 43 engraved plates, some light foxing, title altered with 2 typed labels - replacing “Cretaceous” with “Oolitic” and the imprint dated with “1856-1863”, bound in modern half morocco, light marking to top edge of covers, gilt spine. £225 x - Back to top
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Fourth edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, with hundreds of fine engraved illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary dark green half morocco, green cloth sides, some rubbing to extremities, gilt banded spines, a very good clean set. £300 One of the standard 19th century ornithological works, here greatly enlarged from the previous edition.
Tenth edition, 8vo, x, 658 pp, 2 plates, some light spotting, uncut in the original boards, spine worn with piece lacking at head, paper spine label. £125 “...the greatest of English writers on agriculture... He was indefatigable in observation, inquiries, researches, and experiments, collecting by hand the seeds of artificial grasses and sowing them himself... endeavouring, with the aid of Priestley, to discover the chemistry of soils and to apply science to practice, incessantly attempting new methods, new rotations of crops, and stirring up a widespread and intelligent interest in the development of agricultural science...” (DNB). z - Back to top
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