London: Groombridge and Sons, 1863. Large 8vo, vi, 168, 29, (1) pp. 71 hand coloured plates plus 2 black and white plates of equipment, some occasional light foxing, particularly to the equipment plates, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate. Recent quarter morocco over contemporary marbled boards and leather corners, the latter with..... More

Cambridge University Press, 1914. Folio, xx, 206 pp. Portrait frontispiece of John Ray and 206 black and white plates, armorial bookplate. Original green quarter morocco, slightly worn, corners bumped, t.e.g. Only 2 volumes - II and III - were published, of a planned 10. More

Melbourne: John Ferres, 1860-1862. First edition, 4to, viii, 242 pp. 23 plates, foxed, modern bookplate. Almost entirely unopened in the original dark green moiré cloth, a little marked, rebacked retaining most of the original backstrip. More

Ventnor: Publisher for the Author, (1887). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 240 pp. Frontispiece and 23 plates, inscribed from the author on the paste down. Original gilt titled cloth, spine darkened, ends worn, one gathering slightly loose. More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., [1930]. First edition. 8vo. xii, 116 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, black lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Frontispiece and two plates, each being photographic portraits of the quack physician Albert Abrams. Much of the lower part of the jacket has..... More

London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Mildford, 1930. First edition. Large 8vo. xvi, 232 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Colour folding frontispiece map of Scotland plus 18 plates, mostly black and white photographic illustrations but including..... More

London: John Murray, 1835-36. Two volumes, second and first editions respectively. 4to. xii, 184, (2); xx, 253, (1) pp. Recent green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label. 48 plates, including a hand coloured geological map and 9 sections, of which 7 are hand coloured. Occasional slight foxing, very good..... More

London: Printed and Sold by W. Phillips, 1823. Third edition, "revised", 8vo, xcvi, 406, (4) pp. Illustrations in the text. Partly unopened in the original boards, top of spine with some cracking but otherwise sound, printed paper spine label, some other light wear to the spine ends and corners. More

Philadelphia, 1912. Large 4to, (ii), 429-471, (1) pp. 3 coloured plates of shell in good condition and a map, the latter with some chips to edges, all with captioned tissues, text leaves unopened. Original printed upper wrapper, edges worn, old tape repair to spine, lacking the lower wrapper. More

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Joannis Maire, 1635. Third edition, 16mo, 261, (1) pp. Full page engraved portrait, outer edge cut close with loss to the image and the first letter of the Author's name, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt..... More

London: Printed for John Martyn, 1673. First edition. Two parts in one volume. 8vo. (xvi), 499, (9), 115, (1) pp. Twentieth century blue half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel, small circular 18th century ink stamp of the Bibliothecæ Regiæ to the verso..... More

Cheltenham: Norman, Sawyer & Co., 1904. 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. More

London: Collins, 1952. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 304, (2 advertisement) pp. 40 black and white plates plus illustrations in the text. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, spine and lower wrapper lightly browned, spine ends with loss, a couple of tears to the upper wrapper. New Naturalist Monograph no. 7... More