London: John Murray, 1855. Second edition. 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 316, 20 pp., bound without the half title. Recent blue papered boards, printed spine label, inscribed by the Phillips on the title page "To Rev. Wm. Hone from his parishioner The Author". 35 black and white plates plus a colour geological map..... 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
London: William Phillips, 1815. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 193, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered direct to the spine, the early ownership inscription of a Hester North of Royston to the head of the title page, the attractive contemporary bookseller's ticket of "Warren Printer, Bookbinder Book..... 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
London: Printed for White, Cochrane & Co., 1811. Sole edition. Two volumes. 8vo. lvi, 599, (1); xx, 656 pp. Contemporary dark blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, a modern bookplate to the front pastedown of..... 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: Collins, 1953. First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 306 pp. 46 colour and 24 black and white plates. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, spine a little browned with some foxing. New Naturalist series no. 7. More
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1797, 1802. First edition. Two volumes bound in one. 4to. Recent brown half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, all edges marbled, inscribed "From the Author" on the title page, old faint library stamps to the verso of three plates, not affecting the..... More
London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1968. Limited edition, no. 457 of 2,000 copies, 8vo, (xiv), 57, (1) pp. 6 black and white plates by Grant, who also designed the endpapers. Pictorial boards, d.w. repeating the design with light rubbing and one small tear. 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: Published by and for R. Havell, Jun. by Baldwin and Craddock, 1829-1831. First edition. 4to. (ii), engraved title, vi pp. plus a leaf of description for each plate plus a sectional title for each season. Contemporary deep pink half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered..... More
London: Printed by E. Owen, 1751. First edition, 8vo, vi, (viii), 168 pp. Diagrams in the text, one leaf (E4) torn and repaired without loss. Contemporary speckled calf, slightly worn and marked, recently rebacked with a red morocco label. Uncommon, ESTC listing three copies in this country and eight others..... More
London: J. and J. Knapton, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, [et al], 1731. Seven volumes, I-III fourth edition, IV-V second edition, VI-VII first edition thus. 4to. Recent brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, twin gilt lettered black and maroon labels, the 18th century armorial bookplates of..... More
London: Michael Joseph, (1951-58). Four volumes. First editions. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, gilt to the spines, dust jackets. 8 black and white photographic plates in each book. Losses to the heads of the jacket spines of volumes I and IV, less so to that of volume II and the other edges..... More
London: Michael Joseph, (1955). First edition, 8vo, 176 pp. 8 photographic plates. Cloth, d.w, not price clipped, spine and edges with light browning, a very good copy. More
New York, (1948). First edition, large 8vo, (xiv), 361, (1) pp. 12 plates. Original buckram, fine. More
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. 8vo, xxiii, (iii), 268 pp. 13 plates, 3 in colour, plus 6 illustrations in the text, armorial bookplate. Publisher's half vellum, t.e.g., marbled sides, morocco label with some wear, some discolouration of the vellum. First published 1843, appearing here as part of "The Sportsman's Library" edited..... More
Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. First edition, large 8vo, xxiv, 304 pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece and 60 chromolithographed plates of eggs, some mostly marginal foxing, wear and a couple of closed tears to the fly leaf verso as a result of it having been stuck to the frontispiece recto to..... More
Oxoniæ [Oxford]: Iohannes [John] Lichfield Impensis Henrici [Henry] Cripps, 1632. "Editio Tertia", (xvi), 422, 443-632, (22) pp, the final leaf being a blank. Folding plate, creased but sound, light marginal browning to early leaves, with the paste downs unstuck from the boards revealing at the front part of a leaf..... More
London: Aylott and Co. & Manchester: H. Turner, 1852-3. Three volumes, third edition seventh thousand, fifth edition and fourth thousand respectively, 20, 20 and 28 pp including covers. Sewn as issued, some light soiling, one small chip, very good. Tracts on Homoeopathy nos. 2, 3 and 4. More
Wormer: Inmerc BV, 1993. First edition. 4to. 192 pp. Publisher's green boards, black lettered to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket, signed by seven of the contributing artists on the title page - Bruce Pearson, Robert Greenhalf, Andrew Haslen, John Busby, Michael Warren, Peter Partington and Vadim Gorbatov, beneath..... More
London: Printed for W. Nicoll and C. Etherington, 1767. First edition. 4to. viii, iv, 213, (1) pp. Uncut in recent brown half calf over marbled boards. A folding table. Title page with losses affecting the text in some places and laid down, occasional marginal stains, otherwise generally very good. More
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1873. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 544 pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece, some pencilled underlining and marginalia. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, top edge of upper cover sunned, some light rubbing otherwise very good. Professor of Obstetrics (then Midwifery) at Edinburgh University, Simpson pioneered the use of chloroform..... More
Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1907. First edition, large 8vo, (iv), 83, (5) pp. 16 black and white photographic plates with captioned tissues, armorial bookplate of Bernard Burkitt. Original gilt titled green cloth, slightly marked and rubbed. More
London: J. Nourse, 1748. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 77, (1) pp. Original course plain paper wrappers. Trigonemetrical diagrams in the text throughout. Wear with two small losses to the spine, though the covers remain sound, very good overall. Thomas Simpson (1710–1761) was a self taught mathematician or "philomath" as they..... More