London: Henry G. Bohn, [1853]. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxxii, 446; (xii), (447)-930 pp. 6 plates, including 4 chromolithographs, plus a folding plate in volume II and 275 woodcuts in the text, Bohn advertisements at the beginning and end and to endpapers, coloured cutouts of dinosaurs from a possibly..... More
4to, (171)-181, (1) pp. 3 plates, text leaves unopened. Recent cloth. "Mantell's youngest son, Reginald..., collected the... fossils from cuttings and excavations made in association with the laying of the Great Western Railway. They establish, contra Owen, that the belemnoteuthis and belemnite are distinct". Dean 202. Published in the Philosophical..... More
[N.p.: Offprint from the] Transactions of the Linnean Society, 1795. Sole edition. 4to. 30 pp. Recent brown buckram boards, gilt lettered to the upper cover. A plate and a folding table recording the date of the annual appearance and disappearance of 28 bird types over the preceding 11 years. Some..... More
London: HarperCollins, 1995. First edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket with the publisher's 50th anniversary sticker to the upper panel, not price clipped. 16 coloured plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Some sunning to the jacket spine, else very good. New..... More
London: Collins, (1982). First edition, 8vo, 207, (1) pp. 16 black and white plates. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, publisher's original duraseal slightly wrinkled otherwise a very good bright copy. New Naturalist series no. 68. More
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1841. Second edition, small 8vo, (viii), 832 pp. Engraved frontispiece and second title, marbled endpapers, sides and edges, binder's ticket to the paste down - G. Price, Ware. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine wiith a green label, a handsome copy. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green,... and by J, Mawe, 1825. Seventh edition. 12mo. vi, (2), 110, (2) pp. Original drab boards, rebacked to style with a new paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner to the front pastedown and the earlier ownership inscription of..... More
Beekay Publishers, (1988). First edition, 8vo, 248 pp. Photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
London: Collins, (1981). First edition, 8vo, 178 pp. 24 coloured plates plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly sunned, publisher's duraseal covering slightly wrinkled. New Naturalist series no. 67. More
London: Collins, 1971. First edition. 8vo. 159, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 12 black and white plates and 35 text illustrations. Small mark to the rear panel, some mild edge wear, an attractive copy. New Naturalist Monograph no. 22. More
(London): Collins, (2009). First edition, 8vo, xiv, 402 pp. 277 coloured illustrations, signed on the title page by the author. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. New Naturalist series no. 111. More
London: T & A D Pyser, 2004. First edition. Large 8vo. 511, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Fine. More
London: Collins, 1966. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 175, (1) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 16 black and white plates plus 27 diagrams and tables. The jacket spine ever so slightly tanned with a tiny amount of chafing at the head, an..... More
London: Collins, 1953. First edition. 8vo. xii, 179, (1) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 15 black and white plates plus further maps and drawings. A few small mild rubbing towards the head of the jacket spine, some foxing to the fore..... More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. Third edition. 4to. vi, 272 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and with a vignette to the upper cover. 60 hand coloured plates. Slight darkening to the spine, a little flecking to the boards and mild rubbing to the extremities, generally..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, 8vo, xxxi, (i), 464 pp. 130 black and white illustrations, owner's address label to the foot of the title page, first and last page with light spotting. Original gilt titled green cloth, a very good copy. More
(London): HarperCollins, (2001). First edition, 8vo, 392 pp. 16 pages of coloured photographs plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly sunned. New Naturalist series no. 89. More
(London): William Collins, (2015). First edition, 8vo, x, 452, (2) pp. 205 illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, minor marking to the lower wrapper otherwise a fine copy. New Naturalist series no. 128. 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, 1886. First edition, 4to, (x, 148) pp. Frontispiece and 74 plates, some light foxing, modern bookplate. Original dark green cloth, recased. 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
London: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman; Peacock and Bampton; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [et al], 1815. Small 8vo. (iii)-xxviii, (368) pp., bound without the half title. Later full sheep, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and dated at the foot. 48 handcoloured plates. Some..... More
London: Collins, 1951. First edition. 8vo. xii, 244 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown, dust jacket, not price clipped. 8 colour and 24 black and white plates plus 12 maps and diagrams. Apart from some foxing to the jacket, an..... More
London: Collins, 2010. First edition. 8vo. x, 598 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Approximately 300 illustrations, mostly in colour. An excellent copy. New Naturalist series no. 113. More
