London: Collins, 1954. First edition. 8vo. xii, 160, (4) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Colour frontispiece and 16 black and white plates. Just a few small spots and faint marks, a lovely bright copy. New Naturalist Monograph no. 10. Surprisingly scarce..... More
London: Collins, 1951. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 318, (4) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 16 colour and 16 black and white plates. Tanning to the spine and lower panel of the jacket with very mild wear at the head, very good..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1960). First edition, 8vo, xvi, 561, (1) pp. 50 colour plates plus a further 2 colour and 47 black and white photographic plates, marbled endpapers. Later light brown morocco with a marbled paper spine label. More
London: Printed by W. Nicol, 1826. First edition, 4to, (ii), 391, (1), xviii, (2) pp. Unopened in the original blue paper wrappers, spine with some loss and a modern paper label. A remarkable survival. Having collaborated with William Herschel two years earlier on a similar Phil. Trans. publication of 380..... More
London: Printed by R. Taylor and Co... And sold by the Author... and by White, Fleet-Street, Symonds, Paternoster-row... [then] Printed by Arding and Merrett... and sold by the Author... [and] Sherwood and Co., Paternoster Row; and by all other Book, 1804-17. First edition. Five volumes. Large 8vo. Recent brown half..... More
London: Gurney and Jackson, 1894. 8vo, lii, 186 pp. Frontispiece and 89 hand coloured plates showing 1,780 examples. Original gilt decorated green cloth, a.e.g., light damp staining to the lower corners of both covers, foot of the spine with very slight wear, overall a very good copy. More
London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1938. First edition, 4to, (x), 191, (53) pp. 26 plates. Original gilt titled cloth, spine ends with minor wear. More
London: Gurney and Jackson, 1927. First edition, 8vo, (xx), 471, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 38 coloured plates, contemporary signature to the fly leaf. Cloth with slight fading to the spine ends, d.w. with loss to the same. More
(London): William Collins, (2015). First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 626 pp. 274 illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, top of spine slightly rubbed, near fine. New Naturalist series no. 129. More
London: Collins, 1969. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 273, (1) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 23 black and white illustrations and 5 maps. Some tanning to the jacket spine, else very good. New Naturalist series no. 49. More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., [c.1880]. Small 8vo. (vi), 215, (1) pp. Contemporary half vellum over pink papered boards, gilt lettered red spine label, an early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown mostly effaced. Frontispiece plus illustrations in the text, all black and white. Wear to the boards, browning to..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1946. First edition. Large 8vo. xx, 644 pp. Contemporary prize binding from No. 1 Radio School, Royal Air Force, Cranwell, tan full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels, the college name and crest in gilt to the upper board and their..... More
New York: Skandia America Group, 1982. First edition. 4to. xvi, 392, (6) pp. Publisher's card covers, prior owner's inscription to the title page. Black and white illustrations throughout. A few minor marks to the covers, generally very good. More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1952). First edition, large 8vo, (xiv), 382 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w. slightly sunned with a couple of small tears to the top edge. More
London: Collins, 1963. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 269, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Colour frontispiece, 24 black and white plates and 36 illustrations in the text. A few trivial spots, the white of the spine just very slight tanned, a...... More
London: Collins, 1962. Second impression. 8vo. (xiv), 274 pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, early ownership inscription repeated to the front free endpaper, dust jacket, not price clipped. Colour frontispiece and 24 black and white plates plus 21 illustrations in the text. The rear panel of the..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1864. First edition, 8vo, ix, (1), 282 pp. Woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt titled blind stamped green cloth, a little rubbed. A popular scientific lecturer, Taylor founded the Norwich Geological Survey the same year as this book, his first, was published... More
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1943. First edition, seventh impression. Large 8vo. xii, 1019, (1) pp. Contemporary prize binding from No. 1 Radio School, Royal Air Force, Cranwell, tan full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels, the college name and crest in gilt..... More
London: Collins, 1956. First edition. 8vo. xii, 240 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 8 photographic plates. A very small closed tear to the head of the jacket spine with a subtle tissue repair on the verso, an attractive copy. New Naturalist..... More
London: William Collins, 1951. Limited edition, no. 146 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, cloth slipcase..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, 1936. Sixth edition, "revised and reset". 8vo. xvi, 492 pp. Contemporary prize binding from Epsom College of tree calf by Bickers & Sons, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered olive and black labels, the college crest in gilt to the upper board and..... More
Singapore Botanic Gardens, 2009. First edition, 4to, x, 260 pp. Pictorial boards, d.w. with some very minor marks and bumps, near fine. More
Dunlop and the Eastland Press, (1981). First edition. Large 8vo, (xvi), 122 pp. Original quarter tan morocco, patterned paper boards, all edges gilt, matching slipcase. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine. More
London: Longmans & Co. and Edward Stanford, 1875. First edition. Large 8vo. xiv, 503, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped grey cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and with the gilt crest of the Geological Survey of England to the upper cover, contemporary ownership inscription of the Rev. Robert Johnson of Hornchurch..... More
London: J. Hodges, 1747. 8vo, (xvi), 275, (1) pp. Frontispiece showing the "four Wheel Drill Plow with a Seed and a Manure Hopper", some light foxing, modern bookplate. Contemporary sheep, double gilt rules, some wear, rebacked with a green label. Originally published as "A New Treatise of Husbandry..." by Trowell..... More