London: John Van Voorst, 1857. First edition. 8vo. (xiv), 376, (6), pp. Recent brown half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. 56 woodcut illustrations in the text. Very good. Gosse sought to reconcile religion with science, creating his law of Prochronism to "harmonise the... More about Omphalos: an Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot
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London: James Nisbet and Co,. 1861. Two volumes, second and first editions respectively, 8vo. 12 and 10 plates, some light foxing, both volumes with signature fairly neatly torn from the fly leaf. Original gilt and blind decorated green cloth, some light marking and rubbing. Freeman and Wertheimer 110 & 136b. More about The Romance of Natural History. [First series]. Second series
(Melbourne: Hill House, 1989-96). Facsimile edition, 8 volumes, including the Supplement, folio. 681 coloured plates, including 3 double page plates. Publisher's gilt titled green cloth, an excellent set still held in the original publisher's boxes. Originally published between 1840 and 1869. Gould spent 18 months in Australia collecting samples as... More about The Birds of Australia
London: Wordsworth Editions, (1990). Folio, (vi, 2), 74 pp. 414 colour plates. Cloth, mild staining and wear to extremities, d.w. with some minor marks. More about John Gould's Hummingbirds
(Melbourne, 1981). Facsimile edition, one of 750 copies, this copy unnumbered, folio, (84) pp, with 30 fine coloured plates, original stiff paper wrappers, a fine copy. Originally published in two parts in 1841-2. More about A Monograph of the Macropodidæ, or Family of Kangaroos
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1898. 8vo. viii, 212 pp. Contemporary black full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels, richly gilt to the other panels, endpapers and all edges marbled, the gilt device and name "Dame Alice Owen" to the upper panel. Illustrations in the text... More about First Lessons in Modern Geology. Edited by J.F. Blake
London: John Murray, 1896. First edition, 8vo, (xxii), 422 pp. Coloured frontispiece, 20 black and white plates and 2 coloured folding maps, plus 23 illustrations in the text, upper hinge cracked but sound. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, extremities worn. Not in Ofscansky, who lists later editions. More about The Great Rift Valley. Being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. With...
Paris & Besançon, 1865-69. First edition, 8vo, 1001, (1) pp. Endpapers lightly foxed. Contemporary green moiré cloth, a little rubbed, maroon spine label. Pritzel 3547. More about Flore de Chaine Jurassique. Première Partie. Dicotylées - Dialypétales
Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1894. Folio, (ii), 101, (1) pp. Loss to lower corner of last few leaves, stamps of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, to title and one other leaf, library label, later bookplate. Original cloth backed printed boards, inscribed "With the Author's compliments" to upper... More about Report of the Inspection of Mines in India, for the year ending the 30th June 1894
London: Wm. Isbister, 1883. 8vo, (xii), 308 pp. Black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, bookplate removed from the paste down with a subsequent one put in. Contemporary red calf, spine a little sunned, some minor marks. More about Half Hours in Woods and Wilds. Adventures of Sport and Travel
Gottingae [Gothingen]: Apud Io. Wilh. Schmid, 1749. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), 396 pp. Later quarter calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, all edges red. 5 folding plates. Upper half of the dedication leaf torn with loss of text, occasional minor soiling, else very good. More about Opuscula Sua Botanica, Prius Edita Recensuit Retractivt Auxit Coniuncta Edidit
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1845. Third issue, 8vo, (xxiv), 456 pp, engraved title and 38 plates, Prize label of Lewes Grammar School on paste down with the edges partly torn away, contemporary green calf, double gilt rules, some marking and indentation, gilt spine with a red label, a.e.g. Lake &... More about The Book of Archery, Being the Complete History and Practice of the Art, Ancient and Modern,...
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840. First edition, 8vo, (xxiv), 456 pp. Frontispiece and 38 plates, somewhat foxed, later signature to fly leaf. Original green cloth, spine and edges browned, rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Lake & Wright p135. More about The Book of Archery
London: Printed for the Author. And Sold by Messrs. Robson and Co... and Messrs. Dilly, 1776 [but c.1786]. Mixed edition, 4to, (iv), 166, (4 index) pp. "Scheme of Colours" plate and 50 plates of insects, all attractively hand coloured, plus the uncoloured key plate. Text leaves and tissue guards browned... More about An Exposition of English Insects, With curious observations and remarks, wherein each insect is...
Printed for W. Frederick in Bath; London: J. Hinton, W. Johnston [et al], 1764. First edition, 8vo, xviii, (4), 213, (1), 232 pp. 5 engraved plates plus a few woodcuts in the text, some browning to the first and last few leaves, later signature to paste down. Contemporary speckled calf... More about Essays on Husbandry. Essay I. A General Introduction; Shewing That Agriculture is the Basis and...
London: Macdonald, (1954). Second impression, 8vo, 676 pp. 8 plates plus numerous black and white illustrations in the text, some marks to free endpapers. Cloth, d.w. browned with light soiling, some loss to spine ends. More about Food in England
London: Faber & Faber, (1933). First edition, 8vo, 247, (1) pp. Decorated title page and vignettes in the text. Cloth with coloured illustration, d.w., not price clipped but with a later price sticker affixed, spine browned, some other light spots, loss to the top of the spine and the top... More about More Good Food. Decorated by Edward Bawden
(London): Philip Allan, (1937). First edition, 8vo, 217, (1) pp. 10 plates, 2 in colour, inscribed from the author on the title page. More about The Art and Craft of Loch Fishing
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869. 12mo, (vi), 128, (16 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text, later signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped green cloth, recently recased, some mild rubbing. First published 1856, with a subsequent edition in 1869. Scarce. More about The Book of the Marine Aquarium; or practical instructions on the formation, stocking, and...
Manchester University Press, (2013). First edition, 8vo, x, 261, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations. Pictorial boards, fine. More about Therapeutic Landscapes. A history of English hospital gardens since 1800
Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1832. First edition, 8vo, xviii, (ii), 175, (1) pp. 16 page publisher's advertisements bound in at the front, endpapers foxed. Original boards, new paper spine and label, very good. More about A Digested Series of Examples in the Applications of the Principles of the Differential Calculus....
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1883. First edition, 4to, viii, 248 pp. 38 plates showing numerous examples. Original brown cloth, some tiny holes to the lower joint else a very good copy. More about Catalogue of the Fossil Sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum. (Natural...
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 57, (3) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Some very mild rubbing, very good. More about "Squaring the Circle". A History of the Problem
7th March, 1901. Small folio. 7 pp. Original printed blue paper boards, paler blue cloth spine, small old inscribed library ticket pasted to lower corner of upper board. Five b/w plates. Slight cockling to paper boards, a few chips at edges, otherwise very good. Holland was Curator of the Botanic... More about Rubber Cultivation in West Africa
London: Printed by J.D. Dewick, for John Radcock, 1804. First edition, 12mo, (vi), 260, (12) pp. Engraved second title and 24 hand coloured plates, marbled endpapers, old catalogue entry for this work tipped on a front blank. Contemporary tree calf, recently rebacked retaining most of the original gilt spine. A.... More about The British Museum; or, Elegant Repository of Natural History. Vol. IV. Birds