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
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
(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
(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
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
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
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
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
Thrupp, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2007. First edition. Large 8vo. 320 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, early gift inscription to the front free endaper. Illustrated throughout, much in colour. An excellent copy. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(London): Philip Allan, (1937). First edition, 8vo, 217, (1) pp. 10 plates, 2 in colour, inscribed from the author on the title page. More
London: The Folio Society, 2002. Limited edition, no. 614 of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes, folio and 8vo. Folio: 109 coloured facsimile leaves plus colophon, bound in full green decorated goatskin, 8vo: 76 pp, cloth backed boards. Both held in the original folding box, fine. A Italian manuscript dated c.1300, lavishly reproduced here for the first time. More
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
Manchester University Press, (2013). First edition, 8vo, x, 261, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations. Pictorial boards, fine. More
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
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
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
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
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