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: Collins, 1952. First edition. 8vo. (xvi), 268, (4) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 32 colour and 16 black and white plates. Two tiny inconspicuous tears with loss to the jacket, else an excellent copy. New Naturalist series no. 23. 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
Oxford University Press, 1926. First English edition, 8vo, xix, (i), 252 pp. 7 plates plus illustrations in the text, errata slip tipped in near the front. Original gilt titled cloth, an excellent copy. 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
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
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
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
London: A. Millar, 1759. Second edition, 8vo, viii, 207, (1) pp. Later bookplate, endpapers darkened with slight loss to the top corner of the fly leaf, with a manuscript copy of "On Marl" by William Nicholson on the last 4 blank leaves, later bookplate of Robert George Morton, Beacon Tor..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell, 1788. Third edition, 8vo, xxxii, 438, (2 advertisement) pp, 3 plates, corner torn from fly leaf, contemporary tree calf, some wear to edges and spine. Fussell pp108-9. More
Oxford: Sold by Messrs. Fletcher and Co.; Messrs. Rivington; and Messrs. Murray and Highley, London, 1797. Sole edition. 8vo. (2), vi, (10), 129, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled to the spine, gilt lettered black label, later neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, the..... More
London: The Biographical Press, 1906. Folio, (xii), 502 pp, with 113 photogravures of owners, trainers, jockeys and horses, plus many black and white illustrations in the text, a few light marks, marbled endpapers, contemporary black morocco, spine worn, head of upper joint cracked, a.e.g. More
London: Impensis Auctoris, 1762. First edition, 8vo, viii, (viii), 506, (22) pp. Fly leaf with a little wear to edges, lacking the rear free endpaper. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in a lighter calf retaining the original maroon morocco label. More
,London: Cassell and Company, [1880s]. Five volumes, 12mo. 200 coloured plates. Original gilt titled decorative green cloth, spine ends rubbed, some minor marks, very good. More
London: Paul Jerrard & Son, [c.1859]. First edition. Two volumes bound in one. Large 8vo. 206 pp. Contemporary green half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered black and maroon labels, endpapers and all edges marbled. 62 hand coloured plates plus an additional black and white..... More
London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life" 1904. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 6 coloured and 126 photographic plates, some occasional light foxing, volume I with slightly creasing to the fly leaf and an attractive large bookplate from a state room in a White Star Line ship, volume II..... More
Legborne Louth, 1988. First edition, 8vo, xii, 299, (1) pp. Photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., some creasing, a near fine copy. More
London: Longman, Brown, and Co. [et al], 1846. Tenth edition, 8vo, lxviii, 368 pp. 20th century typescript notes on logarithms pasted to front and rear blanks, some older manuscript notes to a rear blank also, marbled endpapers. 20th century maroon half morocco, some light rubbing. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1942). First edition. 8vo. 645, (1) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to spine, top edge green, inconspicuous old ownership inscription to the front pastedown, dust jacket, not price clipped. Tanning to the jacket spine, a few marks to the upper panel, a very..... More
London: Dawsons, 1966. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1673, 4to, (ii), (xiv), 162 pp. A fine copy in the original cloth. A landmark work in science, this book contains the first mathematical analysis of a pendulum as well as examining motion along curves and centrifugal force. "...a work..... More