London: John Murray, 1840. Sixth edition. Three volumes. 12mo. Publisher's beaded purple cloth, original printed paper spine labels, 19th century, contemporary armorial bookplates of a J. Alexander Purson. 5 full page plates, 1 folding plate, 2 single page maps and 4 folding maps, of which one is hand coloured, plus..... More
London: John Murray, 1863. Third edition, 8vo, xvi, 551, (1), 32 advertisement pp. 2 plates and 58 text figures, a few spots to blanks and half title, small W.H. Smith blind stamp to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped green pebbled cloth, small hole to upper joint otherwise very..... More
London: John Murray, 1855. Fifth edition, "greatly enlarged". 8vo. xvi, 655, 32 pp. Publisher's blindstamped brown ribbed cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and with gilt vignette to the upper board, the attractive contemporary ownership inscription of a William Lang of Grampian House, Brighton to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece..... More
(London: Phaidon, 1975). First edition, 4to, 208 pp, 142 illustrations, many in colour, cloth, d.w., price clipped, else a fine copy in the original card slipcase. More
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1940. Second impression. 8vo. 282 pp. Publisher's green cloth, silver lettered to the spine which also features a pink flower illustration, dust jacket, not price clipped. Frontispiece and 14 black and white photographic plates. Losses to the spine ends of the jacket, slightly less so to..... More
London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 144, (4), 8 advertisement pp. 12 hand coloured plates, light browning to the endpapers only. Original blind stamped green cloth, recently recased, spine and edges slightly sunned. Dean 184. More
London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to, (xvi), 327, (1 advertisement) pp. 41 hand coloured plates (2 folding) plus a hand coloured geological map, light foxing to the half title and title page only, subtle repair to the outer edge of the frontispiece. Uncut in recent period style calf, gilt..... More
Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition, 8vo, xii, 316 pp. 4 plates and a map, bookplate to fly leaf, signature to half title. Cloth, with some very mild marks, very good. 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
London: (I) Henry G. Bohn & (II) Bell & Daldy, 1864, 66. Two volumes, eighth and seventh editions respectively, 8vo, xxiv, 479, (1); xv, (i), (481)-1019, (1) pp. Frontispiece by John Martin and 6 full page plates of which 3 are coloured including a geological map of England and Wales..... 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): Collins, (2009). First edition, 4to, (x), 310 pp. Coloured illustrations throughout, signed by both Authors on the title page. Original pictorial boards, wraparound title band, fine. More
(London): HarperCollins, (1995). First paperback edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Rebound in green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, the original covers mounted to the upper and lower board, signed and dated by the author on the title page. 16 coloured plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Fine. New Naturalist..... More
London, 1952. First edition, 8vo, xii, 410, (2) pp, 16 colour and 48 black and white plates. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some mild rubbing otherwise a very good bright copy. New Naturalist series no. 21. More
London: Collins, (1982). First edition, 8vo, 207, (1) pp. 16 black and white plates. Buckram, d.w., the publisher's original laminate covering with mild scuffing, otherwise very good. New Naturalist series no. 68. More
London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1825-36. Six volumes, first editions, square 8vo, with engraved titles, an engraved dedication leaf in volume II, and 144 hand coloured plates (24 per volume), each plate showing 4 plants, some foxing to text leaves only - the plates being clean and crisp, bound in contemporary..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Ninth edition. 12mo. (xii), 116, (4) pp. 20th century brown half calf over early boards. 5 plates, 4 of which are hand coloured. Some offsetting from the colour plates, a very good copy. More
Beekay Publishers, (1988). First edition, 8vo, 248 pp. Photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 486, (5 advertisement, 1) pp. Later bookplate. Original cloth, some mild rubbing, gilt spine title slightly dull. More
London: J.M. Dent, (1922). 8vo, 363, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Prince Henry's Grammar School, Evesham, to paste down. Contemporary dark blue full morocco, gilt spine and arms, slight sunning of spine otherwise near fine. More
Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1859. First edition, 8vo, xxxvi, 358, (6 advertisement) pp. Faint signs of a small label having been removed from the pastedown, small bookseller's blind stamp to fly leaf. Original gilt titled brown ribbed blindstamped cloth, top of spine slightly bumped otherwise fine. 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: 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
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1851-7. First edition, six volumes, large 8vo. 358 hand coloured plates, some light foxing to the beginning of each volume. Original gilt and blind decorated cloth, spines faded with some light wear, volumes IV and VI recased with some repair to the spine ends. Freeman 2670..... More
