Freshwater Fishes.
(London): HarperCollins, (1992). First edition, 8vo, 368 pp. 21 colour and over 200 black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine sunned. New Naturalist series no. 75. More
(London): HarperCollins, (1992). First edition, 8vo, 368 pp. 21 colour and over 200 black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine sunned. New Naturalist series no. 75. More
(London): HarperCollins, (1994). First edition, 8vo, 367, (1) pp. 16 pages of coloured photographs plus illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, slight fading to the red of the spine, otherwise near fine. New Naturalist series no. 81. More
Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Printed and sold by W. Hextall [and] London: Geo. Lawford, 1836. Second edition. 4to. xii, 101, (1) pp. Recent speckled quarter calf over brown cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label. 1 folding map, 7 folding cross sections, 23 colour tables of strata plus 1 in..... More
Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition. 8vo. xii, 316 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper. 4 plates and a map Jacket spine tanned and worn with some small losses to the ends and corners..... More
London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849. Eighth edition. Square 12mo, xiv, 5-102, (4), 4 pp. Publisher's grey cloth, blindstamped to the spine, gilt title panel with a decorative border to the upper cover, all edges gilt, early bookplate of a Samuel T. Mills to the front pastedown. Portrait frontispiece and..... 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
London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to, (xvi), 327, (1 advertisement) pp. 41 plates, 2 folding and 4 hand coloured, plus a hand coloured geological map, endpapers, frontispiece and title page foxed, armorial bookplate. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, some rubbing to extremities. "...Mantell's first and in some respects most..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Second edition, 8vo, xvi, (2), 17-418, 419*-430*, 431-476, 419-428, 477-478 pp. 19 plates (1 extending) plus an extending hand coloured map and 43 text figures. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt spine and vignette, spine browned with light wear to ends. Dean 192 "...erratically paginated..." Originally..... 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: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. Sixth edition Two volumes. 8vo. xvi, 481, (1); (vi), 483-938 pp. Publisher's blue-green blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered and ruled to the spines, the early armorial bookplate of a George Tomline of Riby Grove to the front pastedowns, a small mid 20th century ownership inscription..... 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. Original pictorial boards, wraparound title band, fine. More
London: Collins, (1982). First edition, 8vo, 207, (1) pp. 16 black and white plates. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, publisher's original duraseal slightly wrinkled otherwise a very good bright copy. New Naturalist series no. 68. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green,... and by J, Mawe, 1825. Seventh edition. 12mo. vi, (2), 110, (2) pp. Original drab boards, rebacked to style with a new paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner to the front pastedown and the earlier ownership inscription of..... More
Beekay Publishers, (1988). First edition, 8vo, 248 pp. Photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
London: Collins, (1981). First edition, 8vo, 178 pp. 24 coloured plates plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly sunned, publisher's duraseal covering slightly wrinkled. New Naturalist series no. 67. More
(London): Collins, (2009). First edition, 8vo, xiv, 402 pp. 277 coloured illustrations, signed on the title page by the author. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. New Naturalist series no. 111. 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
(London): HarperCollins, (2001). First edition, 8vo, 232 pp. 8 pages of coloured photographs and numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. New Naturalist series no. 88. 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: Odhams Books Ltd., 1966. First edition. 8vo. 159, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Black and white illustrations in the text, further illustrations of the constellations and their allegorical figures to the endpapers. An excellent copy. More
London: Collins, 1953. First edition. 8vo. xii, 179, (1) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, "A5" handwritten three times to the fore edge, dust jacket, not price clipped. 15 black and white plates plus further maps and drawings. Loss to the edges of the jackets, less so..... 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