London: Printed for G. & W.B. Whittaker [et al], 1820. Fourth edition, 12mo, iv, 248, 69, (6 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscriptions to both free endpapers, later owner's stamp to the fly leaf as well. Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked in calf. More about Key to the Complete Practical Arithmetician; Containing answers to all the questions in that...

(Vienna): Printed for the Authors, 1924. First edition, 8vo, xxii, 995, (1) pp, with numerous photographic and engraved illustrations plus folding maps and sections, text leaves browned, lower hinge slightly cracked, original cloth, faded. Identical to the 2 volume version issued simultaneously. More about Geology of Yorkshire. An Illustration of the Evolution of Northern England

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889. First edition, small folio, (xii), 66 pp. 30 double page coloured plates, marginal browning throughout. Original boards with some wear, recently rebacked in maroon cloth with a new rear free endpaper. More about Natural History of the Animal Kingdom for the Use of Young People. Part III. Reptiles, Amphibia,...

London: Printed by T. Bensley for D. Bremner, 1799. Sole edition. 8vo. xvi, 502, (2) pp. Recent half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered red label. Very good. Kirwan wrote widely across different scientific disciplines, though he is best known for his works on mineralogy and geology such as his... More about Geological Essays

Tokyo: Published by the author, 1933-1936. First edition. Two volumes. Folio. xvi, 370; vi, (371)-794 pp. Publisher's maroon buckram over matching cloth boards, gilt lettered to the spines, prior owner's book labels to the front pastedowns. 34 colour plates, one illustrated by the author's son Nagahisa and the others by... More about Birds of the Island of Java. Vol. I Passeres... Vol. II Non-Passeres

Berne: Bentelli Publishers, (2000). First English edition, 4to, 343, (1) pp. 88 coloured plates plus further illustrations. Cloth, d.w., card slipcase, a fine copy. More about A Garden for Eternity. The Codex Liechtenstein. Translated by Martin Walters, with the assistance...

London: Cassell & Company, (1927). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 183, (1) pp. 8 plates plus illustrations in the text. Slightly later signature to fly leaf. Original green cloth, spine and edges faded. More about Sweet Peas for Amateurs

London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1909]. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 263, (1) pp. 65 plates, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Allhallows School, Honiton, to fly leaf. Bound by Relfe Brothers in contemporary green calf, gilt spine with a red label, sunned. More about Leisure Hours with Nature

London: Charles and Edwin Layton, 1856. First edition, large 8vo, xxviii, 214 pp. Contemporary signature to title page and paste down, later ones to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped cloth, upper joint and spine ends with some subtle repair. More about Table of Quarter Squares of All Integer Numbers, up to 100,000, by which the product of two...

1847. 8vo. Three geological extracts: 97-132 pp., 1 double page plate and 6 full page; 41-96 pp., 1 folding plate and 6 full page; 40 pp., 1 folding plate and 6 full page. Early diced brown morocco backed marbled boards, gilt lettered red morocco spine label. Small chip to the... More about CUNNINGTON, William. On the Fossil Cephalods from the Oxford-clay constituting the Genus...

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, (1934). First edition. 8vo. 320 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge green, dust jacket. Wear with loss to spine ends of the jacket, slightly less so to the corners, old tape reinforcements on the jacket verso removed and replaced... More about Our Wonderful World of Tomorrow. A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the...

London: John Murray, 1830-3. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Recent period style speckled dark calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered green and red labels, all edges speckled red, the old armorial bookplates of George Fortescue Wilbraham to the front pastedowns. Frontispieces to each volume including two hand coloured aquatints... More about Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by...

London, 1873. Fourth edition, 'revised', 8vo, (xx), 572 pp. 2 plates and 56 text figures, with an engraving ("Femme Lacustre" by A. Anker) originally published in the Illustrated London News pasted to the rear endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed "From the Author" in a secretarial hand to the fly leaf recto... More about The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with an Outline of Glacial and Post-Tertiary...