London: Unwin Brothers, [1900]. First edition, 4to, 40 pp. 10 coloured plates tipped in, a couple lacking their tissues, armorial bookplate with a slightly later signature above. Original two tone buckram, some light soiling and browning. 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
[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: 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
Cambridge University Press, 1914. Folio, xx, 206 pp. Portrait frontispiece of John Ray and 206 black and white plates, armorial bookplate. Original green quarter morocco, slightly worn, corners bumped, t.e.g. Only 2 volumes - II and III - were published, of a planned 10. More
Melbourne: John Ferres, 1886. First edition, 4to, (x, 148) pp. Frontispiece and 74 plates, some light foxing, modern bookplate. Original dark green cloth, recased. More
Melbourne: John Ferres, 1860-1862. First edition, 4to, viii, 242 pp. 23 plates, foxed, modern bookplate. Almost entirely unopened in the original dark green moiré cloth, a little marked, rebacked retaining most of the original backstrip. More
London: Ernest Benn, 1923. First edition, large 8vo, xii, 134, viii advertisement pp. 11 plates and 22 illustrations in the text, small numbered label tipped onto the fly leaf. Original cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed, label neatly removed from foot, a very good copy. More
London: Harrison, [1860]. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 79, (1) pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with original gilt lettering to the upper board, sometime rebacked in a plainer black cloth with new gilt lettering to the spine. Some wear to the edges of the boards, otherwise very good. Nightingale's second..... More
Ventnor: Publisher for the Author, (1887). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 240 pp. Frontispiece and 23 plates, inscribed from the author on the paste down. Original gilt titled cloth, spine darkened, ends worn, one gathering slightly loose. More
Glasgow: At the University Press, 1806. First edition thus. 12mo. (viii), 210, (2) pp. Contemporary red full roan, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, marbled endpapers. 3 folding plates. Henry Park (1745–1831) was the son of a surgeon and promptly followed him into the profession. He..... More
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., [1930]. First edition. 8vo. xii, 116 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, black lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Frontispiece and two plates, each being photographic portraits of the quack physician Albert Abrams. Much of the lower part of the jacket has..... More
