(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: Blackie & Son, 1894. First English edition, 2 volumes, 4to. 16 coloured plates with tissue overlays, plus numerous illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary dark green half morocco, extremities rather scuffed and worn. More about The Natural History of Plants. Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and Distribution. From the...
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: J. Nichols for P. Emsley, 1794-96. Second edition, "with Considerable Improvements and Additions". Two volumes. 8vo. xxxii, 510; xvi, 529, (1) pp, volume II bound without the errata leaf. Contemporary full speckled calf, spines with gilt rules, gilt lettered red labels. 6 folding tables to the rear of volume... More about Elements of Mineralogy. Vol. I. Earths and Stones. Vol. II. Salts, Inflammables, and Metallic...
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
London: Printed for A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1823. Fifth edition, 12mo, xx, 484, 12 advertisement pp. Later 19th century inscription to paste down, two contemporary manuscript recipes to a rear blank, fly leaf with some loss. Contemporary cloth, a little rubbed and browned, spine... More about The Cook's Oracle; Containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private...
Leipzig, Königsberg and Mietau: Johann Jacob Kanter, 1766. First edition. 36 pp. Later green morocco backed boards, albeit spine faded to brown, gilt rules and lettering, else plain, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. 21 hand coloured plates of eggs. Small hole to the foot of the upper joint... More about Ova Avium. Plurimarum ad Naturalem Magnitudinem Delineata et Genuinis Coloribus Picta
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
London: Routledge, (2017). First edition, 8vo, xiii, (i), 243, (1) pp. Illustrations in both colour and black and white. Pictorial boards, fine. More about Medicine and Humansim in Late Medieval Italy. The Carrara Herbal in Padua
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...
Calcutta: W. Newman & Co., 1905. Fourth edition, 8vo, (x), 332, v index, (9, 6 advertisement) pp. 6 folding maps and a plan, most of the former torn and repaired to some extent, but without loss, frontispiece, 6 plates of tackle and illustrations in the text. Marginal browning throughout, outer... More about The Anglers' Handbook for India, Compiled by the late... Being the North Punjab Fishing Club...
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: Charles Knight, 1832. First edition, small 8vo, (iii)-viii, 396 pp, bound without the half title. Engraved illustrations in the text, patterned endpapers. Contemporary green half calf, marbled sides, red and black spine labels, slight sunning of spine otherwise very good. From the "Library of Entertaining Knowledge" series. More about Vegetable Substances Used for the Food of Man
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: David & Charles, (1989). First edition, large 8vo. Small chip to top of fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., slight sunning of spine. More about Commercial Diving Manual
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...
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. "Authorized edition". 8vo. x, 377, (3) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece portraits of the author and subject, Fading to the spine, else very good. A pioneering Russian mathematician, the book includes a translation of Kovalesky's own fictionalised account... More about Sonya [Sofia] Kovalevsky. A Biography by... And Sisters Rajevsky Being an Account of Her Life by...
London: Published by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1911. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 302, (2), 30 advertisement pp. 200 illustrations, two to a plate, with a proportion in colour, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, spine slightly sunned and rubbed. More about A Monograph of the Mycetozoa. A descriptive catalogue of the species in the herbarium of the...
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...
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, (1978). Limited edition, no. 322 of 350 sets signed by Longhurst, two volumes, folio. 48 colour plates. Original gilt titled burgundy faux leather, volume II with some mild scuffing otherwise an excellent set. More about Hibiscus. An artist's collection of life portraits in full natural colour with historical texts...
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: Collins, 1954. First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 177, (1) pp, coloured frontispiece, 15 black and white illustrations and 13 drawings and maps. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, spine browned with slight rubbing to the ends. New Naturalist Monograph no. 11. More about The Heron
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: John Murray, 1834, 1841. Two works in six volumes. "Principles..." third edition. Four volumes. Small 8vo. Publisher's green moiré cloth backed drab boards, printed paper spine labels, early ownership inscription of an "R. Burdon" to the upper board of three volumes, contemporary small circular ticket of the bookseller "S... More about Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are...
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 about Principles of Geology: or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, Considered as...