Flowering Trees. Shrubs & Climbers of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.
New Delhi: Timeless Books, (2006). First edition, 4to, 160 pp. Numerous coloured illustrations. Pictorial boards, d.w., a fine copy. More
Natural History
Climate and Weather.
London: Collins, 2010. First edition. 8vo. x, 484, (2) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Numerous illustrations and weather charts. An excellent copy. New Naturalist series no. 115. More
Natural History of the Animal Kingdom for the Use of Young People. Part III. Reptiles, Amphibia, Fishes, Insects, Worms, Molluscs, Zoophytes, &c., Adapted from the German of Professor von Schubert by...
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
An Introduction to Entomology, or elements of the natural history of insects: Comprising an account of noxious and useful insects...
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. Fourteenth thousand, 8vo, xxviii, 607, (1) pp., bound without the half title. Later signature to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label from Sherborne School to the paste down. Contemporary calf, gilt spine and arms, a little rubbed. More
Elements of Mineralogy. Vol. I. Earths and Stones. Vol. II. Salts, Inflammables, and Metallic Substances.
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
Geological Essays.
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
Ova Avium. Plurimarum ad Naturalem Magnitudinem Delineata et Genuinis Coloribus Picta.
Leipzig, Königsberg and Mietau: Johann Jacob Kanter, 1766. First edition. 4to. 36 pp. Later green morocco backed boards, 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
Autumns on the Spey. With... illustrations by Wolf.
London: John van Voorst, 1872. First edition, first issue, small 8vo, (viii), 171, (1) pp, bound without the advertisements. 4 tinted lithographic plates, marbled endpapers and sides, small oval morocco booklabel to the top of the paste down. Contemporary red half morocco, t.e.g., light wear to spine. More
The Anglers' Handbook for India, Compiled by the late... Being the North Punjab Fishing Club Anglers Handbook thoroughly revised and corrected up to date, with several new chapters and addition information by Dr. E. Cretin.
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
Leisure Hours with Nature.
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
Commercial Diving Manual.
London: David & Charles, (1989). First edition, large 8vo. Small chip to top of fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., slight sunning of spine. More
A General History of Birds.
Winchester: Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the Author, 1821-24, 1828. First edition, eleven volumes bound in ten - with the index volume bound at the end of volume I, 4to. 193 hand coloured plates, numbered to 184 with 9 bis plates, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half calf, joints..... More
Table of Quarter Squares of All Integer Numbers, up to 100,000, by which the product of two factors may be found by the aid of addition and subtraction alone.
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
Facts About Peat, Peat Fuel and Peat Coke. How to Make it and it and how to Use it - What it Costs and what it is Worth. With Brief Notes Concerning its Use and Value for Numerous Other Purposes.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904. 8vo. 115, (1) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. 15 illustrations. A few marks to the cloth, else very good. More
Yorkshire Dales.
(London): William Collins, (2015). First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 366, (2) pp. 213 illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. New Naturalist series no. 130. More
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Sonya [Sofia] Kovalevsky. A Biography by... And Sisters Rajevsky Being an Account of Her Life by Sonya Kovalevsky. Translated by A. de Furuhjelm and A.M. Clive Bayley. With a Biographical Note by Lily Wolffsohn.
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
The Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants. Illustrated by drawings on stone from the sketches of Francis Bauer.
London: (I) Printed for the Author by William Nicol, (II & IV) Printed for Ridgway and Sons, 1830, 1832, 1838. Parts I, II and IV (of four), folio. 10, 10 and 6 plates respectively, those to the first two parts uncoloured. Part IV contains 6 hand coloured plates (5 are..... More
![Item #37685 The Compleat Naturalist. A Life of Linnaeus. [By]... with the Assistance of William...](/pictures/thumb/37685.JPG?v=1616157724)
The Compleat Naturalist. A Life of Linnaeus. [By]... with the Assistance of William T. Stearn.
London: Collins, 1971. First edition. Small 4to. 256 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge green, dust jacket, inscribed by Blunt on the front free endpaper and further signed by him on the title page. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Some wear to..... More
Loudon's Hortus Britannicus. A Catalogue of all the Plants, indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain. Part I. The Linnean Arrangement... Part II. The Jussieuean Arrangement...
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, [1832]. Second edition, 8vo, xxiv, 602, 24 advertisement pp. Brief later inscription to paste down. Early 20th century cloth, red morocco label, a very good copy. More
The Heron.
London: Collins, 1954. First edition. 8vo. (xiv), 177, (1) pp. Colour frontispiece, 15 black and white illustrations and 13 drawings and maps. Just a little wear at the head of the jacket spine, a very attractive copy. New Naturalist Monograph no. 11. More
Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation.
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
Principles of Geology: or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, Considered as Illustrative of Geology.
London: John Murray, 1840. Sixth edition. Three volumes. 12mo. Recent green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine labels. 5 full page plates, 1 folding plate, 2 single page maps and 4 folding maps, of which one is hand coloured, plus other illustrations set into the text. Neat tissue repairs to..... More
The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation.
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
British Orchids. How to Tell One from Another. Illustrated by Miss C.E. Talbot Ponsonby.
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
The Life of the Bee. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Illustrated by Edward J Detmold.
London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1911. First illustrated edition. 4to. (viii), 235, (1) pp. Recent dark blue half morocco over the original boards and also preserving the original spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 13 colour plates. Some light rubbing to the spine..... More