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: 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: 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
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
London: James Cochrane, 1832. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 446, (2) pp. Frontispiece, engraved second title and 2 plates plus illustrations in the text, light foxing to the first two leaves. Original publisher's blind stamped black calf, rebacked retaining the original gilt titled backstrip. 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: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman; Peacock and Bampton; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [et al], 1815. Small 8vo. (iii)-xxviii, (368) pp., bound without the half title. Later full sheep, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and dated at the foot. 48 handcoloured plates. Some..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1935). First edition. 8vo. 127, (1) pp. Publisher's green lettered and decorated cream cloth, illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped. Black and white vignette illustrations to the head of each chapter. Small patch of superficial loss to the upper panel where presumably a label..... 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
Rome: American Academy in Rome and Electa, 1998. Sole edition. 4to. 239, (1) pp. Publisher's colour illustrated card covers with flaps. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Some mld rubbing to the extremities, very good. A bilingual edition in English and Italian. 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
London: M.A. Nattall and Leicester: Combe and Son, [c.1832]. Third edition, "with the author's latest corrections". 8vo. viii, 350, (6) pp. Uncut in publisher's dark green pebbled cloth, original paper spine label slightly chipped, the ownership inscription of (?) William Lowrey to the title page and front pastedown, the latter..... More
London: John Murray, 1835-36. Two volumes, second and first editions respectively. 4to. xii, 184, (2); xx, 253, (1) pp. Recent green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label. 48 plates, including a hand coloured geological map and 9 sections, of which 7 are hand coloured. Occasional slight foxing, very good..... More