Freshwater Fishes.
(London): HarperCollins, (1992). First edition, 8vo, 368 pp. 21 colour and over 200 black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine sunned. New Naturalist series no. 75. More
Natural History
Ladybirds.
(London): HarperCollins, (1994). First edition, 8vo, 367, (1) pp. 16 pages of coloured photographs plus illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, slight fading to the red of the spine, otherwise near fine. New Naturalist series no. 81. More
A Collection of Geological Facts and Practical Observations Intended to Elucidate the Formation of the Ashby Coal-Field, in the Parish of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the Neighbouring District; Being the Result of Forty Years' Experience and Research.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Printed and sold by W. Hextall [and] London: Geo. Lawford, 1836. Second edition. 4to. xii, 101, (1) pp. Recent speckled quarter calf over brown cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label. 1 folding map, 7 folding cross sections, 23 colour tables of strata plus 1 in..... More
The Journal of Gideon Mantell. Surgeon and Geologist. Covering the Years 1818-1852. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by E. Cecil Curwen.
Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition. 8vo. xii, 316 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper. 4 plates and a map Jacket spine tanned and worn with some small losses to the ends and corners..... More
Thoughts on a Pebble, or, a First Lesson in Geology.
London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849. Eighth edition. Square 12mo, xiv, 5-102, (4), 4 pp. Publisher's grey cloth, blindstamped to the spine, gilt title panel with a decorative border to the upper cover, all edges gilt, early bookplate of a Samuel T. Mills to the front pastedown. Portrait frontispiece and..... More
The Fossils of the South Downs; Or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex.
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
The Fossils of the South Downs; Or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex.
London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to, (xvi), 327, (1 advertisement) pp. 41 plates, 2 folding and 4 hand coloured, plus a hand coloured geological map, endpapers, frontispiece and title page foxed, armorial bookplate. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, some rubbing to extremities. "...Mantell's first and in some respects most..... More
Geological Excursions Round the Isle of Wight, and also along the adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire...
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Second edition, 8vo, xvi, (2), 17-418, 419*-430*, 431-476, 419-428, 477-478 pp. 19 plates (1 extending) plus an extending hand coloured map and 43 text figures. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt spine and vignette, spine browned with light wear to ends. Dean 192 "...erratically paginated..." Originally..... More
Observations on some Belemnites and other Fossil Remains of Cephalopoda, discovered by Mr. Reginald Neville Mantell in the Oxford Clay near Trowbridge in Wiltshire. Received March 2, - Read March 23, 1848.
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
The Wonders of Geology; Or a familiar exposition of Geological Phenomena.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. Sixth edition Two volumes. 8vo. xvi, 481, (1); (vi), 483-938 pp. Publisher's blue-green blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered and ruled to the spines, the early armorial bookplate of a George Tomline of Riby Grove to the front pastedowns, a small mid 20th century ownership inscription..... More
Aves Sussexiensis; or A Catalogue of Birds Found in the County of Sussex, with Remarks, by... Read May 5, 1795.
[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
Art of the New Naturalists. Forms from Nature.
(London): Collins, (2009). First edition, 4to, (x), 310 pp. Coloured illustrations throughout. Original pictorial boards, wraparound title band, fine. More
Mammals in the British Isles.
London: Collins, (1982). First edition, 8vo, 207, (1) pp. 16 black and white plates. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, publisher's original duraseal slightly wrinkled otherwise a very good bright copy. New Naturalist series no. 68. More
Familiar Lessons on Mineralogy and Geology: with Coloured Plates. To which is Added a Practical Description of the Use of Lapidary's Apparatus...
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green,... and by J, Mawe, 1825. Seventh edition. 12mo. vi, (2), 110, (2) pp. Original drab boards, rebacked to style with a new paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner to the front pastedown and the earlier ownership inscription of..... More
Tiger Bay. In Search of Colne Valley Carp.
Beekay Publishers, (1988). First edition, 8vo, 248 pp. Photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Farming and Wildlife.
London: Collins, (1981). First edition, 8vo, 178 pp. 24 coloured plates plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly sunned, publisher's duraseal covering slightly wrinkled. New Naturalist series no. 67. More
Dartmoor. A Statement of its Time.
(London): Collins, (2009). First edition, 8vo, xiv, 402 pp. 277 coloured illustrations, signed on the title page by the author. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. New Naturalist series no. 111. More
The Cruise of the Betsey; Or, a summer ramble among the fossilferous deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; Or, ten thousand miles over the fossilferous deposits of Scotland.
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
The Old Red Sandstone; or New Walks in an Old Field.
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
Loch Lomondside. Gateway to the Western Highlands of Scotland.
(London): HarperCollins, (2001). First edition, 8vo, 232 pp. 8 pages of coloured photographs and numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. New Naturalist series no. 88. More
Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland. Results of the Seabird 2000 Census (1998-2002).
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
Legends of the Stars. Illustrated by Cyril Deakins.
London: Odhams Books Ltd., 1966. First edition. 8vo. 159, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Black and white illustrations in the text, further illustrations of the constellations and their allegorical figures to the endpapers. An excellent copy. More
Ants.
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
British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
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