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Lot 937

BAKER, E.C.

BAKER, E.C. Stuart, The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Ducks and their Allies: two volumes, 30 coloured plates, folio, leather binding ver...

BAKER, Stewart, Indian Ducks and their Allies, thirty coloured lithograph plates, original half morocco, 4to, Publisher Bombay Natural History Soc...

BANNERMAN, David Armitage, Birds of the British Isles: illustrated by George E. Lodge, 12 volume set, original cloth in edge worn dust wrappers, b...

BEWICK, Thomas - The History of British Birds. xxx; 335; (ii); 46; (ii). xx; 400; (i); 43; (i) pages, 2 vols., woodcuts throughout, 8vo, bound by...

BLACKWOOD, William, Palaentological map, folding hand-coloured map, linen-backed dissected into twelve sections, 600 x 510 mm, n.d., circa 1850.

BROWN, Lesley, and Amadon, Dean, Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World: illust,stout 4to, original cloth in glassine dust wrapper and slipcase, C...

BROWN, Robert, vol 1 & 2, The Miscellaneous Botanical Works, vol 3, Atlas of plates, original cloth backed boards, paper label, worn The Ray Socie...

BRYAN, Margaret, A Compendious System of Astronomy in a course of familiar Lectures from which the principles of that science are clearly elucidat...

BUCKLAND, William, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, two volumes, 69 plates with hand coloured folded cross se...

EVELYN, John - Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest Trees ... etc., two vols., engraved portrait frontispiece, plates inc. hand coloured, re-backed, ...

FERGUSON, James - Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics With the Use of the Globes, The Art of Dialing .....

GOLDSMITH, Oliver, The History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 75 hand coloured plates, half calf, tall 8vo, Publisher Blackie and Son, 1855, 75...

HOFMANN, Dr. Ernst - Die Raupen der Grosse-Schmetterlinge, 50 colour plates, tall 4to., original decorated cloth, Stuttgart, 1893 WITH - Bright' P...

HUTCHINSON, W.N. Dog Breaking, illustrated, original pictorial cloth, tenth edition 1898, with eight others on dogs (9).

ITALIAN ORCHIDS... Walter Rossi/ Ann Aldridge McMaury, Iconografia delle Orchidee Italia, Iconography of Italian Orchids, 34 superb coloured plate...

JOY, Norman H, British Beetles, Their Homes and Habits: 31 plates, original cloth in complete dust wrapper, 4to, 1949, with a box of natural histo...

Lot 953

JUDD, John W.

JUDD, John W., Volcanos, What they are and what they teach, full calf, 8vo, 6th edition, 1908, with two other leather bindings and a 1st edition o...

KELLER, Dr Gottfried, Die Orchideen, colour plates loose in original printed wrappers, large folio, publisher Jubilaumsausgabe der Schiizerischen ...

KIRBY, William & SPENCE, William, An Introduction to Entomology, org. cloth, 8vo, 1878 WITH - Wood, W. Index Entomologicus, 54 hand coloured plate...

LANGLEY, Batty - A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech ... (etc), folding plate, cont. panelled calf, 8vo, 17...

LAWSON, William - A New Orchard and Garden or the best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard : Recent quarte...

Lot 958

LINSSEN, E.

LINSSEN, E.F, Beetles of the British Isles: 2 vols, original cloth in complete dust wrapper, small 4to, Frederick Warne & Co, neat small ownership...

Lot 959

LYELL,

LYELL, Charles - Principles of Geology : being an inquiry how far the former changes of the Earth's surface are referable to causes now in operati...

MERRIN, Joseph - The Lepidopterist's Calendar : org. cloth, 8vo, 1875, With Tutt, J.W., Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist, three parts, ...

MILLAIS, John Guille, The Royal Foundler in Scotland, photogravure, eight photograph plates, two coloured plates, and illustrations from the autho...

Lot 962

MORRIS, F. O.

MORRIS, F. O., The History of British Birds, 6 volume set, hand coloured plates, 4to, original pictorial cloth, publisher Groombridge & Sons, 1851...

Lot 963

MORRIS, F.O.

MORRIS, F.O. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 1 of 3 volumes; together with volumes 1, 2, 4 and 6 of The History of Briti...

Lot 964

NELSON, T.H.

NELSON, T.H. The Birds of Yorkshire Being a Historical Account of the Avi-fauna of the County, 2 vols, stout 8vo, well illustrated, original green...

WITHDRAWNNEW NATURALIST - No. 90 Moths, First 2002 FINE. with - No. 101, Galloway and the Borders, first. MINT (still shrink wrapped), with - Ever...

NEW NATURALIST - The New Naturalist Calendar (2011), artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, ring binder, 35 x 32 cm. With - Robert Gilllmor's New...

NEW NATURALIST, Dartmoor a Study of its Time by Ian Mercer, signed by author on title page, original cloth in dust wrapper, first edition 2009 (fi...

NEWTON, Sir Isaac - A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English : small worm track to inner margin to first few pages, cont. ca...

PEMBERTON, Henry, A View of St Isaac Newton's Philosophy, 10 folding plates, 4to, full calf, lacking spine label, printed by S. Palmer 1728.

PHILLIPS, John C, The Natural History of the Ducks: four volumes bound in two, plates in colour and in black and white, stout 4to, Dover publicati...

PRATT, Anne, The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain: new edition revised by Edward Step, four volumes, original cloth, ...

Lot 972

SANDERSON, G.

SANDERSON, G.P, Thirteen Years Amongst the Wild Beasts of India: illust, 8vo, original pictorial cloth bright copy, 6th edition 1896, with B. E Sm...

SETH-SMITH, David - Parrakeets, A Handbook to the Imported Species, 20 colour plates after H. Goodchild, H. Kronvold etc. illust. throughout tex...

SMITH, Elizabeth the Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approv...

STAINTON, H. T ... (edit) Larvae of British Butterflies and Moths Volumes 1 to 8 complete, plates, 8vo, org. cloth, Ray Society, 1886 - 2001. (9)

WHITE, Gilbert - The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne, two vols., Illust. by J. G. H. Keulemans, et al. re-bound in attractive half calf,...

WILLIAMS, C, B - Insect Migration, New Naturalist (36), Illust., org. cloth, in d/w,1958, WITH - Insect Transformation, 2 vols., WITH - Curiositi...

WOOD, Rev. J. G. Common British Beetles, org.pictorial gilt cloth borders and gilt device of beetles, small 8vo. Routledge. n.d., together with 12...

Lot 979

WOOD, W.

WOOD, W. Zoography; or the Beauties of Nature Displayed in Select Descriptions from the Animal and the Vegetable with additions from the Mineral K...

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