Printed Books, Maps & Playing Cards, Charles Darwin & Natural History

Albertus Magnus. De secretis mulierum libellus, scholiis auctus, & àmendis repurgatus. Eiusdem de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum, & animalium quorun...

Andrews (Henry). Botanist's Repository, comprising colour'd engravings of New and Rare Plants only, with Botanical Descriptions, volume 10 only (o...

Audubon (John James). The Birds of America, New York: W. W. Norton, 2013, full-page colour plates throughout, original orange cloth gilt, folio, c...

Bacon (Francis, Viscount Verulam). Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries, 2 parts in one, London: Printed by John Haviland for ...

Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds (Land & Water Birds), 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick, 1...

Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc de). Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes, 12 volumes only (of 14), Paris: F. ...

Burbidge (F. W.). The Narcissus: Its History and Culture with Coloured Plates and Descriptions of all Known Species and Principal Varieties, 1st e...

Burnett (Mary Ann). Plantae Utiliores; or Illustrations of Useful Plants, employed in the Arts and Medicine, volume 1 and 2 only (of 4), London: W...

Cox (E. H. M. editor). The New Flora and Silva, 12 volumes, London: Dulau & Co Ltd., 1929-1939, numerous black and white plates throughout and num...

Culpeper (Nicholas). The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines made of English Herbs that were not in any Impre...

Curtis (W.). The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed..., volume 1, 1787, printed title with near-contemporary manuscript ownership signa...

Curtis (William). Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 3 volumes, volumes 30-32, 3rd series, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1874-76, 192 hand-coloured lithograph...

Darwin (Charles). Journal of Researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle round t...

Darwin (Charles). On The Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, London: John Murray, 1860, half-title, lacking folding diagram and publisher's...

Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1871, wood-engraved illustrat...

Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, 2 volumes, 1st edition, mixed issue, London: John Murray, 1871, half-title to volume one only, lacking final...

Darwin (Francis, editor). The Foundations of the Origin of Species, a sketch written in 1842 by Charles Darwin, Cambridge: printed at the Universi...

Dezallier d'Argenville (Antoine). The Theory and Practice of Gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to Fine Gardens, commonly called...

Dodoens (Rembert). A New Herbal, or Historie of Plants: Wherein is contained, the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbes a...

Donovan (Edward). The Natural History of British Fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, 5 volumes,...

Donovan (Edward). The Natural History of British Shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britai...

Donovan (Edward). The Naturalist's Repository or Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: consisting of seventy-two elegantly coloured plates, with a...

Edmonds (Harfield H. & Lee, Norman N.). Brook and River Trouting. A Manual of Modern North Country Methods. With Coloured Illustrations of Flies a...

Evelyn (John). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions..., Terra, a Philosophical Essay of...

Fuchs (Leonhart). [Primi de stirpium historia commentatiorum tomi vivae imagines..., 1st octavo edition, Basel: Michael Isengrin,1545], a-ii8, kk2...

Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes..., enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, London: Printed by Adam Islip, John Norton,...

AR * Gillmor (Robert, 1936-2022). Buff-bellied pipit, watercolour, signed in initials lower left, image size 12.5 x 14 cm, mount size 30 x 31.5 c...

AR * Gillmor (Robert, 1936-2022). Goshawk, watercolour, signed in initials lower left, image size 12.5 x 14.5 cm, mount size 29.5 x 31.5 cm QTY: ...

AR * Gillmor (Robert, 1936-2022). Great Reed Warbler, watercolour, signed in initials lower right, image size 12.5 x 14.5 cm, mount size 30 x 31....

AR * Gillmor (Robert, 1936-2022). Hawfinch, watercolour, signed in initials lower left, image size 12.5 x 14.5 cm, mount size 29.5 x 31.5 cmQTY: ...

AR * Gillmor (Robert, 1936-2022). Pallas's warbler, watercolour, signed in initials lower left, image size 12.5 x 14.5 cm, mount size 29.5 x 31.5...

AR * Gillmor (Robert, 1936-2022). Red-necked phalarope, watercolour, signed in initials lower left, image size 12.5 x 15 cm, mount size 29.5 x 32...

AR * Gudgeon (Ralston, 1910-1984). Pair of Magpies, watercolour and gouache on linen, two magpies on a bare branch, signed lower right, some spot...

Hayes (William). [A Natural History of British Birds, &c. With their portraits accurately drawn and beautifully coloured from nature, London: prin...

Hogg. (Robert & Moore Thomas). The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture, 4 volumes, (...

Humphreys (H. Noël). The Genera and Species of British Butterflies. Described and arranged according to the system now adopted in the British Mus...

Langley (Batty). Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in Englan...

Lilford (Thomas L Powys). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, 2nd edition, London: R.H. Porter, 1891-97, photogravure...

[Loudon, Jane]. [Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, London: William Smith, 1841(?)], part volume only, title page lacking, containing...

Martyn (Thomas). Flora Rustica: Exhibiting Accurate Figures of such Plants as are either Useful or Injurious in Husbandry, 4 volumes in three, Lon...

Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Kreuterbuch des hochgelehrten weitberümbten..., Frankfurt: Sigmund Feyerabends, Peter Fischers, und Heinrich Dacken, 15...

Medical Botany. Medical Botany: or, History of Plants in the Materia Medica, of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias. Arranged accordi...

Morris (F. O.) A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, 4th edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1895-97, 394 hand-coloured lithograph plates, one or two...

Morris (F. O.). A Natural History of British Moths, 4 volumes, new edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1894, 132 chromolithographic plates, many gathe...

Munnings (Alfred James). Pictures of Horses and English Life, with an appreciation by Lionel Lindsay, limited issue, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode...

New Naturalist series. 90 volumes, 1945-2014, comprising numbers 2, 4-8, 10-14, 16-18, 20, 21, 27, 30-31, 36, 43, 47, 49, 52, 62-63, 83-84, 87, 89...

Owen (Edward). Observations on the Earths, Rocks, Stones and Minerals, for some miles about Bristol, and on the Nature of the Hot-Well, and the Vi...

* Pressed Algae. Specimens of Algae, or Submersed Plants, Prepared by Eliza A. Jordan, Brooklyn L[ong] I[sland], 1848, pen & ink and watercolour w...

* Pressed Ferns. New Zealand Ferns [so titled on upper cover], 1860s, an album containing pressed dried fern specimens mounted on the rectos of 64...

Ray (John). Three Physico-Theological Discourses Concerning The Primitive Chaos, and Creation on the World..., 2nd edition, London: Printed for Sa...

Robinson (William, editor). Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree or Flower, 3 volumes, London, 1903-05, 66 chrom...

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: Or, History of Plants Containing I. Their Names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their Species, ...

Shepherd (David). The David Shepherd Archive Collection. Paintings specially selected by the Artist and published to celebrate his 80th birthday i...

Tatti (Giovanni, pseudo Francesco Sansovino). Della agricoltura di m. Giovanni Tatti Lucchese. : Libri cinque. Ne quali si contengono tutte le cos...

Thorley (John). Melisselogia. Or, the Female Monarchy. Being an Enquiry into the Nature, Order, and Government of Bees, 1st edition, London: Print...

Turton (William). A Conchological Dictionary of The British Islands..., 1st edition, London: John Booth, 1819, 28 engravings in 2 states (hand col...

Verneuil (Maurice Pillard). Etude de la Plante Son application aux industries d'art..., Paris: Librairie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts, circa 1900, book...

Wakefield (Priscilla). An Introduction to Botany, in a series of Familiar Letters..., to which is added, The Pleasures of Botanical Pursuits. A Po...

Walton (Izaak). The Complete Angler, or the contemplative man's recreation, London: William Pickering, 1825, engraved frontispiece and additional ...

Woodville (William). Medical Botany, containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with plates, of all the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Toxi...