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Natural History : Animals & Fish

Early works of Linnean classification, lavishly illustrated zoological plate books by figures such as James Sowerby, and popular nature writing.

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  • Actinologia Britannica.
    Actinologia Britannica.

    GOSSE, Philip Henry.
    Actinologia Britannica. 1860.
    £750.00

  • A first edition of The Dog by William Youatt from 1845.
    A first edition of The Dog by William Youatt from 1845.

    YOUATT, William.
    The Dog 1845.
    £250.00

  • A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.
    A pleasingly bound copy of Selous' fascinating investigation into the complexities of the animal kingdom, from microscopic combat among insects, to the aquatic archery of the angler fish.

    SELOUS, Edmund.
    Romance of the Animal World. 1915.
    £150.00

  • A large and handsome taxidermied pike, mounted in a diorama depicting a stream bed with flowing plants.

    [TAXIDERMY].
    Pike.
    £950.00

  • First edition of Charles Owen's An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents, an attractively illustrated book on the biology and cultraul relevance of snakes, published in 1742.
    First edition of Charles Owen's An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents, an attractively illustrated book on the biology and cultraul relevance of snakes, published in 1742.

    OWEN, Charles.
    An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts. 1742.
    £1,500.00

  • Actinologia Britannica.
    Actinologia Britannica.

    GOSSE, Philip Henry.
    Actinologia Britannica. 1860.
    £450.00

  • First edition of the most beautiful publication on Crustacea, Leach and Sowerby's Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniae.
    First edition of the most beautiful publication on Crustacea, Leach and Sowerby's Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniae.

    LEACH, William Elford & SOWERBY, James (illustrator).
    Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniæ; 1815-1875.
    £7,500.00

  • This edition includes thirteen new figures, one of which, the Spotted Hyena replaced an earlier figure; a rearrangement of the text,
    This edition includes thirteen new figures, one of which, the Spotted Hyena replaced an earlier figure; a rearrangement of the text,

    BEWICK, Thomas.
    A General History of Quadrupeds. 1800.
    £1,500.00

  • First detailed local fauna in Great Britain if not in the world.
    First detailed local fauna in Great Britain if not in the world.

    WHITE, Rev. Gilbert.
    The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, 1813.
    £500.00

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