Beautifully bound Victorian book on insects. Second edition, an expanded and improved version of the text originally published in 1835 as the Gramm...

Colour plates. First book edition of this attractive volume, written and illustrated by one of the foremost science popularisers of the Victorian e...

Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...

The first book to apply darwinian evolution to humanity. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans, just preceding Dar...

The definitive edition of Darwin's first published book, The Journal of Researches, containing the naturalist's last alterations to the text, incl...

Fine hand-coloured plates of fossils. The plates from the first and only edition of an early work on fossilised invertebrates by the German natural...

The first volume of supporting evidence for the origin of species. First edition, first issue, of this important contribution to Darwin's theory of...

Lush bird illustrations. First edition of this charming, chromolithographic children's book of stories and poems about birds, from domestic poultry...

Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...

Early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist. First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions...

Inscribed presentation copy. First edition of this scarce, comprehensive record of international parrot breeding, inscribed by the author on the fr...

First edition of one of the most significant of Australian bird books.Colonial jurist Charles Belcher (1876-1976) was a highly regarded amateur or...

Paleontological evidence of human evolution. First edition of this important contribution to the debate over Darwinian evolution, offering evidence...

Early tissue culture work by a prominent woman scientist. The rare offprint of the first major work by prominent cell biologist Honor B. Fell (1900...

A milestone in embryology. First edition, first printing of a foundational work in our understanding of how fertilised eggs develop cell-by-cell. T...

Preventing malaria by understanding its transmission. First edition of this comprehensive work on the epidemiology of malaria by the doctor who ide...

An unusual and rare pamphlet on the care of pet parrots, with interesting ads for bird and reptile supplies as well as a hand-coloured illustratio...

Survival of the fittest. Featuring the first occurrence of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. Originally intended as the first two chapters in a...

Inspiration for darwin's origin of species. First edition, presentation set inscribed by the author on each title, 'Mary Edmonds from the Author, H...