Colour Plate Rare Books and Prints
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Birds.
HAYES, William.Original price £16,500.00 - Original price £16,500.00Original price £0.00£16,500.00£16,500.00 - £16,500.00Current price £16,500.00This work contains 40 finely coloured plates, mostly hand signed by Hayes himself. His Natural history of British birds ([1770-]1775) contained 40...
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A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.
SHELLEY, George Ernest.Original price £11,500.00 - Original price £11,500.00Original price £0.00£11,500.00£11,500.00 - £11,500.00Current price £11,500.00Attractive Keulemans plates. first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the ...
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Zapiski o Mongolii
[FAR EAST]. BICHURIN (Monakh Iakinf).Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00An important, early description of Mongolia; first edition. A lovely example of this rare book, with hand-coloured plates and interesting provenan...
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Plantae Selectae
TREW, Christoph Jakob.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00One of the greatest 18th-century botanical books. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after ...
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Africana. A distant journey into unknown lands.
SCHEYBEYLER, Catherine.Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £0.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00This profusely illustrated catalogue with detailed collations and critical notes, offers a fascinating insight into the rich and diverse history o...
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American Ornithology;
WILSON, Alexander.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00An attractive copy of Wilson's classic work on American Ornithology.3 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, 103 colour plates after the autho...
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Two Guinea Fowl
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Two beautiful lithographs of guinea fowl taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot. Elliot, ...
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Iconographie du genre camellia
BERLÈSE Abbé Lorenzo.Original price £47,500.00 - Original price £47,500.00Original price £0.00£47,500.00£47,500.00 - £47,500.00Current price £47,500.00An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...
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Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.
BOOTH, Edward Thomas.Original price £7,000.00 - Original price £7,000.00Original price £0.00£7,000.00£7,000.00 - £7,000.00Current price £7,000.00Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases....
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The British Warblers.
SWEET, Robert.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00'Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner i...
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A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.
GOULD, John.Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00In original parts. Rare example in original parts of John Gould's Partridges of America.Gould was inspired to undertake this study by the sight of ...
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Loyal Volunteers of London & environs, infantry & cavalry, in their respective uniforms...
ROWLANDSON, Thomas.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Plates heightened with gold and silver. Rowlandson's Loyal Volunteers reflects the rise in patriotism in the early nineteenth century which saw the...
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British Moths and their Transformations.
HUMPHREYS, H.N.; WESTWOOD, J.O.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00First edition; 2 vols, 4to; 124 hand-coloured plates, occasional mild spotting otherwise very good; contemporary half green calf, maroon lettering...
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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00A finely bound copy of this beautifully illustrated work on British game birds. Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famou...
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