For the Nature Lover: Books on Floral & Botanical Wonders
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Rosier Gallica Gueriniana.
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph; LANGLOIS (engraver).Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Stipple engraving, part printed in colours and finished by hand, first edition, trimmed to just outside of platemark, but good colour. Dimensions:...
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Lord’s entire new system of ornithology.
LORD, Thomas.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /An exceedingly scarce book. Of the few copies in existence only a handful are known with the full complement of 114 engravings. ESTC lists only BL,...
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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 £750.00| /An 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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A Monograph of the Coraciidae
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /[ornithology] one of 250 copies. A scarce monograph published in an edition of 250 copies only.Keulemans was the last of the great bird illustrator...
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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 £3,500.00| /Two 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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[A Group of Four Plates of Pheasants].
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...
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A history of the rarer British birds [with] A catalogue of British birds.
EYTON, T.C.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Eyton's Rarer British birds was intended as an addenda to Bewick's British Birds. The engravings are based on specimens in the author's collection...
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A history of British birds [With] A history of British fishes.
YARRELL, William.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Finely bound. A finely bound set of Yarrell's classic works on the birds and fish of Great Britain. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoolo...
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Rufous Backed Egret.
LEAR, Edward and John GOULD.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /"The most remarkable bird drawings ever made". Edward Lear is one of the greatest ornithological artists of all time. His contributions to John Gou...
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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 £47,500.00| /An 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 £7,000.00| /Edward 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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Coconut/Palm Nut
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Johann Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary who organized the...
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Citrus and Apricots
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /attractive plate, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Johann Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary who organized the ...
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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 £1,750.00| /A 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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The Ornithology of Francis Willughby
Willughby, Francis; RAY, John (editor).Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00| /A fundamental work for systematic ornithology. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labou...
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Zoologia Britannica
PENNANT, Thomas.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...
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