Natural History
Embark on a captivating journey through the ages with our Natural History selection. Delve into the wonders of the natural world, from awe-inspiring landscapes to captivating creatures.
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A history of the birds of Europe.
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £17,500.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00The first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since Gould. Dresser's Birds of Europe is the first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since...
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Illustrations and descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order camellieae,
CHANDLER, Alfred; BOOTH, William Beattie.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Important work on the Camellia Japonica. One of finest works on camellias, here in its most desirable state.Described by Wilfred Blunt as 'handsome...
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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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Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis.
AUDEBERT, Jean Baptiste.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00With monkey tools by Bozerian. A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph ...
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A Monograph of the Lories,
MIVART, St. George Jackson.Original price £14,000.00 - Original price £14,000.00Original price £0.00£14,000.00£14,000.00 - £14,000.00Current price £14,000.00Parrots by Keulemans. Mivart's Lories is perhaps the greatest and most desirable monograph on the nectar feeding parrots ever published. Mivart (18...
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Iconographie des Perroquets
SOUANCÉ, Charles de.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive s...
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Zoological Illustrations,
SWAINSON, William.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00First bird book with lithograph plates. A handsome set of Swainson, the first bird book and one of earliest natural history works to be illustrated...
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Flore des Quatre Saisons.
ROBIN, Armand.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Rare floral bouquets. Very scarce artistic botanical work showing highly finished decorative bouquets of flowers for the twelve months of the year....
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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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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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Specimens of the flora of South Africa by a lady.
ROUPELL, Arabella E.Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £8,000.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00Spectacular South African flora. Roupell (1817-1914) was married to an East India Company official who in 1843 was posted to the Cape for a period ...
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British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,
THORBURN, Archibald.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00A Fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860 -1935), a Scottish artist renowned for his accu...
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The Natural History of British insects.
DONOVAN, Edward.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00With over 500 hand-coloured plates. The work that established Donovan's reputation. Each volume contains high quality plates illustrating the life-...
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Album of Botanical Watercolours.
DRUMMOND, Charlotte.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00A most attractive series of watercolours on vellum including a fine China rose.Album (31.5 x 39cm) containing 7 botanical watercolours on VELLUM, ...
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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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New Illustrations of Zoology,
BROWN, Peter.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00First illustration of an Australian bird. Notable for being the first book to include an illustration of an Australian bird. Brown (fl.1766-1791) w...
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A Monograph of the Cranes.
BLAAUW, Frans Ernst.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Ornithology. This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of the Amsterdam Zoo, G. F. Westerman. However, his unti...
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An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China.
DONOVAN, Edward.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Little is known of the early life of Edward Donovan (1768–1837). His interest in natural history started with the collecting of shells and preserv...
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D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer
RUMPHIUS, Georgius Everhardus.Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £0.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00First edition. This is one of the most famous books on shells, by one of the most important naturalists of the pre-Linnaean period. Rumphius (1627-...
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Eidodendron:
BURGESS, Henry W.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00The present work consists of sepia-printed lithographs, realized by the lithographer Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789–1850) after Burgess's drawing...
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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 £3,950.00A fundamental work for systematic ornithology. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labou...
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