Rare. The finely hand-coloured lithographs show several fossil specimens.Plate volume folio (33 x 26 cm). Set of 8 hand-coloured lithographs, boun...

250 hand-coloured plates. A uniformly bound set of the first nineteen volumes of this popular compendium of plants by the horticulturist Joseph Har...

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...

An attractive example with the rare additional leaf between pages 112 & 113. This voluminous work was compiled by the prolific horticultural w...

'A scarce treasure for the collector' (Dunbar).Published in Paul Gerard's series Cream and Gold Presents appropriate for marriage, birthday and fe...

An attractive copy of the standard county history of Cornwall, by the rector of Ludvagan, a man from an old Cornish family. Includes The Scilly Is...

A finely bound copy of this beautifully illustrated work on British game birds. Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famou...

Imperial paper copy. This edition includes thirteen new figures, one of which, the Spotted Hyena replaced an earlier figure; a rearrangement of the...

'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...

An attractive copy of Wilson's classic work on American Ornithology.3 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, 103 colour plates after the autho...

First edition; 2 vols, 4to; 124 hand-coloured plates, occasional mild spotting otherwise very good; contemporary half green calf, maroon lettering...

This attractive work features palms chiefly from the United States, and Central and South America, all set against their natural backgrounds.Berth...

A finely bound set of Yarrell's classic work on the fish of Great Britain. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoologist and one of the orig...

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...

Morris was the rector of Nunburnholme and a distinguished naturalist although he was never able to accept the theory of evolution. A very pleasant...

Mitford's royal octavo edition. A good example of the naturalist Rev. Gilibert White's (1720-1793) popular masterpiece, of which more than eighty e...

Specimens of flowers, grasses and shrubs. The remains of what must have been an impressive British flora.2 volumes, 4to., 87 leaves of original spe...

Lovely woodcut illustrations of the Schnauzer dogFirst edition, one of 400 (this copy is unnumbered); folio (31 x 24 cm); 10 woodcut illustrations...

In publisher's boards. Following its publication in 1789 The Natural History of Selborne went through numerous editions in the nineteenth century. ...

The first edition in English of Karl Russ' (1833-1899) introductory guide to 'Speaking Parrots', describing over 100 species of bird, with 8 chrom...