An excellent survey of the parrots of the world, including notes and illustrations on more than 250 different species.'A series of coloured plates...

The present work consists of sepia-printed lithographs, realized by the lithographer Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789–1850) after Burgess's drawing...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

For Brookshaw's most famous work "Pomona Britannica" or a "Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present Cultivated in this Country; Together ...

Original aquatint. For Brookshaw's most famous work "Pomona Britannica" or a "Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present Cultivated in this ...

A fine early impression in the first state.Engraving with mezzotint, printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic. Good con...

A fundamental work for systematic ornithology. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labou...

Imperial octavo. A handsomely bound imperial octavo set, all first editions, of Yarrell's copiously illustrated British Birds and Fishes, including...

The first british fish book in colour. A handsomely bound reissued set of this 'major contribution to ichthyology... the earliest work on British f...

"The most remarkable bird drawings ever made". Edward Lear is one of the greatest ornithological artists of all time. His contributions to John Gou...

Alexander Pope, Jr., was an American sculptor and painter. He is known primarily for this series on game birds and a similar one on dogs.Six chrom...

Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Roy...

Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it is...

A fine early impression in second state, strong fresh colouring, with complete margins.Original hand-coloured aquatint with stipple engraving.

The Hortus Indicus is the first comprehensive Flora of the East Indies, containing the first illustrations of a great number of tropical and suptr...

Two beautiful lithographs of guinea fowl taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot. Elliot, ...

One of the earliest examples of colour printing. An attractive collection of fine plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Wei...

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...

First edition, first issue of one of the great modern illustrated books of the 19th century. Grandville was a remarkable caricaturist and he anima...

Originally published in 28 parts between July 1825 and January 1830, each plate shows a single variety of Cistus, or Rock-rose, and is accompanied...