Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...

From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...

Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...

Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...

On original watercolour - given by King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most c...

An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...

The images of Australian parrots comprise some of John Gould's most iconic work. Here beautifully presented in fine condition.Folio, 92 fine hand-...

A fine set of 37 original watercolours by Frank Knight for Joseph Forshaw's 2011 work, Vanished and Vanishing Parrots. The plates depict: Carolina...

One of the greatest 18th-century botanical books. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after ...

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...

Although titled the second edition Gould considered the present volume a new work. The text was re-written, all the plates were redrawn, and twelv...

An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...

Important history of entomology. This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exoti...

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,...