Rare parrots. A rare pamphlet describing the parrot specimens at the Peabody Museum, originally published as an article in the Salem Evening News. ...

Magnificent imperial octavos. An exceptional imperial octavo set, one of only 24 copies of the Land Birds thus, finely bound in crushed morocco. Al...

Inscribed presentation copy. First edition of this scarce, comprehensive record of international parrot breeding, inscribed by the author on the fr...

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...

Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...

The first book to apply darwinian evolution to humanity. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans, just preceding Dar...

Lush bird illustrations. First edition of this charming, chromolithographic children's book of stories and poems about birds, from domestic poultry...

Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...

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...

Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief plaque of the European frog species Rana esculenta (the common European water frog, or green frog)....

A decade's worth of birdwatching. An exceptional set of notebooks recording the observations of an Audubon Master Birder between 1985 and 1992, pri...

Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

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

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

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...