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A Selection of Collectable Natural History Books
Offered here is a selection of rare, antiquarian and modern natural history books.
Highlights include:
- First edition/first issue of Darwin's 'The Descent of Man and Selection in relation to Sex'(1871), where the word "evolution" occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works.
- The Butterfly Vivarium (1858), a very attractive book with hand-coloured plates, including the frontispiece depicting the "little crystal palace" for butterflies and other insects
- The Book-Hunter at Home (1922) by P.B.M. Allen - 1 of 50 copies signed by the author.
- John Curtis' �British Entomology�(1823-1840), considered by the great French naturalist Georges Cuvier (1769�1832) a �paragon of perfection�, is one of the most beautifully illustrated works on British insects, with exquisitely drawn plates with the figures of the rarer and more beautiful species being coloured, and in many instances included the plants upon which the specimens were found.
- 1813 edition of Gilbert White's 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne', a book Colleridge described as sweet delightful.
- A handsome and rare complete run bound in 59 vols of the endlessly fascinating 'North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club Annual Report and Transactions/Journal'
- A fine copy in pristine dust-jacket of 'Wild & Garden Plants' (New Naturalist 80). Completely unfaded copies of this book are 'an absolute rarity if indeed exist at all'(Bernhard & Loe, 2015).
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by Humphreys, H.N.
Cat No. : 32567, Published : 1858, Illustrations : 8 hand-coloured engraved plates
Hardback £195.00
This work, published during the peak of Victorian interest in natural history, instructed the reader how to build, stock and maintain an insect vivarium. The coloured frontispiece illustrates a. . .(more)
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by Newman, E.
Cat No. : 33476, Published : [1861]
Hardback £65.00
2nd edition. Scarce.. . .(more)
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by Allan, P.B.M.
Cat No. : 31346, Published : 1922, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 3 plates
Hardback £150.00
2nd edition. Limited to 500 copies of which 50 were printed 'on fine paper'.. . .(more)
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by Curtis, John
Cat No. : 33526, Published : 1823-1840, Illustrations : 770 hand-coloured plates (1-769, 205*)
Hardback £6,950.00
Rare. Systematically arranged set in 8 volumes: Vols I-II Coleoptera, Vol. III Dermaptera, Dictyoptera, Orthoptera, Strepsiptera, Hymenoptera Pt. I, Vol. IV Hymenoptera Pt. II, Neuroptera,. . .(more)
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by Whitehead, P.J.P.
Cat No. : 29583, Published : 1968, Illustrations : 36 col + b/w plates
Hardback £125.00
Publication No. 670. Published to mark the bicentenary of Captain Cook's first voyage to the Pacific. 36 plates (24 colour), each with facing page of explanatory text.. . .(more)
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by Whitehead, P.J.P.; Edwards, P.I.
Cat No. : 29703, Published : 1974, Illustrations : 20 col plates
Hardback £300.00
Published in a limited edition of 400 copies. The Reeves collection of early nineteenth-century water-colours is one of the largest sets of natural history drawings in the British Museum (Natural. . .(more)
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by Hayter-Hames, J.
Cat No. : 33245, Published : 1991, Illustrations : frontis, b/w plates
Hardback £50.00
Biography of Cynthia Longfield, author of "Dragonflies of the British Isles" (1937).. . .(more)
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla
Cat No. : 30049, Published : 1974, Illustrations : 50 col plates, 17 col folding plates
Hardback £495.00
Multi-lingual text (German/English/French/Russian/Latin). Limited edition of 1,750 numbered copies. Maria Sibylla Merian, also known as Anna Maria Sibylla (1647 - 1717) was German-born naturalist,. . .(more)
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by Harvey, W.H.
Cat No. : 9593, Published : 1851-1858, Illustrations : 50 hand-col plates
Hardback £600.00
Rare. Complete in three parts: Pt. 1: Melanospermeae; Pt. 2: Rhodospermeae; Pt. 3: Chlorospermeae . . .(more)
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by Samouelle, George
Cat No. : 33794, Published : 1819, Illustrations : 12 hand-col plates
Hardback £240.00
Comprising the best Means of obtaining and preserving them, and a Description of the Apparatus generally used; together with the Genera of Linn�, and the Modern Method of arranaging the Classes,. . .(more)
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by Whitaker, J.I.S.
Cat No. : 2882, Published : 1905, Illustrations : 2 photogravure frontispieces, 15 hand col litho. plates by Gronvold, 2 photographic plates, 2 folding maps
Hardback £1,250.00
Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker (1850 � 1936) was a wealthy Sicilian-English ornithologist, archaeologist and sportsman. Although he had a number of interests,. . .(more)
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by Hewitson, W.C.
Cat No. : 22419, Published : 1846, Illustrations : 137 fine hand-col plates
Hardback £500.00
2nd edition. Plates are numbered I-CXXXI, XII*, XXV*, LXXVIII*, CI*, CXX*. An additional plate is called for by Nissen (XXXVII*), but is not present in this copy [Nissen IVB 442] . . .(more)
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by White, Gilbert
Cat No. : 25869, Published : 1813, Illustrations : folding frontis, 8 plates (1 hand-col), 3 vignettes
Hardback £400.00
New (3rd) edition. Mitford's 4to edition. Includes 12 fine engravings, including the folding frontis-piece, 8 full page plates (one hand-coloured) and 3 vignettes in the text. Gilbert White (1720 �. . .(more)
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by Harting, J.E.
Cat No. : 33855, Published : 1875, Illustrations : 10 hand-col plates
£125.00
Lithographic plates drawn and coloured by Arthur Rich. [Freeman, 1568]. . .(more)
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by Lovell, M.S.
Cat No. : 33877, Published : 1867, Illustrations : 12 hand-col plates
Hardback £120.00
1st edition. Rare. Includes fine hand-coloured lithographs by G.B. Sowerby. [Freeman, 2320]. . .(more)
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by Bouriquet, G.
Cat No. : 32238, Published : 1946, Illustrations : 1 portrait, 7 col plates, 230 text figs, 41 b/w plates
£400.00
Gilbert Bouriquet (1903-1975) was a French agronomist, who in 1929 established the Laboratory of Plant Pathology in Tananarive (Antananarivo), Madagascar. He was awarded Chevalier de la L�gion. . .(more)
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by Herrick, F.H.
Cat No. : 30263, Published : 1895, Illustrations : 65 plates (8 col, 1 folding), 1 folding table
Paperback £120.00
Article 1 - Bull. U.S. Fish Commission, 1895. Plates numbered A-J, 1-44, 45a-b, 46-54. Ten plates are from photographs, the rest are drawn from nature by the author; eight of the plates are fine. . .(more)
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by Dumeril, A.M.C.
Cat No. : 31983, Published : 1860, Illustrations : 1 folding table, numerous text figs
Hardback £360.00
Text French. The French zoologist Andr� Marie Constant Dum�ril (1774-1860) was professor of anatomy at the Mus�um National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris and later became professor of herpetology and. . .(more)
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by Longstaff, G.B.
Cat No. : 29820, Published : 1912, Illustrations : col frontis, 6 chromolitho plates, 9 plain plates
Hardback £150.00
1st edition. Includes translations of papers by Fritz M�ller on the scent-organs of butterflies and moths, with a note by E.B. Poulton. Includes notes on the land mollusca by Mrs. G.B. Longstaff.. . .(more)
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by Verity, R.
Cat No. : 33551, Published : 1940-1953, Illustrations : 75 col + 27 b/w plates
Hardback £2,250.00
Text Italian. Scarce and important work on Italian butterflies. Numbered edition of 1000 copies (vols 1-3) or 800 (vols 4-5). Vols 3-5 were each issued as two parts (Text + Plates). Vol. 1:. . .(more)
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by Van Son, G.
Cat No. : 33634, Published : 1949-1979, Illustrations : 142 col + 41 b/w plates, 748 line drawings
Hardback £325.00
Scarce complete set. Part 1: Papilionidae & Pieridae; Part 2: Nymphalidae: Danainae & Satyrinae; Part 3: Nymphalidae: Acraeinae; Part 4: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae. Transvaal Museum Memoirs No's: 3,. . .(more)
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by Tutt, J.W.
Cat No. : 33475, Published : 1899-1914, Illustrations : b/w plates, text figs
Hardback £360.00
Complete published set of volumes on Britsh Lepidoptera: vols 1-5 on moths + vols 8-11 on butterflies; volumes 6+7 were not published. Volume 11 here is titled 'British Butterflies. Vol. IV'.. . .(more)
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by Leech, J.H.
Cat No. : 18555, Published : 1892, Illustrations : 13 fine chromolithographed plates
Paperback £650.00
Rare. Part 1 only. Fine chromolithographs drawn by W. Purkiss and printed by W. Greve, Berlin. Nissen ZBI 2414 . . .(more)
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by Curtis, John
Cat No. : 31685, Published : 1858, Illustrations : 35 hand-coloured plates (196 figures)
Hardback £450.00
Very scarce, especially with hand-colouring of the lithographic plates. The images are based on illustrations which first appeared in Curtis� �British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions. . .(more)
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by Aurivillius, C.
Cat No. : 26952, Published : 1898 [1899], Illustrations : 6 chromolithographed plates
Hardback £500.00
Published in 'Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar', vol. 31, part 5. Publication date is given as 1898 on title-page, but publication was not before the end of April 1899 (see Cowan:. . .(more)
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by Furneaux, W.
Cat No. : 33310, Published : 1897, Illustrations : 12 col plates, 241 text ills
Hardback £50.00
New edition.. . .(more)
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by Manley, W.B.L.; Allcard, H.G.
Cat No. : 33387, Published : 1970, Illustrations : frontis, 40 col plates
Hardback £275.00
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by Curtis, John
Cat No. : 31811, Published : 1883, Illustrations : 16 fine hand-col engraved plates, 69 wood engravings in text
Hardback £175.00
Later reissue (first published 1860). The fine plates illustrate insect pests and the damage they cause to crops. John Curtis (1791�1862) was a British entomologist, illustrator, writer, and. . .(more)
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by Morris, F.O.
Cat No. : 12533, Published : 1890, Illustrations : 2 plain + 72 hand-col plates
Hardback £210.00
6th edition. . .(more)
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by Humphreys, H.N.
Cat No. : 21629, Published : [1860], Illustrations : 62 fine hand -
Hardback £350.00
Two vols bound in one. Backgrounds partly hand coloured. Colouring is better than in many of the later issues by T.J. Almann. Henry Noel Humphreys (1810�1879), was an artist, naturalist,. . .(more)
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by Altringham, J.D.
Cat No. : 29225, Published : 2003, Illustrations : 250 b/w illus, 32 col photos
Hardback £145.00
1st edition. . .(more)
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by Walters, M.
Cat No. : 31546, Published : 1993, Illustrations : 38 col photos, 49 figs
Hardback £550.00
1st edition. Scarce. Bernhard & Loe, NN80A. . .(more)
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by Darwin, Charles
Cat No. : 28376, Published : 1871, Illustrations : 78 woodcuts in text
Hardback £3,500.00
1st edition, 1st issue. 'The word "evolution" occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition �. before its appearance in the sixth edition of. . .(more)
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by Wallace, A.R.
Cat No. : 32506, Published : 1889, Illustrations : portrait frontis, folding col map, 37 text figs
Hardback £150.00
2nd edition, being a reprint of the 1st edition (in October of the same year) with a few corrections and alterations. 2-page publishers ads at end.. . .(more)
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by Pringle, John
Cat No. : 33662, Published : 1764, Illustrations : engraved title vignette
Hardback £250.00
4th edition enlarged. John Pringle (1707-1782), founder of the modern military medicine, was Physician-General of the British Army from 1744 to 1752. His books lay down the principles of military. . .(more)
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by Fowler, W.W.; Donisthorpe, H.
Cat No. : 23556, Published : 1887-1913, Illustrations : 200 hand col + 5 plain plates
Hardback £2,350.00
The rare illustrated, large paper edition. Vol. 6 (Supplement) written in collaboration with H. Donisthorpe. Nissen ZBI 1415. William Weekes Fowler (1849-1923) was a British clergyman, naturalist,. . .(more)
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by Staveley, E.F.
Cat No. : 14882, Published : n.d., Illustrations : 16 plates (14 hand-col.)
Hardback £40.00
First published 1866. This is an early undated reissue.. . .(more)
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by Bristowe, W.S.
Cat No. : 17304, Published : 1939-1941, Illustrations : 22 plates, 96 text figs
Hardback £200.00
Only 550 copies of volume 1 and 538 copies of volume 2 were printed.. . .(more)
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by Westwood, J.O.
Cat No. : 20887, Published : 1859, Illustrations : 48 plain plates
Hardback £650.00
Rare and important work on Phasmatodea (Stick Insects). Includes many new species descriptions. Plates I-XL are lithographs, supplementary plates I-VIII are engravings. [Horn Schenkling 24010;. . .(more)
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by North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club
Cat No. : 33670, Published : 1866-2003, Illustrations : numerous plates (col + plain, lithographs + photographic, some folding), text figs
£1,200.00
The North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club was founded in 1865. Its mission was stated as 'the practical study of Natural History in all its branches, and the cultivation of a fuller knowledge. . .(more)
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