A Selection of Collectable Natural History Books

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A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those who desire it) exactly Coloured by the Author … To which are added, Large Notes, and many Curious Observations. By W. Derham,

by Albin, Eleazar

Cat No. : 35469, Published : 1724, Illustrations : engraved title vignette, 100 hand-coloured, engraved plates

Hardback £5,750.00

Second edition. Rare. The attractive plates illustrate mostly butterflies and moths and their larvae on food-plants. A few plates illustrate other insects. 'Each plate is dedicated to a subscriber or. . .(more)

Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères exotiques

by Lucas, Pierre Hippolyte

Cat No. : 36085, Published : [1864], Illustrations : 1 hand-col half title, 82 plates (80 hand-col)

Hardback £1,500.00

Third (last) edition. The first edition of this work appeared in 1835. Beautiful hand coloured plates by A. Pauquet, depicting 400 species of exotic butterflies. Appendix: 'De la chasse et de la. . .(more)

Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères d'Europe

by Lucas, Pierre Hippolyte

Cat No. : 36112, Published : [1864], Illustrations : 1 hand-col half title, 82 plates (80 hand-col)

Hardback £1,100.00

Third (last) edition. The first edition of the work appeared in 1834. Beautiful hand coloured plates by A. Noël, engraved by Pauquet, depicting 400 species of European butterflies and moths.. . .(more)

American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Vol. II

by Say, Thomas

Cat No. : 36348, Published : 1825, Illustrations : 18 hand-col plates

Hardback £400.00

Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Original Drawings Executed from Nature. 1st edition. Vol. II only (of III). Pages un-numbered (collation: 2, B4-I4, K4-S4, 2), plates 19-36.

Nissen ZBI, 3612;. . .(more)

Farm Insects: Being the Natural History and Economy of the Insects Injurious to the Field Crops of Great Britain and Ireland, and also Those which Infest Barns and Granaries. With Suggestion for their Destruction

by Curtis, John

Cat No. : 36343, Published : 1860, Illustrations : 16 hand-col engraved plates, 69 wood engravings in text

Hardback £130.00

1st edition. The fine hand-coloured plates illustrate insect pests and the damage they cause to crops. John Curtis (1791-1862) was a British entomologist, illustrator and engraver, writer, and. . .(more)

List of the Specimens of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Pts I + II: Chalcidites

by [Walker, Francis]

Cat No. : 32768, Published : 1846-48

Hardback £150.00

Rare. List of Donors (of specimens) includes Charles Darwin, many of which appear to have been collected from locations visited during the voyage of the Beagle.

BM(NH) Catalogue I, p. 247.. . .(more)

Hymenoptera. Familien der Vespiden, Sphegiden, Pompiliden, Crabroniden und Heterogynen Novara-Expedition. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II, Abt. I

by Saussure, H. de

Cat No. : 15146, Published : [1867], Illustrations : 4 hand-col + 4 plain lithographed plates

Hardback £150.00

The Hymenoptera section (including Supplement by J. Sichel: Hymenoptera Fossoria et Mellifera), comprising Abt. I from Zoologischer Teil, Bd II of the scientific report of the circumnavigation of the. . .(more)

Insecta Caffraria annis 1838-1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Coleoptera

by Boheman, C.H.

Cat No. : 23569, Published : 1848-1857, Illustrations : 3 engraved plates

Hardback £350.00

Pars I. Fasc. I (Carabiei, Hydrocanthari, Gyrini et Staphylinii). Fasc. II (Buprestides, Elaterides, etc.); Pars II (Scarabaeides). [Horn-Schenkling: 1744]. Carl Heinrich Boheman, (1796 –1868) was a. . .(more)

Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae

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. This volume is the only one to. . .(more)

New Illustrations of Zoology; containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious and non-descript Birds, with a few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects...

by Brown, Peter

Cat No. : 11072, Published : 1776, Illustrations : 50 hand-coloured engraved plates

Hardback £5,000.00

First Edition. English and French titles together with brief letterpress descriptions in both languages, written principally by Thomas Pennant. Pennant had previously employed Brown for two of the. . .(more)

Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing a Systematic Arrangement and Concise Description of all the Animals, Vegetables, and Fossils, Which Have Hiterto Beeen Discovered in These Kingdoms. Vol. I-II

by Berkenhout, John

Cat No. : 32976, Published : 1795

Hardback £240.00

3rd editon, corrected and considerably enlarged. Vol. I: Comprehending the Animal and Fossil Kingdoms; Vol. II: Comprehending the Vegetable Kingdom. Vol. I without half-title and blank leaf A2b. . .(more)

The Spiders of Dorset: with an appendix containing short descriptions of those British species not yet found in Dorsetshire

by Pickard-Cambridge, O.

Cat No. : 35873, Published : 1879-1881, Illustrations : 6 plain plates of figures

Hardback £350.00

Very scarce, described by T.H. Savory in 1926 as 'indispensable and almost unobtainable'. Despite the title, the book contains descriptions of all known British species at that date.. . .(more)

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton

by [White, Gilbert]

Cat No. : 35785, Published : 1789, Illustrations : folding engraved frontis, 2 half-titles with engraved vignettes, 6 engraved plates (1 folding)

Hardback £1,650.00

First edition. Gilbert White (1720-1793) is widely regarded as the father of ecology and the forerunner of all modern natural historians. The present work is one of the most popular books in the. . .(more)

A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 22418, Published : 1892, Illustrations : 248 col plates

Hardback £550.00

3rd edition. Plates numbered I-CCXXXII (+ 16 bis plates).. . .(more)

The Original Water-color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. Vol. I-II

by Audubon, John James

Cat No. : 35996, Published : 1966, Illustrations : col portrait frontis, 431 col plates (some folding), 21 text figs

£200.00

Reproduced in colour for the first time from the collection at The New York Historical Society. With an Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson.. . .(more)

British Fresh-water Fishes

by Houghton, W.

Cat No. : 35930, Published : [1879], Illustrations : 41 fine colour printed plates, 64 engravings, text figs

Hardback £950.00

First edition. With some of the nineteenth-century's finest colour plates of British fish species, illustrated with a coloured figure of each species drawn from nature by A.F. Lyndon and printed by. . .(more)

Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles (New Naturalist 75)

by Maitland, P.S.; Campbell, R.N.

Cat No. : 31543, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 21 col photos, over 200 b/w figs

Hardback £720.00

1st edition. Very scarce. Bernhard & Loe, NN75A.. . .(more)

The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants [From the JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY]

by Darwin, Charles

Cat No. : 35100, Published : 1865, Illustrations : 13 woodcuts to text

Hardback £5,500.00

Rare first edition offprint issue of Darwin's work on climbing plants. The first edition of this work was published on June 12 1865, and occurs in three forms - all from the same setting of type. The. . .(more)

On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

by Darwin, Charles

Cat No. : 35087, Published : 1861, Illustrations : folding diagram facing p. 123

Hardback £4,000.00

Third edition, with additions and corrections. (Seventh thousand). Published in April 1861 in an edition of 2,000 copies. This edition was extensively altered, and includes a table of differences. . .(more)

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Volume I-II

by Huxley, L.; [Huxley, Thomas Henry]

Cat No. : 31979, Published : 1900, Illustrations : 2 frontispieces, 9 plates, 1 illus

Hardback £400.00

1st edition. Together with signed autograph letter from Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), headed 'Normal School of Science' and dated Dec. 8th 1881, to Canon William Parsons Warburton (1826-1919),. . .(more)

The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface. Vol. I-II

by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Cat No. : 35190, Published : 1876, Illustrations : 20 wood-engraved plates, 7 col maps (some folding)

Hardback £4,500.00

First edition. With the publication of the Geographical Distribution of Animals Wallace 'established evolutionary zoogeography on its modern foundation… [and] few, if any, subsequent works have been. . .(more)

The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals

by Loudon. Mrs [Jane Loudon]

Cat No. : 36259, Published : 1840, Illustrations : 48 hand-col plates

Hardback £450.00

1st edition. 48 hand-colored plates by Day & Haghe, Lithographers to the Queen. Jane Loudon [née Webb] (1807–1858) was an English writer on botany and magazine editor. She commenced her writing. . .(more)

The Universal Herbal: or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of all the known plants in the world, arranged according to the Linnean system. Vol. I-II

by Green, Thomas

Cat No. : 36261, Published : [1816-1820], Illustrations : 2 hand-col frontispieces, 1 hand-col title-page, 106 hand-col plates

Hardback £1,850.00

1st edition, complete in two volumes with 106 nicely hand-coloured engraved plates, 2 hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, 1 additional engraved hand-coloured title-page. Plate - Ricinus, Palma. . .(more)

A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, Containing an Account of Their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious Properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.

by Badham, Charles David

Cat No. : 35891, Published : 1847, Illustrations : hand-col frontis, 17 hand-col plates, 3 plain plates

Hardback £325.00

First edition. Charles David Badham (1805-1857) was an English naturalist, who wrote several books on insects, fish, and fungi. The present book is said to have introduced many varieties of mushrooms. . .(more)

The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them

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)

A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, Containing an Account of Their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious Properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.

by Badham, Charles David

Cat No. : 35891, Published : 1847, Illustrations : hand-col frontis, 17 hand-col plates, 3 plain plates

Hardback £325.00

First edition. Charles David Badham (1805-1857) was an English naturalist, who wrote several books on insects, fish, and fungi. The present book is said to have introduced many varieties of mushrooms. . .(more)

Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle des Corallines,... qu'on trouve communement sur les Cotes de la Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande; Auquel on a joint une Description d'un Grand Polype de Mer, pris aupres du Pole Arctique, par des Pecheurs de Baleine, pendant l'E

by Ellis, John

Cat No. : 35099, Published : 1756, Illustrations : frontispiece, title printed in red & black, 39 engraved plates (5 folding)

Hardback £775.00

French edition, translated from the original English edition of 1755. The first work to state the animal nature of corals, which had previously been regarded as marine plants. Although unsigned, some. . .(more)

Illustrated Index of British Shells. Containing Figures of All the Recent Species, with Names and other Information.

by Sowerby, George Brettingham (II)

Cat No. : 35096, Published : 1887, Illustrations : 24 hand-col plates

Hardback £300.00

First edition. With 24 engraved hand-coloured plates by George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884), British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist. Each plate with accompanying, unnumbered. . .(more)

L'Histoire Naturelle Éclaircie dans deux de ses Parties Principales, la Lithologie et la Conchyliologie dont l'une Traite des Pierres et l'autre des Coquillages

by [Dezallier d'Argentville, Antoine-Joseph]

Cat No. : 35072, Published : 1742, Illustrations : engraved allegorical frontispiece after Boucher, 32 engraved plates

Hardback £1,600.00

First edition. Rare. The first work by the author on natural history, published anonymously. Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680–1765) was a French courtier, natural historian, artist, and. . .(more)

British Conchology. Vol. 1-3 [bound with] Illustrated Catalogue of British Land and Freshwater Shells

by Jeffreys, J.G.; Bellars, H.J.

Cat No. : 33902, Published : 1862-1865; 1858, Illustrations : 3 hand-col frontis-pieces, 24 plain plates (Jeffreys) and hand-col title vignette + 4 hand-col plates (Bellars)

Hardback £375.00

First 3 vols only (of 5) of Jeffreys' 'British Conchology': Vol. 1 - Land and Freshwater Shells; vol. 2 & 3 - Marine Shells. [Freeman, 1946]. With the rare 'Illustrated Catalogue of British Land and. . .(more)

The Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France

by Scrope, G. Poulett

Cat No. : 35952, Published : 1858, Illustrations : 17 plates (7 folding, 1 col), 2 folding colour maps in pockets

Hardback £350.00

Second Edition, enlarged and improved.. . .(more)

The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation

by Lyell, Charles

Cat No. : 35101, Published : 1863, Illustrations : 2 plates & 58 wood engravings to text

Hardback £220.00

Third edition, revised. This book ran to three editions in a single year, the first edition appearing in February 1863 and the second two months later, with seven pages of additional matter in an. . .(more)

Journey across the Western Interior of Australia

by Warburton, Peter Egerton

Cat No. : 35075, Published : 1875, Illustrations : portrait frontis, title vignette, 8 plates, folding map

Hardback £750.00

With an Introduction and Additions, by Charles H. Eden, Edited by H.W. Bates.

1st edition. Scarce. 40-page publisher's list dated February 1875 bound at rear.

Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton CMG. . .(more)

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the Slave Trade

by Baker, S.W.

Cat No. : 34915, Published : 1879, Illustrations : 50 plates, including a portrait frontispiece and double-page col map

Hardback £80.00

2nd edition. An account of Sir Samuel Baker's (1821-1893) command of the Khedive of Egypt's expedition to Central Africa which suppressed the slave trade and opened the region to trade. As usual for. . .(more)

The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe

by Hartwig, G.

Cat No. : 34700, Published : 1874, Illustrations : 8 chromoxylographic plates, 3 folding maps, numerous woodcuts

Hardback £125.00

2nd edition. Attractive tinted wood engravings.. . .(more)

The Life of a Mogul Princess Jahanara Begam, Daughter of Shahjahan

by Butenschön, Andrea

Cat No. : 35926, Published : 1931, Illustrations : portrait frontis, 16 b/w plates

Hardback £250.00

1st edition. Scarce. With a preface by Laurence Binyon. Vignettes on the binding are by Professor G. Morgenstierne. Supposedly a translation of an autobiographical Persian manuscript written by. . .(more)

Original artwork

Three original sketches of the Wood Wasp 'Sirex juvencus' and Empis flies

by Frohawk, F.W.

Cat No. : 36723, Published : 1885-1935

£125.00

A collection of three original observational drawings by the eminent lepidopterist F.W. Frohawk (1861-1946).

This collection includes a signed watercolour study of the Wood Wasp, Sirex juvencus,. . .(more)

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