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List of Antiquarian Natural History Books and Art Work
Offered here is a list of antiquarian books on entomology and other natural history, many suitable as Christmas gifts.
We also include a selection of visually attractive items, such as hand-coloured copper engravings from the rare first edition of the The Aurelian (1766) and 30 original watercolours of exotic butterflies by Annie M. Dannatt.
A list of recently published new books will follow shortly.
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by Ward, C.
Cat No. : 42198, Published : [1873-1875?], Illustrations : 12 hand-col + 6 plain lithographed plates
Hardback £1,200.00
Very rare work by the British entomologist Christopher Ward (1836-1900). Plates by G.H. Ford, printed by Mintern Bros. Twelve plates finely hand coloured; the final six plates (Pt III) are always (more)
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by Lewin, William
Cat No. : 38061, Published : 1795, Illustrations : 46 engraved hand-coloured plates
Hardback £2,600.00
Parallel text English/French. First issue. Systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature, with the natural history of each species, from an application to the subject, and (more)
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by Morris, F.O.
Cat No. : 43039, Published : 1868, Illustrations : 71 hand-col plates, 2 plain plates
Hardback £245.00
Early reissue (first published 1853). The present book was the standard butterfly book of the second half of the 19th-centruy, and today is considered a lepidopterological classic. Text and plates (more)
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by Humphreys, H.N.
Cat No. : 40084, Published : n.d. [c.1859-1860], Illustrations : 94 hand coloured plates, additional hand coloured title-page
Hardback £300.00
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by Tutt, J.W.
Cat No. : 39223, Published : 1896, Illustrations : 9 b/w plates, 45 text figs
Hardback £65.00
Scarce. (more)
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by Buckler, W.; Porritt, G.T. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 36363, Published : 1897, Illustrations : 22 col plates
Hardback £60.00
With chromolithographic plates of larvae of the Geometridae. Inscribed 'With the Secretary's Compliments' and with F.W. Frohawk's signature to endpaper. (more)
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by Wingate, W.J.
Cat No. : 43381, Published : 1906, Illustrations : 7 plates
Hardback £75.00
Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland, Durham & Newcastle-upon-Tyne (New Series). Vol. II. (more)
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by Coe, R.L.
Cat No. : 40292, Published : 1957-1963
Hardback £120.00
Offprints from Entomologist's Record, Vol. 69-71 and 74-75. Ralph Leonard Coe (1906-1968), was a dipterist at the British Museum (Natural History), where he worked for 39 years. This forms an account (more)
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Cat No. : 38236, Published : 1839, Illustrations : 16 engraved plates, text figs
Hardback £75.00
First edition. Freeman 1709. (more)
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by Michelet, J.
Cat No. : 41286, Published : 1875, Illustrations : 140 illus
Hardback £45.00
With fine wood engravings by H. Giacomelli. (more)
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by Harmer, S.F.; Shipley, A.E. (Eds); Sedgwick, A.; Sinclair, F.G.; Sharp, D.
Cat No. : 38384, Published : 1899-1901, Illustrations : 664 text figs
Hardback £80.00
These two volumes cover the Insects (by D. Sharp), Peripatus (by A. Sedgwick) and Myriapods (by F.G. Sinclair). Vol. V, 1901 reprint (first published 1895), Vol. VI, first edition. (more)
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by Lucas, W.J.
Cat No. : 40168, Published : 1900, Illustrations : 27 colour plates, 57 text figs
Hardback £275.00
1st edition. Imprint to spine 'Upcott-Gill'. This version has patterned end-papers incorporating the publisher's intials 'LUG' and 4-page publisher's catalogue to rear. There is a variant version (more)
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by Lucas, W.J.
Cat No. : 40179, Published : 1930, Illustrations : 35 plates (13 col), 30 text figs
Hardback £125.00
Scarce. Only 500 copies printed. (more)
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by Saunders, E.
Cat No. : 43462, Published : 1896, Illustrations : 51 hand-col + 3 plain plates
Hardback £450.00
Rare large paper edition, with hand coloured plates. (more)
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by Murray, A.
Cat No. : 31643, Published : 1853
Hardback £250.00
'By Andrew Murray of Conland, W.S. … Aided by the Rev. William Little, Messieurs James Hardy, Robt. Hislop, John T. Syme, Dr W.H. Lowe and other Scottish Entomologists.' 'The following catalogue has (more)
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by Majerus, M.
Cat No. : 42980, Published : 1994, Illustrations : 16 col plates, over 150 bw photos + drawings
Hardback £300.00
First edition. Very scarce - one of the 'golden thirteen' produced in very short print runs (1470 for this volume). Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Bernhard & Loe, NN81A (more)
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by Rothschild, W.; Hartert, E.; Jordan, K. (Eds)
Cat No. : 42909, Published : 1894-1895, Illustrations : 18 hand-col, 4 chromolithographs, 3 b/w plates
Hardback £1,000.00
18 fine hand-coloured plates by J.G. Keulemans (9 of birds and mammals), J. Smit (1 of mammals), F.W. Frohawk (6 of beetles and hawkmoths), W. Purkiss (2 of butterflies and beetles), printed by (more)
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by Pratt, Anne
Cat No. : 42184, Published : 1852, Illustrations : engraved frontis, 72 col plates
Hardback £125.00
First edition. Charming chormolithographic plates of British birds. Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was a botanist and author of popular Victorian natural history books. Freeman 3078; Mullens & Swann, p. (more)
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by Layard, E.L.
Cat No. : 42507, Published : 1867, Illustrations : plain frontis
Hardback £195.00
First edition. (more)
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by Cronwright-Schreiner, S.C.
Cat No. : 41374, Published : 1925, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates
Hardback £125.00
Also an essay on The Ostrich and a letter descriptive of the Zambesi Falls. Errata slip loosely inserted. (more)
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by Gosse, Philip Henry
Cat No. : 43068, Published : 1860, Illustrations : 12 plates (11 col printed)
Hardback £195.00
First edition. This study of the British sea-anemones and corals, which at the time was the first detailed investigation of the group, is one of Gosse's most important scientific works. Erratum slip (more)
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by Landsborough, D.
Cat No. : 43043, Published : 1852, Illustrations : 20 col plates
Hardback £145.00
First edition. Nissen ZBI, 2369; Freeman, 2152. (more)
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by White, A.
Cat No. : 43042, Published : 1857, Illustrations : 20 hand-col plates
Hardback £145.00
First edition. Lithographic plates by G.B. Sowerby. Nissen ZBI, 4384; Freeman, 3966. (more)
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by Hibbert, S. (Ed.)
Cat No. : 43038, Published : 1869-1870, Illustrations : 24 col plates, text illus
Hardback £160.00
Shirley Hibberd (1825-1890), British journalist and writer on horticulture, was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian Britain. In 1858 he became the first editor (more)
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by Francis, G.W.
Cat No. : 43340, Published : 1850, Illustrations : engraved title, 9 plain plates, text figs
Hardback £55.00
4th edition. Includes an Appendix on Cultivation of Ferns. 8-page publisher's catalogue bound at rear dated July, 1849. Freeman 1259. (more)
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by Darwin, Charles
Cat No. : 42549, Published : 1893, Illustrations : 30 woodcuts in text
Hardback £295.00
Second edition, revised by Francis Darwin, sixth thousand. (The second edition was first published in 1888). Freeman 1227. (more)
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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)
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by Campbell, J.M.
Cat No. : 42105, Published : 1904, Illustrations : photographic illustration to titlepage
Hardback £130.00
With an introduction by James Murdoch. First edition. Scarce. The Bell Rock Lighthouse is world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse, and has been described as one the 'seven wonders of the (more)
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by Shackleton, E.H.
Cat No. : 40415, Published : 1909, Illustrations : 2 photogravure frontis, col + b/w plates, 3 folding col maps, 1 folding panorama, text figs
Hardback £795.00
With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.SC. An account of the first journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S. First edition. Shackleton's account of the (more)
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by Roosevelt, Theodore
Cat No. : 39693, Published : 1914, Illustrations : b/w photogravure frontis, 48 b/w plates, 2 maps (1 folding)
Hardback £95.00
First British edition. With illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition. The American president's account of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (more)
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by Kingsley, Charles
Cat No. : 42174, Published : 1873, Illustrations : frontis, 12 b/w plates, text illus
Hardback £55.00
New edition. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an clergyman and enthusiastic natural historian. In this book Kingslsey displays his knowledge both of history and of natural science to chronicle his (more)
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by Moule, J.; Crichton, A.; Duncan, J.; Hamilton, R.
Cat No. : 41696, Published : 1840, Illustrations : additional engraved title-page, 6 engraved portraits
Hardback £95.00
'We have been solicited so repeatedly for separate copies of the Memoirs and Portraits of the celebrated Persons which have been Published in the NATURALIST'S LIBRARY, and the internal interest (more)
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by Huxley, T.H.
Cat No. : 42175, Published : 1878, Illustrations : 5 col plates (3 double-page), 122 text figs
Hardback £75.00
Second edition, seventh thousand. (more)
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by Harris, Moses
Cat No. : 40321, Published : 1766
£275.00
A delightful hand-coloured copper engraving from the rare first edition of The Aurelian, 1766. The plate depicts the 'Eyed Hawk' (=Eyed Hawk-moth Smerithus ocellata) and the 'White (more)
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by Harris, Moses
Cat No. : 43416, Published : 1766
£250.00
A delightful hand-coloured copper engraving from the rare first edition of The Aurelian, 1766. The plate depicts the 'Elephant' (=Elephant Hawk-moth Deilephila elpenor) and the 'Small (more)
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by Harris, Moses
Cat No. : 43414, Published : 1766
£250.00
A delightful hand-coloured copper engraving from the rare first edition of The Aurelian, 1766. The plate depicts the 'Admirable' (=Red Admiral butterfly Vanessa atalanta) and the 'Small (more)
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by Harris, Moses
Cat No. : 43422, Published : 1766
£250.00
A delightful hand-coloured copper engraving from the rare first edition of The Aurelian, 1766. The plate depicts the 'Pinkunderwing' (=Cinnabar Tyria jacobaeae) and the 'Cream-spotted (more)
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by Dannatt, Annie M.
Cat No. : 38162, Published : c. 1930s
£650.00
A collection of 30 unmounted watercolour drawings by the artist Annie M. Dannatt, (Exh. 1909-11) who attended the Blackheath School of Art (briefly mentioned in Arts & Crafts Magazine Vol 1-2, 1904) (more)
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