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A History of British Butterflies

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 48218, Published : 1891, Illustrations : 2 plain + 72 hand-col plates

Hardback £275.00

Third edition. With attractive hand-coloured plates. (more)

A Butterfly Book for the Pocket

by Sandars, E.

Cat No. : 48831, Published : 1955, Illustrations : col plates, text figs, maps

Hardback £25.00

3rd impression. Including all species to be found in the British Isles with life-sized coloured plates and life histories. (more)

Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region

by d'Abrera, B.

Cat No. : 48946, Published : 1980, Illustrations : numerous col photos

Hardback £125.00

1st edition. Based on 'Synonymic Catalogue of the Butterflies of the Ethiopian Region' by R.H. Carcasson. (more)

Notes & Views of the Purple Emperor

by Heslop, I.R.P.; Hyde, G.E.; Stockley, R.E.

Cat No. : 48941, Published : 1964, Illustrations : 22 plates (6 col)

Hardback £125.00

First edition. Scarce. First ecological study of any British butterfly. (more)

Larvae of Northern European Noctuidae. Vol. 1

by Ahola, M.; Silvonen, K.

Cat No. : 47977, Published : 2005, Illustrations : 50 col plates, 68 pages of 1135 line drawings

Hardback £95.00

Bilingual text: Finnish / English. First of three volumes. Covers the region from Iceland to the Urals, and south to north Germany and Russia (north of 52N) and including the British Isles. Vol. 1: (more)

[A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. Vol. I]

by Martyn, William Frederic

Cat No. : 48242, Published : [1785], Illustrations : 53 (of 55) hand-col plates

Hardback £650.00

First volume (of two) covering ABA-KIT. With 53 (of 55) charming hand-colured plates. This work lists the various species of animals in alphabetical sequence (based on the collections in the Leverian (more)

The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands: A descriptive account of the Families, Genera and Species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland

by Saunders, E.

Cat No. : 48312, Published : 1892, Illustrations : 1 plain plate

Hardback £50.00

The standard 'small paper' unillustrated edition. (more)

The Hemiptera

by Dolling, W.R.

Cat No. : 48310, Published : 1991, Illustrations : 8 plates of colour photos, 164 text figs

Hardback £60.00

An excellent introduction to the biology and systematics of the Hemiptera. Identification keys to family level for the British fauna. (more)

The Hemiptera-Homoptera (Cicadina and Psyllina) of the British Islands

by Edwards, J.

Cat No. : 48322, Published : 1896, Illustrations : 2 plain + 28 hand-col plates

Hardback £240.00

Scarce large paper, illustrated edition. (more)

Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles

by Southwood, T.R.E.; Leston, D.

Cat No. : 47983, Published : 1959, Illustrations : 32 col + 31 b/w plates, 153 text figs

Hardback £110.00

1st edition. (more)

Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica Vol. 1-27

by Various authors

Cat No. : 48735, Published : 1973-1993, Illustrations : plates (some col), text figs, maps

£1,250.00

Includes the original editions of the first 27 volumes in the series: 1. Stratiomyioidea; 2. Sesiidae; 3. Tachydromiinae; 4. Sphecidae (2 vols); 5. Agromyzidae (2 vols); 6. Elachistidae; 7. (more)

Manual of Nearctic Diptera, vol. 1 Introduction; Nematocera; Lower Brachycera

by McAlpine, J.; Peterson, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; Vockeroth, J.R.; Wood, D.M. (Eds)

Cat No. : 47953, Published : 1981, Illustrations : text figs

Hardback £150.00

American Beetles. Vol. 1-2 Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia

by Arnett, R.H.; Thomas, M.C. (Eds)

Cat No. : 47445, Published : 2001-2002, Illustrations : 32 col photos, line drawings

Paperback £190.00

A revised edition of Arnett's Beetles of the United States. Covers genera found in Alaska, Canada and the United States. Vol. 1 - Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: (more)

The Biology of the Coleoptera

by Crowson, R.A.

Cat No. : 47760, Published : 1981, Illustrations : b/w photos, 319 text figs, tables (1 folding)

Hardback £350.00

Scarce classic work. (more)

British Water Beetles. Vol. I-III

by Balfour-Browne, F.

Cat No. : 47865, Published : (1940)-1958, Illustrations : 5 plates, 266 text figs, 67 maps

Hardback £90.00

Complete in 3 volumes. Vol. I is the later reprint in black cloth. Vols II and III are the original editions. (more)

Photographic catalogue of the Genus Carabus

by Ghiretti, D.

Cat No. : 47390, Published : 1996, Illustrations : 2400 colour photos

Hardback £120.00

Illustrates species and subspecies, with information on type locality, distribution and size. (more)

The Journal of a Naturalist

by [Knapp, John Leonard]

Cat No. : 48237, Published : 1829, Illustrations : 7 plates (4 double-page, 1 hand-col), 6 woodcuts to text

Hardback £60.00

Second edition. John Leonard Knapp (1767-1845) was an English botanist and naturalist, best known for the present book, published anonymously (first appearing in 1829, and running to three editions (more)

A History of British Starfishes, and other Animals of the Class Echinodermata

by Forbes, Edward

Cat No. : 48240, Published : 1841, Illustrations : numerous woodcuts to text

Hardback £85.00

First edition. All but three of the attractive woodcuts of starfish were drawn by the author. The work also includes a number of truly delightful vignettes, some by other artists, which Forbes (more)

A History of British Zoophytes

by Johnston, G.

Cat No. : 48324, Published : 1847, Illustrations : 73 plates, 87 woodcuts to text

Hardback £180.00

2nd edition. Originally published in 16 parts 1846-1847. Many of the illustrations for the plates were drawn from nature by Mrs. Catharine Johnston, the author's wife. Plates are numbered I-LXXIV; (more)

A History of British Fishes. Vol. I-II

by Yarrell, William

Cat No. : 48291, Published : [1835-]1836, Illustrations : c. 400 wood engravings

Hardback £150.00

First edition. William Yarrell (1784-1856) was a zoologist, collector, fellow of the Linnean Society of London, original member of the Zoological Society (founded 1826). Yarrell’s books, A History (more)

The Genus Rosa. Vol. I-II

by Willmott, Ellen

Cat No. : 48606, Published : [1910-]1914, Illustrations : 132 fine col plates, 15 uncolored plates, 68 full-page illustrations

Hardback £2,000.00

First edition, issued in parts between 1910 and 1914. With 132 fine chromolithographic plates after watercolours by Alfred Parsons, R.A. The Latin and English descriptions of the species concerned (more)

Ferns: British and Exotic. Vol. I-VIII

by Lowe, E.J.

Cat No. : 46014, Published : 1856-1860, Illustrations : 479 col plates, text figs

Hardback £1,200.00

First edition. Illustrated by A.F. Lydon. Coloured plates by Benjamin Fawcett, Driffield.

Nissen BBI 1243; Freeman 2326; McLean 23. (more)

A New Family Herbal: or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants Used in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts

by Thornton, Robert John

Cat No. : 48500, Published : 1810, Illustrations : text woodcuts

Hardback £295.00

First edition. The plants drawn from nature by Henderson, and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. Robert John Thornton (1768-1837) was an English physician and botanical writer who published a number (more)

The British Herbal and Family Physician to which is added a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Families

by Culpepper [=Culpeper], Nicholas

Cat No. : 48299, Published : n.d. [c. 1816], Illustrations : engraved title, 52 hand-col botanical plates + 7 tinted anatomical plates

Hardback £200.00

An undated edition from early nineteenth-century, c. 1816. Comprises of two parts: botanical and medical. (more)

Collection of 14 short papers by and about the plant hunter Frank Kingdon-Ward

by Kingdon-Ward, F.

Cat No. : 43092, Published : c.1930-1959

Paperback £85.00

A collection of short papers by the famous plant collector Frank. Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958), who was described in an accompanying obituary ‘as the doyen of plant collectors’. This fascinating (more)

A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants; with an easy Introduction to the to the Study of Botany

by Withering, William

Cat No. : 48306, Published : 1812, Illustrations : 35 copper plates (some folding)

Hardback £120.00

Fifth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. (more)

Collins Flower Guide The most complete guide to the flowers of Britain & Europe

by Streeter, D.; Hart-Davis, C. (Illustrator); Hardcastle, A. (Illustrator); Cole, F. (Illustrator); Haper, L. (Illustrator)

Cat No. : 48510, Published : 2016, Illustrations : 1400 col illus.

£85.00

Large format edition. Attractive cover design by Sandra Wall Armitage SBA. A field guide to the identification of those plants found growing wild in the British Isles and neighbouring parts of (more)

The British Flora; comprising the Phaenogamous, or Flowering Plants, and the Ferns

by Hooker, W.J.

Cat No. : 48263, Published : 1831

Hardback £75.00

Second edition, with additions and corrections.

Stafleu & Cowan 3000; Freeman 1758 (more)

Arabian Mammals: A Natural History

by Kingdon, J.

Cat No. : 48378, Published : 1991, Illustrations : 55 col plates, pencil drawings, distribution maps

Hardback £75.00

Text English, plates with descriptions in English and Arabic. Following a general introduction to the region the book describes every mammal found in the peninsula (some one hundred species) (more)

A General History of Quadrupeds

by Bewick, Thomas

Cat No. : 48567, Published : 1791, Illustrations : wood engravings to text

Hardback £300.00

Second edition (considered the best), published only fourteen and a half months after the first (in May 1790). Roscoe describes the second edition as '... No mere reprint ... A largely revised, (more)

The Fables of Aesop, and Others

by Bewick, Thomas

Cat No. : 48215, Published : 1823, Illustrations : 188 head-pieces, 135 tail-pieces

Hardback £225.00

Second edition. Contains 188 fables, illustrated with head- and tail-pieces by Bewick. According to Roscoe, 1,000 copies of the demy were published. Page 325 numbered 235. With cancel leaf (pp 263-4) (more)

A History of British Birds. Vol. I: Land Birds [and] Vol. II: Water Birds

by Bewick, Thomas

Cat No. : 47495, Published : 1816, Illustrations : text engravings

Hardback £320.00

Illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Vol. I: Land Birds - 6th edition; Vol. II: Water Birds - 4th edition. Pagination as in Roscoe.

Roscoe, 22 & 23.

Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was a (more)

The Hawfinch (New Naturalist Monograph 15) [SIGNED]

by Mountfort, G.

Cat No. : 48646, Published : 1957, Illustrations : 8 b/w plates, 32 text figs

Hardback £650.00

First edition. Jacket design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. First state, with boards slightly smaller in height and width than the standard monograph format. One of the most elusive titles in the (more)

Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds. Vol. I-II

by Hewitson, W.C.

Cat No. : 48293, Published : 1856, Illustrations : 149 fine hand-col plates

Hardback £500.00

Third edition, originally published in 38 parts between 1853 and 1856. Illustrated by fine hand-coloured, lithographic plates (numbered I-CXLV, XLV*, LI*, LIII*, XC*); also with additional leaves, (more)

On the Birds of Fernando Po

by Alexander, Boyd

Cat No. : 48691, Published : 1903, Illustrations : frontis map, 3 hand-col plates

Hardback £125.00

Scarce. From The Ibis, 45(3): 330-403. Hand-coloured plates by J.G. Keulemans. Boyd Alexander (1873-1910) was a British traveller and ornithologist. (more)

Manual of the Birds of Ceylon

by Wait, W.E.

Cat No. : 48713, Published : 1931, Illustrations : folding map

Hardback £125.00

Second edition. Ceylon Journal of Science. Scarce. Errata slip tipped in facing page 1. (more)

Parrots of the World

by Forshaw, J.M.; Cooper, W.T. (Illus.)

Cat No. : 48622, Published : 1973, Illustrations : 158 full-page colour plates, 179 text figs, distribution maps

Hardback £150.00

1st edition. Fine colour plates by William T. Cooper illustrate all 340 species and some subspecies (500 birds illustrated). Descriptions of all species / subspecies include taxonomic measurements, (more)

Manual of the Birds of Iceland

by Slater, H.H.

Cat No. : 48631, Published : 1901, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 2 b/w plates, 1 folding col plate

Hardback £175.00

First edition. Frontis by F.W. Frohawk. Scarce. (more)

A Handbook of the Birds of Iceland

by Hachisuka, Masa U.

Cat No. : 48649, Published : 1927, Illustrations : map, 7 b/w plates, folding diagram of eggs

Hardback £110.00

Scarce. Includes two plates after drawings by H. Grönvold. 'In the summer of 1925 I took the opportunity of visiting Iceland ... for the purpose of gaining an intimite knowledge of the birds breeding (more)

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