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Rare and Collectable Books - September 2025
Welcome to our September Newsletter, featuring rare and collectable recent acquisitions.
You will also find a list of books by the much-loved palaeontologist and TV presenter Richard Fortey who sadly died last year and books by the famous French naturalist and Jean-Henri Fabre.
Subscribers to our newsletters might like to know that we are currently cataloguing a collection of books African Lepidoptera which will be the focus of our next newsletter and we are working on a newsletter presenting fungi books.
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by Merian, Maria Sibylla
Cat No. : 63036, Published : 1974, Illustrations : 50 col plates, 17 folding col plates
£595.00
Multi-lingual text (German/English/French/Russian/Latin). Limited edition of 1,750 numbered copies - this copy no 308. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a German-born naturalist, artist and (more)
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by Barbut, James
Cat No. : 63144, Published : 1781, Illustrations : additional engraved hand-col title page, 2 uncoloured and 20 hand coloured engraved plates (3 plates folding)
Hardback £1,150.00
Parallel English / French text. Engraved title in English, printed title in French. Fine hand-coloured plates by the author, engraved by James Newton. James Barbut (fl. 1776-1799), English naturalist (more)
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by Hemsley, William Botting
Cat No. : 63063, Published : 1885, Illustrations : 65 lithographic plates
Hardback £500.00
I. Report on Present State of Knowledge of various Insular Floras being an Introduction to the Botany of the Challenger Expedition; II. Report on the Botany of the Bermudas and various other Islands (more)
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by Riley, A.M.; Prior, G.
Cat No. : 62704, Published : 2003, Illustrations : 12 col plates, 300+ figs, 49 maps
Hardback £45.00
Original printing. This group of Geometrid moths (genera Eupithecia, Chloroclystis and Gymnoscelis) are perhaps the most difficult group of Macrolepidoptera to identify with confidence. This work (more)
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by Humphreys, H.N.
Cat No. : 63146, Published : 1858, Illustrations : 8 hand-coloured engraved plates
Hardback £250.00
First edition. Fine decorative hand-coloured engraved plates. This charming work, published during the peak of Victorian interest in natural history, instructed the reader how to build, stock and (more)
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by Waring, P.; Lewington, R.; Townsend, M.
Cat No. : 62687, Published : 2003, Illustrations : 1800 col illus
Hardback £50.00
This field guide to all the species of larger moths known from Great Britain and Ireland illustrates the species in their resting posture. Information on identification, life-cycle, foodplants, (more)
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by Kawazoe, A.; Wakabayashi, M.
Cat No. : 33226, Published : 1976, Illustrations : 72 col plates, numerous text figs and line drawings
Hardback £95.00
Completely revised edition. Supervised by T. Shirozu. Text Japanese. Scientific names in Latin. (more)
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by Mironov, V.
Cat No. : 62684, Published : 2003, Illustrations : 16 col plates, 87 text figs, maps, line drawings
Hardback £99.00
Original printing. All the Eupithecia species are illustrated in 1.5 times natural size on the colour plates. A total of 151 species are dealt with in the volume of which 133 are Eupitheciini. One (more)
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by Balfour-Browne, F.
Cat No. : 62814, Published : 1938, Illustrations : 29 text figs
Hardback £38.00
Scarce. Corrected and revised edition of a series of papers first published in Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 1934-1936. (more)
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by Hatch, M.H.
Cat No. : 62691, Published : 1953-1971, Illustrations : 5 frontispieces, 223 b/w plates
Hardback £250.00
Complete in 5 volumes: Pt I (1953): Introduction and Adephaga; Pt II (1957): Staphyliniformia; Pt III (1961): Pselaphidae and Diversicornia I; Pt IV (1965): Macrodactyles, Palpicornes, and (more)
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by Pakaluk, J.; Slipinski, S.A. (Eds)
Cat No. : 62682, Published : 1995, Illustrations : b/w photos, text figs
Hardback £295.00
This Festschrift honours a lifetime of scholarship by one of the foremost authorities on beetles. Twenty-five authors from ten countries have contributed twenty-two chapters on diverse topics to (more)
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by Rozkosny, R.
Cat No. : 59364, Published : 1973, Illustrations : 456 text figs
Paperback £25.00
Original printing. (more)
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by Chvala, M.
Cat No. : 59349, Published : 1975, Illustrations : 790 text figs
Paperback £35.00
Original printing. (more)
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by Smart, J.
Cat No. : 63119, Published : 1944, Illustrations : 17 text figs
Paperback £15.00
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by Emirates Heritage Club
Cat No. : 62646, Published : 2004, Illustrations : col photos, 16 col maps (15 folding)
Hardback £175.00
Text English. Includes CD in case inset inside rear cover. This work presents 'for the first time extensive and documented data on the locations, coastal habitats, distribution of marine wildlife and (more)
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Cat No. : 62943, Published : 1953-1960
Paperback £75.00
Scarce. Annual reports from Bardsey Island bird obseratory, listing the birds recorded each year, together with contributions on other wildlife found on the island (located 1.9 miles off the Llŷn (more)
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by Attenborough, David; Fuller, Errol
Cat No. : 62915, Published : 2012, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £35.00
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by Brown, L.; Amadon, D.
Cat No. : 62858, Published : 1968, Illustrations : 128 col + 53 plain plates, text figs, maps
£50.00
First edition. A detailed work on diurnal birds of prey, in two volumes. (more)
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by Isles of Scilly Bird Group
Cat No. : 62925, Published : 2001-2023, Illustrations : col photos, b/w illus, text figs, maps
Paperback £125.00
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by Shirihai, Hadoram; (Dovrat, E.; Christie, D.A. (Eds))
Cat No. : 62705, Published : 1995, Illustrations : 500+ col photos, 200+ line drawings, 2 transparent map overlays in envelope
Hardback £150.00
A complete avifauna and bird atlas of Israel. Comprehensive descriptions of the habitats and birdlife of the country, with detailed texts on individual species, together with maps and bar-charts (more)
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by McWilliam, John Morell
Cat No. : 55441, Published : 1927, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 7 b/w plates (8 photos), map
Hardback £65.00
First edition. Ballance p. 451. (more)
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by Svensson, L.; Grant, P.J.; Mullarney, K.; Zetterstrom, D.
Cat No. : 62857, Published : 2000, Illustrations : 3,500+ colour illustrations
Hardback £50.00
First edition, first impression. Guide to birds of Europe including North Africa and Middle East. This is the large format edition with the superb Mullarney and Zetterström plates reproduced at full (more)
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by Turner, E.L.
Cat No. : 55464, Published : 1924, Illustrations : frontis, 48 b/w plates (66 photos)
Hardback £95.00
First edition. Photographic illustrations by the author. Emma Louisa Turner (1867-1940) was an English ornithologist and pioneering bird photographer, who spent part of each year in Norfolk. She took (more)
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by Snow, D.W.; Perrins, C.M.
Cat No. : 62946, Published : 1998, Illustrations : col plates + maps, line illus
£80.00
Vol. 1: Non-Passerines; Vol. 2: Passerines. (more)
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by Horan, M.B.
Cat No. : 55530, Published : [1949]
Hardback £35.00
First edition. Privately published. Scarce. A short survey of the birds and animals found in the parishes of Unsworth, Hollins, Ainsworth, Tottington, Birtle, Summerseat, and Holcombe (most species (more)
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by Gordon, Seton
Cat No. : 63062, Published : 1952, Illustrations : 65 b/w photos
Hardback £40.00
Second edition. A charming record of photographs of wildlife (mostly birds) taken during the early part of the 20th century by the Scottish naturalist, photographer and folklorist Seton Gordon (more)
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by Hudson, W.H.
Cat No. : 55164, Published : 1898, Illustrations : b/w frontis, 16 b/w plates (including tinted map), 15 text illus
Hardback £195.00
First edition. Illustrated by Bryan Hook and A.D. McCormick, with photographs from nature by R.B. Lodge. Freeman 1814; Mullens & Swann p. 303; Payne A16a. (more)
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by Blackburn, [Jemima Wedderburn] (Blackburn, Mrs Hugh)
Cat No. : 53926, Published : 1895, Illustrations : frontis + 87 lithographic plates
Hardback £150.00
First edition. Scarce. A series of descriptions, pictorial and literary, of bird-life in the southwestern corner of Inverness-shire with attractive lithographic plates drawn from nature by the (more)
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by Butler, A.G.; Frohawk, F.W.
Cat No. : 55500, Published : 1904, Illustrations : 24 col plates
Hardback £150.00
Coloured plates by F.W. Frohawk (fine chromolithographs printed by Brumby & Clarke, illustrating 475 specimens, including the egg of the Great Auk). The plates were originally published in the (more)
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by Palmer, Sture; Boswall, Jeffery
Cat No. : 63149, Published : 1969-1980
£150.00
The Peterson Field Guide Series. Scarce complete set of vinyl records nos. 1-14 and supplement no. 15, The insert notes that 'The purpose of the Peterson Field Guide To the Bird Songs of Britain (more)
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by Chapman, Abel
Cat No. : 55456, Published : 1889, Illustrations : 15 b/w plates, b/w illus (some full-page)
Hardback £45.00
First edition. Illustrated by the author. Abel Chapman (1851-1929) was a meticulous observer of nature and a significant conservationist. This work is a classic example of bird observation and (more)
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by Pratt, Anne
Cat No. : 48499, Published : [1859], Illustrations : 35 col plates
Hardback £85.00
Originally published as part of Vol. 6 of Ann Pratt's The Flowering Plants, grasses, sedges and ferns of Great Britain, the section on grasses and sedges, was published separately here for the (more)
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by Seidenfaden, G.; Wood, J.J.
Cat No. : 61122, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 48 col plates (192 photos), 316 text figs, folding col map
Hardback £120.00
A revision of R.E. Holttum: Orchids of Malaya (1953). (more)
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by Cootes, J.
Cat No. : 61103, Published : 2001, Illustrations : col photos, col map
Hardback £40.00
Comphrehensive work on the indigenous orchids of the Philippine archipelago. An important reference work for botanists, naturalists and orchid growers. As well as the more common species, many rare (more)
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by Step, E.; Jackson, A.B.
Cat No. : 56212, Published : 1938, 1935, 1933, Illustrations : 400 plates (most col), text figs
Hardback £45.00
'New Edition': Ser. 1: (1938); Ser. 2: (1930, rpt 1935); Ser. 3: (1929, second impression 1933). Series I revised by A.B. Jackson. (more)
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by Browne, Montagu
Cat No. : 53618, Published : [1878], Illustrations : 39 text figs
Hardback £55.00
First edition, undated. Publisher's catalogue at rear, dated December 1879. Freeman 539. (more)
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by Watson, J.D.
Cat No. : 57094, Published : 1968, Illustrations : b/w photos, text figs
Hardback £45.00
First edition, second printing, February 1968, published just one month after the publishing of the first edition, January 1968. An autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helix (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.; Stawell, R.; Detmold, E.H.
Cat No. : 26851, Published : 1935, Illustrations : 12 col plates
Hardback £125.00
New edition. First printing of the Tudor re-issue. Fine mounted colour plates by the famous book illustrator Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957). Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was a French naturalist, (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62801, Published : 1917
Hardback £20.00
Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62802, Published : n.d. [c. 1927]
Hardback £15.00
Translated by J.E. Michell. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62799, Published : 1911, Illustrations : 12 b/w plates
Hardback £45.00
First edition. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62803, Published : 1919
Hardback £20.00
Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62795, Published : 1922
Hardback £15.00
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62797, Published : 1918, Illustrations : 14 b/w plates
Hardback £12.00
8th impression (first published 1912). Includes chapters on Cicadas, Praying Mantids, Beetles, Moths and Locust. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62798, Published : 1918, Illustrations : 20 b/w photos on 16 plates
Hardback £25.00
First edition, first impression. Photographs by Paul H. Fabre. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Bernard Miall. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 62796, Published : 1918
Hardback £25.00
Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 55925, Published : 1913
Hardback £15.00
The present volume contains all the essays on Flies, or Diptera, from Souvenirs Entomologiques. Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author. He is best known (more)
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by Fabre, J.-H.
Cat No. : 53010, Published : 1914, Illustrations : 12 b/w plates
Hardback £35.00
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Reprint (first published 1911). (more)
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by Fortey, Richard
Cat No. : 62675, Published : 1997, Illustrations : 88 b/w photos, text figs
Hardback £20.00
First edition. A natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on Earth. (more)
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by Fortey, Richard
Cat No. : 62672, Published : 2021, Illustrations : text illus
Hardback £20.00
First edition. What makes a scientist? Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the natural world led him to become a leading scientist and writer, (more)
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by Fortey, Richard
Cat No. : 62676, Published : 2008, Illustrations : col photos, b/w photos to text
Hardback £15.00
Third printing. An intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and (more)
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by Fortey, Richard
Cat No. : 62677, Published : 2000, Illustrations : 18 b/w photos, text figs
Hardback £15.00
Second impression. In this captivating blend of science and storytelling, renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey brings the ancient world of trilobites to life. These long-extinct arthropods, once (more)
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by Fortey, Richard
Cat No. : 62673, Published : 2016, Illustrations : 16 plates of col photos, b/w photos + text figs
Hardback £25.00
First edition. From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient (more)
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by Fortey, Richard
Cat No. : 62674, Published : 2011, Illustrations : 81 col photos, text figs
Hardback £20.00
First edition. An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose (more)
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