Secondhand & Antiquarian Books - June 2026

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British Butterflies and their Transformations [with] British Moths and their Transformations. Vol. I-II

by Humphreys, H.N.; Westwood, J.O.

Cat No. : 65018, Published : 1857, 1851, 1945, Illustrations : hand-col title, 42 + 124 hand-col plates

Hardback £850.00

Mixed issues in uniform bindings: Butterflies (Thomas Sanderson, 1857, reissue); Moths (Vol. I: Wm S. Orr, 1851, reissue; Vol. II: William Smith, 1845, first edition). Fine (more)

Butterflies and Moths in Romance and Reality

by Kirby, W.F.

Cat No. : 64860, Published : 1913, Illustrations : 28 col plates

Hardback £35.00

First edition. (more)

The Natural History of British Insects. Vol. I-XIII [of 16]

by Donovan, Edward

Cat No. : 49643, Published : 1792-1813, Illustrations : 468 (of 576) engraved plates (nnn hand coloured)

Hardback £4,500.00

All first issues. Donovan originally intended this work to be complete in 10 volumes, however, several years after publication of volume 10, he decided to continue the work, and a further six volumes (more)

Illustrations of British Entomology. Mandibulata. Vol. IV

by Stephens, James Francis

Cat No. : 64985, Published : 1831, Illustrations : 4 hand-col engraved plates

Hardback £125.00

Vol. IV includes the weevils (Curculionidae), longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) and ladybirds (Coccinellidae). (more)

Illustrations of British Entomology. Mandibulata. Vol. VI

by Stephens, James Francis

Cat No. : 64983, Published : 1835, Illustrations : 7 hand-col engraved plates

Hardback £125.00

Vol. VI covers: Orthoptera (Orthoptera, Dermaptera; Blattaria), Neuroptera (including Ephemeroptera, Odonata, etc.), Trichoptera. (more)

The Natural History of British Insects. No IV, VI, VIII

by Donovan, Edward

Cat No. : 64762, Published : [1792], 1792, [1793], Illustrations : 9 engraved plates (8 hand-col)

Hardback £150.00

Three original early fascicules of this work, which was originally issued in monthly numbers, beginning in 1792, each containing 3 engraved plates and a variable number of text leaves (4pp in each of (more)

The Butterflies of Egypt

by Larsen, T.B.

Cat No. : 64875, Published : 1990, Illustrations : 8 col plates

Hardback £40.00

Allows identification of all species of the limited, but very interesting, Egyptian butterfly fauna. All species are illustrated in colour. (more)

The Butterflies of London and its Surroundings / The Moths of London and its Surroundings Pt [I]-[V] / Supplement Part I

by De Worms, C.G.M.

Cat No. : 53750, Published : 1950-1959, Illustrations : folding map

Paperback £36.00

Reprints from The London Naturalist. Also with two further offprints of papers by de Worms from the same journal 'A Review of the Macrolepidoptera of the London Area for 1970 and 1971' and (more)

The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark 1. Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae and Noteridae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 20)

by Holmen, M.

Cat No. : 64510, Published : 1987, Illustrations : 1 col plate, 288 text figs

Hardback £50.00

Original printing. (more)

The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 15, Pt 1 + 2)

by Lindroth, C.H.

Cat No. : 64511, Published : 1985-1986, Illustrations : 8 col plates, 514 text figs

Hardback £120.00

Original edition. Complete 2-volume set. (more)

17 papers on Egyptian Diptera

by Efflatoun, H.C.; Villeneuve, J.; Bezzi, M.; Kroeber, von O.; Parent, O.; Engel, E.O.; Lindner, E.

Cat No. : 57855, Published : 1921-1926, Illustrations : 4 plates, text figs

Hardback £175.00

Text French/English/German. A collection of 17 papers/offprints on Egyptian Diptera from the inter-war period, published in Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Égypte. Subjects include life (more)

British Flies VI: Empididae

by Collin, J.E.

Cat No. : 64763, Published : 1961, Illustrations : b/w portrait frontis, 317 text figs

Hardback £100.00

Bound edition comprising parts I-III, supplementary notes, index. (more)

Hémiptères Aradidae, Piesmatidae et Dipsocoromorphes euro-mediterranéens Faune de France 91

by Heiss, E.; Pericart, J.

Cat No. : 64892, Published : 2007, Illustrations : 8 col plates, 174 text figs, 32 b/w photos, 34 maps

Paperback £65.00

Text French. Bilingual keys (French/English). (more)

Hemipteres Coreoidea euro-mediterraneens Faune de France 81

by Moulet, P.

Cat No. : 64895, Published : 1995, Illustrations : 79 plates of figs, 45 maps, 3 col plates

Paperback £60.00

Text French. (more)

Hemipteres Nabidae d'Europe occidentale et du Maghreb Faune de France 71

by Pericart, J.

Cat No. : 64889, Published : 1987, Illustrations : 2 plates, 65 figs, 28 maps

Paperback £55.00

Text French. (more)

La Grana Cochinilla (Biblioteca Mexicana de Obras Históricas 1)

by Dahlgren de Jordan, Barbro

Cat No. : 64553, Published : 1963, Illustrations : 4 folding tables, 11 illus

Hardback £150.00

Text Spanish. A pioneering monograph on the history, production, and commerce of cochineal dye in Mexico from the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods onward. Drawing upon archival and ethnographic (more)

Homoptera Coccoidae I. A collection of the author's papers on Coccoidea published 1953-1962

by Williams, D.J.

Cat No. : 64915, Published : [1962], Illustrations : line drawings

Hardback £125.00

A collected volume of 16 papers by the distinguished specialist on scale insects (Coccoidea), various pagination and imprints, including six substantial papers from the Bulletin of the British (more)

Shieldbugs (New Naturalist 147)

by Jones, R.

Cat No. : 64960, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos

Hardback £50.00

First edition. 'Authographed edition'. An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series.

The shieldbug is an amazing and beautiful species, rich with diversity in shape, form, (more)

Solitary Bees (New Naturalist 146 )

by Benton, T.; Owens, N.

Cat No. : 64959, Published : 2023, Illustrations : col photos, col illus

Hardback £40.00

First edition. Bees, for most people, mean honey or bumble bees. In fact, the honey bees and bumblebees make up only a small proportion of the bee species that live in Britain, while the other bees (more)

Ecology and Natural History (New Naturalist 143)

by Wilkinson, D.

Cat No. : 64964, Published : 2021, Illustrations : col photos

Hardback £50.00

First edition. 'Autographed edition'. Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of (more)

Peak District (New Naturalist 144)

by Anderson, P.

Cat No. : 64962, Published : 2021, Illustrations : col illus

Hardback £50.00

First edition. 'Autographed edition'. A survey of unique landscapes and ecosystem that should be of great interest to naturalists and to the thousands of ramblers who visit the Peak District every (more)

Trichopterorum Catalogus Vols. I-XV [with] Index

by Fischer, F.C.J.

Cat No. : 53865, Published : 1960-1973

Paperback £450.00

Scarce. Complete set of this monumental scholarly taxonomic resource and reference work covering Trichoptera literature from 1758 to 1938. Compiled by Dutch entomologist F.C.J. Fischer. (more)

Hyménoptères vespiformes I-III (Faune de France 10, 19, 34)

by Berland, L.

Cat No. : 64898, Published : 1925-1938, Illustrations : 1136 text figs

Paperback £75.00

I: Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae; II: Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae; III: Cleptidae, Chrysidae, Trigonalidae. Complete 3-volume set. (more)

The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland: Compact Edition

by Roberts, M.J.

Cat No. : 64715, Published : 1993, Illustrations : 241 colour plates, numerous text figs

Paperback £165.00

Compact edition - the original 3 volumes reprinted in 2 (Text + Plates). Includes the 16 page supplement. (more)

On the land and fresh water mollusca inhabiting the neighbourhood of Oxford

by Whiteaves, J.F.

Cat No. : 52499, Published : 1857

Hardback £35.00

Scarce. (more)

Système dentaire des Mammifères et des Oiseaux sous le point de vue de la composition et de la détermination de chaque sorte de ses parties, embrassant sous de nouveaux rapports les principaux faits de l'organisation dentaire chez l'homme. [Première partie. De l'existence d'un appareil dentaire chez les oiseaux, principalement observé chez le perroquet, ou système dentaire des oiseaux]

by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E.

Cat No. : 39916, Published : 1824, Illustrations : 1 folding engraved plate

Paperback £450.00

Text French. First edition, complete with the large engraved folding plate ('Système dentaire des oiseaux'). Rare foundational text in pre-Darwinian evolutionary biology, embryology, and comparative (more)

A System of Vegetables, according to their Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, with their Characters and Differences. Vol. I-II. By a Botanical Society, at Lichfield

by Linnaeus, Carl

Cat No. : 48325, Published : 1783, Illustrations : 11 engraved plates

Hardback £1,250.00

Translated from the thirteenth edition (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema Vegetabilium [1774] of the late Professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum Plantarum [1781] of the (more)

A History of the Birds of Somerset

by Ballance, D.K.

Cat No. : 64966, Published : 2006, Illustrations : col frontis, col photos, b/w text illus, 2 maps (1 col, folding)

Hardback £100.00

Hardback edition limited to 100 copies. With illustrations by Brian Slade and Tom Raven. This new Somerset avifauna is the first since 1988. It covers the birds of the post-1974 County from the (more)

Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Vol. I-IX

by Cramp, S.; Simmons, K.; Perrins, C.M. (Eds)

Cat No. : 64788, Published : 1977-1994, Illustrations : colour plates, line drawings, maps

Hardback £270.00

Complete set (first published 1977-1994). Illustrated extensively from paintings by Peter Scott, Robert Gilmor, C.E. Talbot-Kelly, Chris Rose and other leading bird artists. (more)

Birds of Arabia

by Meinertzhagen, Col. R.

Cat No. : 64856, Published : 1954, Illustrations : 19 col + 9 b/w photogaphic plates, 53 text figs, 35 maps, large folding map in rear pocket

Hardback £375.00

First edition. Colour plates by George Lodge, D.M. Reid-Henry, and Miss Talbot Kelly. An important early ornithological survey of the Arabian Peninsula, illustrated throughout and long regarded as a (more)

Birds of Arabia

by Meinertzhagen, Col. R.

Cat No. : 46116, Published : 1980, Illustrations : 19 mounted colour plates, 9 mounted photographic plates, 53 text figs, 35 text maps + 1 folding colour map

Hardback £695.00

De Luxe Edition, limited to 295 numbered copies (this copy no. 168). An enclosed typescript note on Sotheran's headed notepaper gives instructions on the care of the binding. Tipped in colour (more)

Pictures of Bird Life in Pen and Pencil

by Watkins, Rev. M.G.

Cat No. : 52195, Published : [1882], Illustrations : 14 full-page wood engravings, additional engraved title, head and tail pieces and other illustrations

Hardback £250.00

With charming illustrations by Giacomelli, engraved by F. Meaulle. Hector Giacomelli (1822-1904) was a French artist and illustrator, best known for his paintings of birds. He worked with Gustave (more)

A Natural History of English Gardening 1650-1800

by Laird, Mark

Cat No. : 64974, Published : 2015, Illustrations : col + b/w illus

Hardback £80.00

A review of this work states 'The seven chapters link the historical development of some of the great gardens of England, their owners' plant passions and the vast changes in natural history (more)

A Collection of 19 Papers on World Diatoms 1859-1895

by

Cat No. : 36340, Published : 1859-1895, Illustrations : plates

Hardback £250.00

Text English, Italian and German. A 19th-century sammelband containing 19 papers on the world diatoms, extracted from various international journals and bound together in a single volume, 1859–1895. (more)

Wildflowers for the Queen: A Visual Celebration of Britain's Coronation Meadows

by Rittson-Thomas, Hugo

Cat No. : 64977, Published : 2021, Illustrations : col photos

Hardback £50.00

With a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. The Coronation Meadows project, was an UK conservation initiative launched in 2013 by the former Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) alongside the (more)

Flora of Moray, Nairn & East Inverness: Botanical vice-counties 95 Elgin and 96 Easterness

by Webster, M.M.

Cat No. : 64965, Published : 1978, Illustrations : col frontis, 19 col + 7 b/w plates, 50 text figs, 326 distribution maps, endpaper map

Hardback £30.00

First edition. (more)

Prodrome d'une Histoire des Végétaux Fossiles

by Brongniart, Adolphe

Cat No. : 41284, Published : 1828

Hardback £650.00

First edition. Rare. Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart’s (1801-1876) Prodrome d'une Histoire des Végétaux Fossiles 1828 is one of the foundational texts in the history of palaeobotany and a landmark (more)

Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster [SIGNED]

by Attenborough, David

Cat No. : 64809, Published : 2002, Illustrations : 114 col + b/w photos

Hardback £175.00

First edition. (more)

Wildlife of a garden: A thirty-year study

by Owen, J.

Cat No. : 64873, Published : 2010, Illustrations : col photos

Hardback £50.00

First edition. The author recorded over 2600 species ranging from plants to mammals in her garden in Leicester over a 30 year period. She discusses diversity, abundance, seasonality and annual (more)

The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his Death. Vols. I-II

by Livingstone, David

Cat No. : 57944, Published : 1874, Illustrations : 2 frontispieces, 19 plates, engravings to text, 2 folding col maps (1 in rear pocket)

Hardback £250.00

Continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, Rector of Twywell. First edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Publisher's (more)

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