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Pre-Territorial Era 1874-1881 Glengarry Badge (3) including K&K: 456 The 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) g/m, K&K: 510 The 52nd Regiment of Foot (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) g/m and K&K: 473 30th Regiment of Foot (East Lancashire Regiment) g/m all with two lugs.
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The Lowland Regiment WWII Glengarry Cap Badge (White-metal), two lugs. K&K: 2022-The Highland Regiment WWII Glengarry Cap Badge (White-metal), two lugs. K&K: 2023-1st Battalion (The Glasgow Highlanders) Light Highland Infantry Other Ranks Cap Badge (White-metal), two lugs. This regiment was raised in 1939 at the start of WWII. 4e
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The Rifles EIIR Cap Badges (2), (Silver-plated), two lugs, the Regiment formed in 2007 with the amalgamation of the Royal Green Jackets, Light Infantry, Devon and Dorset and the Royal Gloucestershire Regt, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regt's. With Gloucestershire device (White-metal), tab fitting. A scarce EIIR cap badge pair.
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Thorburn (Archibald). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1923, 30 colour plates, some spotting to endpapers, contemporary previous owner inscription, top edge gilt, original red cloth, spine a little faded with small wormhole, a few light stains, folioQty: (1)NOTESWith an original pencil sketch of a grouse in flight by Archibald Thorburn (unsigned) pasted at head of half title, 11.5 x 16 cm (4.5 x 6.25 in).
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Modern Traveller. The Modern Traveller; being a Collection of Useful and Entertaining Travels, lately made into various Countries ... Illustrated with maps and ornamental views, 6 volumes, London: T. Lowndes, 1776-77, half-titles to volumes 1-4, 14 engraved plates (7 folding) and 5 folding engraved maps, bookplate of Robert William Duff to upper pastedowns and his signature to front free-endpapers, contemporary calf, elaborate gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, paper label at foot of most spines, some joints cracked and light wear, 12moQty: (6)NOTESVolumes 1-4 are dated 1776, and volumes 5-6 are dated 1777.
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Young (Arthur). A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales... Interspersed with Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. In Several Letters to a Friend. By the Author of The Farmer's Letters, 1st edition, London: W. Nicoll, 1768, half-title, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked preserving original and red morocco title label, 8vo, together with: Ibid. , A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, 2nd edition, corrected & enlarged, London: W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, B. Collins & J. Balfour, 1769, one folding engraved plate, light toning, armorial bookplate of William Wilshere to upper pastedown, contemporary sheep, morocco title label, wear to head & foot of spine, 8vo, Ibid. , A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, 2nd edition, corrected & enlarged, Dublin: J. Milliken, 1771, one folding engraved plate (as frontispiece), inner margin of title with manuscript note, light toning and dust-soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, adhesive tape marks to boards, 8voQty: (3)
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Bewick (Thomas). A General History of Quadrupeds, 1st edition , Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby & T. Bewick, 1790, numerous wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, extra-illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece (published Feb. 1, 1816 by T. McLean), small dampstain to title, light scattered spotting, all edges gilt (over earlier marbling), 19th-century red morocco, spine faded and slightly rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Roscoe 1b.
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Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds. Vol. I. ... Land Birds [-Vol. II ... Water Birds], 2 volumes, 3rd and 2nd editions, Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1805, numerous wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, occasional light finger-soiling to margins, contemporary diced half russia, rebacked, wear to extremities, large 8vo, together with: Ibid. , A General History of Quadrupeds, 5th edition, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by Edward Walker for T.Bewick & S. Hodgson, 1807, numerous wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, occasional light finger-soiling to margins, front blank with mounted autograph receipt signed by Thomas Bewick (dated Newcastle, 21 November 1809, to Mr Anth[on]y Clapham, for the purchase of an 'Imperial copy of Quadrupeds & British Birds' for £3.19.6), receipt spotted & browned, contemporary half calf, rebacked, board edges worn & showing, large 8voQty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Roscoe 18a ( Land Birds ), 19a ( Water Birds ), 5a ( Quadrupeds ).
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Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds ... Vol I. ... Land Birds [Vol. II ... Water Birds], 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick; Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797 & 1804, numerous wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, without half-titles, scattered light spotting, together with: Ibid. , The General History of Quadrupeds, 3rd edition, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1792, wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, without half-title , light scattered light spotting, all in uniform contemporary diced calf, blind & gilt decorated spines, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8voQty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Roscoe 14d, 17d, 3b.
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Bindings. Collection of finely-bound ornithology books, 20th century, including: Thom (Valerie M.). Birds in Scotland, 1st edition, Calton: published for the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, T & A D Poyser, 1986, signed by Thom on the title-page, and by the publishers Trevor and Anna Poyser and artists Keith Brockie, John A. Love and Bernard Zonfrillo on rear blank, original dust-jacket spine and and flap bound in, contemporary red crushed half morocco, 4to, Grey (Edward, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon). Fallodon Papers. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, 1st edition, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1926, half-title, colophon leaf, light spotting front and back, laid-in autograph letter signed from the author (dated 3 September 1929, 5 pp., with letterhead), top edge gilt, mid-20th-century green half morocco, 8vo, Walpole-Bond (John). Field-Studies of some Rarer British Birds, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1914, half-title, colophon leaf, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, recent green half morocco, 8vo, Vesey-Fitzgerald (Brian). The New Naturalist. British Game, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1946, top edge gilt, contemporary green crushed half morocco, 8vo, and 9 othersQty: (13)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II
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Monro (Robert). Monro. His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (Called Mac-Keyes Regiment) levied in August 1626 by Sr. Donald Mac-Key Lord Rhees, Colonell for his Majesties service of Denmark, and reduced after the Battle of Nerling, to one Company in September 1634 at Wormes in the Paltz, 1st edition, London: William Jones, 1637, woodcut headpiece and initial, lacking final blank, 2M2 misbound after 2M3, small burnhole to 2I1, light soiling to title, occasional light marginal water stain, previous owner signature of Hugh W. Young, bookplate of Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone (1766-1848, Lieutenant-Colonel, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards), near contemporary sprinkled calf, spine label chipped, a little rubbed with joints split at ends, corners repaired, folioQty: (1)NOTESCockle 138; ESTC S114933; STC (2nd edition) 18022. "This book has several things to recommend it; it is the first regimental history, it contains a store of information, and it is highly readable." (Cockle). Robert Monro (died 1680) enlisted as Lieutenant in Donald Mackay's Scottish Regiment in 1626, which fought in Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus's army during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and recounts his experiences here during various campaigns. He later commanded the Scottish Covenanters during the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640's.
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Booth (Edward Thomas). Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty-Five Years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1881-7, 114 hand-coloured lithographic plates after E. Neale, 2 hand-coloured lithographic maps, list of plates to each volume, errata leaf to volume 1, light spotting to last few text-leaves of volume 1, title-page of volume 2 and the 3 eider duck plates and relevant text in volume 3, faint spot in image of fulmar plate, Breydon Mudflats map bound to face volume 3 title-page (and with small marginal spot), marbled endpapers, green cloth inner hinges, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary black crushed half morocco, spine compartments panelled in gilt, joints rubbed, wear to corners, large folio (43 x 33 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 51 ('beautiful plates'); Fine Bird Books p. 79; Freeman 399; Mullens & Swann p. 84; Nissen IVB 121; Wood p. 249; Zimmer pp. 79-81. 'A series of well-written field notes accompanied by good plates' (Zimmer), focusing on specimens collected in Scotland and the Norfolk Broads.
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Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's Complete Herbal, London: Thomas Kelly, 1824, engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 hand-coloured etched plates, frontispiece toned, spotted and offset, occasional spotting to text, top edge gilt, 20th-century blue-green morocco, 4to, together with: ibid., Culpeper's Complete Herbal, London: Richard Evans, 1815, engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 hand-coloured etched plates, index (5K1-2) bound at front, some light dust-soiling and few marks, ink stain to foot of gutter, expanding towards rear , first plate torn and repaired at lower inner corner, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, front joint splitting at ends, 4to, Evelyn John). Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions ... together with an Historical Account of the Sacredness and use of Standing Groves ... with Notes, by A. Hunter, 2 volumes, 4th edition, York: Printed by Thomas Wilson & Son for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (offset to title with consequent browning), 52 engraved plates, offsetting and browning to text, some spotting, top edge gilt, 20th-century purple calf retaining earlier spine-compartments and labels in black or red roan gilt, 4to, Mitchell (James) , Dendrologia; or, A Treatise of Forest Trees, with Evelyn's Silva Revised, Corrected and Abridged; by a Professional Planter, Keighley: Printed for the Author, by R. Aked, 1827, few wood engraved illustrations, edges untrimmed, original boards, printed paper label to spine, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, and 2 similarQty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II
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Daniell (William, & Richard Ayton). A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall. With a Series of Views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, 8 volumes in 4, London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown and William Daniell, 1814-25, 308 hand-coloured aquatint plates and uncoloured aquatint dedication, all mounted on card (no tissue-guards), engraved folding chart, errata leaf to volume 1, occasional generally light spotting to text and plates, volumes 1-4 plates slightly toned, folding chart browned, and with old repairs verso and a couple of shallow splits and tears to folds, aquatint dedication more strongly spotted, volumes 3-4 with stronger spotting to plates including numbers 57-59, 66, 70-71, 75, 77 and 96-101 (Abbey's numbering), volumes 5-6 plates offset onto blank versos of facing plates, a few plates in volumes 7-8 with shallow marginal stains from bleeding of edge-dye and plate number 296 spotted, later 19th-century green half morocco, gilt spines, rubbed in places, imperial 4to (35.2 x 25.2 cm)Qty: (4)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance: Fountaine Walker (1833-1892), of Ness Castle, Inverness (bookplates). Abbey Scenery 16; Prideaux pp. 279-80; Tooley 177. First edition, deluxe issue with the plates mounted on card, of 'the most important colour plate book on British topography' (Tooley). 'Such a succession of beautiful colour plates is scarcely to be found elsewhere, and they are unsurpassed both in deliacy of drawing and tinting' (Prideaux). The standard issue with the plates unmounted was priced at £60, and the deluxe issue at 96 guineas. This copy retains the folding 'Index chart to the Voyage', 'not usually included' according to Tooley, and unmentioned in Abbey.
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Hill (John). Herbarium Britannicum exhibens plantas Britanniae indigenas secundum methodum floralem novam digestas, 2 volumes in 1, London: Baldwin, Ridley, Nourse, Becket, Davies, Cambell, Elmsly, 1769-70, 198 engraved plates numbered 1-196 (including bis plates of numbers 30 and 66), folding table, with the additional pages 96-99*, adhesive tape mark to lower blank margin of plate 1, folding table lined to verso (adhesive tape at gutter with consequent staining and paper skinning), some light offsetting, occasional light marginal dampstains, modern half calf, gilt decorated spine, 8vo (21.8 x 12.8 cm), together with: Newton (James). [A Compleat Herbal ... containing the prints and the English names of several thousand trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, exotics, etc., London: printed unknown, 1752 or later], [xiv]pp. (of xx: bound without title and some preliminary leaves), engraved portrait frontispiece, 175 engraved plates (of 176: plate 1 failed to print but platemark visible), many plates bound out of sequence, scattered spotting and some marginal browning, contemporary boards with old cloth spine, wear to joints and extremities, housed in a custom quarter calf solander box, 8voQty: (2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II ESTC T36138 (Hill: eight copies in UK libraries); Freeman 1684 & 2823; Henrey 811 (Hill); Nissen BBI 882 & 1447. For Hill's work Freeman records bis plates of numbers 89, 151 and 170, and a total of 199 plates; Henrey identifies bis plates of numbers 30, 60, 89, 117 and 170, while emphasising that these are not found in all copies. Our copy contains bis plates for numbers 30 and 66, and the additional pages 96-99*, which according to Henrey are frequently absent. Newton's work first appeared in 1752, and went to several editions.
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Lloyd (Llewelyn). The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an Account of the Seals and Salt-Water Fishes of those Countries, 1st edition, London: Day and Son Limited, 1867, 48 chromolithographic and 4 wood-engraved plates, lithographic folding map in end-pocket (supplied from another copy: pencilled note to front pastedown records map as missing), occasional spotting, half-title discarded, inner hinges strengthened, all edges gilt, original green pictorial cloth gilt, spine-ends consolidated, large 8vo, together with: ibid. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway ... London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1867, half-title, 48 chromolithographic and 4 wood-engraved plates, lithographic folding map in end-pocket, closed tear in Q5, light nibbling to lower fore corners of index leaves, top edge gilt, original green pictorial cloth elaborately gilt, original publisher's name 'Day and Son' to spine, recased, tips slightly bumped and worn, large 8vo, Seebohm (Henry). The Birds of Siberia. A Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei, 1st collected edition, London: John Murray, 1901, half-title, folding map, light spotting, original pictorial cloth, very light fraying to spine-ends, 8vo, Harvie-Brown (J. A.). Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871. Archangel, 1872. Petchora, 1875, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905, half-titles, 23 halftone plates including frontispieces, 2 coloured plates, 4 maps (of which 3 folding), volume 2 signed by the author on the title-page, bookplates of Thomas Parkin (volume 1) and Oliver H. Wild (volume 2), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth, 8vo, and 2 similar worksQty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 312 (Lloyd, first edition); Nissen IVB 569 (Lloyd, both editions); Wood p. 439 (Lloyd, first edition), 561 (Seebohm), 379 (Harvie-Brown); Zimmer p. 403 (Lloyd, second edition), 292-3 (Harvie-Brown). The second edition of Lloyd's work is understood to have been published by Frederick Warne in 1867, the same year as the first edition (by Day), but such copies appear to contain an edition statement on the title-page; our copy has no edition statement and is in a more elaborate binding than usually encountered, which also has the name of the original publisher Day and Son on the spine: this may suggest a remboitage or some kind of prize issue. Seebohm's The Birds of Siberia is a collected edition of his Siberia in Europe (1880) and Siberia in Asia (1882).
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Meyer (Henry Leonard). Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longman and Co, c.1835-44, lithographic title-pages (first issue, retaining the diaresis above 'Meyer', though one point missing in volume 2), 339 hand-coloured lithographic plates (of which 16 of eggs), one uncoloured lithographic plate, tissue-guards throughout, bound without the list of illustrations in each volume, occasional light spotting, volumes 1-2 title-page creased, Solan gannet plate in volume 4 either a poor contemporary impression or later good-quality facsimile (caption blurred), engraved armorial bookplates (with boar's heads couped and motto 'Nil desperandum'), all edges gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Oldfield, spines gilt with avian motifs, sides rubbed, possible recolouring and consolidation to joints and extremities, folio (36.4 x 26 cm), together with a set of the octavo edition, 7 volumes in 4, London: G. W. Nickisson [-Simpkin, Marshall and Co.], 1842-50, containing text only, with same bookplates as the folio edition, matching contemporary green half morocco gilt by OldfieldQty: (8)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance (folio and octavo editions): 1) J. Ingram Travers the younger (1820-1866), director of Joseph Travers & Sons, London wholesale grocers (ownership inscriptions); 2) Gladys M. Towsey (gift inscription). Fine Bird Books p. 123; Freeman 2563; Mullens & Swann pp. 401-3; Nissen IVB 627; Wood p. 462 ('this truly magnificent work') 'One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology, in fact before the publication of Lord Lilford's Birds of the British Islands it stood sui generis ' (Mullens & Swann). The first edition was published between 1835 and 1841, with 313 plates. According to Mullens and Swann, the second issue (published in 1837-44) 'is identical in appearance but is printed on stouter paper, and has a number of plates containing figures of eggs in the lower corners which are not in the first issue', while the second edition (1838-44) contains 317 plates, many redrawn to face left instead of right. However, the concurrence of the different issues and editions means that plates were often interchanged or duplicated, and Meyer often produced extra plates for friends and associates, meaning that 'hardly any two copies ... [are] alike' (ibid.).
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Millais (John Guille). The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, half-titles, limitation leaves, title-pages in red and black, 243 photogravure, colour, chromolithographic or halftone plates after Millais , Thorburn, and others or from photographs, tissue-guards, very occasional light spotting, a few chromolithographic plates with light paper residue from tissue-guards, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, top edges gilt, contemporary green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, spines sunned to tan, a couple of small tears to morocco on backstrip of volume 2, large 4to (34.2 x 30.2 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen ZBI 2819; Wood p. 464 ('Truly beautiful reproductions of the artist's best work'). First edition, number 548 of 1,025 copies only, this copy with two autograph letters signed from Millais, dated 3 March and 22 June, with pencil annotations by David Wilson dating the letters specifically to 1905 and identifying the recipient as naturalist Charles Oldham (1868-1942); there is also an envelope annotated by Wilson, 'Two autographed letters by author to Charles Oldham, from Oldham's copy bought by Anthony Cheke from Wheldon & Wesley'. In the first letter Millais responds to Oldham's criticism of his description of voles (see volume 2, pp. 234-5); in the second he solicits further advice on voles and acknowledges his use of Oldham's 'excellent notes on the noctule [bat]' (see volume 1 pp. 61-75).
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Muirhead (George). The Birds of Berwickshire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889-95, 10 plates, 2 plans, folding map, 16 pp. advertisements, puffin bookplates of Michael P. Harris, ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers verso, adhesive residue to front patedowns, bindings marked, together with: Walpole-Bond (John). A History of Sussex Birds, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1938, 53 colour plates by Philip Rickman, Knox (Arthur Edward). Ornithological Rambles in Sussex, London: John van Voorst, 1859, 4 tinted lithographic plates by the author, errata slip, 8 pp. advertisements, spine sunned, headcap frayed, light fading to covers, ibid. Ornithological Rambles in Sussex, 3rd edition, London: John van Voorst, 1855, 4 tinted lithographic plates by J. Wolf, 1 p. advertisements, Gray (Robert). The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides, 1st edition, Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, 1871, 15 tinted lithographic plates, leaves partly unopened, and 7 others, county avifaunas, 19th and early-20th century, all in original cloth, various formatsQty: (16)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Mullens & Swann pp. 426 (Muirhead), 335 (Knox, both editions, describing the third as the 'best'), 251 (Gray).
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New Naturalist Monographs. A complete set, 22 volumes, 1st editions, London: Collins, 1948-71, Badger, Yellow Wagtail, Greenshank, Herring Gull's World and House Sparrow each signed by the author (Yellow Wagtail and Herring Gull's World also with bookplates and Greenshank with ownership inscription of Peter Hayman), Redstart inscribed by author 'R. M. Lockley from John Buxton, March 1950', Birds of the London Area signed by all 7 co-authors except B. A. Richards (and identified as Richards's own copy in a pencilled note), Salmon inscribed 'Nancy from Seton 1959' (identified in pencilled note as Nancy, Duchess of Westminster and Seton Gordon), a few volumes with spotting to top edges and endpapers, all in original green cloth, a few headcaps and corners bumped, Redstart and Yellow Wagtail covers faded, Heron and Salmon spines rolled, all with dust jackets, Herring Gull's World with wraparound band, some light rubbing and a few nicks to jacket extremities, a few jackets faintly spotted, Birds of the London Area with tape-reinforcement to foot of spine verso, 8voQty: (22)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Bernhard & Loe M1A-M19A, M20A1-B1, M21A, M22A-B1.
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Young (Arthur). The Farmer's Tour through the East of England ... to enquire into the State of Agriculture, etc., 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: W.Strahan, W. Nicoll, et al., 1771, half-title to volume 1, 29 engraved plates on 28 sheets (many folding; plate 4 bound out of numerical order to face volume 2 p. 315, with stub remaining at volume 1 p. 270), folding letterpress table, [4] pp. advertisements to rear of volume 4, variable spotting and toning, interlinear spill-burn to volume 3 signature S3, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments incorporating small cornerpieces of a shepherd with crook, spines rubbed, tips worn, closed tear to volume 1 label, 8vo (20.8 x 12.1 cm), together with: Board of Agriculture. [Volume of 5 agricultural surveys], 1794, comprising: 1. Pearce (William), General View of the Agriculture in Berkshire, 1st edition, London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1794, half-title, 3 aquatint plates, 2. Malcolm (William, James, & Jacob), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Buckingham, 1st edition, London: Colin Macrae, 1794, half-title, 3. Davis (Richard), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Oxford, 1st edition, London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1794, half-title, folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, 4. Wedge (John), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Warwick, 1st edition, London: C. Macrae, 1794, half-title, 4 engraved plans and plates, 5. Davis (Thomas), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Wilts, 1st edition, London: [no publisher], 1794, half-title, hand-coloured folding map frontispiece, occasional light spotting throughout volume, contemporary half sheep, contrasting morocco labels to spine, 4to (23.9 x 19 cm), Ibid. [Volume of 2 agricultural surveys], 1795-7, comprising: 1. Holt (John), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lancaster, 2nd edition, London: G. Nicol, 1795, folding engraved map, 6 engraved plates including one folding (one plate closely trimmed at fore edge), 2 folding tables, 2. Bailey (J., & G. Culley), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Northumberland [... Cumberland ... Westmoreland], Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson, 1797, folding engraved map frontispiece, 10 engraved plates (5 folding) and 2 single-page engraved maps, each with contemporary ownership inscription (Robert Gregory) to title-page, some light offsetting, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, contrasting morocco labels to spine, joints cracked, 8vo (21 x 12.4 cm)Qty: (6)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance (Young): 1) Robert Trimmer of Bentley, Hampshire (1788-1856; ownership inscription 'Robt Trimmer, Bentley' to volume one title-page); 2) William Wickham (late-19th-century engraved bookplates with motto 'Manners makyth man'). ESTC T78928 (Young), T40593 (Pearce), T40618 (Malcolm), T40666 (Davis, Richard), T40683 (Wedge), T40686 (Davis, Thomas), T40645 (Holt), T40663 (Bailey); Kress 6833 (Young), B2808 (Pearce), B2763 (Malcolm), B2687 (Davis, Richard), B.2864 (Wedge), B.2699 (Davis, Thomas), B.2975 (Holt), N/A. The three authors of the General View of the Agriculture of the County of Buckingham are listed on the title-page as 'Messrs. William, James, and Jacob Malcolm', which is often misread as naming two authors, William James and Jacob Malcolm (as in Kress).
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