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FLYFISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARYBLACKER (WILLIAM) Art of Flymaking, ONE OF FIFTY SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN ACTUAL FLAY SPECIMEN, 1994--NEWLAND (HE...

WALTON (IZAAK) AND CHARLES COTTONThe Complete Angler, 2 vol., FIRST NICOLAS EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, engraved pla...

WEST (LEONARD)Original artwork by Leonard West for his angling classic The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation (1912), comprising: final artwork ...

ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECEAristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is...

CABEO (NICCOLO)Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur, FI...

DARWIN (CHARLES)Signature ('C. Darwin') and autograph address ('W.B. Tegetmeier Esq./ Muswell Hill/ London. N.'), on a folded note inserted into a...

DINOSAURS AND EVOLUTION - ORIGINAL ARTWORKA fine collection of 42 original illustrations for Henry J. Knipe's Nebula to Man, and Evolution in the ...

FRACASTORO (GIROLAMO)De Sympathia & Antipathia rerum. De Contagione & Contagiosis Morbis & eorum curatione, second edition, early marginalia, und...

FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN)Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, letters and papers on philo...

HOOKER (WILLIAM JACKSON)British Jungermanniae: Being a History and Description, with Colored Figures, of Each Species of the Genus, and Microscopi...

HOOLA VAN NOOTEN (BERTHE)Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature, third edition, half-title, 40 chromolithog...

HOUBA (JULIEN)Les chênes de l'Amérique septentrionale en Belgique, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 57 lithographed plates (including 38 nature-printed...

JAPAN - FLOWER BOOKSYOKUSAI (LINUMA) Sômuku zusetsu [Illustrated Book of Plants Revised], vol. 1-10 (of 20), edited by Tanaka Yoshio and Ono Moto...

LANA TERZI (FRANCESCO)Magisterium naturae, et artis... in quo occultoiora naturalis philosophiae principia manifestantus, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, ...

LEWIN (JOHN WILLIAM)A Natural History of the Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. Collected, Engraved, and Faithfully Painted after Nature, ...

MAXWELL (JAMES CLERK)A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., second edition, DIRK TER HAAR'S COPY, WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS THROUGHOUT,...

MOSLEY (SETH LISTER AND FREDERICK ORMROD)An Account of the Birds of the Huddersfield District, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBE...

NATURALIST'S POCKET MAGAZINEThe Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Compleat Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature, vol. 1-6 (of 8), 35...

NEWTON (ISAAC)Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica... editio ultima, first part only (of 2, without the 'Analysis...' at end), title prin...

PARKINSON (JOHN)Theatrum botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a Large Extent, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved allegorical title...

TURNER (MATTHEW)An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Æther, woodcut ornament depicting Britannia on title, title soiled with t...

VIGO (GIOVANNI DA)The Most Excelent Worckes of Chirurgery... Traunslated into Englishe. Whereunto is added an Exposition of Straunge Termes and Un...

WIRSUNG (CHRISTOPHER)Praxis medicinae universalis; or A Generall Practice of Physicke Compiled and Written by the Most Famous and Learned Doctour ...

BEARDSLEY (AUBREY)Autograph letter signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') to the Rev. David Bearne, stating that '...I should be very grateful if you could s...

BEATON (CECIL) - ELIZABETH IIFine portrait photograph of Princess Elizabeth, seated facing forwards in the official uniform of the Colonel of the ...

BINDING - OMAR KHAYYÁMKHAYYÁM (OMAR) The Rubáiyát, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 12 hand-coloured plates after Gilbert James, full maroon moro...

BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)[SANDFORD (CHRISTOPHER)] Heart's Desire. Inscribed by Me: Chrysilla von Dansdorf, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES ONLY, this copy unnu...

BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 213 OF 300 COPIES, 38 coloured plat...

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second state with errat...

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, half-titles,...

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, first English edition, advertisement leaf at end [Woods A3(b)], Longmans, 19...

CHURCHILL (WINSTON. S)Arms and the Covenant. Speeches... Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY CHURCHILL 'Inscribe...

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)A pair of spectacles made for Winston Churchill by C.W. Dixey and Son Ltd., tortoise shell, with a recent typed letter sign...

COHEN (LEONARD)Let Us Compare Mythologies... Drawings by Freda Guttman, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 5 plates by Guttman, publisher'...

CUNARD (NANCY, EDITOR)Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, lacks the map, short marginal ...

DESIGNER BINDING - ELIZABETH FRINKElizabeth Frink's Etchings Illustrating Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' [translated and with an introduction by Nev...

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'A Charade, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson from the Author....

DRINKWATER - COLLECTIONAlbum containing autograph letters, signed menus, photographs and other ephemera, assembled for Penelope Ann Drinkwater, da...

DULAC (EDMUND)A Fairy Garland Being Fairy Tales from the Old French, DE LUXE EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, SIGNED BY DULAC, 12 colour plates by...

ELIOT (T.S.)The Waste-Land, [in] The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.50-64, FIRST EDITION, untrimmed and partially unopened in p...

EROTICASIEBEN (GOTTFRIED), pseudonym of ARCHIBALD SMITH. Balkangreuel, NUMBER 119 OF 550 COPIES, introductory text by Archibald Smith, 12 colloty...

FLEMING (IAN)Casino Royale, second impression, dust-jacket 'A', signed by Kenneth Lewis on front flap, price-clipped, 1953; Live and Let Die, sec...

FORSTER (E.M.)Papers of E.M. Forster's close friend Eric Fletcher, including an extensive series of letters and postcards from Forster spanning ov...

[FORSTER (E.M.)]GASKELL (ELIZABETH) Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, 18 wood-engraved plates ...

[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [the author?], at 107 Ea...

[FORSTER (E.M.)]GOLDING (WILLIAM) Lord the Flies... Introduction by E.M. Forster, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO E.M. FORSTER, inscribed 'For E.M....

FORSTER (E.M.)The Hill of Devi being Letters from Dewas State Senior, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Eric with Morgan's Love. Oct. 1953',...

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