Books & Works on Paper: Travel, Natural History & Sporting

Antelopes.- Sclater (Philip Lutley) and Oldfield (Thomas)The Book of Antelopes, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, 100 hand-coloured lithograph plates by and ...

Astronomy.- Finé (Oronce)De Solaribus Horologiis et Quadrantibus…, 2  vol in 1, title within woodcut border, woodcut headpieces, initials and text...

Astronomy.- Magini (Giovanni Antonio)Tabulae Secundorum Mobilium Coelestium, FIRST and ONLY EDITION, 2 vol., woodcut printer’s device to title of ...

Bewick (T., Illustrator)History of British Birds, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, woodcut text engravings throughout, some spotting and staining, contempor...

Bewick (Thomas)History of British Birds, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol, woodcut illustrations including pictorial titlepage by the author, advertisement fo...

Birds.- Lesson (Rene Primevre) Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, 1 vol. only, 86 engraved plates, lacking title, occasional marginal br...

Birds.- White (Gilbert) A Naturalist’s Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured engraved...

Birds.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, fourth edition, 4 vol., wood-engraved text-illustrations, occasional marking, few marginal ...

Botany.- Abercrombie (John) The Gardeners Daily Assistant in the Modern Practice of English Gardening, FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on title...

Botany.- [Duppa (Richard)] The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, vol II & III only, of 3, FIRST EDITION, 154 engraved plates on...

Botany.-  Hill (John) The Family Herbal, 54 hand-coloured plates, slight browning, minimal offsetting from plates, slight spott...

Botany.- Quintinye (Jean de, Monsr.)The Compleat Gard'ner or Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen Gardens, t...

Botany.- Roscoe (Mrs Edward, née Margaret Lace) Floral Illustrations of the Seasons, consisting of Representations Drawn from Nature of ome of t...

Botany.- Swartz (Olaus) Muscorum Frondosorum FIRST EDITION, 9 engraved hand coloured plates, occasional light foxing and soiling, near later pan...

Bouchard (Maddalena) Engraver. Lantana, and 2 other botanical plates from 'Hortus Romanus', original hand-coloured engravings, each c.365 x 230mm...

British Birds.- Morris (F. O.), A Natural History or the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, 225 chromolithograph plates, l...

Burnett (M. A.), Plantæ Utiliores; or Illustrations of Useful Plants, 1 vol. only, of 2, 161 hand coloured lithograph plates, occasional light ...

Byam (Lydia)   A Collection of Fruits from the West Indies, title and 4 leaves of text, 8 captioned engraved plates, only of 9, with additional wa...

Conchology.- Sowerby (G.B.) Illustrated Index of British Shells, FIRST EDITION, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates, advertisement f. at end, library...

Culpeper (Nicholas)English Physician and Complete Herbal, 2 vol. bound in one, engraved portrait frontispieces, 29 hand-coloured engravings, occas...

Darwin (Charles) The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, second issue, wood-engraved illustrations, very m...

Darwin (Charles) The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Orchids, second edition, revised, half-title, 32pp. advertisements,...

Economics.- Bowley (A.L.)The Mathematical Groundwork of Economics, little spotting, Oxford, 1924; Marshall (Alfred) Money, Credit and Commerce, 19...

Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) Profits, Interest and Investment and other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations, little spotting,...

Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) Indian Currency and Finance, folding table, small marginal tear to pp. 65-80, little scoring, financial calculat...

Economics.- Wicksteed (Philip H.)  The Alphabet of Economic Science, FIRST EDITION, 2 pp. advertisements at end, 10 folding plates, name o...

Edwards (George)Six Ornithological Prints, from ‘A natural history of birds, most of which have not been figured or described…’ vol. 2, 1747, incl...

Farriery.- Clark (James) Observations on the Shoeing of Horses...with a New Inquiry into the Causes of Diseases in the Feet of Horses, third edi...

Gardening.- Langley (Batty) New Principles of Gardening, FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one, title in red and black, 28 folding plates, including dep...

Gardening.- McDonald (Alexander) A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening, 2 vol., 74 engraved plates, some offsetting, foxing, contempor...

Geology.- Geikie (Sir Archibald) The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, folding maps, some colouring, 1 torn without los...

Gowing (Thomas)19th century Equine Veterinary Instruments collection designed by Thomas Gowing and produced by Arnold & Sons, in London. The set i...

Hooker (William) 2 groups of plates of flowers (6) and fruit (8), from the Horticultural Transactions, stipple-engravings printed in colours and f...

Insects.- Morris (F.O.) & W.E. Kirby A History of British Moths, FIRST EDITION, 4 vol., half title, title in red and black, ...

MacLaurin (Colin) A Treatise of Fluxions, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title in vol. 1, 41 folding engraved plates, the first cut up and the figs...

Medical register.-Societe' de Prevoyance et de Secours Mutuels..,hand-filled register featuring a list of some of the employees at Maison Leclaire...

Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks, NUMBER 493 of 600 copies, illustrated half title, lacking 50 of 65...

Natural History of England.- Jefferies (Richard) Nature Near London, vignette to title and rear fly, rare spotting, prize book label f...

Natural History.- Rees (Abraham) The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Plates., Vol 5, Natural History, FIR...

Natural History.- Farriery. Wallis (Thomas) The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary, FIRST EDITION, without final (?) blank f., little ...

Natural History.- Forbush (Edward Howe) Natural History of the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, colour plates, several with ink notes...

Ornithology. - Dixon (Charles) The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of The British Islands, second edition, half title, title in red and black, 39 chromo...

Pontano (Giovanni Gioviano)  [Urania, Sive de Stellis Libri Quinque, Meteororum liber , De  Hesperidum  duo (and other works)], Italic letter, woo...

Science.- [Burnet (Thomas)] The Sacred Theory of the Earth, 1 vol. only of 2, folding engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved plates, text engraving...

Science.- Galilei (Galileo)Systema Cosmicum, inquo Dialogis IV de duobus maximis Mundi Systematibus, Ptolemaico and Copernicano, - Discursus et De...

Science, Medicine, Natural History.- Pettigrew (Thomas Joseph) Medical Portrait Gallery. Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, S...

Sparkes (John C. L.) A Manual of Artistic Anatomy for the use of students in art: being a description of the bones and muscles that influence the...

Tesla (Nicola) Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece, tissue guard with ...

Timber.-  Newton (G.W.) A Treatise on the Growth and Future Management of Timber Trees and on other Rural Subjects, FIRST EDITION, 10 lithograph...

Trees. - Elwes (Henry John) & Augustine (Henry)The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland., 7 vols in 14, and Index, together 15 parts, portrait, 7 co...

Westwood (J.O.)The Butterflies of Great Britain with their Transformations Delineated and Described, frontispiece and 19 hand-coloured plates, ori...

Willis (Thomas)Pharmaceutice Rationalis: or, an Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies…, First English Edition, 2 parts in o...

Wooster (David) Alpine Plants, 2 vol., [first and second series],chromolithograph frontispieces, 108 chromolithograph plates, tissue guards, oc...

Zoology.- Bewick (Thomas)AHistory of British Birds, 2 vol., sixth edition, little spotting,presentation inscriptions at head of titles to 'Margare...

Africa.- Christy (Cuthbert)Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi, FIRST EDITION, fron...

Africa.- Cumming (Roualeyn Gordon) Five Years' Hunting Adventures in South Africa, frontispiece, plates, name on half-title, rubbed & marked, fron...

Africa.- Findlay (Frederick R.N.)Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-East Africa, an Account of Shooting Trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza D...

Africa.- Lyell (Denis D.)Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, tissue guard, plates, without advertisement f. at end, o...

Africa.- Speke (John Hanning)Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, second edition, 2 portraits, 25 plates, without the folding map, ...

Africa.- Tjader (Richard)The Big Game of Africa, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, folding map, plates, gift inscription on free endpaper, rubbed & mar...