Day 1 : PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS / Day 2 : CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, ORIGINAL ART, RUBAIYATS, AUTOGRAPHS

*Taxidermy. Tawny Owl, late 20th century, well presented specimen displayed on a tree stump with a naturalistic base, removable rectangular five s...

*Taxidermy. Barn Owl, late 20th century, well presented specimen of a Barn Owl with prey (a vole), shown on a rocky outcrop in a naturalistic sett...

Tod (George). Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, an Aquarium, Conservatories, &c., Recently Built in Different Parts of ...

Veitch (James Herbert). Hortus Veitchii: A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons... , published James...

Walton (Izaak and Charles Cotton). The Complete Angler, 2 volumes, Tercentenary Edition, 1893, illustrations, a little light spotting and offsetti...

Watercolour Album. The Florist, by Anna Maria Putt, 1793, calligraphic title-page and forty-six watercolour of flowers, some with traces of pen & ...

Woodville (William). Medical Botany, Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates, of all the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Exot...

Archer (Geoffrey & Godman, Eva M.). The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden, their life histories, breeding habits, and eggs, 4 volum...

Baker (E.C. Stuart). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Birds, 8 volumes, 1st edition, Taylor & Francis, 1922-30, some colou...

Deignan (Herbert G.). The Birds of Northern Thailand, (Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 186), Washington, 1945, extr...

Del Hoyo (Josep & others). Handbook of the Birds of the World, 16 volumes, Barcelona: Links edicions, 1992-2011, colour illustrated throughout, or...

Delacour (J. & Jabouille, P.). Les Oiseaux de l'Indochine Francais, 4 volumes bound in 2, Paris, 1931, 67 colour lithographed plates, some spottin...

Finsch (Otto). On a Collection of Birds from North-Eastern Abyssinia and the Bogos Country, with Notes by the Collector, William Jesse, [extracted...

Gallagher (Michael & Woodcock, Martin W.). The Birds of Oman, 1st edition, Quartet Books, 1980, colour frontispiece and 120 tipped-in colour plate...

Guillemard (Francis Henry Hill). The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea, with Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various Islands of t...

Gyldenstolpe (Nils). Zoological Results of the Swedish Expedition to Central Africa 1921, Vertebrata I. Birds, Stockholm, 1924, folding map, two c...

Henderson (George & Hume, Allan O. ). Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition o...

Henry (George Morrison). Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon, with a short description of each bird by W.E. Wait, 4 parts bound as one, [Columb...

Howard (Henry Eliot). The British Warblers, a history with problems of their lives, illustrated by Henrik Gronvold, 2 volumes, 1st edition, R.H. P...

Hume (Allan, editor). Stray Feathers, a journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies, 12 volumes (including Index by Charles Chubb), 1873...

Jackson (Frederick John). The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate, Completed and Edited by William Lutley Sclater, 3 volumes, 1st ed...

Jerdon (Thomas Caverhill). Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, containing 50 figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly ...

Jerdon (Thomas Caverhill). The Birds of India, being a Natural History of all the Birds known to Inhabit Continental India... , 3 volumes, 1st edi...

Kiyosu (Yukiyasu). The Birds of Japan, 3 volumes, Tokyo: Kodansha, circa 1952, Japanese language, black & white plates and illustrations, original...

Kuroda (Nagamichi). Birds of the Island of Java, 2 volumes, 1st edition, published by the author, Tokyo, 1933-36, 34 colour plates, two folding ma...

La Touche (J.D.D.). A Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China (Chihli, Shantung, Kiangsu, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Fohkien, and Kwangtung Provinc...

Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron ). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, 2nd edition, 1891-97, photogravure...

Meinertzhagen (Richard). Birds of Arabia, 1st edition, Oliver & Boyd, 1954, colour and black & white plates and illustrations, folding map in pock...

Meinertzhagen (Colonel Richard). Nicoll's Birds of Egypt, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1930, portrait frontispiece, three folding colour maps, 31 colou...

Millais (John Guille). The Natural History of British Surface-feeding Ducks, 1st edition, 1902, additional pictorial title, 41 colour plates after...

Millais (John Guille). The Natural History of British Game Birds, 1st edition, 1909, 36 plates including 18 colour, after Thorburn and Millais, ad...

Oates (Eugene W.). A Handbook to the Birds of British Burmah, Including those found in the Adjoining State of Karennee, 2 volumes, 1st edition, R....

Robinson (Herbert C., and others). The Birds of the Malay Peninsula... , 5 volumes, 1st edition, H.S. & G. Witherby, 1927-76, colour plates, origi...

Schouteden (Henri). De Vogels van Belgisch Congo en van Ruanda-Urundi (Les Oiseaux du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi), 7 parts in 4 volumes (Anna...

*Scott (Peter Markham, 1909-1989). Autograph letter signed, 'Peter Scott', The Severn Wildfowl Trust, 30 December 1947, to Martin [Woodcock, aged ...

Shaw (Tsen-Hwang). The Birds of Hopei Province, 2 volumes, Peking, 1936, folding colour map, 25 black & white plates and illustrations to text, co...

Vaurie (Charles). Tibet and its Birds, 1st edition, H.S. & G. Witherby, 1972, colour and black & white plates, double-page map, top edge gilt, ori...

Vaurie (Charles). Systematic Notes of Palearctic Birds, American Museum Novitates, 2 volumes, 1959-1964 & 1949-1958, each with typed title-page an...

Whitaker (Joseph Isaac Spadafora). The Birds of Tunisia, being a history of the birds found in the Regency of Tunis, 2 volumes, 1st edition, R.H. ...

Woodcock (Martin, illustrator). The Birds of Africa Volume I, [by] Leslie H. Brown, Emil K. Urban, Kenneth Newman, illustrated by Martin Woodcock ...

Forshaw (Joseph M.). Parrots of the World, Illustrated by William T. Cooper, 1st edition, Melbourne, 1973, contents partly sprung, original cloth ...

Forbush (Edward Howe). Birds of Massachusetts and other New England States, 3 volumes, Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, 1928-29, colour an...

Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs, 4 volumes, 1st edition, 1883-85, 68 colour plates, origina...

Bristol. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Frans), Brightstowe vulgo quondam venta flore tissimum Angliae Emporium, [1581], engraved map with contemporary...

British Islands. A collection of nine maps, 17th - 19th century, including maps of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and 'collections' of Briti...

British Isles. A collection of ten maps, mostly 18th century, engraved maps including six with hand colouring, with examples by Moll, Cellarius, B...

British Isles. Bordone (Benedetto), Inghilterra secondo Tolemeo [printed on map], 1st edition, published Venice, [1528], uncoloured woodblock map ...

British Isles. Ruscelli (Girolamo), Tabula Europae I, Venice, [1574], hand coloured engraved 'Ptolemaic' map on a trapezoidal projection with Scot...

British Isles. Schenk (Petrus), Novissima prae caeteris aliis accuartissima Regnorum Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae..., Amsterdam, circa 1690, engraved...

British Isles. A mixed collection of seventeen maps, mostly 18th century, engraved maps, thirteen with hand colouring, with examples by Buffier, S...

British Isles. A collection of twenty maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved maps, fourteen with hand colouring, with examples by Tallis, Cary, Reill...

*British Isles. Pine (John), A Chart shewing the several Places of Action between the English and Spanish Fleets, with the Places where several of...

*British Isles. Saxton (Christopher & Hole William), Englalond Anglia Anglo Saxonum Heptarchia [1607 - 1610], hand coloured engraved map, one old ...

*Cheshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Cestria comitatus Palatinus, circa 1645, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mile...

*Cheshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Cestria comitatus palatinus, circa 1645, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, some printer's creases, 385 x...

*China. Seutter (George Matthaus), Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium juxta recentissimam delineationem in suas provincias disterminatum cura et sunt...

Derbyshire. Speed (John), Anno Darbieshire described, published John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan...

*East Indies. Speed (John), A new map of East India, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], hand coloured engraved map, large margin...

East Yorkshire. Bowen (Emanuel), An accurate map of the East Riding of Yorkshire divided into its Wapontakes &c. Drawn from surveys with various a...

England & Wales. Quad (Matthias), Angliae regni florentissimi nova descriptio auctore Humeredo Lhuyd Denbygiense, Cologne, [1592 or later], hand c...