Printed Books, Maps & Autographs

Bacon (G. W. publisher). Bacon's Atlas of London and Suburbs with Supplementary Maps, Letterpress Descriptions and Alphabetical Index, circa 1910,...

[Caledonian]. The Caledonian Musical Repository: a choice selection of esteemed Scottish songs, adapted for the voice, violin, and German flute, E...

Cotman (John Sell). Engravings of the most remarkable of the sepulchral brasses in Norfolk; tending to illustrate the ecclesiastical, military, an...

Crosthwaite (Peter). [Series of 7 maps of the Lake District, reprinted, London, 1800], comprising 6 engraved folding maps of the Lakes, and one do...

Cussans (John Edwin). History of Hertfordshire, Containing an Account of the Descents of the Various Manors; Pedigrees of Families Connected with ...

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with t...

* Kip (Johannes, circa 1653-1722). Cirencester, the Seat of Allen Bathurst Esq ., 1712 [or 1768], uncoloured engraved aerial prospect, originally ...

Manship (Henry). The History of Great Yarmouth, edited by Charles John Palmer, Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall and London: J. Russell Smith, 18...

Pernot (François Alexandre). Vues Pittoresques de l'Ecosse ... avec un texte explicatif extrait en grande partie des ouvrages de Sir Walter Scott ...

Stanfield (Clarkson). Stanfield's Coast Scenery. A Series of Views in the British Channel, from Original Drawings taken Expressly for the Work, 18...

Turner (J. M. W., & John Ruskin). The Harbours of England. Engraved by Thomas Lupton, from Original Drawings made Expressly for the Work by J.M.W....

Wilson (John Marius). The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland; or dictionary of Scottish topography ..., 2 volumes, Edinburgh: Fullarton, [1854], addit...

Botanical Watercolours. Two early Victorian albums containing watercolour botanical studies, circa 1840s, containing a total of 100 watercolour st...

* Company School. A set of 12 mica paintings of Indian birds, circa 1850, 12 gouache paintings of birds on mica, each 15.5 x 11 cm (6 x 4.5 ins), ...

* Company School. A set of Indian mica paintings, circa 1850s, 12 gouache paintings on oval sheets of mica (9 x 12.5 cm), depicting colourful butt...

Geological Society of London. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 9 volumes, a partly broken run, volumes II-IV, VI-X & XII...

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Fifth th...

Darwin (Charles). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1868, wood-engravings throughout, adver...

* Darwin (Charles, 1809-1882). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Ch. Darwin’, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 27 March 1879, to his cousin [identified in a note at...

* Emberson (Colin, 20th century). Barn Owl by the river, watercolour on paper, artist's monogram lower right, 44.5 x 60 cm (17.25 x 23.5 ins), fra...

* Emberson (Colin, 20th century). Cockatoo, gouache on board, showing a cockatoo on a perch with flowers, butterflies and house, artist's monogram...

* Emberson (Colin, 20th century). Nesting Duck and Stoat, watercolour and gouache on paper, signed with monogram lower right, 27.5 x 34.3 cm (10.7...

Evelyn (John). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions ... To which is annexed Pomona; Or,...

Finaughty (William). The Recollections of William Finaughty Elephant Hunter 1864-1875, 1st edition, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1916], two sma...

Aflalo (F. G.) . A Book of Fishing Stories, 1913, 4 colour & 13 monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting & marginal toning, publishers origin...

* Fossilised Coral. A comprehensive collection of coral, including specimens from the Williamson Museum, Hartlepool, mostly with typed names and l...

Frohawk (Frederick William). Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson and Co., [1925], preface dated 191...

Harte (Walter). Essays on Husbandry. Essay I. A General Introduction, shewing, that Agriculture is the basis and support of all flourishing commun...

Landseer (Thomas). Twenty Engravings of Lions, Tigers, Panthers and Leopards from Originals by Stubbs, Rubens, Spilsbury, Rembrant [sic], Reydinge...

Loureiro (João de). Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi imperio, Af...

Millais (John Guille). The Natural History of British Game Birds, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909, half-title, 35 chromolithogr...

Montes de Oca (Rafael). Ensayo Ornitologico de los Troquili de os o Colibries de Mexico, 1st edition, Mexico, Ignacio Escalante, 1875, tinted lith...

Pennant (Thomas). History of Quadrupeds, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: B. White, 1781, engraved title-pages, 52 engraved plates, advertisement l...

* Penny (Edwin, 1930-2016). Chaffinch on a branch, watercolour on paper, signed lower right, 35.5 x 24cm (14 x 9.5ins), framed and glazed (Qty: 1)

* Proud (Alistair, 1954 - ). Study of the head of a first year female sparrowhawk, & Study of the head of a female goshawk, two watercolour studie...

Rea (John). Flora: seu De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege, furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III Books, 1st editio...

Saville-Kent (William). The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its Products and Potentialities, 1st edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, [18...

Sharrock (Robert). The History of the Propagation and Improvement of Vegetables by the Concurrence of Art and Nature, 2nd edition ('much enlarged'...

Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1915-1916, additional half title to each volume, eight...

Voet (Johann Eusebius). Catalogus systematicus coleopterorum [plates only], 2 volumes in 1, The Hague: G. Bakhuysen, 1806, 2 engraved title-pages ...

Wallace (Alfred Russel). Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," with an Alternative ...

[Whymper, Josiah Wood, illustrator]. Plates Illustrative of Natural History [cover-title], 7 volumes, London: Society for Promoting Christian Know...

Bates (Henry Walter). The Naturalist on the River Amazons [sic], a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life,...

[Bolton, James]. Harmonia Ruralis; or, an Essay towards a Natural History of British Song Birds, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, London: W. T. ...

Borlase (William). Observations on the Antiquities and Monuments of the County of Cornwall, 1st edition , Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson, 1754, eng...

Buckland (William). [Sammelband of geological and palaeontological tracts], 1820-24, comprising: 1. Vindiciae Geologicae; or the Connexion of Geol...

Carlos I (King of Portugal). Catalogo illustrado das aves de Portugal (Sedentarias, de arribação e accidentaes) por D. Carlos de Bragança. Fascicu...

Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 2 photogr...

Couch (Jonathan). A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1862-3-4-5, 252 chromoxylo...

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, London: ...

Darwin (Charles). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1868, 32 pp. advertisements dated April...

Darwin (Charles). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: John Murray, 1872, 7 heliotype plates by Rejl...

Darwin (Charles). The Power of Movement in Plants, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: John Murray, 1880, half-title, 32 pp. advertisements dated May ...

Godman (Frederick Du Cane). A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares), 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1907-10, half-title, tit...

* Godman (Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919). Deed box, c.1874 or 1891, japanned tin deed box by Hepburn & Cocks, maker's gilt plaque to inside lid, ha...

Gosse (Philip Henry). Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals, 1st edition, London: Van Voorst, 1860, half-title,...

Greene (William Thomas). Parrots in Captivity, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-7 [i.e. 1892], 81 chromoxylographic plat...

Grew (Nehemiah). Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society ...

Harvey (William Henry). Phycologia Britannica: or a History of British Sea-Weeds, 4 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Reeve and Benham, 184...

Hill (John). An History of Animals. Containing Descriptions of the Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects, of the Several Parts of the World, 1st edit...