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Wise (Francis). A Letter to Dr. Mead concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, Particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives name to the ...

* Barraband (Jacques, 1767-1809). Seven hand-coloured engraved illustrations of parrots, from Francois Levaillant, Histoire Naturelle des Perroque...

* Buc'hoz (Pierre Joseph, 1731-1807). Six hand-coloured engravings from Collection precieuse et enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus c...

Crealock (Henry Hope). Deer-Stalking in the Highlands of Scotland. Edited by his Brother, Major-General John North Crealock, 1st edition, London: ...

Culpeper (Nicholas). The English Physitian Enlarged; with Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines made of English Herbs, that were not in any Impr...

Flora Danica. [Icones plantarum sponte nascentium in regnis Daniae et Norvegiae, in ducatibus Slesvici et Holsatiae, et in comitatibus Oldenburgi ...

Hill (John). Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the several useful Products of a Garden....

Hogg (Robert & Johnson, George W., editors). A Selection of the Eatable Funguses of Great Britain, London: Journal of Horticulture & Cottage Garde...

Houghton (John). Husbandry and Trade Improv'd: Being a Collection of many valuable Materials relating to Corn, Cattle, Coals, Hops, Wool, &c. ... ...

* Manetii (Saverio). Three plates from Ornithologia methodice digesta ['Storia naturale degli uccelli'], [Florence: Mouck, 1766-76], comprising: 1...

McKelvie (Colin Laurie & Richard Robjent, illustrator). The Woodcock, 1988; The Snipe, 1989; The Grouse, 1991; The Partridge, 1993; The Pheasant, ...

* Meyrick (William). The New Family Herbal, or, Domestic Physician... , Birmingham: printed by Thomas Pearson, 1790, engraved frontispiece, 6 pp. ...

Morison (Robert). Plantarum Umbelliferarum distributio nova, per tabulas cognationis et affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta, 1st edit...

Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1st edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1855, 60 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, fron...

Pratt (Anne). The Flowering Plants Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies the Club Mosses, Horsetails &c., 4 volumes, new editi...

Snow (D. W. & C. M. Perrins) . The Birds of the Western Palearctic, 2 volumes, Concise Edition, Oxford University Press, 1998, numerous colour ill...

Thorburn (Archibald). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1923, 30 colour plates, s...

Timeform Annuals. The Best Horses of 1945, Racehorses of 1954, 1956-1986, 33 volumes, Portway Press, 1946/1987, black & white illustrations from p...

Walton (Izaac). The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish & Fishing not unworthy the perusal of most An...

[Weston, Richard]. Tracts on Practical Agriculture and Gardening. Weston (Richard). In which the advantage of imitating the garden culture in the ...

Wright (M., W. & F. von). Svenska Faglar, efter naturen och pa sten ritade, 3 volumes, Stockholm, 1927-29, 364 fine colour lithograph plates, text...

Young (Arthur). A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales... Interspersed with Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility an...

Arlequin Press. One Pair of Eyes. Donald Watson, 1st edition, deluxe issue, Chelmsford: Arlequin Press, 1994, colour illustrations, original half ...

Bewick (Thomas). A General History of Quadrupeds, 1st edition , Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby & T. Bewick, 1790, n...

Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds. Vol. I. ... Land Birds [-Vol. II ... Water Birds], 2 volumes, 3rd and 2nd editions, Newcastle: Printed ...

Bewick (Thomas). History of British Birds ... Vol I. ... Land Birds [Vol. II ... Water Birds], 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newcastle: Printed by Sol. ...

Bindings. Collection of finely-bound ornithology books, 20th century, including: Thom (Valerie M.). Birds in Scotland, 1st edition, Calton: publis...

Booth (Edward Thomas). Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty-Five Years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, 3 volumes, 1st ...

Brocklehurst (Henry Courtney). Game Animals of the Sudan, their Habits and Distribution, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1931, 12 colour ...

Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's Complete Herbal, London: Thomas Kelly, 1824, engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 hand-coloured etched plates, front...

Forbes (Edward, & Sylvanus Hanley). A History of British Mollusca, and their Shells, 4 volumes, 1st edition, large-paper issue, London: John van V...

Frohawk (Frederick William). The Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1925], 60 coloured and...

Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, London: published by the author, 1862-73, 367 hand-coloured lithographic plates,...

Graves (George). Ovarium Britannicum; being a Correct Delination of the Eggs of such Birds as are Natives of, or Domesticated in Great Britain, 1s...

Grieve (Symington). The Great Auk, or Garefowl. Its History, Archaeology, and Remains, 1st edition, London: Thomas C. Jack, 1885, wood-engraved fr...

Hewitson (William C.). Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, Accompanied with Descriptions of the Eggs, Nests, etc., 2 volumes, 2nd...

Hill (John). Herbarium Britannicum exhibens plantas Britanniae indigenas secundum methodum floralem novam digestas, 2 volumes in 1, London: Baldwi...

[Hooker, William]. [Pomona Londinensis, 1st edition, London: Hooker, 1813-18], 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 49: without plates 36-49)...

Howard (H. Eliot). The British Warblers. A History, with Problems of their Lives, 10 original parts as issued (1-9, 9*), 1st edition, London: R. H...

Hulme (F. Edward). Familiar Wild Flowers, First [-Fifth] Series, 5 volumes, 1st editions, London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co., [-Cassell & Comp...

Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, 2nd edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1...

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 ed...

Loudon (John Claudius). An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1st edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, G...

Meyer (Henry Leonard). Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longman and Co, c.1835-44, lithographic title-pages (first issue, retain...

Meyer (Henry Leonard). Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs, 7 volumes, mixed editions, London: G. W. Nickisson [George Willis ...

Millais (John Guille). The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, half-titles, limitation leaves, title-pag...

Montagu (George). Ornithological Dictionary; or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds [-Supplement], 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: for J. Whit...

Mosley (Seth Lister & Frederick Ormrod). An Account of the Birds of the Huddersfield District, parts 1-12 and 15-20 of 20 original parts in 10 vol...

Muirhead (George). The Birds of Berwickshire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889-95, 10 plates, 2 plans, folding map, 16 pp. a...

New Naturalist Monographs. A complete set, 22 volumes, 1st editions, London: Collins, 1948-71, Badger, Yellow Wagtail, Greenshank, Herring Gull's ...

New Naturalists. Numbers 2, 3, 6A, 6B, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 28, 39, 42, 51, 53-55, 57, 61-64, 67, 69, 84, 86, 98, i.e. 27 volumes, 1st editions, ...

New Naturalists. Group of reprints, 1946-82, comprising numbers 2, 3 (2 copies), 4, 30, 33, 37, 40, 42 (4 copies), 52, 54, 55, 58, 60 (2 copies), ...

New Naturalists. The Natural History of Orkney. R J. Berry [and:] British Warblers. Eric Simms, 2 volumes, London: Collins, 1985, British Warblers...

New Naturalists. Heathlands; The New Forest; Ferns, their Habits in the British and Irish Landscape; Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles; The H...

New Naturalists. The Soil; British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; Wild & Garden Plants; Ladybirds; The New Naturalists [2 copies...

New Naturalists. Numbers 99-102, 104-110 (including 2 copies of number 109), 112-117, 119, 125 and 128, 21 volumes, 1st editions, printings unknow...

Oates (Eugene W., Savile G. Reid & W. R. Ogilvie-Grant). Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History), 5 vol...

Rowley (George Dawson, editor). Ornithological Miscellany, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Trübner and Co., 1875-8, 3 lithographic colour frontisp...

Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Notes on their Classification and Geographical Distribution, 2nd edition, London: John C. Nimmo,...

Shelley (George Ernest). A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sun-Birds, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: published by the author, 1876-1...

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