Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Spanish Books & Manuscripts & The David Wilson Library of Natural History

Robertson (Archibald). A Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol. With historical and descriptive accounts of the c...

Senex (John). The Roads through England delineated or Ogilby's Survey revised, improved and reduced to a size portable for the pocket..., printed ...

Shepherd (Thomas H.). Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views, 1829, additional engraved ti...

Shepherd (Thos H. & Elmes, James). Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century: displayed in a series of engravings ..., London...

Skelton (Joseph). Skelton’s Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire from Original Drawings by J.Mackenzie, published Ox...

Storer (James). History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, 4 vols. in 2, 1814-19, additional engraved titles, numerous en...

Stowe. A Description of the House and Gardens of the most noble & Puissant Prince, George-Grenville-Nugent-Temple Marquis of Buckingham, [Buckingh...

Stowe. A Description of the House and Gardens of the most Noble and Puissant Prince, Richard Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, Marquess of Buckingh...

Stowe. A Description of the House and Gardens of the most Noble and Puissant Prince, Richard Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, Marquess of Buckingh...

Stowe. A Description of the House and Gardens of the most Noble Richard Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, Duke of Buckingham & Chandos, Buckingham:...

Timms (William Henry). Select Views of the Borough of Reading, and Adjacent Scenery, [Reading: Published May 19, 1823, by J. Rusher, King Street, ...

Tombleson (William). [Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway...], circa 1840, lacking title but retaining the decorative half-title and...

Herbert (W. & E.W. Brayley). A Concise Account, Historical and Descriptive of Lambeth Palace, London: S. Gosnell, 1806, additional engraved title,...

[Walker, George]. The Costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings, with descriptions...

Willis (Browne) . A Survey of the Cathedral Church of St. David's and the Edifices belonging to it, as they stood in the Year 1715..., London: R. ...

Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 30 volumes, Devizes: Henry Bull [-C. H. Woodward], 1854-99, numerous plates ...

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 ...

* Gould (J. & E.). Red Footed Falcon (Falco rusipes), & Lesser Kestril (Falco tinnunculoides), from The Birds of Europe, 1832 - 37, two lithograph...

* Gould (J. & E.). Ten hand-coloured lithographs from The Birds of Europe, 1832 - 37, lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, two with a she...

* Gould (J. & Hart W.). Pachycephala collaris, Glycichoera fallax, Stigmatops Chloris, Climacteris placens, Xerophila pectoralis, Sericaornis mini...

* Gould (J. & Hart W.). Prionidura Newtoniana, Eupetes caerulescens, Philemon plumigensis, Xanthotis chrysotis, Meliarchus sclateri & Pachycephalo...

* Gould (J. & Hart W.). Pachycephala fuscoflava, Melithreptus laetior, Amytis goyderi, Pachycephala chrystophori, Pachcare flavo-grisea & Cracticu...

* Gould (J. & Richter H. C.). Cuculus Canorus, from The Birds of Great Britain, 1862 - 73, lithograph with contemporary hand colouring of a Cuckoo...

* Gould (J., Wolf J. & Richter H. C.). Tinnunculus Alaudarius, from The Birds of Great Britain, 1862 - 73, lithograph with contemporary hand colou...

* Gould (John, 1804-1881). Brachyotus Palustris (Short Eared Owl), from The Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73, fine hand-coloured lithograph on pale...

* Gould (John, 1804-1881). Picus Insularis (Formosan Spotted Woodpecker), from The Birds of Asia, 1850-83, fine hand-coloured lithograph on pale c...

* Gould (John, 1804-1881). Strix Indica (Indian Screech Owl), from The Birds of Asia, 1850-83, fine hand-coloured lithograph on pale cream wove pa...

* Gould (John, 1804-1881). Syrnium Ocellatum (Speckled Wood Owl), from The Birds of Asia, 1850-83, fine hand-coloured lithograph on pale cream wov...

* Gould (John, 1804-1881). Sterna Paridisea (Roseate Tern), from The Birds of Europe, 1832-37, lithograph with fine contemporary hand-colouring, b...

* Gould, (John, 1804-1881). Black-headed Gull (Xema melanocephalus), Skua Gull (Lestris catarractes), Iceland Gull (Larus Islandicus), & Parasitic...

* Harrison (John Cyril, 1898 - 1985). Mallard Ducks Taking Flight, 1921, watercolour, signed and dated by the artist to lower left, 220 x 285 mm, ...

* Harrison (John Cyril, 1898 - 1985). Pair of Mallard on a Pond, watercolour on paper, signed by the artist to lower right, tipped on to later car...

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. ... ...

* Lear (Edward). Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus) & Audouin's Gull (Larus Audouinii), from John Gould, The Birds of Europe, [1832 - 37], two lithogra...

* Lear (Edward). Great Egret (Ardea alba) & Little Egret (Ardea garzetta), from John Gould, The Birds of Europe, 1832 - 37, two lithographs with c...

* Lear (Edward). Rock Ptarmigan. Lagopus rupestris, from John Gould, The Birds of Europe, [1832 - 37], lithograph with contemporary hand colouring...

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

Mavor (William). General View of the Agriculture of Berkshire. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement...

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...

* Orchid Watercolours. Twelve fine botanical studies of orchids by Frederick William Bolas (1871-1951), Minnie Walters Anson (1879-1959), E. Shaw,...

* Ornithology. Gull, by Carl Friedrich, 1814, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, on brown wove paper, depicting a black and white seabird on...

* Pazzi (Pietro Antonio, 1706-circa 1766). Five hand-coloured engraved plates of shells from Nicolai Gualtieri, Index Testarum Conchyliorum, 1742,...

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 ...

White (Gilbert). The Natural History of Selborne, 2 volumes, new edition, 1825, half-title to volume 2, engraved frontispieces (one with original ...

* Wolf (J. & Smit J.). Numida Mitrata & Numida Coronata, from Daniel Giraud Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, [1870 - 72], a pair of lithogra...