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FOLIO SOCIETY, 22 slip-cased titles

VARIOUS AUTHORS: A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, The Folio Society, 1999, 12 vols, original decorative cloth gilt, all in slip-cases (12)

FOLIO SOCIETY: 20 slip-cased titles

FOLIO SOCIETY: 34 slip-cased titles

FOLIO SOCIETY: 25 slip-cased titles

FOLIO SOCIETY: 25 slip-cased titles

FOLIO SOCIETY: 45 titles, 31 in slip-cases

THE QUR'AN, AN INTERPRETATION BY MARMADUKE PICKTHALL, London, The Folio Society, 2010, 4th printing, original decorative cloth, top edges gilt, sl...

EDWARD 2ND DUKE OF YORK: THE MASTER OF GAME, eds William Adolph & Florence Baillie-Grohman, London, published for the editors by Ballantyne Hanson...

HENRY TIBBATS STAINTON: A MANUAL OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS, London, John van Voorst, 1857-59, 2 vols, some original wraps from the parts bo...

MARY PILKINGTON: GOLDSMITH'S NATURAL HISTORY ABRIDGED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS, London, printed for Vernor Hood & Sharpe et al, 1810, 13 engraved pl...

WILLIAM SYER BRISTOWE: THE COMITY OF SPIDERS, London, for The Ray Society, 1939-41, 1st edition, 2 vols, 22 plates as called for, original blind s...

G H LOCKET & A F MILLIDGE: BRITISH SPIDERS, 1968, 1968, 1974, reprint, reprint, 1st edition, all signed, vol 3 with further signature of additiona...

W EARL GODFREY: THE BIRDS OF CANADA, Ottawa, National Museums of Canada, 1966, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper

LEN HOWARD: 2 titles: BIRDS AS INDIVIDUALS, foreword Julian Huxley, ill Eric Hosking, London, Collins, 1952, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w, rev...

JOHN ROBSON: CANARIES HYBRIDS AND BRITISH BIRDS IN CAGE AND AVIARY, ed S H Lewer, 1911, Waverley Book Co, 26 coloured plates as list, 4to, contemp...

F G AFLALO: BRITISH SALT-WATER FISHES WITH A CHAPTER ON THE ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF SEA FISH BY R B MARSTON, London, Hutchinson, 1904, 1st edition, ...

ZANE GREY: 3 titles: TALES OF THE ANGLERS ELDORADO NEW ZEALAND, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1926, 1st edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt;...

JOHN BICKERDYKE: ANGLING FOR COARSE FISH, London, L Upcott Gill [1895], 12pp publishers adverts at end, original pictorial wraps + JOHN STEPHENSON...

MARY E RICHARDSON: LIFE OF A GREAT SPORTSMAN (JOHN MAUNSELL RICHARDSON), London, Vinton & Co, 1919, 1st edition, plates and ills collated complete...

THOMAS BEWICK: A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, Newcastle, printed by J Blackwell & Co for R E Bewick, sold by him, Longmans & Co, London, 1847, 2 vols...

WALTER LAWRY BULLER: BULLER'S' BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND, ed E G Turbott, New Zealand, Australia and London, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967, folio, original t...

ARCHIBALD THORBURN: BRITISH BIRDS, London, New York, Toronto, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, Longmans, Green & Co, 1925-26, new edition, 4 vols, 192...

JEMIMA BLACKBURN: BIRDS FROM MOIDART AND ELSEWHERE DRAWN FROM NATURE, Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1895, 1st edition, 88 litho plates as called for, ...

TRANSACTIONS OF THE EDINBURGH FIELD NATURALIST AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY INSTITUTED AS THE EDINBURGH NATURALIST FIELD CLUB, William Blackwood, 188...

CHARLES DARWIN: THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION..., London, John Murray, 1885, 6th edition with additions and corrections to 1...

CHARLES DARWIN: THE DESCENT OF MAN AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX, London, John Murray, 1885, 2nd edition, revised and augmented ninetheenth tho...

CHARLES DARWIN: THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION..., London, John Murray, 1900, portfrontis, folding diagram plate, original gr...

THOMAS HITT: A TREATISE OF HUSBANDRY ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF DRY AND BARREN LANDS..., London, printed for the author 1760, 1st edition, folding plat...

THOMAS LISTER, LORD RIBBLESDALE: THE QUEEN'S HOUNDS AND STAG-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS, London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co, 1897, 1st e...

[ARTHUR YOUNG]: THE FARMERS GUIDE IN HIRING AND STOCKING FARMS..., London for W Strahan, W Nicol, Salisbury, B Collins, Edinburgh, J Balfour, 1770...

PETER HAWKER: INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN IN ALL THAT RELATES TO GUNS AND SHOOTING, ed Peter William Lance Hawker, London, Longman, Brown, Gre...

R S HOLMES: THE HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET 1833-1903, London, 1904, 1st edition, original cloth gilt soiled + A W PULLIN: HISTORY OF YORK...

CAROLINE CATHERINE, LADY WILKINSON: WEEDS AND WILDFLOWERS, THEIR USES, LEGENDS AND LITERATURE, London, John van Voorst, 1858, 1st edition, 12 hand...

IZAAK WALTON AND CHARLES COTTON: THE COMPLETE ANGLER, London, Henry Kent Causton, 1851, 13 engraved plates as list, original blind stamped blue cl...

THOMAS BEWICK: HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, Newcastle, 1797-1804, 2 vols, vol 1 printed by Sol Hodgson for Beilby & Bewick and G C & J Robinson, Lond...

WISDEN CRICKETERS' ALMANAC 1945, original limp cloth

BLISS & CO LTD: EXPORT CATALOGUE OF MODERN SADDLERY, HARNESS, HORSE COVING ETC, [1910], illustrated trade catalogue, oblong, 4to, original cloth, ...

JOHN COAKLEY LETTSOM: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TEA-TREE WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEDICAL QUALITIES OF TEA AND ON THE EFFECTS OF TEA, printed by ...

ALFRED THAYER MAHAN: TYPES OF NAVAL OFFICERS DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NAVY, Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1901, 1 vol in 2, preface dat...

[THOMAS ANDREW EVANS]: A STATEMENT OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THE NELSON COAT PRESENTED BY HRH PRINCE ALBERT TO GREENWICH HOSPITAL WAS OBTAINED BY SIR ...

ALFRED THAYER MAHAN: 4 titles: THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE 1793-1812, London, Samson Low, Marston & Co, 1893,...

JAMES STANIER CLARKE & JOHN M'ARTHUR: THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF HORATIO VISCOUNT NELSON, London, Fisher Son & Co, [1839-40], 2nd edition, 7 divisio...

WILLIAM EDWARD MAY & PHILIP GEOFFREY WALTER ANNIS: SWORDS FOR SEA SERVICE, London, HMSO 1970, 1st edition, 2 vols, 4to, original cloth, d/ws, vgc,...

ANON: A LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON CONTAINING A FULL STATEMENT OF UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BATTLES IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN ENGAGED AND THE ...

JOSHUA WHITE: MEMOIRS OF THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE OF THE RT HON HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT NELSON..., London, James Cundee, 1805, 2nd edition considerably...

ARCHIBALD DUNCAN: THE LIFE OF THE LATE MOST NOBLE LORD HORATIO NELSON...TO WHICH IS ADDED AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE CEREMONIES OF HIS FUNERAL, Lo...

JOHN WILLIAM NORIE (ED): THE NAVAL GAZETTEER BIOGRAPHER AND CHRONOLOGIST CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE LATE WARS FROM THEIR COMMENCEMENT IN 1793 TO ...

WILLIAM BURNEY: NAVAL HEROES OF GREAT BRITAIN OR ACCOUNTS OF THE LIVES AND ACTIONS OF THE DISTINGUISHED ADMIRALS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO CONFER ON GREA...

WILLIAM NUGENT GLASCOCK: THE NAVAL OFFICERS MANUAL FOR EVERY GRADE IN HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS...TO WHICH IS ADDED A NOTICE ON STEAM AND STEAM SHIPS, L...

ROBERT SOUTHEY & ROBERT BELL: LIVES OF THE BRITISH ADMIRALS WITH AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE NAVAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, London for Longman, Rees, O...

SIR JOSEPH BANKS: THE BANKS LETTERS, A CALENDAR OF THE MANUSCRIPT CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS PRESERVED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HIST...

JAMES STANIER CLARKE & JOHN M'ARTHUR: THE LIVES AND SERVICES OF HORATIO NELSON, DUKE OF BRONTE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE ETC FROM HIS LORDSHIPS M...

EDWARD HARDING (ED): NAVAL BIOGRAPHY OR THE HISTORY AND LIVES OF DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS IN THE BRITISH NAVY FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF HISTORY ...

THE SAILOR'S MAGAZINE AND NAVAL MISCELLANY, [London, British and Foreign Seamen's Friend Society and Bethel Union], 1826, vol 7 12 issues complete...

A FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING TO ALMIGHT GOD TO BE USED IN ALL CHURCHES AND CHAPELS...ON THURSDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1805...FOR A GENER...

ANON: AN OFFICIAL AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL DETAIL OF THE GRAND NATIONAL OBSEQUIES AT THE PUBLIC FUNERAL OF BRITAIN'S DARLING HERO, THE IMMORTAL NELSON.....

WILLIAM RICHARD O'BYRNE: A NAVAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY COMPRISING THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF EVERY LIVING OFFICER IN HER MAJESTY'S NAVY..., London...

[SIR WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, BARON RADSTOCK] [ED]: THE BRITISH FLAG TRIUMPHANT! OR THE WOODEN WALLS OF OLD ENGLAND BEING COPIES OF THE LONDON GAZETTES...

THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW: MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF VICE-ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NELSON, KB, DUKE OF BRONTE ETC ETC ETC, London, T & W Boone, 1840, 2nd ...