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Pritchard, James Cowells. [Ethnographical Maps], a folio containing six hand-coloured double-page ethnographical maps and 4pp. of descriptive lett...

Russell, William Howard. The Prince of Wales' Tour: A Diary in India, 2 volumes bound in one, first edition, mounted Woodburytype portrait frontis...

[Anon] Sketches of Portuguese Life, Manners, Costume and Character, first edition, half-title, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, wood-engraving il...

Speke, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 25 plates and a coloured m...

Wilson, Sir Charles William. Picturesque Palestine, 4 volumes (without supplement), steel-engraved titles and plates, wood-engraved illustrations ...

Wright, George Newenham. The Rhine, Italy and Greece, 2 volumes bound in one, 2 engraved additional titles and 71 engraved plates, some spotting a...

Alken, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, half-title, chromo-lithographed additional title and 50 coloured plates, text in English and F...

[Ancillon, Charles] Eunuchism Display'd. Describing all the different Sorts of Eunuchs, the Esteem they have met with in the World, and how they c...

[Anon]. A Treatise on Practical Surveying, and Topographical Plan Drawing, first edition, 6 folding engraved plates, 2 engraved charts, some spott...

British Sports and Sportsmen. Athletic Sports, Tennis, Rackets and other Ball Games, number 463 of 1000 copies, plates, illustrations, original fu...

Chalmers, Patrick. Birds Ashore and Aforeshore... illustrated by Winifred Austen, first edition, coloured plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, sli...

Curtis, William. The Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, volumes 1-20 only, 786 hand-coloured plates, titles cropped, some browning, c...

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species, second edition, 'fifth thousand', half-title, 32 pages of publisher's advertisements at end dated 'Janu...

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 volumes, first edition, ?second issue, 'eighth thousand', half-titles, ea...

Evelyn, John. Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber In His Majesties Dominions, third edition, five engravings, inc...

Evelyn, John. Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber... with Notes by A. Hunter, 2 volumes, fifth edition, engraved...

Evelyn, John. Silva: Or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees... with Notes by A. Hunter, New Edition, To wich is added the Terra: A Philosophical Discours...

Gould, John. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans, 1988; Monograph of the Pittidae, Part I, 1989; The Birds of New Guinea, 1988;...

Harrison, John Cyril, illustrator. The Birds of Prey of the British Islands, number 110 of 275 copies, signed by the artist, coloured plates, orig...

Lilford, Thomas L. Powys. Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, first edition, photogravure portrait and 421 chromo-lit...

Lucas, Suzanne. In Praise of Toadstools, 2 volumes, first edition, coloured plates, original boards, dust-jackets, folio, Mere: Lucas Art, 1992-19...

Lydekker, Richard. The Royal Natural History, 6 volumes, 72 chromo-lithographed plates, some spotting, publisher's half morocco gilt, top edge gil...

Maund, Benjamin, editor. The Botanic Garden; consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowers, volumes 1-5 only, engraved...

Meyer, Henry Leonard. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs, volumes 1, 2 and 4 [of 7] only, 180 hand-coloured lithographed plat...

Michaux, Francois-Andre. Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de L'Amerique Septentrionale, volume 1 (of 4) only, 24 hand coloured stipple-engraved plat...

Millais, John Guille. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 volumes, number 823 of 1025 sets, plates, some browning, original cloth, somewha...

Millais, John Guille. British Diving Ducks, 2 volumes, first edition, number 39 of 450 copies, 74 plates, including 39 coloured and 14 photogravur...

Morris, Rev. F.O. A Natural History of the Eggs and Nests of British Birds, 3 volumes, fourth edition, 248 coloured plates, some spotting, joints ...

Morris, Rev. F.O. A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, fifth edition, 400 hand-coloured plates, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, 8vo, L...

Morris, Rev. F.O. A Natural History of British Moths, 4 volumes, 132 hand-coloured plates, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, spines slight...

Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not, first edition, later issue, with an autographed note from the author tipp...

[Anon.] Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquee aux arts, a l'Agriculture, a l'Economie rurale et domestique, a la Medicine, etc., 18...

Paxton, Joseph. The Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, volumes 1-3 only, half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, 127 hand-coloured engr...

Rennie, Sir John. The Theory, Formation, and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours, 2 volumes, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiec...

Solleysel, Jacques de. Le Parfait Marechal, qui enseigne a connoitre la beaute, la bonte et les defauts des chevaux, 2 parts in one volume, new ed...

Stephens, James Francis. Illustrations of British Entomology; or, a Synopsis of Indigenous Insects, volumes 1 and 5 only, first edition, 13 hand-c...

Stern, F.C. A Study of the Genus Paeonia, first edition, coloured plates, original cloth gilt, some light spotting, folio, London: Royal Horticult...

Surtees, Robert. [Sporting Novels], 7 volumes, numerous hand-coloured plates, contemporary half morocco, spines slightly faded, 8vo, London: Bradb...

Thorburn, Archibald. Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, 38 coloured plates, original cloth gilt, folio, London:...

Thorburn, Archibald. British Birds, 4 volumes, mixed edition, 80 coloured plates, occasional browning, original cloth gilt, spines slightly faded,...

Thorburn, Archibald. British Birds, 4 volumes, new edition, 192 coloured plates, original cloth, spines slightly faded, 8vo, London: Longmans, Gre...

Tissot, Samuel Auguste. Essai sur les Maladies des gens du monde, second edition, half-title, signed by the publisher, untrimmed in original wrapp...

Yarrell, William. A History of British Fishes, 2 volumes, second edition, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Londo...

Bourne, Samuel and Charles Shepherd. A contemporary album of photographs to commemorate the State visit of Edward Prince of Wales to India in 1875...

Cameron, Julia Margaret. Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson, vintage albumen print, half length in profile, facing right holding a book, the mount i...

Cecil Rhodes and South Africa. A fine mounted group portrait of Cecil Rhodes, Francis Thompson, A.R. Colquhoun, and ?Johnston, Grant, Morley and M...

Cole, Henry Hardy. Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir, prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council, fir...

Egypt. Two photograph albums of Egypt, c.1895 and 1915, containing 128 mounted photographs of temples, local life and military encampments, the ea...

Europe, etc. Four albums with mounted albumen prints of Scotland, Somerset, Fuchal, Germany, Egypt, the majority 270 x 200mm or less, contemporary...

Fenton, Roger. Plateau of Sebastopol, 1856, salted paper print, 343 x 235mm. Published by T. Agnew & Sons, Jan 1st 1856, Colnaghi, Moulin, and Wil...

Fenton, Roger. Camp of the 4th Light Dragoon, 1856, salted paper print, 334 x 230mm. Published by T. Agnew & Sons, Jan 1st 1856, Colnaghi, Moulin,...

Georgia and Turkey. A group of 13 mounted photographs of local travel, religious artefacts, etc., mostly 210 x 130mm approx., or larger, c.1890; a...

Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. Two albums with more than 100 albumen prints, c.1880s, including twelve early views of Sydney and en...

Miscellaneous. A collection of loose albumen prints, including a panorama of Malta (a.f.), a group of stereoscope slides of Greece, etc. (a quanti...

New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania. An album that includes 30 albumen prints of Hobart, Lauceston, Sydney, Jenolan Caves, and South Island, mostl...

Oxford Colleges. An album of 73 mounted albumen photographs, possibly from the studios of Hill and Saunders, mostly of colleges, street scenes and...

Ponta Grossa Railways. A group of five mounted photographs showing railway construction, including a crashed engine, each signed on the mount 'Fre...

Rome, Norway and Algeria. An album of 58 mounted photographs, c.1890, mostly tourist views (some coloured), but with a few amateur scenes of local...

Russia, Scotland and Ireland. A group of five photograph albums, c.1905, containing photographs of excursions by Arthur William Darwin and family...

Sommer, Giorgio. A group of 11 large albumen prints of Italy, mounted on card, each captioned in pencil, lower right, the mounts spotted, sometime...

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