Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photography

Joseph Wolf. Pheasant Drawings, number 47 of 275 copies, with an introduction by David M. Lank, numerous black and white and coloured plates, mar...

Axel Amuchastegui. Some Birds and Mammals of North America, number 22 of 505 copies, sixteen coloured plates, quarter morocco by Zaehnsdorf, large...

James Sowerby. English Botany: or, coloured figures of British Plants..., 33 Volumes plus Index, 2376 hand-coloured engraved plates (some folding)...

Margaret Mee. Flowers of the Brazilian Rainforest, number 252 of 500 copies, thirty-two coloured plates, original quarter morocco by Zaehnsdorf, l...

Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, sixth edition, half-title, folding diagram, publisher's advertisements at ...

John Gerard. The Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes, engraved title page and more than 2800 woodcut text illustrations, full stamped leather ...

John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill. Medical Botany, or Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and...

William Woodville. Medical Botany, containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates, of all the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Exotic...

John Hill. The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants which are remarkable for their virtues, fifty-four hand coloured plates, c...

Roger Tory Peterson & Virginia Marie Peterson. Audubon's Birds of America, The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio, first edition, 435 colour plat...

John Morton. The Natural History of Northamptonshire; with Some Account of the Antiquities, first edition, folding engraved map after John Harris,...

John Walpole-Bond. A History of Sussex Birds, 3 Vols, first edition, fifty-three coloured plates by Philip Rickman, original publishers cloth, 4to...

Henry Correvon. Album des Orchidees de del'Europe centrale et septentrionale. first edition, half-title, sixty coloured plates, original publisher...

Anne Pratt. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain, 6 Volumes, coloured lithographic frontispiece, numerous other hand-...

J. O . Westwood. The British Moths and their Transformations, 2 volumes, new edition, 124 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards, conte...

J. O. Westwood and H. N. Humphreys. British Butterflies and their Transformations, new edition, hand-coloured additional title and 42 hand-colour...

Edward Joseph Lowe. Ferns: British and Exotic, half-titles, 479 chromo-lithographed plates, tissue guards, book plate of James Bartholomew Banks p...

Thomas Bewick. History of British Birds, 2 volumes, first edition, LARGE PAPER COPY, wood-engraved illustrations throughout, publisher's original ...

John Evelyn. Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees... with notes by A. Hunter, 2 volumes, new edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Joseph Ha...

Charles Leadbetter. Astronomy: or, the True System of Planets Demonstrated, first edition, 10 engraved plates, 8 folding, engraved illustration, c...

Zerah Colburn. Locomotive Engineering and Mechanism of Railways, 2 volumes, first edition, 64 engraved plates, numerous further illustrations in t...

Wild Flowers as They Grow, five volumes, numerous coloured plates, original publishers cloth, 8vo, London: The Waverley Book Company Ltd, n.d.libr...

H.B.C. Pollard and Phyllis Barclay-Smith. British & American Game-Birds, number 28 of 125 copies, illustrated throughout by Philip Rickman, origin...

J. T. Salmon. The Native Trees of New Zealand, deluxe edition, number 300 of 500 copies, signed by the author to the title page, lavishly illustra...

Charles Darwin. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, RN, during the years 1832-1836, 4 volumes, facs...

Thomas Bewick. A History of British Birds, 2 volumes, wood-engraved title-vignettes, illustrations and vignettes by or after Bewick, handsome half...

John E. Sowerby. The Grasses of Great Britain, described with observations on their natural history and uses, 144 full page coloured plates of the...

Mrs Jane Loudon. British Wild Flowers, first edition, additional half title, coloured engraved frontispiece, 59 further full page coloured plates,...

Rowland Ward. The Sportsman's Handbook to Practical Collecting and Preserving Trophies, seventh edition, photographic frontispiece, numerous plat...

James Glaisher. Travels in the Air, first edition, woodcut frontispiece, further numerous lithographic and woodcut illustrations, contemporary mor...

Simon Pauli. A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee and Chocolate, half title, two engraved folding plates, publishers advertisements at end, contempo...

James Glaisher. Travels in the Air, second edition, coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, numerous lithographic and woodcut illustrations...

John M. Wilson, editor. The Rural Encylopedia, or a General Dictionary of Agriculture, 4 volumes, engraved plates, some hand-coloured, cbookplate ...

Mary Mountier, Allan Hunter & Peter Kelly. Notable New Zealand Thoroughbreds, deluxe box edition, number 271 of 2,000 copies, lavishly illustrated...

Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most...

Major Hermann Moedeback. The Pocketbook of Aeronautics, first English edition, translated by W. Mansergh Varley, half-title and title, black and w...

Captain Jones. Artificial Fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches.., Also, Mr. Muller's FIREWORKS, f...

Pliny. Des wijd-vermaerden Natuur-kondigers vyf Boecken, engraved additional title, engraved illustrations in text, contemporary vellum, yapp edge...

Anon. The Horseman and Traveller's Perfect Director, and Pocket Farrier: shewing, in every case, what methods ought to be used on any misfortunes ...

WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.General System of Horsemanship, 2 volumes bound in one, first English edition, engraved double-page additiona...

Sir Francis Bacon. Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries, ninth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, London...

Oliver Goldsmith. An History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 8 volumes, second edition, Richard Brindsley Sheridan's copy, with his bookplate, 1...

An Essay on the Principle of Population, 2 volumes, sixth edition, late nineteenth century half roan, worn, boards detached, ex-library copy, with...

Gervase Markham. The English Husbandman, drawne into two Bookes, and each Booke in two Parts, 3 parts in 1, woodcuts within text, woodcut head-pie...

Richard Harvey (attributed). The Farmer's Wife; or the Complete Country Housewife; Containing Full and ample Directions for the Breeding and Manag...

William Blacker. Art of Flymaking, &c., Comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours... With Descriptions of Flies for the Season of the Year... Rewritt...

Archibald Thorburn. British Birds, four volumes, numerous coloured plates, original publishers red cloth, 4to, London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1918....

John Fox. The Book of Martyrs: Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable Happening in the Church, five volumes bound in three, nint...

Johannes Buxtorf. Synagoga Judaica, third edition, title page in red and black, woodcut initials and decorations in text, 8vo, Basel: Emanuelis Ko...

La Bible qui est toute la sainte Ecriture Du Vieil et du Noveau Testament, titled and text ruled in red throughout, 2 plates, engraved map and oth...

David Livingstone. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved portrait, 22...

John Williams. A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, five wood-...

Robert Moffat. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa, Ninth Thousand, engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, further ...

Periodical Accounts Relative to the Baptist Missionary Society, 3 Vols, first edition, title-page, folding sheet music and verse, further engraved...

J. Tomlin. Missionary Journals and Letters, written during Eleven Years' Residence and Travels amongst the Chinese, Siamese, Javanese, Chassis, an...