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ICONES PLANTARUM MEDICINALIUM, NEES VON ESENBECK (T.F.L.),'Plantae Medicinales oder Samloung Offizineller Pflanzen mit Lithographischen Abbildunge...

DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND, MACCULLOCH (J.),pub. Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh; Hurst & Robinson Co., London, 1819, vol...

MEDICAL BOTANY; ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE LONDON, EDINBURGH, & DUBLIN PHARMACOPOEIAS,Comprising a Popular and ...

HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, MORRIS (REV. F.O.),second edition, hand coloured plates, pub. Bell & Dowdie, London, 1870, in gilt tooled blue cloth boa...

THE HEATHERY, ANDREWS (H.C.),'or a Monograph of the Genus Erica', pub. Richard Taylor & Co., London, 1804 (vol 1), 1806 (vol 2 & 3), 149 of 150 co...

SCOTLAND, ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS, BEATTIE (W.),pub. George Virtue, Edinburgh, 1835 (vol.1) 1838 (vol. 2 & 3.), with monochrome plates, h...

NESTS & EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS, MORRIS (REV. F.O.),pub. Groombridge & Sons, London, 1864, with coloured plates, half green Morocco with marbled boa...

NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS, DONOVAN (E.),pub. F. & C. Rivington, London, circa 1792-96, hand coloured plates, half blue Morocco with marbl...

BRITISH MOSSES, THEIR HOMES, ASPECTS, STRUCTURE, AND USES, TRIPP (F.E.),pub. George Bell & Sons, London, 1888, coloured illustrations, half green ...

MEDICAL BOTANY, CARSON (JOSEPH),pub. Lloyd P. Smith, Philadelphia, 1847 (vol. 1) and Robert Smith, Philadelphia, 1847 (vol. 2), Illustrations of M...

COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF HEATHS, ANDREWS (H.C.),'The Drawings taken from Living Plants only with the Appropriate Specific Character, Full Descriptio...

THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY VOL. 5, ANDREWS (H.C.),comprising coloured engravings of new and rare plants only with botanical descriptions, pub. Lond...

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CRINOIDEA, MILLER (J.S.),pub. C. Frost, Bristol, 1821, forty-nine of fifty plates, half tan Morocco with marbled boards .....

THE HUMMINGBIRD KEEPSAKE, A BOOK OF BIRD BEAUTY, JERRARD (P.),pub. London, 1852, twelve hand coloured lithograph plates, gilt tooled red Morocco ...

BRITISH PHAENOGAMOUS BOTANY; OR, FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE GENERA OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS, BAXTER (W.),second edition, pub. Oxford, 1834...

THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY VOLS. 1-5, ANDREWS (H.C.),Comprising Coloured Engravings of New and Rare Plants Only with Botanical Descriptions, pub. L...

NATURE PRINTED BRITISH FERNS, MOORE (T.),Octavo edition, pub. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1859, hand coloured plates, half Morocco with marbled boar...

THE CLASSES AND ORDER OF THE LINNAEAN SYSTEM OF BOTANY, ILLUSTRATED BY SELECT SPECIMENS OF FOREIGN AND INDIGENOUS PLANTS, pub. Longman et al., Lon...

A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH MOTHS, MORRIS (F.O.),pub. Bell & Dowdie, London, 1872, coloured plates, gilt tooled green cloth boards (4 vols.)Hinge...

NEW CYCLOPAEDIA OF BOTANY AND COMPLETE BOOK OF HERBS, BROOK (R.)pub. W.M. Clark, London, circa 1854, hand-coloured plates, half Morocco with marbl...

A MONOGRAPH OF BRITISH APHIDES, BUCKTON (G.B.),pub. Ray Society, London, 1876, hand coloured plates, gilt tooled cloth boards (4 vols.)Provenance:...

THE FOSSIL FLORA OF GREAT BRITAIN, LINDLEY (J.), HUTTON (W.)Or Figures and Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains Found in a Fossil State in this C...

A HISTORY OF THE EARTH, AND ANIMATED NATURE, GOLDSMITH (O.),pub. Henry Fisher, London, circa 1822, hand coloured illustrations, half Morocco with ...

SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY, SMITH (J.E.), SOWERBY (J.),second edition, pub. C.E. Sowerby, London, 1832-45, with hand coloured plates (12 vols.)Ex-Li...

SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY; OR COLOURED FIGURES OF BRITISH PLANTS, WITH THEIR ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS, SYNONYMS, AND PLACES OF GROWTH; SMITH (J.E.), SO...

SPIDERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, BLACKWALL (J.),pub. Robert Hardwicke, London, 1861-4, with hand coloured illustrations (2 vols.)Provenance: ...

RAY SOCIETY MONOGRAPHS, TWELVE MID TO LATE-19TH CENTURY VOLUMES,with subjects including Cetacea, British Annelids, and Oceanic Hydrozoa, hand colo...

BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS, PERRIN (MRS H.),pub. Bernard Quaritch, London 1914, gilt cloth boards (4 vols.) ...[more]

RHOPALOCERA EUROPAE, THE BUTTERFLIES OF EUROPE, LANG ( H.),pub. L. Reeve & Co., Ashford, 1884, coloured illustrations, gilt green cloth bords (2 v...

NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, MARILAOUN (A.K.), OLIVER (F.W.),pub. Blackie & Son, London, 1894, woodcut illustrations and plates, half Morocco with m...

OUR NATIVE FERNS, LOWE (E.J.),pub. Groombridge & Sons, London, 1865, coloured plates and wood engravings, half Morocco with marbled boards (2 vols...

BEAUTIFUL LEAVED PLANTS, LOWE (E.J.),pub. Groombridge & Sos, London, 1864, together with A Natural History of British Grasses by the same author, ...

CURIOSITIES OF NATURE & ART,pub. Jones & Co., London, 1827, illustrated, half Morocco with marble boards (2 vols.) ...[more]

THE FLORICULTURAL CABINET, AND FLORIST'S MAGAZINE, JAN-DEC 1837 VOL. V,pub. Whittaker & Co., London, housing hand coloured plates, half calf with ...

GRASSES OF GREAT BRITAIN, SOWERBY (J.E.), JOHNSON (C.),pub. John E. Sowerby, London, 1861, together with a reissue of Sowerby's British Wild Flowe...

A HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, MORRIS (REV. F.A.),pub. Groombridge & Sons, London, 1864, coloured plates, together with Farm Insects [...], Cur...

BEAUTIFUL LEAVED PLANTS, LOWE (E.J.),pub. Groombridge & Sons, London, 1864, together with A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, Rind (W.), also The ...

A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, MORRIS (REV. F.O.),fourth edition, pub. J.C. Nimmo, London, 1895 (vols. 2, 3 and 5), together with Game-Birds by Ogilv...

HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, MORRIS (F.O.),eight edition, pub. Nimmo, London, 1895, together with European Butterflies & Moths by Kirby (W.F.),...

HISTORY OF THE EARTH & ANIMATED NATURE, GOLDSMITH (O.),pub. Blackie & Son, London, 1879 (2 vols.), together with The Museum of Natural History by ...

BRITISH MOSSES, TRIPP (F.E.),pub. George Bell & Sons, London, 1874, (2 vols.), together with European Ferns by Britten (J.), Ferns of Great Britai...

BOTANICAL INTEREST - SEVEN VOLUMES,comprising British Orchids by Webster (A.D.), 1898, Botanical Sketches, 1825, Introduction to Botany by Smith (...

THE HEREFORDSHIRE POMONA, BULL (H.G., ed.)pub. The Folio Society, London, 2014, limited edition no. 534, plates and text, gilt tooled green cloth ...

THE TEMPLE OF FLORA, OR GARDEN OF THE BOTANIST, POET, PAINTER, AND PHILOSOPHER,Picturesque Botanical Plates, Illustrative of the Sexual System of ...

AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM,Baron Cuvier & Prof. Macgillivray (tr.), circa 1839, with hand-coloured plates, in three quarter morocc...

ANDREWS' HEATHERY,pub. Richard Taylor, London, 1804, half Morocco with marbled boards (2 vols.) ...[more]

THE INSTRUCTIVE PICTURE BOOK OR LESSONS FROM THE VEGETABLE WORLD, STARK (R.) (Ed.),pub. Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, 1858, pictorial boards .....

TAISEI SHINSHA FU 大成真写譜 (COMPREHENSIVE ALBUM OF REALISTIC SKETCHES),after Ariyoshi (Kondo) and Keisho (Nanbara), a Meiji Period album of coloured ...

THE FRUIT GROWER'S GUIDE, WRIGHT (J.),pub. J.S. Virtue & Co., London, pictorial green cloth boards (in 6 vols.)General wear to boards with fading,...

ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY, WOOD (J.G.),Mammalia, Birds and Reptiles, pub. George Routledge & Sons, London, together with Woods' Popular Natural ...

ALPINE PLANTS, WOOSTER (D.),pub. George Bell & Sons, London, 1874, gilt tooled pictorial baords (2 vols.) ...[more]

BOOK OF BRITISH HAWK MOTHS, LUCAS (W.J.),pub. L. Upcott Gill, London, 1895, gilt tooled green cloth boards ...[more]

THE BIRDS OF EDWARD LEAR AND D.G. ELLIOT,two Aerial Press publications, together with six early 20th century botanical works, including Familiar T...

THE SURINAM ALBUM ISSUED BY THE FOLIO SOCIETY,numbered 202/1000, folio of 91 tipped in facsimilie prints from the Maria Sibylla Merian Collection ...

THE SPIRIT OF THE WOODS, HEY (R.),pub. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, London, 1837, hand coloured lithographic plates, half Morocco...

ON NAVAL TIMBER AND ARBORICULTURE, MATTHEW (P.),pub. Adam Black, Edinburgh, 1831, original waxed cloth boardsNote: This most important volume by M...

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