NO RESERVE Haworth (Adrian Hardy) Lepidoptera Britannica, part 1 only (of 4), first edition, errata leaf at end, Henry Doubleday's copy with his signature and interleaved containing many annotations in pencil, light foxing, contemporary calf, a little rubbed at edges, rebacked with gilt spine and green morocco labels, [Haworth 350.2], 8vo, 1803.⁂ Henry Doubleday (1808-75), entomologist and ornithologist from Essex, who spent his childhood collecting natural history specimens in Epping Forest. He was the author of the first catalogue of British butterflies and moths, Synonymic List of the British Lepidoptera (1847-1850) and named several new species of moths, including the pigmy footman, Ashworth's rustic and marsh oblique-barred. His moth collection is held by the Natural History Museum.
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Leech (John Henry) British Pyralides, including the Pterophoridae, first edition, presentation copy from the author, 18 lithographed plates finished by hand, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, g.e., 1886 § Lucas (W.J.) The Book of British Hawk-Moths, plates and illustrations, some folding, 16pp. advertisements at end, some staining, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, 1895 § Bradley (J.D.) & others. British Tortricoid Moths, 1973 § Majerus (M.E.N.) Moths, New Naturalist vol.90, 2002 § Skinner (Bernard) Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles (Macrolepidoptera), second edition, 1998, plates and illustrations, some colour, the last three original cloth or boards with dust-jackets; and c.15 others on moths, mostly British, 8vo & 4to (c.20)
Lettsom (John Coakley) The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion, third edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title, both hand-coloured, 3 engraved plates, one folding, foxing, old marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in calf, spine gilt preserving old roan label, [Hagen 472.1; Lisney 287; Nissen ZBI 2464], 1799 § Samouelle (George) General Directions for Collecting and Preserving Exotic Insects and Crustacea, first edition, 4 hand-tinted engraved plates, contemporary ink inscription to head of title, plates offset, one or two leaves creased, original boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine, rubbed, spine label chipped, [Hagen 104.4; Nissen ZBI 3559], 1826 § Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum (The)..., second edition, 5 engraved plates, 2 hand-coloured, occasional browning, original marbled boards, paper label to upper cover, uncut, rubbed, split to spine, Ipswich, J.Raw, 1827; and 5 others on collecting and preserving specimens including 4pp. from an 18th century work bound in modern cloth, v.s. (8)
![Lewin (William) The Insects of Great Britain...with the Natural History of each Species, vol.1 only [all published], first ed](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a6188da9-8d3a-4694-8887-b02e00aaacf8/27c0e7b0-2f6d-47be-b4e8-b02e00b139fb/468x382.jpg)
Lewin (William) The Insects of Great Britain...with the Natural History of each Species, vol.1 only [all published], first edition, first issue, titles and text in English and French, 46 magnificent hand-coloured engraved plates, one or two small marks or smudges but an excellent copy with the colours fresh and bright, engraved bookplate of Spains Hall, Finchingfield, Essex, contemporary half russia, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked, [Hagen 476.1; Lisney 410; Nissen ZBI 2488], 4to, J.Johnson, 1795.⁂ Including all the species known at the time, the life-like illustrations set a new standard for future works.
Moffet (Thomas) Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum, first edition, title with woodcut of a skep bee-hive surrounded by other insects (soiled, torn and defective at outer edge with slight loss to woodcuts and border, repaired and supplied in facsimile), woodcut of skep repeated at end of preliminaries (small rust-hole but not affecting image), numerous woodcut illustrations in text, old pen, ink & watercolour drawing of caterpillar with manuscript note to R2, rather soiled and stained particularly towards end, 2 final leaves of woodcuts severely stained and shaved or frayed at edges (repaired), tear to D5 repaired, a few other rust-spots, contemporary calf, rubbed and stained, rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, [British Bee Books 25; Hagen 553.1; Lisney 4; Nissen ZBI 2852; STC 17993a], folio, Thomas Cotes...[and] William Hope, 1634; sold not subject to return⁂ The first book on insects published in England. Moffet was educated at Cambridge and Basel, where he obtained a degree in medicine, travelled widely in Europe before establishing a practice in Ipswich and London and serving as physician to Queen Elizabeth's forces in Normandy in 1591. The first edition has three variant imprints.It used to be said that the author's daughter, Patience, who was raised surrounded by insects and spiders, was the origin of Miss Muffet in the nursery rhyme, but this is now regarded as unlikely.
Pallas (Peter Simon) Icones insectorum praesertim Rossiae Sibiriaeque peculiarum, parts 1-3 only (of 4) bound in 1 vol., first edition, 6 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 8), foxing to text but plates clean, old library labels to pastedowns but no stamps, contemporary half calf, worn, lacking spine, upper cover detached, [Hagen 25.7; Nissen ZBI 3069], 4to, Erlangen, Wolfgang Walther, 1781- [98]; sold not subject to return
Samouelle (George) The Entomologist's Useful Compendium..., first edition, 12 engraved plates, each in 2 states (hand-coloured and uncoloured), some heightened with gum arabic, lightly water-stained affecting uncoloured state of plate 1 but otherwise just text, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, [Hagen 104.1; Nissen ZBI 3558], 1819; and another by Samouelle, 8vo et infra (3)
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Schreber (Johann Christian Daniel) Novae species insectorum, 16pp., first edition, folding hand-coloured engraved plate, lightly browned, contemporary marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, spine frayed, Halle, Schneider, 1759 § Schluga (J.B.) Primae Linneae cognitionis insectorum, first edition, 2 folding engraved plates, original boards, Vienna, J.P.Kraus, 1767 § Saint-Amans (J.F.) Philosophie Entomologique, first edition, errata leaf at end, later boards, spine frayed, Agen, R.Noubel, An VII [1799] § Scopoli (J.A.) Entomologia Carniolica..., first edition, without the plates (as usual), title with engraved vignette and ink inscription "William Jameson Feby. 12 1817" to head, foxed, modern cloth, Vienna, J.T.Trattner, 1763, the first three rubbed; and another, 8vo et infra (5)⁂ A group of works by followers of Linnaeus; the first is the author's first work.
Sepp (Christiaan & Jan Christiaan) Beschouwing der Wonderen Gods, in de Minstgeachte Schepzelen of Nederlandsche Insecten, vol.1 only (of 8), 4 parts in 1, first edition, 32 fine hand-coloured engraved plates mounted on folding stubs, without additional engraved title, a couple of plates lightly creased, one with small rust spot to lower margin, old ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, old marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked and recornered in calf, [Hagen 153.1; Landwehr 182; Nissen ZBI 3808], 4to, Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1762.
Wakefield (Priscilla) An Introduction to the Natural History and Classification of Insects, in a series of Familiar Letters, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, some foxing, mostly to text, later half roan, Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1816 § Swammerdam (Jan) & others. The Natural History of Insects...intended as a Companion to Buffon's Natural History, 20 engraved plates, lightly water-stained at upper edge but not affecting images, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners repaired, W.Law, A.Millar, and R.Cater, 1792 § Duncan (James) British Butterflies, Entomology vol.3 from Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library', engraved portrait, additional title with hand-coloured vignette and 34 plates, 32 hand-coloured, original cloth, Edinburgh, 1835 § Watts (Susanna) The Insects in Council, addressed to Entomologists, with other poems, title with wood-engraved vignette, lacking final leaf, foxing, modern half morocco, g.e., J.Hatchard & Son, 1835, all but the last rubbed; and 6 others, insects, 8vo et infra (10)⁂ The first is an instructional book for children, written after the success of the author's similar volume on botany. The last is scarce with only one copy listed by Library Hub (BL).
America.- Jasper (Theodore) The Birds of North America, 119 chromolithograph plates, occasional foxing, affecting some plates, contemporary half morocco, upper cover detached, worn, [Nissen IVB 473], 1878; Ornithology; or the Science of Birds, 41 lithographed plates, [Nissen IVB 474], 1878, first editions, some foxing, affecting certain plates, uniform contemporary half morocco, first with upper cover detached, the rest worn, Columbus (Ohio), by Jacob H. Studer & Co.; and another later edition of the first, folio (3)
Wood (William) Illustrations of the Linnaean Genera of Insects, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, 86 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light foxing and offsetting to text but plates generally clean, engraved bookplate of William Owen Stanley, contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints split, labels slightly chipped, [Hagen 295.1; Nissen ZBI 4457], 12mo, 1821.
Yeats (Thomas Pattinson) Institutions of Entomology: being a translation of Linnaeus's Ordines et genera insectorum; or, Systematic Arrangement of Insects, first edition, handsome contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine gilt with red roan label, a little rubbed, upper joint split, spine worn at head, [Hagen 298.1], R.Horsfield, 1773 § Linnaeus (Carl) Animalium specierum in classes, ordines, genera, species methodica dispositio..., foxed and lightly water-stained, modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco labels, Leiden, T.Haak, 1759, 8vo (2)
NO RESERVE Hickson (Sydney J.) The Pennatulacea of the Siboga Expedition..., first edition, signed and inscribed by the author "...many thanks for valuable assistance in the production of this work..." on half-title, 10 plates, one chromolithographed and folding, large folding colour map, contemporary half morocco, original wrappers bound in, worn, Leiden, 1916 § Landsborough (Rev. D.) A Popular History of British Zoophytes, or Corallines, 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, 1852 § Culpeper (Nicholas) The Complete Herbal, engraved portrait, 20 hand-coloured plates, a little soiled and stained, final leaf torn and slightly defective at outer edge, contemporary half roan, upper cover detached, 1850 § Sowerby (John E.) & Charles Johnson. The Ferns of Great Britain, vol1 only (of 2), 48 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 49, lacking plate 46) but with a duplicate of plate 45, contemporary calf, gilt, 1855 § Goldsmith (Oliver) A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 vol., additional engraved vignette titles and plates, many hand-coloured, one or two loose, contemporary half calf, faded, 1868, rubbed or worn; and 4 others, natural history, v.s. (10)
Royal Gardens, Kew. Hand-List of Trees and Shrubs grown in Arboretum, Parts I & II: Polypetalae; Gamopetalae to Monocotyledons, together bound in 1 vol., Joseph Dalton Hooker's copies with his signed presentation inscriptions to J.-C.Mansel-Pleydell pasted to verso of titles, printed on rectos only, errata leaf at end of part 1, one or two stains, bookplate of J.-C.Mansel-Pleydell (with traces of another bookplate removed), contemporary half roan, rubbed, 1894-96.⁂ John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell (1817-1902), Dorset antiquary and naturalist known for his contributions to geology, botany, and ornithology. His letters from J.D. Hooker, botanist and Director of Kew Gardens, are held with his other papers by the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester.The first inscription reads, "Please accept my copy of the Hand-list sent by post today. I can get another for the asking. If you care for any of the other lists advertised in the back of Part II I will get them for you. J.D.Hooker".
![Lovell (Robert) Panzooryktologia [graece]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, 2 par](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a6188da9-8d3a-4694-8887-b02e00aaacf8/f988290e-ce2b-418a-9341-b02e00afa05b/468x382.jpg)
Lovell (Robert) Panzooryktologia [graece]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, 2 parts in 1, first edition, with blank Kk4 at end of first part and additional leaf in Index (following 3A4) as usual but without vertical half-title sometimes also found after 3A4, titles with ornamental typographic borders, woodcut initials, paper flaw to lower outer corners of f4 & Ff4 with loss of a few words, small ink stain to G6 & 7, otherwise an excellent crisp and clean copy, bookplate of Desmond Geoghegan, contemporary calf, rubbed, splits to joints, spine a little worn at head, [Wing L3245 & 3246], 8vo, Oxford, Hen. Hall for Jos. Godwin, 1661.⁂ Exhaustive survey of the natural world that includes a description of unicorns on p.125 of the first part.
America.- Nehrling (Henry) Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, 2 vol., numerous chromolithographed plates, occasional cracking at gutter with one plate loose, occasional light finger-soiling, very light toning to margins, original decorative calf, gilt, rubbed, spines slightly sunned, vol. 2 with small chip to spine head, vol. 1 lower joint split at foot with portion of backstrip come away from spine, g.e., [Zimmer 462], Milwaukee, 1893-96; and others on the birds of North America, v.s. (14)⁂ A popular account of North American birds, first issued in 13 parts in German between 1889 and 1891.
Whaling.- Beale (Thomas) The Natural History of the Sperm Whale... to which is added, a sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage, second edition, half-title, 3 wood-engraved plates, tissue guards, illustrations, without list of subscribers or 4pp. advertisements at end, an excellent clean copy, bookplate of Lord Farnham, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with roan label, rubbed, [Ferguson 2709; Hill 89; Sabin 4108; Spence 105], 8vo, 1839.⁂ Classic whaling account first published under the title A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale in 1835, this greatly enlarged version was the first to include the whaling voyage, and was the edition used and annotated by Herman Melville prior to writing Moby Dick.
White (Rev. Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, one folding, 2 half-titles with engraved vignette, errata leaf at end, frontispiece soiled and torn (repaired), title soiled and stained, a few other stains and marginal repairs, later half roan, worn, upper cover detached, [Hunt 707; Rothschild 2550], 4to, T.Bensley for B.White & Son, 1789.
Dillwyn (Lewis Weston) A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean Method..., 2 vol., first edition, vol.2 lacking half-title (seemingly not called for in vol.1) and final advertisement leaf, bookplate of Henry Sherbrooke (foxed), contemporary half calf, rebacked, 1817 § Wood (W.) Index Testaceologicus; or a Catalogue of Shells, first edition, no plates, ink signature to head of title and front pastedown, original boards, uncut, rebacked, 1818 § Sowerby (G.B.) Illustrated Index of British Shells, second edition, 26 hand-coloured engraved plates, original red cloth, t.e.g., a fine copy, 1887 § Jeffreys (John Gwyn) British Conchology..., 5 vol., first edition, 147 engraved or lithographed plates (only the 5 frontispieces hand-coloured), original cloth, spines faded, 1862-69, most a little rubbed; and 7 others on shells and a small bundle of pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.25)
Dyson (David) The Land and Fresh Water Shells of the Districts around Manchester, A.S.Kennard's copy inscribed to him by J.Wilfrid Jackson on front free endpaper, with faded photographic portrait tipped in as frontispiece, lithographed plate, Manchester, 1850 § Macgillivray (William) A History of the Molluscous Animals of Scotland..., second edition, 1844 § Lowe (E.J.) The Conchology of Nottingham, presentation copy from the author to Dublin Natural History Society, 1853 § Forbes (Edward) Malacologia Monensis. A Catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man..., 3 lithographed plates, light foxing, Edinburgh, 1838 § Mansel-Pleydell (J.C.) The Mollusca of Dorsetshire, presentation copy from the author, folding map, Dorchester, 1898, some ilustrations, original cloth, some pictorial gilt, a little rubbed, the first four with faded spines; and 4 others, similar, v.s. (9)⁂ John Wilfrid Jackson (1880-1978), conchologist, archaeologist and geologist.
![[Lightfoot (John)] [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portlan](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a6188da9-8d3a-4694-8887-b02e00aaacf8/f22815ba-e19e-4880-9b3b-b02e00afe4a8/468x382.jpg)
[Lightfoot (John)] [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, Deceased..., catalogue numbered "757" in manuscript at foot of title (smudged), engraved frontispiece by Grignion after Burney, the first 13½ days with prices and occasionally buyers' names in manuscript (ink or pencil), foxed, title soiled, short tear to inner margin of title and preliminaries (some repaired), with 4pp. advertisement for Edward Donovan's newly-opened London Museum, and Institute of Natural History of 1807/8 loosely inserted, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 4to, Skinner and Co., 1786.⁂ Scarce auction catalogue of the extraordinary collection assembled by the Duchess of Portland, the richest woman in Britain at the time, whose intention according to the introduction was "to have had every unknown species described and published to the world". It consisted mostly of natural history specimens and curiosities, particularly conchology, and included specimens brought back by Capt. Cook from the South Seas. The sale, which amounted to over 4000 lots and lasted for 38 days, was catalogued by Rev. John Lightfoot, the Duchess's librarian and curator of the collection. Loosely inserted is an offprint by S.P.Dance concerning the authorship and nomenclature of the specimens. The penultimate lot on day 38 was the famous cameo glass "Portland Vase" which was bought for £1029 by the Duchess's son, the 3rd Duke of Portland, who then lent it to Josiah Wedgwood to execute copies in black and white jasperware. The 6th Duke later tried to sell it at Christie's in 1929 but it failed to sell, and finally the British Museum bought it in 1945.
New York.- Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York, numerous plates, of which several in colour, title coming loose, upper hinge broken at head, original pictorial cloth, a little toned and soiled, New York and Albany, Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford Co., 1899 § Eaton (Elon Howard) New York State Museum, Memoir 12: Birds of New York, 2 vol., first edition, numerous plates, both plain and in colour, many with captioned tissue guards, occasional light foxing, original cloth, worn at extremities, Albany, University of the State of New York, 1910-14; and 3 others relating to New York, including other "Reports" of the Commissions on Fish, Forests and Game (1902-3), 4to (6)
NO RESERVE Lister (Martin) Historiae animalium Angliae tres tractatus. Unus de araneis. Alter de cochleis tum terrestribus tum fluviatilibus, first edition, initial imprimatur leaf and final errata leaf, 7 folding engraved plates only (of 9, lacking plates 3 & 6), heavily damp-stained causing fraying to edges and large holes to first plate, one or two others with tears or small holes, first few leaves loose, contemporary mottled calf, worn, upper cover detached, [Nissen ZBI 2527; Wing L2523], 4to, John Martyn, 1678; sold not subject to return⁂ Lister's first book. The four parts cover spiders, land snails, freshwater & saltwater molluscs, and fossil shells.
Miller (John Samuel) A Natural History of the Crinoidea, or Lily-shaped Animals; with Observations on the Genera, Asteria, Euryale, Comatula & Marsupites, first edition, list of subscribers, 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates by the author, without final advertisement leaf, light foxing to text but plates generally clean, a few lightly offset, pencil annotations to some plates and front free endpaper, contemporary half roan, rubbed, spine worn, corners bumped, [Nissen ZBI 2822], 4to, Bristol, for the author by C.Frost, 1821.⁂ Pioneering work by the first curator of the Bristol Institution. The subscribers include the geologists and palaeontologists William Buckland and William Conybeare.
Montagu (George) Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-Water, 3 vol. including Supplement, first edition, engraved additional titles, vol.1 & 2 with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured engraved plates by Elizabeth Dorville, some foxing, plates with light offsetting, one or two oxidized, contemporary half green calf, black roan labels, rubbed, spines a little faded, [Nissen ZBI 2875], 4to, vol.1 & 2 printed Romsey, J.S.Hollis, vol.3 Exeter, S.Woolmer, 1803-08.⁂ The first comprehensive monograph of the molluscs of the British Isles.
Morton (John) The Natural History of Northampton-Shire; with some Account of the Antiquities, first edition, large folding engraved map by John Harris, 14 engraved plates, mostly of shells and fossils, small stain to title, map browned, otherwise a clean and crisp copy, with photocopy of article by Michael Kerney 'John Morton's List of Northamptonshire Mollusca (1712)' from 'Journal of Conchhology' 1987 loosely inserted, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed and scuffed, upper cover detached, folio, for R.Knaplock...and R.Wilkin, 1712.⁂ Substantially devoted to rocks, minerals and fossils and including a list of mollusca, of which several were new species. Kerney notes in his article, "Morton was probably the first person to describe scientifically a Quaternary deposit containing land and freshwater molluscs".
Müller (Otto Fridrich) Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium..., 3 vol. in 1, first edition, light spotting at beginning and end, engraved armorial bookplate of Geo.Aug.Thursby, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, Copenhagen & Leipzig, Heineck & Faber, 1773-74 § Clessin (Stefan) Deutsche Excursions-Mollusken-Fauna, second edition, 1884; Die Mollusken-Fauna Mitteleuropa's II: Die Molluskenfauan Oesterreich-Ungarns unde der Schweiz, 1887, together 2 vol., illustration, first volume with portrait, prospectus tipped-in and A.Pc.s. from the author mounted on verso of title, A.S.Kennard's copy with his notes to front free endpaper and pencil page references to first edition to text, contemporary half morocco, a little rubbed, Nuremberg § Klemm (Walter) Die Verbreitung der rezenten Land-Gehäuse-Schnecken in Österreich, signed and inscribed by the author to Michael Kerney, maps, original cloth, Vienna & New York, [1974]; and 13 others on molluscs, mostly German, 4to & 8vo (17)
Taylor (John W.) Monograph of the Land & Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, 4 vol. bound from the original 24 parts, portrait and 77 colour plates & maps, those in vol.1. chromolithographed, with prospectuses, A.Ls.s. from the author (one to A.S.Kennard), T.L.s. from A.E.Ellis to Michael Kerney and other items loosely inserted, with Kerney's signature in vol.2, bound in green morocco-backed cloth with stained vellum tips, some original wrappers bound in at end, Leeds, 1894-1921 § Brown (Capt. Thomas) Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, 27 hand-coloured plates, tissue guards, advertisement leaf at end, some foxing, with biographical pamphlet on Brown by J.Wilfrid Jackson inscribed by the author loosely inserted, 1845 § Turton (W.) A Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands, half-title, 10 hand-coloured plates, 1831 § Adams (Lionel Ernest) The Collector's Manual of British Land and Freshwater Shells, 8 plates, all but one hand-coloured, 1884 § Kerney (Michael) Atlas of the Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Britain and Ireland, the author's copy with his signature and various inserts, illustrations, original pictorial boards, Great Horkesley, 1999, first editions, all but the first and last original cloth, the second and third with faded spines, a little rubbed; and a small quantity of others on British land and freshwater molluscs and a small folder of loose lists of British shells and molluscs, some pamphlets, some with loosely-inserted notes or letters, several to Kerney, 8vo & 4to (c.65)
Geology.- Englefield (Sir Henry Charles) A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities, and Geological Phoenomena, of the Isle of Wight...with Additional Observations on the Strata of the Island...by Thomas Webster, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, engraved portrait, 3 folding engraved maps (one hand-coloured) and 47 engraved plates, 9 double-page including one hand-coloured aquatint of 3 views, light foxing to portrait and title otherwise text very clean, some foxing to plates, William Beckford's copy bound in contemporary half russia with his characteristic gilt-edged L-shaped corner-pieces, ?by Charles Lewis, t.e.g., others uncut, rebacked, a little worn, splits to joints, [Abbey Scenery 345], folio, 1816.⁂ A Charles Traylen catalogue slip mounted on front pastedown notes, "This is the copy from the Beckford sale, sold at Sotheby's June 30th, 1882, 11th day, Lot 2815. It does not contain any of Beckford's pencil notes". A loosely-inserted T.L.s. from Sotheby's to Michael Kerney dated 9th April 1958 quotes the original catalogue entry as containing "brilliant proofs" and being bound by Lewis.
America.- Oberholser (Harry C.) The Bird Life of Texas, 2 vol., colour plates after Louis Agassiz Fuertes, original cloth, very lightly rubbed, slipcase, a little rubbed and soiled, lower flap broken, Austin & London, 1974 § Roberts (Thomas S.) The Birds of Minnesota, 2 vol., first edition, colour plates, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, dated June 1937, additionally signed by the author on title, newspaper clippings pasted to front and rear endpapers, frontispieces lightly offset, some light foxing, mainly to plates, endpapers lightly browned and with scattered spotting, original cloth, lightly rubbed, Minneapolis, 1932 § Dawson (William Leon) The Birds of Washington, 2 vol.,"original edition", one of 350 numbered copies, colour plates, captioned tissue guards, occasional very light foxing, original green morocco, gilt, lightly rubbed, vol. 1 lower cover stained, spines faded, a couple small chips to spine ends, t.e.g.; and others on the birds of North America, v.s. (c.34)
Geology.- Smith (William) Geological Map of Berkshire. A New Map of Berkshire divided into Hundreds. Exhibiting its Roads, Rivers, Parks &c. by John Cary, folding hand-coloured engraved map identifying the various rock strata within the county with key tablets surrounding the map outline, c.520 x 600mm., dissected and mounted on linen, some very light offsetting or soiling, folding into original paste-paper board slip-case, printed yellow label to upper cover, a little rubbed, J.Cary, 1821; with an offprint on Smith's Geological Atlas by A.G.Davis of 1952, 8vo (2)⁂ William Smith, "the father of English Geology", produced the first geological map of Britain, published in 1815. This map originally appeared in Part 2 of Smith's Geological Survey Atlas of England and Wales of 1819-24, Part 2 being issued in 1819. Loosely inserted with the map is a T.L.s. to Michael Kerney from Joan M.Eyles dated May 24th 1969 concerning the map and comparing it to the copy in the Natural History Museum, namely whether tablet 6 is coloured or not (it is uncoloured in the present copy).
Geology.- Taylor (Silas) and Samuel Dale. The History and Antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt, first edition, 14 engraved plates, 4 folding, title very lightly browned but a clean and crisp copy, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old red roan label, corners repaired, new endpapers, 4to, C.Davis & T.Green, 1730.⁂ Including a bibliography, and plates of the cliff showing the geological strata, fossils, shells, and a 'Bottle-Head or Flounders-Head Whale' stranded above the bridge at Maldon in 1717.
Geology & Natural History.- Fitton (William Henry) A Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings, first edition, folding hand-coloured plate of cross-sections, A.Pc.s. from S.Peter Dance to Michael Kerney loosely inserted, 1833 bound with Historical and Descriptive Account of Brimham Rocks (An) , in the West Riding of Yorkshire, lithographed frontispiece, 2 wood-engraved plates, Ripon, 1838, together 2 works in 1 vol., bookplate of Lord Farnham, contemporary half calf § Evans (John) Beauties of Clifton...Geology round Bristol, first edition, folding engraved map, some browning, contemporary half roan, spine gilt (chipped at ends), upper cover detached, Bristol, [c.1822] § Bellamy (J.C.) The Natural History of South Devon, first edition, plates, some folding, old library label to front pastedown, Plymouth & London, 1839 § Lees (Edwin) Pictures of Nature in the Silurian Region around the Malvern Hills..., Malvern, 1856 § Rhind (W.) Excursions illustrative of the Geology and Natural History of the Environs of Edinburgh, second edition, hand-coloured map, plate, illustrations, 4pp. advertisements at end, Edinburgh, 1836, the last three original cloth, spines a little faded, all rubbed; and c.25 others on British regional geology and natural history, 8vo et infra (c.30)
Geology & Palaeontology.- Buckland (Rev. William) Reliquiae Diluvianae; or, Observations on the Organic Remains contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel..., second edition, folding letterpress table, 27 engraved or lithographed plates, maps and plans, 3 hand-coloured, one folding, light foxing to plates, original boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked preserving old paper label, 1824; Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, 2 vol., Bridgewater Treatise No.VI, first edition, 87 engraved or lithographed plates including folding hand-coloured cross-section, 8 others double-page and/or folding, some foxing and water-staining to plates, modern buckram, advertisements bound in at beginning, 1836, 4to & 8vo (3)
Geology & Palaeontology.- Hawker (Rev. Peter) A Catalogue of Extraneous Fossils...Minerals, &c....at Woodchester Rectory, Glocestershire, only edition, half-title, errata slip, with tipped-in sheet from Gentleman's Magazine March 1806 containing report of a fossil skeleton "of an animal similar to a crocodile" found at Duddridge Glos., original wrappers, Stroud, F.Vigurs, 1817 § Scafe (John) King Coal's Levee, or Geological Etiquette...and the Council of Metals, second edition, light water-staining to inner margin of first few leaves, modern wrappers, uncut, 1819 § Smith (James) Researches in Newer Pliocene and Post-Tertiary Geology, first edition, 4 tinted lithographed plates, illustrations, 4pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting, original cloth, spine faded, lower joint split, Glasgow, 1862, a little rubbed; and 8 others on geology including Kerney's manuscript journal entitled "Record of Excursions and Fieldwork" of 1950-51, v.s. (11)⁂ The first is rare with Library Hub recording only 3 copies (BL, University of Cambridge, and Natural History Museum).
Geology & Palaeontology.- Lyell (Sir Charles) The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man..., third edition, Sir John Lubbock's copy with his signature and bookplate, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end (foxed), occasional foxing to text, 1863 § Smith (Worthington G.) Man the Primeval Savage, first edition, small ownership stamp to title, 1894 § Johnson (Walter) & William Wright. Neolithic Man in North-East Surrey...with a chapter on Flint..., first edition, 1903, maps and illustrations, original cloth, the first two pictorial gilt, a little rubbed but good copies; and another, 8vo (4)⁂ Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), banker, politician, and scientist who assisted in establishing archaeology as a scientific discipline. He introduced the terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, and contributed to the debates concerning evolutionary theory.
Geology & Palaeontology.- Mantell (Gideon) The Geology of the South-East of England, first edition, half-title, lithographed frontispiece and 5 plates, one folding, folding hand-coloured map, illustrations, plates lightly foxed, original boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, 1833; Thoughts on a Pebble; or a First Lesson in Geology, seventh edition, presentation copy from the author to the Hon. Mrs Thomas, 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates, illustrations, 4pp. advertisements at end, with T.Pc.s. to Michael Kerney from A.E.Ellis thanking for the loan of the work loosely inserted, 1846; The Wonders of Geology..., 2 vol., sixth edition, mezzotint frontispiece of Iguanadon by John Martin (foxed), hand-coloured lithographed map, 5 lithographed plates, 2 hand-coloured, 1848; The Medals of Creation; or, First Lessons in Geology, 2 vol., second, revised edition, 6 lithographed plates, 4 hand-coloured (the other two foxed), folding plate, [1853]; Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight, first edition, 1847; Petrifactions and their Teachings, first edition, engraved frontispiece (foxed), 1851, plates and illustrations, all but the first original cloth, a little rubbed, some spines slightly faded, the last with defective spine (detached); and 4 others by or about Mantell including an eighth edition of Thoughts on a Pebble, 8vo & small 4to (12)⁂ The first includes Mantell's account of his discovery of a fossilised dinosaur in the Weald in 1832. This was the first armoured dinosaur recorded and which he named Hylaeosaurus.
Geology & Palaeontology.- Woodward (Samuel) An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk, folding hand-coloured lithographed map and cross-section, 6 lithographed plates, with offprint by Woodward 'Shells of the Newer Pliocene or Norwich Crag' of 1864 loosely inserted, John Stacy, 1823 § Green (Charles) The History, Antiquities, & Geology of Bacton, in Norfolk, half-title, etched frontispiece, list of subscribers, 3 lithographed plates, 2 double-page, 8pp. catalogue at end, plates foxed, 1842 § Woodward (H.B.) & E.T.Newton, editors. Memorials of John Gunn...being some account of the Cromer Forest Bed and its Fossil Mammalia, portrait, 12 lithographed plates, one folding, bookplates of Rev. William Gunn and Rev.John Gunn, 1891, first editions, original cloth, the first two rubbed and faded, the first rebacked, Norwich; and another on Norfolk geology, 8vo (4)⁂ The last contains a loosely-inserted A.L.s. from A.C.Savin to J.Gunn "...I have had a good find from Sidestrand Forest Bed consisting of four molar teeth...I think they are the first reliable specimens from our coast. Mr E.T.Newton has got them to figure in his new work...". Savin is mentioned several times in the work with illustrations of specimens from his collection.
NO RESERVE America.- Warren (B. H.) Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, first edition, 50 plates, all but the first in colour, occasional very light foxing or soiling, gutter cracked at points with a couple gatherings working loose, endpapers foxed, original cloth, lightly rubbed, some staining to lower cover, Harrisburg, 1888; and 2 others, including the augmented second edition of the same, signed by the author, 8vo & 4to (3)
![NO RESERVE Botany.- Walt (J.J.A. van der) & P.J.Vorster. Pelargoniums of Southern Africa, 3 vol. [a complete set], first](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a6188da9-8d3a-4694-8887-b02e00aaacf8/ff7bcab3-4c07-469f-8228-b02e00b07466/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Botany.- Walt (J.J.A. van der) & P.J.Vorster. Pelargoniums of Southern Africa, 3 vol. [a complete set], first editions, illustrations by Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst, many colour, original boards, dust-jackets, vol.1 price-clipped, slightly rubbed, vol.1 a little frayed at edges, 4to, Cape Town & Kirstenbosch, 1977-88.
Swainson (William) Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions...Entomology, vol. 3 only (of 6), first series, 71 lithograph plates, of which 35 with bright hand-colouring, some light off-setting, contemporary olive half morocco, spine sunned, scuffed, [Nissen IVB 911], 8vo, 1820-21.⁂ Volume dedicated to Lepidoptera; one of the earliest natural history publications to feature hand-colored lithographic illustrations.
Dale (James Charles).- Percheron (Achille) Bibliographique Entomologique, 2 vol., first edition, James Charles Dale's copy, half-titles, vol.1 with initials "J.C.D." to top corner in ink, and inscription in ?Dale's hand below, interleaved, the blank interleaves with notes in ink and pencil in more than one hand, the text leaves with numeration notes in ink to margins, predominantly in vol. 1, bookplate, some spotting, original boards with morocco labels to spines, joint ends with tears, spines sunned, [Hagen 2 p.35], 8vo, Paris, 1837.⁂ James Charles Dale (1791-1872) was an English naturalist and entomologist, most famous for the discovery of the "Lulworth Skipper", a butterfly of his Dorset homeland. Elected a member of the first Entomological Society of London, he was friends with other notable entomologists of the day, some like John Curtis, referring to Dale on his work on Celeoptera. Dale's collection resides in the Hope Department of Entomology (Oxford University Museum of Natural History). Bookplate reads, "J.C. Dale... Glanville's Wooton, High Sheriff of Dorset 1843" with the motto "Floreat Entomologia".
Wilson (Alexander) American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, 9 vol., first edition, subscriber's list, 76 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alexander Lawson, George Murray, John G. Warnicke and Benjamin Tanner after Wilson, tissue guards, 2 plates laid-down to sheets, a few with small paper repairs, many with small white ?paint marks (covering repairs or spots), off-setting and browning to multiple leaves throughout, spotting and soiling to others, vol. 1 p.1 with tear and tape repair, several vol. with repairs to hinges, contemporary ?original red half morocco, spines gilt, rubbed, [Anker 533; Fine Bird Books, p.114; Nissen IVB 992; Sabin 104597; Zimmer, p.679], folio, Philadelphia, Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814⁂ First edition, first issue of the "first American bird book with coloured plates published in America" (Fine Bird Books). Wilson has been recognised as the father of American ornithology; in this work the plates, after Wilson's own drawings and whose technique was self-taught, he portrayed more than three-quarters of the species of birds known to have existed in America at that time.
Fuessly (Johann Caspar) Archiv Der Insectengeschichte, first edition, 43 plates only (of 51), engraved with fine hand-colouring, mounted on stubs, 3 printed modern ff. tipped in at title, bookplate, some light creasing to plates at inner margin and a few with soiling at top inner margin, a few text ff. browned, contemporary half calf, rebacked, original back-strip laid down, gilt with bees in sections, [Hagen I, 257; Nissen ZBI 1455], 4to, Zurich, 1781.
Wood (William) Index Entomologicus; or, A Complete Illustrated Catalogue... of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain, 54 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring and heightened with gum arabic, title and first plate with paper repairs at inner margin, spotting to title, some light offsetting and a a couple of plates with very light spots, twentieth century green half morocco, very faint sunning to spine, 8vo, [c.f. Hagen p.296], 1845.
NO RESERVE Bucknill (Sir John) and F. N. Chasen, The Birds of Singapore Island, first edition, plates in colour, small amount of worming to title and few following ff., original cloth, lower joint broken from foot, lower half of backstip peeling away, Singapore, by W. T. Cherry, 1927 § du Pont (John E.) Philippine Birds, illustrations in colour, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1971; and 5 others, relating to Asia, 8vo & 4to (7)
Daivd (Armand) and E. Oustalet, Les Oiseaux de la Chine, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 124 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring, some heightened with gum arabic, by and after Arnoul, mounted on stubs, some foxing, original decorative cloth, plate vol. with letter and pictorial gilt to cover, some small holes or indentations to upper cover, extremities rubbed, [Anker 113; Nissen IVB 221; Wood p.311; Zimmer p.159], 8vo, Paris, G. Masson, 1877.⁂ Important survey of the birds of China, 249 of those therein understood to be peculiar to Chinese fauna.
Bannerman (David Armitage) The Birds of the British Isles, 12 vol., first edition, colour plates by George E. Lodge, captioned tissue-guards, vol. 1 with contemporary ink gift inscription to front endpaper, light browning to some endpapers, original cloth, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, dust-jackets, several price-clipped or with modern price-sticker to flap, some small chips and short tears to edges, repairs to verso, vol. 1 with a few small portions of loss and tear running into title to upper panel, some light soiling or minor staining, some spines sunned, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1953-63; and others by the same, including a 4 vol. set of The Birds of the Atlantic Islands (20)
Blaauw (Frans Ernst) A Monograph of the Cranes, first edition, one of 170 copies but this copy without limitation label to front pastedown, 22 tipped-in chromolithographed plates, the odd light mark or patch of finger-soiling, mostly marginal but affecting plate 11, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, wear to spine ends and corners, lightly rubbed, a little heavier to lower cover, [Fine Bird Books p.77; Nissen IVB 105; Wood p.242 "A fine systematic treatise, beautifully illustrated"], folio, Leiden & London, 1897.⁂ Fifteen of the plates are by Leutemann and the other 7 (of which 2 are of eggs) are by Keulemans.
Booth (Edward Thomas) Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty-five years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, 3 vol., first edition, 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Edward Neale, 2 maps, bookplate of Henry Somerville Boynton, bookplate of Sir Giles Loder, Bart. to front endpapers, some plates with margins not quite extending to full size, some scattered spotting and light foxing, occasional light finger-soling, one plate in vol. 2 with light stain, contemporary green half morocco, spines richly gilt, light sunning to spines and portions of covers, rubbed with a few marks,[Anker 51; Fine Bird Books, p.61; Nissen IVB 121; Zimmer 79], folio, 1881-87.⁂ Edward Thomas Booth (1840-90), a wealthy ornithologist, collected and prepared his own specimens, taking great care to set them in their natural habitat. It was from these displays that Neale composed the plates included in this work, with a focus on specimens collected in Scotland and the Norfolk Broads.
Britain.- Butler (Arthur G.) Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vol., numerous plates in colour after H. Gronvold and F.W. Frohawk, bookplates, ink ownership inscription endpapers, repairs to hinges, contemporary half morocco, spines a little sunned, extremities scuffed, [c.1908] § Adams (H.G.) and H.B. Adams, The Smaller British Birds, plates in colour, tissue-guards, contemporary red calf, spine gilt, lightly sunned, extremities scuffed, 1894 § Sharpe (R. Bowdler) Sketch-Book of British Birds, first edition, [2 copies], colour frontispiece and illustrations by A.F. and C. Lydon, errata slip, original pictorial cloth, extremities lightly bumped, 1898; and c.35 others, relating to the birds of the British Isles, v.s. (c.40)
Britain.- Donovan (Edward) The Natural History of British Birds, 5 vol. in 3, 124 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring, vol. 4-5 with half-titles, light spotting, mainly to text leaves, some off-setting, contemporary green morocco, spines sunned, [Nissen IVB 257], 8vo, for the author, and for F. & C. Rivington, 1794-99⁂ Donovan based much of his work on specimens from the London Museum and Institue of Natural History, which he founded in 1807. The first five volumes appeared in the 1790s, with a hiatus until 1809 when the sixth appeared spurred on by Donovan's acquisition of many new and rare species at the Lever Museum auction in the same year. The colouring of Donovan's plates has always been much admired.
Gould (John) The Birds of Great Britain, vol. 3 only (of 5), first edition, 76 hand-coloured lithograph plates, occasional light off-setting, some scattered spotting, occasionally affecting plates, endpapers foxed, repairs to hinges, contemporary red morocco, a little rubbed, [Fine Bird Books, p.78; Nissen IVB 372; Wood p.365; Zimmer p.261], folio, by the Author, 1873.⁂ Among the species represented in vol. 3 of this beautiful work are: woodpeckers, tits, finches, larks, buntings, the Corvidae family and many others.
Lilford (Lord) Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., first edition, portrait photogravure frontispiece, vol. 1 list of subscribers, 421 chromolithograph plates, some light off-setting, contemporary green half morocco, vol. 1 & 7 rebacked preserving original backstrip, vol. 4 upper cover detached, vol. 2 nearly so, vol. 3 backstrip peeling away along upper joint, spines toned, extremities worn, [Nissen IVB 563; Wood p. 436], 8vo, R. H. Porter, 1885-97.
Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Game Birds, first edition, one of 550 copies, 18 colour plates after Millais and Archibald Thorburn, 1 plain, 17 photogravure plates, tissue-guards, sometimes browned, original buckram-backed cloth, a couple of spots, small tear spine foot, extremities a little bumped and scuffed, [Nissen IVB 636], folio, 1909.
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