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Click here to subscribeWALTER ERASMUS ELLIS "Cottage at Solihull" with figures in foreground, watercolour heightened with body colour and white signed lower right together with ANNA GIBBS KENNET "Nude Study", pencil, charcoal and wash initialled and dated 1988 lower right, a GEORGE BAXTER print "The Bridesmaid" and AFTER ROBERT MORDEN "Staffordshire", an engraved map hand coloured
6th-7th century AD. A gilt-bronze mount comprising a raised border enclosing a procession of Style II animal shapes forming a chain; two attachment pins to the reverse. Cf. Menghin, W., Das Schwert im Fruehen Mittelalter, Stuttgart, 1983, item 77, map 11. 3 grams, 26mm (1"). Found in Thetford, Norfolk, UK, in 1997. Decorative mounts of this form were often used to enliven sword-belts and scabbards, as for example on the sword from Grave 92 at Erding, Germany. [No Reserve] Very fine condition.
Dated 1599 AD. A two-page spread entitled 'Tavola Nvova di Germania' from Girolamo Ruscelli La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino second volume, Descrittione della Germania pp.48-51; hand-coloured map of Germany, Poland and European Russia and the Baltic Sea, principal towns and geographical features; translated from Greek into 16th century Italian, printed text. 6.2 grams, 33.2cm (13"). Ex Swiss collection; acquired 1980s. Claudius Ptolemaios (here Claudio Tolemeo) was born in Alexandria, Egypt, circa 100 AD and became famed as a profound scholar of mathematics, astronomy, geography and poetry in the Roman provinces of his time. He wrote profusely in Koiné Greek and held Roman citizenship. The map was included in his book of maps which discussed the geography of the known world based on the scientific knowledge available to Roman scholarship in the 2nd century AD. He died in Alexandria, circa 168 AD. Fine condition.
1598 AD. A paper map printed in Venice with heading 'Descrittione i tutta la Terra', 'Libro Primo', hand-tinted showing two hemispheres with North and South America to the left above 'coninéten Australé', Europe, Asia and Africa to the right; reverse with two facing pages: title page with 'Descrittione della Geografia vniversale, con tavole quarantadve d'intaglio di rame. Nelle quali secondo i più Moderni Geografi sono poste le Provincie, Regni, Città, Castelli, Monti, Fium, Laghi, Porti, Golfi, Isole & altre parti - colorità di tutta la Terra. Con Discorsi fatti di Gioseppe Rosaccio, sopra di ciascuna Tauola. Libro Primo'. 17 grams, 35 x 24cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/2"). Ex libris Mr R.W.M. Giuseppe Rosaccio (1530-1620) was an Italian physician and geographer, from the region of Friuli, Veneto. He was known for a series of scientific expository works and texts on geography, cosmography, astronomy and astrology, which became very popular and were republished several times. [No Reserve] Fine condition, pencil annotation to one corner of the reverse.
Dr Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North Vols I & II, George Newnes London 1898, Octavo, two volumes. Original cloth over bevelled boards, upper boards blocked in gilt, silver and red, with vignettes, Portrait frontispiece in volume I and monochrome frontispiece in II, 64 monochrome plates, one color-printed plate, one color-printed folding map by John Bartholomew & Co., monochrome illustrations and diagrams, 46 full-page, one full-page map
Major General Norman Kirby OBE, FRCS Surgeon: Parachuted onto El Gamis Airfield, operated on battle casualties Suez Crisis 1956 signed The Suez Crisis Operation Musketeer Cover design features troops on the ground, a map showing advancement of troops and parachute drop zones in the Suez canal area 1956. Special pictorial postmark Conflicts of the 20th Century , The Cenotaph, London, 31st October 2006. RAF WW2. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
JAPAN: Hartshorne, A C: Japan and Her People, in 2 vols. The International Press; The John C. Winston Co, Philadelphia, 1902, 1st. edns, Dust jackets. With 50 plates and a large folding map (frayed at edges and tear to folds). Original very bright and gilt decorated covers; Challaye, F: Le Japon illustre. Paris, 1915, 1st. edn. 4to. with maps, plates and illustrations. Original leather backed blindstamped covers, Good; Sansom, G: History of Japan, 3 vols. 1958-65, with dust jackets; Plus 7 other japan related books (13)
Large Collection of Ephemera to include Philips' War Map of the World; Front Line 1940-1941; Fleet Air Arm; five Woman Magazine from the 1940s; a vintage leather Egyptian travel wallet; a small book of Common Prayer & Hymns; expense sheets from 1865 for jury service; witness prosecution sheets from 1873; a Holy bible; Two pieces of embroidery marked 'For Liberty & Justice 1917' and ' To My Dear Wife' framed together; and a large vintage silk fringed shawl. Please see images.
Cartography - 19th century folded map of Scotland with it's islands drawn from the topographical surveys by James Wyld showing the Shetland Islands with the continuation of the Orkney Islands on a reduced scale published by James Wyld geograpger to her majesty Charing Cross East, London; SKYE ISLAND from actual survey viz lord Macdonald's portion by Blackadder Landsur by William Johnson, land surveyor published by John Thomson & Co. Edinburgh 1824, framed; T.Kitchin a map of the Isle of SKY drawn from beft authorities, framed c.1760 (3)
A Late 19th Century Chinese Map Fan, the simple wood monture with a double paper leaf, each side with detailed depictions of perhaps a region and a city within? The recto, printed and coloured with areas of green and highlights of yellow and red, appears to show a region with a built-up area and the more rural parts to the exterior. The verso, without colours, appears to show streets and major sites of interest. Guard length 12 inches or 30.5cm CONDITION REPORT: . Slight splitting to the folds, both upper and lower, but no loss. Monture sound.
* Cambridgeshire. Speed (John), Cambridgshire described with the devision of the hundreds, the Townes situation, with the of the Colleges of that famous Universiti: and also the Armes of all such Princes and Noble men as have heretofore borne the honorable tytles & dignities of the Earldome of Cambridg, John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611 or later], hand coloured engraved map, insert town plan of Cambridge, the margins decorated with twenty-four heraldic shields, map appears to be trimmed to printed border, strapwork margins chipped and frayed with slight loss, replaced in facsimile, slight creasing, central fold partially split, 375 x 520 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)
[Caledonian]. The Caledonian Musical Repository: a choice selection of esteemed Scottish songs, adapted for the voice, violin, and German flute, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, Caledonian Press, 1811, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title bearing the words "Crosby's Caledonian Musical Repository", few wood engraved vignettes by Bewick, musical notation, 20th century half morocco gilt, 8vo, together with: Hargrove (E.). The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, an it's Medicinal Springs..., 6th edition, Knaresbrough: Printed by Hargrove & Sons, 1809, engraved frontispiece, folding hand-coloured engraved map by J. Cary, 7 engraved plates, wood engraved illustrations and vignettes, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th century half morocco, 8vo, and four others (Qty: 6)
Crosthwaite (Peter). [Series of 7 maps of the Lake District, reprinted, London, 1800], comprising 6 engraved folding maps of the Lakes, and one double-page engraved map of Pocklington's Island, each illustrated to margins with images of important buildings & landmarks, few minor closed tears to central folds at foot, ownership label of T.W. Denison of Liverpool to upper pastedown, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards with vellum tipped corners, black morocco title label to spine, worn at head & foot of spine, slim 8vo, together with: Pilkington (James) , A View of the Present State of Derbyshire..., 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Derby & London, 1803, 3 engraved plates (1 folding), lacking folding map, ownership signature C. Hartland to titles, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, contrasting morocco labels to spines, 8vo, plus 4 other British topography related (Qty: 7)NOTESProvenance: From the Library of David Wilson. The seven maps, issued without text or titlepage, depict Ullswater, Coniston Lake, Windemere, Buttermere Crummock & Loweswater Lakes, Lake Derwent, Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, and Pocklington's Island "surveyed and planned by Peter Crosthwaite, Admiral at Keswick Regatta, who keeps the Museum at Keswick and is Guide, Pilot, Geographer & Hydrographer to the Nobility & Gentry, who make the tour of the Lakes".
Cussans (John Edwin). History of Hertfordshire, Containing an Account of the Descents of the Various Manors; Pedigrees of Families Connected with the County; Antiquities, Local Customs..., 3 volumes, 1st edition, Hertford: Stephen Austin, 1870-81, volume one with engraved portrait frontispiece, general title to each volume (without separate titles to hundreds), 22 plates, including chromolithograph and tinted, double-page hand-coloured lithograph map, scattered spotting and slight toning, marbled endpapers with removed label to upper pastedowns, top edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated green morocco by Sotheran & Co., volume 1 rebacked preserving original spine, volume 3 with upper board & lower joint splitting at foot, lower panel of spines with faint manuscript library classification in white, extremities rubbed and a little worn, folio in 4s (Qty: 3)
Canal Maps. Bradshaw (G.), G. Bradshaw's Map of Canals, Navigable Rivers, Rail Roads &c. of the Midland Counties of England from actual survey shewing the heights of the Ponds on the Lines of Navigation from a level of 6 feet 10 inches under the old dock sill at Liverpool.., G. Bradshaw, Manchester and sold by Jas. Gardner London, 1829, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, compass rose and table of explanation, edged in green silk, 1345 x 1245 mm, together with G. Bradshaw's Map of Several Canals situated in the Counties of Lancaster, York, Derby & Chester; shewing the heights of their pools above the level of the sea at low water..., G. Bradshaw, Manchester and sold by Mr. Gardner, London, circa 1830, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, compass rose and table of reference, slight offsetting and finger soiling, edged in green silk, 895 x 1260 mm, both maps contained in a contemporary green morocco book-box with 'envelope' style lid (near detached), box worn and frayed (Qty: 1)
Wilson (John Marius). The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland; or dictionary of Scottish topography ..., 2 volumes, Edinburgh: Fullarton, [1854], additional engraved title to each volume (that to volume 2 with dampstain), 19 engraved plates, 38 maps hand-coloured in outline, including 2 folding (with some closed tears), spotting mainly at fore-edges, frontispiece map to volume 2 with early ink manuscript ownership inscription to blank reverse, volume 1 lacking front free endpaper, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf, worn, large 8vo, together with: Groome (Francis H.) , Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish Topography ..., 3 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Jack, 1882-1883, numerous hand-coloured folding maps, numerous engraved plates, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, large 8vo, plus other similar, mostly Scotland and Yorkshire related (Qty: 16)
Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., 1st edition, printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map and Print-seller, the corner of Arundel Street, Strand, Septr. 1st 1787, title, dedication (with old library stamp), advertisement and contents list, 47 engraved maps (complete as list) with contemporary outline colouring, each map with a tissue guard and a page of descriptive text, slight spotting, index bound at rear, lacking endpapers, boards and some of the spine, large 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESChubb CCLX. First edition of Cary's earliest published atlas. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
Cary (John). Six county maps, 1801 and later, six large engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, oval cartouche, each approximately 545 x 485 mm, together with Bowen (Emanuel). An Accurate Map of Northampton Shire divided into its Hundreds..., published J & C Bowles and Robert Sayer, circa 1765, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large uncoloured engraved cartouche, 710 x 540 mm, with Greenwood (C. & J.). Map of the county of Derby from an actual survey..., 1830, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement, slight staining and offsetting, , partially split along central fold, 565 x 670 mm (Qty: 8)NOTESThe six Cary county maps are:- Leicestershire, Worcestershire, Westmorland, Northumberland, Buckinghamshire and Nottinghamshire.
Saville-Kent (William). The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its Products and Potentialities, 1st edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, [1893], half-title, folding map, 48 photographic plates, 18 chromolithographic plates, tissue-guards, advertisement slips tipped to pp. xi and xv with resultant browning to text, ink-stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons to title-page, p. ix and versos of map and plates, top edge gilt, modern leatherette gilt, 4to (34.6 x 25.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESFerguson 11105; Nissen BBI 3609. 'Contains a vast amount of information about a region then little known' (Ferguson).
Bates (Henry Walter). The Naturalist on the River Amazons [sic], a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1863, 9 wood-engraved plates including frontispieces, folding map, 32 pp. advertisements dated January 1863 to volume 1, wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text, red coated endpapers, tissue-guard to volume 1 frontispiece loose, original maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt, pictorial vignette gilt to front boards, spines slightly rolled, headcaps rubbed, a few very faint marks to sides, corners bumped, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Borba de Moraes I p. 77; Sabin 3932a. A bright copy of this 'major contribution to the knowledge and literature of Amazonia' (ODNB). Bates arrived in the Amazon with Wallace in 1848 and remained for eleven years, a longer period than any of his European predecessors, during which time he formed an enormous collection of about 14,000 insects. He wrote his account at the suggestion of Charles Darwin, who recommended him to his own publisher, John Murray. The book was an immediate success and is now considered a classic of travel and natural history writing.
Borlase (William). Observations on the Antiquities and Monuments of the County of Cornwall, 1st edition , Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson, 1754, engraved map and 23 plates (one folding), engraved illustrated head & tail-pieces, list of subscribers, occasional light toning & spotting, later endpapers, contemporary mottled calf (pitted), old reback, joints slightly split, board edges worn & showing, folio, together with: Bray (Anna Eliza) , A Description of the part of Devonshire bordering the Tamar and the Tavy ... in a series of Letters to Robert Southey, 3 volumes, London: John Murray, 1836, wood engraved illustrations and one additional mounted engraved plate, occasional spotting, upper corners of titles cropped, ink and blind stamps to titles and few other ink stamps, bookplate, top edge gilt, later 19th century half morocco, gilt decorated spines, 8vo, Marshall (William) , The Rural Economy of the West of England: including Devonshire. and parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall, 2 volumes, London, 1796, folding map provided in facsimile, some ink markings to margins, dampstaining, contemporary half calf, worn, 8vo (Qty: 6)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I
Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 + 16 pp. advertisements, duplicate of plate at p.108 ('Jackson's Hartebeests') laid in, light spotting to frontispiece, a few leaves unopened, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original pictorial cloth gilt, mottling and small perforation to front board, 8vo together with: Savage Sudan, its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921, 30 plates including frontispiece, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, Wild Spain (España Agreste). Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History and Exploration, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893, folding map frontispiece, 51 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements, frontispiece spotted, edges untrimmed, original cloth, spine slightly rolled, large 8vo, Wild Norway: with Chapters on Spitsbergen, Denmark, etc., 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1897, 16 halftone plates, 2 + 16 pp. advertisements, original cloth, 8vo, Unexplored Spain, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1910, 32 halftone plates, 22 pp. advertisements, original pictorial cloth gilt, wear to upper inner corner of front board, lower outer corners bumped, 4to (Qty: 5)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance (Wild Norway): Presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'To Howard Saunders Esq. with the author's sincere thanks - gratias non semel, sed terque, quaterque curatus' on the front free endpaper. Saunders (1835-1907) was the author of An Illustrated Manual of British Birds (1888-9). Czech Africa pp. 59-60 ( On Safari , Savage Sudan ). '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).
Kennedy (Alexander W. M. Clark). The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 1st edition, Eton: Ingalton and Drake, 1868, 4 hand-coloured albumen prints mounted on card, tissue-guards, half-title discarded, bookplate of George Oakley Fisher (1859-1933), collector, contemporary half morocco, 8vo (17.6 x 11.8 cm), together with: Garner (Robert), The Natural History of the County of Stafford [-Supplement to the Natural History of the County of Stafford], 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, London: John Van Voorst, 1844-60, engraved frontispiece, etched plate, 7 lithographic plates, hand-coloured folding map, extra-illustrated with engraved plates mainly from The Beauties of England and Wales, half-title discarded, frontispiece spotted and offset, light spotting to other plates, short split to one fold of map, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked retaining original roan cornerpieces, 8vo (21.5 x 13.2 cm), Macpherson (Hugh Alexander, & William Duckworth), The Birds of Cumberland critically studied, including some Notes on the Birds of Westmorland, 1st edition, Carlisle: Chas. Thurnam & Sons, 1886, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece by J. G. Keulemans, folding colour map, top edge gilt, contemporary dark green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, 8vo (21.5 x 13.4 cm), Bucknill (John A.), The Birds of Surrey, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1900, half-title, 6 photogravure plates, folding map, contemporary dark green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, 8vo (21.9 x 13.3 cm), Babington (Churchill), The Birds of Suffolk [caption-title], [?Bury St Edmunds, 1883-4], extracted from the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, pp. 277-557, 7 halftone plates, lithographic map hand-coloured in outline, with descriptive text-leaf (unpaginated), interleaved throughout, ownership inscription, bookplate and annotations of Thomas Tindal Methold (1838-1902) of Hepworth Hall, Suffolk, contemporary half morocco, 8vo (21.6 x 13.6 cm), and 4 similar works, 19th-century county faunas or avifaunas, leather-bound, 8vo (Qty: 9)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Gernsheim 436 (Kennedy); Mullens & Swann pp. 326 (Kennedy), 226 (Garner), 374 (Machperson), 105 (Bucknill), 33 (Babington). Kennedy's work was the first ornithology book to be illustrated with photographs.
Meinertzhagen (Richard). Birds of Arabia. Edition De Luxe, London: Henry Sotheran Limited, 1980, 12 photographic plates, 19 colour plates, all mounted (most at 3 corners only, apparently as issued), folding map, top edge gilt, original green crushed morocco gilt by Morrell, folio, number 7 of 295 copies (in addition to ten copies lettered A-K), together with: Salomonsen (Finn), Grønlands Fugle. The Birds of Greenland, 1st edition, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1950, Danish and English text in double column, 52 colour plates, folding map, publisher's prospectus laid in, edges untrimmed, modern green quarter morocco gilt, folio (33 x 22.8 cm), Peregrine Press, Eggs of Rare Limicolae and Variations. Herbert Massey Collection. Illustrated by Edna Bunyard, Leeds: Peregrine Books, 1993, 33 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, with a list of supplementary subscribers, 3 publisher's prospectuses and an autograph letter from the publisher to David Wilson laid in, top edge gilt, original green half leatherette, slipcase, 4to, number 31 of 50 copies only, Fuller (Errol), The Great Auk, 1st edition, Southborough: Errol Fuller, 1999, mounted colour frontispiece initialled in pencil by Fuller, photographic illustrations throughout, signed by auk egg collector Jack Gibson on both free endpapers, original green half leatherette, slipcase, 4to, number 74 of 400 copies signed by the author, without the additional loose print by Raymond Ching noted in some other copies, Seaton (A. V., editor), Journal of an Expedition to the Feroe and Westman Islands and Iceland, 1833, by George Clayton Atkinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bewick-Beaufort Press, 1989, colour plates, gilt edges, original quarter morocco, slipcase, 4to, number 84 of 875 copies only, signed by the editor (Qty: 5)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I
Morton (John). The Natural History of Northampton-shire; with some Account of the Antiquities. To which is annex'd a Transcript of Doomsday-Book so fas as it relates to that County, 1st edition, London: R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712, p. iv with pasted errata slip, engraved folding map by John Harris, 14 engraved plates, damp-staining to first few leaves, map browned, plates slightly spotted, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, recornered and relined, gilt arms of Beriah Botfield to sides,rubbed and scuffed, wear to extremities, folio (35.1 x 21.9 cm), together with: Leigh (Charles), The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, 1st edition, Oxford: for the author, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved plates showing coats of arms, double-page engraved map coloured in outline, 22 other engraved plates, variable damp-staining chiefly to margins, affecting images in several plates, frontispiece trimmed and mounted, neatly repaired closed tears in map and plates 8 and 14 touching image in map and skirting plate-mark in plate, plate 11 trimmed to image along fore edge and with extensive repaired tear through image, plate 12 with chip in fore margin repaired verso and fraying along bottom edge, plate 17 with partial loss of image and fore margin extended, plates 18-19 frayed along fore edges, marginal repairs to title-page and text-leaves X2 and 3C1, Postscript leaf following Book III frayed, contemporary marginalia in brown ink, modern half roan, folio (35.2 x 21.9 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance (Morton): Beriah Botfield (1807-1863), antiquary, industrialist and bibliophile (armorial binding; see University of Toronto, 'British Armorial Bindings', stamp 2, online). ESTC T147393 & R20833; Freeman 2693 & 2211; Upcott pp. 1003-5 & 455-7; Wing L975 (Leigh).
Muirhead (George). The Birds of Berwickshire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, large-paper issue, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889-95, half-titles, 10 wood-engraved or etched plates, 2 plans, folding map, wood-engraved vignettes to title-pages and throughout the text, vignettes and 5 of the plates hand-coloured by the artist, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, modern red crushed half morocco, 4to (25.4 x 16.5 cm), number 76 of 100 copies, this copy hand-coloured by the artist John Blair, and inscribed by him 'These reproductions were coloured by me, John Blair' on the limitation page and volume 2 half-title, together with: Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron), Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1895, half-titles, frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates after Archibald Thorburn, 43 wood-engraved plates after G. E. Lodge, linen-backed folding map, light spotting to outer leaves and a few plates including map, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, modern red crushed half morocco, 4to (28.2 x 21.5 cm), Wallis (John), The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1769, signatures A4 pi2 a-c4 B-3K4, chi2 B-4E4 4F1, contemporary ownership inscriptions effaced from title-page, a few small worm-tracks towards rear of volume 1, closed tear in volume 1 3K3, 19th-century half calf, one label perished, 4to (26.4 x 20 cm), Hartert (Ernst, & Francis C. R. Jourdain), The Birds of Buckinghamshire and the Tring Reservoirs, (Reprinted from Novitates Zoologicae, Vol. XXVII.), Tring: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ld., 1920, 2 halftone plates, original wrappers bound in, another offprint (K. Price, The Birds of Buckinghamshire, from Records of Bucks, Vol. XV, Part 1, 1947) laid in, 20th-century quarter calf, folio (28.2 x 19 cm) (Qty: 7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 3873 (Wallis); Mullens & Swann pp. 426 (Muirhead), 355 (Lilford). In the octavo issue of Lilford's work Lodge's illustrations are printed in the letterpress rather than as separate plates.
Dorset. Blaeu (Johannes), Comitatus Dorcestria sive Dorsettia; vulgo Anglice Dorset Shire, circa 1660, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large ornate cartouche, 385 x 500 mm, Spanish text on verso, together with Saxton (Christopher & Kip William). Dorcestriae comitatus vulgo Dorsett ubi olim Durotriges Insederunt, 1st edition, [1607], hand coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 280 x 390 mm, Latin text on verso (Qty: 2)
Smith (Alfred Charles). The Birds of Wiltshire, 1st edition, London: for the author by R. H. Porter, 1887, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, laid-in autograph letter signed from the author (single bifolium), edges untrimmed, modern red quarter morocco gilt, 8vo (22 x 13 cm), together with: Christy (Miller), The Birds of Essex: a Contribution to the Natural History of the County, 1st edition, Chelmsford: Edmund Durrant & Co., 1890, lithographic frontispiece, 2 lithographic plans, 6 pp. advertisements, modern red quarter morocco gilt, 8vo (20.9 x 13 cm), Macpherson (Hugh Alexander), A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1892, half-title, 2 hand-coloured lithographic plates (one signed by J. G. Keulemans), 6 sepia-tinted etched plates, folding map, 20 pp. advertisements, half-title soiled and with 2 ink-stamps, occasional spotting, short closed tear to map touching frame, top edge gilt, modern green quarter morocco gilt, 8vo (23 x 13.4 cm), Ticehurst (Norman F.), A History of the Birds of Kent, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1909, half-title, 24 halftone plates, folding lithographic map, inscribed 'F.[?] Whitaker, with the writer's kind regards' on the initial blank, ownership inscription to title-page, partly unopened, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, modern blue quarter morocco gilt, 8vo (22 x 15 cm), Ticehurst (Claud), A History of the Birds of Suffolk, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1932, half-title, 18 halftone plates, folding map (neatly repaired), laid-in autograph letter signed from the author to 'My dear Forbes' (probably H. F. Witherby), lacking 2 pp. advertisements, the 4 pp. insert on swan markings noted in some copies, and possibly a list of illustrations (2 pp. at front), modern blue quarter morocco gilt, 8vo (22.6 x 13.8 cm), and 4 others, county avifaunas, leather bindings, 8vo (Qty: 9)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Mullens & Swann pp. 545 (Smith), 129 (Christy), 375 (Macpherson), 584 (Claud Ticehurst).
Smythies (Bertram E.) . Birds of Burma, 1st edition, Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1940, 31 colour plates after A. M. Hughes including frontispiece, captioned tissue-guards, folding map to rear, errata slip to p. xxix, corrigenda leaf, folding map slightly creased along fore edge, original green cloth, dust jacket with pictorial onlay to front panel (rubbed in places, chipping and loss at folds, tape-repairs verso), 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance: Henry George Seward, British police officer in India (bookplate with crest of the Special Armed Constabulary; ownership inscription). Nissen IVB 882. Signed by the author on the title-page. According to Smythies's introduction to the second edition (Edinburgh, 1953) the first was printed in a run of 1,000 copies, most of which were 'bought by Europeans living in Burma, and left behind by them when they evacuated before the Japanese invasion in 1942 ... The Japanese collected as many as they could and shipped them off to Tokyo, where they housed them in the library of the Royal Veterinary College, later destroyed in an air raid'.
Wallace (Alfred Russel). Island Life: or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880, half-title, 3 maps (one hand-coloured), 2 pp. advertisements, wood-engraved maps and plans in text (many full-page), maps and adjacent text-leaves spotted, occasional light spotting elsewhere, brown coated endpapers, ownership inscription to half-title, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, spine-ends slightly nicked, upper outer corners bumped, 8vo, together with: ibid., Darwinism, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, half-title, photographic portrait frontispiece, folding map, 2 pp. advertisements, wood-engraved illustrations throughout, green coated endpapers, original cloth, spine rolled, corners bumped, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance ( Darwinism ): Sir Edward Fry (1827-1918), judge and zoologist (bookplate). Freeman 3865 & 3866; Norman 2179 ( Island Life ). Island Life, Wallace's sequel to The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), focuses on problems of animal dispersal and speciation and is likewise considered 'one of the foundation works of zoogeography' (Norman).
Drayton (Michael). Two untitled allegorical maps of Middlesex and Hertfordshire and of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire circa 1622, two hand coloured engraved allegorical maps, the map of Anglesey trimmed to image on left hand vertical margin, each approximately 250 x 330 mm (Qty: 2)NOTESOriginally published in the 'Poly Olbion', in two parts 1612 - 1622
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