Shackleton, Ernest H. South The Story of Shackleton's last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1920. First edition, fourth impression, 8vo, original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, colour frontispiece, all halftone plates as called for, folding map, ownership inscription 'Ernest Welsby 1925' and 'Alan Williams, Cardiff, Mar 1988' to front pastedown, fraying to spine-ends, wear to corners, a few marks to sides, front inner hinge cracked and very tender, rear inner hinge superficially cracked, text-block toned, half-title browned, extensive closed tear in folding map (repaired verso), a few spots and marksNote: Association copy, inscribed by Shackleton's second-in-command Frank Wild on the half-title, 'To Vince, from those who appreciate his worth & villanies [sic], Frank Wild', and additionally signed below Wild's inscription by the expedition's surgeon James McIlroy ('J. A. McIlroy, (Mick)'). The recipient is likely to have been John Vincent (1884-1931), bosun on the voyage, though later demoted to able seaman on account of his aggressive behaviour. He was selected by Shackleton as one of five men to accompany him on the James Caird on the journey to South Georgia while Wild was left in command at Elephant Island; on the return to England he was one of only a handful of expedition members not to be recommended by Shackleton for the Polar Medal.
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Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, titles and pictorial vignettes in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including folding panorama and 3 folding maps in end-pocket), errata slip, bindings marked, browning to endpapers, very occasional light spotting, volume 2 frontispiece dog-eared; Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, lacking plate facing volume 1 p. 137 (Mount Minto: Admiralty Range), spines toned, spotting; Idem. Scott's Last Expedition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, all plates as called for (volume 2 with duplicate of the sketch map to face p. 284 bound in before p. 252), variable spotting, erosion to upper fore corners of volume 1 pp. 460 to end; Mill, Hugh Robert. The Life of Ernest Shackleton. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933. 8vo, original cloth, 11 plates, inscribed 'Presented to Shackleton House, Hounslow College by Cecily Shackleton, 1938' on the front free endpaper, with a quotation from Robert Browning in the same hand (Cecily Shackleton, 1906-1957, was the daughter of Ernest), covers sunned; Nansen, Fridtjof. "Farthest North". London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial blue-green cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, closed tear in general map, Idem. In Northern Mists. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, tipped-in colour frontispieces, extremities rubbed, spines toned Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole. London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, incomplete (lacking at least the frontispiece in volume 1), covers marked, spotting, volume 2 front inner hinge cracked (13)
Kitchin, Thomas A General Atlas describing the whole Universe, being a Complete Collection of the Most Approved Maps Extant, corrected with the greatest care and augmented from the last edition of d'Anville and Robert... engraved on sixty-two plates, comprising thirty-seven maps. London: Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1795. Folio, (538 x 367mm), 37 engraved map sheets, some double-page, some folding, most hand-coloured in outline, a few with areas hand-coloured, modern red half morocco, raised bands, lettered in gilt on spine, a few repairs, generally to versos, mostly comprising strengthening along folds, occasional very minor loss, small stains to title, some very light soiling
![Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne [Catalonia] Paris. 1806. Volume 1 of Atlas only](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/024d3993-99ad-4aec-b018-aeb400fa3ede/468x382.jpg)
Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne [Catalonia] Paris. 1806. Volume 1 of Atlas only, tall folio (460 x 590mm), engraved title-page, frontispiece, 4 engraved plans & 64 engraved plates, original pink paper-covered boards with large paper label to upper board, rebacked red cloth, untrimmed, title and frontispiece both with heavy waterstain, slightly spotted, small dampstain to a few margins, boards somewhat soiled
![St Petersburg Mornay [A Picture of St. Petersburg, represented in a Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City....] [](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/21507313-cb35-47e7-8780-aeb400fa421c/468x382.jpg)
St Petersburg Mornay [A Picture of St. Petersburg, represented in a Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City....] [London: Edward Orme, 1815], 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Mornay, (image size 340 x 240mm), no text or title page, plates carefully trimmed to edge of image, mounted on beige ?silk with red cotton edges, in an album with other mounted chromolithographs from the Illustrated London News, half morocco, rubbedNote: 20 hand-coloured plates as called for by Abbey, Travel, 206.
Stein, Sir Aurel On Alexander's Track to the Indus Personal Narrative of Explorations of the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, 2 folding maps; Idem. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First edition, 4to, later quarter leather, gilt roundel from original cloth binding mounted to front board, half-title, all plates and folding panoramas as called for, folding map (with closed tear); Howard-Bury, C. K., C. G. Bruce, and E. F. Norton. [The Everest trilogy:] Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921; The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922; The Fight for Everest: 1924. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922-3-5. First editions, 3 works, 8vo, original vari-coloured cloth, all plates and maps as called for, pale markings to cloth, Mount Everest tips bumped and worn, Assault cloth sunned; and 8 others (these not fully collated): Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals, 1855 ('new edition, carefully revised and condensed', 2 volumes, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, wood-engraved frontispieces, colour plate, volume 2 inner hinges strengthened); Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 1871 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); idem, Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); Edmund Candler, The Unveiling of Lhasa, 1905 (fourth impression, 8vo original cloth, inscribed 'Claude Auchinleck, from M. E. A., October 1906', spine strengthened); Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, 1903 (first edition, Australasian issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, recent red crushed half morocco); Isabella L. Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, rubbed); Robert Byron, First Russian then Tibet, 1933 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet, 1910 (2nd impression, 8vo, original cloth) (16)
Switzerland, Germany and the Danube 5 volumes comprising: Beattie, William. Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views. London: G. Virtue, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to, 2 engraved title-pages, folding map and, 106 engraved plates, contemporary half vellum, worn; Cockburn, Major. Swiss Scenery from Drawings by... London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. 8vo, engraved title and 60 engraved plates, original boards, title somewhat spotted, occasional spotting, rebacked; Beattie, William. The Danube, its History, Scenery and Topography. London: Virtue, [c.1840], 4to, additional engraved title, portrait and 80 engraved plates, tissue guards, modern half calf retaining original marbled sides, some light spotting; Batty, Capt. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland. London: R. Jennings, 1826. Large 8vo, engraved title and 61 engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary red half morocco gilt, small dampstain to corner of title and plates at beginning, lightly rubbed (5)
Sykes, Mark Through Five Turkish Provinces London: Bickers and Son, 1900. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt, photographic onlays to boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure frontispiece, 20 halftone plates, folding map, bookplate (Adrian Sykes), spine sunned and rolled, markings to fore edge of front board, tips bumped, endpapers brownedNote: The author's first book, describing a journey from Damascus to Batumi (modern-day Georgia) via Aleppo, Baghdad, Mosul, Lake Van and Tbilisi. Rare at auction and in libraries.
![[The Hague & Views of Holland] 3 volumes in 2 comprising: Swart, P. de. Description de la Chambre et Lit de Parade sur le](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/987b03a8-3f42-49f0-9cbe-aeb400fa4bfb/468x382.jpg)
[The Hague & Views of Holland] 3 volumes in 2 comprising: Swart, P. de. Description de la Chambre et Lit de Parade sur lequel le corps de son Altesse Royale Anne, Princesse Royale de la Grande-Bretagne... a été éxposé pendant plusiurs jours en Février 1759. The Hague: Pierre Gosse, 1759. Folio, titles and text in French and Flemish, 4 engraved plates; bound with La Fargue, P.C. Convoi-Funebre de son Altesse Royale Anne, Princesse Royale de la Grande Bretagne. The Hague: Pierre Gosse, 1761, folio, titles and text in French and Flemish, 16 plates of the funeral procession engraved by Simon Fokke, original boards, a few small stains, rebacked, edges worn, presentation copy inscribed by John Gielgud to Jeanette Cochran, Phoenix Theatre, 1943: Rademaker, Abraham. Versameling van Hondert Vyftig Nederlantse Outheeden en Gesigten. II. Deel. Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion. n.d. (? 1770), 4to, volume 2 only, engraved title and 146 copper-engraved views on 73 pages (lacks 229-232), 19th century half calf, title somewhat spotted, final leaves with marginal dampstain, rubbed, upper cover detached (2)Note: Princess Anne was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, wife of William IV, Prince of Orange, and on his death, Regent of the Netherlands on behalf of her son William V.
Travel 20 volumes comprising: Fellowes, W.D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817. London, 1818. First edition, 8vo, 15 plates (11 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 etchings & 1 vignette - as called for), original boards, uncut, cloth chemise, slipcase; Du Chaillu, Paul B. Land of the Midnight Sun. New York, 1882. 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, folding map in pocket; Symes, Michael. Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava. Edinburgh, 1827. 2 volumes in one, 12mo, frontispieces, folding map, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms on sides; Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. 1897, 2 volumes, original pictorial cloth; Grogan, E.S. and A.H. Sharp. From the Cape to Cairo. 1900, seemingly inscribed by the author with a picture of an elephant and the dates 1874-1901 (or 1874-1961), original pictorial cloth; Fullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot... after Sperm Whales. 1900, 6th impression (2nd edition), original pictorial cloth; Lynam, C.C. The Log of the Blue Dragoon 1892-1904. 1907, original pictorial cloth, rubbed; Baxter, George. The Pictorial Album or Cabinet of Paintings. Containing eleven designs executed in oil colours. 4to, pictorial title and 10 plates, original pictorial morocco gilt rather rubbed, folding box; Evans, Capt. Edward R.G.R. South with Scott. Nov. 1921, original cloth; Rutter, Owen. Through Formosa. 1923, original cloth; Enriquez, Major C.M. Ceylon past and present. [c.1920], original cloth; Gann, Thomas. Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes... Maya Lands. 1926, original cloth; Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1928, original cloth; Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. 1937, original cloth, lightly soiled; Gordon, Seton. Amid Snowy Wasters.. Spitsbergen. 1922, original cloth, rubbed; [St. Andrews] Saint Andrews as it was and as it is. Cupar, 1838. 12mo, additional engraved title, plates, original cloth; Thomas, Bertram. Arabia Felix, across the empty quarter. 1932, original cloth; Scott, Hugh. In the high Yemen. 1942, original cloth; sold as a collection not subject to return (20)
![Travel Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century comprising: [North America, West Indies, etc.].The Colonial](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/03254372-ae4b-4907-9ec2-aeb400fa50af/468x382.jpg)
Travel Collection of works on various regions, 18th-20th century comprising: [North America, West Indies, etc.].The Colonial Journal. Vol. I. January to July, 1816. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [and others], 1816. 3 numbers in 1 volume, 8vo (23.8 x 14cm), contemporary half calf, 7 engraved plates (of which 2 hand-coloured and 2 in sepia, one of the latter in aquatint), including views (e.g. 'A View of Hall-head Sugar-plantation, Jamaica' as frontispiece) and zoological subjects, plates spotted and offset, occasional damp-staining [Sabin 14688]; East India Company. Bugle Sounds for the use of the Infantry of the Army of Fort St George. Madras: Athenaeum Press, 1845. Oblong 8vo, contemporary marbled card wrappers, [9] ff., lithographed throughout; Hunt, George Henry. Outram and Havelock's Persian Campaign, London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo (17.9 x 10.7cm), contemporary half calf, 7 tinted lithographic plate, bookplate of the Barons Napier; [Logan, John]. A Review of the Principal Charges against Warren Hastings Esquire, Late Governor General of Bengal. London: for John Stockdale; and John Murray, 1788. 8vo (20.2 x 12cm), modern boards, half-title, advertisements to rear, damp-staining to front, small repair to head of title-page [ESTC T143514]; and 13 others (these not collated), including: Regulations for the West African Frontier Force, 1922 (8vo, original printed wrappers); William Cole, Life in the Niger, or, the Journal of an African Trade, 1862 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, spine rolled); J. W. Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia, Adelaide, 1878 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, lithographic frontispiece, spine rolled); Horace Greeley, an Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, New York, 1860 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Historical Sketches Illustrative of the Life of M. De Lafayette, New York: for the author, 1824 (first edition, 8vo); and similar (17)Note: Three volumes only of the Colonial Journal were published, the last in 1818; one other copy traced in auction records a partial run containing numbers 1-6 of the total nine, sold in 1980. Contents include 'An Account of the Colony at Pitcairn's Island', 'On the Agriculture of the West Indies', 'An Account of New Connecticut', 'The Fur-Trade of Louisiana ... by the late Merriwether Lewis', 'Actual Legal Condition of the Slaves in Jamaica', and similar articles. No other copy of Bugle Sounds for the use of the Infantry of the Army of Fort St George traced in libraries or commercial records.
![Vertot, René-Aubert The History of the Knights of Malta London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1728. First edition in English,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/bd735ac0-0462-481a-8345-aeb400fa538b/468x382.jpg)
Vertot, René-Aubert The History of the Knights of Malta London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1728. First edition in English, 2 volumes, folio (34.1 x 22cm), modern leatherette, [8] 487 [1] 180, [2] 80 79-220 143 [1] 196 [24] 3 [1] pp., 71 engraved portrait plates, 5 maps and plans (all but one folding), title-pages dust-soiled, occasional marginal finger-soiling, a few other marks, plates 11 and 47 and unnumbered plate facing volume 2 p. 108 browned, plate 48 stained, map of Malta and Gozo in volume 2 with partial split along one fold, volume 1 leaves 3D1 and 5K1 with repaired closed tears extending into text, short repaired tears to lower margins of a few other leaves (e.g. 3E1, 3L1, 4H1-2, 5S2, 5Z1), marginal loss and attempted repaired to 5Z2, volume 2 2O2 with loss to lower margin, 2M2, 3H1 and *T1 each with closed tear extending into text, 3K2 extensively repaired [ESTC T53873; cf. Cobham-Jeffery p. 62] (2)Note: First published in French in 1726.
![World travel - [Numerous engraved plates] L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples 24 volumes, all Paris: Firmi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/0c4e8d5d-f894-4991-b2d6-aeb400fa6531/468x382.jpg)
World travel - [Numerous engraved plates] L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples 24 volumes, all Paris: Firmin Didot, publishers, c.1828-55, 8vo, including Grèce; États-Unis d'Amérique; Histoire des Antilles - Suite des Etats-Unis - Possession Anglaises dans l'Amérique du Nord; La Suisse et du Tyrol; Allemagne, 2 volumes; Provinces Danubiennes et Roumaines; Mexique et Guatemala; Italie, Sicile; Villes Anseatiques; Iles de la Grèce; La Perse; Belgique et Hollande; Egypte; Brésil, Colombie et Guyanes; Turquie; L'Espagne; Portugal; Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos-Ayres; Pologne; Algérie, Etats Tripolitains, Tunis; États de la Confédération Germanique; and 2 volumes entirely of engraved plates, all with engraved plates, mixture of bindings - original boards, original wrappers, half or quarter morocco and vellum (24)
Gentlemen's Seats Two works Hoare, Sir Richard Colt. A Collection of Forty-Eight Views of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, Towns, Castles, Churches, Monasteries and Romantic Places in North and South Wales, engraved by the most eminent artists. London: J. and J. Boydell, [1796]. Oblong 4to, 48 plates engraved by Ingleby, Griffith, Sandby and Byrne, contemporary dark blue full straight-grain morocco, finely gilt, “Cathedral” binding, front cover and title-page loose, spine partly attached, occasional light marginal foxing; Angus, William. The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales, in a Collection of Select Views. London: W. Angus, 1787. Oblong 4to, (280 x 210mm), engraved title page and 63 plates engraved by Angus after Nattes, Wheatley, Turner & others, contemporary calf gilt, red morocco label, armorial bookplate of Charles James Lucas (2)
Curtis, John British Entomology Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. London: printed for the author and sold by E. Ellis and Co., 1823-40. 8 volumes, 8vo (24.2 x 14.5cm), 770 hand-coloured engraved plates, later crushed green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, some fading to spines, some light offsetting from plates, some very occasional light foxing and spotting, neat corner repair to one plate in volume 7 not affecting image [Nissen ZBI 1000] (8)Provenance: 1) Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scottish-American industrialist and benefactor (bookplates). 2) Sir Alexander Stone (1907-1998), Scottish financier and benefactor.
Folio Society Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history comprising: Illustrations of Birds Drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear. Collected and Introduced by David Attenborough, 2012. One of 780 copies signed by David Attenborough, large folio, original black goatskin gilt, colour plates, duplicate of the Eagle Owl plate laid in, original solander box; Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise ... by R. Bowdler Sharpe ... The Plate, with a Foreword by David Attenborough, 2011. One of 1,000 copies, large folio, original green quarter goatskin, large pictorial block in orange and gilt to front board, pale mottling to rear board, original solander box (faintly marked); The Temple of Flora [by Robert Thornton], 2008. One of 600 copies, large folio, original green quarter goatskin, in original solander box with Commentary volume (4to) inset, duplicate plate (Tulips) laid in; The Herefordshire Pomona, 2014. One of 980 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original green quarter goatskin (plate volume) and original green cloth (text), 4 duplicate plates laid in, original solander box (4)Note: The limitation leaf in The Temple of Flora cites 1,980 copies printed, but a letter from the Folio Society accompanying the lot reads: 'Of the original printing of 1,980, only 600 will be published as bound books; the remainder will be issued as sets of floral plates later this year, and will not bear a limitation number'.
Geology, botany, palaeontology Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West including: Forbes, James D. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (several tinted), 2 maps (one folding), spotting to frontispiece, title-page and folding map; Idem. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, tinted lithographic frontispiece numbered VI*, 9 lithographic plates numbered I-IX (collation not established); Lewis, Henry Carvill. Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half pigskin, 10 maps (several folding); Woodward, Samuel. An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk. Norwich: John Stacy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, hand-coloured folding lithographic map as frontispiece, similar folding plate of geological cross-sections, 6 lithographic plates, bookplate of botanist and geologist Clement Reid (1853-1916); Wood, Searles V. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Vol. I. Univalves [Vol. II. Bivalves; Supplement ... Univalves and Bivalves; Second Supplement; Third Supplement]. London: for the Palaeontographical Society, 1848. First edition, 4 volumes in 3 (Second and Third Supplements issued as volume 4), 4to, contemporary half calf, inscribed 'Dr. Milne Edwards, from S. V. Wood, with Compts', numerous engraved plates; Hales, Stephen. Statistical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. London: W. Innys [and others], 1731. Second edition (first published in 1727), 8vo, contemporary calf, 19 engraved plates, bookplate of botanist Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955), rubbed, front joint cracked, occasional light browning, initial blank (with contemporary gift inscription) loose); Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. London: John Murray, 1864. Second edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, wood-engraved plates (counted in pagination and register), folding map; and 16 others, including Lyell, The Antiquity of Man, 1863 (third edition), Curtis, Practical Observations on the British Grasses, 1812 (fifth edition), Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants, 1829, and similar (25)Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, many works with his bookplate.
![[Hill, John] Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening ... Compiled and digested from the Papers of the Late Celebrated Mr. [Tho](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/b153e2e1-6f35-4d3e-bb38-aeb400fa9408/468x382.jpg)
[Hill, John] Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening ... Compiled and digested from the Papers of the Late Celebrated Mr. [Thomas] Hale. London: for T. Osborne [and others], 1757. First edition, folio (40.5 x 26cm), contemporary panelled calf, 60 engraved plates, covers detached, spine split between signatures 4D and 4E, toning, frontispiece chipped, creased and detached, title-page and preface leaf spotted and detached, occasional spotting elsewhere, plates slightly offset, contents leaf (a1) bound at rear, early manuscript notes (list of contents) laid in, sold as a collection of plates [ESTC T32413; Henrey 776; Nissen BBI 880]
Houghton, William British Fresh-Water Fishes London: William Mackenzie, 1879. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, original red pictorial cloth gilt, 40 chromoxylographic plates (of 41); Grandville, J. J. Les metamorphoses du jour. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Garniere frères, 1869. Large 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, all edges gilt, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates including additional title-page, all showing anthropomorphic animals, tissue-guards, occasional light spotting; Idem. Les fleurs animées. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Garnier frères, c.1870. 2 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, green vellum tips, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates including additional title-pages (all but 2 hand-coloured), variable spotting; [Darton & Co., publishers]. [The Child's Own Book of Animals], c.1847. Oblong folio, original cloth, recased, title-page discarded, 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates each with leaf of descriptive text, binding sunned and marked, plates slightly toned and spotted, a few text-leaves nicked or frayed; Jardine, Sir William. British Salmonidae. London: Decimus, 1979. Facsimile edition, one of 500 copies, large folio, original quarter morocco, colour plates, slipcase; and 2 others on angling (9)
Millais, John G. British Diving Ducks London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. First edition, one of 450 copies only, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, 74 colour, photogravure or collotype plates after Archibald Thorburn and others, spines faded, volume 1 headcap frayed, a few marks to sides, spotting to a few plates and adjacent text-leaves [Mullens & Swann p. 406; Nissen IVB 633; Zimmer p. 436]; Rickman, Philip. A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches. [Holt]: Curpotten Limited, 1979. First edition, one of 500 copies signed by the artist, folio, original crushed green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 32 colour plates and photographic portrait (all mounted), slipcase; Boot, Jeremy (illustrator). Nocturnal Birds of Australia. [By] Richard Schodde, Ian J. Mason. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the authors and artist, folio, original leatherette, with a limited edition print by Jeremy Boot (one of 500, signed by Boot) laid in (4)
Milne-Edwards, Henri Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'histoire de la Faune de l'Amérique Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1870. 2 volumes (text and plates), folio, third part (reptiles) only, 72 engraved plates, modern red cloth gilt library binding, bookplates of Manchester Central Library, a little dust-soiling, a few library blind-stamps throughout (2)
Natural History 7 volumes including: Sowerby, James. English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants. London, 1790-94, volumes 1-3, 8vo, c. 216 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half calf, worn; Rand, Edward S. Bulbs. Boston, 1873. 4to, number 4 of 20 copies printed, 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates, red half morocco, upper board detached, lacks lower board; Morris, F.O. A History of British Butterflies. 1876. Fourth edition, 4to, 72 hand-coloured plates, original pictorial cloth, worn; Johnstone, John. An Account of the most Approved Mode of Draining Land. Edinburgh, 1797. 4to, engraved plates, some folding, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached; Goodlake, Thomas. The Courser's Manual or Stud-Book. Liverpool, 1828. Large 8vo, frontispiece portrait, plates, old boards, binding repaired, worn and soiled (7)
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