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1898028936Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiv 256 16 pages of adverts at year; b/w portrait frontispiece of the author; 9 further b/w plates; folding map at end; in-text vingette. Original green buckram cloth binding with gilt lettering good and strong but somewhat worn and rubbed; cloth marked and tanned. Contents good and tight a little spotting and foxing a few pages marked; private bookplate to the front paste-down. A good copy of the first edition. "Journey of the British explorer & ornithologist in 1894 from Kolguev Island up the Pechora River & then west to the White Sea". Archibald Constable & Co. Hardcover
1885066352Troy NY: Nims & Knight 1885. Book. Illus. by Hector Giacomelli. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color illus. cloth text block edged in gilt. Rubbed with exposure at corners and spine extremities cover cloth with mild tanning/dampstaining to front cover more pronounced to back cover. Mended hinges. Possibly lacking main title with half-title followed by List of Illustrations p. iii stated but pagination suggests otherwise. xvi200 pp. Publisher stated at heel of spine panel as Nims & Knight which existed under that name 1882-92 only narrowing range of publication to that decade. Exceptionally scarce with a presumed later Estes & Lauriat edition dating to 1888. Nims & Knight Hardcover
1885011280Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1885. First Edition Later Printing. . Half-Leather. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Thick quarto 566 pp. numerous b/w illus. 2 color plates 23 b/w full page plates maps bib. index. Part of the larger Riverside Natural History set this is vol 4 Birds. Half-leather binding in v.g. cond. w/only sl. wear to the corners. Binding solid marbled end papers marbled edges former owner's tiny name ink stamp on top right hand corner of the page following the f.f.e.p. A clean nice copy. <br/> <br/> Houghton, Mifflin and Co. hardcover
1815128895J. C. Sepp & Fils, Amsterdam - G. Dufour, Paris, 1815. XXXVIII, 618 S. ; 22 x 14 cm ; Halbleder.
1873600718London, Cox, 1873. 4°. M. 11 Holzschn.-Taf. u. zahlr. Textholzschn. 3 Bl., 124 S. Ill. OLwdbd. Einbd. fleckig. Ecken gering bestoßen.
1837034933Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars 1837. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Pp.xvi 263; engraved frontispiece plate of Le Vaillant; engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette; 34 engraved plates of which 33 are hand-coloured with tissue guards; letterpress title and half-title pages. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine some fading repair to the top and bottom of the spine binding firm. Contents good and tight original green endpapers name to the top of the front endpaper and to the top of the title page plates with tissue guards present. A very good clean complete copy. W. H. Lizars Hardcover
1838034906Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars 1838. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Pp.x 256; engraved frontispiece plate of Haller; engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette; 33 engraved plates of which 32 are hand-coloured with tissue guards; letterpress title and half-title pages. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine some fading top and bottom of spine a little creased binding firm. Contents good and tight original green endpapers bookplate belonging to John L Sinclair and further to Leonard Cowcill the first few pages have some toning but the main body is clean plates with tissue guards present tissue guards have some offsetting. A very good complete copy. W. H. Lizars Hardcover
1869036613London: John Van Voorst 1869. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 19 x 13 cm. pp x 643; some pages remain uncut. Green cloth hardback binding very good and bright gilt bright contents clean and tight no inscriptions attractive bookplate belonging to Robert Washington Oates no foxing. A near fine first edition copy. Robert Washington Oates a relative of Frank and Lawrence Oates was an extremely wealthy man and like Frank Robert Washington Oates was a fan of natural history; so when he heard in 1954 that there were plans to turn Gilbert White's home into a museum but the project was struggling financially; Oates stepped in purchased The Wakes and helped to fund the Museum and donating his natural history library and the Oates family collection. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1886033934London: R. H. Porter 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 22 x 14 cm. Pasted onto the front paste-down is an autographed letter from the author dated Jan 19. 1987. My dear Sir Many thanks for Y. polite note. I now know what to do - when y have my book please attach the enclosed to leaf opposite 'errata' it is ready gummed. My publisher played pranks! e.g. inserted 'thank' p. 63 line 2. I am truly Ys. Gregory Smart Lytham Preston Jan 19. 87" The referred to original printed leaf is duly pasted onto the last page and is essentially a reply to an adverse review. 'Birds of the British List To the Editor of the. Dear Sir. - Will you kindly admit the following communication to your next issue. A critique having appeared in a London paper stating that I have in my book upon "Birds on the British List" perverted the opinions of our greater authorities upon Birds. I send you an extract from a letter from Mr. Seebohm than whom there is no greater authority on the subject.' Pp. xxiv 148 4 2. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine very goodwith light wear only. Contents good and tight bookplate of the Daltry Library ncorporating the letters NSFC i.e. North Staffs Field Club and also of The Wells Bladen Gift 1917 to the front free end paper a little foxing to the first and last few pages. A very good copy with author's letter. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1834033090<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1834 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition of Volume I of Gallinaceous Birds covering varieties of domestic and wild fowl eg turkeys pheasants in the publisher's brown cloth binding. Copy previously in the ownership of Francis Hemming the entomologist and with his book plate at the front pastedown. Contents with half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Aristotle; hand coloured vignette title page with a picture of a cockerel; 2 further title pages; contents listing; Memoir of Aristotle; and text with black and white illustrations and 30 hand coloured plates 29 plates are listed in the contents index but there are 2 versions of plate 18. 32pp of advertisements and a 4 page yellow geographical works advert at the rear. The cloth binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and is sound and tight. There is some slightly paler marking to the boards and the corners have light wear. The original green endpapers are present - the free endpaper is watermarked - and have professional repair at the joints. Contents are clean with toning to the margins including to the plate paper. Pages 169-172 have been roughly opened at the top edge and there is a small ink spot at the top edge of p 205. The plates are generally clean and very well coloured. Tissue guards tend to have some spotting or offsetting - Plate 1 has general toning and a very browned guard and the guard to plate 24 has a small area of paint from the bird on it.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
1834033165<p>Edinburgh: W H Lizars 1834 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original publisher's cloth binding with 30 hand coloured plates. Contents with: black and white frontispiece portrait of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles; hand coloured vignette title page with red grouse; 2 further title pages; advert; contents listing; Memoir of Raffles; text with 30 hand coloured plates; and publisher's catalogues bound at the rear. The binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and is sound and tight. The spine and the board edges are slightly sunned. The bottom corners of both boards have small bumps; top corners lightly turned. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair at the joints. The text is largely unopened and the text paper is toned towards the margins. The plates are very well coloured and have some toning to top page edges. The tissue guards to plates 6 and 26 are present but detached. Plate 17 has very toned paper particularly at the edges and there is professional paper repair to the side edge. The tissue guard to the frontispiece has been replaced.</p> W H Lizars hardcover
1838033186<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1838 A very good copy of the 1st edition of Part 1 of Birds of Great Britain and Ireland from the Naturalist's Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding with gilt titles to spine with 34 hand coloured plates as called for. Containing half title; list of volumes in the series; frontispiece portrait of Sir Robert Sibbald; black and white vignette title page 2 people hunting with birds; 2 further title pages; publisher's advert; contents listing; Memoir of Sir Robert Sibbald; text with black and white illustrations; and 34 hand coloured plates bound at the rear. The binding has been rebacked preserving the original spine and is sound and tight. There is fading to the spine and board edges and a couple of small marks to the front board. The top corners of the boards have light bumps. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair to the joints. The contents are very clean and the plates are well-coloured. The and plate paper has light toning. The tissue guards to the plates have occasional marks or spots and some offsetting. The tissue guard to plate 16 has a red paint mark at the edge. Plate 22 was originally badly bound making the image too close to the side edge so that the top edge of a bird's head has been removed.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
1842033183<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1842 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition in the original publisher's cloth binding with 34 hand coloured plates. With volume listing; frontispiece portrait of Rev Dr Walker; hand coloured vignette title page showing a spaniel and a heron; 2 further title pages; publisher's advert; contents listing; Memoir of Dr Walker; and text with black and white illustrations and 34 hand coloured plates bound at the rear. The binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and the end papers repaired and retained. The binding has fading to spine and board edges and light wear to corners. The end papers have some marking at the joints where repaired. The text pages are generally clean with light toning and occasional marking and spotting mainly at the edges. All the plates are tissue-guarded and are very well coloured. There is some offsetting to the guards and the occasional nibble to the guard edge. There is an old crease to plate 29 and its tissue guard not affecting the image.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
1839033179<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1839 A very good copy of the 1st edition of Part II of Birds of Great Britain and Ireland in the original publisher's cloth binding. This volume covers a range of familiar birds from bullfinches to wrens. Contents: volume listing; half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of William Smellie with tissue guard; hand coloured vignette title page showing a robin; 2 further title pages; publisher's advert; contents listing; Memoir of William Smellie; text with black and white illustrations and 30 hand coloured plates bound at the rear. The original binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and is sound and tight. There is slight scuffing to the boards which have light wear to corners and edges. There is fading to the spine and to the board edges. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair at the inner joints. Text and plate pages have light toning at the margins. The plates are clean and well coloured. The paint has splashed however in a couple of places eg at plate 16 where there is a small blue splot at the bottom of the plate and a blue splash at the back of the previous plate affecting the plate edge. Plates are without tissue guards and there is some offsetting to the backs of previous plates.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
1834032478<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1834 1st edition second printing of humming birds in the original publisher's cloth bindings with 64 hand coloured plates. The bindings are sound and clean. Both have been rebacked preserving the original spine. Vol I has slight bubbling to the cloth; a bump to the rear bottom corner; a small lighter spot on the front board and fading to edges and spine. Vol II has some wear and bumping to corners; the front board has mottling and some fading to edges. The original green endpapers are present in both volumes with repair. Vol I: frontispiece black and white portrait of 'Linnaeus in his Lapland Dress'; hand coloured vignette title page; 2 further title pages dated 1834 a year after the first printing; publisher's advert; contents listing; Memoir of Linnaeus; and text with black and white illustrations and 34 hand coloured plates bound at the rear; 23pp publisher's catalogue. Vol.II: half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Pennant; hand coloured vignette title page; 2 further title pages dated 1833 together with an additional title page for Vol I; contents listing; advert; Memoir of Pennant; text with 30 hand coloured plates; synopsis; index; and a range of publisher's adverts - 166 pages in all. Vol I has foxing particularly to the early pages and to the page edges. The plates have light brown toning but Plate I is very browned. There is the odd spot to plates but this is mostly to the verso. 5 plates lack tissue guards. Vol II is brighter and although with occasional spotting eg initial text gutter to pp 30-35; the plates are generally bright and clean. Plates 1 and 2 have a couple of spots with more spots to verso and tissue guards; plates 27 and 28 have a couple of small spots. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. As usual with editions bound in the publisher's cloth page edges are untrimmed.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
189060221Ohne Ort, um 1890. Blatt ca. 28,5 x 19,5 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.
189060222Ohne Ort, um 1890. Blatt ca. 28,5 x 19,5 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.
1823018730London Dublin Edinburgh & New York: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips 1823. Six volumes small octavo pp 588; 600 15; 584 10 uncut a few pages unopened a little age-toning and marking one gathering 347-350 in Volume IV detached and gatherings towards the rear of the volume becoming a bit weak and loose Volume VI has extra bis pages 343 - 354; very well illustrated with 197 engraved or wood engraved plates of which 31 are folding and 50 coloured plates of which 2 are folding and 1 folding table; bound in the original pink boards a bit worn chipped and marked original printed paper labels on the spines the upper cover of Volume V detached otherwise firm and tight a neat signature on each front endpaper. Apparently lacking one plate in Volume 1 Relative Sizes of the Planets though there is no sign of this ever having been bound in. There are several extra plates to those listed and our copy would seem to agree with the set at auction at Christie's in 2006 which contained 246 of 248 plates. A work of considerable charm and interest and despite some faults as mentioned a remarkable set in original unsophisticated state. Simeon Ackroyd Shaw 1785 - 1859 was a 19th-century English scientific writer industrial historian and teacher. He spent his working life in the Staffordshire Potteries now the city of Stoke-on-Trent England. Shaw originated in Lancashire and as a young man he arrived in the Potteries to work on the Potteries Gazette and Newcastle-under-Lyme Advertiser newspaper. After some 20 years of newspaper and printing work living in Wolstanton he then went into teaching. He ran several teaching academies in the district. His first book was this 6-volume work which was based on his obviously very comprehensive series of popular short lectures on everything from natural species to meteorites. First Edition. Boards. Good. Printed for Sir Richard Phillips Hardcover
1899013181London: Trustees of the British Museum 1899. Ex-Library. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth ruled in blind lettered in gilt on spine panel. De-accessioned from non-circulating museum library lightly marked/stamped handwritten call label on lower clear-coated spine panel somewhat age-toned. Cloth has separated and been repaired along front joint; spine extremities are chipped and corners a bit rubbed/curled. xxi30320 pp. Volume I only. A few internal notations in pencil else clean. Mounted on front flyleaf is a lengthy contemporary review and hinged to the flyleaf is a presentation book plate from the Trustees of The British Museum; hinged to the rear flyleaf is an original mailing label addressed from The British Museum to the U.S. National Museum in Washington D.C. and the Smithsonian Institution's stamp invoice 1273. Trustees of the British Museum Hardcover
1898038619London: R. H. Porter 1898. Book. Illus. by H. Gronvold & H. Goodchild. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo 21.5 x 14.5 cm. This collection of 18 monthly parts no duplicates includes: vol IV no. 48 October 1898; vol. VIII no. 6 April 1902; New Series vol 1 no. 1 November 1902 no. 4 February 1903 no. 6 April 1904 no. 7 May 1903 no. 8 June 1903 no. 9 July 1903 no. 10 August 1903; New series vol. II no. 10 August 1904; new series vol. III no. 2 December 1904; third series vol 1 no. 7 May 1910; third series vol. 2 no. 2 December 1910; third series vol. III no. 5 March 1912; vol IV no. 4 February 1913 no. 5 March 1913; third series vol. V no. 1 November 1913 & no. 2 December 1913. With 10 exquisite hand-coloured lithographic plates mainly by H. Gronvold further chromolithographic plates b/w illustrations and photographic plates. Original printed wrappers generally good a few marked the wrappers to the two earliest parts are chipped and detached. Contents generally clean. A good collection of odd issues some scarce and with selection of wonderful hand-coloured plates. R. H. Porter Paperback
1866FSKB0400London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday 1866. 200 p., 12 plates with illustrations, publ. clothbound with gilt decorations, cover spotted, inside clean
1867017687London: Published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke 1867. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio. pp. x ii 181; 10 engraved plates half-title and title pages. Publisher's original card wrapper with printed title label pasted to the front board the green cloth spine with gilt lettering is worn with multiple splits wrappers with a little general wear more pronounced to corners. Contents good and complete tight large margins no inscriptions a few plates with a little foxing plate I the most marked. Overall a very good copy. Published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke Paperback
1873166333(Leipzig, Engelmann, 1873). (S.-A. a.: Hasse, Anatomische Studien). M. 1 Taf. S. 569-582. Br. Ohne Umschl. etwas angestaubt. Klammerbind. angerostet. Taf. wasserrandig. Unaufgeschn.
19002482ABBerlin, P.J. Oestergaard, about, 1900. 8°. 96 pp. With 30 chromolithographed plates with 239 ill. and many ill. in the text by Karl Neunzig.. Ill. half-cloth. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +
1878166398Königsberg, Jacoby, 1878. 33 S. Hlwd. M. Rgoldpräg. Einbd. u. Vors. etwas randgebräunt. Name a. Vors.