Natural History and Foreign Field Sports
ZOOLOGY
ADAMSON, Joy Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her cubs.
Collins & Harvill Press. 1961.
£40
8vo. Original decorative cloth and dustjacket, maps to endpapers; pp. xiv + 146, illustrated throughout with b&w photos; a little rubbing to extremities of wrapper, otherwise near …
BOTANY
ALLAN, Mea. E.A. Bowles & His Garden at Myddelton House 1865-1954.
Faber ad Faber. 1973.
£38
8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 264, 8 colour plates; fine.First edition.
ANDERSON, Ian Saint-Barbe (author). BORDEWICH, Gabrielle (illustrator). A Tangle of Otters.
Guildford: Lutterworth Press. 1984.
£15
Oblong 4to. Original cloth and dustwrapper; pp. 75, illustrated throughout with line and wash drawings; fine.First edition. The book follows a year in the lives of a female otter and her three new-born cubs.
ARNOLD, Richard The Shoreshooter
£25
ATTENBOROUGH, David The Private Life of Plants.
BBC Books. 1995.
£30
4to. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 320, richly illustrated with colour photographs; fine.First edition.
AUDUBON, John James The Quadrupeds of North America.
New York: V.G. Audubon. 1849-54.
£15,000
8vo. 3 vols. Contemporary full brown morocco with gilt fillets and panels to boards, spines divided into six compartments by raised bands with gilt lettering and tools, gilt turn-ins, all …
BAKER, E.C. Stuart Indian Ducks & Their Allies.
Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society. 1908.
£450
Large 8vo. Brown half morocco, green cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; pp. xii + 292, 30 chromolithograph plates by Grönvold, Lodge and Keulemans, additional pictorial …
BANNERMAN, David A. Birds of The British Isles.
Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, [1953-63].
£700
Tall 8vo. 12 vols. Original green cloth, spines titled in gilt, all with dust-jackets, each with a coloured plate by George Edward Lodge laid down; 386 coloured plates of birds by Lodge …
BANNERMAN, David A. Birds of The British Isles.
Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, [1953-63].
£750
Tall 8vo. 12 vols. Original green cloth, spines titled in gilt, all with dust-jackets, each with a coloured plate by George Edward Lodge laid down; 386 coloured plates of birds by Lodge …
BANNERMAN, David A. Birds of The British Isles.
Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, [1953-63].
£998
Tall 8vo. 12 vols. Original green cloth, spines titled in gilt, all with dust-jackets, each with a coloured plate by George Edward Lodge laid down; 386 coloured plates of birds by Lodge …
ORNITHOLOGY
BANNERMAN, David A. Birds of The British Isles.
Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, [1953-63].
£450
Tall 8vo. 12 vols. Original green cloth, spines titled in gilt; 386 coloured plates of birds by George Lodge, and one uncoloured plate; dampstain to front board of volume 1, otherwise …
BARCLAY, John. Four Views of the Skull.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. 1819-20.
£120
45 cm x 38 cm in acid free mount, ready for framing.Plate 5 from Barclay's A Series of Engravings, representing the bones of the human skeleton; with the skeletons of some of the lower animals.
BARCLAY, John. Front View of the Trunk.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. 1819-20.
£120
45 cm x 38 cm in acid free mount, ready for framing.Plate 11 from Barclay's A Series of Engravings, representing the bones of the human skeleton; with the skeletons of some of the lower animals.
BARCLAY, John. The Dorsal Aspect of the Trunk.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. 1819-20.
£120
45 cm x 38 cm in acid free mount, ready for framing.Plate 12 from Barclay's A Series of Engravings, representing the bones of the human skeleton; with the skeletons of some of the lower animals.
BEDDARD, Frank E. Earthworms and Their Allies.
Cambridge. At the University Press 1912.
£48
8vo., original decorative red cloth. With 13 figures in the text. Cloth a little faded otherwise a very good copy.First edition.
