Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
John Evelyn: 'Terra: a philisophical discourse of earth', 1787, new edition, 74pp and index and adverts at end, engraved plate depicting ''Tartarian Lamb'' (foxed) and folding table, 4to contemporary calf, rebacked (not recent)
Sale Price: £65.00
William Withering: 'A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants', London, 1801, 4th edition, four volumes, engraved plates (some folding), uniform contemporary tree calf; plus Thomas Mawe & John Abercrombie: 'Every Man his own Gardener', London, 1805, 18th edition, engraved frontis, vii, 758pp, index, 12mo, contemporary calf rebacked, new endpapers (5)
Sale Price: £48.00
Natural History, 6 volumes, comprising Montagu: 'The Ornithological Dictionary; or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds', 1802, 1st edition, 2 volumes in 1, hand coloured engraved frontis, with the 1813 1st edition supplement volume, 24 engraved plates as called for, uniform contemporary calf (worn, rebacked, top board first volume loose); Baron Cuvier: 'The Animal Kingdom', Orr, [nd, circa 1850], engraved title + 33 engraved plates (of which 30 hand coloured), rebound half morocco, 19th Century leather...
Sale Price: £140.00
George Lodge (illustrated): 'The Gun at Home and Abroad - British Game Birds and Wildfowl', London, 1912, limited edition (609/950), photogravure frontispiece, plus 34 plates (of which 26 coloured) as called for, quarto, original calf gilt (worn), top edge gilt; Patrick Chalmers and Winifred Austen: 'Birds Ashore and Aforeshore', 1935, 1st edition, 16 coloured plates and b.&.w ills as called for, large 4to, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, plus 4 others similar including George Lodge,...
Sale Price: £75.00
Charles Dixon; 'Game Birds & Wild Fowl of the British Islands', Sheffield, 1900, 2nd edition, 41 litho plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt
Sale Price: £45.00
D.A. Bannerman & George Lodge: 'The Birds of the British Isles', Edinburgh and London, Oliver & Boyd, 1953-1963, 1st edition, 12 volumes, large quantity coloured plates complete as called for, imperial octavo, uniform original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (12)
Henry Seebohm: 'Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds', Sheffield, 1896, 1st edition, photogravure portrait frontis + 60 chromolithograph plates of eggs as called for, original cloth gilt; J.E. Harting: 'A Handbook of British Birds', London, Nimmo, 1901, 35 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt; Mullens & Swann: 'A Bibliography of British Ornithology', 1986 facsimile reprint of the original 1917 edition, green cloth gilt (3)
Archibald Thorburn: 'British Birds', London, Longmans, Green, 1925-1926, new edition, 4 volumes, 192 coloured plates as called for, original cloth gilt, dust-wrappers (4)
Sale Price: £55.00
Charles Stonham: 'The Birds of The British Islands', Grant Richards, 1906-1911, 20 original parts, numerous plates (plates in volume I overpainted in watercolour), each original printed wraps, (nb some later parts, particularly pts 17-20 a/f defective commensurate with life in a tropical climate i.e. staining/soiling to some leaves, some wraps disintegrated, some leaves missing etc), plus 'Birds of the African Waterside', 1979, 1st edition, folio, in dust wrapper (21)
Sale Price: £60.00
Frank T. Morris: 'Robins & Wrens of Australia', Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1979, limited edition (190/500), signed and numbered, 20 coloured plates as called for, elephant folio, original quarter calf gilt; 'Pencil Drawings 1969-78', Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1978, limted edition (66/500), signed and numbered, 100 black and white plates as called for, elephant folio, original pictorial calf gilt (2)
Sale Price: £130.00
Philippa Nikulinsky: 'Flowering Plants of the Eastern Goldefields of Western Australia', Perth, Carr-Boyd Minerals, 1983, signed and numbered limited edition (235/1000), with four coloured plates loosely inserted, and 50 tipped in coloured plates as called for, elephant folio, original leather gilt, original buckram solander box gilt
Sale Price: £160.00
Henry Seebohm, 2 titles: 'A History of British Birds', London, John C. Nimmo, 1896, four volumes, 68 coloured litho plates of birds eggs as called for, uniform original cloth gilt; 'Classification of Birds; an attempt to diagnose the subclasses, orders, suborders, and some of the families of existing birds', London, R.H. Porter, 1890, 1st edition, inscribed presentation copy by the author to William Tuck, esq., with a contemporary press obituary of the author laid down...
Sale Price: £95.00
Gilbert White: 'The Natural History of Selborne', London, T. Bensley for B. White, 1789, first edition, 9 engraved plates complete as list including folding panoramic frontispiece of Selborne, half title, list of plates and errata leaf all present, 4to, contemporary half calf, marbled paper covered boards, joints neatly repaired and neatly rebacked, oxblood morocco title label to spine, armorial bookplate of Edmund Rolfe Finch (1789-1831), brewer and sometime president of the Norfolk & Norwich Literary...
Sale Price: £500.00
Gilbert White: 'The Natural History of Selborne', Chiswick Press for J. & A. Arch et al, 1837, new edition, association copy with Gilbert White five line autograph note signed, a manuscript pen and ink copy of receipt for a half years rent due, dated April 12 1746 and signed ''By me Gil. White'', this loosely inserted along with several early 20th Century autograph letters signed and other correspondence from Rashleigh Holt-White, (Great Grand Nephew of...
Sale Price: £900.00
Thomas Campbell Eyton: 'A History of the Rarer British Birds', London, 1836, 1st edition, one of 100 large paper copies only, 101;67pp, 2 parts in 1, engravings throughout, well executed hand drawn and painted depiction of a Crossbill loosely inserted, signed verso ''Chas M. Curtis del: Nov. 1835'', this from which the engraving of a Crossbill in the book (p.21) was obviously copied, with some further later manuscript research notes regarding the drawing inserted, contemporary...
Sale Price: £220.00
William Chapman Hewitson: 'British Oology; being Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds', Newcastle Upon Tyne, [1831-1838], 2 volumes, 155 hand coloured plates, this copy subscribed for by John Adamson, who gave it (see fly-leaf of vol II) to Charles Adamson, who gave it to Lottie Adamson. Enclosed are two autograph letters signed (one dated 1843) from William Hewitson to Charles Adamson, one containing prospectus of second edition of this work. With some other related...
Sale Price: £1,100.00
