Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
William MacGillivray: 'A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory', London, 1837-1852, five volumes, volumes I-III published Scott, Webster and Geary, contempory full morocco gilt, all edges gilt, inscribed presentation copy from Richard Barclay of Keswick Hall, to his nephew William Birkbeck, dated 1851; volumes IV & V (aquatic birds), contemporary blind stamped cloth gilt (5)
Sale Price: £80.00
Thomas Campbell Eyton: 'A History of the Rarer British Birds', London, 1836, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by the Norfolk Ornithologist and Naturalist Henry Stevenson in pencil to FFEP, contemporary decorative morocco gilt, inner joint split
Sale Price: £90.00
Thomas Pennant: 'British Zoology', Warrington, 1776-1777, 4th edition, 4 volumes, Vol I Quadrupeds and birds; Vol II water-fowl; Vol III Reptiles and fish; Vol IV Crustacea etc, vol I top board loose reattached/reinforced at joint front pastedown/FFEP, uniform contemporary calf gilt, black morocco gilt spine labels (4)
Sale Price: £360.00
Sir Hugh Stewart Gladstone of Capenoch (1877-1949) original typescript 193pp and [9] pp index, details of nest location and structure, egg yield, time of year and locality, characteristics etc for numerous species of bird, circa early 20th Century, 4to, contemporary cloth, titled in gilt
Sale Price: £500.00
William MacGillivray: 'The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar', London, 1855, 1st edition, printed for private circulation, presentation copy by Prince Albert to Colonel Sabine, (engraved presentation leaf after FFEP), 2 folding maps (of which 1 coloured) + black and white plates and illustrations as called for, original cloth gilt (backstrip worn, slightly detached)
Sale Price: £60.00
J.C. Mansel-Pleydell: 'Pamphlets', a bound volume containing 16 various pamphlets and reprints 1885-1902, all inscribed/ inscribed and signed in initials by the author to top wraps, plus 4 separate autograph letters signed by the author tipped in, pamphlets include 'On Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Dorsetshire', 1885, 58pp + 10 plates; 'Kimmeridge Coal-Money and other Manufactured Articles from the Kimmeridge Shale', 1892, 14pp + 2 plates; 'On the footprints of a Dinosaur (Iguanodon?), from the...
Sale Price: £160.00
Three John Henry Gurney Junior and related association copies, comprising John Henry Gurney Jnr: 'The Gannet, a bird with a history', 1913, 1st edition, 2 autograph letters signed from the author to fellow Ornithologist O.V. Aplin loosely inserted, 50 plates (of which 3 coloured) as called for, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt; John Henry Gurney Jnr: 'Early annals of Ornithology', 1921, 1st edition, bookplate of Millicent Gurney and inscribed and signed in initials by...
Sale Price: £170.00
P.H. Emerson: 'Birds Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland', London, David Nutt, 1895, 1st edition, signed and inscribed presentation copy by T.A. Cotton, the photographic illustrator of the book, 68 illustrations from photographs by Cotton, original pictorial cloth gilt
Sale Price: £48.00
Three John Henry Gurney Jnr & Senior related association copies, comprising: William Yarrell: 'On the structure of the Beak and its muscles in the Crossbill', [1829], [459]-471 pages, 2 hand coloured plates, inscribed by Yarrell ''L.D. Jacquier esq with the author's sincere regards'', bound together with H.E. Strickland: 'Report on the recent progress and present state of Ornithology', London, 1845, [170]-221 pages, inscribed ''W. Ogilby Esq. from the author'' to top wrap, contemporary half calf...
Sale Price: £250.00
Two Arthur Henry Patterson association copies, comprising O.V. Aplin: 'The Birds of Oxfordshire', 1889, 1st edition, copy of Arthur Henry Patterson with 2pp autograph letter signed from Aplin to A.H. Patterson ''...I shall be very glad if you will accept the copy of my Birds of Oxon I send with this...O.V. Aplin'' dated 1914, together with later typed transcript, loosely inserted, further signed and inscribed by author to Patterson to half title, original cloth gilt;...
C.J. & James Paget: 'Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth', Yarmouth, F. Skill, 1834, 1st edition, leaf inserted at front signed and inscribed ''J.H. Gurney Jr. June '72 Northrepps'', original paper covered boards, neatly rebacked, printed label to spine
Sale Price: £120.00
Arthur Henry Patterson: 'Catalogue of the Birds of Great Yarmouth. Giving a few descriptive notes, and dates when most of the rarer species were obtained', Great Yarmouth Printing Co Ltd, 1901, reprinted from The ''Zoologist'', for private circulation, limited edition (100), 12 illustrations as called for, original roan backed printed paper covered boards
Arthur Henry Patterson: 'Notes of an East Coast Naturalist', 1904, 1st edition, Patterson book plate to front pastedown, Patterson original pen and ink sketch to contemporary postally used envelope loosely inserted, J.H. Gurney pencil ownership signature to FFEP, some relevant cuttings and material loosely inserted, original cloth gilt
Sale Price: £50.00
Benjamin T. Lowne: 'A Popular Natural History of Great Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood', Yarmouth, Nall, 1863, 1st edition, 62pp, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt, copy of Colonel Henry Wemyss Feilden (1838-1921), British Army officer, Arctic explorer and naturalist, with his book plate to front pastedown
James Edmund Harting, six mainly association copy titles, comprising 'The Birds of Middlesex', London, 1866, 1st edition, tinted litho frontis after J. Wolf, inscribed presentation copy ''Miss Anderson with the author's compliments'' to half title, original cloth gilt; 'British Animals Extinct within Historic times, with some account of British Wild White Cattle', London, 1880, 1st edition, pencil ownership signature of John R.B. Masefield, fellow Ornithologist, to title page, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'A Handbook of...
Sale Price: £140.00
Bernard B. Riviere, four association copies, comprising: 'A History of the Birds of Norfolk', 1930, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, 'Norfolk Heronries' reprinted from Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists society loosely inserted, original stitched printed wraps, top wrap inscribed and signed in initials by Riviere; H.N. Pashley: 'Notes on the Birds of Cley, Norfolk', 1925, 1st edition, signed and inscribed to fellow naturalist ''Jim Vincent from B.B. Riviere 1925'' to FFEP, original...
Sale Price: £70.00
