London: Lovat Dickson:, 1937. First publication in separate book form. Hardcover. 63pp, illustrated throughout, and with drawings printed on the endpapers. Contents clean: slight tanning to endpapers. Grey Owl has signed the title page opposite the frontis of himself wearing an Indian head-dress. In the original brown pictorial paper-covered boards..... More
London: Printed for the Author, by J. Davis. 1790 to 1814. First edition. Hardcover. Sowerby’s 2592 hand-coloured plates, each facing its descriptive text, and followed by a blank opening. The plates are almost all clean and bright. Where some text pages are foxed, this is generally light and unintrusive. An..... More
Suffolk Naturalists' Society, 1929-1969. original wraps. Comprising Vol I: parts I, II, III; Vol II: parts I, II, III; Vol III: parts II, III; Vol IV: parts I, II, III, IV; Vol V: parts I, II, III; Vol VI: parts I, III; Vol VII: parts I, II, III; Vol VIII..... More
London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854. Hardcover. [vi], 54pp, plus the 12 guarded plates. Each chromolithograph is followed by poems by various authors celebrating the species depicted. In intensely coloured roundels of about 6cms diameter, within a gilt circle, Wolf's illustrations vividly depict birds in their natural setting. Set within a wreath..... More
St Austell, Cornwall: Eden Friends, 2001, 2002, 2003. Paperback. Each issue c36-50pp, with many thoughtful articles illustrated in colour. Quarto, with stapled matt pages in pictorial matt card covers. In fresh, near-fine condition, with tiny scuffs or knocks to cover extremities. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
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Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 96pp, richly illustrated in colour. The title sounds as though this could be an anthology, but the paintings and, after the introduction, the writings, are all by Newcomb. Quarto glossy paperback, 27x21cms, in fresh, unread condition. Brings together her art, her sly..... More
London: Christopher Helm, A & C Black Publishers, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 240pp, illustrated in colour. Contents mint, unread and unmarked. Paperback, in glossy pictorial covers, fresh, sharp, and bright, with a shop barcode sticker over the printed barcode on the back cover and with the laminate snagged at the..... More
Worldwide Publications, 1995. First edition. Softcover. 96-page booklet, illustrated with maps and drawings. Fresh, clean and sharp, as new, in pictorial white card covers, 20.5x15.5cms. More
Rugby: Book World, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 280pp, plus a 51-page section of about 150 captioned monochrome photographs, and a frontis map showing where Tibet is. All very clean and like new, with a neat ownership name to the free endpaper. In the original binding of maroon cloth, spine titled..... More
Printed by Arthurs Press, Stroud, UK: The Nigerian Field Society, 1943 - 1970. Original issues. Softcover and Hardcover. c.48pp per issue: a wealth of interesting articles on natural history and anthropology, illustrated with many photographs and drawings, and a few colour plates. All issues are in their original printed wraps..... More
London: Cassell, 1920. Reprint. Hardcover. viii, 152, [ii] adverts: illustrated with photographs and drawings, and with rear advertisement thin card cover bound in. Title page very stained, subsequent few pages decreasingly affected. Occasional minor soiling. Original front thin card cover missing. In a new quarter binding of green cloth with..... More
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [1917]. Reprint. 108pp, with many illustrations in the text and a photo frontis: the last 4 pages are advertisements. First issued in 1913 as 'School Gardening: A simple book for teaching boys and girls in elementary schools the rudiments of practical..... More
London: R.H. Porter; Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. xxv, 285, (i), [ii], 667, including the two foldouts, a map and a table. Original brown endpapers with armorial bookplate dated 1901, and 1944 ownership name to verso of front free endpaper. 'Note added in Press' tipped in at Preface..... More
Munich / Munchen: J. Lindauersche Buchhandlung, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 271pp + [1] advert. German text. Delicately patterned endpapers, with elegant Latin bookplate. Light foxing to back of endpapers and the facing page. Slight tanning to pages, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Marbled edges to textblock. 19 x 12.5..... More
