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LONDON: L REEVE & CO., 1878 Parts III, IV and V of this rare work as issued in the publisher's paper wraps. With 24 (8 per part) colour printed plates from drawings by Eleonora Wilson. The whole work has 40 plates. Part III has pages 113-176, IV 177-240, and V 241-367 including the index to the whole work and with a publisher's catalogue. The text pages are largely unopened. The wraps are understandably worn and the wrap for part V is disintegrating. Internally there is some initial spotting to the first text page or so in each part but otherwise it is clean. The plates are clean and bright. Part III is dated 1878, and Parts IV and V 1879. An interesting insight into how the work was published.

London: L Reeve & Co.,, 1880 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original cloth binding with 40 colour printed plates. The binding has the gilt Lovell Reeve design to the front board and gilt titles to the spine. It is slightly shaken (stitching visible internally at pp 65 and 192) with wear to edges and to corners. The original floral design endpapers are present - there is a small hole at the front endpaper joint and both free endpapers are slightly browned. Contents: half title; frontispiece; title page; description of the illustrations and introduction xxvii; text pp 1-323; index 324-344; times of appearance 345-357; additions and corrections 358; index 359-367. Contents in very good clean condition. All the plates are tissue-guarded. There is the very occasional mark, and light toning at the page edges.

The Hague: Petrum van Cleef, 1766 A good to very good copy of the first edition of this extremely rare work by the naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). This is one of his earliest works, drawing on collections in Dutch museums. It includes several vertebrates which were at that time unknown to science. Complete with 14 detailed and beautifully executed folding black and white plates drawn by the Dutch artist J J Bylaert, and decorative head and tailpieces. With title page with engraving of an owl, dedication, preface, text and corrigenda (244 pp), and folding plates. The binding is of worn but sound marbled boards with red label to spine (possibly contemporary or slightly later and possibly German/Dutch). All page edges red. Internally there is a little ink inscription to the bottom of the fep and occasional pencil annotation. The first plate has some creasing to the outer margin. There is a slight ink mark at the page edge of p219 which affects the edges of pages through to the first plate.… Read More

LONDON AND NEW YORK: George Routledge and Sons A good to very good copy in original sage green decorative cloth binding with 8 colour printed plates by Edmund Evans. Aeg. Undated (the book was first published in 1859) but probably late 1870's/early 1880's. The binding has a beautiful bouquet in gilt on the front board together with a gilt border, and a gilt decorated spine. The boards have bevelled edges. The binding is very bright - there is damage to the cloth at the corners - particularly the bottom corner of the front board, and a little pulling at the spine. Internally the book is very clean and sound. There is a faint signature on the top of the fep. There is a little light brown marking affecting the borders of some plates.

Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-editeurs Complete in one volume - undated but 1860 - in full morocco binding. Aeg. With 17 full page black and white plates, decorative title page, vignette title page and numerous illustrations in the text. The binding has gilt compartments and title to spine and blind tooling to boards. The original page marker is present. With fabric endpapers. The binding is sound but has some war to top and bottom of spine and joints, and a little light scuffing to boards. Slight bumping to corners. The contents are exceptionally clean. The plate listed at page 144 is bound at the front. The plate at page 840 has offset to the opposing text. There is spotting to blank preliminaries and end leaves.

London: George Samouelle, 1841 A good copy of the 2nd edition in 2 volumes in buckram cloth bindings, with 156 hand coloured plates from drawings by the author. George Samouelle was employed as a Keeper at the British Museum in the entomology collections for 19 years. He is best known for his Entomologist's Useful Compendium (which he later expanded and republished under a different title). The work was much used and commended by other well known entomologists such as John Curtis and William Spence. The Entomological Cabinet was issued in parts (a way of raising income for publication) with work on it starting in 1829. The first edition was published in 1833/34. There were plans for a second issue - but there was not enough interest. The 2 parts that were issued were incorporated in the second edition. The bindings are clean and sound - they are not recent, but they are not contemporary. Each has gilt titles to the spine. There is light rubbing mainly on the boards next to the spine and towards the… Read More

London : John Wilcox and Thomas Heath, 1729 A very good copy of a scarce work on Mathematics by Samuel Cunn, revised by Edmund Stone, with black and white frontispiece and large folding plate. Cunn is best known for his translation of Euclid's work in to English, and in 1720 he published a 'corrected' edition of Newton's Arithmetica Universalis. Edmund Stone's history is not recorded, other than he was the son of the gardener for the Duke of Argyll's estates. Apparently the Duke discovered him reading Newton's Principia and so sponsored his academic career. His Treatise on Mathematical Instruments was published in 1723 and in 1725 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. His book 'A New Mathematical Dictionary' was published in 1726. It was in part derived from Latin versions of the works of the German philosopher Christian Wolff.
This copy has been recently rebound in half leather and buckram. There are gilt lined raised bands to spine and gilt titles. New… Read More

London, Glasgow, Bombay: Blackie & Son Ltd A good copy of an early edition with colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates by Frank C Pape. Undated but with a prize plate from Alnwick Parish Church Sunday School dated 1918 to the front free endpaper. Part of the Stories Old and New Series with a pasted picture and decorative border to the front board and elegant decoration to the spine. Decorative endpapers and decorative title page. The binding is sound and reasonably bright, with some pulling to the spine and light marking to the rear board. Slight marking to front board. Contents clean and bright with occasional light marking.

London: T Cadell Jun. and W Davies, in the Strand, 1802 A very good copy of Martin Sauer's account of the Joseph Billings expedition to Northern Russia. Commodore Billings was commissioned by Catherine the Great to head the expedition, which took nine years, returning in 1794 with extensive data and mapping from the region, and enhanced knowledge of local populations. Martin Sauer was the Secretary and translator and agreed to join the party on the basis that he could write and publish an account of the travels. This he did when he came to England and it forms the first and only English edition. It relies mainly on the official journal and his own notes. This copy is in a new half calf binding with marbled boards. The spine has a title label and decorative gilt ruled bands. New endpapers. Contents: half title; large folding map; title; preface pp vii-xiv; explanations xv-xvi; contents xvii-xxvi; errata - 1p; text pp 1-332 with 14 black and white plates; appendices pp 1-58; The End. The appendices… Read More

London: Ray Society, 1912 Two volume set (1912-1913), with volume II containing most of the plates. In original Ray Society binding which has been rebacked mostly preserving the original spines. There is some fraying to the spine and the corners are rubbed but the binding is otherwise in good clean condition. There are small library numberings to the base of spines. Contents in good clean condition including 72 plates in volume II - many of which are coloured. There are small round library stamps of Gloucestershire Public Libraries at various points, including at the top right hand corner of each plate.

London : Lovell Reeve, 1856 A very good to near fine copy of the rarest title in Lovell Reeve's Popular History series. Seemann was a botanist who made his name when he was appointed naturalist (on the recommendation of W J Hooker) to HMS Herald for the Kellett voyage of exploration to the American West Coast and Pacific. The series, aimed primarily at younger readers as an informed introduction to natural history, varies greatly in the quality of its authors as the publishers set strict budget limits on publication costs. In recent quarter leather binding with raised bands, gilt compartments, and gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. New endpapers. With 20 high quality colour printed plates. 17 x 13.5 cms. There is browning to page edges and the odd light mark, but otherwise this is a very good internally. A lovely book.

London: Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1817 A very good copy in later full morocco binding with 30 hand coloured plates and accompanying text by Miss Semple. Dated from the publisher's note at the base of each plate - there is no date on the title page. The text provides a commentary to the plates and gives a sense of her journey around the Netherlands and how the plates came to be drawn. The full red morocco binding is probably late 20th century and mimics the design of the original publisher's cloth binding with a leather and gilt title label to the front board. The endpapers were replaced at the same time and have a tape reinforcement at the joints, which looks contemporary with the rebinding. The binding is in very good clean condition with some bumping to the top corners. Contents: half title with small ink signature to top; decorative title page with hand coloured vignette; and alternating text pages and full page plates. The text is in English and French. The half title has lost… Read More

LONDON : Hodder & Stoughton, 1908 A very good copy of the 1st trade edition with 40 tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. In original green decorative cloth binding with gilt design on front board and spine. The binding is clean with bright gilt to the front board and spine. It has been professionally rebacked so is sound and tight. There is slight marking at the bottom edge of the front board and some very slightly paler areas on the back board. Corners with light wear. The original green endpapers are present with an inscription dated Xmas 1908 to the fep. There is some light foxing to the half title. Contents in very good condition being very clean with some light toning to page edges. The plate at p11 has a small corner crease and the tissue guard to the plate at p126 is creased.

London and New York : William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co, 1929 A good copy in the original blue decorative cloth binding with 40 tipped-in colour plates and black and white illustrations and designs by Arthur Rackham. First published with Rackham illustrations in 1908, the work proved extremely popular and there were numerous reprints. The binding has nice bright boards. There is a very small mark on the front board. The spine is a little faded and marked. There is a little pulling to the spine and slight bumping to board corners. There is part of a wrapper for Midsummer Night's Dream loose inside the book but it looks slightly too small to have been the original wrapper for this book. There is a small ink inscription - Christmas 1935. To Peter with much love from Lorna' at the bottom of the fep. The text pages have some brown spotting - this is largely in the margins and is common with this work. The tissue-guarded plates are in very good condition - 2 have small creases in the… Read More

LONDON : Hodder & Stoughton, 1919 A good copy of the larger format edition - undated but 1919 - with 40 tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. In original blue decorative cloth binding with gilt design on front board and spine. The binding is very clean with bright gilt to spine and front board. The spine cloth is slightly dulled and there is light cloth wear at the spine joints. Spine ends with some pulling. Corners with some wear to cloth. Both bottom corners with some fading - more extensive on the back board. Back board with a couple of small white spots. Light wear on edges including a couple of scuffs to top edge. Original endpapers present without inscription. Contents clean and complete with very bright tissue-guarded plates. Text is unpaginated with light brown to very pale foxing throughout. Stitching is sound - backing visible between pp 16/17 and 24/25. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. Boards measure 28.4 x 21 cm.

London: R Ackermann A good to very good copy in contemporary half leather binding with hand coloured frontispiece and 11 further hand coloured plates. Undated but 1824 and part of the World in Miniature series. The binding has gilt-lined raised bands to spine and title and volume labels. Boards are marbled and page edges have matching marbling. The boards have light scuffing and there is wear to edges and the leather corners with leather loss at the tips. The spine has light wear to ends. Contents: frontispiece; title; preface pp iii-viii; contents list ix-xi; directions for plates 1 p; text pp 1-352 with 11 plates. The contents are generally clean with some light spotting - mainly at the top margin - and the occasional mark. There is offsetting from the plates. The frontispiece has slight loss to the top edge; p121/2 has lost the bottom corner tip; and a number of pages have old corner turn creases. Pale blue endpapers unmarked.

London: R Ackermann A very good copy in 2 volumes in contemporary half morocco bindings with 26 hand coloured plates. Undated but 1824. The bindings have gilt compartments with titles and volume numbers in gilt and gilt designs in the top and bottom compartments. Boards are marbled. The bindings are bright and clean with some scuffing to surfaces, including spine ends, and wear at the corners. Page edges lightly speckled. Both volumes have 2 bookplates: Vol I has a crown and entwined initials to the front pastedown, and an upside down armorial bookplate to the rear free endpaper with the motto 'aquila non capit muscas' and the names Michael and Dawn; Vol II has both these bookplates at the front endpapers. Contents: Vol I: frontispiece; title; list of titles printed (this title is not included); preface; contents and plate list; text 291 pp with 13 plates. Vol II: frontispiece; title; text 289 pp with 11 plates. Contents generally in very good clean condition. There is some offsetting from the plates… Read More

London: R Ackermann A good copy in 2 volumes in contemporary full green calf binding with 32 hand coloured plates. Undated but 1821. The bindings have an oval red leather label at the top of the spine with 'The World in Miniature' in gilt. A gilt design then continues with volume numbers further down the spine. Vol I has lost it's volume number label although the volume number is clear. Boards have gilt lining around the edges with gilt designs at the corners and gilt lines to the inner board edges. The bindings are clean with fading to spines and edges and turned corners. There is some scuffing and light marking to the board surfaces. Both volumes have yellow endpapers and the armorial bookplate of Frederic Fane to the front pastedowns - there is a little splitting at the front endpaper joint of both although the bindings are sound. Contents: Vol I: frontispiece; title; contents listing for both volumes; plate list for both; advertisement; introduction; text pp 1-166 with 10 further hand coloured… Read More

London: R Ackermann A very good 4 volume set in contemporary half calf bindings with a coloured vignette title, 2 folding colour maps, and 44 colour plates of which 7 are folding. A scarce title in the World in Miniature series which ran to 43 volumes. This is the second in the series, undated, but published in 1821. The bindings are matching half calf with marbled boards. The spines have 4 small gilt-lined raised bands with title and volume labels in 2 compartments and gilt decoration in the remaining 3. All are bright, clean and sound with light wear to corners and edges. Contents: Vol I: frontispiece; vignette title; letterpress title; advertisement; preface; contents and plate list for all volumes; folding map; text 180pp with 8 plates. Vol II: frontispiece; title; folding map; text 170 pp with 11 plates of which 3 folding. Vol III: frontispiece; title; text 168 pp with 14 plates of which 2 folding. Vol IV: frontispiece, title, text 184 pp with 7 plates (one a sheet of music) of which 2 folding.… Read More

London: R Ackermann A very good 6 volume set in contemporary half calf bindings with 73 hand coloured plates. A scarce title in the World in Miniature series which ran to 43 volumes. Undated, but published in 1821. The bindings are matching half calf with marbled boards. The spines have 5 small gilt-lined raised bands with title and volume labels in 2 compartments and gilt decoration in the remaining 4. Date in gilt at the base of the spine. All are bright, clean and sound with light wear to corners and edges including spine joints. Page edges freckled. Brown endpapers. Each volume has a frontispiece and title page. Contents (excluding title and frontispiece): Vol I: advertisement pp i-iv; contents v-x; plate list xi-xv; preface pp 1-14; text pp 15-211 with 1 plate. Vol II: text 264pp with 1 plate. Vol III: 264 pp with 15 plates. Vol IV: 309pp with 16 plates. Vol V: 234 pp with 8 plates. Vol VI: 244 pp with 26 plates. The contents are in very good clean condition. There is occasional toning and light… Read More