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Frohawk (F W), Natural History Of British Butterflies, 2 Vol, and assorted books on nature (box)

The National History Of England, 4 Vol bound as two, another set, and Cassell's Popular Natural History, 4 Vol. (8)Sold with all faults not subject to return. For condition see images

NATURAL HISTORY BUCKLAND, F.T. Curiosities of Natural History 4 vols. plus 6 others

NATURAL HISTORY PRIEST, C.D. ...Birds of Southern Rhodesia 1st.ed. 1929, gt. dec. cl. plus 9 other books & 9 offprints (19)

A GEORGE III EMBOSSED PAPER BIRD PICTURE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HAYES (1729-1799), LATE 18TH CENTURY Depicting a grey heron (Ardea cinerea) by reeds and river, basso relievo with hand tinting, glass eye, later mounted in a glazed giltwood frame with Cambridge blue and gilt mount, reverse with hand inscribed label "Sacher" and further faintly inscribed in pencil "Centre left hand side" the image approximately 49 x 29cm, the frame 63 x 42.5cm William Hayes was an ornithologist and artist who in 1771 published a volume containing forty hand-coloured engravings "A Natural History of British Birds etc.". In the late 1780s, he was employed at Osterley, recording the exotic birds in the Child's 'menagerie'. This resulted in the publication between 1794 and 1799 of his "Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds with their Descriptions". Drawing on first-hand experience he produced a series of basso relievo bird pictures such as this- much in the manner of his Irish contemporary Samuel Dixon. The present bird picture incorporates a glass eye - a feature favoured by Hayes. Condition Report: well presented in current frame, original picture with some typical small losses and marks and with some shrinkage visible to neck and tail. residual dirt visible under glass and careful cleaning may help improve overall presentation. some mild scuffing and marks to frameCondition Report Disclaimer

SEVEN BOXES OF ASSORTED BOOKS to include a box of mostly West Midlands heritage to include Birmingham history, historic pub walks in south Staffordshire and Warwickshire, social history of the Greater Birmingham area, a large quantity of assorted travel related titles to include guidebooks for Peru, Burma, Vietnam, assorted UK regions, natural history guides, assorted magazines and brochures of a similar genre (7 boxes) (s.d)

Steedman 'An American Anthology', Slavery; Kemble 'Journal of a Georgian Plantation' [New York, 1863] Also contains vintage Flora and other natural history publications, please see images.

Natural History: a copper framed display of fifty rock and mineral specimens, 29 x 57cm.

Natural History: a collection of agate and hardstone specimens.

Natural History: a small group of fossils, possibly Whale's eardrums. (5)

Natural History: a collection of fossils, minerals and other similar specimens, in three drawer chest, 36cm high.

Power of PlanktonThis design celebrates the diverse, colourful and beautiful microscopic organisms that live in our oceans. There are an estimated half a million species, essential to other life on Earth. Highly sensitive to the slightest changes in their environment, they must be protected at all costs. They of course share an awesome beauty with one of the Earth's largest mammals.by Terry WhitworthTerry Whitworth has been a professional designer, illustrator and painter for over forty years, specialising in architectural and natural history subjects. He has produced a wide variety of work for clients, both local, national and international. Now semi-retired from a life of commercial artwork, he still has a great enthusiasm for painting and drawing.Trail Location Lyme Regis: Marine Parade (Beach Huts).

India.- Middle East.- Fryer (John) A New Account of East-India and Persia, first edition, half-title with engraved portrait on verso, title printed in red and black, 7 engraved plates and maps, 3 folding, and one full-page engraved map in text with printed slip pasted below, engraved or woodcut illustrations, plan of Fort St.George loose, some light browning, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, rebacked preserving old spine with red morocco label, corners repaired, [Wing F2257], folio, R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri. Chiswell, 1698. *** In 1672 Fryer embarked on a 10-year tour to India, Goa, the Arab Gulf and Persia, before returning to England. The work includes a detailed account of Surat and Muscat and mentions pirates in the Gulf, and the natural history of the region.

Staffordshire.- Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Stafford-shire, first edition, title with engraved vignette, folding map laid down, 37 plates, most double-page and/or folding, one with short tear, a couple repaired, without the rare "Armes omitted" plate as often, 2ff. list of subscribers at end slightly cropped at lower edge with some loss of text, occasional soiling, later library half calf, [Wing P2588], folio, Printed at the Theater, Oxford, 1686. *** Subscribers include Robert Boyle, Narcissus Lutt[e]rell and Elias Ashmole.Provenance: Birmingham Assay Office Library (ink-stamp to front free endpaper).   

[Charleton (Walter)] Natural History of the Passions, first edition, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, lacking 2 blank leaves at end, final f. with very small loss to lower blank corner, some soiling or light staining, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, later morocco spine label, corners bumped, rubbing to extremities, endpapers renewed, [Wing C3684A], 8vo, T[homas]. N[ewcomb]. for James Magnes, 1674.  *** Based on 'De l'usage des passions' by J.F. Senault.

Leigh (Charles) The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (slightly creased and frayed at foot), double-page engraved map hand-coloured in outline, 24 engraved plates, 4pp. list of subscribers, 3 errata ff., plate at 3B1 & 3C2 with short marginal tear, the odd patch of light soiling, occasional very slight toning, overall a good and crisp copy, contemporary panelled calf, neat repairs to spine ends, joints and lower corners, extremities rubbed and little worn in places, [Wing L975], folio, Oxford, Printed for the Author, 1700.

Blount (Thomas) A Natural History: Containing Many Not Common Observations, first edition, publisher's advertisements at end, foxing, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, [British Bee Books 66; Wing B3351], 8vo, for R. Bentley, 1693. *** Including sections on spices, chocolate, tobacco, bees, gemstones and minerals.

118 EUROPEAN FURNITURE, OLD MASTERS & TRAVEL AUCTION CATALOGUES Reference libraryA substantial archive of approximately 118 auction catalogues from major houses including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams, and others, with focus areas ranging from European furniture and decorative arts, Old Master paintings and drawings, to Travel and Natural History, including maps and exploration materials. The group includes landmark sales, single-owner collections, and regular seasonal catalogues, making it a rich reference collection for dealers, collectors, interior designers, and scholars of historical art and material culture. Qty: 118

Harmsworth Natural History: 3vols, 8vo., half bound, Pub. Carmelite House, London 1911

LANSDOWNE, J. FENWICKRare Birds of China. London: Kennedy Fine Arts, (1992). Limited edition, specially numbered copy III of X, separate from the normal edition of 100 copies, with each plate signed and numbered in pencil. Loose sheets in the original cardboard mailer. 32 x 25 inches (81 x 63 cm); 32 superb color collotypes after original watercolor paintings, printed on Fabriano paper. Fine, as issued.This elephant-folio-sized set of ornithological plates, a triumph in their artistry, follows in the tradition of the great illustrated natural history monographs of the past centuries, such as Audubon's masterpiece, The Birds of America. The artist, J. Fenwick Lansdowne, was born in 1937 in Hong Kong to British parents and grew up in British Columbia, Canada. Stricken with polio as a baby, he developed both his love of birds and his talent as a painter from a young age, holding his first museum exhibition in 1952 at the Royal British Columbia Museum when he was just fourteen years old. As one of the world's foremost wildlife painters, often referred to as Audubon's successor, he is the artist who best maintained the tradition of bird painting and publishing into the late 20th century. Similar to Audubon, he would both study his subjects in the field and use museum collections of preserved specimens to paint his highly detailed and accurate watercolors. He died in Canada in 2008.The magnificent collotype plates include the following: Impeyan Monal Lophophorus impejanus; Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii; Satyr Tragopan Tragopan satyra; Swinhoe's Pheasant Lophura swinhoei; Elliot's Pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti; Mikado Pheasant Syrmaticus mikado; Blood Pheasant Ithaginis cruentus; Brown Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon mantchuricum; Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis; Taiwan Magpie Urocissa caerulea; Chinese Parrotbill Paradoxornis heudei; Siberian Crane Grus leucogeranus; Rufous-necked Hornbill Aceros nipalensis; White Stork Iconia ciconia; Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon; White Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon crossoptilon; Japanese Crane Grus japonensis; Cabot's Tragopan Tragopan caboti; Mrs. Hume's Pheasant Syrmaticus humiae; Steller's Sea Eagle Haliarrtus pelagicus; Oriental Hobby Falco severus; Chinese Monal Lophophorus ihuysii; Omei Shan liocichla Liocichla omeiensis; Silver Oriole Oriolus mellianus; Blyth's Tragopan Tragopan blythii; Firethroat Erithacus pectardens; Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus; White-necked Crane Grus vipio; Fulien Slaty Bunting Latoucheornis siemsseni; Sclater's Monal Lophophorus sclateri; Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis; Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica.

Fife, Duncan - 'Scarlet Blue and Green' illustrated by Cecil Aldin published Macmillan 1932, McTaggart, Lt. Col.M.F, - 'Mount and Man' illustrated by Lionel Edwards, Duke of Portland - 'Memories of Racing & Hunting' Faber & Faber 1935, 'A Year of Sport and Natural History' 1895, Snaffles - 'Osses and Obstacles' and other hunting books

Natural History: A mounted Fossil of a Fish, approx. 35cms x 18cms (14" x 7"). (1) Provenance: Ex. Collection Horatio F.K. Holloway.

Darwin, Charles The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication London: John Murray, 1868. First edition, first issue, one of 1,500 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, viii 411, viii 486 pp., original green cloth, both volumes with publisher's imprint 'London, John Murray' gilt-stamped in one line to foot, wood-engravings throughout the text, volume 1 with 5 errata on 6 lines, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements dated April 1867, volume 2 with 7-line errata, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements dated February 1868, a little fraying to spine-ends, rubbing and a few sections of wear to joints and tips, title-pages spotted, volume 1 with light cockling to front board, pale damp-staining to rear board, rear inner hinge superficially cracked, volume 2 with water-damage to rear board [Freeman  877] (2) With the ownership inscription ‘F. Archer’ to each title-page, dated 6 February 1868 in volume one. This is likely to have been Francis Archer MRCS (1803-1875) or his son, also Francis (1839-1892), both distinguished naturalists with a special interest in mollusca, and respectively a surgeon and solicitor in their professional lives. Francis senior was a founding member of Belfast Natural History Society, before moving to Liverpool, where he worked as a physician and prison surgeon. His son studied law at Trinity College Cambridge: while there 'he read Darwin's Origin of Species, and was greatly impressed by it, this helping, once again, to stimulate his appetite for natural history. He joined the Liverpool Biological Society and was soon made a member of the council as a result of his great enthusiasm and activity in this field' (F. R. Woodward, ‘The Archer Family of Liverpool and their Natural History Collections', Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History Society, Vol. XX, No. 2, 1963, p. 4).

Science, technology, natural history Collection of treatises in French, mainly 18th century Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry. Art de la verrerie, de neri, merret et kunckel. Paris: Durand, Pissot. 1752. First edition, 4to, [4] lv 629 [3] pp., contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, engraved frontispiece, 15 engraved folding plates, contemporary manuscript initials to head of title-page, damp-staining to final section ('Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de la Chine et de la Saxe'), tape-repair to one leaf [Duveen 427; Ferguson II 135]; Bossut, [Charles]. Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique. Paris: Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1771. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, [2] xxxvii 394, [2] 444 pp., contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, 16 engraved folding plates, half-titles discarded; Bertholon, [Pierre]. De l'électricité des végétaux. Lyon: Bernuset, 1783. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, edges dyed red, half-title, 3 engraved folding plates, school prize plate dated ‘an 11 de la République française’ to front pastedown, restoration to head and foot of spine (now coming undone at foot); Idem. De l'électricité du corps humain dans l'état de santé et de maladie. Lyon: Bernuset, 1780. First edition, 12mo, [xii] 541 [3] pp., contemporary sprinkled half sheep, half-title, personal ownership ink-stamp in red to title-page; Nollet, [Jean-Antoine]. Essai sur l'électricité des corps. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1747. Second edition (first published in Paris the previous year), 8vo, xvi, 183 [1] pp., contemporary tan half calf, 4 engraved folding plates, front joint slightly worn, engraved bookplate; Rémond de Sainte-Albine, Pierre. Mémoire sur le laminage du plomb. Paris: Jacques Guerin, 1746. First illustrated edition (third overall), 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, engraved vignette to title-page, 3 engraved plates; Gentil, [André Antoine Pierre]. Dissertation sur le caffé, et sur les moyens propres à prévenir les effets qui résultent de sa préparation communénent vicieuse; et en rendre la boisson plus agréable et plus salutaire. Paris: chez l'auteur, Pyre, 1787. First edition, 8vo, 177 [3] pp., 20th-century half calf, engraved plate (damp-stained), bound without errata [Bitting 179; Hunt 683; Vicaire 398; Wellcome III 104]; [Sammelband]. Four works in one volume, all first editions, comprising: Jacques Lordat, Réflexions sur la nécessité de la physiologie dans l'étude et l'exercice de la médecine, Montpellier: F. Seran, Gras et Coucourdan, 1797; Victor Bally, De la gangrène, dissertation presenté à l'école de santé, Montpellier: Fontenay-Picot, [1797]; Bernard Mienville, Dissertation sur la respiration, présentée à l'école de santé de Montpellier, Montpellier: G. Izar et A. Ricard, [1797]; M. D. T. de Bienville, La Nymphomanie ou traité de la fureur utérine, Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1771. 8vo, contemporary sprinkled sheep, smooth spine gilt in compartments; Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von. Iconologie de l'organe de l'ouie. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Auger Méquignon, 1828. 8vo, viii 74 pp., later quarter cloth, half-title, 17 folding lithographic plates (damp-stained), bookplate of N. Asherson designed by Mervyn Peake; Bourdet, [Bernard]. Soins faciles pour la propreté de la bouche, pour la conservation des dents, et pour faire éviter aux enfans les accidens de la dentition … nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée. Paris: Jean-Thomas Hérissant, père, 1771. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, cloth slipcase; Poincaré, Henri. Théorie analytique de la proagation de la chaleur. Paris: Georges Carré, 1895. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary tan half calf, ink-stamp (Gustaf Kobb) to front free endpaper; Becquerel, Antoine-César and Edmond. Résumé de l'histoire de l'électricité et du magnétisme. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1858. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half cloth (presumably original) (13)

Newton, Isaac The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The Laws of the Moon's Motion, according to Gravity. BY John Machin. London: for Benjamin Motte, 1729. 2 volumes, 8vo (19.2 x 11.6cm), contemporary calf, [36] 320, 393 [13] viii [3] 4-71 [1] pp., sigs. pi1 A2 ²A8 a8 B-X8, A-2D4 (-2D4, cancelled) a4 ²A-²D8 ²E4, engraved allegorical frontispiece to each volume, 47 engraved folding plates (numbered 1-25 and 1-19, with 3 unnumbered plates at rear of volume 2), 2 folding letterpress tables, 3 engraved headpieces. Bindings rebacked probably in the 19th century with endpapers renewed, worn overall, volume 1 rear board and volume 2 front board detached, intact joints cracked, occasional light spotting to margins, title-pages slightly spotted, volume 1 title-page with patch of browning in gutter and with faint crease across lower fore corner, small tear to head of D7, closed tear in I8, volume 2 title-page with a longitudinal strip of slight paper-thinning, one unnumbered plate at rear with creasing to fore margin and small nick to top margin [Babson 20; Wallis 23; cf. PMM 161] First edition in English of the Principia Mathematica, ‘the greatest work in the history of science’ (PMM). Originally published in Latin in 1687, the Principia ‘marked the culmination of the scientific revolution, […] ushered in modern science, and through its legacy the work may have done more to shape the modern world than any other ever published’ (ODNB). A complete copy with all text-leaves and plates.

Royle, J. Forbes Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains and of the Flora of Cashmere. Vol. II. – Plates. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1839. First edition, folio (37 x 26.5cm), 20th-century tan quarter calf, half-title, hand-coloured lithographic plate of geological profiles, aquatint view, lithographic plan ('Botanic Garden at Saharunpore'), 98 lithographic plates numbered 1-100 (lacking no. 23), plate 79 hand-coloured and bound as frontispiece, damp-staining to spine, half-title browned, blind stamp of Wigan Free Public Library to frontispiece and title-page, occasional light spotting [Nissen BBI 1690]

Natural History, including photography, art, literature and collecting Blossfeldt, Karl Art forms in nature: examples from the plant world photographed direct from nature by Professor Karl Blossfeldt; with an introduction by Karl Nieren Dorf. London: A. Zwemmer, 1929. First English edition, 4to,120 photogravure plates, original green cloth;Gilpin, W.S. Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening. London: Cadell, 1835. Second edition, 8vo, 16 lithographed plates, original cloth, some spotting, slightly soiled;Kappel, A.W. and W. Egmont Kirby. British and European Butterflies and Moths. London: Ernest Nister, [n.d.] 4to, original pictorial red cloth with gilt butterfly design;Sowerby, James Edward. English Botany… London, 1840. 8vo, volume 7 only, 259 hand-coloured plates, original purple cloth;Timmns, Samuel. Popular Country Houses: A History of Warwickshire. London: Elliot Stock, 1889. 8vo, contemporary black quarter morocco gilt, one of 50 copies on large paper;Maggs Bros. A Selection of Books, Manuscripts, Engravings and Autograph Letters… being the five hundredth catalogue issued by Maggs Bros. London: Maggs Bros, 1928. Folio, original paper wrappers;Life and Work of Feodora Gleichen, sculptor. London, 1934. 8vo, original quarter vellum over blue cloth boards;Rouam, J. Gauthiez, Pierre. Les Artistes Célèbres. Prud'Hon. Paris: Librairie de l'Art J. Rouam, [n.d.] 8vo, brown quarter morocco gilt;Kipling, Rudyard. If. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1916. Small pamphlet with additional copy of the poem on card loosely inserted, original wrappers, early ownership signature to upper cover;and 7 others, including T.S. Eliot (16) Blossfeldt's work is a pioneering photographic book devoted to plant architecture, containing 120 richly gravured plates.

Kear (Janet, editor). Ducks, Geese and Swans, 2 volumes, reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original pictorial boards, large 8vo, together with; Brandt (Herbert), Alaska Bird Trails, adventures of an expedition by dog sled to the delta of the Yukon River at Hooper Bay, 1st edition, Ohio: The Bird Research Foundation, 1943, ex libris bookplate to front paste down, numerous illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, lightly rubbed to head and foot, a few minor tape repairs to jacket, large 8vo, Forrester (Ronald W & Ian J Andrews, editors), The Birds of Scotland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Aberlady: The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, 2007, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original pictorial boards with slipcase, covers with occasional minor marks, folio and other 20th century natural history reference and related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, folio/8vo, VGQTY: (6 shelves )

Selby (Prideaux J.). The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Parrots, volume 10 only, Edinburgh: 1836, 10 engraved plates, together with: Bushnan (J. S.). The Naturalist's Library, Ichthyology, volume 2 only, Edinburgh: 1840, 31 engraved plates bound to verso, Brown (Thomas). The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes, and Moths..., volume 2 only, London: 1832, numerous colour engravings, plus 4 other illustrated volumes, mostly natural history related, all in original bindings, rubbed and worn with loss, 8vo or smaller QTY: (7)NOTE:Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

* Natural History. A Collection of approximately 120 prints, late 19th & early 20th century, lithographs and photolithographs after Goldsmith, Richardson, Oberthur, Thorburn, Houghton, Frohawk, Morris and Gedney of mammals, birds, butterflies & moths, eggs and bird's nests, various sizes, good condition, all mountedQTY: (approx.120)

Baker (Stuart). Game Birds of India Burma and Ceylon, 3 volumes, second edition, London: John Bale, sons & Danielsson ltd, 1921, 60 colour plates, 15 black and white plates and 2 maps, occasional light spotting, volumes 1 and 2 uniformly bound half Morocco, top edge gilt, covers and spine lightly rubbed and marked, 4to, together with; Harvie-Brown. (J. A.), A Fauna of the Moray Basin, 2 volumes 1st edition, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1895, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, publishers original green cloth, top edge gilt, slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus Walpole-Bond (John), A History of Sussex Birds, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: H. F. & G. Witherby LTD., 1938, 53 illustrations, original browns cloth, top edge gilt, minor mildew to head and foot of covers, 4to, and other late 19th and early 20th century natural history reference and related all original cloth, 4to/8vo, VGQTY: (3 shelves )

Fishing. Brookes (R.). The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: with the Natural History of River, Pond and Sea-Fish, illustrated with 133 cutts, 2nd edition, London: J. Watts, 1743, title printed in red & black with vignette (repairs and laid on later paper with loss to lower inner margin), some toning, endpapers renewed, modern vellum bound in an old style, 8vo, together with:Scrope (William). Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co, 1885, frontispiece and additional title page plus full page illustrations, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 8vo, Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.). The Book of the Pike..., 3rd edition, London: George Routledge, circa 1870, illustrations, light spotting, publisher's original gilt decorated pictorial cloth, 8vo,Davy (Humphry). Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing, London: John Murray, 1851, illustrations, modern green quarter calf, 8vo, plus 13 others, including [Chethan, James]. The Angler's Vade Mecum: or, a compendious, yet full, Discourse of Angling..., 3rd edition, London: Printed for William Battersby, 1700, lacking plates, 8vo, Hawkins's Complete Angler 1784, The Sporting Fish of Great Britain..., by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, 1886, Izaak Walton and his friends by Stapleton Martin, 1904, A Summer on the Test by John Waller Hills, 1946, etc, all in leather or cloth bindings, 8vo QTY: (18)

Maps and Prints. A collection of approximately 450 maps and prints, mostly 19th century, including approximately 300 engraved and chromolithographic maps of British counties, foreign countries and regions, road maps and town and city plans, including examples by or after Lemau de la Jaisse, Lediard, Bartholomew, Johnston, Barlow, Arrowsmith, Kitchin, Hughes, Wyld, Owen & Bowen, Bowles, Senex, Archer, Wallis, Philips, Moule, Cary and Hall, with approximately 150 engravings of British & foreign topographical views, portraits, natural history and historical scenes, various sizes and condition, but all small format, all contained in 8 modern level arch filesQTY: (approx. 450)

Scott (Peter). Travel Diaries of a Naturalist, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1983-1987, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with; Nowak (Ronald M.), Walker’s Mammals of the world, 2 volumes, 6th edition, London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1999, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, boards slightly marked, 8vo, plus Hooker (Joseph Dalton), Himalayan Journals or notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayans, The Khasia Mountains & c., 2 volumes, facsimile edition, New Delhi: Natraj Publishers, 1999, many colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo and other 20th century natural history reference and related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, folio/8vo, VGQTY: (6 shelves )

Martyn (William Frederic). A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature, with accurate representation of the most curious and beautiful animals, elegantly coloured, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Printed for Harrison and Co., 1785, (first volume also dated Bath Feb. 1798), 100 fine hand-coloured plates, most with tissue-guard, titles printed in red and black, with early ownership inscription of Susan Guilford to each, inner hinges with modern re-strengthening, generally in clean condition, occasional minor spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary full calf, later gilt-decorated rebacks with morocco gilt title label to each volume, lightly rubbed, large folio QTY: (2)NOTE:Freeman 2150; Nissen ZBI 2729; Lisney, pages 306-307; Wood 453.This dictionary of natural history is based on the collection of the Luverian Museum in London, established by Sir Ashton Lever in 1774, whose exhibits partly came from Cook's voyages.

Phillips (Roger & Martyn Rix). The Botanical Garden, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan, 2002, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, spines slightly discoloured, folio, together with; Battiscombe (E.), A Descriptive Catalogue of some of the Common Trees & Woody Plants of Kenya Colony, 1st edition, London: The Crown Agents for the colonies, 1926, numerous monochrome illustrations, original green cloth, spine near detached, covers lightly rubbed and marked, 4to, plus Willis (Bailey), Studies in Comparative Seismology East African Plateaus and Rift Valleys, 1st edition, Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1936, numerous monochrome illustrations, some occasional light spotting, original wrapper, ink inscription to paper cover, covers lightly rubbed with occasional minor marks, folio and other natural history reference and related including Sowerby’s English Botany 9 of 12 volumes, Flowering Plants Grasses and Ferns of Great Britain by Anne Pratt (lacking volume 1), mostly original cloth some in dust jackets, folio/8vo, GQTY: (3 shelves )

Menger (Carl). Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre ... Erster, allgemeiner Theil [all published], Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1871, xii, 285, [1] pp., uneven toning to title with several light ink pen marks, some pencil underscoring and marginal marks, mostly before p. 40, upper inner hinge slightly cracked, ink library stamp of Dr J. Singer of Vienna to front free endpaper and small (rubbed) label to upper cover, contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, gilt-titled spine, a little frayed at spine ends and slight edge wear, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Dr J. Singer library stamp is that of Isidor Singer (1857-1927), an Austrian journalist, statistician and newspaper editor. He came from a wealthy Jewish textile merchant family who had lived in Vienna since 1861. After studying law, mathematics and natural sciences in Vienna and Graz, he received his doctorate in law in Vienna in 1881. Carl Menger assisted with Singer’s Habilitation in 1885, then qualifying as a professor at the University of Vienna and becoming a private lecturer in statistics; and from 1892 onwards an extraordinary professor of statistics. Also in 1885, he published Untersuchungen über die socialen zustände in den fabrikbezirken des nordöstlichen Böhmen; ein beitrag zur methodik socialstatistischer beobachtung (‘Investigations into the Social Conditions of Northeastern Bohemia. A Contribution to the Method of Social-Statistical Investigations’). In the 1880s, Singer critically examined the emergence of modern anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria.Einaudi 3881.Rare first edition of Menger's revolutionary work in economics and the foundation of the Austrian School. Having arrived at the marginal utility theory independently of, but at the same time as, William Stanley Jevons and Léon Walras, Menger's Grundsätze extended it to indirect goods and complementary goods, integrating marginal utility theory into value and price theory. According to Joseph Schumpeter, Menger extended ‘the range of the principle of marginal utility over the whole area of production and distribution ... the whole organon of pure economics thus finds itself unified in the light of a single principle — in a sense in which it never had before’ (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p. 913).‘... In somewhat copious but always clear language, it [Grundsätze] provided a more thorough account of the relations between utility, value, and price than is found in any of the works by Jevons and Walras, who at about the same time laid the foundation of the “marginal revolution” in economics’ (Friedrich von Hayek, in IESS).

Gilpin (William), Remarks on Forest scenery, and other Woodland View, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. Blamire, 1791, 31 plates and 1 map, ink inscription to front flyleaf, ink inscription to rear endpaper, rebound in full calf with gilt tooled boarded, corners bumped and slightly worn, small repair patch to rear board volume 2, marbled text block, 8vo, together with; Tyas (Robert), The Sentiments of Flowers or language of Flora, 9th edition, London R. Tyas, 1842, with 29 colour plates, rebound to retain original gilt decorated spine and boards, extremities worn and rubbed, all edges gilt, 8vo, plus Pratt (Anne), Wild Flowers., 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1852, numerous colour illustrations, occasional minor light spotting, some pencil annotations, half green Morocco, gilt decoration to spine, boards rubbed and marked, small 4to, and Westwood (J. O.), The Butterflies of Great Britain with their Transformations, 1st edition, London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1855, period owner ink inscription to front endpaper, 19 colour plates, some minor light spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, covers and spine rubbed with occasional marks, all edges gilt, large 8vo, plus other 18th and 19th century natural history reference and related, mostly original cloth some leather binding, some odd volumes, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (4 shelves)

* Prints & Engravings. A Collection of Approximately 290 prints, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs of classical scenes, title pages, advertisements, portraits, furniture, juvenile, natural history, botany, trades & professions, silhouettes and scissor cuts, coaches and carriages, British topographical views of seats (by W. Watts) and interiors, with examples by or after Diderot, Raimbach, Buffon, Curtis, Guarana and Decker, various sizes, good condition, 15 framed and glazed QTY: (approx.290)

Gould (John). Th Mammals of Australia, 1st edition, Melbourne: The Macmillan company of Australia ltd, 1983, numerous colour illustrations, ex-lib’s bookplate to front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine lightly rubbed and marked, folio, together with; Roberts (Michael J), The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Essex: Harley books, 1985, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, some minor toning to covers, large 4to, plus Askew (R. R.), The Dragonflies of Europe, 1st edition, Essex: Harley books, 1988, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, occasional light marks to covers, large 8vo, and other 20th century natural history reference and related including British Tortricoid Moths, 2 volumes by The Ray Society, Birds of prey of the British isles by Brian P. Martin, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, folio/8vo, VGQTY: (6 shelves )

* Portraits. A large collection of approximately 1750 prints, mostly 19th century, male and female portrait engravings, but including topographical views, genre, natural history and historical scenes, various sizes and condition, small formatQTY: (approx. 1750)

Harrison (Joseph). The Floricultural Cabinet and Florists's Magazine, volumes XIV-XVI, London: Whittaker and Co., 1846-1848, hand-coloured lithographed botanical plates, occasional light spotting, first volume with light waterstain to outer margins of most plates, marbled endpapers, contemporary uniform green half calf, gilt decorated spines, with red morocco spine labels, rubbed, 8vo, together with[Yarrell, William, and others]. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Chiswick: printed by C. Whittingham, published by Thomas Tegg and N. Hailes, 1830-1831, printed and engraved vignette titles to each volume, wood engraved vignette illustrations after William Harvey, light spotting to endpapers, contemporary plum half calf gilt, rubbed to extremities, plus other 19th and early 20th century natural history, including Thomas Bell, A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea, 1853, A History of British Reptiles, 1st edition, 1839, and 2nd edition, 1849, and A History of British Quadrupeds, 2nd edition, 1874, all in original publisher's cloth gilt, some light marks to covers, all 8voQTY: (25)

Ornithology. A collection of T. & A. D. Poyser published ornithology & natural history books, including Flamingos, by Sir Peter Scott, 1st edition, London: T. & . A. D. Poyser, 1975, The Atlas of European mammals, by A J Mitchell-Jones, 1st edition, 1999, Tundra Plovers the Eurasian, Pacific and American Golden Plovers and Grey Plovers, by Ingvaqr Byrkjedal & Des Thompson, 1st edition, 1998, signed by the author, Birds of the Strait of Gibralter, by Clive Finlayson, 1st edition, 1992, The Kittiwake, by John C. Coulson, 1st edition, 2011, together with others similar, all original cloth in dust jackets, VG, 8vo/4to QTY: (3 shelves )

* Prints & Engravings. A Collection of approximately 230 prints, 18th-20th century, etchings, engravings and lithographs of natural history, botany, British & foreign topographical views, religion, fashion, marine & military, architecture, portraits and classical scenes, including examples by or after Boydell, Ruga, Houghton, Brangwyn, Sowerby and McBey, various sizes and condition (the large Brangwyn etchings are heavily wormed)QTY: (approx.230)

Donovan (Edward). Natural History of the Insects of India, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions, by E. Donovan, new edition... by J. O. Westwood, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842, printed title and 29 (of 58) fine full-page hand-colouored engraved plates only, all loose and unbound, some spotting to titlepage, sheet size 30 x 23.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:A selection of plates from the first illustrated publication dealing with the entomology of India. Present here are 1, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 34, 36, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, and 54, all numbered in roman numerals. 'The paint is laid on so thickly that it is frequently impossible to see the engraved lines underneath. The already rich colouring is heightened by the added addition of burnished highlights, albumen over glazes and metallic paints to give an overall effect reminiscent of the work of a miniaturist. Surprisingly, these techniques were often combined to produce a very pleasing and delicate effect: the multiple ruses of the colourist triumph over the draftsman's numerous failures. Donovan overreached himself and died penniless.' (Dance, Art of Natural History, page 87).

Natural History - fossil collection, to include Brachiopods, bivalves etc, collected from around the UK, mostly labelled. (qty)

Natural History - A large collection of natural stone fragments, mineral specimens, coral and seashells. ( large quantity ),

TRAVOLTA JOHN: (1954- ) American actor. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of the actor in a head and shoulders pose, wearing his security guard uniform from the Natural History Museum of Taylor County, in costume as Sam Baily from the American thriller drama film Mad City (1997). Signed by Travolta in bold blue ink with his name alone to a lighter area of the image. EX

ROGERS GINGER: (1911-1995) American dancer and actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1940 for her role as Katherine 'Kitty' Foyle in Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Rogers in a glamorous half-length pose. Signed in bold black ink to the base of the image and dated 1989 in her hand. EX

Box containing a quantity of various natural history interest books

REV C A JOHNS; Flowers of the Field, 1949, together with, by the same author, British Birds in their Haunts, 1948, both books having their dust wrappers, together with a small quantity of botanical, ornithological and natural history books, to include W. Swaysland, Familiar Wild Birds, four volumes, 1903, F Edward Hulme; Familiar Wild Flowers, nine volumes [but lacking fifth series], and other books.

INDIE/ALT/NEW WAVE - LPs. Well-curated collection of 13 x LPs including rarities. Artists/titles are Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year (1994 original UK deleted double LP, 4AD, DAD 4009 - nice Ex condition records/clean printed inners without splits/VG some foxing), The House Of Love - The House Of Love (UK original 1990 LP, 842 293-1 - VG/VG sleeve with hype sticker, printed inner), The Waterboys (x2) - Wonderful Green World and Windmill Lane Sessions, The Cult - Electric, Fistful Of Mercy, Ben Harper, The Stranglers - Felice, The March Violets - Natural History, Squeeze, The Human League, The Pale Fountains and New Order. Condition is generally VG to Ex.

Natural History - A group of fossil specimens, to include two fish specimens, dinosaur dung and a orthoceras fossil tower, (4)

A vintage pair of Soviet silver-plated teaspoons, featuring intricate floral and foliate engravings along the handles, exemplifying the craftsmanship of mid-20th-century Eastern European silverware. The spoons are presented in their original green presentation box, lined with blue velvet and silk, bearing a distinctive hallmark along with Cyrillic text, indicative of Soviet-era production. This set is a remarkable collector's piece, capturing the elegance and history of Soviet tableware. The spoons exhibit a natural patina, enhancing their vintage appeal. Spoon measures 5.75"L, box measures 6.5"L x 1.5"H.Issued: 20th centuryDimensions: See DescriptionCondition: Age related wear.

Northamptonshire.- Morton (John) The Natural History of Northampton-shire, first edition, 14 engraved plates, one folding engraved map (large tear expertly repaired), corrections inserted by hand, spotting to map, bookplates of the Earl of Donegall and J. Borlase Tibbits, contemporary calf, rebacked, bumping to corners, folio, for R. Knaplock, 1712. *** Substantially devoted to rocks, minerals and fossils and including a list of mollusca, of which several were new species.

Cooke (M.C.) A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, first edition, half-title, colour lithographed frontispiece, additional title and 22 plates, 4pp. advertisements at end, occasional light soiling, foxing, mainly to text, slightly browned, upper hinge broken with gatherings loose or working loose, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight fraying to spine ends, rubbed, Robert Hardwicke, 1862; [Another copy], sixth edition revised, frontispiece and 19 colour plates, 44pp. publisher's catalogue at end, title working loose at foot, occasional very light spotting, slight toning, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbing and slight wear to spine ends and corners, W. H. Allen and Co., 1898; and others, natural history or similar, including the second edition of A Popular History of British Sea-Weeds (1851), v.s. (9)

[Serao (Francesco)] The Natural History of Mount Vesuvius, first English edition, one folding engraved plate only (of 2), one folding table, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional very light spotting, contemporary calf, modern maroon morocco spine label, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 12mo, for E. Cave, 1743.

England.- Gilpin (William) Observations on the Western Parts of England, first edition, 18 aquatint plates, spotting, previous owner's ink signature to title, twentieth-century half morocco, a little rubbed, 1798 § Maton (William George) Observations relative chiefly to the Natural History, Picturesque Scenery and Antiquities of the Western Counties of England, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half-title, 16 aquatints, one folding map, spotting, bookplate, near contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, a little rubbed, Salisbury, 1797; 8vo (2)

A GRADUATED PEARL AND SEED PEARL NECKLACE The necklace with graduated pearls and seed pearls on a knotted strand, to a diamond three stone clasp Size/dimensions: 36.2cm Gross weight: 5.7 grams Provenance: The Davies-Cooke Collection from Gwysaney Hall, North Wales For further details about the collection, visit: www.dreweatts.com/news-videos/gwysaney-hall-a-welsh-family-s-portrait-of-british-history-14767/ Please note the pearls are untested and unwarranted as natural pearl. Condition Report: The pearls measuring 1.85-5.5mm diameter. The pearls are untested and unwarranted as natural pearl. The clasp is in good working order, it has had some repair, it has a small safety chain. The strand may benefit from being restrung.Condition Report Disclaimer

A LATE 18TH CENTURY CITRINE TABLE SEAL, OWSTON CIRCA 1790 The polished facetted citrine handle to a reeded gold fitting, with a foil backed cushion shaped citrine matrix engraved with a demi lion rampant with coronet, and Owston Size/dimensions: 5.7cm high Gross weight: 22.0 grams Provenance: The Davies-Cooke Collection from Gwysaney Hall, North WalesFor further details about the collection, visit: www.dreweatts.com/news-videos/gwysaney-hall-a-welsh-family-s-portrait-of-british-history-14767/ This table seal may have belonged to Bryan Cooke of Owston, Yorkshire (1756-1821), former M.P. for Malton. Condition Report: No major chips or cracks, some very small nicks to the handle and small patches of abrasion to the facet corners. There is a small natural or nick to one side of the matrix right by the setting, could be from original stone, not on the detailed section, a couple of light scratches. Slight colour zone band to the handle as typical with citrine. The setting has some rubbing.The matrix has been tested with a refractometer and is a quartz, however due to the foiling to the back we cannot confirm the colour, it could be rock crystal or citrine.  Condition Report Disclaimer