Natural History from Aquila Books

[Dartford: privately printed], 1906 [but 1908]. 2 Vols. Octavo (21.6cm x 13.4cm). Quarter brown morocco with leather corners and green cloth boards. Slight fading on spine. 1906

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1915 First edition. (18),383 pp. Small octavo. Bound in original decorative brown cloth. Gilt title on front board and spine. 64 black and white illustrations. Coloured frontis. 16 other coloured illustrations. An attractive clean tight copy. In 1906, Henshaw published a… Read more about this item

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1925, 1935. 6 volumes. Folio (36.5 X 30 cm). Original morocco backed fold over linen boxes with metal Smithsonian medallion embedded in the cover. Original cloth ties. Each portfolio contains 80 loose lithograph illustrations of flowers, each alongside a descriptive text leaf as well as a table of contents leaf. Volume one contains a… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Fisheries and Marine Service, Environment Canada, 1974. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. 80 pp. + unpaginated prints. Portfolio (approx 67cm h.) in original brown cloth covered folding box with simulated argillite insert on front, minor signs of rubbing, wooden edges. Very small tear to the head of the spine of box, slightly sunned. Silver paper covered card… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Very good +. First Edition xxiii, 412 + 24 pp. & vii, 447 pp. Two vols. Octavo. Original royal blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Simple debossed pattern on boards. Light shelf wear with a touch more at bottom. Light soiling on boards. … Read more about this item

Australia: Lansdowne Press, 1972. 584 pp. Large folio. Original dark purple cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Endpapers have stains from tape residue used to hold the plastic dust jacket in place. Otherwise, as new internally. Illustrated throughout with full colour, full page images of parrots by William T. Cooper. Comes encased in its… Read more about this item

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1865. viii, 288 (4). viii, 355, (4). ix [1], 410 (4). viii, 328 pp. Four volumes. Octavo. Green blindstamped boards. Trimmed gilt edges. Spines sunned and rubbed. Boards have some shelf and handling wear. Internally, clean and attractive copies, with minimal foxing at the extremities. Pencil notations throughout. Colour illustrations, covered with tissue… Read more about this item

London: John Van Voorst, 1837. xviii,526 pp. Octavo. Bound in contemporary full green morocco. Spine ruled in 6 compartments. Boards decorated with rolls and corner tools. Edges with rolls and dentelles. All edges gilt. Original coated yellow endpapers. A few light spots at the beginning otherwise in fine clean condition. Extensively illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1804. xiv, 430pp. Octavo (140 x 210mm). First English edition. Contemporary tree calf with gilt dentelles along the edges of the boards, re-backed to match with with blind-stamped rules and decorations and a red morocco spine label with stamped gilt lettering. The bookplate and book label of William Strong to the… Read more about this item

London: Trubner & Co., [1884]. (viii), 64pp. Octavo (140 x 220mm). Publisher's green cloth with gold gilt lettering stamped to the front board. Brown coated endpapers. Fine Woodburytype portrait of Darwin by Captain [Leonard] Darwin with facsimile signature below, 4 plates, facsimile autograph letter on 2 sides, 2 text woodcuts. Occasional foxing. Ex-libris of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell & Son, 1798. xxiv, 560pp. Octavo (140 x 215mm). Contemporary speckled calf with gilt rules to the boards and gilt dentelles along the edges of the boards; gilt decorations to the spine, as well as gilt lettering stamped to a black morocco spine label. Speckled edges. Silk placeholder. Some wear to… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1800. viii, 612pp. Quarto (220 x 270mm). Contemporary calf with gold gilt decorations to the spine and gilt lettering stamped to a black moroccoo spine label. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates [2 folding, 9 with an accompanying non-paginated text leaf]. Some rubbing and wear to the boards, with the top corners… Read more about this item

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1925. Five folio volumes. Each with descriptive text in original wrappers + 80 coloured plates (total 400 plates) in gilt lettered steel grey/blue linen clamshell portfolios with cloth ties. A fine set. The original price for the (Library) trade edition was $150.00. The original prospectus (not included) tells how much… Read more about this item

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xv,209,(7 ads) pp.pp. Small octavo. Original green straight grained cloth. Gilt title on spine. Black decoration on front board. Spine just slightly darkened. End papers a bit browned. Frontis illustration. Illustration on title page. 40 figures either full page or… Read more about this item

Harrisburg Pa: the Author, 1896. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. x,406 pp.pp. Octavo. Original decorated brown cloth. Wonderful illustration of an 0il derek on the front board. Numerous black and while portraits, maps, and illustrations in text. Slight bit of wear on the boards otherwise a great copy. very good A very detailed… Read more about this item

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 192pp. Octavo in original black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt dinosaur decoration on front cover. 12 listed plates (incl. Frontis) as well as 8 listed sketches. Boards slightly bowed. Minor foxing throughout text; all plates present. very good John… Read more about this item

London: Royal Society, 1982. Undetermined. very good. 1st thus. 338pp. Quarto, in khaki cloth over boards, with unclipped green pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated. Five pages dog-eared at bottom. Dust jacket scuffed, mildly edgeworn, not price-clipped. Very good condition. Recounts advances in the field by a group of international authorities. 1982

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1914. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xxvii, 498pp. Small quarto, bound in publisher's red cloth with gold gilt lettering and rules to front and spine. All maps in back folder present, still in original wraparound paper band. Frontispiece, 184 black-and-white plates. Light rubbing and edgewear. Covers moderately mottled; toning to reverse of the back… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1876. Hardcover. 1st Edition. viii,482pp. Octavo. Original green blind stamped cloth. Gilt title on spine. Top edge untrimmed. Coated brown endpapers. Armorial bookplate on front paste down. Errata slip. Tables in text. A touch of very light wear otherwise a very attractive bright copy. Freeman… Read more about this item

Toronto: M. F. Feheley Publishers Limited, 1977. Hardcover. very good. 1st Trade Edition. xx,406pp. Folio in original quarter maroon cloth backed linen boards and decorative endpapers with 41 colour plates after paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne (including frontispiece) and B&W illustrations in text (distribution maps, breeding ranges, etc) Includes a chapter on Fossil Species by Storrs… Read more about this item