Natural History from Thomas Rare Books

New York: Howell Book House, 1998. 336pp. Colour illus. throughout. Dark green hardback cloth binding with a colour illus. d.j. NO inscriptions or marks.. 1st edition 1st Impression. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 4to.

London: Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot; Stirling & Kenney [Edin]., 1832. 3 volumes octavo set with portrait frontis of the auther Alexander Wilson. Pub. original grey boards with new paper labels to the new grey matching spines. CLEAN TEXT BLOCK AND CLEAN UNCOLOURED ORIGINAL PLATESWith a continuation by Charles Lucian Bonaparte and notes etc. by Sir William Jardine Bart. 408pp;390pp;523pp… Read more about this item

Bandoeng: A.C. Nix & Co, Bandoeng 367pp. Original binders blue hardback binding. 184 detailed ills. on 44 plates, text-ills. & figures. Manual on orchid-growing in colonial Indonesia, incl. notes on pests & pest-control. Ub. blue cloth with gilt titles. Some foxing and a sound and complete binding a trifle soiled. DUTCH TEXT.. 1st Edition. Hardback. V.g.. large 8vo.… Read more about this item

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1848. 302 [i]pp. Attractive vignettes to the text throughout. Original blind stamped cloth binding with gilt titles to the front board. Nicely embossed blind borders to the covers. Spine a trifle faded but a clean sound copy. Scarce in the first edition.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. 12mo.

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars et al., 1833. 166pp, pub. ads 34pp and 8pp cat. and [iv]pp Paterson & Rutherglen cat. Orig. publishers cloth binding, dec. gilt spine, uncut. Internally fine 30 hand-coloured plates, each with a tissue guard and end-papers [a little browned.]. 1st Edition. Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo.

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars et al., 1833. vols 147pp, pub. ads 32pp and 16pp Cadell cat. and [iv]pp Adam Black cat. Orig. publishers cloth binding [loose], dec. gilt borders and spines, rubbed to extremities uncut. Internally fine 34 hand-coloured plates. each with a tissue guard[off-set] and end-papers a little browned. A fine set of hand coloured plates each with a… Read more about this item

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1883. [2],vi, 148, (vi ads) pp. C1883. All edges gilt, with 7 coloured plates [lacking one] by Fawcett of Driffield, and numerous full-page and text woodcuts. Original decorated green cloth gilt with bevelled boards. Title page dated 1879. A nice copy with a unfaded binding and bright gilt titles and black borders.. Tenth Edition. dec. green… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1878. ix, [i] 365pp. Oub. dec red cloth with gilt title and vigb=nette within an oval gilt frame to the front board with black lined dec. frame. Blind-stamped f=reated to the rear border. Near fine.. popular edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.

London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1888. 254 [ii]pp. Pub. dec. blue binding with a vignette scene on the lower cover and gilt titles.Gilt titles to the eblind embossed spine. Vignette text illus. throughout. Attractive original pub. patterned end-papers. Originally pub. 1880. re-issue. Hardback. Fine. 12mo.

London: George Routledge, 1870. [ii], 186 [iiI]pp with Illustrations by E.Smith, T.W.Wood and W.S.Coleman.12 full page colour plates. Undated but c1870. Attractive gilt dec. tan binding to the spine and front board and a blind stamped rear board. A lovely copy with a sound binding and complete with b/w text figures throughout. A difficult item to find in this condition… Read more about this item

London: Society for Promoting of Christain Knowledge, 1880. vi, 282, 4 [pub. cat.] pp. Attractive publishers illus. brown cloth binding with gilt and black illus. boards. From the SPCK Natural Histury Rambles series. A scarce title. 1st Edition. Hardback. V.g.. 12mo.

Huddersfield: Richard Brook, 1846. 450pp, Supplement and 24 of 25 hand-coloured plates [ NB....lacking plate 2 Valerton, Saffron, Woodruff and Plantain] each with four plants illus. Green end-papers with pub. details of books and outlets. Small split to the top front spine and a trifle sunned to the gilt decorated spine. Green end-papers with pub. notes to the… Read more about this item

London: F. Newbery, 1775. Preface [xv, 180,180pp. 2 volumes bound in one. Original full calf with original red and black morooco labels. Full page plates throughout. 13cms. Rubbed full calf. The first two volumes bound in one volmes. [The set originally extended to 12 volumes]. The calf binding is rubbed.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g..

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. 256pp, 30 illustrations. Extract from 'Homes without Hands'. Attractive Victorian childres book with n illus. blue buckram binding showing a pair of filed mice with a nest in grasses. 30 illustrations. Some foxing but an attractive sound and itight copy. All edges gilt with bevelled boards.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. Small 8vo.

London: James Hogg and Sons, 1860. ND [c1860]. 316pp, [iv pub. cat.]. With upward of sixty illus. by Coleman, Harvey and Sons. An attractive gilt dec. blind-stamped royal blue floral patterned cloth binding. A.e.g. A scarce item. [lacking the front plain free end-paper. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine. Small 8vo.

London: Seeley Jackson, and Halliday, 1876. 243pp. 20 b/w etchings by the author & other artists. Olive green buckram with gilt titles enclosed with double gilt borders against a purple block. Front inner hinge cracked but sound. An attractive copy. Some foxing as often with this title. All edges gilt.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.

London: Coliins, 2012. 544pp. b/w figs.; colour illus. With accompanying DVD. Almost mint copy with no inscriptions, marks, wear or marks. The spine dust wrapper is a trifle sunned as often with this green backgound. A lovely copy.. 1st edition, 1st issue. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 102 Piccadily, 1861. viii,128pp, 32pp pub. cat. dated January 1861. A fine and original attractive blind decorated brown cloth binding/ Gilt block dec. and titles to the patterned blind stamped covers. Gilt matching spine. A lovely copy with all 10 plates present as called for including illus. frontis and title-page. Original half-tile present. 10 plates with 84… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 2005. 232pp. Colour illus. d.j. Signed by Mabey on the title-page.. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Reeve and Co., Henrietta Street, 1853. 360pp. 8pp pub. cat. 20 hand-coloured plates [inc. frontis] with 106 plants illus. Original decorative blind stamped covers with gilt dec. device to the front boards with matching design and titles in gilt to the spine. Neatly strengthened on the spines inner hinges. Yellow endpapers with pub. printed lists. A lovely copy with… Read more about this item