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[Acton (John)] An Essay on Shooting, Containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dredging gun barrels, second edition, half-title, book...

NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Baumé (Antoine) Memoire sur les Argilles, our Recherches et Experiences Chymiques et Physiques sur la nature des terres l...

Agriculture.- Darwin (Erasmus) Phytologia: or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. With the Theory of Draining Morasses and with an Improv...

Agriculture.- Ewart (John) A Treatise on the Arrangement and Construction of Agricultural Buildings, only edition, half-title, 19 lithographed pla...

[Bancroft (Edward)] An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana in South America, first edition, engraved frontispiece of double-headed snake, with ...

[Bennett (Edward, editor)] The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated, 2 vol. (Quadrupeds & Birds), contemporary half red roan...

Bewick (Thomas) A General History of Quadrupeds, seventh edition, B4 with large tear affecting text and image, neatly repaired, one or two short m...

Biology & Botany.- Bonnet (Charles) Considerations sur les Corps Organisés, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, titles with engraved vignettes and...

Birds.- Bree (C. R.) A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles, 4 vol., 238 hand-coloured plates, contemporary ink gift ...

Birds.- [Cooke (Thomas)] A Letter to Mark Milbank, Esq. M.P....with Two Plates descriptive of the character of the Whistling Swan and of the Pecul...

Birds.- Incubation.- Reaumur (René Antoine Ferchault de) Art de Faire Éclorre et de Élever en toute saison des Oiseaux Domestiques de toutes espec...

δ Birds.- Morris (Rev. F.O.) A History of British Birds, 6 vol., first edition, later issue, 358 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, a few plates ...

Birds.- [Pennant (Thomas)] Genera of Birds, second [first illustrated] edition, engraved vignette title and 15 plates of 16 images, some spotting ...

Birds.- Seth-Smith (David) Parrakeets. A Handbook to the Imported Species, first edition in bookform, 20 fine colour plates, all but two hand-colo...

Birds.- Swann (H. Kirke) A Monograph of the Birds of Prey (Order Accipitres), edited by Alexander Wetmore, 2 vol., bound from the original 16 part...

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., one of 205 copies, half-titles, 192 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, bookplates of ...

NO RESERVE Birds.- Turner (L.M.) Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska, 15 plates of fish, 11 chromolithographed plates of birds after Ro...

NO RESERVE Birds.- Walpole-Bond (John) A History of Sussex Birds, 3 vol., first edition, plates, original buckram, dust-jackets, rubbed, chipping ...

Botany.- Bartholomew (Valentine) A Selection of Flowers Adapted principally for Students, parts 5 and 6 only, comprising 18 hand-coloured lithogra...

*** Please note that the description of this lot has changed ***Botany.- Coffee.- Gentil (André Antoine Pierre) Dissertation sur le Caffé, only ed...

Botany & Ecology.- Hunter (John) Memoranda on Vegetation, first edition, David Bellamy's copy with his signed bookplate, original cloth, spine fad...

Botany.- Evelyn (John) Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions..., second edition, initial...

Botany & Gardens.- Goode (Herbert) The Japanese Garden at Cottered, Herts. 1905-1937, typescript, folding plan, illustrations, stapled in original...

Botany.- Graham (R.J.D.) List of Wild Plants found on the Nagpur and Telinkheri Farms, only edition, Nagpur, 1911 § Cockayne (L,) New Zealand Plan...

Botany.- Luxford (George) A Flora of the Neighbourhood of Reigate, Surrey, only edition, 1838 § Davey (F.Hamilton) Flora of Cornwall, first editio...

Botany & Medicine.- Hales (Stephen) Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Staticks; Or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vege...

Botany.- Moore (Thomas) The Octavo Nature-Printed British Ferns, 2 vol., first 8vo edition, 122 nature-printed colour plates, tissue guards, occas...

Botany.- Puydt (Émile de) Les Orchidées, 50 fine chromolithographed plates mostly finished by hand, tissue guards, wood-engraved illustrations, te...

Botany.- Smith (James Edward) A Grammar of Botany, first American edition, 21 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary ink signature of Dr....

Butterflies.- Kappel (A.W.) and W. Egmont Kirby. British and European Butterflies and Moths, first edition, 30 coloured plates, contemporary ink o...

Darwin (Charles) The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, second edition, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, one lea...

Elephants.- Evans (Veterinary-Capt. G.H.) A Treatise on Elephants. Their Treatment in Health and Disease, third edition, 4 photogravure plates and...

NO RESERVE Farming.- Farmer's Magazine (The): A Periodical Work exclusively devoted to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 12 vol. only (of 13), lacki...

Fishes.- Couch (Jonathan) A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 vol., first edition, 250 hand-coloured plates only (of 252, lacking pl...

NO RESERVE Gibson (William) The Farrier's New Guide, third edition, lacking frontispiece, 4 plates only (of 7), first folding plate defective and ...

Lowe (Edward Joseph) A Natural History of British Grasses, 74 colour plates, tissue-guards, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpap...

Mammals.- [Rayson (Charles) & others.] The Book of the Rabbit, edited by Leonard U.Gill, first Gill edition,10 chromolithographed plates (one with...

Marine Life.- Goüan (Antoine) Historia Piscium...; Histoire des Poissons..., only edition, text in Latin & French, 4 folding engraved plates, Fren...

Marine Life.- Owen (Richard) Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus, only edition, 8 fine engraved plates after the author, 7 with additional version in ou...

Perrault (Claude) Memoir's for a Natural History of Animals..., translated by Alexander Pitfeild, 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, addition...

Petite Galerie d'Histoire Naturelle. 4 vol., comprising Les Fleurs, Les Papillons, Les Fruits, Les Oiseax, 8 engraved plates, contemporary ink own...

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Natural Historie..., translated by Philemon Holland, 2 vol. in 1, second ...

NO RESERVE Primates.- Kohts (Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina) Adaptive Motor Habits of the Macacus Rhesus under experimental conditions, first editio...

Reeve (Henry) An Essay on the Torpidity of Animals, first edition, half-title, presentation copy from the author's great nieces to the Royal Colle...

NO RESERVE Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Wilfrid Blunt. Great Flower Books 1700-1900, 1956 § Sitwell (S.), Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher. Fine Bir...

Sporting.- Pollard (Hugh B. C.) The Gun Room Guide, one of 225 copies signed by the author, 14 colour plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallac...

[Surtees (Robert Smith)] [The Sporting Novels], 6 vol., comprising; Ask Mamma, Mr Romford's Hounds; Handley Cross; Plain or Ringlets; Hawbuck Gran...

Surtees (Robert Smith) Thoughts on Hunting and Other Matters, number 35 of 250 large paper copies, tipped in colour plates by George Denholm Armou...

Veterinary & Farriery.- White (James) A Treatise on Veterinary Medicine, 2 vol., mixed edition, vol.1 tenth edition, vol.1 with 14 stipple-engrave...

Aeronautics.- Barrès (Fernand) & others. Les Transformateurs d'Énergie: Générateurs, Accumulateurs, Moteurs avec les plus récentes applications à ...

Aeronautics.- [Pocock (George)] A Treatise on the Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air, by means of Kites, or Buoyant Sails; with a descript...

Borelli (Giovanni Alfonso) De VI percussionis...De motu animalium, 2 parts in 1, first collected edition, engraved additional pictorial title, tit...

Chemistry.- Faraday (Michael) Histoire d'une Chandelle, first edition in French, illustrations, light spotting, original printed yellow wrappers, ...

Chemistry.- Fourcroy (Antoine Francois, Comte de) Philosophie Chimque, ou vérités fondamentales de la Chimie Moderne, second edition, with the aut...

Chemistry.- Macquer (Pierre Joseph) Dictionnaire de Chymie, 3 vol., half-title in vol.1, vol.1 & 3 with final blanks, a little water-stained, Yver...

Chemistry.- Neumann (Caspar) The Chemical Works, edited by William Lewis, first edition in English, engraved bookplate of Matthew Lewis, contempor...

Chemistry.- Scheele (Carl Wilhelm) Traité Chimique de l'Air et du Feu, 2 vol. in 1 including Supplement, first edition in French, folding engraved...

Chemistry.- Ure (Andrew) A Dictionary of Chemistry, on the basis of Mr Nicholson's, first Ure edition, 15 engraved plates including 3 folding tabl...

Chemistry.- Wilson (Benjamin) A Series of Experiments on the subject of Phosphori, and their Prismatic Colours..., second edition, lacking final a...

Colour.- Field (George) Chromatics; or, the Analogy, Harmony, and Philosophy of Colours, New Edition, advertisement leaf, half-title, 11 plates, m...

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