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LONDON: William S Orr & Co, 1846 A poor copy of this beautiful work with 60 hand coloured plates. Classed as poor because the title page is missing; the binding is poor - in marked plain cloth and beginning to detach; and there is a little marking internally. The pagination matches our other 2nd edition copy so this is presumed as second, dated to 1846. The plates are in good condition - there is some brown spotting to edges, and around 3 have a darkened section, again at the edge not affecting the flower image (we have noticed only one plate with a light mark affecting the flower). All have tissue guards - one guard is torn and one has a small hole - most guards have marking. A few text pages have a little marking and p 117 has a repaired tear to the top margin. The final index page has a small hole at the top. This copy would be well worth rebinding.

LONDON : L Reeve & Co., 1871 This is part of Lovell Reeve's crown octavo series of popular natural history for beginners and amateurs. The preface starts 'this little work is planned on the supposition that the reader knows nothing scientifically of the insect world....'. So the book gives some basics and then gets on to helping the reader identify the range of insects they might encounter. It is in the original blue decorative cloth binding with a gilt picture to the front board and gilt titles on the spine. The book has had a good cloth case repair - relaying the spine so the binding is sound and tight if slightly grubby and faded/darkened on the spine. The endpapers are new. It has 16 coloured plates as called for and numerous illustrations in the text. There is some brown spotting on the text but this does not generally affect the plates which are bright and clear.

LONDON: James Nelson & Co, 1859 A good copy of the 3rd edition in the original decorative cloth binding, with 60 hand coloured plates. The binding has a gilt plant to the front board with blind stamped decoration to both boards. The spine has gilt decoration and titles. There is uneven fading to the boards and the spine is faded with a couple of spots. There is wear to edges, spine ends, joints and corners (very turned) with some cloth loss but the binding is clean and sound. Original yellow endpapers present with spotting which continues over the half title and slightly affects the title page at the beginning, and affects the final index leaf and the verso of the rear free endpaper at the end. Contents are complete, clean and sound and in very good condition with 60 hand coloured plates with guards. There is light toning to page edges and the occasional light mark or corner turn. Plate 2 is positioned at p 4, and Plate 1 at p 10. There is slight grubbiness to the gutter of Plate 33 and a darker area… Leer más

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd, 1939 A near fine copy of the 1st edition in good wrapper. This work was designed to act as a field guide - taking key points from Richard South's three Wayside and Woodland publications: butterflies and moths - series I and II. There are some blank leaves at the end of the book for field notes and it is conveniently pocket-sized. The jacket has been price-clipped and has some edge nibbling - principally around the spine and the bottom edge at the front close to the spine, where there is loss. It has had repair and some reinforcement with archive repair tape. It is in a removable protective wrap. The blue cloth binding is very bright and clean with very slight pulling to the spine. Contents near fine clean condition.

LONDON: L REEVE & CO., 1884 Plate volume only. In half leather binding with morocco leather and marbled boards. With 82 finely engraved colour printed plates of butterflies, caterpillars and their food plants. The binding has raised bands to the spine and gilt decoration and titles. It has some scuffing to the spine and wear, and wear to corners, removing the top surface of the leather. With matching marbled endpapers. The front pastedown endpaper has a small hole. The contents have some brown spotting - this mainly affects the initial leaves and early plates, but there is occasional spotting later on. The plates are not tissue guarded so there is some offsetting to the reverse of the preceding plate page. Page edges have browning.

LONDON: Printed and Sold by J. Raw, and Sold also by Longman Rees & Co. and G.B. Whittaker, 1827, 1827 Second, 'enlarged' edition of the only work written by Laetitia Ford, nee Jermyn first published in 1824. Laetitia's father was a bookseller in Ipswich. Extremely scarce. She was allowed by her family to foster an interest in butterflies (at a time when women were not supposed to have serious occupations) and was greatly encouraged by her neighbour, the Revd William Kirby of Barham. This copy is complete in a plain board binding with 2 hand coloured and 3 plain plates. Laetitia drew the plates and dedicated the work to Kirby. The binding is serviceable but slightly stained and with a slight split on the spine. The contents are uncut so page sizes vary. One colour plate is stained and there is occasional spotting to preliminaries. Small light book, please enquire if you would like us to assess postage at cost.

London: William Lay, 1858 A good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with hand coloured frontispiece and 7 further hand coloured plates. All page edges gilted. The binding is bright and clean. There is wear and some fraying to corners and spine ends and general rubbing to edges and spine joints. The gilt decoration on the front board and spine is bright. The spine is slightly dulled and there is some light marking to the back board. Contents: half title; frontispiece; title; preface; contents and plate lists; text pp 288 with 7 tissue-guarded plates. 3 pp of publisher's ads at the rear. The endpapers have adverts for the publisher's works at the fpd, and both rear endpapers. The contents are clean and sound. There is a small green paint stain in the bottom gutter of the title page, which has a couple of brown spots, and the tissue guard to the frontispiece has been removed. The half title has an ink inscription dated 1871 with ruled lines, and there is a signature to the plain side of the… Leer más

LONDON : Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832 A good copy of Class Insecta in 2 volumes - parts XIV and XV of the 16 volume series of 'The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier,' translated and written by Edward Griffith and others. The set is complete in itself with 136 black and white and 4 colour plates. The series was issued in 3 formats and this is the rarer quarto version. The volumes have been rebound in maroon buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine and 'Foyle' printed at the spine base. The bindings are clean and bright with general light wear to spine ends and some darkened areas to the spines. Vol 1 of the set has bumping to bottom corners and turning to the top corners. There is a cloth crease towards the bottom corner of the front board. Vol 2 has bumping to top corners and turning to bottom corners. There is some scuffing to the back board. Internally both have newer endpapers. Each volume has 2 title pages (series and volume) and both have the… Leer más

London: Whittaker and Co, 1834 A good copy of the 10th volume in the Griffith edition of 'The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier', which is complete in itself. The Griffith edition has particularly fine detailed plates which are black and white in most copies, and occasionally in colour. This copy has 64 black and white plates. The page format is unusually large - 25.9cm x 20 cm. It has been rebound at some point in maroon buckram cloth with gilt titles and the name Foyle to the spine. There is some darker marking to the spine; some rubbing to edges and joints and the corner wear. The rebinding has unfortunately attached the series title page to the front endpaper at the gutter and has done the same with the rear endpaper and the final leaf. The stitching is visible two leaves in at the front and one leaf back at the rear. However, the binding is sound and clean. Contents are very clean with occasional light marking, mainly to top margins and some… Leer más

LONDON : Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1831 A good copy of Vol IX of the 16 volume series of 'The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier,' translated and written by Edward Griffith and others. This volume covers the Reptilia and is complete in itself with 55 black and white plates. The series was issued in 3 formats and this is the rarer quarto version. It has been rebound in maroon buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine and 'Foyle' printed at the spine base. The binding is bright and clean with some pulling to the spine ends and light wear to corners and edges. The cloth on the spine has some darker areas. Internally the endpapers are newer. Contents: series title; volume title; plate list and errata 2pp; text pp 1-481 with 55 full page plates as called for; synopsis pp 1-110. Overall the contents are clean and sound with just the occasional light mark. The plates are very clean and well engraved. There are round stamps of 'Union Club' to the series title; the… Leer más

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 A very good 3 volume set in part contemporary half leather binding with 240 plates of which 237 are hand coloured. Duppa (1770-1831) was draughtsman and writer who authored a wide range of works. The bindings have newer spines with raised bands and author and title labels. The boards are marbled and retain their original corners. The spines have become sunned but are sound; corners and edges with wear and varying degrees of surface loss. The books do not lie completely flat when opened. Internally the endpapers are marbled matching the boards. They have the bookplate of Gloria Rollinson. Contents: Vol 1: black and white frontispiece; title with part of old signature to top; intro pp iii-xxiii; systematical index xxiv-xxvii; text pp 1-196 with 85 hand coloured plates. Vol II: title with old signature to top; text in 3 sections 197-373, 376-379; 381-400 (with blanks inbetween), with 93 hand coloured and 1 black and white plate. Vol III: title with… Leer más

London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1833 A very good copy of the Royal 8vo edition in the original publisher's cloth binding with 60 hand coloured plates. Part of Edward Griffith's major work on Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, but complete as a single volume. The series was a very expensive production, with this volume costing £3 12s 0d in 1833. As a result it is very scarce. The binding has a paper label to spine and is clean and sound, although there are a couple of places internally where the stitching is wobbly (pp 162 and 304). There is some pulling to spine ends and the corners have wear with some turning and bumping. Board surfaces slightly scuffed. Contents: half title; series title; volume title; plate list; Annelida pp 1-130 with 8 plates; Crustacea pp 131-382 with 25 plates; Arachnida pp 383-533 with 27 plates; alphabetical listing pp 535-540. The contents are in very good clean condition with some light toning and occasional darkening to top page edges. There is a light stain in the gutter at… Leer más

London: Willis and Sotheran, 1857 A good set in contemporary rebacked cloth bindings with 322 colour plates of birds, 102 colour plates of eggs and 8 black and white plates. The original cloth was probably a shade of green but it has sunned. It has been rebacked in a dark green relaying the original gilt-decorated spines which are mostly complete. The bindings are therefore sound and tight but there is a lot of wear to corners with varying degrees of bumping, corner turning, fraying and loss of cloth. Newer marbled endpapers have been added and each volume has an armorial bookplate of K I Beynon to the front pastedown, with the motto 'Gwell Dysg Na Golud' (the original motto of Llandovery College). Internally the volumes are complete and the plates are well-coloured. All the title pages have a small ink signature of Spencer Nicholl to the top. There is sporadic light marking which is mostly to margins, particularly the side margin and occasional foxing to text. The top margin has dark toning… Leer más

London : Printed by J Davis [Vols I & II] and B Wilks [Vol III] for the Author, 1798 A very good copy of the complete 3 volume 1st edition including later Supplement, with 440 hand coloured plates on 436 leaves. This work was James Sowerby's follow up to his successful English Botany and he both drew, and engraved the plates and oversaw the colouring. He immersed himself in the study of mushrooms over the period of work, which was published between 1798 and 1809, including creating 200 models of larger species, and making his collection of specimens available to public view. In his introduction to the Supplement (which was issued without separate title) he states his concern that the identification of many individual species, with illustrations that focus only on perfect specimens, might confuse the public into eating poisonous fungi. His response was to illustrate a number of specimens rather than the 'perfect one' and to model a number of poisonous species for public inspection. This… Leer más

London and New York : Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859 A very good copy in the original cloth binding with 12 colour plates, printed by Edmund Evans. This title is part of a series of relatively cheap and affordable books covering natural history that people might see on a day out/on holiday. Other titles in the series include Common Objects of the Sea Shore, and Common Objects of the Microscope. The binding has been rebacked preserving the original spine. New endpapers have been added. The binding is clean, tight and sound. There are a few lightly faded areas on the front board and the corners are turned. The top back corner is bumped. Contents are complete with frontispiece and 11 further tissue-guarded plates. 6 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Contents are generally clean with the odd spot or mark. There is a small stain in the top gutter which affects preliminaries through to p 1 of text.

London, Edinburgh, and Dublin: A Fullarton and Co. , 1853 A good copy of the 7th corrected and enlarged edition in the original brown cloth binding, with 21 hand coloured plates. The binding has some chipping with loss to the top of the spine, and the cloth is splitting and fraying at the top half of the front hinge. It is otherwise clean and in good order with just light wear at corners and edges. Internally the original endpapers are present and the contents are complete. The plates are tissue-guarded and very clean. The text (and endpapers) have light spotting. The Glossary and Index have been bound slightly out of order, with some Glossary pages in the Index and vice versa - but they are complete.

London : John Booth, 1819 A very good copy in quarter leather binding with 28 hand coloured plates. This copy looks to be in a contemporary binding with new endpapers - so the book is sound and tight. The binding has wear to the top and bottom of the spine, and a little to the joints but is clean and sound with gilt title label and gilt bands to the spine. There is a pencil signature from 1975 to the fep. The book has clearly been used but carefully looked after. There are 2 ink signatures to the title page: Eleanor Moody of Bathampton House, Wiltshire; and Marianne ? of Aldwick Court, Somerset. From the writing it looks like Marianne has done a careful cross check between plates and text, writing the name of the animal neatly in pencil on the plate and writing a cross reference to the plate neatly in the side margin of the text. Contents: 2 initial blank; title with vignette silhouette of Turton, preface, list of conchological authors, explanation of terms and plate list -ppxxiv; plates; text with… Leer más

London: Taylor and Francis for the Linnean Society, and Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1885 A very good copy in the original paper wraps with 2 colour plates at the rear. Paper based on 4 specimens from Natal. The wrap has some repaired tearing at the spine and top but is complete and clean. The stitching of the paper to the wrap is weakening. The paper itself is very bright and clean.

London: S Smith, 1685 A very good copy of Goedart's work on insect metamorphosis, edited by M Lister, who added an appendix. First edition in this form. Johannes Goedart set up, observed and documented a series of experiments which demonstrated that caterpillars, pupae and butterflies were not different animals, but forms of the same animal. His works were first available in translated form in 1662/7. M Lister edited Goedart's work for the Royal Society and added an appendix on marine life. This copy has been rebound with cloth spine with title label, and marbled boards. The binding is in fine condition. New endpapers. Contents: title page 1685; lectori 5pp; 1 plate; text pp 1-356 with 13 plates; title page Appendices.. 1685; introduction 2pp; text pp 1-45 with 7 plates; finis. Overall in very good clean condition. There is a small ink mark to the top of p51; small paper flaw p80; slight crease to the top of plate @p134; plate @p206 has been bound in upside down; small tear to bottom margin p243.

The Savoy: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for the Author, 1670 A good copy of the 1st edition in contemporary full leather binding. The binding has raised bands to spine and a newer title label. It has had some repair in the past but is splitting at the front joint and has general wear. particularly to corners. There is the bookplate of Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet of Bradbourne in Kent, to the front pastedown. He was MP for Rochester in 1689-90. There is also the bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson, a noted Orcadian to the verso of the title page, together with his signed pencil note to the front pastedown. Contents: title page dated 1670; dedication 1p; Report of John Evelyn and letter from a member of the Royal Society 1p; To the Reader 3pp; Errata; Contents 3pp; Table 2pp; text in 6 books; final blank. Contents clean and in very good condition - top margin can be closely trimmed. Some text is mispaginated - 160-141...148-169. The page corner is missing at p245 but text is not affected; and the… Leer más