Macleay, William S. Horae Entomologicae: or Essays on the Annulose Animals. Vol. I., Part I and II.
1st. Ed. Printed for S. Bagster. 1819-1821 Bound in two volumes (all published) with three copper-engraved plates. 8vo. Hardback. With dedication from George Macleay (William’s brother) dated 1880 to verso of title-page in Vol. II (which also contains bookplate of Univ. of Aberdeen). Some spotting and quite minor amount of marking, o/w. contents fine. Early paper covered boards showing wear, more recently protected in clear (removable) plastic covers. Scarce.
Part I comprises ‘General Observations on the Geography, Manners and Natural Affinities of the Insects which compose the Genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental Remarks on the Genera Lucanus and Hister of the same Author.’. Part II comprises ‘An attempt to ascertain the rank and situation which the celebrated Egyptian insect, Scarbaeus sacer, holds among organized beings.’. Macleay was a promoter of the Circular of Quinarian system of classification. Charles Darwin, who got to know Macleay after he returned from the Beagle voyage, tried to fit Quinarian ideas into his evolutionary ideas up to around 1845.
£395.00 [ref: 64615]

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Maddock, James, (Curtis, Samuel (Ed.)). The Florist’s Directory, A Treatise on the Culture of Flowers. To which is added, a Supplementary Dissertation, on Soils, Manures &c.
New [Second] Edition. Pub. Harding, London. 1810 pp.vi, [ii], 271, [16] with 8 fine, hand-coloured, copper engraved plates plus 4-page Publisher’s catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Professional repair to blank corner of one plate. Overall contents nr. fine. Two ownership insc., one dated 1826, the other 1864. More recent full calf leather binding, by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, with gilt lettering and blind decoration in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
Maddock & Son were one of the most noted nurseries and cultivators of florist’s flowers of this period. ‘The Florist’s Directory’ is considered to have been the best English book on florist’s flowers for around 30 years. Five plates finely illustrate varieties of Hyacinth, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculas, Tulips, Anemone, Carnation and Picotee. The other three illustrate roots and cultivation equipment including a frame or awning and a winter repository for Auriculas and Carnations.
£325.00 [ref: 60854]

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Maratti, Giovanni Francesco. Flora Romana. D. Joannis Francisci Maratti : Opus postulum nunc primum in lucem editum.
1st. Ed. Pub. Joseph Salviucci, Rome. 1822-1823 Two volume set. 8vo. Softbacks. Very minor spotting, edges untrimmed as published and a little dusty in places. Contents clean and fine. Original printed covers thor. vg.
Maratti’s (1723-1777) ‘Flora Romana’ was published posthumously by Maurizio Benedetto Olivieri. Maratti was an expert in the flora of the region and he was appointed director of the Botanical Garden of Rome in 1748 where he worked for almost 30 years.
£150.00 [ref: 61982]

Marshall, William. Planting and Rural Ornament. Being a second edition with large additions of planting and ornamental gardening, a practical treatise.
2nd. Enlarged Edition. Pub. London. 1796 Two volume set. With the bookplate of William Orde, Nunnykirk to front paste down of both volumes. Hardbacks. Bound in cloth with leather labels. Boards in very good condition being sunned in places and lightly rubbed on corners. Contents too in very good condition with scattered foxing to parts. Overall a very good set of this delightful work.
(Extract from Blanche Henrey), this is a treatise on the art of planting and laying-out plantations. A large part of the work is dedicated to a catalogue of trees and shrubs, alphabetically laid out using the Linnaen generic names; with a description and propagation information. This second edition comprises more information; in particular, on rural ornament (the laying out of grounds) together with descriptions of noted estates that Marshall visited with his thoughts and suggestions for improvement; some of the estates included are Persfield, near Chepstow; Stowe, near Buckingham and Fiswick near Lichfield.
£300.00 [ref: 45430]

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Martin, Brian P. & Robjent, Richard. Sporting Wildfowl in the British Isles. Studies in Words and Pictures.
1st. Ed. Pub. Fine Sporting. 1999 pp.xiii, [i], 139, [i] with 24 tipped in colour plates, 80 sepia sketches and an original signed sepia sketch by Richard Robjent to limitation page. Royal 4to. Hardback. TEG. Hand marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in half navy morocco with lettering and tooling in 22 carat gold leaf and raised bands to spine. A trifle sunned to spine o/w. a fine hardback in fine slipcase. From the limited edition of 300 of which this is copy No. 109 and signed by both Martin and Robjent.
A superb work. Dubbed the living successor to Archibald Thorburn, Richard Robjent’s work is highly regarded and much sought after.
£475.00 [ref: 68358]

Martyn, Thomas (Trans.). Letters on the Elements addressed to a Lady. By the celebrated J.J. Rousseau. [with] Thirty-eight plates, with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus’s System of Vegetables, etc.
2nd. Corr. & Imp. Ed [and] 1st. Ed. Pub. for B. White and Son. 1787 & 1788 Two works bound in one: pp.[ii], xxv, 500 with one fold-out table plus 28-page index; pp.v, 72 plus 38 fine botanical copper engraved plates by F.N. Nodder. 8vo. Hardback. With early armorial bookplate of N. Micklethwait. A very minor amount of spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original marbled boards with more recent, very sympathetic, calf-leather spine all in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
£250.00 [ref: 68547]

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Maund, Benjamin & Henslow, Rev. John S. The Botanist ; Consisting of Highly finished representations of Tender and Highly Ornamental Plants with Descriptions, Scientific and Popular intended to convey both Moral and Intellectual Gratification.
1st. Ed. Pub. Groombridge et al. [1837-1846] Five volume set with 249 [of 250] exceptional, fine hand coloured plates. Small 4to. Hardback. With charming ownership label of R. Awdry and an armorial bookplate to each front pastedown. With additional engraved title-page to each volume. Spotting to engraved title-pages. Some spotting internally - where it occurs it is largely confined to the tissue guards and occ. to the blank margins of some plates o/w. contents fine. Early half red morocco leather binding over marbled boards (with matching marbling to the fore-edges of the text blocks and to endpapers) with elaborate gilt floral decoration and lettering to spines, showing light rubbing to extremities and in thoroughly vg. condition.
Great Flower Books (p.85). A wonderfully illustrated work. Maund and Henslow collaborated to produce ‘The Botanist’ which was released as a botanical journal to encourage and educate gardeners.
£1,400.00 [ref: 71892]

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Maund, Benjamin. The Botanic Garden. Consisting of highly finished representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, cultivated in Great Britain; with their classification history, culture, and other interesting information.
1st. Ed. Pub. Simpkin and Marshall. 1825-[1850] Thirteen volume set with 312 fine hand-coloured plates depicting 1,248 flowering plants. Small 4to. Hardbacks. Some minor spotting and offsetting, o/w. contents fine. Quite superbly bound in contemporary green morocco, richly gilt decorated, all in near fine condition, just lightly rubbed in places. Provenance: The Plesch copy, being from the library of Arpad Plesch (1889-1974) with his leather bookplate to Volume 1. A superb set.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1863) was a pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller and a fellow of the Linnean Society. He produced ‘The Botanic Garden’ from his press in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Dedicated to Queen Victoria, and released as a periodical, ornamental plants are depicted with great delicacy. ‘A delightful work, not only full of useful and practical information, but illustrated with most charming plates carefully engraved and coloured’ (Great Flower Books). Arpad Plesch was Hungarian and he amassed the magnificent botanical library of the Stiftung für Botanik, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, which was featured in Douglas Cooper’s book ‘Great Private Collections’.
£7,500.00 [ref: 58909]

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Mawson, Thomas. The Art & Craft of Garden Making.
1st. Ed. Pub. B.T. Batsford and Geo. Newnes. 1900 pp.xvii, [i], 224 illus. with perspective views plus plans, sections and details of gardens and garden ornament. Folio. Hardback. TEG. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, with only a very trivial amount elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Original gilt decorated green cloth binding thor. vg. to nr. fine. Comes with a loosely inserted, period, two page (folio) advert of ‘A Few Important books on Architecture, Decoration & Furniture’ offered by B.T. Batsford, London in which they list twelve titles.
A very pleasing first edition copy of Mawson’s seminal work on garden design which became the foundation of modern landscape architecture, with its blend of horticulture and architecture.
£495.00 [ref: 71917]

Meinertzhagen, Colonel R. Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt. Volumes I and II.
1st. Ed. Pub. Hugh Rees Ltd. 1930 Two volume set with 37 colour plates, 6 photogravure plates, 3 fold-out colour maps and text figures throughout. 4to. Hardback. With neat dedication to each half-title. Light scattered spotting to ends incl. to border of frontis. Two neat repairs, a few informed notes in light pencil, a handful of very trivial, small marks elsewhere o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Original green cloth with gilt lettering just lightly rubbed to extremities o/w. fine. With two very interesting loose inserts. The first is a 10-page article from Ibis (1936) by Rev. F.C.R. Jourdain and Rear-Ad. H Lynes ‘Notes on Egyptian Birds’ in which they recount their Egyptian field obsevations on almost 40 species featured in ‘Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt’. The second is an auctioneers illustrated catalogue entry (dated June 2001) for Lodge’s original illustration of a Bearded Vulture - this illustration was reproduced in ‘Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt’ as plate XIX.
In his preface, Meinertzhagen said ‘Finally [my best thanks to] the artists, Mr. G. Lodge, Mr. Roland Green and Mr. H. Gronvold have spared no pains in illustrating the book up to a standard of high excellence.’.
£220.00 [ref: 72109]

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