Moore, Thomas. The Florist and Pomologist: (1878). a Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture.
Pub. Kent & Co. 1878 pp.iii, 188 with 24 fine colour chromolithographic plates. 8vo. Some foxing to ends and to some small portions of text. Plates generally very clean. Overall contents in vg. condition. Bound in green half calf-leather with marbled boards. Raised bands, gilt decoration and lettering to spine - very good to fine condition. Marbling to fore-edges of text-block. A lovely copy. VG. condition.
Practical information on aspects of gardening and garden design. For example, this volume provides information on newly introduced Pictoee Carnations and the transplanting of valuable trees and shrubs. Interestingly, contains an article on the Herefordshire Pomona and how the Woolhope Club did not want to make any profit from it, hence the small print run. A previous owner has written what apple varieties are found in the volumes for 1872 to 1878 inclusive (we have all these volumes in stock).
£350.00 [ref: 40470]

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Moore, Thomas. & Paul, W. The Florist and Pomologist (1874). a Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture.
Pub. Journal of Horticulture. 1874 pp.292 with 24 fine colour chromolithographs. 8vo. Some scattered foxing at ends and to a small part of the text. Plates in fine condition. Overall contents in vg. condition. Bound in green half calf-leather with marbled boards. Raised bands, gilt decoration and lettering to spine - very good to fine condition. Marbling to fore-edges of text-block. A lovely copy. VG. condition.
£350.00 [ref: 40469]

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Morris, Rev. F.O. A History of British Butterflies
Pub. Groombridge and Sons. 1865 pp.viii, 168, 29 with 71 hand-coloured plates and two further b/w. plates. Royal 8vo. Hardback. A minor amount of spotting, very largely confined to text leaves and tissue guards, o/w. contents fine. Recently, sympathetically, rebound in blue cloth with decorated panel from original binding inlaid, all in fine condition.
£220.00 [ref: 71973]

Morris, Rev. F.O. A History of British Moths.
6th. Ed. Pub. John C.Nimmo. 1903 Four volume set with 132 hand-coloured plates. 4to. Hardbacks. Minor spotting, one short closed marginal tear, o/w. contents fine. Parts uncut. Original green cloth boards with gilt moth emblem to front cover and gilt lettering to spine, all in vg. to thor. vg. condition.
£250.00 [ref: 60743]

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Morris, Rev., F.O. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds.
2nd. Ed. Pub. George Bell & Sons, London. 1875 Three volume set with 233 chromolithographed colour plates. Each volume contains a George Bell and Sons’ catalogue at the rear as published. Royal 8vo. Hardback. Very minor spotting, minor crease to blank margin of one plate o/w. contents exceptional and in fine condition. With B.O.U. bequest bookplate to each front pastedown and a signature to Vol. I. Original, gilt lettered and richly decorated green cloth in nr. fine condition. A superb set of the preferred second edition.
With neat handwritten period notes to the Great Auk entry thus ‘Lord Lilford obtained at Stevens’ auction rooms on Friday July 2nd 18_, 2 Auk’s eggs for over £100 each’ and ‘Another five specimens bought by Mr Field at Stevens for 160 guineas. 18 Dec 1887.’.
£800.00 [ref: 62884]

Mossman, Samuel. The Origin of the Seasons. Considered from a Geological Point of View.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Blackwood. 1869 pp.xvi, 472 with tissue-guarded double-page frontispiece map plus further illus., and 20-page publisher’s catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Minor spotting to fore-edge of text block, o/w. contents fine. With period, 2-page, list of publications by David Page tipped onto ffep. Neat signature dated 1869 to front pastedown. Original green cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, with bevelled edges showing some discolouration to boards, o/w. nr. fine. Scarce.
£100.00 [ref: 61814]

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Nansen, Dr. Fridtjof. Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of fifteen months’ Sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen.
2nd. Ed. Pub. George Newnes. 1898 Two vol. set with frontis. to each volume, plus plates and fold-out colour map (loosely inserted). Large 8vo. Map shows a little wear and some spotting (largely to underside), o/w. contents in fine condition. Spines gently rolled. Bound in green cloth boards, gilt lettered to spine in thor. vg. condition.
£90.00 [ref: 61813]

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Nicol, Walter. The Practical Planter, or, A Treatise on Forest Planting: Comprehending the culture and management of planted and natural Timber, in every stage of its growth.
2nd. Corr. Imp. Ed. Pub. For J. Scatcherd and H.D. Symonds. 1803 pp.xvi, 306, [22], 2-page advert. 8vo. Very minor amount of spotting, small part of four margins wanting, o/w. contents fine. Bound in original paper covered boards, lightly rubbed and in thor. vg. condition.
£275.00 [ref: 61439]

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Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. Report on the Birds collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea.
1st. Ed. Pub. Ibis 1915 pp.240 with 8 fine colour plates by Gronvold and two maps. Folio. Hardback. Some light coloured foxing to verso of plates, o/w. contents fine. Bound in contemporary quarter morocco leather in thor. vg. condition.
A.F.R. Wollaston led the second expedition to Dutch New Guinea and was completely successful, reaching the high peaks of the Snow mountains and bringing back large collections. This report covers 321 species and includes additional forms obtained by other expeditions. It contains a vast amount of information upon the relationship and status of birds of this portion of New Guinea which could only be obtained from adequate series of specimens collected on this expedition. Many new forms were first described here.
£400.00 [ref: 28293]

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Owen, Charles. An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents.
1st. Ed. Pub. Printed for the Author. 1742 pp.xxiii, 240 plus index. Illustrated with seven pages of copper engraved plates. Occ. spotting, o/w. contents fine More recently rebound in half calf leather over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, all in fine condition. A handsome copy.
£1,000.00 [ref: 43937]

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