Meinertzhagen, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edition De Luxe.
1st. Ed. Thus. Pub. Henry Sotheran, London. 1980 pp.[2], xiv, 624 with 19 colour plates (by D.M. Reid-Henry, George Lodge and Talbot Kelly), 9 photographic plates and large fold-out map. Folio. TEG. Contents fine. Original green crushed morocco, gilt lettered and decorated, in fine condition housed in matching green cloth slipcase also in fine condition. Copy No. 37 from the Limited Edition of 295 copies. Comes with a copy of Henry Sotheran’s (the publisher) original four-page, colour illustrated, pre-publication flyer and a copy of the original letter Sotheran’s sent out with each purchased copy in which they explain how the book was made and how to look after it - both items loosely inserted.
Richard Meinertzhagen’s (1878-1967) magnum opus and the first substantial monograph for this area of its kind.
£875.00 [ref: 67851]

Millais, J.G. British Deer and their Horns.
1st. Ed. Pub. Henry Sotheran. 1897 pp.xviii, 224 with many illustrations in text, coloured frontispiece, 6 full-page illustrations and 10 electro-etched plates. Folio. Hardback. The 10 electro-etched plates have some scattered foxing, very largely confined to their borders. Text very clean. Original illustrated binding lightly marked in places, showing a little rippling on boards, overall in vg. condition. Overall a vg. copy.
One of the first in-depth treatments of any group of British mammals. Superbly illustrated. J.G. Millais was a professional artist and dedicated naturalist. He spent years familiarising himself with the animals he illustrated in the interests of portraying them accurately.
£350.00 [ref: 32175]

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Millais, J.G. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. Volumes I to III.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans, Green & Co. 1904-06 Three volume set superbly illustrated with 62 photogravures, 62 coloured plates and 149 b/w. plates including photographs. Royal 4to. TEG. With the bookplate of Arthur Charles Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington (b.1849 d.1934) to front pastedown of Vol. I and a further charming, early, bookplate and signature to each pastedown. Occ. spotting to Vols. II & III, more so to Vol. I o/w. contents fine. Bound in original two-toned blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines and front boards in vg. plus condition.
A monumental work produced in a limited edition of just 1,025 copies, this being set No.356. Illustrations by J.G. Millais himself alongside Henry Gronwold, Archibald Thorburn, George E. Lodge and others.
£425.00 [ref: 72108]

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Miller, Philip. The Gardeners Kalendar, Directing what Works are Neceffary to be done every month in the Kitchen, Fruit and Pleafure Gardens, And in the Conservatory.
5th. Ed. Printed for C. Rivington, London. 1739 pp. xv, 333, [xi] with illus. frontis. 8vo. Hardback. Contents nr fine. Recent handsome half-calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering, decoration and raised bands in fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
The long-title continues ‘With an Account of the particular Seasons for the Propagation and Ufe of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits proper for the Table, and of all Sorts of Flowers, Plants and Trees, that flower every Month.
£225.00 [ref: 68556]

Milne, Colin. A Botanical Dictionary: Or, Elements of Systematic and Philosophical Botany.
1805 pp.[678], plus 25 fine hand-coloured botanical plates, each with facing leaf of explanatory text, 11-page index and 1-page of adverts for books published by H.D. Symonds. 8vo. Hardback. A very minor amount of spotting and very light off-setting o/w. contents fine. Contemporary full calf binding with gilt lettering and decoration to spine just lightly rubbed and very gently sunned to spine o/w. in fine condition. A very pleasing copy of the final, (revised, corrected and significantly enlarged) edition of this detailed work.
Colin Milne (1744?-1815) was a native of Aberdeen. This ‘the third edition of Milne’s ‘Botanical Dictionary’ (1805) is illustrated with twenty-five engravings by Francis Sansom after drawings by Sydenham Edwards.’ (Blanche Henrey). Edwards (1768-1819) was born in Brynbuga (Usk), Wales. ‘In 1779, Mr Denman, a friend of the botanist and author of ‘Flora Londinensis’, William Curtis (1746-1799), happened to be passing through Abergavenny. There, he met the youth Sydenham Edwards and was so impressed by his copies of plates from the Flora that he showed them to Curtis who promptly arranged that Edwards move to London where he was instructed in botanical illustration and set to work firstly on Flora Londinensis and later the ‘Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed’, along with James Sowerby (1757-1822) and William Kilburn (1745-1818) (Orchid Study Group).
£425.00 [ref: 68376]

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Milner, H.E. The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening. With Plans and Illustrations.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Author & Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1890 pp.116 with 22 plates of sepia etchings and col. plans. 4to. Hardback. TEG. Occ. very minor spotting o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front in nr. fine condition.
The author was the son of Edward Milner, who was the colleague for many years of Sir Joseph Paxton, and the younger Milner worked for many years with his father and succeeded him as director of the Crystal Palace School of Gardening.
£325.00 [ref: 68548]

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Milner, H.E. The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening. With Plans and Illustrations.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Author & Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1890 pp.116 with 22 plates of sepia etchings and col. plans. 4to. Hardback. TEG. Occ. very minor spotting o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition.
The author was the son of Edward Milner, who was the colleague for many years of Sir Joseph Paxton, and the younger Milner worked for many years with his father and succeeded him as director of the Crystal Palace School of Gardening.
£295.00 [ref: 67763]

Moffett, Thomas. [Moffat, Mouffet or Muffet]. Insectorum sive minimorum Animalium Theatrum. Olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum.
1st. Ed. 1st. Iss. Pub. London. 1634 pp.[xx], 326, [iv] with woodcuts throughout the text, last 4 leaves with woodcut illus. Royal 4to. Hardback. Title page professionally reinforced at gutter, lightly chipped to fore-edge. Overall, contents in nr. fine condition. Contemporary full-calf boards in thoroughly vg. condition, more recent spine in fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. One of three variant imprints, Lisney identifies this variant as the first issue given the appearance of ‘apud Benjam, Allen’ on the title page. Lisney 3, British Bee Books 25.
A very significant work indeed. A first edition, first issue, copy of the first book about insects published in Britain. Partly compiled from the writings of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Gesner's assistant Thomas Penny, Moffett's copiously illustrated treatise remained the ‘standard work’ on insects until the early 1700s.
£8,750.00 [ref: 57767]

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Montagu, George. Ornithological Dictionary ; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds. Vols. I & II. [with] Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary or Synopsis of British Birds..
1st. Ed. Pub. J. White, London & S. Woolmer, Exeter. 1802 - 1813 Three volumes bound in two with 24 hand-coloured plates and one further uncol. plate. 8vo. Hardback. With charming armorial bookplate of John Martin Leake to front pastedown of both volumes. With Publisher’s Errata leaf for each volume. Some spotting to contents, more so to Vols. I & II, some offsetting to plates o/w. contents fine. More recent handsome quarter calf leather over marbled boards - some light rubbing to marbling o/w. bindings fine. A very pleasing set with the very seldom seen hand-coloured plates - ‘A few copies [of the Supplement] hand coloured for select clients’ (Dance).
‘Montagu, one of the most eminent ornithologists of his day, was born in 1751 at the family seat, Lackham House in Wiltshire.....By far his most important work is his celebrated ‘Ornithological Dictionary’ (Mullens and Swann).
£725.00 [ref: 71824]

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Moore, Thomas & Paul, W. The Florist and Pomologist (1872). a Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture.
Pub. Journal of Horticulture. 1872 pp.288 with 12 colour chromolithograph plates. 8vo. A little foxing to text and borders of plates. One closed tear to fold of fold-out plate, o/w. 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.
£220.00 [ref: 40467]

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