Rusticus, (Newman, E.). The Letters of Rusticus on the Natural History of Godalming. Extracted from the Magazine of Natural History, the Entomological Magazine, and the Entomologist.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Van Voorst. 1849 pp.viii, 164, with vignettes and b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine, some pages uncut. Original decorated red cloth boards in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
£110.00 [ref: 56049]

Salmon, William. Botanologia. The English Herbal or History of Plants. Containing I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their species, or various kinds. III. Their descriptions. IV. Their places of growth. V. Their times of flowering and seeding. VI. Their qualities or properties. VII. Their specifications. VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick. IX Their virtues and uses. X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists...,
1st. Ed. Pub. London : Printed by I. Dawks, for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor. 1710 pp.[viii], xxiv, 1296, [44] with engraved frontis., illustrated with wood-cuts plus 44-page Index Plantarum and Index Latinus, plus 6-page Index Morborum. Folio. Hardback. Neat signature of C.H. Hallows (dated 1763) to ffep., and more recent charming bookplate of S.W. Chievley, Tunbridge Wells to pastedown. Occ. spotting, small number of leaves toned and marginal marking as to be expected with a work of this age and nature. Old minor worm marks to indexes, overall contents very square and in vg. plus condition. Contemporary full-calf boards in vg. condition, showing some rubbing to extremities, with more recent sympathetic full-calf spine just lightly rubbed in places. A very pleasing copy.
Salmon’s ‘Botanologia’ is regarded as the ‘swan song of the great English herbalists’. The purpose of the ‘Index Morborum’ is to act as a quick reference guide and it lists ailments and the plants that can be used to treat them. Importantly ESTC indicates that the ‘Index Morborum’ is only found in some copies.
£1,825.00 [ref: 70190]

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Saunders, Edward. The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands. A descriptive account of the Families, Genera, and Species Indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, with notes as to Localities, Habitats, Etc.
1st. Ed. Pub. L. Reeve & Co. 1892 pp.vi, [1], 350 with one uncoloured and 31 hand-coloured plates. Large 8vo. Hardback. The large paper edition. Occasional, minor spotting, o/w. contents in fine condition. Bookplate of Arthur Cyrus Butterworth. Original binding with gilt lettered spine and gilt lozenge to front board, all in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
£275.00 [ref: 57956]

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Saville-Kent, William. The Naturalist in Australia.
1st. Ed. Pub. Chapman & Hall. 1897 pp.xv, 320 plus one page advert. Royal 4to. Illustrated with 50 full-page collotype plates and 9 coloured plates by Keulemans and others. Scattered foxing to photographic frontis., o/w. contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Spine professionally relaid, boards beautifully clean; showing some minor rubbing on corners. Was £525.00.
William Saville-Kent (1845-1908) was an English marine biologist of high regard; a member of both the Zoological Society of London and the Linnean Society. In ‘The Naturalist in Australia’ he wanted to present ‘glimpses of the Faunal and Floral products of that magnificent component of our Empire - the Island Continent of Australia.’ He wanted to present the peculiarities that he observed over almost 12 years. His liberal use of quality photographs are important examples of the effective use of this medium for scientific illustration.
£450.00 [ref: 47705]

Seebohm, Henry. A History of British Birds with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. [with] Classification of Birds [with] Geographical Distribution of British Birds.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Iss. Pub. Nimmo, London. 1896 Four volume set with 68 fine colour lithographs, plus illus. in text, bound with Seebohm’s ‘Classification of British Birds’ and his ‘Geographical Distribution of British Birds’ each with their own title-page. Royal 8vo. Hardback. With signature of H. Becker dated May 1898 to each title-page. Occ., mostly marginal, minor spotting to plates, small light mark to blank margin of 15 plates, only occ. very minor spotting to text o/w. contents fine. More recent handsome half calf over marbled boards, with gilt lettering and decoration, showing some sunning to spines, o/w. fine. Uncommon second issue.
This issue of Seebohm’s sought after work benefited from the inclusion of two additional works of his, the ‘Classification...’ (Pub. 1895 and running to 36-pages) and his seldom found ‘Geographical Distribution.....’ (Pub. 1893 and running to 190 pages).
£625.00 [ref: 67471]

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Seitz, A. The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Volume 1. The Macrolepidoptera of the Palaearctic Fauna - Tome 3 Noctuiform Phalaenae.
1st Ed. Pub. Fritz Lehmann Verlag- Stuttgart. 1907 Bound in two volumes, the first comprising text, the second comprising 72 full-page, colour plates of chromolithograph images. Folio. Hardbacks. Contents in fine condition. Handsomely bound in half-morocco leather over cloth boards, gilt lettered spine, all in fine condition.
£300.00 [ref: 21139]

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Seth-Smith, D. Parrakeets. Handbook to the Imported Species.
Pub. R.H. Porter. 1903 pp.xviii, [ii], 282 with 20 colour (incl. 19 hand-col.) plates by Gronvold, Goodchild and Frohawk plus b/w. figs in text. 8vo. Hardback. Light coloured spotting to fore-edges of text block and to title page o/w. contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. This work was originally released in 6 parts between June 1902 and October 1903. The front covers of each of these parts have been bound in to the rear of this volume. Bound in more recent red cloth (to closely resemble the Publisher’s original binding) with gilt lettering to spine all in fine condition. Comes with an original copy of R.H. Porter’s (loosely inserted) advertisement for the work. Also comes with an original advert for H.E. Rogers’ ‘Liverpool Zoological Park’ in which they advertise (with prices) aviary moulted birds for sale incl. Macaws, Parrots, Turacos, Parrakeets, Weavers, Budgerigars and more.
David Seth Smith’s work on parrots and parakeets was one of the last fine bird books illustrated with hand coloured lithographs. Artists included Gronvold and Frohawk. The lithographs were printed by Mintern Brothers (famous for printing many of John Gould’s bird prints) and Bale & Danielson, then coloured by hand.
£550.00 [ref: 71974]

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Shelley, G.E. A Handbook of the Birds of Egypt.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Van Voorst. 1872 pp.[iv], viii, [ii], 342 with 14 fine hand-coloured lithographs by J.G. Keulemans. 8vo. Large paper copy (measures 26.5cm x 17cm). Believed to have been Sir John Slessor’s copy with a signature and a letter (dated 05.04.68) from Ainsford Books in support of this. Also comes with a handwritten letter (dated 6th Feb. 1896) from J.H. Gurney, author of ‘Rambles of a Naturalist in Egypt and other Countries’ in which he talks about a new edition of this work and that he had added a new species of Owl ‘Ninox spilonotus’ to the collection of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. Minor spotting to fore-edges of text block, to ends and a very minor amount internally o/w. contents fine. More recent handsome blue half-morocco leather binding, a trifle sunned to spine, o/w. fine.
"The information in this excellent work is derived chiefly from a collection of nearly a thousand skins of birds". The author travelled extensively in the Nile area and was able to observe the birds first-hand. Some of the birds are illustrated here for the first time.
£600.00 [ref: 71823]

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Sitwell, S. Buchanan, H. and Fisher, J. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900.
Pub. Collins and Van Nostrand. 1953. pp.viii, 120 with full page colour plates that have reproduced beautifully. Folio. Contents generally very clean with the exception of a handful of plates that have very mild foxing to the edges. Bound in half cloth and marbled boards which are lightly marked in places. The marbling on the boards also shows some wear along the fore-edges. Overall a vg. copy.
The reproduction of the plates in this work were completed to a very high standard making this both a beautiful book to look at and an extremely useful reference work for those collecting fine bird books.
£120.00 [ref: 46374]

Smith, James Edward. Lachesis Lapponica or A Tour in Lapland. Volume 1. Now published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus.
Pub. White and Cochrane. 1811 pp.xvi, 366 with a few illustrations in the text. Inscription to ffep. dated 1956. Bound in original calf boards with new spine and gilt lettering. Binding in very good condition. Foxing to end-papers with contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Volume 1 [of 2]. Overall a very good copy.
£300.00 [ref: 39036]

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