Tate [Galleries and O’Keeffe, Georgia]. Georgia O’Keeffe Portfolio : O’Keeffe Flowers.
1st. Ed. thus Pub. Tate. 2016 A portfolio of four colour, archival quality, prints with supporting, illustrated text leaf, all housed in publisher’s solander box. Folio (each print measuring 40cm x 30cm). Contents fine. Solander box nr. fine. Out-of-print.
In 2016, Tate Modern held an impressive Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition and this specially printed portfolio was produced in support of it. The prints illustrate O’Keeffe’s illustrations of ‘Abstraction White Rose’, ‘Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1’, ‘Jimson Weed’ and ‘Black Iris’. Giclee printed in the UK on Somerset Enhanced 100% cotton rag paper with hand-finished edges.
£500.00 [ref: 66436]

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Theobald, Fred. V. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes.
1st. Ed. Pub. British Museum (Natural History). 1901-1910 Complete set comprising five text vols. and one plate vol. (a total of 37 colour and 44 b/w. plates) with two Errata labels for plates in Vol. III and Errata for Vols. I and II. 8vo. Hardback. Ex-BM(NH) lib. with their stamp (incl. to verso of plates), o/w. contents fine. Original gilt lettered BM(NH) cloth, spine of Vol. IV professionally repaired and bindings overall in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. A very pleasing set of this seldom come across work.
The long-title continues ‘Mainly compiled from the collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the investigation into the cause of Malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society.’.
£475.00 [ref: 67411]

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Thorburn, Archibald (& Grahame, Major Iain). Birds of Prey. A facsimile of the 1919 edition with a new foreword.
De Luxe Ed. Pub. Major Iain Grahame. 1985 pp.[viii], [ii], iii plus 12 mounted colour plates each with supporting page of text. Folio. Hardback. TEG. Hand-made paper and marbled end-papers. Very minor spotting indeed o/w. contents fine. Original three-quarter dark green morocco with gilt lettering and decoration in nr. fine condition. This edition was limited to just 145 copies of which 135 (numbered 16 to 150) were for sale. Ten hors de commerce copies were also produced and lettered A to J - this copy being hors de commere copy I. A most pleasing copy.
“First published in 1919 and limited to only one hundred and fifty copies, it has always been a great scarcity. One reason is that it was never issued in book form, but rather as a portfolio of lithographed prints, with an accompanying page of text. Many of them have been split up and framed, so only a very few copies remain in their original format. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Thorburn’s death, on 9 October 1935, I am proud to be republishing this little known work” Major Iain Grahame.
£725.00 [ref: 66528]

Thorburn, Archibald. British Mammals.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans Green. 1920 Two volumes with 50 illus. in colour and many line drawings. Royal 4to. TEG. Scattered foxing to end-papers, o/w. contents fine. Original red cloth boards in near fine condition. A very pleasing set indeed.
£525.00 [ref: 38262]

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Thornton, Robert & Dressendorfer, Werner. The Temple of Flora The Complete Plates.
1st. Ed. thus Pub. Taschen. 2008 Thirty-two loose-leaf (Elephant folio sized) colour prints plus same-sized engraved title-page. Accompanied by a (same-sized) 44-page illustrated softback book comprising Dressendorfer’s introductory text and text supporting the plates (multi-lingual - English, French, German and Spanish). Contents in fine condition. Housed in Publisher’s illustrated clamshell case in nr. fine condition. Also comes with the Publisher’s illustrated cardboard packaging.
The year 1799 witnessed the first installment of a work that has gone down in history as one of the most remarkable books of botanical plates ever published. Two centuries have passed since the publication of Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora, but its charm remains unsullied today.
£325.00 [ref: 72056]

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Triggs, Hugo Inigo. The Art of Garden Design in Italy.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans. 1906 pp.xii, 134 with 128 b/w. plates, both photographic and illustration (collated and complete). Elephant folio. Hardback. Many illus. in text. Lightly coloured, scattered foxing in some places - largely confined to margins of plates. Spine showing some fading and minor wear at ends, common for this work. Boards also a little shelf-rubbed. A very good copy of this sumptuous work.
H. Inigo Triggs was born in 1876 and became a landscape gardener, architect and writer. He designed many formal gardens and later undertook the design of country houses, mostly in southern England. He specialised in historical research and recreating gardens from the past. His books influenced the Italian mode of the Arts and Crafts style in England. In 1926 he entered a partnership with the architect William Unsworth.
£250.00 [ref: 48410]

Triggs, Hugo Inigo. The Art of Garden Design in Italy.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans. 1906 pp.xii, 134 with 128 b/w. plates, both photographic and illustration (collated and complete). Elephant folio. Hardback. Spotting to the borders of around half of the plates (in several instances encroaching a little onto the plate itself) and their assoc. text leaves, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated and lettered cloth binding in vg. condition showing some shelf rubbing and light wear to extremities.
In this work the reader is transported to the gardens of Italy at the turn of the 20th Century through a combination of absorbing text, charming garden plans and folio sized, wonderfully atmospheric and, detailed photographs. H. Inigo Triggs books influenced the Italian mode of the Arts and Crafts style in England and in 1926 he entered a partnership with the architect William Unsworth.
£150.00 [ref: 67893]

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Tucker, A.G.C. Ornithologia Danmoniensis: Or, An History of the Habits and Economy of Devonshire Birds. Volume I - Part II.
1st. Ed. Pub. T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand. 1809 pp.xli-lxxxviii, with 3 plates in two states (hand-coloured and uncoloured). 4to. Text uncut. This copy also comes with an additional 3 uncoloured plates not usually present. In original wrapper. Rare.
This was the first English attempt at compiling a local avifauna. Two of the planned 24 parts were published. The fine plates feature illustrations of The Green Woodpecker, The Young Hen Harrier and The Yellow Wagtail.
£650.00 [ref: 54747]

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Turrill, W.B. A Supplement to Elwes’ monograph of the genus Lilium. Part IX. Illustrated by Margaret Stones.
1st. Ed. Pub. RHS. 1962 pp.12 with 5 fine botanic colour lithograph plates. Elephant folio. AEG. Contents in fine condition. Bound in full blue morocco lightly rubbed on extremities and a little marking to rear board. With original, illustrated, card covers bound in.
This supplement was published in August 1962 by the RHS. Just 500 copies of this, the colour lithography, edition were made. The plates were illustrated by Margaret Stones (1920-2018) the Australian botanical illustrator who worked as the principal contributing artist to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine from 1950 to 1981. Each plate is supported with text by Turrill and line drawings. A super work.
£125.00 [ref: 42833]

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Van Pelt Lechner, A.A. Oologia Neerlandica. Eggs of Birds Breeding in the Netherlands.
1st. Ed. Pub. Martinus Nijhoff. 1910-13 Two volumes depicting 667 birds eggs over 191 individually mounted, chromolithograph and heliotype plates. Tissue guards. Collated and complete. Crown 4to. TEG. English text. Bound in half-morocco leather over marbled boards; raised bands, spines richly decorated and lettered in gilt. Spines show a little uniform sunning. Very minor spotting, o/w. contents clean and in fine condition. Boards near fine condition. A very handsome set of this very scarce and highly regarded work. Prov: Francois Haverschmidt (1906-1987), the world renowned Dutch ornithologist - his ownership inscription dated September 1926 on front free endpapers.
‘A work on the eggs of the birds of Holland, of unusual merits...(it) was issued in an edition of 250 copies, 100 of which were printed in English [the rest in Dutch] (Zimmer II, 651). The work was very well received. A review in the American Ornithologists Union journal ‘The Auk’ (Apr. 1914), said upon the release of the last four parts, ‘The unusually high standard of both plates and letter press is fully maintained and the work will take its place as one of the noteworthy publications dealing with birds’ eggs - an example of what can be done in scientific oological investigation’.
£3,500.00 [ref: 54707]

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