Humphreys, H.N. & Westwood, J.O. British Butterflies and their Transformations.
Pub. William Smith. 1848 pp.xii, 137, [iii] with additional hand col. title page plus 42 hand col. plates. 4to. Hardback. AEG. Some spotting to plate IX, only occ. light marking and / or spotting elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Recently rebound in full morocco leather with Cambridge panel style decoration and sympathetic replacement endpapers all in fine condition.
£425.00 [ref: 71976]

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Huxley, T.H. Collected Essays. Volumes I - IX.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1893-1895 Nine volume set with b/w. illus. 8vo. Bookplates to frontpaste down and ffep., of all vols. Brief notes to rfeps., of two vols. Occasional minor foxing, o/w., contents fine. Original burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing set.
The volume titles are, in order:- Methods and Results; Darwiniana; Science and Education; Science and Hebrew Tradition; Science and Christian Tradition; Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley; Man’s Place in Nature; Discourses: Biological and Geological; Evolution and Ethics.
£350.00 [ref: 57964]

J.W. Gent [i.e. Worlidge, John]. Systema Horti-culturae: or, the Art of Gardening.
1st. Ed. Pub. London for Tho. Burrell, and Will. Hensmen. 1677 pp.[24], 285, [19] with additional engraved title-page and 3 engraved plates by F.H. van Houe. 8vo. Hardback. Overall contents thor. vg. Some toning and marking internally. Ffep. with ownership inscription ‘John Cadmene, Book, 1731’ and manuscript calculations, part of blank margin neatly excised. Engraved title with contemporary ownership inscription ‘Rose Gregorye’ scored out. Contemporary leather boards in vg. plus condition, more recently rebacked, this in fine condition. Scarce. ESTC records just 12 copies worldwide.
Intended as a companion to the author's ‘Systema agriculturae’ (1669). The work ‘contains much useful advice and information for the practical gardener. The author, referred to by John Houghton as ‘the ingenious Mr. John Worlidge of Petersfield in Hampshire’, is generally considered one of the most enlightened of the seventeenth-century writers on gardening and husbandry’.
£2,750.00 [ref: 61834]

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Jackson, John. The Practical Fly-Fisher. more particularly for Grayling or Umber.
4th. Ed. Pub. Gibbings and Co. 1899 pp. 72 with 10 plates of fine hand-coloured copper engravings and 4-pages of adverts. 8vo. Bookplate. Neat contemporary ownership inscription to title-page. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth with gilt decoration in nr. fine condition. A super copy.
A total of 120 flies, natural and artificial, are illustrated in the hand-coloured plates.
£225.00 [ref: 38899]

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Jardine, Sir William. The Natural History of Humming-birds. The Naturalist’s Library.
Pub. Lizars, Edinburgh. (1834) Two volumes bound in one; pp.[8], [i]-iii, 147, [8], [i]-iv, 166 plus 6-pages of publisher’s adverts. With 64 hand-coloured plates, 2 hand-coloured title-pages and 2 portrait frontis. Small 8vo. Hardback. Minor off-setting and spotting, o/w. contents fine. More recent half-calf binding with period style paper label, all in nr. fine condition.
The first portrait frontispiece depicts Carl Linnaeus, with the second being an image of Thomas Pennant.
£450.00 [ref: 59536]

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Jeffreys, John Gwyn. British Conchology, Or an account of the Mollusca which now inhibit the British Isles and the Surrounding Seas.
1st. Ed. Pub. van Voorst. 1862-1869 Five volume set, each with colour frontis., plus 142 b/w. plates. 8vo. Hardbacks. Ex. academic lib. Very minor spotting to text, o/w. fine. Spotting to some plates, the majority clean and fine. More recent ochre cloth binding, gilt lettered spines, lib. labels neatly removed, o/w. in fine condition. A very pleasing set.
With four van Voorst catalogues bound in for December 1860, January 1863, one not dated (c. 1867) and May 1868.
£225.00 [ref: 61972]

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Johnson, Joseph Forsyth. The Natural Principles of Landscape Gardening: Or the Adornment of Land for Perpetual Beauty.
1st. Ed. Pub. for the Author by Archer & Sons, Belfast. [1874] pp.[4],[1],ii, [2], [1], ii-viii, [1], 2-152 with 11 lithograph plates plus 12-pages of adverts. Large 8vo. Hardback. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text block and internally o/w. contents fine. Endpapers renewed. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine neatly repaired at spine ends, gently bowed, all in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition.
Johnson (1840?-1906) was an English landscape architect and disciple of Ruskin. Little is known of his early life, but it is known that he worked for the Manchester Botanical Garden as a flower arranger in 1867. He went on to become one of the most significant prophets of naturalistic planting through his association with Ruskin. In 1868, he became the curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Belfast.
£195.00 [ref: 68378]

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Jones, Paul. Flora Superba. Selected and painted by the artist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Tryon Gallery, London. 1971 pp.[xviii] with 16 fine colour chromolithograph plates, each with supporting text leaf. Some spotting to verso of frontis., and to a couple of tissue guards. Two tissue guards a little creased, one with a small hole, o/w. contents fine. Original half-vellum by Zaehnsdorf with some spotting to the vellum o/w. fine. Housed in matching slipcase which is mottled and marked. Copy No. 127 from a Limited Edition of 406 copies - signed by Paul Jones.
Paul Jones (1921-1997), the highly regarded Australian artist, painted the magnificent botanical illustrations for ‘Flora Superba’ and they are very much reminiscent of Thornton’s ‘Temple of Flora’. The plates were printed in multi-colour lithography at the Curwen Press.
£325.00 [ref: 67892]

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Kingdon Ward, Capt. Frank. In Farthest Burma. The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet.
1st. Ed. Pub. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1921 pp.311 with photographic frontis., two maps (one folding), 16 further plates of photographs plus 8-page Publisher’s adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Very minor amount of spotting o/w. contents exceptionally clean, short closed tear to fold of map, o/w. contents fine. Original illustrated black cloth boards showing very minor shelf wear and very gently sunned to spine, o/w. fine. A most pleasing copy.
£600.00 [ref: 43023]

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Kingdon-Ward, Frank From China to Hkamti Long.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1924 pp.317 with photographic frontis., a further 19 photographs, fold-out map and 16-page publishers catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. With the signature of Frank Kingdon-Ward on a separate piece of card, loosely inserted. Lightly bumped on corners, otherwise original cloth binding in fine condition. Very minor amount of foxing, o/w. contents in fine condition.
£495.00 [ref: 34931]

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