Kirby, William and Spence, William An Introduction to Entomology: Or elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates.
3rd. Ed. Pub. Longman et al. 1818-1826 Four volume set with two portrait frontis., six hand-coloured plates, 24 b/w. plates and fold-out table. 8vo. Hardbacks. Occasional spotting to text, o/w. fine. Scattered spotting to some b/w. plates, less so to hand-col. plates. Vol. I bound in brown half-calf over marbled boards, Vols. II to IV in black half-calf over cloth boards (bound by J.D. Smith, Deptford Bridge), all in good to vg. condition.
£225.00 [ref: 62681]

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Krause, Ernst. Erasmus Darwin. With a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1879 pp.iv, 216 plus portrait frontispiece of Erasmus Darwin and two full-page woodcut illus. 8vo. Hardback. Signature to second ffep. Some sections unopened. Some spotting to endpapers o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth with gilt lettering in nr. fine condition. A most pleasing copy of this scarce work.
Charles Darwin said of the key role he played in the publication of this book "In 1879, I had a translation of Dr. Ernst Krause's Life of Erasmus Darwin published, and I added a sketch of his character and habits from materials in my possession. Many persons have been much interested by this little life, and I am surprised that only 800 or 900 copies were sold. Owing to my having accidentally omitted to mention that Dr. Krause had enlarged and corrected his article in German before it was translated, Mr Samuel Butler abused me with almost insane virulence..."
£1,295.00 [ref: 70714]

Lander, Richard & John. Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger; With a narrative of a voyage down that river to its termination.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray, London. 1832 Three volume set complete; each volume with frontis., plus two maps (one being fold-out), 4 further plates and 1-page of adverts at rear of Vol. II. Small 8vo. Hardbacks. Some spotting to fore-edges of text blocks and occasionally internally, o/w. contents clean and fine. Bound in original light brown printed cloth boards, showing a light shelf wear and a little darkening to spine, o/w. in fine condition. A very pleasing set.
Richard and John Lander's fascinating account of their expedition to the termination of the Niger. In addition to the plates and maps, there are some illustrations within the text and a 12-page section details the stores, medicines and surgical instruments they took with them.
£350.00 [ref: 61998]

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Lander, Richard & John. Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger; With a narrative of a voyage down that river to its termination.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray, London. 1832 Three volume set complete; each volume with frontis., plus two maps (one being fold-out), 4 further plates and 1-page of adverts at rear of Vol. II. Small 8vo. Hardbacks. Very minor spotting, o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Bound in original light brown printed cloth boards, showing a little shelf wear, o/w. in fine condition. A very pleasing set.
Richard and John Lander's fascinating account of their expedition to the termination of the Niger. In addition to the plates and maps, there are some illustrations within the text and a 12-page section details the stores, medicines and surgical instruments they took with them.
£375.00 [ref: 61254]

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Lange, Jacob E. Flora Agaricina Danica.
1st. Ed. Pub. Recato, Copenhagen. 1935 Complete set. Five volumes bound as three, with 200 fine colour chromolithographed plates. Large 4to. Hardbacks. English text with Latin names. Contents in fine condition. Typed copies of the Indexes loosely inserted in Volume 3. Handsomely bound in period blue cloth; red title labels with gilt lettering to spines, all in fine condition. A very pleasing set indeed.
‘Flora Agaricina Danica is as thorough as it is beautiful. Lange illustrated nearly all the Danish Agaricales pictured within from life, often receiving more exotic species through the post from Colleagues’ (Chronophobia). G.C. Ainsworth wrote of the work ‘[the illustrations] are both scientifically invaluable and superb examples of modern printing’.
£1,600.00 [ref: 35042]

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Lawson, William. A New Orchard & Garden. Or, The best way for Planting, Grafting, and to make any Ground good for a Rich Orchard...... With The Country House-wifes Garden for Herbs of Common use..... As also The Husbandry of Bees, with their several Uses and Annoyances.... The Art of Propagating Plants.
Pub. for Hannah Sawbridge, Ludgate Hill. 1683 pp.[iv], 102 with illustrated title-page, separate title-page for ‘The Country House-Wifes Garden’ and two further half-titles. With 6 plates (5 illustrating Knot Garden designs) and further woodcut illus. within text. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Contents in nr. fine condition. More recently, handsomely bound in half leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, all in fine condition. Prov: Neat private library stamp to front pastedown (Rothamsted, Lawes Trust). Scarce. Harding 20.
£1,750.00 [ref: 55024]

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Lightfoot, The Revd. J. Flora Scotica: Or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean Method of the Native Plants of Scotland and the Hebrides.
1st. Ed. Pub. for B. White, London. 1777 Two volume set with printed title-pages, two illustrated title-pages and 35 fine copper engraved plates (9 being fold-out). 8vo. Hardbacks. Some spotting, o/w. contents fine. Marbled fore-edges. Early quarter calf binding with gilt floral decoration in good to vg. condition - externally the hinges show some wear, internally they are fine.
The “only professedly complete work on the plants of Scotland until 1821” (Henrey). The work begins with a section on the fauna of Scotland, a sketch of ‘Caledonian Zoology’ as Lightfoot called it in his Preface. The author of this part of the work was Thomas Pennant. Five of the fine copper engraved plates are ornithological depicting an Osprey, Hooded Crow, Knot, Sand-piper, Long-legged Plover, Black Headed Gull and Black Gull. The remainder are fine botanical.
£495.00 [ref: 61127]

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Lilford, Lord. Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. R.H. Porter, London. 1885-1897 Seven volume set. With photogravure portrait frontispiece and 421 fine chromolithograph or hand-coloured plates. Royal 8vo. TEG. With charming bookplate of H & F Fattorini to front pastedown of each volume. With front cover of original part wrappers bound in at end of each volume. Some light coloured marking to blank margins of some plates in Vols. II and V, spotting to a couple of plates, o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Text leaves neatly numbered in pencil. Marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in period half morocco over green cloth boards with sewn headbands all in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition with light marking to boards, spines showing gentle and even sunning and a few corners gently bumped. A very pleasing set.
The majority of the plates are by Archibald Thorburn or J.G. Keulemans, with the remainder executed by G.E. Lodge and W. Foster. Originally issued in 36 parts.
£2,500.00 [ref: 68117]

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Lilford, Lord. Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. R.H. Porter, London. 1885-1897 Seven volume set. With photogravure portrait frontispiece and 421 fine chromolithograph or hand-coloured plates. Royal 8vo. TEG. With armorial bookplate of Richard Heywood Thompson to front pastedown of each volume. Some spotting, and only very minor off setting, mostly confined to text o/w. contents in fine condition. Marbled endpapers. Original half morocco leather over marbled boards, bound by R.H. Porter, with gilt lettering, raised bands to spine and sewn headbands, all in nr. fine condition. A most pleasing set.
Very pleasing provenance. Richard Heywood Thompson was a subscriber to this work and he is mentioned as such in the List of Subscribers (page xxxiv). The majority of the plates are by Archibald Thorburn or J.G. Keulemans, with the remainder executed by G.E. Lodge and W. Foster.
£2,750.00 [ref: 64439]

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London, George and Wise, Henry. The Retir’d Gard’ner. In two volumes. Vol. I & II.
1st. English Ed. Pub. Jacob Tonson, London. 1706 Two volumes bound in one: pp. engraved frontis., [xx], 383 with 12 plates (one being fold-out) plus figs. in text; frontis., [x], 385-786, [xiv] with 9 plates, 1 large fold-out plan plus figs. in text. 8vo. Hardback. Spotting to seven plates o/w. contents overall exceptionally clean and nr. fine. Handsome early full calf binding with Cambridge panel decoration, superbly restored spine and corners, all in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
The allegorical frontispiece (two) was engraved by Michael van der Gucht from a drawing by the French artist Louis Laguerre (1663-1721). ‘The Retir’d Gard’ner’ appeared in 1706....[and] is an English version of two French works which London and Wise ‘revised with several alterations and additions which render it proper for our English Culture.’. London was one of the last great formalists (Oxford Comp. to Gardens) and this is borne out through the inclusion of very interesing plates of parterres, clipped topiary, mazes, a portico and a bowling green.
£525.00 [ref: 71916]

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