Bewick, Thomas. History of British Birds.
2nd. Ed. Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick. 1805 Two volume set with wood engravings throughout. Large 8vo. Hardbacks. With bookplate of Thomas Holme Maude (1770-1849) to both volumes. Minor, scattered spotting, o/w. contents very bright and fine. Contemporary straight-grained half-morocco over marbled boards with matching end-papers; showing minor wear at top of spine of Vol. II, o/w. in thor. vg. condition.
A very pleasing large paper set. ‘The success of the ‘History of British Birds’ was immediate and complete; six editions were issued in Bewick’s lifetime’ (Mullens and Swann).
£800.00 [ref: 58669]

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Blaikie, Francis. On the Conversion of Arable Land into Pasture and on other Rural subjects.
1st. Ed. Pub. J. Dawson. 1817 pp.47. 16mo. Sewn softback. Contents very clean. Internal stitching given way in places. Original printed wrappers in vg. condition. Scarce.
Francis Blaikie, (1771-1857) agriculturist and land agent was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland and made his way to England in 1802. He was employed by Lord Chesterfield, then in 1816 he moved to Holkham Hall, Norfolk to work as Land Steward to Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester and to whom this work is dedicated.
£95.00 [ref: 59942]

Boutcher, William. A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto published, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments.
1st. Ed. Pub. R. Fleming, Edinburgh. 1775 pp.4, xlviii, 259 plus 3-page postscript. 4to. Hardback. Neat, early, signature to title-page. Contents thor. vg. to nr. fine with intermittent minor spotting. Does not contain the engraved title (present in a small number of copies) and not signed by the author. More recent handsome quarter cloth over marbled boards, lightly marked o/w. fine. A very pleasing copy.
William Boutcher was a nurseryman at Comely Garden, Edinburgh. His ‘A Treatise on Forest-Trees’ ‘was the best eighteenth-century work published on the subject and, in the opinion of Edlin, it still contains ‘much of interest and practical application in present-day forest nurseries’.’ (Henrey).
£160.00 [ref: 64606]

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Bowdler Sharpe, Richard. Sharpe's Birds of Paradise.
Pub. Folio Society. 2011 Two volume set. Hardback. Folio (with slipcase) and 8vo (with slipcase). Fine condition. Folio plate volume with 79 colour plates, printed on high quality Italian paper & bound in quarter morocco leather with splendid gilt and colour decoration to front board. TEG. Commentary volume bound in matching canvas cloth (pp.292). Limited Edition of 1,000 sets this being set No. 866.
The Folio Society reproduced here, for the first time, all 79 plates of Sharpe’s Birds of Paradise at their actual size. David Attenborough wrote the foreword and was delighted with the reproduction. The illustrations present these fabulous birds in radiant colour and exquisite detail.
£495.00 [ref: 72055]

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Bromfield, William Arnold., (Hooker, Sir W.J. & Salter, T.B. (Eds.)). Flora Vectensis. Being a systematic description of the Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to the Isle of Wight.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Pamplin. 1856 pp.xxxv, 678 with map. 8vo. Hardback. Contemporary binding of green full-calf leather, richly decorated on spine and boards - spine professionally relaid, all in near fine condition. All edges marbled with matching marbled end-papers. Contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Association copy, with dedication of ‘To the Rev. John Vernon, with the best wishes of the Author’s Sister’ neatly written on ffep. With the ‘Botanico-Topographic’ map which shows some wear at folds, still in vg. condition. Scarce, especially so with the map.
This work was published in two formats, one with the map, the other without.
£995.00 [ref: 53745]

Brookes, Samuel. An Introduction to the Study of Conchology. Including Observations on the Linnaean Genera, and on the Arrangement of M. Lamarck; A Glossary, and a Table of English Names.
1st. Ed. Pub. J. Arch. 1815 pp.vii, 164 with 11 copper engraved plates of which 9 are hand-coloured. Folio. Hardback. The magnificent plates are in nr. fine condition as are the rest of the contents. More recently, very handsomely bound in brown half calf leather over marbled boards with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and blind tooling. Sewn headbands. Binding in fine condition. Overall a near fine copy of this sought after work. Was £1,200.00.
£950.00 [ref: 46023]

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Brookshaw, George. The Horticultural Repository. Containing delineations of the best varieties of the different species of English Fruits.
1st. Ed. Pub. London. [1820] -1823 Two volumes bound as one. Ex Stoke-on-Trent City Library copy, bound in ochre coloured boards - near fine condition. Spine indicates ‘Vol. I’, but it is in fact both volumes, complete with the 104 hand-coloured plates as called for (7 fold-out). Neat blind-stamp on title page through to p.2 and first plate, no further lib. markings. Measures 9 1/4 in by 5 3/4 in., with some plates trimmed when rebound. Volume 1 has full-title (not half title); whilst in volume 2 both full and half-titles removed. Overall contents very clean and in near fine condition. Two of the fold-out plates show some superficial wear to image at folds. Overall a very good, ex-library copy of this scarce and sought after work.
‘The best English fruit varieties were featured......in Brookshaw’s ‘Horticultural Repository’, which laid out verbally and visually the essential observations for a successful fruit plantation.’ (from ‘Pomona Britannica’, (2002) pub. Taschen).
£1,500.00 [ref: 53221]

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Buckland, The Rev. William. Geology and Mineralogy. Considered with Reference to Natural Theology.
2nd. Ed. Pub. William Pickering. 1837 Two volume set with 87 fine plates including the large fold-out hand-coloured plate of the Earth’s Crust by Thomas Webster. 8vo. Hardbacks. Some plates with scattered spotting, o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Bound in original publisher’s cloth with very light shelf-wear, all in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. From the library of Robert Berkeley, Esq. Spetchley, Worcestershire.
Buckland’s detailed contribution to the Bridgewater Treatises.
£500.00 [ref: 61816]

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Buffon, [George Louis le Clerc, Comte de). The Natural History of Birds. From the French of Count de Buffon.
1st. Ed. in English printed for A. Strahan, T. Caddell and J. Murray (London). 1793 Nine volume set with 262 fine copper engraved plates. 8vo. Hardback. Charming, early, Coat of arms ink stamp of Charles Harris, Bradford to verso of titles. Minor spotting & offsetting and with only occ. age toning o/w. contents fine. Contemporary full tree-calf bindings, richly gilt decorated to spines and board edges, in good to vg. condition. A very pleasing set in original, untouched, condition.
£850.00 [ref: 68562]

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Bull, Henry Graves, (Gen. Ed.) and Hogg, R. (Tech. Ed.). The Herefordshire Pomona. Containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of Apples and Pears.
Pub. The Folio Society, London. 2014 Two volume set with 77 fine colour plates plus text illus. Folio. Hardback. TEG. Text volume bound in green canvas, with the Plate volume bound in green Italian goatskin and canvas. Both volumes in fine, as new, condition. Presented in Publisher’s matching green canvas Solander box with gilt lettering and decoration, showing a few trivial marks o/w. in fine, as new, condition. Comes with the Publisher’s four full-size colour plates for framing (in matching green envelope) as published. Set No. 98 from the Limited edition of just 980 copies. This set also comes with The Folio Society’s 20-page, colour illustrated, pre-publication brochure advertising their edition of ‘The Herefordshire Pomona’.
‘The Herefordshire Pomona is the most comprehensive study of the apples and pears grown in Britain ever published with over 430 different varieties all beautifully illustrated’ (Folio Society). The plates were by Edith Bull, Alice B. Ellis and W.G. Smith (plate 1 only). They were lithographed by G. Severeyns and published under the auspices of the Woolhope Club. This is ‘one of the finest fruit books ever issued’ [Great Flower Books, pp.59-60; Nissen 294].
£625.00 [ref: 69918]