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 hand-coloured copper engravings and 4-pages of adverts. 8vo. Bookplate. Neat contemporary ownership inscription to title-page. Contents fine. Original green cloth with gilt decoration in fine condition.
A total of 120 flies, natural and artificial, are illustrated in the hand-coloured plates.
£295.00 [ref: 38899]

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Jardine, W. British Salmonidae.
Facsimile Pub. Decimus. 1979 With 12 magnificent plates by Jardine and Lizars. Elephant folio being 215 of a limited edition of 500. Bound in quarter morocco and cloth in cloth slip-case. Boards a little mottled in places, o/w. a fine copy in vg. to fine slipcase.
British Salmonidae is a magnificent memorial to Jardine who spent a large part of his life studying salmon and its relatives. This facsimile elephant folio is a testimony to Jardine’s skill with the pencil and brush and to the technical ability of Lizar his engraver. The work was first published between 1839 & 1841 and issued in 12 parts.
£225.00 [ref: 42832]

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Lovell, M.S. The Edible Mollusca. of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking them.
2nd. Ed. Pub. L. Reeve. [1904] pp.310 plus Lovell Reeve catalogue. Contains 12 excellent hand-coloured plates by G.B. Sowerby. Contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Original blue boards in vg. condition.
£125.00 [ref: 43612]

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Lyell, Sir Charles. Principles of Geology. Or the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants.
10th. Rev. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1867 Two volume set with seven plates (incl. frontis.), maps (one fold-out), plus illus. 8vo. Signature to ffep., of both volumes. Minor foxing to fore-edges of text blocks, o/w. contents fine. Neat, professional repair to front internal hinge of Vol. 1. Original gilt decorated green cloth binding in very pleasing, thoroughly vg. condition.
£325.00 [ref: 57963]

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Lyell, Sir Charles. The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with an outline of Glacial and Post-Tertiary Geology and remarks on the Origin of Species.
4th. Ed. Rev. Pub. John Murray. 1873 pp.xx, 572 with 20 page John Murray catalogue. Med 8vo. With signature ‘L. Sturrock, F.S.A, Dundee 1875’ to ffep. Scattered foxing at ends incl. half-title and last page of catalogue, o/w. contents in fine condition. In original, blind tooled green cloth with gilt-embossed illus. to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Very minor amount of rubbing, o/w. boards in near fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
£225.00 [ref: 50251]

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Millais, J.G. British Deer and their Horns.
1st. Ed. Pub. Henry Sotheran. 1897 pp.xviii, 224 with many illustrations in text, coloured frontispiece, 6 full-page illustrations and 10 electro-etched plates. Folio. Hardback. The 10 electro-etched plates have some scattered foxing, very largely confined to their borders. Text very clean. Original illustrated binding lightly marked in places, showing a little rippling on boards, overall in vg. condition. Overall a vg. copy.
One of the first in-depth treatments of any group of British mammals. Superbly illustrated. J.G. Millais was a professional artist and dedicated naturalist. He spent years familiarising himself with the animals he illustrated in the interests of portraying them accurately.
£350.00 [ref: 32175]

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Owen, Charles. An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents.
1st. Ed. Pub. Printed for the Author. 1742 pp.xxiii, 240 plus index. Illustrated with seven pages of copper engraved plates. Scattered, lightly coloured foxing to parts of the work. Overall contents in very good to fine condition. More recently rebound in half calf leather over marbled boards, replacement endpapers, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, all in fine condition. A handsome copy of this scarce work.
£1,100.00 [ref: 43937]

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Peary, Robert E. Northward over the “Great Ice”. A narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897.
1st. English Ed. Pub. Methuen. 1898 Two volume set with portrait frontis., to each volume, large folding map, one folding panoramic photo., and nearly 800 illus., mostly photographic. 8vo. Hardbacks. Charming, neat dedication (dated 1907) to Vol. I. Original decorated, gilt lettered, publisher’s cloth. A nr. fine set.
£750.00 [ref: 56776]

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Peary, Robert E. The North Pole.
1st. Ed. Pub. Hodder & Stoughton. 1910 pp.[i], xii, 326 with 116 illustrations from photographs. 4to. Hardback. Neat inscription dated 1915 to ffep. Some light spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards exceptionally bright and in nr. fine condition. Comes with publisher’s illustrated presentation box, showing some age and neat restoration. Comes with 6 related newspaper articles (from 1925 to 2006) discussing ‘Peary and the Pole’ and attempts to recreate his feat. A very pleasing copy with the scarce presentation box.
£725.00 [ref: 56725]

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Richardson, Sir John et al. The Museum of Natural History. Being a Popular Account of the Structure, Habits and Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom: Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Shells, and Insects.
Pub. William Mackenzie. (c.1859-62) Two volumes bound in eight. Imperial 8vo. Hardbacks. Hand-coloured frontis., 77 hand-coloured and 57 b/w. plates. Hinges cracking (two Vols. with boards detached). Lacks one ffep, two loose and four plates loose (a little chipped), o/w. text blocks sound. Variable spotting, o/w. contents very clean. Corner of last leaf and rfep in one vol. torn away. Original boards showing varying degrees of wear and lifting. From the lib. of renowned naturalist Eric Hardy, with some related material inserted.
An important, very charming, detailed and informative Victorian work. The supporting plates are both finely delineated and beautifully coloured. Naturalist Eric Hardy loved his books, constantly referring to them, so the condition of this set is completely understandable.
£200.00 [ref: 56055]

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