Houghton, William. British Fresh-Water Fishes.
Pub. William Mackenzie. 1879 Two volume complete set, with 41 fine wood engraved plates after A.F. Lydon and printed by B. Fawcett in colour, plus many fine engravings. A little feint foxing on text, most plates are very bright and clean. Bound in original dark maroon decorated cloth with attractive gilt design. Corners of boards and spine ends show some rubbing and pulling. Overall a vg.set.
£825.00 [ref: 37614]

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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 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 1/4 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. 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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Martin, Martin. A Late Voyage to St. Kilda. The Remotest of all the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland.
1st. Ed. Pub. D. Brown & T. Goodwin. 1698 pp.[xiv], 157, [ii] with one fold-out plate and one fold-out map. 8vo. Contents browned, two short closed tears to bird plate (also close-cropped on left side), o/w. fine. Stamp of Admiralty library to title page and second page of publisher’s adverts at rear. Early binding of half calf with marbled boards, neatly rebacked and recornered, all in very good plus condition. Rare.
‘St. Kilda fascinates people. It has done so for over 300 years, ever since Martin Martin wrote ‘A Late Voyage to St. Kilda’, published in 1698. It is the Hebridean island which, above all others, people want to visit’ (John Randall (2013) Chairman of the Islands Book Trust).
£1,650.00 [ref: 50505]

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Millais, J. G. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. Volumes I to III.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans, Green & Co. 1904-06 Three volume set with 62 photogravures, 62 coloured plates and 149 b/w. plates including photographs. Royal 4to. Ex-Cheltenham lib. With lib. stamps to contents, a little foxing, o/w. contents fine. TEG. Two-toned blue cloth with gilt lettering. Gently bumped on corners and lightly marked boards. Spines show light fading and spine ends of volume I show a little wear. Overall a vg. ex-lib. set.
A monumental work produced in a limited edition of just 1,025 copies, this being set No.926. Illustrations by J.G. Millais himself alongside Henry Gronwold, Archibald Thorburn, George E. Lodge and others.
£250.00 [ref: 50180]

Millais, J. G. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. Volumes I to III.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans, Green & Co. 1904-06 Three volume hardback set with 62 photogravures, 62 coloured plates and 149 b/w. plates including photographs. Royal 4to. A minor amount of scattered foxing, o/w. contents in fine condition. With the heraldic bookplate of James B Gallie to the front paste-down of each volume. TEG. Bound in original two-toned blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines and front boards all in thor. vg. condition.
A monumental work produced in a limited edition of just 1,025 copies, this being set No.83. Illustrations by J.G. Millais himself alongside Henry Gronwold, Archibald Thorburn, George E. Lodge and others.
£485.00 [ref: 53467]

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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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