Dodoens, Rembert. A New Herball or Historie of Plants. Translated.....by Henrie Lyte.
3rd. English Ed. Corr. & Amen., London, Edm. Bollifant. 1595 pp.[xl], 916, [48]. Black letter, title within woodcut decorative border. Crown 4to. AEG. Contents in nr. fine condition. Nineteenth century half-calf leather over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration, showing a little wear to spine, o/w. in thor. vg. condition. Prov: Neat private library stamp to pastedowns (Rothamsted, Lawes Trust, acquired by them in 1915). Henrey 112.
Henry Lyte first translated Dodoens’ celebrated herbal in 1578. The copy offered for sale here is the corrected and amended edition of 1595. Lyte’s work is held in high esteem. Agnes Arber commented that he was ‘no mere mechanical translator, for the herbal [Lyte’s own copy] is annotated and corrected, [with] references to de l’Obel and Turner being inserted’.
£3,950.00 [ref: 55027]

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Donovan, Edward. The Natural History of British Insects. Volume 9 & 10.
Pub. for the Author and for F. and C. Rivington. 1800-1801 Two volumes bound as one. Royal 8vo. With title-pages for both volumes & 60 copper-engraved plates, 54 being hand-coloured. Minor scattered foxing, largely confined to tissue guards, o/w. contents very clean & in fine condition. All edges of text block marbled. Original half-red leather over marbled boards rubbed in places. Binding firm and in very good condition. With bookplate of “Thomas Johnston, ‘Nunquam non paratus’” to front paste-down.
Volumes 9 and 10 bound here as a single volume, comprising Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Aptera and Vorticella.
£395.00 [ref: 51982]

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Drummond, The Hon. W.H. The Large Game. And Natural History of South and South-East Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh. 1875 pp.xxi, [i], 428 with colour frontis., colour illus. title-page, 13 plates (12 in colour), 20 b/w. illus., and 1 full-page colour map. 8vo. TEG. Some browning to half-title and blank verso of map. Some spotting to fore-edge of text block and only a very minor amount internally, o/w. contents fine. Period half-morocco over green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
£225.00 [ref: 63773]

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Dunker, Guilielmo. Mollusca Japonica. Descripta Et Tabulis Tribus Iconum.
1st. Ed. Pub. Stuttgartiae. 1861 pp.iv, 34 with three hand-coloured lithograph plates depicting 65 new species. More recently rebound in cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. With neat ownership inscription to title page. Scattered foxing to contents, which are o/w. in fine condition. Scarce. Was £800.00.
A very scarce work on the mollusca of Japan, indeed this was the first publication to deal exclusively with this subject. Dunker was a mining engineer and mineralogist. His extensive collection of shells was placed in the Natural History Museum in Berlin after his death, where it remains part of the permanent collection.
£725.00 [ref: 47797]

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Dunn, Robert. The Ornithologist’s Guide to The Islands of Orkney and Shetland.
1st. Ed. Pub. by the Author. 1837 pp.x, [2], 128 with lithographic plate and 2 folding maps. 8vo. With plate bound as frontis. Some foxing to plate and borders of maps, o/w. contents very clean and fine. Bound in original burgundy cloth boards, gently faded in places, with some wear to cloth on spine., o/w. vg.
This book describes Hull taxidermist and natural history dealer Robert Dunn’s visits to Orkney and Shetland in the years 1831-35, and includes a record of the birds he encountered. We no longer look on birds in the way that Dunn did - he was a serious collector of birds and their eggs. For the facsimile of this work, published by Peregrine Books (2007), Martin Limbert wrote that it is ‘a window into those times, an essential reference for anyone, whether birder, naturalist, historian or island-goer, interested in the Northern Isles of seventeen decades ago’.
£400.00 [ref: 55028]

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Duppa, Richard. The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany. Illustrated by Select Specimens of Foreign and Indigenous Plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1816 Three volume set with 240 fine copper engraved plates of which 237 are hand-coloured and three are b/w. (as published), with the Dictionary of Botanical terms and Index at end of Vol. III. 8vo. Hardbacks. AEG. Contents in near fine condition. Contemporary full, straight grain, leather binding, with richly decorated spines and borders, gently rubbed, o/w. nr. fine. A very pleasing set indeed.
‘This work is intended to be a complete illustration of the Linnaean system of Botany’. It was published in both coloured and un-coloured issues.
£2,950.00 [ref: 60286]

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Dyer, R. Allen (Ed. (et al)). Flowering Plants of Africa. A magazine containing coloured figures with descriptions of the Indigenous flowering plants of Africa. Vols. 27 to 56.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pretoria, Union of South Africa / Botanical Research Institute, Republic of South Africa. 1948 - 1999 Thirty volume run with over 900 colour plates (numbered 1041 to 1980) plus b/w. illus. Small 4to. Volumes 27 to 49 are hardback, bound in green skivertex (imitation leather), all in fine condition. Volumes 50 to 56 are softback, all in nr. fine condition. Also comes with a nr. fine softback copy of the ‘Index to Volumes 1 to 49’. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas, much loved botanist and conservationist. Gren was a member of the Editorial board of ‘The Flowering Plants of Africa’.
The stated objective of the ‘Flowering Plants of Africa’ ‘is to convey to the reader the beauty and variety of form of the African flora and to stimulate an interest in the study, conservation and cultivation of African plants and to advance the science of Botany as well as botanical art’. It is styled in on the format of Curtis’s ‘Botanical Magazine’ that is still being produced at RBG, Kew. Volume 27 represented the first time that the plates were printed photolithographically.
£500.00 [ref: 68600]

Edwards, James. The Hemiptera-Homoptera (Cicadina and Psyllina).
Pub. Reeve. 1896 pp.xii, 271 with 2 uncoloured and 28 hand-coloured plates. Binding stretched at plate 9 but still tight. Bound in half morocco with marbled boards with some wear to top of spine. All plates clean except plate 30 has a very few faint spots of foxing. This is the scarce large paper coloured edition.
£225.00 [ref: 40368]

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Elgood, George S. & Jekyll, Gertrude. Some English Gardens.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans, Green & Co. 1904 pp.xii, 130 with 50 fine colour reproductions from plates by Elgood. Small folio. Hardback. TEG. Minor spotting and marking, o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth binding, lettered in gilt, in vg. plus condition, small marks to front cover, very gently rubbed on extremities.
£250.00 [ref: 63009]

Evelyn, John. Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, ....Terra, a philosophical Essay of Earth....To which is annexed Pomona....Also Kalendarium Hortense.
3rd. Ed. Pub. for John Martyn, London. 1679 pp.lxx, 412, 38 plus Errata leaf. With four illustrations in the text, one full-page plate and eight pages of tables. Small folio. Hardback. Inscriptions dated 1768 and 1882 to ffep and ‘Qui serunt arbores alteri seculo prosunt’ and its English translation to verso. Neat signature to title page. Crested bookplate of James Barlow. Title page expertly repaired to margin fore-edge, early repair to another leaf. Contents in thor. vg. condition - please ask for further information. More recently rebound in period style full leather with gilt lettering, raised bands and blind tooled decoration, all in fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
‘The first important book to be published in this country on forest trees’ (Henrey). ‘Each treatise has a separate title-page. ‘Terra’ is the ‘second edition’ (1678), ‘Pomona’ is of the ‘third edition’ (1678) and ‘Kalendarium Hortense’ is of the ‘fifth edition’ (1679). This edition also contains Abraham Cowley’s poem ‘The garden’., (Henrey 134). ‘Kalendarium Hortense’ contains references to bees and beekeeping (Harding 39).
£875.00 [ref: 62666]

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