Felton, R. Forester. British Floral Decoration. Author’s Edition.
1st. Ed. Pub. Adam & Charles Black. 1910 pp.[iv], xvii, [iii], 194 with 12 colour and 14 b/w. illus., plus 10-pages of adverts. Large 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Spotting to fore-edges of text block and end-papers, o/w. contents fine. Some sections uncut. Author’s edition and signed ‘Author’s Edition, R. Forester Filton F.R.S. Etc’ to half-title. Original decorated full-vellum, gilt lettering and inner dentelles, in very bright, nr. fine condition. With period 4-page A. & C. Black flyer for Black’s Guide Books loosely inserted - fine condition.
£200.00 [ref: 61436]

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Forshaw, J.M. & Cooper, W.T. Parrots of the World.
Pub. Doubleday. 1973 pp, 584 with fine illus. by W.T. Cooper plus figs. & numerous distribution maps. Folio. Hardback. A vg. copy in vg. dw.
£175.00 [ref: 44569]

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Fortune, Robert. Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China. Including a visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: With an account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray, London. 1847 pp.[ii],xiv, [iv], 406, [ii] plus 16-page Murray catalogue. With half-title, illus. frontis., illus. title-page, further title-page, map, 3 further full-page plates, plus illus. in text. 8vo. Hardback. Some scattered foxing, o/w. contents fine. Original gilt and blind-tooled decorated boards (which have benefited from discrete, professional repairs), showing some sunning to spine and top-edge, all in thor. vg. condition.
£900.00 [ref: 55025]

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Fripp M.D., Henry. The Compound Eye of Insects and Crustacea.
Pub. Popular Science Review, London. nd. mid 1800s pp.12-29 with two plates of illustrations. 8vo. With bookplate. Contents nr. fine. More recently bound in yellow boards, fine condition. Scarce.
A detailed study. Dr. Henry Edward Fripp M.D. was born on 10th June 1816 and passed away in Bristol on 23rd March 1880.
£50.00 [ref: 57763]

Garton, James. The Practical Gardener, and Gentleman’s Directory for Every Month of the Year. Adapted to the New Stile. An entire new work containing the lateft and moft approved Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Phyfic Garden.
1st. Ed. Printed for E. and C. Dilly, London. 1769 pp.[x], 285, [9]. Fold-out plate and rfep. removed. 8vo. Hardback. Charming early handwritten calculations and names to front pastedown, ffep., and title page. Light wear to margins of index, o/w. overall contents very clean and in thor. vg. condition. Early full calf leather, wanting lettering panel on spine, showing some wear to extremities, o/w. very sound and in vg. condition. A charming copy of this scarce work.
Praised by both Fussell and Janson as standing out from the plethora of other Calendars available at the time. The long-title continues ‘And for Managing the Vineyard and Pine-apple, The Nurfery, Shrubbery, Greenhoufe, and Hothoufe. With proper Directions for Raifing Mushrooms. To which is prefixed, An Essay upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hot-beds, &c.’.
£225.00 [ref: 68884]

Gerarde, John, [Gerard, John]. The Herball [Herbal] or Generall [General] Historie of Plants.
2nd. Rev. Ed. Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers. 1636 pp.[xxxviii], 1632 with engraved title, over 2,500 wood-block engravings plus Indexes and Table of Virtues. Collated and complete. Folio. Hardback. Seven wood-block engravings hand coloured (not dated but in keeping with the practice of the period). Last leaf professionally remargined with loss to a couple of letters only. Other than marking to some margins, as is common with herbals, and some occ. minor spotting the contents are very clean and nr. fine. More recently handsomely rebound in full calf with raised bands and blind ruling decoration, a trifle marked o/w. fine.
A very pleasing copy of Thomas Johnson’s expanded version of John Gerarde’s Herball (first published 1597). It is ‘noteworthy for its many corrections, improvements, additions’ (Henrey). Johnson indicated where he had made amendments with obelisk and double obelisk symbols.
£4,500.00 [ref: 63843]

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Gessner, Conrad (Zoller, Heinrich et al). Conradi Gesner Historia Plantarum. Sechste Folge.
Fac. Pub. Urs Graf Publishing, Zurich. 1979 pp.107, plus limitation leaf. With 22 tipped in reproductions of watercolours plus b/w. illus. Folio. Hardback. Text in German with Latin. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Copy No. 309 from a limited edition of 490.
A super production. Historia Plantarum is Gessner’s botanical encyclopedia compiled by him between 1555 and 1565, but not published until 1750. This is the sixth volume of the facsimile edition which comprises 22 finely reproduced watercolours from Gessner’s estate held in library of Erlangen University. The annotations Gessner made on each plate are deciphered and presented in Latin and German. A detailed and lengthy commentary section within this facsimile provides much additional information.
£225.00 [ref: 62676]

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Godfery, M.J. Monograph & Iconograph of Native British Orchidaceae.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1933 pp.xvi, 259 and 58 fine colour plates and a further 9 monochrome plates. With publisher’s ‘Addenda et Corrigenda’ sheet loosely inserted. Royal 4to. Hardback. TEG. Some spotting to fore-edge of text block, to ends and occ. to verso of plates and concomitant text leaf o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards in very good plus condition in vg. plus dw., with innocuous black ink marks to rear.
The lifesize plates represent 50 species, subspecies and varieties, and 18 natural hybrids.
£225.00 [ref: 71888]

Gosse, P.H. Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals.
1st. Ed. 1st. Issue. Pub. Van Voorst. 1858 - 1859 pp. half-title, xl, 362 with 12 plates (11 coloured). 8vo. Hardback. A very minor amount of spotting, o/w. contents in fine condition. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards (spine more recently professionally relaid) in thor. vg. condition. With ownership stamp of F.J. Bridgman to front paste-down. A single volume comprising all original 12 Parts plus Erratum slips. The seldom seen ‘Parts Issue’. Scarce.
‘Actinologia Britannica’ was first published in 12 Parts (referred to as the ‘Parts Issue’) between March 1st 1858 and December 1859. We offer for sale here, all 12 Parts (plus their original covers bound at the end) bound as one volume. Following completion of the Parts Issue, a single volume was published and despite it stating 1860 on the title page, it was released for the Christmas market in December 1859 (Williams 2017).
£375.00 [ref: 53645]

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Gosse, P.H. Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
1st. Ed. Pub. Van Voorst. 1860 pp.xl, 362 with 11 col. and 1 monochrome plate. 8vo. Hardback. With neat inscription to ffep., dated June 2nd 1891. Some spotting to fore-edge of text block, only a very minor amount internally o/w. contents fine. Gentle bump to front top fore-corner. Original decorated green cloth binding nr. fine. A very pleasing copy indeed.
The 'Actinologia' is widely recognised as Gosse's masterpiece - the finest of all his writings on natural history. It comprises coloured figures of the species and principal varieties of the then known British Sea-Anemones and Corals.
£150.00 [ref: 70211]