Hedin, Sven. Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. Vol. I and II.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan and Co. 1909 Two volume set with each with b/w. frontis. photo, plus b/w. photos., col. & b/w. illus. and maps (incl. three fold-out). 8vo. Hardbacks. TEG. Blank bookplates to front paste downs. Gentle bump to top fore corner of Vol. II, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt motifs to front in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing set.
Swedish explorer and travel writer Sven Hedin (1865-1952) made four expeditions to Central Asia, studying the topography and geology of the region, as well as both the prehistoric and modern culture. Painstakingly dedicated to his research, Hedin documented his travels thoroughly and "Trans-Himalaya" is an account of Hedin's exploration of Tibet, particularly the Transhimalaya, a 1,600-kilometre long mountain range.
£250.00 [ref: 67591]

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Hill, Sir John. Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the several useful Products of a Garden, Fruits, Roots, and Herbage; From the Practice of the most successful Gardeners, and the Result of Long Experience.
Printed for T. Osborne; T.Tyre; S. Crowder & Co.; and H. Woodgate. 1757 pp.iv, 714 with 60 fine engraved plates and engraved frontis. Four plates repaired with small hole in plate 55. With short closed tear to two pages and small loss to margin of one further text page. Most of page 313/314 missing. Recently rebound in half brown morocco with marbled boards. A handsome copy.
Originally designed as a companion to his 'Compleat Body of Husbandry' (1756), Eden was published in weekly parts with instructions for work in the garden for the forthcoming week. Self-taught, Hill had a great interest in natural science, and was friends with many of the luminaries of the day including Sir Hans Sloane.
£3,650.00 [ref: 41550]

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Honourable Secretary (Ed.) Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society Vols. I-VI.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bristol Naturalists’ Soc. 1874-1891 Six volume run with plates, map and illustrations (Plate IV in Vol. II loosely inserted). 8vo. Hardback. Ex-Lib. Historic staining to fore-edges of text blocks and occasionally internally o/w. generally very clean. Vols. I-V in uniform cloth binding with marking o/w. thor. vg., Vol. VI in quarter morocco, nr. fine. With original Part front covers bound in for Vols. I to V. Scarce.
Covers a broad range of scientific subjects, from the sound of bees wings to sewage to notes on Professor Bell's Articulating Telephone to the Severn Tunnel which is illustrated in a very impressive large folding colour geological cross-section (measures 60 inches x 16 inches).
£475.00 [ref: 63011]

Hooker, William Jackson. Musci Exotici. containing figures and descriptions of new or little known foreign mosses and other cryptogamic subjects
1st. Ed. Pub. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1818-1820 Two volume set; pp.viii with 176 fine hand-coloured, copper engraved plates, each with page of text, 31-page index plus Errata. Collated and complete. Large 4to. Some minor spotting and off-setting, o/w. contents in fine condition. Fore-edges marbled with matching end-papers. Very handsome, contemporary, panelled full-calf leather, richly decorated with gilt and blind-tooling. Professionally rebacked, with corners neatly repaired. Boards lightly rubbed in places, o/w. in thor. vg. condition. Prov: John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (1750-1827), his bookplate, and Coronet ink-stamp to verso of front endpapers. Large-paper copy. Scarce.
A very pleasing, large paper copy of one of Hooker’s earliest and most scarce works. A large number of the specimens illustrated were collected by Alexander Humboldt, whom Hooker met in Paris in 1814. Furthermore, there are also descriptions of rare mosses found by Archibald Menzies at Dusky Bay, New Zealand, during Vancouver’s 1791 voyage on the ‘Discovery’.
£3,950.00 [ref: 55354]

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Howard, Henry Eliot. The British Warblers. A History with Problems of their Lives.
1st. Ed. Pub. R.H. Porter, London. 1907-1915 Complete set in the original 11 parts with 35 chromolithograph and 51 photogravure plates (after Henrik Gronvold) and 12 maps. 4to. Hardbacks. A very pleasing set indeed. Some spotting, largely confined to fore-edges of text blocks and to borders of photogravure plates, o/w. contents fine. Comes with the Publisher’s advert for binding options and their costs. Original printed wrappers just lightly rubbed in places, a little more so to last part, o/w. in nr fine condition. A very pleasing set indeed.
Howard’s major work ‘combined very fine chromolitho plates with a detailed and pioneer account of the behaviour of this family.’ (Tate). Released in parts the earliest sets (like the set offered for sale here) included 11 parts made up of parts 1-9 and 6* and 9*. Later sets were issued in 10 parts [parts 1-9 + 9*] or 9 parts [parts 1-9].
£450.00 [ref: 72211]

Humphreys, H. Noel. The Genera and Species of British Butterflies. Described and arranged according to the system now adopted in the British Museum.
Pub. Paul Jerrard & Son, Fleet Street. [1859] pp. illustrated hand-col. title page, printed title page, [i] to xii, 66 plus 32 fine hand-col. plates and 4-page ‘The Best Methods of Preserving Butterflies and Moths and of rearing them from the Caterpillar or Egg’. Small 4to. Hardback. AEG. Illus. title page showing some toning. Short closed tear to blank margin p.11, only very minor spotting and marking elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Recently sympathetically rebound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine with decorated panel from original binding inlaid, all in fine condition. A very pleasing copy. Scarce.
‘Illustrated by plates in which all the species and varieties are represented, accompanied by their respective caterpillars, and the plants on which they feed’.
£425.00 [ref: 71972]

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Humphreys, H.N. & Westwood, J.O. British Butterflies and their Transformations.
Pub. William Smith. 1848 pp.xii, 137, [iii] with additional hand col. title page plus 42 hand col. plates. 4to. Hardback. AEG. Some spotting to plate IX, only occ. light marking and / or spotting elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Recently rebound in full morocco leather with Cambridge panel style decoration and sympathetic replacement endpapers all in fine condition.
£425.00 [ref: 71976]

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Huxley, T.H. Collected Essays. Volumes I - IX.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1893-1895 Nine volume set with b/w. illus. 8vo. Bookplates to frontpaste down and ffep., of all vols. Brief notes to rfeps., of two vols. Occasional minor foxing, o/w., contents fine. Original burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing set.
The volume titles are, in order:- Methods and Results; Darwiniana; Science and Education; Science and Hebrew Tradition; Science and Christian Tradition; Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley; Man’s Place in Nature; Discourses: Biological and Geological; Evolution and Ethics.
£350.00 [ref: 57964]

J.W. Gent [i.e. Worlidge, John]. Systema Horti-culturae: or, the Art of Gardening.
1st. Ed. Pub. London for Tho. Burrell, and Will. Hensmen. 1677 pp.[24], 285, [19] with additional engraved title-page and 3 engraved plates by F.H. van Houe. 8vo. Hardback. Overall contents thor. vg. Some toning and marking internally. Ffep. with ownership inscription ‘John Cadmene, Book, 1731’ and manuscript calculations, part of blank margin neatly excised. Engraved title with contemporary ownership inscription ‘Rose Gregorye’ scored out. Contemporary leather boards in vg. plus condition, more recently rebacked, this in fine condition. Scarce. ESTC records just 12 copies worldwide.
Intended as a companion to the author's ‘Systema agriculturae’ (1669). The work ‘contains much useful advice and information for the practical gardener. The author, referred to by John Houghton as ‘the ingenious Mr. John Worlidge of Petersfield in Hampshire’, is generally considered one of the most enlightened of the seventeenth-century writers on gardening and husbandry’.
£2,750.00 [ref: 61834]

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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 fine hand-coloured copper engravings and 4-pages of adverts. 8vo. Bookplate. Neat contemporary ownership inscription to title-page. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth with gilt decoration in nr. fine condition. A super copy.
A total of 120 flies, natural and artificial, are illustrated in the hand-coloured plates.
£225.00 [ref: 38899]

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