Lilford, Lord. Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. R.H. Porter, London. 1885-1897 Seven volume set. With photogravure portrait frontispiece and 421 fine chromolithograph or hand-coloured plates. Royal 8vo. TEG. With armorial bookplate of Richard Heywood Thompson to front pastedown of each volume. Some spotting, and only very minor off setting, mostly confined to text o/w. contents in fine condition. Marbled endpapers. Original half morocco leather over marbled boards, bound by R.H. Porter, with gilt lettering, raised bands to spine and sewn headbands, all in nr. fine condition. A most pleasing set.
Very pleasing provenance. Richard Heywood Thompson was a subscriber to this work and he is mentioned as such in the List of Subscribers (page xxxiv). The majority of the plates are by Archibald Thorburn or J.G. Keulemans, with the remainder executed by G.E. Lodge and W. Foster.
£2,750.00 [ref: 64439]

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Loudon, J.C. An Encyclopaedia of Gardening. comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture and Landscape-Gardening.
New Enl. Ed. Pub. Longmans et al. 1835 pp.xl, 1270 wonderfully illus. with wood-engravings throughout, plus 1-leaf of errata and 16-pages of publisher’s adverts (dated London, 1834). 8vo. Hardback. Period signature to title page. Only very occ., very minor spotting o/w. contents fine. More recently superbly rebound in period style quarter leather over marbled boards all in fine condition. A super copy.
Includes ‘All the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state; with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles.’.
£300.00 [ref: 63902]

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Loudon, J.C. The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion. Comprising the choice of suburban or villa residence...the arrangement and furnishing of the house; and the laying out, planting, and general management of Garden and Grounds.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longman, Orme et al. 1838 pp.xvi, 752 with engraved illus. throughout. 8vo. Hardback. Several corners turned as place markers, very minor spotting and toning o/w. contents fine. Handsomely bound in early cross-hatched full calf leather with gilt and blind decoration to spine and borders all in nr. fine condition. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to the fore-edges of the text block. A very pleasing copy indeed.
£325.00 [ref: 71914]

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Loudon, J.C. (& Robinson, William. (Ed.)). The Horticulturist: Or, the culture and management of the kitchen, fruit, & Forcing garden.
New. Rev. Ed. Pub. F. Warne. 1871 pp.xii, 707 with many b/w. illus. (gardening tools, plants, plans, displays of training etc) and illus. frontis. Royal 8vo. Address stamp to verso of frontis. More recently, the spine has been replaced, relaying most of the original - a superb job, which retained the original advertorial end-papers. Contents in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
£150.00 [ref: 52720]

Loudon, Mrs. The Ladies’ Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals.
Pub. London, William Smith. 1842 pp.xvi, 272 plus 48 hand-coloured plates. 4to. AEG. With ownership signature dated 1846 to ffep. A very minor amount of spotting o/w. contents fine. Early full morocco leather binding featuring richly gilt decorated Cambridge panels to boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, very lightly rubbed to extremites and in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
£1,000.00 [ref: 68598]

Lowe, E.J. A Natural History of British Grasses.
3rd. Ed. Pub. John C. Nimmo. 1891 pp.viii, 245 with 74 fine colour plates. Small 4to. Hardback. Signature to end-paper. Minor spotting, mainly to fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original gilt decorated green cloth boards in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
£145.00 [ref: 62934]

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Lowe, E.J. Our Native Ferns; or a History of the British Species and Their Varieties. Volume I and II.
1st. Ed. Pub. Groombridge. 1865-1867 Two volume set, complete with 79 colour plates. Royal 8vo. Hardback. With small ownership label of Richard H. Marmont to both vols. Quite minor spotting across both volumes, largely confined to text and tissue guards o/w. contents fine. Bright and clean original gilt and blind decorated green cloth in nr. fine condition.
A seminal work on British ferns and their allies. Contains descriptions of 1,294 varieties (Rickard).
£250.00 [ref: 67861]

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Lowe, E.J. Our Native Ferns; or a History of the British Species and Their Varieties. Volume I and II.
1st. Ed. Pub. Groombridge. 1865-1867 Two volume set, complete with 79 colour plates. Royal 8vo. Hardback. With very charming period inscription (dated 12th Aug 1870) to title-page of both vols. Some spotting to contents, largely confined to text and tissue guards, o/w. contents fine. Bright and clean original gilt and blind decorated green cloth in thor. vg. condition showing some light wear to extemities.
A seminal work on British ferns and their allies. Contains descriptions of 1,294 varieties (Rickard p.64).
£225.00 [ref: 67414]

Macgillivrary, William (& Lankester, Edwin (Ed.)). The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar.
1st. Ed. Printed for Private Circulation. 1855 pp.xx, 507 with fold-out hand coloured map, frontis., 5 further full page plates plus illus. in text. 8vo. Hardback. Limited print run by order of Queen Victoria after the death of the author for presentation only by The Queen and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With original presentation plate to the front free endpaper stating ‘This work printed by command of the Queen is presented to Sir John Forbes by H.R.H. Prince Albert’. Scattered spotting to contents which are o/w. in fine condition. Original red cloth binding, with gilt lettering to spine and armorial to front board, with spine professionally relaid all in thor. vg. condition.
A detailed natural history of this area of Scotland within which Balmoral Castle sits. Sir John Forbes (1787-1861) was physician to Queen Victoria from 1841 to 1861 and court physician to Prince Albert from 1819-1861.
£295.00 [ref: 68379]

Macleay, William S. Horae Entomologicae: or Essays on the Annulose Animals. Vol. I., Part I and II.
1st. Ed. Printed for S. Bagster. 1819-1821 Bound in two volumes (all published) with three copper-engraved plates. 8vo. Hardback. With dedication from George Macleay (William’s brother) dated 1880 to verso of title-page in Vol. II (which also contains bookplate of Univ. of Aberdeen). Some spotting and quite minor amount of marking, o/w. contents fine. Early paper covered boards showing wear, more recently protected in clear (removable) plastic covers. Scarce.
Part I comprises ‘General Observations on the Geography, Manners and Natural Affinities of the Insects which compose the Genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental Remarks on the Genera Lucanus and Hister of the same Author.’. Part II comprises ‘An attempt to ascertain the rank and situation which the celebrated Egyptian insect, Scarbaeus sacer, holds among organized beings.’. Macleay was a promoter of the Circular of Quinarian system of classification. Charles Darwin, who got to know Macleay after he returned from the Beagle voyage, tried to fit Quinarian ideas into his evolutionary ideas up to around 1845.
£395.00 [ref: 64615]

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