Pressed Seaweed, Fern and related Plant Specimens.
Early 19th Century A superb collection of c.115 pressed seaweed, fern and related plant specimens. All from the same collection dating to c.1825. Many specimens indentified and cross-referenced. Some of the locations from where the specimens were taken include the Isle of Wight, the Menai Bridge, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. All in super condition, mounted individually.
£400.00 [ref: 54070]

Abercrombie, John. The Complete Kitchen Gardener, And, Hot-Bed Forcer; With the thorough practical management of Hot-Houses, Fire-Walls, and Forcing Houses, and the improved modern culture of the Pinery-Stoves, and Pine-Apples, etc.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Stockdale, London. 1789 pp.[xii], 509, [1], 6 page publisher’s adverts. 12mo. Contents in fine condition. More recently rebound in full-calf, with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine in fine condition. Sewn headbands. Rare.
John Abercrombie’s contribution to Horticulture is held in high regard. His intention for this work to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Kitchen Garden. He felt that there was a siginificant gap in the then extant literature, which comprised just a piecemeal approach to the subject.
£875.00 [ref: 51906]

Abercrombie, John. The Hot-House Gardener on the General Culture of the Pine-Apple. And methods of forcing early Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, and other choice fruits in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c. with directions for raising melons and early Strawberries.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Stockdale, London. 1789 pp.xvi, 238 with 4 [of 5] plates plus 2 page publisher’s catalogue. Large 8vo. Contents in thor. vg. condition. More recently bound in oat-coloured cloth, with lettering in gilt to spine; in fine condition. Scarce.
‘Among 18th century British nurserymen who became writers on practical gardening, one of the most successful was John Abercrombie. At an early age, Abercrombie started the habit of writing down all the observations he made in the pursuit of his profession, a practice that must have provided him with much useful material when he became an author’ (Henrey).
£495.00 [ref: 51892]

Alpheraky, Sergius. The Geese of Europe and Asia. Being the description of most of the Old World species.
1st. Ed. Pub. Rowland Ward. 1905 pp.viii, 198 with 24 colour chromolithograph plates of geese and their bills by F.W. Frohawk and coloured frontispiece by Dr. P.P. Sushkin. Royal 4to. In original green cloth boards, lightly rubbed, o/w. thor. vg. Minor, scattered foxing to contents, which are o/w. in fine condition. TEG. Bookplate of Arthur B. Duncan to front paste-down. A very pleasing copy.
Dedication copy from Rowland Ward which reads ‘Captain Stanley Flower, with Rowland Ward[s] Kind Regards 1906’ to ffep. Captain Flower (1871-1946) was Director of the Cairo Zoological Gardens, Egypt between 1898 - 1924.
£525.00 [ref: 50785]

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Baker, E.C. Stuart. The Indian Ducks and their Allies.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1908 pp.xii, 292 plus 30 hand finished chromolithograph plates and additional illustrated title page. Imperial 8vo. A minor amount of spotting, largely confined to text o/w. contents in fine condition. In original publishers binding of half morocco leather with green boards; spine gently and evenly faded o/w. in fine condition. Limited to 1,200 copies. A nice example.
Edward Charles Stuart Baker worked as a police officer in Assam. In his spare time, he studied and collected Indian birds. Through these pursuits he amassed nearly 50,000 birds eggs, some of which he donated to the Natural History Museum. The text is a mixture of anecdotes, references to the key people and works of the period and in-depth insight into the birds. The highly talented artists Gronvold, Lodge and Keulemans contributed the plates for this work.
£250.00 [ref: 34471]

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Bingley, Rev. William Useful Knowledge or a Familiar Account of the Various Productions of Nature. Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, which are currently employed for the use of man.
4th. Ed. Pub. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy. 1825 Three volume set with charming b/w. plates. 16mos. Contents in nr. fine condition. Marbled endpapers. Neat, historical ownership inscriptions to ffeps. Bound in full-calf leather with blind and gilt decoration, showing some minor wear at the top of the spines, otherwise in very good condition.
Volume I is focused on minerals., volume II is focused on vegtables and volume III is on animals.
£120.00 [ref: 50501]

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Bolton, James. An History of the Fungusses growing about Halifax. With forty-four copper-plates on which are engraved fifty-one species of Agarics.
Printed for the Author. 1788 Volume 1 [of 3] only. With 52 fine, copper engraved plates. Contents very clean. Bound in original quarter leather binding with marbled boards which are rubbed and marked. Front internal hinge strengthened, otherwise binding in very good condtion. A very good copy of this very scarce work.
£488.00 [ref: 45436]

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Bracken, H. Farriery Improved: or, a Complete Treatise upon the Art of Farriery. Wherein is fully explain’d the Nature, Structure, and Mechanism of that Noble and Useful Creature, A Horse; the Diseases and Accidents he is liable to, and the methods of cure.
Pub. A. Miller. 1788 Volume one only. pp. 303 plus index. Scattered foxing to contents. Front board held in place by two of the original five cords. Rear board detached. Bound in full calf leather, rubbed to board in places. Binding sound meaning the book can be read. With the inscription of William Guest dated April 17th 1793 to ffep. and rfep.
£75.00 [ref: 46805]

Britten, James. European Ferns. with coloured illustrations from Nature.
Pub. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1890 pp.vii, 196 with 30 coloured plates and many supporting line drawings. A minor amount of scattered foxing with plates largely unaffected, so contents are in thor. vg. condition. Bound in half-calf leather with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Boards showing some wear and in good to vg. condition.
£150.00 [ref: 29252]

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Bromfield, William Arnold., (Hooker, Sir W.J. & Salter, T.B. (Eds.)). Flora Vectensis. Being a systematic description of the Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to the Isle of Wight.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Pamplin. 1856 pp.xxxv, 678 with map. 8vo. Hardback. Contemporary binding of green full-calf leather, richly decorated on spine and boards - spine professionally relaid, all in near fine condition. All edges marbled with matching marbled end-papers. Contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Association copy, with dedication of ‘To the Rev. John Vernon, with the best wishes of the Author’s Sister’ neatly written on ffep. With the ‘Botanico-Topographic’ map which shows some wear at folds, still in vg. condition. Scarce, especially so with the map.
This work was published in two formats, one with the map, the other without.
£995.00 [ref: 53745]