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 of which are 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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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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Halford, F.M. Dry-fly Fishing.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Samson Low. 1889 pp.xii, 289 with plates. Head and tail of spine showing some wear and corners of boards showing some rubbing. Some foxing at ends otherwise contents very clean. Original binding. Bevelled boards. TEG. Good to vg. copy.
£125.00 [ref: 38896]

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Hofmann, E. Die Raupen der Gross-Schmetterlinge Europas.
1st. Pub. Stuttgart. 1893 pp.xxiv, 318 with 50 fine chromolithographed plates depicting hundreds of images. Some light foxing/spotting to some plates, otherwise contents in fine condition. Half-morocco leather in thoroughly vg. condition. A nice copy
A super work on the subject of Caterpillars of Butterflies and moths. Illustrates 1,900 Caterpillars and their food plants in 50 excellent colour-chromolithograph plates.
£150.00 [ref: 29152]

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Kappel, A.W. & Kirby, W.E. British and European Butterflies and Moths. (Macrolepidoptera).
Pub. Ernest Nister. 1895 pp.xvi, 273 with 30 fine chromolithographed plates. Medium 4to. Contents in fine condition. A previous owner has pasted in a fold-out lithographed plate illustrating 70 British butterflies, together with a loosely inserted small, hand-coloured illustration of a moth. Original decorated cloth boards gently rubbed on corners and gently faded on spine, o/w. in fine condition.
£120.00 [ref: 49316]

Purchas, Samuel. A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder and the manner of right-ordering of the Bee, is discovered and described.....and in a Second Part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral in three Centuries upon that subject.
1st. Ed. Pub. R.I for Thomas Parkhurst, London. 1657 pp.13 leaves, 387 with both longitudinal title-page and separate title-page for the Second Part. With errata leaf. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Three, very small neat repairs to verso of main title-page. Few spots, very minor mark to one blank margin. Otherwise, contents are exceptional and in fine condition. Very handsome, early 20th Century full mottled calf-leather binding by Zaehnsdorf; spine richly gilt decorated with red and green labels, inner gilt dentelles; all in very nr. fine condition. Marbled end-papers. Prov: Neat private library stamp to rear pastedown (Rothamsted, Lawes Trust, acquired by them in 1918) and neat hand-written lib. no. to front pastedown. A fine, complete copy. Very scarce. Harding 35.
Samuel Purchas was the son of the author of ‘Purchas his Pilgrimes’ (1619). He became rector of Sutton in Essex and he dedicated this book to Robert, Earle of Warwick (Harding).
£7,950.00 [ref: 55045]

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Seitz, A. The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Volume 1. The Macrolepidoptera of the Palaearctic Fauna- Section 3 Noctuiform Phalaenae.
Pub. Fritz Lehmann Verlag- Stuttgart. 1907 2 volumes. With second volume comprising 72 full-page plates containing many hundreds of coloured, chromolithograph images. A fine pair of volumes in half morocco and cloth.
£300.00 [ref: 21139]

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Seitz, Dr. Adalbert. The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Volumes I to IV, The Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic Region (with all four Supplement volumes).
1st. Ed. Pub. Lehmann / Kernen. 1906-54 Eight volumes. English edition. 4to. Contents in fine condition. Contemporary tan half-calf leather binding, with Vol. 4 Supplement in near matching tan half-calf leather; all in vg. to nr. fine condition. TEG. Spines richly decorated and lettered in gilt. Few small marks to spine Vol. I. With Alfred Kernan publishers advert for the work loosely inserted in Vol. I. Bookplate of Paul Sokoloff to front pastedown of each volume. Very handsome. Scarce.
An excellent opportunity to acquire all Seitz’s published material relating to the Macrolepidoptera of the Palearctic region. Hand lithography executed to a very high-standard.
£4,150.00 [ref: 50972]