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]

Moubray, Bonington. A Practical Treatise on Breeding, Rearing, and Fattening all Kinds of Domestic Poultry. Pheasants, Pigeons, and Rabbits; including an interesting account of the Egyptian Method of hatching eggs by artificial heat, and the Author’s Experiments thereon. Also on the Breeding, Feeding, and Management of Swine, on Milch Cows for the Family Dairy, and on Bees.
4th. Ed. Pub. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. 1822 pp.xii, 312 with hand-coloured frontis. 8vo. Hardback. Some scattered foxing to end-papers and off-setting from frontis., o/w. contents fine. Original boards, showing some wear to front hinge (still firm), light rubbing along edges and some marks. (Harding 190).
Harding et al incorrectly state that Bees are discussed from p.227-312; instead it is p.277-312.
£120.00 [ref: 50697]

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]

Wildman, Thomas. A Treatise on the Culture of Peach Trees, to which is added, a Treatise on the Management of Bees; and the improved treatment of them.
1st. English Ed. Pub. London, for the Author, also Dublin by Exshaw. 1768 pp.[ii], 5, [viii], 125, [i], 78, vi with one fold-out plate. Two-title pages. Crown 8vo. Contents fine. Contemporary full-calf , neatly rebacked with most of original spine label, all in thor. vg. condition. With armorial bookplate of William Gilstrap to front pastedown. Very scarce.
‘Treatise on the Culture of Peach Trees’ is an English translation of the highly respected ‘Traite de la culture des pechers’, first published in Paris in 1745 (Henrey 1438). Thomas Wildman’s writings on beekeeping ‘shows culture and an unusual knowledge of continental beekeeping’ (Harding 119). Maltster and philanthropist William Gilstrap (1816-1896) was given his Baronetcy in Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Hounours on 28th July 1887.
£1,850.00 [ref: 50959]

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