BARBUT, J.
The Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus, exemplified by various specimens of English Insects drawn from nature./ Les Genres des Insectes de Linné; constatés par divers échantillonsd'Insects d'Angleterre copiés d'après nature.
Londres, J.Dixwell ..., 1781. 4to. pp. (4), xvii, (3), 371, (20), with 1 engraved frontispiece, 20 (1 folded) finely handcoloured engraved plates. ...
EUR 1,000.00

BLACKWALL, J.
A history of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland.
London, Printed for the Ray Society, 1860-1864. 2 volumes. Folio (365 x 265mm). pp. vi, 384, with 29 handcoloured lithographed plates. Later half c...
EUR 1,300.00

BOYS, G. & WALKER, G.
Testacea Minuta Rariora, Nuperrime detecta in Arena Littoris Sandvicensis./ A Collection of the Minute and rare Shells, lately discovered in the Sand of the Sea Shore near Sandwich.
London, J. March, 1784. 4to. pp. v, 25, with 3 engraved plates. Recent half calf, gilt-lettering and ornaments on spine and frontcover.
EUR 1,000.00

CAMBRIDGE, O.P.
The spiders of Dorset, with an appendix containing short descriptions of those British species not yet found in Dorsetshire.
From the "Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club". Edited by J. Buckman. Sherborne, L.H. Ruegg, 1879. 8vo. pp. xlii, ...
EUR 450.00

COOKE, M.C.
Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the "Handbook of British Fungi".
London, Williams and Norgate, 1881-1891. 8 volumes. Royal-8vo (220 x 140 mm). With 1198 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half calf, spines w...
EUR 4,200.00

COSTA, E.M. DA.
Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae, or, the British Conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain andIreland.
La Conchologie Britannique. London, printed for the Author..., 1778. 4to. pp. xii, (2), 254, viii, with 17 engraved plates. Recent half brown moroc...
EUR 1,400.00

CURTIS, J.
British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland; containing coloured figures from nature of the most rareand beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found.
London, printed for the author, 1823-1840. 8 volumes, bound in 13. Royal-8vo (240 x 148mm). With 770 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary hal...
EUR 6,500.00

DIXON, F.
The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex.
London, printed for the author, 1850. Large-4to. pp. xvi, 422, (1), with 1 coloured frontispiece and 44 (2 handcoloured) lithographed or engraved p...
EUR 1,300.00

DONOVAN, E.
The Natural History of British Fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. Taken entirely from original drawings, purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part whilst living.
London, printed for the author and for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1808. 5 volumes bound in one. 8vo(226 x 145mm). With 120 beautifully handcoloured...
EUR 8,000.00

DONOVAN, E.
The Natural History of British Insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations ... together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope.
London, printed for the author, 1792-1813. 16 volumes. Royal-8vo (230 x 135mm). With 576 engraved plates of which 569 beautifully handcoloured. Con...
EUR 7,000.00

FORBES, E. & HANLEY, S.
A history of British Mollusca, and their shells.
London, J. van Voorst, 1853. 4 volumes. Royal-8vo. pp. lxxx, 486; viii, 557, (1); x, 616; vi, 301, (1), with 203 lithographed plates. Original clot...
EUR 1,300.00

FROHAWK, F.W.
Natural History of British Butterflies.
A complete, original, descriptive account of the life-history of every species occuring in the British Islands, together with their habits, time of...
EUR 850.00

HEWITSON, W.
British oology; being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature; accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c.
Newcastle upon Tyne, C. Empson/ Currie and Bowman, (1831-1842). 2 volumes (including the supplement). Royal-8vo (244 x 155 mm). With 171 handcolour...
EUR 2,000.00

HUMPHREYS, H.N. & WESTWOOD, J.O.
British Moths and their transformations.
Arranged and illustrated in a series of plates ... London, T. Sanderson, 1857. 2 volumes. Large-4to. pp. xiv, 258; pp. xix, 268, xiii, with 124 fi...
EUR 900.00

HUMPHREYS, H.N.
The genera of British Moths. Popularly described and arranged according to the system now adopted in the British Museum. Illustrated by a series of picturesque plates. Exhibiting the insects in their different stages, with the caterpillars and the plants on which they are generally found.
London, P. Jerrard & Son, (1859). 2 volumes. Royal-8vo (270 x 180mm). pp. vi, 1- 76; (2),77- 206, with 62 beautifully handcoloured lithographed pla...
EUR 950.00

JARS, G.
Metallurgische Reisen zur Untersuchung und Beobachtung der vornehmsten Eisen=, Stahl=, Blech= und Steinkohlen=werke in Deutschland, Schweden, Norwegen, England, und Schottland, vom Jahr 1757 bis 1769.
Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von D.C.A. Gerhard. Berlin, C.F. Himburg, 1777-1785. 4 volumes. 8vo. pp. (32), 384; (...
EUR 1,900.00

JEFFREYS, J.G.
British Conchology, or an account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas.
London, J. van Voorst, 1862-1869. 5 volumes. 8vo. With 147 (107 handcoloured) engraved and lithographed plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettering o...
EUR 1,800.00

JEFFREYS, J.G.
British Conchology, or an account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas.
London, J. van Voorst, 1904-1869. 5 volumes. 8vo (195 x 125mm). pp. cxiv, 341; xiv, 465; 393; 486; 258, with 147 (107 handcoloured) engraved and li...
EUR 1,800.00

LEWIN, W.
The Birds of Great Britain, systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature; with descriptions, including the natural history of each bird. Les Oiseaux de la Grande Brétagne, rangés dans un ordre systématique....
London, J. Johnson, 1800-1796-1801. 8 volumes, bound in 4. 4to (270 x 220mm). With 1 handcoloured engraved frontispiece and 335 handcoloured engrav...
EUR 9,000.00

LISTER, M.
Naturgeschichte der Spinnen überhaupt und der Engelländischen Spinnen insonderheit aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt ...
Quendlinburg und Blankenburg, C.A. Reussner, 1778. 8vo. pp. xxviii, 301, (14), with 5 (2 handcoloured) engraved plates. Contemporary boards.
EUR 500.00

LYCETT, J.
A Monograph of the British fossil Trigoniae.
London, printed for the Palaeontographical Society, 1872-1879. 4to. pp. (4), 245, (1), (2), 18, (2), (90), with 45 lithographic plates. Contemporar...
EUR 300.00

MARTYN, T.
The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England; including upwards of 500 different Species. The Figures of which have never before been given to the Public. The whole accurately drawn and painted after nature. Arranged and named according to the Linnean system.
London, His Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, 1792. Folio (340 x 280mm). pp. 33, (1), (4), with engraved title, 2 medallion en...
EUR 8,500.00

MONTAGU, G.
Testacea Britannica ou Histoire Naturelle des Coquilles marines, fluviatiles et terrestres d'Angleterre.
Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais. Paris, A. Franck, 1846. Royal-8vo. pp. xix, 364, with 14 lithographedplates. Publisher's printed boards.
EUR 700.00

MORLEY, C.
Ichneumologia Britannica.
The Ichneumons of Great Britain. A descriptive account of the families, genera and species indigenous to the British Islands, together with notes a...
EUR 300.00

MORLEY, C.
Ichneumologia Britannica.
The Ichneumons of Great Britain. A descriptive account of the families, genera and species indigenous to the British Islands, together with notes a...
EUR 300.00

MORLEY, C.
Ichneumologia Britannica.
The Ichneumons of Great Britain. A descriptive account of the families, genera and species indigenous to the British Islands, together with notes a...
EUR 300.00

MORRIS, F.O.
A History of British Birds. Second edition.
London, Bell and Daldy, 1870. 6 volumes. Royal-8vo (255 x 175 mm). With 365 fine handcoloured plates. Publisher's green gilt pictorial cloth.
EUR 950.00

MUDIE, R.
The feathered tribes of the British Islands.
London, Whittaker & Co., 1834. 2 volumes. 8vo (200 x 125 mm). pp. xxiv, (2), 379; 391, with 2 handcoloured title-vignettes and 19 fine handcolour...
EUR 500.00

PENNANT, T.
British Zoology. Vol. IV. Crustacea, Mollusca, Testacea.
London, B. White, 1777. 4to. pp. (4), vii, (10), 136, with 93 engraved plates and an engraved titlevignette. Contemporary green morocco, gilt ornam...
EUR 950.00

PENNANT, T.
(Works) (I:) A tour in Scotland, 1769. Third edition.
Warrington, W. Eyres, 1774. 4to. pp. xiii, (1), 388, (2), with 21 (9 folded) engraved plates (II-III:) A tour in Scotland, and voyage to the Hebrid...
EUR 2,300.00

PRATT, A.
The Flowering Plants. Grasses, sedges & ferns of Great Britain and their allies the club mosses, horsetails, &c. New edition revised by Edwards Step. Illustrated with three hundred and fiftheen coloured plates figuring upwards of 1500 species.
London, F. Warne & Co., 1899-1900. 4 volumes. Royal 8vo (240 x 160mm). With 319 chromo-lithographedplates and 4 plain plates of botanical details. ...
EUR 500.00

SOWERBY, J.
British Mineralogy; or coloured Figures intended to elucidate the Mineralogy of Great Britain.
London, R. Taylor and Co., (1802) 1804-1817. 5 volumes. 8vo (225 x 142mm), with 427 (of 550) fine handcoloured engraved plates. Recent cloth.
EUR 5,500.00

SOWERBY, J.
Conchyliologie Minéralogique de la Grande Bretagne. Traduit de l'Anglais par E. Desor. Avec un avant-propos et des notes contenant de nombreuses additions et rectifications par L. Agassiz.
Soleure, Jent & Gassmann, 1845. 2 volumes. 8vo (212 x 140mm). pp. 682, with 609 figures on 403 handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary green...
EUR 8,500.00

TURTON, W.
A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. pp. ix, 324, with 12 handcoloured engraved plates. Publisher's gilt cloth.
EUR 200.00

TURTON, W.
Conchylia Insularum Britanicarum.
The Shells of the British Islands, systematically arranged. London, M.A. Nattali, (1822). 4to. pp. xlvii, (1), 279, (1), with 20 handcoloured engra...
EUR 1,300.00

WALKER, F.
Insecta Britannica. Diptera.
London, Reeve and Benham, 1851-1856. 3 volumes. 8vo. pp. vi, 313, (1); vi, 297, (1); ix, 352, with 30 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt spines.
EUR 350.00

WOOD, W.
Index Entomologicus; or, a complete illustrated catalogue, consisting of 1944 figures, of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain.
London, W. Wood, 1839. 8vo. pp. xii, 266, with 54 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, (rebacked).
EUR 450.00