Natural History from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Essex: 5M Books Ltd 2024. 8vo. xii, 348 pp. Illustrated softcover with photographic paste-downs. 'How has it come to this point in history that we hardly value the food we eat and the soil that it's grown in?' This book addresses the ecological costs of industrial farming: how it has impacted animals, the environment, farmers and the way we eat.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co. 1872. Small 8vo. Fourth edition. xvi, 653 pp. Half green morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering to spine with raised bands; endpapers and all edges marbled. Minor rubbing to spine's extremities. Some scattered foxing throughout, mostly confined to page edges. Two fold-out colour maps (the first with 4 folds and the second with 2) showing Wallace's… Read more about this item

London: Collins & Harvill Press 1962. Small 4to. Signed first edition. 192 pp. Illustrated boards in pictorial jacket; map endpapers. Some chipping and rubbing to extremities of jacket. Minor bumping to ends of book's spine. Internally clean. Colour photograph frontis. and numerous full page black and white photographs throughout. This work completes the story of Elsa the lion cub, raised… Read more about this item

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press ca. 1920. 12mo. 524 pp. Full maroon leather with gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge gilt. With frontis portrait and an engraved title page. Spine faded with some creasing to the leather and light rubbing to the edges. Some spotting to the contents pages and extremities. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1920.

London: T. Nelson and Sons 1860. 12mo. viii, 412, [4] pp. Purple cloth with gilt decorative title to front. All edges gilt. Sunned spine. Tear to back joint, binding loose. Some general rubbing to extremities and marks to boards. Internally clean and unmarked, with 6 chromolithograph plates. Bookplate of award to front paste-down from St Andrew's, dated 1868. Organized by… Read more about this item

London: Anne Cobbett 1843. 12mo. 182, [1 index], 12 [ads] pp. Original boards with cloth spine and paper title label from 1843. Some wear to edges and corners, spine slightly tilted, small loss to title label. Occasional foxing to prelims and very occasionally inside. Uncut pages. A guide to keeping livestock, baking bread, brewing beer, using grass and grain to… Read more about this item

London: R. H. Porter 1891. 8vo. xviii, 385, [12] pp. 6 colour plates and colour map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and boards. Slight wear to extremities. Occasional foxing and previous owner's bookplate. . Very Good. Publisher's Cloth. 1891.

London: Cassell and Company 1907. 8vo. First edition. xii, 312, [8 plates] pp. Light green cloth with gilt lettering and debossed decorative design. Minor creasing and wear to spine ends, some foxing to prelims and occasionally throughout. Inscription to paste-down. A nice little book debunking a wide range of fallacious ideas- on history, the law, the human body, food, the… Read more about this item

London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1850. Small 8vo. xii, 305 pp. Hand coloured folding map frontis, and chart at rear, with wood engravings throughout. Cloth with blind stamped decoration to boards and gilt lettering to spine. Wear and bumping to extremities, particularly at spine, which has darkened. Light marking to binding. Folding pages have wear to fore-edges. Pencil… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson 1804. 8vo. First UK edition, following the first edition published in the United States in 1803. xii, [ii], 344, 35, plates. 30 hand-coloured plates, including frontis. Contemporary binding of half morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and wear, bumping to corners. Offsetting to ffep. from previous owner's bookplate. Occasional light foxing… Read more about this item

London: Watts & Co. 1945. 12mo. viii, 434, [4 ads] pp. Red hardback. Some discolouration to edges of board and spine, dent to top spine end and minor wear to extremities. Some spotting to top edge and very occasionally inside but otherwise a clean copy. A nice pocket edition of Darwin's classic text on evolution, with a glossary and index… Read more about this item

London: Dropmore Press 1947. Small 4to. Limited edition - one of 550 copies. Blue hardcover with gilt publisher's device to front panel and gilt lettering to spine. Minor marks and spotting to bottom edge of jacket; slight discolouration to spine & small dents to corners of boards. Internally bright and clean with gilt dentelles. Inscription to ffep. A charming book… Read more about this item

London: Dulua & Co., Ltd. 1925. Small 4to. First Edition. [v], 496, [+20 plates] pp. Light brown cloth. Minor marks to boards, very slight rubbing to the extremities. Very occasional minor spots but generally internally clean. A large taxonomy of the birds of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, with a fold-out map at the front and 20 tissue-guarded black & white… Read more about this item

London: William Smith 1837-1840. 4to. 3 volumes. viii, 94 [+ plates], [12]; iv, 188 [+ plates]; iv, 188 [+ plates] pp. Half dark brown morocco over brown boards with gilt lettering and borders to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red. Rubbing around corners, joints and spine ends. Slight fading and spots to boards. Binding firm. Light foxing throughout. 137… Read more about this item

London: Relfe and Fletcher 1838. 8vo. 175 pp., with a hand coloured lithographic additional title, and 2 plain lithographic plates. Blind stamped original cloth with gilt lettering to spine has some minor bumping and to extremities. . Near Fine. Original Cloth - Gilt Lettered. 1838.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington [1879]. 8vo. First UK Edition. xv, 644 pp. Half straight-grained dark red morocco over marbled boards, with gilt lettering to spine; all edges speckled red. Rubbing to boards, minor nicks to extremities; binding firm. Occasional spots throughout. Ink inscriptions and bookplate to ffep. Fold-out map of the Amazon river at the front. Black… Read more about this item

London: John Murray 1903. Small 8vo. xxvi, 200 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine; top edge gilt. Fading to spine and rubbing around edges, with paint spots to boards and spine. Light foxing ande occasional minor splits to the binding within but all still together. Bookplate and name in blue pencil to front pastedown. 62 illustrations,… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber 1966. 8vo. First Edition. 269 pp. Yellow hardback with gilt lettering to spine in illustrated jacket, price clipped; top edge green. Jacket foxed with wear to spine ends, minor loss to tail of spine. A few light marks to boards, which are very slightly warped. Spotting to fore-edge and endpapers, slight leak of the green top… Read more about this item

London: MAcmillan and Co 1871. 8vo. First Editions. 2 volumes. [v], 488; 489-981, [3] pp. Full green cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Marks to boards with wear to spine ends and corners. Ink names and stamps to prelims, which are foxed, otherwise internally clean. Colour frontis and black & white diagram illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1947. 8vo. First Edition. 152 pp. Half blue morocco over blue boards with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt. Fading and discolouration to board edges and spine. Occasional spots throughout. With two colour plates and b&w illustrations by Peter Scott. Nicely bound by Bayntun. . Very Good. Half Morocco. First Edition.… Read more about this item