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EDINBURGH. GAVIN ALSTON. 1776. GEORGE ANSON, LATE LORD ANSON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF A SQUADRON OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS, SENT UPON AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH SEAS, COMPILED FROM HIS PAPERS AND MATERIALS BY RICHARD WALTER, M.A. CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE CENTURION, IN THAT EXPEDITION. TWO VOLUMES, CROWN 8vo, FULL ELEGANT MOROCCO BINDINGS IN TAN GILT BY PAUL DELRUE, FOLDING MAP. A VERY HANDSOME SET.

1861 ROUTLEDGE, WARNE AND ROUTLEDGE, LONDON. BEAUTIFUL COPY. HAS BEEN REBOUND. HALF LEATHER WITH MOTTLED COVER. ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ENGRAVINGS BY DARRAUD, H. WEIR, ZWECKER, ETC. 1ST EDITION.

LONDON, WILLIAM MACKENZIE, [1879]. FIRST EDITION, FOLIO, TWO VOLUMES, 41 COLOURED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. EACH SPECIES DRAWN FROM NATURE BY A F LYDON, PLUS NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. TISSUES GUARDS, OCCASIONAL MARKS, PUBLISHER'S RED BRICK CLOTH, OVER BEVELLED EDGED BOARDS, RUBBED AND STAINED. THE BINDING IS WEAK AND SO SOME PLATES ARE LOOSE. CONTENTS VERY GOOD, AS ARE THE PLATES, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ONE ON LAMPREYS, WHICH HAS A SMALL WATER STAIN.

LONDON. RICHARDSON AND CLARK. 1768.. FIRST EDITION. 'OR AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAS BEEN DONE FOR ILLUSTRATING THE TOPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.' QUARTO, BOUND IN FULL CALF WITH A NEW SPINE, RAISED BANDS, NEW TITLE LABEL AND THE ORIGINAL BOARDS (RUBBED AT THE EDGES). MARBLED ENDPAPERS, STRENGTHENING TO FRONT BOARD WITH USE OF TAPE. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF RICHARD MICHAEL ROBBINS. QUARTO, xxxv, 740pp, INDEX. A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY.

LONDON, FOR THE AUTHOR, 1736. THE SECOND AND BETTER EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND FOR JOSEPH AMES AND PETER THOMSON, AND SOLD AT THE GOLDEN BALL IN PATERNOSTER ROW. QUARTO, MODERN SCARLET FULL-LEATHER RE-BINDING, GILT TITLES AND DECORATIONS, RAISED BANDS, NEW ENDPAPERS. FRONTISPIECE OF THE AUTHOR LAID DOWN AS IS THE TITLE PAGE. PLUS 25 PLATES, OTHER ILLUS. IN THE TEXT. INCLUDES A COLLECTION OF PAPERS, RECORDS REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING HISTORY .... pp. viii, 204, 124. AN EXCELLENT COPY, CLEAN AND TIGHT IN AN ATTRACTIVE QUALITY BINDING.

LONDON, THOMAS OSBORNE, 1751. FIRST EDITION, FOLIO. THIS IS VOLUME 2 OF HILL'S GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY, WHICH IS COMPLETE IN ITSELF. WITH 16 HAND-COLOURED COPPER ENGRAVINGS - A FEW TEARS TO SOME PLATES. RECENT REVERSE-CALF BINDING IN THE STYLE OF THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A LITTLE BROWN STAINING TO THE TEXT, REPAIR TO TITLE PAGE, BUT A GOOD COPY. 642 PAGES, INDEX.

LONDON, BERNARD QUARITCH, 1914. FIRST EDITION, FOUR VOLUMES, LARGE QUARTO, FULL WHITE BUCKRAM, 300 FULL- PAGE COLOUR PLATES BY PERRIN, TEXT BY BOULGER. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 689. SOME BROWNING TO THE SPINE OF VOL. 1 BUT A VERY GOOD SET. VERY HEAVY SO POSTAGE AT COST.

1993 COLLINS, LONDON. 1ST EDITION. FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP. NUMBER 79 IN THE NEW NATURALIST SERIES. PLEASE CALL FOR FURTHER DESCRIPTION.

LONDON, EDWARD LLOYD, 1896. FIRST EDITION. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. HANDSOMELY RE-BOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER, NEW ENDPAPERS, COLOUR PLATES, FRESH, TIGHT AND CLEAN.

LONDON, ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, 1861-3. THREE QUARTO VOLUMES FINELY REBOUND IN QUARTER RED LEATHER OVER RED CLOTH, NEW END PAPERS, BLACK AND RED LEATHER TITLE LABELS, RAISED BANDS. THE VOLUMES ARE: BIRDS, 786 pp; REPTILES, FISHES AND INSECTS, 804 pp; MAMMALIA, 796 pp. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT, WITH NEW DESIGNS BY WOLF, ZWECKER, WEIR....ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHER DALZIEL. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES OF TWO VOLUMES, BUT A VERY GOOD SET, FIRM, IN FINE BINDINGS. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED.

MENSTON, THE SCOLAR PRESS, 1973. THE FACSIMILIE EDITION OF THE FIRST EDITON OF 1789. A FINE COPY, QUARTO, RECENTLY REBOUND BY SOTHERAN IN HALF LEATHER OVER ORANGE CLOTH, TEG, RAISED BANDS, MARBLED ENDPAPERS. ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS. BOOKPLATE ON FEP. A VERY HANDSOME COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE OVERSEAS.

YORK, FOR THE AUTHOR BY G. PEACOCK LONDON. 1790. FIRST EDITION. HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS. BOARDS AND LEATHER VERY WORN. SOME LOSS AT BOTTOM OF LEATHER SPINE. SOME DAMP STAINING TO ENDPAPERS AND TO FINAL 20 PAGES, OTHERWISE CLEAN. NO LIST OF SUBCRIBERS. ALTHOUGH BINDING ON THE WHOLE IS TIGHT, PAGES 3 TO 6 ARE LOOSE. A NOTE OF THE FEP SUGGESTS THE BOOK WAS BOUND 1835 AND NO 7 OF 91,EX HARTWELL LIBRARY. ILLUSTRATED BY FINE LINE DRAWINGS. 5 PLATES, INCLUDING 3 FOLD OUT PLANS OF HEATED GREENHOUSES. INDEX. A SCARCE BOOK AT A REALISTIC PRICE.

LONDON FOR MILLAR, LAW AND CATER AND FOR WILSON, SPENCE AND MAWMAN, YORK, 1797. A NEW (AND SCARCE) EDITION, IN FOUR VOLUMES. MODERN GREEN CLOTH BINDINGS, VERY FRESH AND TIGHT. WITH 100 ENGRAVINGS. VOL 1, 415 pp, 4 PLATES. VOL2. 412 pp, 53 PLATES (INCLUDING ONE THAT SHOULD BE IN VOL. 1). VOL 3, 424 pp, 29 PLATES. VOL. 4, 327 pp +EXTENSIVE INDEX, 13 PLATES. OCCASIONAL ANNOTATIONS BY A NEAT CONTEMPORARY HAND, BUT INTERNALLY CLEAN.

LONDON, COTES, 1610. FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUMES. RECENTLY PROFESSIONALLY RESTORED AND RE-BOUND IN FULL CALF, RAISED BANDS AND GILT TITLES, NEW ENDPAPERS. HENCE A VERY ATTRACTIVE AND TIGHT SET. A NUMBER OF (MISSING) PAGES HAVE BEEN BY REPLACED BY FACSIMILIES, INCLUDING THE TITLE PAGE AND PRELIMS. OF VOLUME 1. PAGES 1631 TO 1648 ARE BOUND IN AFTER FINIS. THE INDEX (PAGES 1689 TO 17550 ARE PHOTOCOPIES. WITH NUMEROUS (OVER 2000) WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT. VOLUME 1, 874 pp, VOLUME TO 875 TO 1688, PLUS INDEX TO PAGE 1755. IN SUMMARY: A LOVELY BINDING OF A COMPLETE COPY BUT WITH MANY FACSIMILIE PAGES.

LONDON, H PLAYFORD, 1694. THE SECOND EDITION, 58 PAGES. ...AS IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, BY HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS. VERY NICELY BOUND IN MODERN (1934) FULL BROWN LEATHER. NEW ENDPAPERS, BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. BROWNING OF PAGES COMENSURATE WITH THE AGE. FINE BINDING WITH A FEW MARKS TO THE LEATHER. VERY SCARCE.