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LONDON FISHER, SON & CO, 1833. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. REBOUND IN ATTRACTIVE BLUE HALF LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH, SPINE IN 5 COMPARTMENTS WITH GILT-RULED RAISED BANDS, GILT LETTERING AND DECORATION. ILLUSTRATED BY THOMAS ALLOM. FIRST VOLUME CONTAINS 132pp AND THE SECOND VOLUME CONTAINS 70pp. LAST 2 PAGES ARE PHOTOCOPIES PROFESSIONALLY BOUND IN. SOME LIGHT FOXING THROUGHOUT. A MOST ATTRACTIVE REBINDING OF A SCARCE WORK.

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.

EDINBURGH, DAVID DOUGLAS, 1897. FIRST EDITION, 4 VOLUMES. FOLIO. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN HALF LEATHER BINDING BY CHARLES DAY OF LONDON. ILLUSTRATED BY THE CAMERA BY OSWIN A J LEE. EACH VOLUME HAS 40 FULL SIZE BLACK AND WHITE PLATES OF BIRDS, THEIR EGGS AND NESTS AND VIGNETTES BY THE AUTHOR. SOME WEAR TO THE LEATHER AND THE SPINE OF VOLUME 2 IS SLIGHTLY SPLIT. INTERNALLY AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SET. A SCARCE ITEM.

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, LONGMANS, GREEN, 1904. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1025 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 726. THREE VOLUMES, FOLIO, BLUE CLOTH, BUCKRAM SPINES, T.E.G. WITH 18 PHOTOGRAVURES BY THE AUTHOR, 62 COLOURED PLATES BY THE AUTHOR, ARCHIBALD THORBURN, AND G E LODGE, AND MANY UNCOLOURED PLATES BY THE AUTHOR AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS. SOME SCRATCHES TO THE CLOTH BUT A VERY GOOD CLEAN SET. VERY HEAVY SO POSTAGE AT COST.

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.

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, ADAM ISLIP, JOICE NORTON, RICHARD WHITTAKERS, 1663. SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED AND AMENDED BY THOMAS JOHNSON. FOLIO, RECENTLY RESTORED AND REBOUND IN FULL LEATHER, WITH RAISED BANDS, RED AND GILT LABEL, NEW ENDPAPERS AND PRELIMS. MANY WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT. DURING THE RESTORATION SOME OF THE PAGES HAVE BEEN REPLACED WITH PHOTOCOPIES. THESE INCLUDE: THE TITLE PAGE AND THE ONE FOLLOWING, 5 PAGES IN THE TEXT, 1 IN THE INDEX, 6 IN THE TABLES OF VIRTUE, AND THE ERRATA PAGE. THE BOOK APPEARS COMPLETE AND INCLUDES: TITLE PAGES, DEDICATIONS, PREFACE FROM THE FIRST EDITION, GREETINGS TO THE READER, CATALOGUE OF ADDITIONS, THE HISTORY (1630 PAGES), INDEX, TABLE OF ENGLISH NAMES, SUPPLEMENT, BRITISH NAMES, TABLE OF VIRTUES ,ERRATA. SOME PAGES EDGES PROFESSIONALLY RESTORED, SOME EVIDENCE OF DAMP STAINING, BUT A VERY GOOD HANDSOME COPY OF THIS SCARCE WORK. THE BOOK WEIGHS 5.4 Kg.