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LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. (Huxley). Huxley, Leonard. LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. By ... Macmillan and Co. 1900.
1st Ed. 2 vols. viii + [iv] + 503pp. + [iv] + vi + [iv] + 504pp. + [iv]. Port. frontiss., 10 plates. Ex.-libris F.J. Chittenden, light browning, paper cracked to hinges, original gilt lettered maroon cloth, marking and wear spines chipped and faded, several corners bumped.
Frederick James Chittenden (1873–1950) British horticulturalist, Author and the first Director of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Wisley Garden.
£35.00 [ref: 283137]

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BIOGÉOGRAPHIE DES MAMMIFÈRES ET DES OISEAUX Balsac, Henri Heim de. BIOGÉOGRAPHIE DES MAMMIFÈRES ET DES OISEAUX de L’Afrique du Nord. Paris Laboratoire d’Évolution des Êtres Organisés ... Les Presses Universitaires de France 1936.
1st Ed. [iv] + 446pp. 15 figures, 7 plates, 16 maps. French text. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, light age toning, rebound in gilt lettered mustard buckram.
Suppléments au Bulletin Biologique de France et des Belgique. Supplément XXI. Inscribed ‘A Monsr. Ch. Vaurie en bien cordial .... H H de B.’ Charles Vaurie (1906–1975) French-born American ornithologist. He described for the first time the cryptic flycatcher, Vilcabamba thistletail, and Vaurie's nightjar.
£60.00 [ref: 287027]

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A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. Bewick, Thomas. A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. The figures engraved on wood by ... With an new Foreword by Yann Martel. University of Chicago Press 2009.
Facsimile Reprint of 1885 Quaritch Ed. vi + [xii] + 526pp. Profusely illus. Very good in original gilt lettered black cloth.
£35.00 [ref: 284573]

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ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS. Broderip, W.J. ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS. Henry Colburn 1848.
2nd Ed. with Additions. Crown 8vo. viii + [iii] + 384pp. Ex.-libris James M’Intyre, from the Library of Dr James Bynon, some browning, early gilt edged half leather with blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and ruling to spine, minor signs of wear.
£60.00 [ref: 287145]

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AN ATLAS OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY Brown, Captain Thomas. AN ATLAS OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY Or Great Britain and Ireland With Descriptions of All the Species. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1889.
Reissue. 4to. Title page + 115 tinted plates each with letterpress leaf. With the signature of ‘J.G.G. Rea 1899’, with the signature of Dr James Bynon, last four plates with some cloth bleeding to top edge, age toning, several relevant newspaper articles affixed to front e.ps., original red cloth backed green cloth boards, some marking and wear, lacking substantial portion to head of spine.
A reissue of the plates of ‘Illustrations of the Fossil Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland.’ Captain Thomas Brown (1785–1862) British naturalist and malacologist, curator of the Manchester Museum for twenty-two years.
£350.00 [ref: 287334]

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CREATION IN PLAN AND IN PROGRESS: Challis, Rev. James. CREATION IN PLAN AND IN PROGRESS: Being an Essay on the First Chapter of Genesis. Macmillan and Co., Cambridge and London 1861.
1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [viii] + 133pp. + [i] + [ii] + 24pp. Some sporadic light spotting, soiled and lightly dampstained original gilt lettered cloth, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped.
‘Interesting early contribution to the Darwinian controversy’.
£40.00 [ref: 274103]

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PLACING NATURE ON THE BORDERS OF RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS. Clingerman, Forrest and Dixon, Mark H. (Editors). PLACING NATURE ON THE BORDERS OF RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS. Ashgate 2011.
1st Ed. [xiv] + 224pp. From the library of R.J. Berry, very good in d/w.
Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology.
£40.00 [ref: 273674]

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HANDBOOK OF HUMAN MOLECULAR EVOLUTION. Cooper, David N. and Kehrer-Sawatzki, Hildegard. (Editors). HANDBOOK OF HUMAN MOLECULAR EVOLUTION. With a Foreword by Richard Dawkins. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester 2008.
1st Ed. 2 vols. Sm. 4to. xxxii + 878pp. + xxxii + ([879]-1717)pp. + [i]. 48 colour plates, numerous figures throughout. Upper hinge tender but firm in vol. 1, from the author David N. Cooper’s library, good in original white and yellow lettered blue coloured pictorial boards.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.
£125.00 [ref: 286681]

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Croizat, Léon. PANBIOGEOGRAPHY or An Introductory Synthesis of Zoogeography, Phytogeography, and Geology; with notes on evolution, systematics, ecology, anthropology, etc. The New World. The Old World. Caracas (Venezuela, S.A.): Published by the Author ... 1958.
2 vols. in 3. Royal 8vo. [xxxii] + 1018pp. + [iv] + 771pp. + [i] + [iv] + (772-1731)pp. Many distribution maps. Edges of leaves lightly spotted, good in original black lettered pale grey limp card wrapps., very minor soiling, a couple of corners sl. creased.
£75.00 [ref: 293138]

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ANIMALS AND EARLY MODERN IDENTITY. Cuneo, Pia F. (Editor). ANIMALS AND EARLY MODERN IDENTITY. Ashgate Publishing 2014.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xvi + 410pp. 61 figures. Very good in d/w.
£25.00 [ref: 285693]

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