(Bewick). Stone, Reynolds. WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF THOMAS BEWICK. Reproduced in Collotype. Selected with a Bibliographical Introduction ... Rupert Hart-Davis 1953.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 53pp. + [i] blank + [ii] limitation leaf. 351 ills. E.ps. very lightly spotted, original gilt lettered burgundy cloth, head of upper board towards spine sl. bumped and creased, sm. bump to tail of both boards, minor fading to edges, spine faded, t.e.red but faded.
No. 38 of a Limited Edition of 1000 Copies. Signed by Reynolds Stone.
£50.00 [ref: 285137]

(Waterton). Hobson, Richard. CHARLES WATERTON: His Habits, and Handiwork. Reminiscences of an Intimate and most Confiding Personal Association for nearly Thiry Years. London: Whittaker & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1867.
2nd Ed. containing a considerable amount of additional matter. xxxii + 375pp. + [i] + [iv] critical notes. Frontis. Some sporadic light browning, occasional spotting, lacking p.xi-xii with list of ills., upper hinge sl. tender but firm, original gilt lettered blind embossed green cloth with gilt title and illus. to upper board, some light soiling, corners sl. bumped, spine darkened and sl. bumped at head and tail.
£40.00 [ref: 280338]

Adams, John Coleman. NATURE STUDIES IN BERKSHIRE. G P Putnam’s Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1899.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. viii + 225pp. Ills. red lettered title page, 16 plates in photogravure from original photographs by Arthur Scott, ills. Light age toning, marbled e.ps., bound by Sotheran in gilt rule edged half morocco with marbled boards, lower corners sl. bumped, light wear and discolouring to boards, gilt ruled and lettered lightly faded spine, t.e.g.
Ex.-libris Herbert G. Squiers.
£50.00 [ref: 284247]

Asúa, Miguel de and French, Roger. A NEW WORLD OF ANIMALS. Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America. Ashgate 2005.
1st Ed. xvi + 257pp. 2 maps, ills. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, sl. rubbed red lettered blue d/w.
£60.00 [ref: 282015]

Bacon, Francis. SYLVA SYLVARVM: or, A naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, one of his Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke. Printed by Iohn Haviland for William Lee, and are to be sold by Iohn Williams 1635.
[4th Edition]. Sm. folio. [24], 260, [32], 47, [3] p. Title page within double rule border, engraved portrait frontis., additional engraved title page, dec./historiated initial letters and head and tail pieces. Signature f3 with several sm. central holes affecting text, lacking signatures C pp.5-16., marginal water stain, New Atlantis with waterstain to lower portion of pages, contemporary blind paneled calf with blind motifs to corners, corners with sl. loss, sm. portion lacking to tail of spne and moreso to central compartment and lower board, minor wear.
First published in 1627. STC (2nd ed.),; c: 1172; Gibson, R.W. Bacon,; c: 174; ESTC No 106936; wIth an additional title page, engraved, dated 1631 and signed "Tho: Cecill sculp:". "New Atlantis" has divisional title on a1 and separate pagination. Includes index. leaf g3 is a list, "Magnalia naturæ, præcipue quoad usus humanos". The last leaf is blank.’
£200.00 [ref: 291924]

Darwin, Charles. THE CORRESPONDENCE. Anniversary Set 1821 -1860 by Frederick Burkhardt and the Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project. CUP 2009.
1st Paperback Ed. 8 vols., complete. Large 8vo. Port. frontiss., many ills. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley, page 77-8 badly creased due to printing/binding error, otherwise very good in original brown and black lettered pictorial laminated limp card wrapps.
£180.00 [ref: 281666]

d’Obsonville, Chevalier Foucher. ESSAIS PHILOSOPHIQUES SUR LES MOEURS DE DIVERS ANIMAUX ÉTRANGERS, Avec des observations relatives aux principes & usages de plusieurs peuples. Our Extraits des Voyages de M***. En Asie. A Paris Couturier fils ... 1783.
1st Ed. [x] + viii + 430pp. Copper engraved plate, engraved head and tail pieces. French text. Light browning, marbled e.ps., front f.e.p. with sm. waterstain, inner gilt dentelles, contemporary mottled calf with triple gilt rule to edges of boards, sm. rubbed, intricate gilt tooled spine with gilt lettered label, sm. nick to head of upper joint.
Adventurer turned naturalist and orientalist, Foucher d’Obsonville (1734–1802) left France when he was only 19 years old for what would become a 20-year sojourn in India and parts of the Middle East. He served various French officials on military and diplomatic missions, barely survived the plague and a near-shipwreck, escaped his share of wild beasts, and was a close observer of the local customs and fauna he encountered. Upon his return to Paris around 1774, he was examined by eminent physicians from the Invalides and the Faculty of Medicine, who confirmed that plague and guinea worm were the cause of his scarring. In 1783, at Buffon’s urging, he published his above work published anonymously and dedicated to Buffon. It is arranged by animal; the accounts were based on Foucher’s own observations and experiences as recorded in his journals. In 1784 an English translation by Thomas Holcroft was published in London, made with Foucher’s cooperation and identifying him as the author.
£200.00 [ref: 290551]

Felton, R. Forester. BRITISH FLORAL DECORATION. Prefatory Note by Sir Albert K. Rollit. A & C Black 1910.
1st Ed. [xviii] + 194pp. + [vi] publ. adverts. + [iv] publ. cat. 26 plates including 12 in colour. F.e.ps. browned, edges of leaves spotted and intruding sl. onto inner margins, original gilt lettered dec. blue cloth cloth, minor rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine, t.e.g.
Inman 131; Inman claims this book precedes ‘A Short History of the Church of England’ which claimed to be the first book to be illustrated by colour photographs, the above work ‘which also reproduces autochromes was published a few months earlier.’ 7s 6d Series. Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed to half title - ‘ To my good friend Tom Stevenson - Champion Sweet Pea Grower or anything else he Takes in hand. Authors Edition R. Forester Felton.’
£35.00 [ref: 279055]

George, Wilma and Yapp, Brunsdon. THE NAMING OF THE BEASTS. Natural history in the medieval bestiary. Duckworth 1991.
1st Ed. xiv + 231pp. + [iii]. Colour frontis., 9 colour plates, 161 b/w. ills. Good in d/w.
£60.00 [ref: 288027]

Jones, W. Eifion. (Editor). NATURAL HISTORY OF ANGLESEY. Foreword by Helen Ramage. Anglesey Antiquarian Society. Llangefni 1968.
1st Ed. 228pp. Frontis., 12 plates from photos., 2 maps on 1 folding plate, 5 figures. Faint ownership ink stamp, some very minor browning to head and tail of spines and very sl. resultant mark from selotape to corners of boards, in lightly rubbed and very sl. chipped C.F. Tunnicliffe d/w. repaired in parts with selotape.
Studies in Anglesey History Vol. 2. William Eifion Jones (1925–2004) Welsh marine botanist, noted for his study of marine algae.
£25.00 [ref: 284051]