Books & Manuscripts

Gerard, John The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes London: John Norton, 1597. First edition, folio, engraved title-page, 18th century calf...

Audubon, John James & The Reverend John Bachman The Quadrupeds of North America New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854. 3 volumes, first 8vo edition, ...

Parkinson, John Paradisi in Sole, Paradisius Terrestris London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. First edition, folio (33 x 22.5cm), engrav...

Booth, E.T. Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during twenty-five years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands London: R.H. Porter, 1881-...

Greville, Robert Kaye Scottish Cryptogamic Flora Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1823. 6 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, 360 hand-coloured plates, co...

Hooker, J.D. & W.J. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849. Folio, part 1 (of 3) only, inscribed to the titl...

Hooker, J.D. Illustrations of Himalayan Plants London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. Folio, divided in to text and plate volumes, hand-coloured title-page ...

New Naturalists Numbers 123-136, deluxe editions comprising: Terns; Bird Populations; Owls; Brecon Beacons; Nature in Towns and Cities; Lakes, Lo...

New Naturalists Part-set of the 'Golden Fourteen' comprising: British Warblers; Heathlands, Ferns; The Hebrides; Caves and Cafe Life; Wild and Ga...

New Naturalists Numbers 124-134, signed editions comprising: Bird Populations; Owls; Brecon Beacons; Nature in Towns and Cities; Lakes, Loughs an...

New Naturalists Numbers 101-142 London: Collins [-William Collins], 2007-2020. 46 volumes, including duplicates of 129 (Alien Plants), 132 (Falco...

New Naturalists Part-set of the New Naturalist Monographs comprising: The Wren; The Yellow Wagtail; The Greenshank; Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos; An...

Gardening Including Miller, Philip The Gardener's Dictionary. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by John Rivington…, 1759. Seventh edition,...

Lightfoot, John Flora Scotica London, 1777. 2 volumes, 8vo, 35 engraved plates, additional engraved titles, contemporary calf neatly rebacked wit...

Anderson, John Zoology of Egypt: Volume First. Reptilia and Batrachia London: Bernard Quartich, 1898. First edition, one of 100 copies, 4to, orig...

Conrad Loddiges & Sons & George Cooke, illustrator The Botanical Cabinet London: John & Arthur Arch, John Hatchard, and others, 1818. 20 volumes,...

Forestry A small collection, including Elwes, Henry John & Augustine Henry. The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. London: S.R. Publishers, 1969. ...

Edwards, Sydenham The Botanical Register London: James Ridgway, 1815. 7 volumes, 8vo, 605 hand-coloured plates, one additional monochrome plates,...

Sowerby, James English Botany Or, coloured figures of British Plants… London: printed for the Author, by J. Davis, and sold at No.2 Mead Place, n...

Rosser, Celia E. and Alexander S. George The Banksias London: Academic Press Inc. (London) Limited, 1981-2000. Three volumes, elephant folio, num...

Sinclair, John An Account of the Systems of Husbandry Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1814. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait, ...

Yarrell, William, with Autograph Letters Signed by Yarrell and Gould A History of British Birds London: John van Voorst, 1843. 3 volumes, 8vo, wi...

Millais, J.G. Rhododendrons London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917. Folio. original maroon cloth gilt; Idem. The Mammals of Great Britain and Irel...

Saint-Hillaire, M. Jaume Plantes de la France Paris: Plantes de la France,1808-1809. 4 volumes, 8vo, 400 colour lithographs, modern green half mo...

Maund, B. The Botanic Garden London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1825-1836. 7 volumes bound in 5, 8vo, 156 hand-coloured plates, volume vii lacking mai...

Willmott, Ellen The Genus Rosa London: John Murray, 1910-1914. Folio, in 25 parts with original wrappers and two custom cases (2)

Hewitson, William C. British Oology Being illustrations of the eggs of British Birds… Newcastle upon Tyne: published for the author by Charles Em...

Bradley, R. A Complete Body of Husbandry London: James Woodman and David Lyon, 1727. First edition, 8vo, 4 plates, contemporary calf neatly rebac...

Botany Including Sowerby, Charles - John Johnson & C. Pierpoint Johnson British Poisonous Plants. London: John van Voorst, 1861. Second edition, ...

Gould, John [Three hand-coloured lithographs of hummingbirds] Camphylopterus obscurus (55.8 x 38.6cm); Florisuga flabellifera (mounted, mount ape...

Naismith, John Thoughts on Various Objects of Industry pursued in Scotland Edinburgh: printed for the Author and sold by Bell and Bradfute, 1790....

[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman The Beauty of the British Alps Or, Love at First Sight. London: G. Virtue, 1825. 8vo in half-sh...

Australia Manuscript produced by convicts on the transport Clyde, 1863 Titled ‘The Clyde Journal, Literary and Miscellaneous … Published under the...

Australia Album of photographic views of Tasmania, c.1890 Oblong folio album, contemporary half morocco with red morocco label to front board, 39...

Australia and New Zealand Photograph album, c.1880 Large folio album, half morocco binding, containing 98 albumen print photographs, subjects inc...

Webber, John (1751/2-1793) [Views in the South Seas] London: J. Webber, No. 312 Oxford Street, 1788-92. 16 soft-ground etched plates with grey an...

Jamaica - slavery - sugar trade Manuscript letter-book of plantation attorney William Shand of Fettercairn, 1826-7 Folio (31.5 x 20cm), contempor...

Baikie, Robert Observations on the Neilgherries including an Account of their Topography, Climate, Soil and Productions, and of the Effects of th...

Dixon, Charles George Sketch of Mairwara giving a Brief Account of the Origin and Habits of the Mairs; their Subjugation by a British Force; thei...

Parsons, Abraham Travels in Asia and Africa including a Journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and over the Desert to Bagdad and Bussora; a Voyage fr...

Mughal India Collection of manuscript documents, 18th century in Hindi and Persian or Urdu, the Persian or Urdu documents in nasta'liq script, an...

East India Company Collection of official letters countersigned by Alexander Speirs, political resident at Gwalior then Nagpur, 1840s 5 manuscrip...

India - Jainism The Temples of [Satrunjaya] Palitana in Kathiawad Bombay: Sykes & Dwyer, [1869]. Albumen-print photographic title-page, mounted o...

Company School Portrait of a young beauty Northern India, c.1875. Full-length portrait of a young woman in finery, watercolour on wove paper, 18 ...

Company School Illustration of two birds watercolour painting on Whatman 1826 watermarked paper, 22 x 33cm

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. First edition, 4to...

Middle East, Sudan, Africa, India Collection of works, 19th-20th century J. E. Esslemont, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, 1923 (first edition, origi...

Ottoman Turkey - Smyrna and Cassaba Railway [Timetable for the Smyrna to Alaşehir extension] Smyrna [Izmir]: B. Tatikian, Dhu al-Hijjah, 1301 AH ...

Lautz, Thomas Steinreich in der Südsee. Traditioneele Zahlungsmittel in Mikronesien Cologne, 1999. Third special-volume of the EUCOPRIMO, number ...

[Korea and China] Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria compiled in Commemoration of the Decennial of the Bank of Chosen. Seoul: Bank of Chosen, 1919. F...

Portlock, Nathaniel, Captain A Voyage Round the World; but more regularly to the North-West Coast of America... London: John Stockdale and George...

Roosevelt, Theodore The Winning of the West New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. “Alleghany Edition”, 4 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispie...

Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean London: Lo...

Edinburgh Advertiser Vol. XXVIII Nos. 1418-1458 Edinburgh: James Donaldson, August-December 1777. 4to (29 x 21.5cm), contemporary marbled boards ...

[Russia - House of Romanov] Collection de vingt-quatre portraits de la famille impériale peinte par H. Benner, qui a obtenu de Sa Majesté l'Emper...

Du Pasquier, Claudius Francis, FRCS (1811-1897) Collection of sketchbooks and an illustrated journal of tours in the Alps 3 sketchbooks, all oblo...

Iceland Five works Hooker, William Jackson. Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809. Yarmouth: printed by J. Keymer “not published”, 1...

Edmondston, Arthur A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. 2 volumes, 8vo...

Scotland Four ink sketches in the style of Daniell Comprising: Dumbarton Castle; Rothesay Castle; Loch Leven Castle; and Ruthven Castle; each lai...

Clerk, John, of Eldin A Series of Etchings Chiefly of Views in Scotland With Additional Etchings and Facsimiles from his Drawings. Edinburgh: for...