GOSSE Phillip Henry

Tenby: a Sea-Side Holiday. APPARENTLY UNRECORDED VARIANT OF THE UNILLUSTRATED ISSUE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Van Voorst,, 1856. 8vo., First Edition, Unillustrated Issue, neat contemporary signature (dated 1856) on front paste-down; original green herringbone cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind, second compartment lettered in gilt, uncut, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked, old backstrip laid down, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue (dated March 1856) bound in at end. This work is based on on a family holday on the Welsh side of the Bristol Channel in 1854. ' There is only the one edition, but there is a very late form of it in which the twenty-four plates are absent altogether' (F&W). THE PRESENT COPY IS AN APPARENTLY UNRECORDED VARIANT OF THIS ISSUE. It resembles F&W 68 but has the list of plates present and the sides and backstrip plain. The advertisements include a prospectus for 'British Sea Anemones' and ads for 'Marine Zoology', 'Devonshire Coast' , 'Aquarium' and others of the author's works. See Freeman & Wertheimer 68; Freeman BNHB 1385.

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GRAINGER Margaret

The Nightjar Yesterday and Today. SIGNED BY RICHARD WILLIAMSON

[West Sussex Institute of Higher Education, Chichester],, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photograps, illustrations and maps in the text; decorative wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Otter Memorial Paper, No. 3. SIGNED BY RICHARD WILLIAMSON ON HALF-TITLE. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 43967

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Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, nightjar, richard williamson, margaret grainger, otter memorial paper, bishop otter

HADFIELD M.

British Trees. A Guide for Everyman.

Dent,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with 150 full-page illustrations (depicting many hundreds of figures) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Hadfield is notable for the comprehensive nature and detail of his illustrations.

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Book number: 14347

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, botany, trees, arboriculture, forestry, hadfield, m. hadfield, natural history, plants, british, trees

HALE W.G.

New Naturalist 65. Waders. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. New Naturalist 65. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

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Book number: 31836

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Keywords: mstock, natural history, newnats, new naturalists, w.g. hale, waders, waders

HALL S.

Whitsun Field Meeting, 1933. A Traverse of the Central Weald. F G H BLYTH'S COPY

Geologists' Association,, 1933. 8vo., First Edition, with 2 plates on 1; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. F G H BLYTH'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE ON WRAPPER. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. XLIV, Part 4 1933

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Book number: 21072

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, geology, weald, kent, sussex, s. hall, h.b. milner, g.s. sweeting, natural history, geology, fossils, whitsun, field, meeting, 1933

HAMMOND Cyril O.

The Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Second Edition. Revised by Robert Merritt. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Harley Books, [Colchester],, [1983]. 4to., Second Edition, with 20 coloured plates, and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With enlarged illustrations of the British species in colour by C.O. Hammond and an illustrated key to the aquatic larval stages by A.E. Gardner.

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Book number: 42454

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Keywords: natural history, insects, entomology, dragonflies, cyril hammond, robert merritt

HARDY Alister

New Naturalist 37. The Open Sea II. Fish and Fisheries. With Chapters on Whales, Turtles, and Animals of the Sea Floor. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip and on (predominantly white) rear panel. New Naturalist 37. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

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HARRISON James M.

The Birds of Kent. [With a Foreword by Sir Philip Manson-Bahr. First Issue]. FIRST ISSUE IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Witherby,, [1953]. 2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, First Issue, with 2 coloured frontispieces, 36 coloured plates, 76 monochrome plates on 42, a full-page map in the text, and a double-page map in red and blue with a full-page graph, some light marginal spotting to first leaves on each volume, fore-edges mildly spotted; original dark blue buckram, gilt back, blue tops, a very good, clean set in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and spotted at fold-ins. One of the finest of all modern county avifaunas, the set comprises vol I: Black-Throated Diver to Puffin; vol. II: Pallas's Sand-Grouse to Snow-Finch. The frontispieces and coloured plates are from paintings by the author. 'In 1953 Dr. James Harrison published 'The Birds of Kent', a comprehensive historical work in two volumes which goes into great detail on the occurrence of sub-species as well as full species. This book is illustrated with many photographs mostly of mounted specimens and coloured paintings by the author'. (Tate). This is the first issue binding of dark blue buckram (rather than the later cloth). The dustwrappers are cream printed in red and black. Tate (1985), p.94.

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Book number: 33885

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HARRISON James M.

Bristow and the Hastings Rarities Affair. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Privately Printed, St. Leonards-on-Sea],, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the later mildly fraye at upper edge. Privately issued account, by an eminent ornithologist who knew Bristow personally, of the notorious 'Hastings Rarities' scandal. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 44706

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, hastings, bristow, george bristow, james harrison

HARTING James Edmund

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. The Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting. Stereotyped Edition, with Ten Letters not included in any other Edition of the Work. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas Bewick and Others. HANDSOME COPY OF HARTING'S 'SELBORNE' IN STEREOTYPE

Swan Sonnenschein,, [1891]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with decorative title-vignette and 60 engraved illustrations and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary green full calf, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, broad doublures tooled with floral procession in gilt, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a most attractive, internally spotless copy. The work as a whole comprises [1] 'The Natural History of Selborne'; [2] 'Observations on various Parts of Nature'; [3] 'A Naturalist's Calendar'; [4] 'The Antiquities of Selborne'; [5] 'Poems'; [6] 'Ten Letters from the Rev. Gilbert White to Robert Marsham 1790-1793', all of which have individual titles. The first work includes White's 'Advertisement'; the third work includes Dr. Aikin's Advertisement. The White-Marsham letters were first published in Harting's second edition (Bickers, 1876). When Swan Sonnenschein acquired the copyright to Bennett's edition the opportunity was taken to revise Bennett's notes and to illustrate the work by some of Bewick's engravings. The first Swan edition was published in 1887 and several times reissued culminating in this, the fourth and best Swan edition. A HANDSOME COPY OF AN IMPORTANT EDITION. Martin, p.152.

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Keywords: natural history, gilbert white, selborne, bennett, harting, bewick, e.t. bennett, natural history, white, selborne, natural, history, antiquities, selborne, county, southampton

HEALEY Edna

Emma Darwin. The Inspirational Wife of a Genius. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Headline,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, terracotta endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 48127

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Keywords: natural history, darwin, charles darwin, emma darwin, evolution, origin of species, edna healey

HEER Oswald

The Primaeval World of Switzerland. Edited by James Heywood. SPLENDID SET IN FULL MOROCCO

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1876. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with folding coloured map and tinted lithographed plate as frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 7 tinted lithographed plates (one coloured; original tissue guards present), 11 engraved plates of fossils and many hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, pictorial gilt from original boards preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated March 1877) bound in at end. An early issue of the first edition. A splendid set.

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Book number: 19669

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Keywords: natural history, palaeontology, fossils, switzerland, oswald heer, james heywood, o. heer, natural history, geology, fossils, primaeval, world, switzerland

HESLOP I.R.P.

Notes and Views of the Purple Emperor. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Southern Publishing Co., Brighton,, 1964]. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 10 coloured plates on 5, 32 monochrome plates on 15 and a full-page map; original rose cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THIS CLASSIC MONOGRAPH IS EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 28390

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Keywords: natural history, insects, lepidoptera, butterflies, purple emperor, heslop, apatura iris,

HICKLING, ed. Ronald

Enjoying Ornithology. A Celebration of Fifty Years of The British Trust for Ornithology 1933-1983. Edited and compiled by Ronald Hickling. [Illustrations by Robert Gillmor.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Poyser, Calton,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and illustrations and maps in the text; dark red cloth, gilt back, maroon endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 42528

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HILL John E.

Bats. A Natural History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

British Museum (Natural History),, [1984]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 42883

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, mammals, bats, british museum, bm, bmnh, john hill, james smith