Search Results: Natural History from Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books

London: The Roxburghe Press Book. Good. Buckram. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Undated, but c.1897 (written in pencil on title page). Green buckram with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Pages untrimmed. Condition: Good, with some bumping to cover corners and head and tail of spine. Cloth of front cover has some light foxing. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, apart from an occasional S written in pencil to some margins. 274pp. Four plates plus a fold-out summary of Editions. The chapters include Gilbert White, the Naturalist, his books, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, bibliographies, Gilbert White as a poet, and Selborne itself.l.

London: H.F. and G.Witherby, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Olive green hardcover with title in gilt on spine and vignette in gilt of a stag on the front cover. Condition: Good, with some light rubbing to cover edges and around spine and to lower right corner of front cover where there are a few spots of colour loss. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Some foxing to fore-edge of textblock, the rear endpapers and very occasionally within the volume. 336pp. 14 b/w illustrations (inc.frontispiece)..

London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849. Book. Fair. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NB: Page xvii of the contents and page 1-2 of the text missing. Navy blue cloth covers with ornate gilt decoration to front and rear covers depicting a cricket (acheta domestica) telling stories to listening insects. All edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Condition: Fair, spine has been rebacked (not recently), and has remains of a handwritten paper label with titles. Covers are generally faded and shelfworn. Binding cracked internally at the section where the preface begins, otherwise binding sound. No inscriptions. Occasional light foxing and soiling to text. 320pp. plus publishers list. Hand-coloured frontispiece and beautiful handcoloured illustrated vignettes to beginning of each chapter. Good reading/reference copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Newcastle upon Tyne: Locus+, 1996. Book. Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers, and some rubbing to cover edges. No inscriptions. Unpaginated. Many colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the Swiss illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (b.1944) held at Tullie House, Carlisle from November 1997 to January 1997. The exhibition then toured with its related exhibition "After Chernobyl" to Leeds, Middlesborough, Nottingham and Vancouver. "For 25 years Cornelia Hesse-Honegger worked as a scientific illustrator for the scientific department of the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich. Her work is an interface between art and science; it plays witness to a beautiful but endangered nature. Since the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986, she has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear… Read More

London: George G Harrap & Co., 1937. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on spine within maroon background. Condition: Good, binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on fep. Very occasional pencil notes within text. Very light browning to text throughout. 384pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Faber & Faber, 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dark brown hardcover with title in green on spine. Condition: Condition: Good, with light shelfwear and a few small white splashmarks to spine. ~binding sound. Inscribed by the author, Roger Stapledon to the travel writer, Elspeth Huxley on front endpaper, and dated 1937. 138pp. R.G. Stapledon's main interest in agricultural science was the improvement of grassland and the development of improved grass and clover varieties. This book includes sections on hill land, vegetation, soil and climate, river pollution, agricultural intensification and the organisation of possible "national lands"..

London and New York: The Studio Publications, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orange hardcover with title in black on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. 64pp. Many b/w illustrations..

Oxford: Printed for Private Circulation, 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter grey-blue paper-covered boards with title in black on beige buckram spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and soiling to covers. Binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. 96pp. 8 b/w photographic plates. Loosely inserted is a letter from the author (the son of Octavius Pickard-Cambridge) to his aunt, written on Balliol College headed notepaper, presenting the book to her. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 - 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. His son, Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, FBA (20 January 1873 - 7 February 1952), and the author of this book, was a British classicist based at Balliol College Oxford for much of his career. He was one of the greatest authorities on the theatre of ancient Greece in the first half of the 20th century..

Dorchester, Dorset: "Dorset County Chronicle" Printing Works, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth with title in gilt on spine and image of a snail in gilt on front cover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear and scuffing to covers and light bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding sound. Signed, inscribed and dated 1899 by the author to the previous owner on the reverse of the front endpaper. Folding map opposite title page (map has a 3.5 inch horizontal tear to base). Light foxing to rear endpapers. 110pp. plus an errata page..

London: Immel Publishing Ltd., 1992. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Green hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: As new, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 168pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. This book is aimed primarily at the layperson, with a straightforward format and many illustrations to inform the reader of the Burren's natural wonders, their significance and when and what time to go looking. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cambridge: Silent Books, 1995. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Light foxing to half-title, title page and rear endpapers. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear. 140pp. Many colour illustrations by the author. Loosely inserted is a letter from the author to Elspeth Huxley, the African travel writer, whose collection this book came from. This book is about natural history on a Kenya ranch. Recorded with illustrations by the author, it depicts life in many forms fro the smallest insects to elephants and a wealth of plants..

London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1993. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Introduction by Sir David Attenborough. Green hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and some bumping to outer corner of front and rear covers, with corresponding creasing to top corners of first and last few pages of text. Light vertical crease to front endpaper and first four pages. Edges of pages lightly browned throughout. Some light foxing to text. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, more so around the outer corners of front and rear covers (corresponding to bumping to cover corners previously mentioned). Loosely inserted is a short letter from Sir Peter Scott to the author (Elspeth Huxley) dated 13th March 1988. 361pp. 44 b/w illustrations..

London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Light brown buckram with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn with sunning to spine and cover edges. Binding sound. Some foxing to endpapers, half-title and occasionally throughout the book. 245pp. plus publishers list. B/w frontispiece..

London/New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blue hardcover with title in black and gilt on spine and front cover. Black and gilt decoration to front and rear covers and spine. Condition: Very good, book is bright and fresh with very light shelfwear. School prize bookplate on front pastedown. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 254pp. Several b/w decorations within text, and b/w frontispiece. Includes chapters on fresh-water algae, protozoa, leeches, rotifers and aquatic larvae..