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Botany Foreign floras . 2nd. Ed. Pub. C.U.P. 2011. pp.xix, 639 with text illus. 4to. New hardback. RRP £212.00. The �European Garden Flora� is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge.

Chapman & Hall., 1940. 1st. Cheap. Ed.. pp.xii, 228 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Neat inscription. VG. hardback in vg. plus dw.

London for Tho. Burrell, and Will. Hensmen., 1677. 1st. Ed.. pp.[24], 285, [19] with additional engraved title-page and 3 engraved plates by F.H. van Houe. 8vo. Hardback. Overall contents thor. vg. Some toning and marking internally. Ffep. with ownership inscription �John Cadmene, Book, 1731� and manuscript calculations, part of blank margin neatly excised. Engraved title with contemporary ownership inscription �Rose Gregorye� scored out. Contemporary leather boards in vg. plus condition, more recently rebacked, this in fine condition. Scarce. ESTC records just 12 copies worldwide. Intended as a companion to the author's �Systema agriculturae� (1669). The work �contains much useful advice and information for the practical gardener. The author, referred to by John Houghton as �the ingenious Mr. John Worlidge of Petersfield in Hampshire�, is generally considered one of the most enlightened of the seventeenth-century writers on gardening and husbandry�.

pp.95 with b/w. photographs throughout. Ex-Library. A vg. copy in same dustwrapper.

Witherby. , 1968. 1st. Ed.. pp.125. 8vo. Signature to title page. Fine hdbk. in vg. dw.

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Natural history . 4th. Ed. Pub. Gibbings and Co. 1899. pp. 72 with 10 plates of fine hand-coloured copper engravings and 4-pages of adverts. 8vo. Bookplate. Neat contemporary ownership inscription to title-page. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth with gilt decoration in nr. fine condition. A super copy. A total of 120 flies, natural and artificial, are illustrated in the hand-coloured plates.

Longmans, Green & Co. and Dulau & Co., 1881. 1st. Ed.. pp.xl, 626. 8vo. Hardback. Ex-Oxford Uni. Lib. Contents nr. fine. Original boards, spine relaid, in good to vg. condition.

Ornithology Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1999. pp.550 with 93 pages of colour plates and many further illustrations to text. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. with a hint of sunning to spine. From the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE (purchased by us May 2023). Hand-written notes in Gillmor’s hand on a slip of paper loosely inserted.

Blackie & Son., 1924. pp.114 with figs. and other b/w. photographs. A good-vg. copy in dw. which is missing a piece from the rear.

Ornithology Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. ACC. 1993-94. Two volume set with colour and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardbacks in fine dws. with spines very gently sunned. Although not inscribed, from the library of ornithologist, artist, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE. Loosely inserted is a sheet of lined paper with Robert’s handwritten, very complimentary, draft review of this series of volumes. Volume I covers oils and watercolours up to 1699, and includes Durer, Holbein, Rubens and many more. The age of sense and sensitivity in bird art is the subject of Volume II, as well as the art world in general, although there were still works being produced in the style and composition of the old masters. Includes works from Casteels, Cradock, van Royen, Stranover and Bogdani.

pp.xi, 306. thoroughly very good in card covers.

Ornithology Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. Witherby. 1975. pp.133 with 14 coloured plates. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Some magnificently illustrated bird books were published in the Victorian era. Here the author has restricted herself to those works wher the coloured plates were produced by lithography. Artists include William Swainson, Edward Lear, John Gould, Archibald Thorburn and George Lodge.

Ornithology Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. Witherby. 1975. pp.133 with 14 coloured plates. Large 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Some magnificently illustrated bird books were published in the Victorian era. Here the author has restricted herself to those works wher the coloured plates were produced by lithography. Artists include William Swainson, Edward Lear, John Gould, Archibald Thorburn and George Lodge.

Botany Foreign floras . 1st. Ed. Pub. Royal Dublin Society. 1984. pp.x, 174 with line drawings. 8vo. Softback. Ex-Lib. Nr. fine.

H.F. & G. Witherby., 1923. 1st. Ed.. pp.xv, 416 with fold-out map and illus. 8vo. Thor. vg. hdbk., in original blue cloth boards. A very detailed, easily absorbed biography.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. The Hakluyt Society. 2005. pp.24 with b.w. illus. 8vo. Fine softback.

Bios., 1996. 1st. Ed.. pp.xi, 306 with text figs. throughout. A near fine copy in illus. boards.

Botany Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. The Linnean Society. 1912. pp.152. 8vo. With publisher’s Errata. Nr. fine softback. Scarce.

Entomology Butterflies and moths . Rep. Pub. British Entomological & Nat. His. Soc. 1978. pp.170 with 12 colour illus. plates and b/w. figs. 8vo. Neat pencil note to verso of title page and occasional correction within text, o/w. contents fine. Thor. vg. hardback. Only 500 copies printed. Text reprinted from the Proceedings & Transactions of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society between 1944-1957. Authors are S.N.A. Jacobs, S. Wakely, L.T. Ford, S.C.S. Brown & J. Heath.

Gardening Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Timber Press. 1992. pp.183 with col. photos. and silhouette illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. with gently sunned spine. The first comprehensive treatment of the subject with detailed cultivar descriptions. Provides detail on identification, cultivation, flowers, foliage, fruit, propagation and more.