The Intellectual Observer

London: Groombridge & Sons Ten volumes (of 12 published), small thick octavo, all edges gilt, original cloth, with a full complement of 64 colour printed plates and 55 tinted plates, plus many dozens of text engravings, remarkably clean internally with just the very occasional mark or small stain. The cloth bindings are original, but changed in colour and style during… Read more about this item

London, UK: Groombridge and Sons. Half-bound in green leather over marbled paper boards. Ornamented red and gilt spine with raised bands and gilt title to red panel. 496pp. b/w wood engravings; tinted plates; colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed, all edges rubbed, shelf wear to boards. Title panel to spine partially detached.… Read more about this item

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1862. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. 3/4 leather iv + 491pp., col. frontis., colour plates, illusts. (tints & wood-engravings), index, Fascinating mid-19th Century journal. With several nice colour plates inc. a lovely colour frontis. of beautiful exotic bees, & another colour plate of bees, cuckoo-bees & fly-bees. Boards a little rubbed & spine… Read more about this item

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1863. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. 3/4 leather iv + 480pp., col. frontis., colour plates, illusts. (tints & wood-engravings), index, Fascinating mid-19th Century journal. With several nice colour plates inc. a stunning colour plate of Count RaggianiÕs Bird of Paradise, & two plates on one page of Comet II (aka The Great Comet… Read more about this item

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1863. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. 3/4 leather iv + 468pp., col. frontis., colour plates, illusts. (tints & wood-engravings), index, Fascinating mid-19th Century journal. With several nice colour plates inc. a nice colour frontis. of British Beetles, & a nice colour plate a new British snake. Also a superb colour plate of five… Read more about this item

Good. gently used HC, no DJ, binding clean and tight, illustrations and engravings, light shelf-wear, spine light sunned, free of markings

Good. gently used HC, no DJ, binding clean and tight, illustrations and engravings, light shelf-wear, spine light sunned, free of markings