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Small 8vo; [4],107,[3]pp, with a frontispiece and 23 further full-page copper-engraved plates, each showing the cock, hen, and (often) egg of a different songbird. Without the final leaf of advertisements. Recently rebound in period style by Fitterer in half calf, the spine in six compartments between raised bands with a... more
Price: $865.00
Two volumes bound in one, each with its own title page, dated 1809 and (in the imprint to the second work) 1810. 4to; xvi, 400pp, with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Culpeper and 29 hand-colored plates depicting some 450 individual medicinal plants, scrubs, and trees; [1], 256pp, with 13 full-page... more
Price: $1,365.00
"Second edition, corrected and enlarged." 8vo: xvi,271,[1]pp, with an aquatint frontispiece (tissue guard intact) and five further aquatint plates (in two tints), engraved by F. C. Lewis (who worked for Turner) and sketched by the author, "illustrative of the modifications of the clouds" not in the first edition. Three-quarter butterscotch... more
Price: $635.00
![The natural history of Barbados. In ten books. By the Reverend Mr. Griffith Hughes, . . . [Large-Paper Issue]](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0715.jpg "The natural history of Barbados. In ten books. By the Reverend Mr. Griffith Hughes, . . . [Large-Paper Issue]")
A spectacularly oversized example, with vast margins, of the scarce large-paper issue of perhaps the most important botanical work on the island of Barbados, a book to "place beside Catesby's Natural History" (Hunt), sumptuously produced and beautifully illustrated. Folio; [4], vii, [13], 250, *251-*254, 251-314, [20]pp, complete with 30 full-page... more
Price: $6,850.00
![[Ornithology] A General Synopsis of Birds](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0570.jpg "[Ornithology] A General Synopsis of Birds"){kind=small}
First Edition, one of only 500 sets, of Latham's systematic study, providing a "concise account of all the Birds hitherto known" (from the Preface). 4to's; 10 volumes bound in five, complete (comprising the general synopsis, the index ornithologicus, and the supplement to the general synopsis), with eight hand-colored engraved title-page... more
Price: $6,850.00
8vo: [2],514p,[20]pp, with 13 (of 14) full-page engraved plates and 36 further illustrations (17 of fish, 2 maps of the River Lea & the River Dove, 2 autograph facsimiles, 2 leaves of music and 13 other text engravings; 16 of the engravings are new to this edition and 20, including... more
Price: $335.00