London: printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row, 1779. Half-Calf. 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 to period..... more

Amsterdam: G. Theod. Bom, n.d. [c. 1874]. Pictorial Wrappers. Crown 8vo (180 x 128mm): [8]pp, with six color lithographs (printed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem), each with flaps that, when flipped, reveal a completely different image (a ship at sea becomes Bedouins in the desert, a volcano erupts into walruses..... more

London: Dennis Dobson [through 1964], 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in color throughout by Carol Barker. First Impressions of the second and third works, Second Impression of Achilles the Donkey (first published 1962), all three volumes signed by Bates on half-title or title pages; two dated 1969. Royal 8vo (285..... more

Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle: sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, & C. Dilly, London, 1791. Second Edition. Full Calf. A superlative example of the second (and best) edition: "no mere reprint: it was a largely..... more

London: Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. "A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Small 8vo: [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 superb wood cuts by John and Thomas Bewick. Beautifully bound by Orrock & son in half-burgundy morocco..... more

Te Amsterdam: By M. Magérus, Boekverkooper, MDCCLXXII [1772]. Stiff Wrappers. First and only edition of Boddaert’s description of the nocturnal giant leaf frog (a native of the Amazonian rain forest that produces a poison traditionally used as medicine) from the Schlosser natural history cabinet, the first monograph on (and first..... more

London: The Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Michael Hiley, in English, French, and German. Squarish royal 8vo (290 x 247mm): 20pp, with 100 numbered black-and-white plates (some double-page) divided by six numbered leaves into chronological sections. Publisher's black linen, spine lettered in silver, covers ruled in..... more

London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [c. 1890]. Rare edition of this handy pocket guide to the traditional meanings of flowers. Foolscap 8vo (112 x 80 mm): 128pp, copiously illustrated, often in colour. Publisher's original half-lime green cloth over marbled boards, spine stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, chestnut-brown end..... more

Los Angeles: [Printed at the Press in the Gatehouse], 1964. First Printing. Stiff Wrappers. First Edition of this paean to the pocket knife, enumerating its benefits, shortcomings, and types (including the curved bistoury blade used by surgeons and the seventeenth-century typesetter's coping blade). Foolscap 8vo (101 x 67mm): 36pp, with..... more

Sante Fe, New Mexico: William Clift Editions, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First Trade Issue, signed by the photographer on title page and inscribed by the designer above her name (Catherine Waters) on final page. (A limited edition of 250 copies, signed by the photographer on title page and initialed "W.C."..... more

London: Nattali and Bond, Bedford Street, Covent Garden [from 1812], 1855. Early Reprint. Paper-Covered Boards. Ninth Edition, complete in three volumes with 80 hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. (Eighty-one plates are called for on the title pages, but the plate lists contain a total of only 79, with the illustrated..... more

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row, M.DCCC.XXXIII. [1833]. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this "admixture of curious and non-sensical theory with sound scientific observation.” (Becker) 8vo: [8],222, [6]pp, with hand-colored stipple frontispiece engraved by J. Neele after H. Stalker, half-title (bearing imprint on..... more

London: Thomas M'Lean [McLean], 1820. Early Reprint. Morocco. Third Edition of this classic travelogue, the plates by J. Clark after Fellowes's romantic views of the French countryside. Crown 8vo (210 x 127mm): xii,188pp, with 12 hand-colored aquatints, 2 uncolored line engravings, and one colored etching (which in previous editions was..... more