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: Sherwood, Jones and Co. [through 1826], 1825. First Edition. Supposed First Issue (with plate 28 , vol. I, misdated 1284 and p.222, vol. II, blank) of one of the finest English color plate books, complete in two volumes. (Abbey and Tooley disagree, with Abbey arguing that these points are..... more

London: Printed for and sold by Edward Orme, Bond Street, the Corner of Brook Street, 1812 / 1811. Full Calf. Superb, beautifully colored examples (bound in one volume) of these early guides to watercolor painting: the "first of the coloured drawing books" (Prideaux) and and a "surprisingly elusive" (Martin-Hardie) copy..... more

London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1817. First Edition. Mottled Calf. First Edition in book form (originally published in eight monthly parts), Rowlandson and Combe's companion-piece to their earlier "The Dance of Death" and one of Rowlandson's finest works. Royal 8vo: [2],ii,ii,285,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page, frontispiece..... more

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow: Matthew Iley, Somerset Street / Bell and Bradfute; W. Blackwood / W. Turnbull, 1821. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition. Tall 8vo: [4],251,[1]pp, with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after, but not by, Rowlandson, as often asserted). Text in verse..... more

London / Philadelphia: William Heinemann / Lippincott, 1920. First Impression. Pictorial Boards. First Trade Edition (with "Heinemann" at bottom of both spine and jacket's spine panel). Royal 8vo (249 x 180mm): 110pp, with full-page color plate ("Briar Rose") mounted on leaf with black pictorial border facing p. 9, four double-page..... more

London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row, MDCCCXXV [1825]. Quarter-Calf. First edition of this anonymous tract, complete with both hand-colored aquatint caricatures (one the frontispiece). Demy 8vo (212 x 120mm): 8,111,[1],24pp, with aquatints attributed to Isaac and Robert Cruikshank. Recent cloth-backed marbled boards, upper board with grey paper label titled..... more