Natural-History from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

London: Link House, [c1919]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 104. 4 plates & numerous text illus. original quarter cloth. dola2476

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1890. Second Revised Edition (first: 1880). Casey Wood p. 300. Nissen 203. 4to. pp. 1 p.l., 7, [19], [11]-250. 7 (of 8) lithographed plates of birds with tissue guards: lacking frontis. biblio. index. cloth (some spotting to cloth mainly to spine, 2 short scratches to upper cover, shelf-wear to lower edges). elala5956

Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1874. First Edition. “[An] authoritative work dealing with the life-histories and habits of the land birds of North America north of Mexico” (Casey Wood), including Greenland and Alaska. Baird and Ridgway supplied the descriptive parts of the work while Brewer dealt with the habits of the birds. Theodore N.Gill contributed the part of… Read more about this item

New York: Harrison House, [1985]. folio. pp. [xvi]. 144 colour plates. index. cloth. dw. (slight rippling to front of dw.). Very good copy. dola2094

London...: Cassell and Company Limited, 1913. 12mo. pp. 96. 22 colour plates (incl. frontis.). A very good copy in a prize binding of contemporary navy blue calf, spine richly gilt, gilt edges, Christ's Hospital, London gilt crest on upper cover: Foster White Prize, presentation bookplate. dola2018

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by John Rivington, C.Hitch..., 1762. Thirteenth Edition. Miller was chief gardener and curator of the Apothecaries' (later Physic) Garden in Chelsea from 1722 until 1770, being appointed at the recommendation of Sir Hans Sloane, owner of the Manor of Chelsea, who had recently intervened to help the financially ailing Physic Garden.… Read more about this item

London: Printed for M.Gillyflower, 1699. Second Edition of George London and Henry Wise's corrected abridgement of the English translation of La Quintinye's Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potages. John Evelyn was credited with the English translation published in folio format in 1693 although Henrey (British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, Vol. I, p. 189) notes that… Read more about this item

New York: Akron & Chicago: The Werner Company, 1899. First published in 1893. "Comprising all secrets of taming, controlling, and educating unbroken and vicious horses, with the details of breaking up all habits to which horses are subject; their abuses, diseases, and remedies. Also full descriptions and illustrations of the various breeds of cattle; sheep raising; swine and… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1896-1902. Pocket Edition. Including 'Winter Sunshine', 'Locusts and Wild Honey', 'Birds and Poets', Prepacton', Wake-Robin', and 'Fresh Fields'. 16mo. Handsome school prize binding of gilt-stamped red calf, all edges gilt (St. Andrew's College, Toronto) (small nicks to 2 spine labels). elala5478

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. oblong 16mo. pp. 228, [12]ads. profusely illus. with 320 flowers in colour. index. pictorial wrs. (rubbed). dola918

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. First Edition. 8vo. pp. x, [2], 337. biblio. index. 38 plates (incl. 30 chromolithographs). text illus. & colour title vignette. original cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed (stain on upper cover)

London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1866. First Edition. Freeman 2260 (incorrect pagination & plate count). 2 Volumes. small 8vo. pp. xx, 592; 2 p.l., 593-1254, [34]ads. with half-titles. text in double columns. 20 steel-engraved plates by H.Adlard & numerous wood-engraved text illus. A nice set in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth

London: Folio Society, 2014. Facsimile Edition Limited to 980 numbered copies [+ 20 hors-commerce). Including new essays by Jim Arbury and Michael Twyman. Originally issued in 1876-1885, the Herefordshire Pomona was "one of the finest fruit books ever issued" (Great Flower Books) and the most comprehensive study of the apples and pears grown in Britain ever published, with 432… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 369, [2]. 21 colour plates (incl. frontis.), 1 colour text illus., & numerous b/w text illus. (many full-page). A nice copy in original cloth. with worn & broken original box

[New York: The Drawing Centre & Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004]. First Edition. 4to. pp. 288, [26]. profusely illus. (most colour). quarter cloth. dw. Fine copy

London: Gurney & Jackson, 1898. First Edition. Freeman 110. Mullens & Swann p. 28. 8vo. pp. viii, 105. with half-title. contemporary half calf (worn but sound)

New York: For Sale By the Author..., [1847]. New Edition, With An Appendix... 8vo. pp. xii, [13]-164, [8], [13]-164, [8], [9]-189, [1]ads. engraved frontis. portrait. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (covers scuffed, extremities little frayed, institutional bookplate, 'discard' stamped on lower edge, some foxing, mainly to outer leaves)

[East Melbourne]: Lansdowne Editions in Association with E.W.Classey, [1981]. First Edition. folio. pp. xiv, [2], 172. profusely illus. in full colour. biblio. index. cloth. dw

[East Melbourne]: Lansdowne, [1971]. First Edition. folio. pp. 415. mounted errata slip. profusely illus. in full colour. biblio. index. cloth. dw

LondonÖ: Longmans, Green And Co., 1919. First Edition. folio. pp. viii, [72]. title in red & black. 60 plates of birds & animals (24 in colour & 36 in collotype) with tissue guards. contemporary half morocco, t.e.g