For the Nature Lover: Books on Floral & Botanical Wonders
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Topographical Botany.
WATSON, Hewett Cottrell.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /Inspiration for darwin's origin of species. First edition, presentation set inscribed by the author on each title, 'Mary Edmonds from the Author, H...
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An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.
[NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...
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Pomologia Britannica;
LINDLEY, John.Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £0.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00| /3 volumes, 8vols; 152 hand-coloured engraved plates after C.M.Curtis and Mrs. Withers, 5 double-page, many heightened with gum arabic, tissue guar...
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Monandrian Plants of the order Scitamineae,
ROSCOE, William.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00| /Luxury lithography from Liverpool - one of 150 copies. One of the most impressive lithographed botanical books, containing numerous exotic species ...
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Les Fleurs Animées.
GRANDVILLE, J.-J.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /First edition, first issue of one of the great modern illustrated books of the 19th century. Grandville was a remarkable caricaturist and he anima...
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Cistineae.
SWEET, RobertOriginal price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Originally published in 28 parts between July 1825 and January 1830, each plate shows a single variety of Cistus, or Rock-rose, and is accompanied...
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Group of Four engravings - Todda-panna
RHEEDE TOT DRAKESTEIN, Hendrik Adrian van.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /The Hortus Indicus is the first comprehensive Flora of the East Indies, containing the first illustrations of a great number of tropical and suptr...
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[A Group of Four Parrots].
GOULD, John.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious od all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...
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[A Group of Four Parrots].
[ornithology] GOULD, John.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...
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[Original Artwork].
KNIGHT, Frank (illustrator).Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /A fine set of 37 original watercolours by Frank Knight for Joseph Forshaw's 2011 work, Vanished and Vanishing Parrots. The plates depict: Carolina...
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Favourite Foreign Birds for Cages and Aviaries.
GREENE, William Thomas.Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00| /An interesting introductory guide to keeping foreign bird species from the turn of the nineteenth century.New and revised edition; 8vo (19 x 13 cm...
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The Speaking Parrots:
RUSS, Karl; SCHULTZE, Leonora.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /The first edition in English of Karl Russ' (1833-1899) introductory guide to 'Speaking Parrots', describing over 100 species of bird, with 8 chrom...
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A monograph of the pittidae, or, family of ant thrushes.
ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /Beautiful plates of exotic ornithology. The preferred second edition of Elliot's work on the pittidae, with new text and twenty plates by Hart not ...
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Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds
CAMPBELL, Archibald James.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The scarce variant issue in two volumes of Archibald Campbell's comprehensive survey of the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, richly illustrated...
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Parrakeets.
SETH-SMITH, David.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Hand-coloured lithographs. 'A description of the habits, in life and captivity, of about 131 of the smaller species of the parrot groups... the col...
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Parrakeets.
SETH-SMITH, David.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Hand-coloured lithographs. 'A description of the habits, in life and captivity, of about 131 of the smaller species of the parrot groups... the col...
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Vogelbilder aus Fernen Zonen:
REICHENOW, Dr. Anton.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /An excellent survey of the parrots of the world, including notes and illustrations on more than 250 different species.'A series of coloured plates...
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