Paris, France: Libraire D'Education de la Jeunesse, 1876. 4to. Hardcover, gilt spine and leatherbound, raised bands. Marbled paper cover. 236 pp. B&W Plates. Good, slight tear to back cover corner, worn fore-edges. Text en francais. More

Tours, France: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1880. 4to. Hardcover, gilt details and clothbound. 400 pp, gilt edges. B&W Plates. Good, slight wear to edges, and binding. Text en francais. More

London: J. Van Voorst, 1837. xviii, 526 pp. With nearly 200 wood engravings by Dickes and Vasey. 22x13.5 cm (8¾x5¼"), half-calf and Spanish pattern marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, morocco lettering piece, top edge stained black. First Edition. Bookplate of Herbert Riley with his ownership marks on front free..... More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey: London: John Miller, 1825-1828. Original editions. 3 volumes (of 4) large 4to, 375 x 288: (1 f.), vi pp., (1 f.), 105 pp., 9 plates; vii, (1 f.), 95 pp., 6 plates; (1 f.), 60 pp., (1 f.), 6 plates. Red half-morocco with corners, gilt..... More

Paris: J. Rothschild, 1878. Large 8vo. 18 x 28 cm. 40 chromolithographed plates, publisher's wrappers, rebacked, losses to wraps. [Nissen IVB 125]. More

Brussels: Th. Lejeune, 1828-1830 [-1833]. 8vo. 15 x 23 cm. Contemporary textured cloth, orange gilt morocco spine labels, soiled. 14 vols. bound in 20, half-titles, 2 lithographed portraits, 2 folding maps, 736 lithographed plates (most hand-colored), some dampstaining in volume 1, occasional spotting, without table. Nissen, 158; Sitwell, Fine Bird..... More

Paris: Fortin, Masson, & Co., [1836-1849]. 4to. 17 x 26.5 cm. Contemporary morocco-backed boards, spines tooled in gilt, worn, several with detached covers. 10 sections bound in 19 vols., additional engraved titles with portrait, 994 engraved plates (of 995 called for by Nissen, lacking one in reptile volume) after Deshayes..... More

London: John Murray, 1881. Original green cloth.12.5 x 19cm. Front hinge cracked. Wood-engravings. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1250569. Ownership inscription: C. Yorkington. More

Paris: Victor Havard, 1880. Folio. 28 x 37.5 cm. Sheets loose as issued in 20 Fascicules. with 110 engravings in board portfolio with ties. Foxing in margins. T.p. in red and black Plates accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press...OCLC Number 1142905343,,, Vol. in folio, en feuilles sous chemises, sous..... More

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 4to. 24 x 31 cm. Original publisher's orange cloth; tear at top of spine. Light foxing. vi, 96pp and all 50 engraved plates are present.. OCLC Number: 1123344882... Provenance. Stamp of the bibliothèque Maurice Royer on the title page. Died 1941. Docteur en médecine. Naturaliste..... More

Francofurti : Christianus Egenolphus excudebat, 1540. Small folio. 19 x 30 cm. Old pigskin binding restored with a fleur de lys motif on parallel diagonals on the covers. Lacking preliminary pages but with the main text complete, including about 320 botanical woodcuts.... Lacks the first 18 pages including the title..... More

Paris, A. Quantin, 1883. Small folio. 24.5 x 32.5 cm. 21 lithographed plates (19 hand-colored) by and after Jules Terrier, light dampstaining to opening leaves, light spotting [Nissen IVB 46]. Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, 1700-1900, p. 73. More

London: Ernest Nister, circa 1895. Oblong 4to. 6 chromolithograph pop-up plates, text illustrations, little marking, gift inscription on title from 1898. Remnant of tape and small loss on rear inside cover. More