HOWITT, Samuel

A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed From the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus: Containing Fifty-Six Plates, Drawn from the Life and Etched by Samuel Howitt

THORBURN, Archibald

THORNBURN, Archibald. British Mammals London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1920. £400 FIRST EDITION. Royal 4to. Two volumes. “With 50 plates in colour and pen and ink sketches in the text.” Foyles’ booksellers label on left pastedowns. Publishers […]

CHOMEL, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste

CHOMEL, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste. Abrégé de l’Histoire des Plantes Usuelles Paris, Chez Nyon, 1761. £250 12mo, 3 volumes. Engraved portrait of author on frontispiece, head- and tail-pieces. Roman letter, some Italic. Two bookplates: one coloured in red by “I.G. […]

WILSON, Alexander

BEAUTIFUL PLATES ACCOMPANIED BY A CLASSIC READING IN AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY

GERARD, John

GERARD, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie, Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Iohnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London  London, Adam Islip Norton and Richard […]