Search Results: Natural History from Bristow and Garland

The Bergen Museum, Bergen, 1918. Large 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), 225-pages of text. Binder's blue buckram lettered in gilt. Ex Imperial College, London, Library with usual labels and stamps but in very nice condition. Weight 1.5 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

Bergen Museum, Bergen, 1921. Vol. IX published 1925. Volume 8 Copepoda Monstrilloida & Notodelphyoida. Volume IX Ostracoda. Two vols. in one. 4to (10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), pages: 277:37 (plates) & 277:119 (plates). Half black calf, rubbed. Ex University College of North Wales Library with usual markings, no library marking to vol. IX. Weight 1.940 kg thus extra postage will be requested

Bergen Museum, Bergen, 1911. 4to (11 x 8 inches), pages: 443:284 (plates), blue buckram lettered in gilt. Ex Imperial College, London, Library with the usual lables and stamps on endpapers and title, occasionally on margins, shelf number labels on spine. Overall in very good condition. Weight 3.22. kg thus extra postage will be requeted.

The Ray Society, London, 1976. Volume 2 published 1984. First edition. Numerous plates & illustrations. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches), pages 207 & 229. Original green cloth blocked in gilt. Excellent in edge rubbed, (vol.2) faded, dust jackets. Weight 2.090 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

William Tegg and Co. London, 1856 Frontispiece & plates. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), pages: 337:2, pub.list). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with red letteing piece. Piece chipped from upper compartment of backstrip, base chipped, joints rubbed with some cracking but firm. Foxing to prelims. Paper of upper inner joint cracked but firm. Contemporary signature and date on title.

William Smith, London, 1848. Hand-coloured extra pictorial title & 42 hand-coloured plates. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 inches), pages 137:(1, index), original red cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Upper outer joint split and frayed, lacking 2 1/2 inches of backstrip at head, corners rubbed through. Armorial bookplate of William Fuller Maitland of Stansted Hall on front pastedown. Foxing to prelims and some foxing to about a third of the plates, the remainder generally unaffected. Inner gutter cracked at Plate 14,

The Ray Society, London, 1901. Volume 2 published 1903. First edition. 39 plates (many coloured). 2 volumes 8vo (9 x 5 1/4 inches), pages 291 & 183. Original cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Two corners rubbed through else excellent. Weight 1.710 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

The Ray Society, London, 1962. First reprint. 4to (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches), 755-pages. Original blue cloth. Excellent in edge worn and chipped but now protected dust jacket. Weight 1.84 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

Cottage Garden Office, London, 1859. Black & white plates. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 284-pages. Original red cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Front free endpaper removed, headband bruised else very good.

The Ray Society, London, 1913. Two volumes, one of text, one of plates,8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches). Vol. 1 pages 256:24:12, with 2 plates, vol.2 with 72 plates with facing leaves of descriptive text, many coloured. South African Museum bookplate and 2 stamps to front endpapers of vol.2 Engraved armorial bookplate of George Herbert Wailes on front pastedown of vol.1 and stamp of the Vancouver Museum on front free endpaper. No other library markings. Prelims. and last leaf tanned. Split to cloth of outer joint of of vol.2, this volume with lower spine damp stained unevenly also front free endpaper and half title damp-stained to lower inner hinge and page edge., headband of vol. 1 a little worn. Overall bright copies and very clean internally. Weight 1.5 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. First edition. 4to (10 x 7 3/4 inches), 539-pages. Original coloured pictorial laminated boards; excellent. Weight 1.5 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

Plates and illustrations. The 30 numbers and the year book bound into two thick volumes 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches), pebble-grained dark green cloth ruled and lettered in gilt. Well and attractively bound. The original wrappers retained. Rare. Concerning Neoporteria and allied species Chileorebutia, Neochilenia, Horridocactus and Pyrrhocactus.

The Ray Society, London, 1939, Two volumes published 1939 & 1941. 1st edition. 22 plates with facing leaves of descriptive text and 96 figures in the text. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), pages x:228:7 & xiv:229-560:7. Original purple cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Paper of upper inner joint of volume 2 cracked but firm. Near contemporary signature, of Gilbert Wright, on front pastedowns. Very good and bright and very clean internally. Weight 1.42 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

Tiverton: Devon Books, 1993. First edition. Coloured plates, distribution maps. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 151-pages. Original cloth; fine in fine price clipped dust jacket.

Cassell, London, n.d. c. 1890's. 320 coloured plates. 4 volumes 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), original decorative green cloth lettered in gilt; very good.

George Bell, London, 1878. Exquisitely coloured frontispiece & title vignette to each volume and 17 coloured plaes of Birds and Eggs (as called for). Together with illustrations in the text. Two volumes 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), pages: 422 & 440, original red cloth; one gathering loose at end of vol. 1 with a little wear to fore-edge of two leaves of text amd two plates. 1-inch split to headband of vol.1. Binding damp marked, internally very clean.

for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme. London. 1823. Title vignette and illustrations in the text. 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/8 inches), 389-pages. Contemporary half tan calf. Rubbed, snag at head of upper joint, lacks lettering piece. Internally very good. With the half-title. Very sound.

Yale University, Sears Foundation for Marine Research , New Haven, 1953. Two volumes. Maps, illustrations. 2 volumes large 4to (12 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches). Pages: xv:576 & xii:587. Original blue cloth. Ex Library but with stamps to endpapers and lower margin of titles only. Shelf number in white to base of spines. Upper inner joint of vol.1 pulled but holding, corners bumped else good. Weight 5 kg thus extra postage will be requested.

John Wright, Bristol, 1912. First edition. 3 plates & folding map. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 722-pages. Original green coth gilt crudely rebacked retaining the original backstrip. With a 2-page 4to autograph letter signed from the author to a Mr. Jackson on botanical matters. Clifton, 1914.

New York & London: Academic Press, 1964. First edition. Black & white illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.xv:562, original green cloth, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners rubbed, slight shelf-wear; ink name on front free-endpaper and ink annotation and underlining to a large part of the text.