Recent Arrivals from Mike Park Ltd

Ashford: L. Reeve & Co Ltd, 1931. Illustrated with small line drawings throughout (reproduced from Fitch's illustrations to Butcher & Strudwick), small octavo, pp viii, 343, very clean internally, green cloth with only very slight wear and a slightly faded spine. {From the library of the botanist Maybud Campbell, with her signature on the front endpaper].. First Edition. Cloth. Very… Read more about this item

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1981. Octavo, pp xxii, 290, rather age-toned internally, black cloth in very good condition, a good copy in dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Stationer's Court, Paternoster Row,: B. Crosby and Co., 1808. Eleventh edition, "corRected, greatly enlarged, and very much Improved". 12mo, [measures 135mm x 80mm], pp 322, +publisher's advertisement 2 pages, age-toned and a little used internally, one page badly splash-marked, contemporary half-calf and boards very rubbed, the spine lacking pieces at the head, the upper cover detached. Lacking the frontispiece… Read more about this item

London: Martin Secker, 1910. First edition [1910], Second issue ?. Large thick octavo, illustrated with four plates, pp (4), 352, some age-toning, sellotape residue internally to front and rear hinges, the front hinge cracking a little, blue cloth a bit faded and marked and slightly worn. [Variant issue - front cover blue lettering, spine lettering gilt, no adverts, title… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1970. Illustrated with 14 plates, octavo, pp 292, two newspaper reviews loosely inserted, green cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Hong Kong: Wing Lung Bank Limited, 1974. Second edition, enlarged. Well illustrated , mainly with black and white photographs, large octavo, pp 355, very clean internally, decorated cloth gilt, otherwise an excellent copy in the original printed cardboard box which is a bit worn. . Second edition. Cloth in case. Very Good.

Air, Glasgow, Edinburgh: Wilson & Paul; Brash & Reid; A. Constable & Co (et al), 1811. Octavo, pp xxx, 355, (i), marbled edges, the first four leaves have a light crease to the lower corner, otherwise clean and sound internally though the latter half of the book tends to be a little age-toned, contemporary full calf, rubbed, neatly re-backed with… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1871. Fourth thousand. A very poor copy, becoming completely loose, but complete with all plates and maps(margins frayed but with virtually no loss), though possibly lacking the page after the title page (?), a corner cut from the title page, original cloth a bit marked and worn. A working copy. . Cloth. Poor.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1938. Aldine Library edition. Octavo, pp x, 310, very clean internally, cloth slightly worn and faded, the spine very faded. . Cloth. Good.

London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd, 1931. A few illustrations, two folding maps, octavo, pp 688, very clean internally, green cloth slightly faded and marked. [{From the collection of the Sussex nature writer "Ceres" {= Alison Ross = Alison Esplan} with her signature on the cover.}.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Hutchinson, 1952. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 251, very clean internally, pink cloth very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but it is slightly worn, chipped and creased with an old sellotaper repair ar head and tale of the spine.. First British edition. Cloth. Good/A little worn and repaired.

A collection comprising : 'Last Days in New Guinea'. 1922, clean internally, folding map with one tear, library label on rear endpaper, cloth very faded and marked. 'Knight Errant of Papua', 1935, some foxing throughout but otherwise sound, blue cloth good. 'Papua & New Guinea', 1961, a clean duplicate from the British Library. 'The Chimbu - a study of… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1938. Octavo, pp 152, a light thumb-crease to the titlle pahe and half-title, otherwise clean internally, the cloth is a little dull, marked and worn. With the bookplate of Philip Langton-Lockton. . Cloth. Good.

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 207, a very good NEW copy in dustwrapper, and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. [An intriguing selection of historical plates, with an individual commentary] . . First Edition. Cloth. New/New.

Edinburgh, 1810. Illustrated with 34 engraved plates, quarto, pp (i), 270, marbled edges, the plates are a little foxed and age-toned whilst the text pages are clean, recently neatly bound in marbled boards with a paper label, in good condition. [I am indebted to Brent Elliott for pointing me in the right direction as to probably authorship. The Botany section… Read more about this item

Cape Town: The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1978. Fourth edition. second impression of the main work. Well illustrated with 72 colour plates and many small line drawings, thick octavo, pp xxxii, 660, fore-edge faintly foxed, very slight signs of use internally, green cloth in very good condition, a good sound copy in a slightly worn… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Tokyo News Service Ltd, 1955. Second edition, revised. Very well illustrated, large octavo, pp 318, very clean internally, silked paper endpapers, green silk cloth, very slightly faded. A very good copy. {From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst.}. Second edition.… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1951. With four plates, pp xii, 302, endpapers a bit foxed and some on the preliminary pages, a tiny booksellers' catalogue entry on the front endpaper, otherwise a good sound copy, blue cloth in very good condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987. HARDBACK. Well illustrated with photos in colour and black-and-white, octavo, pp 389, a very good hardback copy in a dustwrapper showing slight use and creasing, otherwise extremely clean and bright. (First published by Country Life/George Newnes Ltd., 1902. This edition, with 24 colour illustrations, was published in 1987 by the Antique Collectors' Club Ltd.]. Cloth.… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951. A portrait frontispiece, pp 379, slight foxing to the fore-edge, a tiny booksellers' catalogue extract on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, cloth very slightly faded & worn. A good sound copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.