Lot 201
Meyer, H. L.
Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, & their Eggs
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
London: Willis and Sotheran, 1857. New edition, probably a variant or later issue of the second edition of 1853-7, 7 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), contemporary green half morocco, spines in compartments with avian motifs in gilt, marbled boards, complete with 435 lithograph plates (hand-coloured lithographs of birds numbered 1-322, [105] hand-coloured lithographs of eggs and [8] uncoloured lithographs of birds), interleaved with tissue guards, light occasional spotting, 20th-century pictorial bookplates of J. E. Wightman and M. H. Cockell [Mullens and Swann, pp. 403-404; Nissen IVB 628; Zimmer II p. 433];
Graves, George. British Ornithology: Being the History with a Coloured Representation of Every Known Species of British Birds. London: printed for the author, by Stephen Couchman, 1811-21. First edition, 3 volumes in 2, 8vo (23 x 14cm), contemporary green full calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling, unpaginated, with [144] hand-coloured engraved plates, indexes to the 3 volumes bound in 2nd volume, wanting title page to volume 3 (1821), 20th-century pictorial bookplates M. H. Cockell; bound at end of 2nd volume: Ibid. Ovarium Britannicum. London: printed for the author, and sold by Sherwood, Neeley, & Jones, 1815, vi p., half-title, with [15] hand-coloured engraved plates of eggs [Mullens and Swann pp. 245-247; Nissen IVB 386-87; Zimmer I pp. 266-67];
Eyton, T. C. A History of the Rarer British Birds [& A Catalogue of British Birds]. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (22.2 x 13.4cm), 19th-century brown buckram with original paper label pasted on spine, vi, [2], 101, [1]; vi, [2], 67, [1] p., uncoloured woodcut illustrations in first part, errata leaves in both parts and additional errata slip in part 1, with 16 pp. of publisher's advertisements bound in front of volume, light spotting to pastedowns and endpapers, 19th-century armorial bookplate of the Earl of Bradford from the Weston Library [Mullens and Swann pp. 202-203; Nissen IVB 306; Zimmer I p. 213];
Thornton, Robert. The British Flora: or, Genera and Species of British Plants. London: printed for the author, 1812. 5 volumes in 4, 8vo (21.1 x 14.6cm), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, engraved plates (not coloured), 53 engraved tables at the end of volume 5, some spotting and offsetting, bindings scuffed, some joints cracking, 19th-century ownership inscription of Mary Jean[n]ette Jackson on front free endpaper and family tree in volume 1 (14)