Lot 131
New Naturalist
The 'Golden Fourteen'
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
The Natural History of Orkney; British Warblers; Heathlands; The New Forest; Ferns; Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles; The Hebrides; The Soil; British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; The New Naturalists; The Natural History of Pollination. London: Collins [-HarperCollins], 1985-96. Numbers 70-83 in the New Naturalist series, 14 volumes, 8vo, Orkney in original green boards, the remaining volumes in original green cloth, all with dust jackets (British Warblers dust jacket with Duraseal protector as issued), variable fading to dust jacket spines, The New Forest and British Larks dust jackets price-clipped, Heathlands, The New Forest and Ferns each with toning to endpapers (continuing to margins of outer leaves in Heathlands), Heathlands and Wild and Garden Plants each with effaced ownership inscription to front free endpaper, Ferns with inked numerals to front free endpaper and faint school library ink-stamps to endpapers, Freshwater Fishes with very faint remnants of pencilled inscription to front free endpaper, British Larks with bookplate to front pastedown [Bernhard & Loe NN70B, 71A-83A];
together with a copy of the second edition of The New Naturalists (15)
Footnote
First editions of the rarest titles in the New Naturalist series, with The Natural History of Orkney (number 70) in second state and British Warblers in first state, and Heathlands and The New Forest both with the true first edition dust jackets retaining the ‘Collins’ imprint on the spine panels (removed for the otherwise identical Bookclub editions). The respective print runs were: 725, 725, 880, 1850, 1550, 1470, 1500, 1481, 1601, 1401, 1404, 1400, 1489 and 1472.