Lot 214
Natural history
Group of illustrated monographs, mainly 19th century
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 209 to 220
Description
Strutt, Jacob George (illustrator). Sylva Britannica; or, Portraits of Forest Trees. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, [1830]. 4to, original cloth, label to spine, edges untrimmed, etched plates on india paper (all present), mounted, bookplate to front pastedown, some foxing, joints and corners rubbed, spine faded, rear board split;
Morris, Beverley R. British Game Birds and Wildfowl. Illustrated with Sixty Coloured Plates. London: Groombridge and Sons, [n.d., c.1870]. 4to (31 x 24cm), original pictorial cloth gilt, hand-coloured wood-engraved plates with facing guard pages (all present), boards rubbed, small label attached to front board, pencil annotation p. 132, some foxing;
Humphreys, H. N. (illustrator). British Butterflies and their Transformations. With Characters and Descriptions by J. O. Westwood. London: Thomas Sanderson, 1857. 4to (28 x 22.5cm), original red cloth gilt, hand-coloured lithographic additional title-page, hand-coloured lithographic plates with tissue-guards (all present), corners and joints rubbed, some foxing;
ibid. British Moths and their Transformations. With Characters and Descriptions by J. O. Westwood. London: Thomas Sanderson, 1857. In Two Volumes. 4to (29 x 21.5cm), original red cloth, hand-coloured lithographic with tissue-guards (all present), original boards with gilt decoration and titles, a few leaves unopened, some foxing, corners bumped;
Curtis, William. Directions for cultivating the Crambe maritima, or sea kale, for the use of the table. London: printed by Stephen Couchman, and published at No.3, Crescent, near the Obelisk, St. George's-Fields, 1799. 8vo (22.5 x 13.5cm), early 19th-century orange wrappers with manuscript title, half-title, 18 p., hand-coloured engraved plate, some areas of discolouration to half-title, bound with 1 p. (of 2) Receipt for Growing Mushrooms, together with fold-out Plan and Elevation of Mr Oldacre's Shed [ESTC T27172 for Curtis's work];
Field, George. Chromatography; or, A Treatise on Colours and Pigments. New Edition, Improved. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1841. 8vo, original cloth with gilt title and decoration and blind-tooling, engraved hand-coloured frontispiece, p. 39 with hand-coloured wood-engraved vignette ('Definitive Scale') within the text, owner's plate to front pastedown, ink annotation to front free endpaper, cloth sunned, ink-spot to rear board, corners bumped, some spotting to rear free endpapers;
Hooker, William Jackson. Flora Scotica. In Two Parts. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. First edition, 8vo, modern cloth binding with gilt title to spine, general foxing;
Scott, Peter. Wild Chorus. London: Country Life, 1938. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,200 copies signed by the author, 4to, original cloth, tipped-in colour plates, black and white plates, illustrations within the text, original cloth, top edge gilt, the others uncut, with original slipcase (9)