Lot 15

Natural History, including Gosse, P.H.

Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
A year at the shore. 1865. 36 coloured plates, original cloth; The birds of Jamaica. 1847; Gosse, P.H. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. 1860. 12 chromolithographed plates; Harvie-Brown, J.A. A fauna of the N.W. Highlands & Skye. 1904; Harvie-Brown, J.A. & T. E. Buckley A fauna of the Moray basin. 1895. 2 volumes; Evans, A.H. A fauna of the Tweed area. 1911; Evans, A.H. A vertebrate fauna of the Shetland Islands. 1899; Harvie-Brown, J.A. & T.E. Buckley A vertebrate fauna of the Outer Hebrides. 1888; Landsborough, D. A popular history of British seaweeds. 1857. 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates, original cloth; all original cloth, a few rubbed, Cruising Association Library gilt stamp on upper covers, bookplates and oval blindstamp on titles; and 6 others (16)
Footnote
Provenance: The Cruising Association Library
