Natural History

First edition. Large folio (59 x 46 cm), subscription list, pictorial lithographed title, 8 lithographed plates and large floral tailpiece, all hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, modern green half morocco gilt preserving original green morocco label, a fine copy.

Volume I (all published) folio (38 x 28 cm.).With 40 hand-coloured plates (36 engraved, 4 lithographed) by S. Watts and Weddell after Chandler, heightened in gum arabic; fine contemporary green half morocco gilt, covers with L-shaped corners with multiple gilt fillets, flat spine with gilt geometric designs and floral tooling, marbled sides and edges, plates clean and fresh, a most attractive example.

First edition. 2 volumes in 1, folio (52 x 34.5 cm). 63 copper engraved plates, including 61 printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary veau blond gilt by Bozerian (signed at foot of spine), flat spine with monkey tools in compartments, all edges gilt, a fine copy.

First edition. Large folio (61.5 x 44 cm). Title, [4] introduction, 27 hand-coloured engraved maps and 55 lithographs on india paper on 31 sheets, each map accompanied with printed leaves of text; bookseller's printed overslip ('Paris [...] Vve. Bouchard-Huzard') pasted onto date of title page, a few maps lightly browned, some spotting, mostly marginal. Contemporary green half morocco, gilt rules to covers, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers; neatly rebacked preserving spine, neat repairs to extremities.

6 vols, 4to (27 x 22 cm); Ornamental Greenhouse Plants and Ornamental Perrenials vol 1 First editions, 303 (of 304 hand-coloured lithograph plates, lacking 1 plate from Wild Flowers at page 144) occasional light spotting and soiling; publisher's green cloth gilt, pictorial vignettes to spine and upper covers, spines faded to tan, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set.

Folio (39 x 30 cm), hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece, calligraphic title-page and dedication leaf, 90 etched and stipple-engraved plates, all hand-coloured, 4 partly or entirely captioned in the author's hand, 2 leaves of letterpress at end. Burgundy morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, triple gilt fillet borders on covers, spine gilt with rose motifs in compartments, gilt lettered in two, gilt edges.

First edition. 4to., limited to 250 copies signed by Rowland Ward, xviii, 416pp., 9 hand-coloured lithograph plates, modern green half morocco gilt, an excellent copy.

Facsimile reprint limited to 250 copies. Folio (55 x 38 cm). 5 coloured plates, text, the original wrapper reproduced in brown, [with] Prospectus to the reprint, small folio, uniformly bound in brown half morocco gilt, marbled boards, housed in original half morocco fold-over box, a mint copy.

Large folio album. (33 x 23cm) containing numerous specimens of dried plants, all specimens identified with printed labels. Contemporary green cloth with red floral motif to upper cover.

Fourth edition, Imperial copy on thick white wove paper, 8vo, x, 526 pp, engraved vignette on title page, title variant A (without Bell and Rivington in imprint) and 'Price One Guinea' (denoting imperial copy) on title, 200 wood-engravings by Bewick, 104 smaller vignettes, nineteenth century red morocco gilt extra by J. Clarke, covers with gilt panel with floral tooling to corners within gilt borders, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt with floral tools within framed borders, raised bands with gilt filletsgilt inner dentelles,all edges gilt, a fine copy.