Storia naturale

The Journal of a Naturalist

John Leonard Knapp · 1829 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, John Murray, 1829. First edition. Leather. A very smart, first edition of John Leonard Knapp's work of natural history. Written in the style of the famed Natural History of Selbourne, this work is considered to be a botanical companion to White's study. This ...

Wayside and Woodland Blossoms a Pocket Guide to British Wild-Flowers for the Country Rambler

Edward Step · 1933 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1933-1935. Cloth. Rarely seen with dustwrappers, a complete three volume portable guide on British wildflowers, with illustrations. An interesting and complete guide on British wild-life, pocket sized and thoroughly illustrated. Volume one and t...

Tratado Elemental de Botanica Teorico-Practico

D Antonio Blanco y Fernandez · 1834 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Valencia, Imprenta de Jaime Martinez, 1834. Leather. A very scarce signed two volumes of Antonio Granco's 'Tratado Elementa de Botanica&apos. Signed by the author to the title page with an inscription in English addressed to D J Javier. Collated, complete, being two...

Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural History)

George F. Harris · 1897 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Longmans and Co, 1897. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this detailed catalogue on the British Museum's Australasian tertiary mollusca. The first edition of this work.An extensive catalogue of the tertiary mollusca held in the British Museum&a...

Island Life or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras

Alfred Russel Wallace · 1880 · Rooke Books

£725.00 (€869.03 | $957.83 | ¥152,952)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1880. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound, first edition copy of this geological work regarding climates, and insular faunas and floras. Written by the important naturalist, explorer, and biologist Alfred Russel Wallace. Smartly bound, in a half m...

The British Garden. A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, Indigenous, or Cultivated in the Climate of Great-Britain. With Their Generic and Specific Characters, Latin and English Names, Native Country, and Time of Flowering. With Introductory Remarks.

[Charlotte Murray] · 1799 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

Bath, S. Hazard, 1799. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of the first volume of Lady Charlotte Murray's extensive and insightful work into botany. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. Incomplete in one volume, being Volume I only of two. A...

Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind

John Caspar Lavater; Henry Hunter · 1810 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.45 | $2,510.17 | ¥400,841)

London, T. Bensley, 1810. Leather. A nicely illustrated set of Johann Kaspar Lavater's fascinating work looking into the pseudoscience physiognomy. Complete in five volumes, being three volumes bound in five. Collated, complete. A fascinating work on the science of physio...

De Vogels Van Belgisch Congo En Van Ruandi-Urundi (Les Oiseaux Du Congo Belge Et Du Ruanda-Urundi). I: Struthioniformes, Colymbiformes, Procellariiformes, Pelecaniformes, Ciconiiformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Anseriformes, Falconiformes II: Galliformes, Turniciformes, Ralliformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes, Lariformes

H Schouteden · 1948 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Tervuren, Museum van Belgisch Congo, 1948-9. Disbound. Two volumes of this study on birds in the Belgian-Congo and Ruanda-Urundi by renowned Belgian zoologist and ornithologist. In the original Danish. Signed by the author to the half-title of volume II, 'With the Author&...

Mountain, Meadow & Mere a Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery, Adventures, and Natural History

G. Christopher Davies · 1874 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Henry S. King & Co, 1874. Cloth. A work of natural history by G. Christopher Davies, illustrated with plates and vignettes throughout. A series of sketches of sport, scenery adventures and natural history. A scarce work, written by G. Christopher Davies. Illustrated th...

Curiosities of Natural History. First Series.

Francis T. Buckland · 1890 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. Leather. A lovely leather bound copy of this fascinating work by Francis T. Buckland, the renowned English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. Rebound in a lovely full polished calf binding with gilt crest of Ellesme...

The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

Hugh Miller · 1857 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Edinburgh; London, Thomas Constable & Co.; Shepherd & Elliot; Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 1857 . First edition. Cloth. A smart, illustrated first edition of this fascinating nineteenth-century geology work. The first edition. Eighteenth thousand. In the publisher's original re...

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference

[eds. by Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder] · 1993 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Cloth. The second edition of an extensive record listing the thousands of different mammal species discovered up to 1993, with details of distribution and locality interspersed. The second edition of Mammal Species of the World:...

L&Apos;Art Francais Dans le Livre D&Apos;Oiseaux (Elements D&Apos;Une Iconographie Ornithologique Francaise)

René Ronsil · 1957 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Paris, Société Ornithologique de France et de L'Union Française, 1957. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a celebration of bird painting and ornithological artists over French history, with beautiful plates throughout. The first edition of L'art Francais...

Monographie Und Ikonographie Der Orchidaceen-Gattungen (Serapias, Aceras, Loroglossum, Barlia; Dactylorhiza)

Erich Nelson · 1968 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Chernex-Montreux , Verlag E. Nelson, 1968-1976. First edition. Cloth. A desirable botanical set, comprising all text and plate volumes issued for Erich Nelson's study of orchids and offering upwards of 100 fine colour plates. First edition.  A pleasing set including the ...

Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Illustrative Principally of Their Habits of Life, Instincts, Sagacity, and Uses to Mankind. Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus

The Rev. W. Bingley [William Bingley] · 1809 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.48 | $508.64 | ¥81,223)

London, Darton and Harvey; J. Walker; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme et. al. 1809. First edition. Leather. A richly engraved natural history of quadrupeds by English cleric and naturalist, William Bingley, complete with seventy-one plates. The first and only edition of this un...

The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and the Naturalist&Apos;S Calendar

Gilbert White [add. William Jardine], [ed. by Edward Jesse] · 1888 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1888. Leather. A charmingly illustrated edition of the parson-naturalist's iconic work, with colour plates and in full calf. A lovely illustrated edition of The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Th...

The Natural History of Selborne; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and the Naturalist&Apos;S Calendar

Rev. Gilbert White; William Jardine; Edward Jesse · 1861 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861 . Cloth. A profusely illustrated edition of Gilbert White's collection of letters and naturalist findings. A later edition, first published in 1789 by the author's brother. In the original Henry Bohn Illustrated Library green cloth bindin...

1898 the Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II; 1927 Citrus Products: Part II; 1931 Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras; 1936 the Forests and Flora of British Honduras; 1936 Index of American Palms, and Fossil Palms; 1937 the Genus Bidens: Part I; 1937 the Genus Bidens: Part II.

David Starr Jordan; Barton Warren Evermann; James B. McNair; Paul C. Standley; Samuel J. Record; B. E. Dahlgren; A. C. Noe; Earl Edward Sherff · 1898 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

Washington; Chicago, Government Printing Office; Field Museum of Natural History, 1898-1937. First edition. Paperback. A scarce seven-volume collection of highly illustrated botanical and natural history first editions from the Field Museum of Natural History and the United St...

Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands

Charles St John; Sir Herbert Maxwell · 1919 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London; Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1919. Cloth. Wonderfully illustrated natural history volume on the Scottish Highlands by Charles St John. In publisher's original cloth binding.Profusely illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-eight plates in colour and black and white an...

British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800 Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Earliest Times Until 1800

Blanche Henrey · 1975 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London , Oxford University Press, 1975. Cloth. A history of British gardening literature published before the nineteenth century. With many illustrations throughout, many of which are coloured. Volume I: The Sixeenth and Seventeenth Century Volume II: The Eighteenth Century Hi...