Storia naturale

Flora of Marlborough

Rev Thomas Arthur Preston · 1863 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, John Van Voorst, 1863 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this informative catalogue of the flora of Marlborough, illustrated with a photographic map. The first edition. Uncommon work. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth. This informati...

A History of Embryology

Joseph Needham; Arthur Hughes · 1959 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1959. Cloth. The second edition of Joseph Needham's expansive history of the science of embryology, illustrated throughout. The second edition, revised with the assistance of Arthur Hughes.A brilliant work exploring the history of em...

Pensees de Blaise Pascal Precedees D&Apos;Une Notice Sur Sa Vie Pur Madame Perier, Sa Soeur

1844 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,912)

Paris , Didier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. Cloth. A French philosophical work from child prodigy and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, in the smart gilt-decorated cloth binding. A French collection of fragments written by the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. ...

Physical Expression: Its Mode and Principles

Francis Warner · 1885 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co , 1885. Cloth. A smart second edition of this thought-provoking exploration into physical expression, with illustrations throughout. The second edition of this work.Volume II from 'The International Scientific Series&apos.In the publisher...

De L&Apos;Origine Des Loix, Des Arts Et Des Sciences

Antoine-Yves Goguet · 1759 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€928.95 | $1,023.89 | ¥163,450)

Paris, Desaint and Saillant, 1759 . First edition. Leather. The scarce complete six volume first edition thus of Antoine-Yves Goguet's study of the law, art, and sciences prior to the Roman period. In the original French.First published as a three volume work the year pri...

Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux, Vols. I-VI

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon · 1770 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,342)

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1775. First edition. Leather. The first six volumes only of the first edition of the Comte de Buffon's lavishly illustrated natural history work on birds. In the original French.The first six volumes only of the eighteen volume first ...

Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature Display&Apos;D. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History, As Were Throught Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth.

Mr Humphreys · 1744 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, R. Francklin, 1744. Leather. The sixth edition of this work on natural history, translated from the original French by Mr Humphreys and bound in full calf with copper plates. The sixth edition, corrected. Bound in full calf. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece a...

Love-Life in Nature: The Story of the Evolution of Love

Wilhelm Bolsche; Cyril Brown [translator] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

New York, Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Cloth. A smart two volume set of this scientific work on reproduction across the natural world, translated from the original German. Complete in two volumes. A detailed scientific piece on the nature of reproduction, with chapters on: the...

Nights with an Old Gunner and Other Studies of Wild Life

C. J. Cornish · 1897 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London , Seeley And Co. 1897. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition on wildfowling and wild life written by Charles John Cornish. The first edition. Very scarce.Nights With an Old Gunner and Other Stories of Wild Life is a book that explores the observation of wild...

Natural History of British Fishes; Their Structure, Economic Uses, and Capture by Net and Rod

Frank Buckland · 1906 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1906. Cloth. A smart edition of this illustrated commentary on the fish of Britain. Reprint. Illustrated throughout. This study of British fishes contains information on various fish species, fisheries of both sea and river an...

Histoire Naturelle Des Mineraux

Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon · 1783 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1783-88. First edition. Leather. Comte de Buffon's important natural history work, these nine volumes focusing solely on the history of minerals, a nice set in the original French. The first edition.Complete in nine volumes.In the original...

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton

Rev. Gilbert White; E. T. Bennett; James Edmund Harting · 1875 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Bickers and Son, 1875. Leather. Gilbert White's seminal natural history work, revised by James Edmund Harting, and bound in a full calf Bickers binding. An illustrated work in a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to the spine and marbled end papers and edges. ...

Curiosities of Natural History

Francis T. Buckland · 1861 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Richard Bentley, 1861-1868. Cloth. Two smart volumes of Buckland's extensive work on natural history, from the second and third series. Two volumes. Written by Francis Trevelyan Buckland, an English surgeon, zoologist, and natural historian born to a noted family ...

Mammals in Hawaii: A Synopsis and Notational Bibliography

P. Quentin Tomich · 1969 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this interesting work on mammals. With an inscription by the author to zoologist Desmond Morris. A signed copy of Quentin Tomich's work on Hawaiian Mammals, signed by the author. With several in...

The Dynasty of Abu

Ivan T. Sanderson · 1963 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London , Cassell and Company, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. An interesting, illustrated history of the elephant, in its first edition and from the library of Desmond Morris. A first edition copy. Abu is Sanderson's name for the entire kingdom of the elephant and within thi...

Wildfowl & Waders Nature & Sport in the Coastlands

Hugh B. C. Pollard · 1940 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London , Country Life, 1940. Cloth. A bright popular edition of Wildfowl & Waders Nature & Sport in the Coastlands with colour plates. A copy of the popular edition. This volume explores nature and sport in the coastlands, detailing duck shooting, game birds, wild geese and du...

Notes on the Birds of Rutland

Charles Reginald Haines · 1907 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

London, R. H. Porter, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this lovely ornithological work on Rutland in the East Midlands. First edition of Notes on the Birds of Rutland by Charles Reginald Haines in the original publisher's cloth binding. An uncomm...

The Life-Story of the Partridge

S. L. Bensusan · 1914 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,225)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1914. Paperback. A very neat illustrated booklet on the life of the partridge. Scarce work. Illustrated with cover, frontispiece and six plates from photographs. Collated complete. A charming children's tale of the life of a partridge from hatchin...

Agriculture-Pratique Des Differentes Parties de L&Apos;Angleterre

M. Marshal [William Humphrey Marshall] · 1803 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

Paris, Chez Gide; Chez Levrault, 1803. First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first French language edition of this account of the agricultural experiments William Marshall conducted in farms across England in the late eighteenth century. A French language translation of thi...

Medical Portrait Gallery. Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians Surgeons, Etc. Etc. Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science

Thomas Joseph Pettigrew · 1838 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Fisher, Son & Co, 1838. First edition. Leather. Illustrated with thirty-six plates of portraits, this is an excellent copy of the first two volumes of Pettigrew's biographical memoirs of those individuals who have contributed to the advancement of medical science....