George Jeffery Books

The Language of Flowers; or Floral Emblems

Tyas Robert · 1876

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

George Routledge Book measures 20x16.cm. xi,223,[1]pp, 6 full page coloured plates. Bound in original publishers decorative cloth, full gilt edges. Cloth rubbed, wear loss on corner on boards. Binding in good clean condition. Internally, inner hinge joints just starting to pul...

Popular Mineralogy; Comprising a Familiar Account of Minerals and Their Uses

Sowerby Henry · 1850

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Reeve and Benham Book measures 17x14.cm. viii,344pp, 20 coloured plates. Bound in original publishers embossed cloth, with gilt image on top board, gilt tooling on spine. At some time the spine has been repaired, retaining the original spine. Cloth very light rubbed, minor abr...

The Botanic Garden [ 95 Plates ]

Maund B. · 1827

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Baldwin & Cradock Volumes 1 to 4. Disbound being sold as a collection of 95 coloured plates, each plate with 4 images. Text not complete, lacking some prelims, title pages.Occasional dust, dirt marking to plates. Plates in good clean condition. BEING SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF P...

Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Illustrative Principally of Their Habits of Life, Instincts, Sagacity, and Uses to Mankind. Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus. [ 71 Coloured Plates ]

Bingley the Rev W. · 1809

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

Printed for Darton and Harvey Book measures 24c15.5.cm. [14],459,70,[10], 71 coloured plates. Bound in period half calf, calf corners, marble boards, raised bands. Binding heavily worn, boards loose. Internally, foxing to frontis and title, some plates, dust, dirt marked, [ ab...

Sylva Sylvarum : Or, a Naturall History. In Ten Centuries; Whereunto is Newly Added the History Naturall and Experimentall of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life.

Bacon Francis · 1658

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.77 | ¥67,489)

London, printed by A.M. for William Lee 1658. Book measures 11 1.4 x 7 1/2 inches, [ 29x19mm ]. Complicated collation, engraved frontis and title page, plus printed title page, engraved title page dated 1651, printed title dated 1658, [16],218pp,table of chief matters, [19pp]...

A Synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain, Arranged According to Their Natural Affinities and Anatomical Structure

Leach William Elford · 1852

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

John Van Voorst Book measures 21x13.5.cm. xvi, 376pp, 12 plates, lacking plate 1 as usual. Bound in original publishers embossed cloth, with gilt lettering. Cloth rubbed, wear loss on head and tail of spine, short split on joints, museum library paper label on spine. Generally...

Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology [ Complete in 2 Volumes ]

Buckland the Rev William · 1836

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

William Pickering Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 23.5x15.cm. 8,[2[,599,[1]pp, [2],vii,128pp, [4],87 plates. Bound in modern half calf, calf corners, marble boards, raised bands, gilt lettering. Bindings in near fine condition. Internally, some light spotting, browning, l...

A Diplomat and His Birds

Palmer Andrew · 2005

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.05 | ¥16,450)

Tiercel Publishing Book measures 23x17.cm. xi,176pp, illustrated. Inscribed by author on half title page, '' For Jean and John with best wishes Andrew Palmer ''. Bound in original publishers blue hardcover. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket in very good cl...

The Woodcock Studies in Words and Pictures

McKelvie Colin Laurie · 1988

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

Fine Sporting Interests Limited. Limited to 300 copies. with original signed sepia sketch by Robjent also Signed by Mckelvie & Robjent. Book measures 32.5. x 25.5. cm. Collation, xiii,115pp, 24 coloured plates, 80 sepia sketches. Bound in original publishers half crushed moroc...

Antike Medizin. Die medizinische Sammelhandschrift Cod. Vindobonensis 93. [ Band 2 ]

Zottter Hans · 1986

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Akademische Druck Book measures 28x19.cm. xxx,380pp, illustrated. Bound in original publishers illustrated softcover. Crease line along spine. Binding in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A nice clean copy. Austria Large 8 Vo

The Grouse Studies in Words and Pictures

McKelvie Colin Laurie · 1991

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

Fine Sporting Interests Limited. Limited to 300 copies. with original signed sepia sketch by Robjent also Signed by Mckelvie & Robjent. Book measures 32.5. x 25.5. cm. Collation, xiii,141pp, 24 coloured plates, 80 sepia sketches. Bound in original publishers half crushed moroc...

The Woodcock. Snipe. Grouse. Partridge. Pheasant. Sporting Wildfowl. [ Complete Set ] [ 6 Volumes ]

McKelvie Colin Laurie · 1988

£2,800.00 (€3,356.21 | $3,699.21 | ¥590,528)

Fine Sporting Interests Limited. The Woodcock. 1988. The Snipe. 1989. The Grouse. 1991. The Partridge. 1993. The Pheasant. 1995. Sporting Wildfowl. 1999. Six volumes all signed limited to 300 copies. Each copy has a signed sepia sketch by Richard Robjent. Books measure 32.5 x ...

The Pheasant Studies in Words and Pictures

McKelvie Colin Laurie · 1995

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

Fine Sporting Interests Limited. Limited to 300 copies. with original signed sepia sketch by Robjent also Signed by Mckelvie & Robjent.. Book measures 32.5. x 25.5. cm. Collation, xiii,121pp, 24 coloured plates, 80 sepia sketches. Bound in original publishers half crushed moro...

Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles Studies in Words and Pictures

McKelvie Colin Laurie · 1999

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

Fine Sporting Interests Limited. Limited to 300 copies. with original signed sepia sketch by Robjent also Signed by Mckelvie & Robjent.. Book measures 32.5. x 25.5. cm. Collation, xiii,139pp, 24 coloured plates, 80 sepia sketches. Bound in original publishers half crushed moro...

Flowers of the Brazilian Forests Collected and Painted By Margaret Mee [ Foreword on the Brazilian Forests By Roberto Burle Marx with a Preface By Sir George Taylor ] [ Limited to 500 Copies ]

Mee Margaret · 1968

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

The Tryon Gallery Limited to 500 copies. Book measures 21 1/2 x 16 inches. Collation, 32 full page coloured plates, including frontispiece, with accompanying text. Bound in quater-bound green morocco with hand-marble paper boards. Binding in excellent clean firm condition. Int...

A Sedentary Job ? [ or Forty Years as a Botanist at Kew Gardens ]

Radcliffe-Smith Alan · 2007

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

Book measures 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. 219 pages, illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers pictorial softcover. Covers light rubbed. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice clean copy. First Edition Great Britain Very...

The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Planting Forest Trees, in Every Description of Soil and Situation; More particularly on Elevated Sites, Barren Heaths, Rocky Soils, &c. Including Directions for the Planting and Management

Pontey William · 1809

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

John Harding Book measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Collation, 230,[2],pp, 1 full page plate. Lacking frontis?, plate bound upside down. Bound in full calf. Rebacked retaining the original tree calf boards, raised bands, leather title label. Binding in very good clean firm condit...

The historie of life and death : With observations naturall and experimentall for the prolonging of life. Written by the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount S. Alban.

Bacon Francis · 1638

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)

London : Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-Yard 1638 Book measures 5 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches. [12],323pp, the imprimatur leaf present. Bound in full calf. Rebacked, [ not recently ], retaining the period or early boards. Calf rubbed, some...

Calendarium Botanicum, or a Botanical Calendar: Exhibiting, at one view, the Generic and Specific Name, the Class, Order, and Habitat of all the British Plants, from the Class Monandria Monogynia, to Polygamia Dioecia, inclusive.

Phelps Rev William · 1810

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

printed by Harding & Wright for Lackington, Allen, and Co Book measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Collation, vi,[ 4 engraved uncoloured plates, with accompanying text ], [6], 106pp, 2pp booklist, engraved frontis, [ 5 engraved plates in all ]. Bound in period half calf, calf corne...

Hortus Regius Panhormitanus aerae vulgaris anno MDCCLXXIX noviter extructus Septoque ex indigenis, exoticifque plurimas complectens Plantas

Bernardino Abe Ucria · 1996

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Edizioni Grifo Facsimile of the 1789 edition. Book measures 8 1/2 x 6 inches. 498 pages. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gil title lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice copy. Very Good