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Auction No 415, Category: Natural History

14 Lots (displaying 1 - 14)

Frederick Warne ‘Observer’s Book’ series incl. "Automobiles" 1955 (binding shaken) and 1965; "Ferns" 1961, "Common Insects",1964, and "Lichens" 1963

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Frederick Warne ‘Observer's Book' series including Automobiles 1955 (binding shaken) and 1965; Ferns 1961, Common Insects, 1964, and Lichens 1963 (1st Edition). Most in d/jkts, fair to fine but mainly VG. No ownership inscriptions and fine internally. (17)

"Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £1800 - £2200
SOLD £1750
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Washington 1855-59, Volumes 1 to 11 (lacking vol.12), complete with the numerous plates and maps. Volume 11 contains 31 large folding maps, one of which is loose and has had the title torn away at one corner, some others with tears which can be repaired, together with 4 small maps and 13 plates (some folding); the other 10 volumes, with good tight bindings, include extensive detail of the geology, flora and fauna of Western America with lithographed and engraved plates, some hand-coloured, folding maps and diagrams. Quarto, bound in half-leather, gilt, over worn marbled boards. Occasional browning/foxing. Bookplate of the railwayana collector P.H. Edwards to the front of each pastedown. A more detailed description of the contents of each volume is available on request. (11)

Arthur G. Butler "Birds’ Eggs of the British Isles", L. Upcott Gill, 1907, illustrated by F.W. Frohawk with 24 chromo-litho tissue-guarded plates;

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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Arthur G. Butler Birds' Eggs of the British Isles, L. Upcott Gill, 1907, illustrated by F.W. Frohawk with 24 chromo-litho tissue-guarded plates; quarto, original two-colour cloth, gilt, worn at extremities; browning to endpapers and half-title; front endpaper with gift inscription dated 1907, small ownership stamp of the recipient on reverse of frontispiece. Two tissue-guards with small tears o/w fine internally.

Lloyd’s Natural History series 1896-97, comprising Forbes "Hand-Book to the Primates" in two vols, Lydekker "Hand-Book to the British Mammalia"

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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Lloyd's Natural History series 1896-97, comprising Forbes Hand-Book to the Primates in two vols, Lydekker Hand-Book to the British Mammalia, and Lydekker Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata. The bindings poor to fair, the texts & attractive colour plates clean & complete. (4)

E.F. Hancock, K. P. Bland & J. Razowski "The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5, Tortricidae", Parts 1 & 2, Brill, 2015,

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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E.F. Hancock, K. P. Bland & J. Razowski The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 5, Tortricidae, Parts 1 & 2, Brill, 2015, second printing, with revisions, A4 format, pictorial boards, as new condition. (2) 

John Heath & A. Maitland Emmet "The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland", Harley Books, 1985-2002, softback editions,

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £76
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John Heath & A. Maitland Emmet The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Harley Books, 1985-2002, softback editions, comprising vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 (parts 1 & 2), 7 (parts 1 & 2), 9, and 10; plus companion volumes on Dragonflies and Grasshoppers. Fine/VF, no inscriptions. (11)

Freshwater Biological Association scientific publications 1954-1975, a collection of 18 different softbacks, mostly fine,

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Freshwater Biological Association scientific publications 1954-1975, a collection of 18 different softbacks, mostly fine, one with stained cover, no internal markings/inscriptions. (18)  

W.J. Gordon "Our Country’s Shells", Simpkin [1901], colour plates,ownership inscription o/w fine; Clayton The Living Seashore", 1974, in d/jkt, fine;

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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W.J. Gordon Our Country's Shells, Simpkin [1901], colour plates, ownership inscription o/w fine; Clayton The Living Seashore, 1974, in d/jkt, fine; Adams The Collector's Manual of British Land and Freshwater Shells, 1884, colour plates, ownership inscription o/w VG; and related titles; mostly VG/Fine. (11)   

Frederick Warne ‘Wayside and Woodland Series’ on Butterflies, Moths and Caterpillars, four in d/jkts; various editions.

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Frederick Warne ‘Wayside and Woodland Series' on Butterflies, Moths and Caterpillars, four in d/jkts; various editions. The volume Pyralid & Plume Moths with few library marks, South's Butterflies with gift inscription. Fair to fine. (9)      

M.G. Morris "Orthocerous Weevils", Royal Entomological Society, 1990, and five others by same publisher; Wood "Common British Insects",1883;

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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M.G. Morris Orthocerous Weevils, Royal Entomological Society, 1990, and five others by same publisher; Wood Common British Insects, 1883; Cooter & Cribb A Coleopterist's Handbook, 1975; Hofmann The Young Beetle-Collector's Handbook, 1908, colour plates; and related titles. Mainly VG/VF, two with ownership signatures, J.C. Wood's Common British Beetles in fair condition only. (15)    

Frederick Warne ‘Wayside and Woodland Series’, a collection including Longfield "Dragonflies" 1949, in d/jkt; Hammond "Flies", 1951;

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £145
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Frederick Warne ‘Wayside and Woodland Series', a collection including Longfield Dragonflies 1949, in d/jkt; Hammond Flies, 1951; Savory The Spider's Web, 1952, in d/jkt; Linssen Beetles, 1959, 2 vols, in d/jkts; Southwood & Leston Land & Water Bugs, 1959, in d/jkt; all VG/Fine, no inscriptions; and seventeen others (nine in d/jkts) of which three with inked ownership signatures; mostly VG/VF but Ford's Practical Entomology is ex-library. (23)

W.P.K. Findlay "Wayside & Woodland Fungi", Frederick Warne, 1978, in price-clipped d/jkt; and six other Frederick Warne titles in d/jkts

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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W.P.K. Findlay Wayside & Woodland Fungi, Frederick Warne, 1978, in price-clipped d/jkt; and six other Frederick Warne titles in d/jkts including Colyer & Hammond Flies of the British Isles, 1968, and E.H. Eason Centipedes of the British Isles, 1964. Mostly VG/VF without inscriptions etc, but Ragge's Grasshoppers is ex-library. (7)

M.C. Cooke "Our Reptiles and Batrachians",1893, colour plates; Goater "British Pyralid Moths", 1986 in fine d/jkt;

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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M.C. Cooke Our Reptiles and Batrachians, 1893, colour plates; Goater British Pyralid Moths, 1986 in fine d/jkt; Riley & Prior British and Irish Pug Moths, 2003, pictorial boards; Skinner The Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles, 1998 in VG d/jkt; Massee British Fungi, Routledge [1911], colour plates; Hilderic Friend British Earthworms and How to Identify Them Epworth Press (in d/jkt) and nine other ‘How to Identify' titles; and other natural history, etc, in mixed condition. (53). (Over 22 kilos)

"The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chace, and every other Diversion", the plates only,

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chace, and every other Diversion, the plates only, taken from disbound volumes, mostly 1790s, some later, mostly wildfowl, dogs, wild animals, and poultry; some affected by foxing to varying degrees but the majority clean. (abt.270)