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Auction No 419, Category: Natural History

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Edward Step "Wayside and Woodland Blossoms", Warne, 1896- 97, two volumes, vol.2 a first edition; and other Wayside & Woodland titles

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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Edward Step Wayside and Woodland Blossoms, Warne, 1896-97, two volumes, vol.2 a first edition; and other Wayside & Woodland titles including Savory The Spiders & Allied Orders, 1945; Step Wayside and Woodland Ferns, 1922, and Bees, Wasps, Ants & Allied Insects, 1932. VG/Fine, no ownership inscriptions etc. (9).

Charles Hapgood "Earth’s Shifting Crust", Museum Press, 1959, 1st Edn., in VG d/jkt, foreword by Albert Einstein, and other geological works

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £80
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Charles Hapgood Earth's Shifting Crust, Museum Press, 1959, 1st Edn., in VG d/jkt, foreword by Albert Einstein, and other geological works including Newbigin James Geikie, the Man and the Geologist, 1917; Harker The Natural History of Igneous Rocks, Methuen 1909; Charles Darwin Coral Reefs, Ward Lock, 1910; and Geikie Text Book of Geology, Macmillan, 1923, 4th Ed., two vols. Good to fine, no ownership inscriptions except Wahlstrom Optical Crystallography, 1945. (13)

Exotic Butterflies in display case, framed & glazed, two specimens with minor imperfections.

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Exotic Butterflies in display case, framed & glazed, two specimens with minor imperfections.  

Rothschild & Clay "Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos", Collins, 1957, in a complete d/jkt, worn along top edge, fine internally;

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £62
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Rothschild & Clay Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos, Collins, 1957, in a complete d/jkt, worn along top edge, fine internally; plus Collins “New Naturalist” series Nos.1 to 7, all with good/fine d/jkts including four first editions, no inscriptions; five Warne “Wayside and Woodland” titles; and another. (14)

Collins ‘New Naturalist’ series Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, and 23, all (bar "Wild Orchids") first editions, and all in d/jkts,

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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Collins ‘New Naturalist' series Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, and 23, all (bar Wild Orchids) first editions, and all in d/jkts, all bar three price-clipped o/w good to VF. Botanical Illustration with gift inscription, others uninscribed. (12)

Collins ‘New Naturalist’ series Nos. 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35, 36 and 38, all in good to VF d/jkts (two price-clipped).

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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Collins ‘New Naturalist' series Nos. 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35, 36 and 38, all in good to VF d/jkts (two price-clipped). The Weald, Mountain Flowers, Insect Migration and World of Spiders are first editions. No inscriptions. (8)

Collins ‘New Naturalist’ selection including first editions in complete d/jkts of "Bumblebees", "Grass & Grasslands", "Pedigree: words from Nature",

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Collins ‘New Naturalist' selection including first editions in complete d/jkts of Bumblebees, Grass & Grasslands, Pedigree: words from Nature, The Pollination of Flowers, and Hedges. Mostly VG/VF and uninscribed but a 1947 edition of Insect Natural History with ownership inscription heavily scored through. (13)  

James Andrews (1801-1874): botanical print, c.1856; hand-coloured lithograph, initialled ‘J.A.' in the plate. 20 x 12cm.

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Aug 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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James Andrews (1801-1874): botanical print, c.1856; hand-coloured lithograph, initialled ‘J.A.' in the plate. 20 x 12cm. Set in a sunken card mount. Very fine.