A History of British Butterflies by F O Morris - 1891

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London: John C Nimmo. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with edge wear. Spine with end wear and at lower joint. Illustrations bright. Ex.-lib. with minimal marking. 1895. 8th edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). 234pp, + addenda. 79 hand coloured plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

London: Bell and Daldy, 1870. Third Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 256 pages, plus 24. 72 colored plates, plus two black and white plates. Blind stamped burgundy cloth, with gilt stamped butterflies on top cover, and lettering and decoration on spine. Spine is a little faded, and covers are rubbed and show a little wear at spine ends and corners. First plate, opposite title page, is torn out, though laid in place. Volume remains tight and other contents are clean and intact. All plates are accounted for and in very good condition.

London: John C. Nimmo. Bound in blue cloth with two gilt butterrflies and plant motif to front board, this 1890 6th Edition is VG. Book has been rebacked but without title lettering. V111/184pp with 72 hand-coloured plates plus double page illustration of apparatus required for collecting and displaying. Both sides of second front endpaper are foxed, as is blank verso of frontis illustration. Second front endpaper carries an inscription, and rear second endpaper also foxed both sides. Board corners are sightly rubbed and rebacked spine has faded unevenly. Page 23 has horizontal 6 inch closed tear. Some faults but internally VG . Very Good. Hardback. Sixth Edition. 1890.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1904. viii, 234, [2], 79 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. 4to (250x180mm), cont. half leather, minor rubbing to joints, corners slightly worn, raised bands to spine, gt tooling to compartments, teg, other edges uncut, marbled endpapers. Very good.. Ninth edition, with 79 plates specially corrected for this edition, and all coloured by hand; two additional uncoloured plates illustrating butterfly collecting equipment..

London: Bell and Daldy, 1870. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 7.5". Not Stated. The third edition of the immensely popular study on the butterflies native to Britain by F. O. Morris, beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. The third edition of this popular work.Illustrated with seventy-two hand-coloured plates, and two monochrome plates.Collated, complete. Francis Orpen Morris' beautiful study on the butterflies of Great Britain, a wonderful technical exploration of the many different species and breeds, looking into their nature and lives.Morris was a parson-naturalist and pioneer for the movement to protect birds. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, a little worn, with a small amount of loss and lifting to the head of the spine. Spine is faded, with a little fading to the front joint, and fading to the rear board. Minor bumping to the tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light marks to the boards and spine. Small bump to the fore edge of the front board. Front hinge is… Read More

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1860. viii, 168, 29, 71 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, recased in orig. green cloth, gilt, minor rubbing. Occasional spotting/foxing. Very good.. Early reissue (first published 1853).McLean 15..

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1853. vi, 168, 29, 71 hand-col + 2 plain plates. . HB. 4to (260x160mm), cont. half-calf, some light wear, marbled boards, rubbed, recently rebacked, leather title piece. Light spotting/foxing to some plates. Publisher's printed advertisement slip for 'No. 1 of The Train A First-Class Magazine' tipped in at rear. A very good copy.. First edition. This book was the standard butterfly book of the second half of the 19th-centruy and went through many editions; it is now considered a lepidopterological classic. Plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett and coloured by hand. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893) was a Church of England clergyman and naturalist. McLean 15..

London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. viii, 159, 24, 2 plain + 72 hand-col plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, rebound in recent half-leather, raised bands, gt tooling to spine compartments, leather title piece. Old, faint stain to fore-edge. Occasional marginal pencil annotations and foxing. Plates clean and bright. A very attractive copy. From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate.. Third edition. With attractive hand-coloured plates..

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.

Stockholm: Kongl. Boktryckeriet, 1883. First edition. 1883 MONOGRAPH ON DEEP SEA URCHINS BY NOTED SWEDISH MARINE BIOLOGIST--ILLUSTRATED WITH 21 VERY FINE LITHOGRAPHS. 12 inches tall folio hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, green cloth spine with paper title label, institutional handstamps bottom of title page, contemporary ink signature top of front paste-down, 95 pp, many figures in text, 21 fine lithographed plates; wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. SVEN LUDVIG LOVEN (1809 - 1895) was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences at both Kristineberg and Tjärnö are named in his honor. He was first Keeper then Director of the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. He was also Professor of Natural History at Stockholm University. He was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1881 and a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1885. The World Register of Marine Species… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2006. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Inscribed & signed by both authors on the title page. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Text unmarked. Jacket clean and bright. Laid-in tri-fold pamphlet from the Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxvi + 230 pages. Crossing stick bridges over swollen rivers and battling swarms of tsetse flies, Mark and Delia Owens found their way into one of the most startlingly beautiful, wild places on earth, the northern Luangwa Valley in Zambia. As they were setting up camp to launch their lion research, gunfire echoed off the cliffs nearby. Gangs of ivory poachers were not only shooting the elephants but also virtually enslaving local villagers. Against unimaginable odds, Mark and Delia stopped the poaching by helping the villagers find other work, start small businesses, and improve their health care and education. Living with wild creatures all around (lions sleeping… Read More

Green cloth board covers with green and yellow spine. Edge wear and corner bumps, no dust jacket. Previous owners stamps on inside covers. Soiling on page edges. Clean, tight pages and binding. Published by The Cornwall Press in 1941. First Edition/First Printing. Insects. Measures 8.5x5.75 with 304 pages. Good

Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More