Natural History.-

A collection of 41 volumes, including:

Hooker (Sir William Jackson) The British Ferns; or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions, with the Needful Analysis of the Fructification and Venation, of the Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, Systematically Arranged, First Edition, 66 hand-coloured plates, signature dated 1887 on half-title, original gilt-stamped cloth, professionally recased with new endpapers, Lovell Reeve, 1861;

Janson (E. W.) British Beetles. Transferred from Curtis's British Entomology…, First Edition, 29 uncoloured plates, 5 with light water staining, original cloth gilt, recased retaining original spine, Bell and Daldy, 1863;

Lowe (E. J.) Our Native Ferns; or a History of the British Species and their Varieties, 2 vols., second edition, 79 plates with tissue guards, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, spines gilt-tooled with ferns, sunned, Groombridge and Sons, 1865;

Bennett (E.T, editor) The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated, 2 vols., First Edition, 2 vols., later half morocco by Morrell, rubbed, Thomas Tegg, 1830;

Paul (William) The Rose Garden, tenth edition, 21 colour plates, original gilt-stamped cloth, some ink staining to rear board, front endpaper hinge split, Simpkin et al., 1903;

Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vols., 192 coloured plates, original cloth, no jackets, Longmans, Green and Co., new (4th?) edition, 1925-26;

With others similar, including 7 vols. Of ‘The Tail Wagger Magazine’ (1929-35), mixed bindings and condition, v.s. (41)