Stroud, Robert.

Stroud’s Digest on the Diseases of Birds. Illustrated by the Author.

First Edition. Minneapolis, Minn., Published by L.G. Marcus and Robert Stroud, [1943]. 23 x 15 cm. ix, 500 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original semi-hard cloth. Title on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean.

Strutt, Jacob George.

Sylva Britannica; or, Portraits of Forest Trees. Distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty. Drawn from Nature.

London, Publishd for the Author by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, [1830]. 28 x 20 cm. xvi, 151 test pages and 50 Plates (incl. engraved title page). Original textured cloth. Hard cover. Black spine label with gilt title and original price. All edges deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Occasional very mild foxing, mainly to first and last few pages. Internally clean. A very nice copy.

Stuck, Hudson.

A Winter Circuit of our Arctic Coast. A Narrative of a Journey with Dog-Sleds around the entire Arctic Coast of Alaska.

First Edition. New York, Charles Sribner’s Sons, 1920. 23 x 15 cm. x, (4), 347 pages. Illustrated. With two folding maps and 33 Images. One plate (page 302: ‘Cooking Dog-Feed’ missing). Original cloth binding. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Binding faded (see images). Binding a little shaky with some pages towards the back of the book lose). One plate missing. Overall a nice copy.

Swaysland, W.

Familiar Wild Birds. First, Second, Third and Fourth Series. With coloured Plates.

Four Volumes. London, Paris & New York, Cassell & Company, 1883, ND, ND, ND. 19 x 13 cm. Original decorated green cloth bindings. Hard covers. Good condition. Some bindings weak with some pages protruding. Rubbed and bumped. Dust dulled. See images.

Symes, Richard G. / Baily, W.H.

Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Explanatory Memoir to accompany Sheet 75 of the Maps of the Geological Survey of Ireland, illustrating a Portion of the County of Mayo.

Dublin, Alexander Thom, 1872. 24 x 15 cm. 37 pages. With a few illustrations in B&W. Original brown paper wrappers. Very good condition.

Thornton, Robert John.

Practical Botany. Being a New Illustration of the Genera of Plants, containing … The Whole arranged after the Reformed Sexual System.

First Edition. Volume 1 only. It appears that no other volumes were published. London, H.D. Symonds, J. White and J. Stockdale, 1807. 24 x 15 cm. Engraved Frontispiece, Title Page, Engraved Portrait of James Edward Smith, xviii, 85 text pages (see comments below), eight folding Tables and 102 engraved Plates. New (2022) half Buckram over marbled paper boards. Black morroco label with gilt title and author’s name. New plain end papers. Very good condition. New binding. Internally mildly age darkened / dust dulled, otherwise clean. Edge of one folding Table age darkened and frayed. Some Plates appear to be trimmed (actual page size is 23.8 cm x 15 cm). A very nice copy of this scarce Thornton publication. See images.

Various Authors.

Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service – Vol.1 – No.1 – 1915 – FACSIMILE

Facsimile Edition. 102 Pages. With B&W Illustrations. Stiff paper wrappers. Very good Condition. Bright and clean.

Various Authors.

Nursing Times. Three Special Magazines. No.1 / Vol.1 (Reprint of the 1905 Issue) / Special Coronation Number 1953 / Celebrating 75 Years 1980.

London, Nursing Times, 1905 (facsimile), 1953 & 1980. c. 28 x 21 cm. Very good condition. Minor shelfwear and dust dulling.

Von Michaelis, H. (Heinrich) / Allan Bird.

Our Birds. 8 Colour Plates.

Second Series. First Printing. Cape Town, ABC Press, Not dated (ca. 1960). 35 x 25 cm. A set of eight colour plates, mounted on stiff grey paper sheets. Together with a four page Introduction and Explanation. Plates and Introduction inside decorated cardboard presentation folder. Folder in plastic cover, as published. Very good condition. Some rubbing, dusting and age darkening to outer presentation folder. Colour plates are as new.

Waddington, C.H [Conrad Hal].

Organisers & Genes.

First Reprint 1947. Cambridge, at the University Press, 1947. 21.5 x 14 cm. x, (2), 160 pages with Illustrations and two Plates – complete. Original green cloth with silver title on spine. Inside original price-clipped dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Boards mildly faded. Dust jacket a little age darkened with short closed tear to top of spine. See images. Series: Cambridge Biological Studies.