Stringer, Christopher & Gamble, Clive

In Search of the Neanderthals. Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins.

New York, Thames and Hudson, 1993. 18cm x 26cm. 247 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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.

Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, William (Illustrations).

The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with Suggestions for the Working of a Fishing Company. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.

First Edition. Dublin, London, Derby, James McGlashan et al, 1848. 22 x 13.5 cm. x, 111 pages. Complete with 21 Plates, including 8 folding plates (see images). Later attractive quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and blind line decorations on spine. New plain end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Text block dust dulled with occasional mild foxing. See images

Walsh, Wendy (art work) / Nelson, Charles (text) / Ross, Ruth Isabel (introduction volume 1).

An Irish Florilegium 1 & 2. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh. Introduction by Ruth Isabel Ross. Notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson.

Two First Editions. Two Volumes. London, Thames and Hudson, 1983 & 1987. 36 x 29 cm. 1: 224 pages with 48 tipped in Plates. Losely inserted bookmark listing the Plates. Losely inserted advertising sheet for the second volume of the Florilegium. / 2: 216 pages with 48 colour plates. Original cloth. Gilt titles. Inside original decorated dust jackets, now inside archival jackets. Fine in fine dust jackets. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A lovely set.

White, Gilbert.

A Naturalist’s Calendar. With Observations in various Branches of Natural History; extracted from the Papers of the late Rev. Gilbert White, M.A. of Selborne, Hampshire. Senior Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

First Edition. London, Printed for R. and J. White, 1795. 19 x 12 cm. iv, 170 pages plus six pages TOC. One coloured plate. Half calf over marbled boards. Gilt decorations and title on spine. Coloured end papers. Very good condition. Serious rubbing and bumping to corners, boards and spine. Age darkened and foxed throughout, some knicks and small tears, minor paper losses. Generally still a nice copy. Two Ex Libris on front paste down: Robert Wakefield and Alan Francis Brooke.

Wilkins, Walter L.

Some Relations of Medical Psychology and Military Psychology. Report Number 71-38.

Reprinted from Military Medicine, Vol. 137, No. 8, August 1972. San Diego, Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, 1972. 28 x 21 cm. Pages numbered 311 – 316, (4). Original stiff yellow paper covers. Stapled. Very good condition. Clean copy.

Williams, Michael / Harper, David.

The Making of Ireland. Landscapes in Geology.

First Edition. London, Immel Publishing, 1999. 25 x 18 cm. (2), 98 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original laminated boards. Hard cover. As new.

Wilson, Tony / Sheppard, Colin.

Theory and Practice of Scanning Optical Microscopy.

London, Academic Press (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers), 1984. 23 x 15 cm, ix, 213 pages. Illustrated throughout with B&W photographs and drawings, charts, etc. Illustrated hard cover. No Dust Jacket. Excellent condition. As new.

Winterbotham, W.

An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies. [Contents of Volume 4: History of the British Settlements in America, History of American Quadrupets, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, Insects, Appendices: Treaties between his most Christian Majesty and the thirteen United States of America].

Volume 4 ONLY. London, Printed for the Editor, J. Ridgway, H.D. Symonds & D. Holt, 1795. 21 x13 cm. (6) [FP, TP, TOC], 415 pages, 54 pages [Appendices], (20) [Index, Directions for the Binder, List of Subscribers]. Complete with two large folding maps, folding tables and numerous Plates showing American Animals. New (2024) half cloth over marbled boards. Hard cover. Green spine label with gilt title. New end papers. See images. Very good condition. New attractive binding. Mild damp staining (red stains) to top edge, mainly first and last pages. Mild age darkening.

Witherby, H.F (editor) et al.

The Handbook of British Birds.

Fourth Impression. Five Volumes. London, Witherby, 1946. 21 x 16 cm. Original dark blue cloth. Hard covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Internally clean.

Woodward, B.B.

The Life of the Mollusca.

First Edition. London, Methuen and Co, 1913. 19 x 12 cm. xi, 158 pages, 32 plates and a small fold out map. 33 pages publishers list. Original cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped, partially faded and a little stained. Internally age darkened and occasionally mildly foxed. All plates present and clean.

[Young, Arthur].

A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales. … with Descriptions and Copper-Plates…

The Second Edition, Corrected and enlarged. Dublin, Printed for J. Milliken, 1771. 20 x 12 cm. Folding Frontispiece, Title page, xii, 284 pages. (20) [TOC & Publishers List]. One Illustration in text (p.42). Numerous Tables and Lists. Contemporary full calf. Spine label with gilt title. Very good condition.