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Auction No 358, Category: Natural History

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

Anne Pratt "The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain", SPCK, 1860s

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
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Anne Pratt The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, SPCK, 1860s, octavo, complete in 3 volumes, worn half-leather, gilt, with 297 coloured plates (one with a corner torn away) plus one uncoloured. Some minor spotting to plates (confined to borders), some marks in text and occasionally at foot of plates. (3)

W.J. Lucas "British Dragonflies", L. Upcott Gill, 1900, 1st Edition,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
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W.J. Lucas British Dragonflies, L. Upcott Gill, 1900, 1st Edition, rebound with original decorated cloth over new boards & endpapers, some external wear; uncut two sides; fine internally with 27 coloured plates. 356pp + prelims, adverts & plates.

John Henry Leech "British Pyralides, including the Pterophoridae", R.H.Porter, 1886, 1st Edition,

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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John Henry Leech British Pyralides, including the Pterophoridae, R.H.Porter, 1886, 1st Edition, original gilt cloth, worn at extremities, front inner hinge weak; ownership inscription of 1899; fine internally with 18 coloured lithograph plates. 121pp + prelims & plates. 

W.J. Holland "The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a knowledge of the Butterflies of North America" 1905

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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W.J. Holland The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a knowledge of the Butterflies of North America Doubleday,1905, later gilt cloth & endpapers, fine; quarto, 48 colour plates with titled tissue-guards; 382pp + prelims.  

Charles Barrett "The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol.I: Rhopalocera" L. Reeve, 1893, 1st Edition,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
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Charles Barrett The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol.I: Rhopalocera L. Reeve, 1893, 1st Edition, quarto, half-leather over worn marbled boards, gilt; marbled endpapers and 40 fine coloured lithograph plates; occasional pencil marking in text margins. 314pp + plates.

Helen Macdonald "H is for Hawk", Jonathan Cape, 2014, Signed First Edition,

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Mar 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £50
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Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk, Jonathan Cape, 2014, Signed First Edition, fine in complete dustwrapper, signed by the author on the title page