Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.

Charming view with fishing in the foreground. Steel engraving. Fine condition Hand coloured. Size: 15 x 9.6 cm. (6 x 4 inches).

First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. With dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.

Costume scene Woodcut, hand coloured In fine condition.

Scene showing two Mexican nightwatchmen standing. In fine condition. Woodcut, hand coloured.

A charming miniature map of the delightful county of Herefordshire by Benjamin Capper, published by Richard Phillips in the atlas titled "A Topographical Dictionary". The map features a numerical "Hundreds" table, a mileage scale and other noteworthy information. Size: 210x 125 mm. Copperplate engraving with full original wash colour. Slight age toning but in very good condition otherwise.

A charming miniature map of the Welsh county of Monmouthshire by Benjamin Capper, published by Richard Phillips in the atlas titled "A Topographical Dictionary". The map features a numerical "Hundreds" table, a mileage scale and other noteworthy information. Size: 125 x 210 mm. Copperplate engraving with full original wash colour. Slight age toning but in very good condition otherwise.

An inexpensive map of Denbighshire by Joshua Archer. There is a mileage scale and a numbered table of "Hundreds". Published in Thomas Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain. Size: 210 x 275 mm. Copperplate engraving with original outline colour. Good condition.

An inexpensive map of Cardiganshire by Joshua Archer. There is a mileage scale and a numbered table of "Hundreds". Published in Thomas Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain. Size: 210 x 275 mm. Copperplate engraving with original outline colour. Good condition.

An inexpensive map of Caernarvonshire by Joshua Archer. There is a mileage scale and a numbered table of "Hundreds". Published in Thomas Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain. Size: 210 x 275 mm. Copperplate engraving with original outline colour. Slightly toned, but in good condition.

First US edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 7 plates. Original dark blue quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, purple sides. With dust jacket. Jacket unclipped, loss to spine ends: a very good copy in good jacket.

First edition thus, first impression, of two autobiographical "recollections". This edition was published to accompany the National Theatre's 2012 production of Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, where the two played in repertoire. Hymn was first performed in 2001, a collaboration between Bennett and the composer George Fenton, with the text published in 2002. This is the first appearance of Cocktail Sticks. The two pieces were directed by Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National Theatre and one of Bennett's favoured directors: "I found in many ways he was the ideal person to work with" (Wu, p. 80). Although unmarked as such, this copy is from the theatre collection of Clive Hirschhorn (b. 1940), who spent decades as the film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express. His various histories of Hollywood include The Warner Bros. Story (1978) and The Hollywood Musical (1981). Duncan Wu, Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors, 2000. Octavo. Musical scores in the text. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Head of spine and top edge bumped; touch of creasing to unclipped jacket: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

First edition, first impression. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in gilt. With dust jacket. Engraved bookplate to front pastedown. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, discreet glue residue to rear panel.

The Naturalist's Miscellany, distinguished by the refined hand-coloured copperplate engravings by F.P.Nodder and the astute naturalist's writing by George Shaw, was a diverse naturalists' compendium identified by seventeenth and eighteenth century naturalists spanning the globe. Many of nature's most fascinating and unusual creatures were discovered during this period. A wonderful print depicting the Tiger Moth. Size: 232 x 140 mm. Copper engraving. Original hand colouring. Fine condition.

A charming miniature map of the royal county of Berkshire by Benjamin Capper, published by Richard Phillips in the atlas titled "A Topographical Dictionary". The map features a numerical "Hundreds" table and other noteworthy information. Size: 122 x 210 mm. Copperplate engraving with full original wash colour. Slight age toning, but in excellent condition.

Georg Eberhard Rumphius was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense. After going blind in 1670 due to glaucoma, Rumphius continued work on his six-volume manuscript with the help of others. Rumphius died in 1702, so never saw his work in print. It finally appeared in 1741, thirty-nine years after Rumphius's death. Copper plate engraving with contemporary hand writing. Size: 400 x 255 mm Fair condition only. In top right corner and upper margin, the paper has been burnt (with some loss) and staining.

The Naturalist's Miscellany, distinguished by the refined hand-coloured copperplate engravings by F. P. Nodder and the astute naturalist's writing by George Shaw, was a diverse naturalists' compendium identified by seventeenth and eighteenth century naturalists spanning the globe. Many of nature's most fascinating and unusual creatures were discovered during this period. A wonderful print depicting the Caurale Snipe. Copper engraving. Original hand colouring. Size: 23.2 x 14 cm (9 x 5½ inches). Fine condition.

First edition thus, with an introduction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bernard DeVoto. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decorated in red and gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped, touch of rubbing to extremities, fore edge toned; jacket unclipped, spine slightly sunned, a few spots of rubbing: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

A charming miniature map of the delightful Fen-land county of Huntingdonshire by Benjamin Capper, published by Richard Phillips in the atlas titled "A Topographical Dictionary". The map features a numerical "Hundreds" table, a mileage scale and other noteworthy information. Size: 210x 125 mm. Copperplate engraving with full original wash colour. Slight age toning but in very good condition otherwise.

Alaskan family and their canoe. Size: 190 x 235 mm. Copperplate engraving. Good condition.

A separately issued catalogue and index to accompany the first volume of the Botanical Register, listing the works cited and providing a navigational aid to one of the period's key botanical publications. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo, pp. [4] xi [1]. Original brown wrappers, stitched as issued, wrappers lettered in black. Wrappers and edges worn, foxing to wrappers and a few pages. A good copy only.

First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original maroon cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, maroon endpapers and top-stain. With dust jacket. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket.

Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon, a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin, Buffon, in his Histoire Naturelle, a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world, was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux). Size: 250 x 203 mm. Copper engraving. Fine condition.

Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon, a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin, Buffon, in his Histoire Naturelle, a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world, was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux). Size: 250 x 203 mm. Copper engraving. N Fine condition.

This attractive copper engraving is from Buchoz's 'Collection Coloriée des plus belles variétés de Tulipes' in Pierre Buchoz's supplement to the work Collection des Fleurs de la Chine & de l'Europe, & de tout l'Ouvrage. Buchoz or Buc'hoz (1731-1807) was born in Metz. At the age of 28, he was appointed physician to the King of Poland, but left his post to pursue his interest in botany. Size: 320 x 205 mm. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition.

Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon, a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin, Buffon, in his Histoire Naturelle, a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world, was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux). Size: 250 x 203 mm. Copper engraving. Fine condition.

Archibald Thorburn (1860 -1935) was a Scottish artist and bird illustrator, painting mostly in watercolour. He regularly visited Scotland to sketch birds in the wild, his favourite haunt being the Forest of Gaick near Kingussie in Invernesshire. His widely reproduced images of British wildlife with their evocative and dramatic backgrounds, are enjoyed as much today as they were by sportsmen and birdlovers of a century ago. Size: 315 x 250 mm. Original chromolithograph. Printed colour. Very good condition.

Size: 295 x 210 mm. Steel engraving. Hand coloured. Good condition.

First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Lightly rubbed, a very good copy in the dust jacket with a short closed tear and a small chip from the back panel.

Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon, a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin, Buffon, in his Histoire Naturelle, a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world, was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux). Size: 250 x 203 mm. Copper engraving. Fine condition.

Wonderful view which shows men fishing in the river Teese. Copper engraving. Fine condition Hand coloured. Size: 29.5 x 18 cm. (11½ x 7 inches).