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MORRIS, Francis Orpen (1810-93).  A History of British Butterflies. Eighth Edition, newly revised, corrected and enlarged. London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. Large 8vo (250 x 172mm). Title printed in red…

MURDOCH, Iris (1919-99). Sartre. Romantic Rationalist. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1953. 8vo (179 x 110mm). Half title. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with price of 7’6…

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius or "Pliny the Elder" (23-79 AD). The Historie of the World: Commonly called, The Natural Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of…

RUSDEN, Moses (dates unknown).  A Further Discovery of Bees. Treating of the Nature, Government, Generation and Preservation of the Bee. With the Experiments and Improvements arising from the keeping…

SAINT AUGUSTINE or AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354-430).  Opuscula divi Augustini longe prestantissima cum duplici indicio rursus Parisiis compressa. Paris: [from the colophon to the first part:] “impe[n]sis…

[SPEED, John (1551-1629). The Historie of Great Britaine. London: George Humble, portrait dated 1629]. Folio (329 x 210mm). Engraved portrait of the author, dedication, printed in double column,…

WARD, Henry George (1797-1860). Mexico in 1827. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 2 volumes, large 8vo (222 x 140mm). 2 folding lithographed frontispieces, 11 plates, 3 of which double-page, one folding,…

WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Common Reader. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. 8vo (214 x 140mm). Half title. Original grey cloth-backed coloured…

FINDLAY, Alexander George (1812-75).  A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean; with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and those…

“Journal of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ commissioned at Sheerness 20th August 1878.” [No place: 1878-1880], 4to (265 x 200mm). Manuscript ship’s journal on 55-pages kept between 21st August 1878 and 28th November…

SEEMANN, Berthold Carl (1825-71).  Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the Years 1860-61. Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1862. 8vo (224 x 140mm). Half title,…

SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (1811-88).  Travels and Researches in Crete. London: John van Voorst, 1865. 2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 140mm). 2 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, 17 lithographed plates,…

WILLIAMS, Thomas (1815-91).  Fiji and the Fijians … Edited by George Stringer Rowe. London: Alexander Heylin, 1858. 2 volumes, 8vo (185 x 120mm). Half title in vol. II, folding engraved map, 12…

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82).  De l’ Origine des Espèces ou des Lois du Progrès chez lestres Organisés … Traduit en français sur la Troisième Édition avec l’ autorisation de l’ Auteur par Mlle. Clémence…

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82).  La Descendance de l’ Homme et la Selection Sexuelle … Traduit de l’ Anglais, par J. J. Moulinié. Préface par Carl Vogt. Paris: C. Reinwald et Cie., 1872. 2 volumes, large…

FLEMMING, Walther (1843-1905).  Zellsubstanz, Kern und Zelltheilung. Leipzig: Verlag von F. C. W. Vogel, 1882. Large 8vo (235 x 160mm). 8 tinted lithographed plates, one folding, some double-page,…

[KOCH, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843-1910)]. [Four papers in:] Mittheilungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte. Herausgegeben von Dr. Struck. Berlin: Druck und Verlag der Norddeutschen…

MULLER, Johann Ulrich (1727-1801).  Unbetruglicher Stunden=Meiser. Das ist: Eine deutliche und curiose Beschreibung aller der Zeit ublichen Sonnen=Uhren nach Allerhand Arthen auf verschiedenen…

REGNAULT, Henri Victor (1810-78).  Relation des Expériences entreprises par ordre de Monsieur le Ministre des Travaux Publics, et sur la Proposition de la Commission Centrale des Machines a Vapeur,…

RUNGE, Friedlieb Ferdinand (1795-1867).  Technische Chemie der nützlichsten Metalle für Jedermann. Berlin: Verlag der Sander’schen Buchhandlung, 1838-39. 2 volumes, 8vo (208 x 120mm). Frontispieces…

WEBER, Moritz Ignaz (1795-1875).  Anatomischer Atlas des Menschlichen Körpers in Naturlicher Große. Lage und Verbindung der Theile: in 84 Tafeln und Erklärendem Texte. Düsseldorf: Verlag von Arnz and…

The interior fitted with a musical movement playing two airs, the front page detailed 'The Seaside Album', with a winding key 29cm high x 23cm wideCondition report:- Large tear and damage to the…

Condition report: Overall, in very good condition. Minor scuffs and signs of wear commensurate with use. Notably some scuffs to the castors, one of which is missing a couples of screws and presently…

Rotary wristwatch;  movement stops and starts, the centre seconds hand is currently pushed down and will not move past the minute hand, which is bent at the top end, dial in fairly good condition,…