134 Cliffe (John Henry). Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles Among the Mountains, Valleys and Solitudes of Wales, 1st ed., 1860, advert. leaf at end, one or two spots, original cloth, spine faded, wormtracks to lower cover, 8vo, together with Fish Culture: A Practical Guide to the Modern System of Breeding and Rearing Fish, by Francis Francis, 1st ed., 1863, b & w illustrations, a few spots, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, with others related including E.M. Tod’s Wet-Fly Fishing Treated Methodically, 1903 and Sir Herbert Maxwell’s British Freshwater Fishes, [1904] (24)
135 Couch (Jonathan). A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 vols, pub. Groombridge and Sons, 1868-69, 252 colour printed plates (complete), yellow chalk-glazed endpapers, with contemp. presentation inscription to front endpaper of each vol. to John Henry Benbow, dated December 22nd 1870, orig. giltdecorated and blindstamped blue cloth, very sl. rubbed to extrems., with some fraying to foot of spine of second vol. only (generally in very good condition), 8vo (4)
£300-500
£100-150
136 Curtis (John). Farm Insects: Being the Natural History and Economy of the Insects Injurious to the Field Crops of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st ed., pub. Blackie & Son, 1860, sixteen hand-coloured plates, numerous b&w illusts. to text, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some soiling and wear with joints partly frayed, large 8vo, together with Buckton (George Bowdler), Monograph of the British Cicadae or Tettitidae, 2 vols. in one, pub. McMillan, 1890-91, seventy-four col. litho. plts., later maroon cloth, rubbed and some surface marks, thick 8vo, plus Edwards (James), The HemipteraHomoptera (Cicadina and Psyllina) of the British Islands, pub. L. Reeve & Co., 1896, thirty col. litho. plts., orig. brown cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some minor marks, 8vo (Large Paper copy), and Moggridge (J. Traherne), Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders. Notes and Observations on their Habits and Dwellings, 2 vols. including Supplement, pub. L. Reeve & Co., 1873-74, litho. plts., including a few printed in colour, orig. pubs. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus other later 19th c. natural history interest, mostly relating to insects and plants, including The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, 3 vols., including Appendix, 1904-12, Hermann Adler, Alternating Generations, a Biological Study of Oak Galls and Gall Flies, Oxford, 1894, Fred V. Theobald, An Account of British Flies, vol. 1 [all published], 1892, Herbert E. Cox, A Handbook of the Coleoptera or Beetles, of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols., 1874, George Johnston, A History of the British Zoophytes, 2 vols. in one, 2nd ed., 1847, etc., leather and cloth-bound, mostly 8vo (approx. 40)
£300-500
137 Darwin (Charles). The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, tenth thousand (corrected) pub. John Murray, 1888, b&w illusts. to text, 32 pp. pubs. cat. at rear, dated July 1887, inner hinges partly cracked, bookplate of Epsom College Library to front pastedown, orig. green blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, together with The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 2nd ed., revised, pub. Smith, Elder & Co., 1874 (2 copies), folding map frontis., two folding maps at rear, 6 pp. pubs. cat. at end, both orig. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and one vol. with upper cover with some surface creasing, plus Muller (Hermann), The Fertilisation of Flowers, trans. and ed. D’Arcy W. Thompson, with a preface by Charles Darwin, 1st ed., 1883, b&w wood. eng. illusts. to text, single-page pubs. ad. leaf at rear, single cancelled libary inkstamp to half-title, modern good-quality green half morocco gilt, and Tropical Nature, and Other Essays, 1st ed., 1878, a few minor marks to text, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, modern half green morocco gilt, plus four others related (Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinism, 1912, Edward B. Aveling, The Student’s Darwin, 1881, Charles Darwin, The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, Popular ed., 1904, & On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1865, reprinted Brussels, 1969), all 8vo
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£150-200