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Books, Manuscripts & Maps (140)
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Lot 1000 - DARWIN, Charles, Insectivorous Plants. 1st edition, 1875
Sold for £320
Lot 1001 - DARWIN, Charles, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vols
Sold for £150
Lot 1002 - DARWIN, Charles, The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants 3rd thousand 1885. Fine copy
Sold for £95
Lot 1003 - DARWIN, Charles, The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1st edition 1876.
Sold for £230
Lot 1004 - DARWIN, Francis, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical chapter, 3 vols, 1st edition 1887
Sold for £90
Lot 1006 - WALLACE, Alfred Russel. Studies Scientific and Social. 2 vols, 1st edition 1900 (2)
Sold for £210
Lot 1007 - WALLACE, Alfred Russel, Contribution to the Theory of Natural Selection. 1st edition 1870. With another copy, 1875, and Natural Selection and Tropical Nature, new edition 1891 (3)
Sold for £300
Lot 1008 - WALLACE, Alfred Russel, The Malay Archipelago, 3rd edition 1872.
Sold for £85
Lot 1009 - WALLACE, Alfred Russel, Darwinism, 1st edition 1889. With a copy of the 2nd edition, 1889, and a later edition. With other books by Wallace (10) (box)
Sold for £400
Lot 1010 - LEE, Ida, Early Explorers in Australia, 1925. With other books, including geology and evolution (2 boxes)
Sold for £190
Lot 1012 - GOSSE, Philip Henry. A collection of books by, including Birds of Jamaica, 1847, 8 vo text vol only; The Canadian Naturalist, 1840; An Introduction to Zoology; and The Mysteries of God, 1884
Sold for £420
Lot 1013 - YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis, Wonders of the Himalayas, 1st edition 1924. Presentation copy from the author. Neatly re-cased, cover marked. With others (6)
Sold for £220
Lot 1015 - CUVIER, Baron Georges, The Animal Kingdom. New edition 1863. With 44 plates, most of them in colour. Full calf binding by Bickers.
Lot 1016 - BATES, Henry Walter, The Naturalist on the River Amazons. A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life
Lot 1017 - HUBBLE, Edwin, The Realm of the Nebulae, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1936
Lot 1018 - LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Portraits for Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Folio, Castle Hill Press, Fordingbridge, 2008. Limited edition no 129 of 220 copies.
Sold for £130
Lot 1019 - BACON, Sir Francis, Essays, or Councils Civil and Moral. 1706, contemporary calf. Ownership inscription of Braithwaite Atkinson, 1750. He was keeper of HM Gaol. Carlisle
Sold for £65
Lot 1020 - HOGARTH, William, Works, 2 vols 4to, 1833/Lady's magazine 1794/ Lear, Book of Nonsense 1895 and other children's books
Sold for £170
Lot 1021 - FOX, John, Book of Martyrs, folio 1822. With engraved title and 32 plates.
Sold for £80
Lot 1022 - RANSOME, Arthur, Swallows and Amazons, 1st edition 1930 (11) (box)
Sold for £260
Lot 1023 - ANDERSEN, Hans, Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edward Dulac. 4to 1911, Edition De Luxe, one of 750 copies numbered and signed by the artist
Sold for £550
Lot 1024 - RACKHAM, Arthur, Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures, 4to 1913. Signed limited edition of 1030 copies
Lot 1025 - SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, The Sensitive Plant. 4to [1911]
Sold for £180
Lot 1026 - RACKHAM, Arthur, Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes. 4to, William Heinemann, 1913.
Sold for £270