Books & Ephemera

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Location: Diss Auction Rooms
Date: 11th February 2021
Starts: 10:00 am

Online deadline: 11th February 2021, 9:30 am
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8103
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Lot No: 8103 (zero)

Philip Rickman: 'A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches', London, Curpotten Ltd, 1979, limited edition (450/500), numbered and signed by Rickman, 32 mounted coloured...

Sale Price: £160.00

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8104
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Lot No: 8104 (zero)

Colin Laurie McKelvie & Richard Robjent: 'The Woodcock - The Snipe - The Grouse - The Partridge - The Pheasant - Sporting Widlfowl of...

Sale Price: £1,200.00

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8105
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Lot No: 8105 (zero)

A collection of nine 'Wayside & Woodland' series volumes published by Frederick Warne, including 'The Caterpillars of British Moths', 1948, 1st edition, 2 volumes,...

Sale Price: £38.00

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8106
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Lot No: 8106 (zero)

Len Howard, 2 titles: 'Birds as Individuals', London, Collins, 1952, 1st edition, publisher's review copy with their printed slip and typed letter signed and...

Sale Price: £250.00

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8107
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Lot No: 8107 (zero)

W. Lauder Lindsay: 'A Popular History of British Lichens', Lovell Reeve, 1856, 1st edition, 22 hand coloured plates as called for; Rev. D. Landsborough:...

Sale Price: £95.00

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8108
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Lot No: 8108 (zero)

M.C. Cooke: 'Handbook of British Fungi', London, Macmillan, 1871, 1st edition, 2 volumes, coloured litho frontis and partially coloured and uncoloured plates and numerous...

Sale Price: £90.00

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8109
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Lot No: 8109 (zero)

Charles Badham: 'A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England', London, 1863, 2nd edition, 12 hand coloured litho plates as called for, original pictorial...

Sale Price: £85.00

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8111
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Lot No: 8111 (zero)

Locket, Millidge & Merett: 'British Spiders' London, Ray Society, 1951-1974, three volumes, coloured frontis, 471 figures, 612 maps, original cloth gilt, dust wrappers...

Sale Price: £50.00

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8112
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Lot No: 8112 (zero)

''Acheta Domestica'' [i.e. L.M. Budgen]: 'Episodes of Insect Life', London, Reeve, 1849, 1st edition, 1st series, hand coloured frontis, engraved vignette title and 34...

Sale Price: £60.00

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8113
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Lot No: 8113 (zero)

Colin Milne: 'A Botanical Dictionary: or Elements of Systematic and Philosophical Botany', London, Griffin, 1770, 1st edition, [451]pp, two folding tables showing Tournefort, Linnaeus...

Sale Price: £65.00

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8114
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Lot No: 8114 (zero)

W. Furneaux: 'Butterflies and Moths (British)', London, Longmans, 1894, 1st edition, 12 coloured plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; James Duncan, two...

Sale Price: £120.00

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8116
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Lot No: 8116 (zero)

[Laetitia Jermyn, afterwards Ford]: 'The butterfly collector's Vade Mecum: with a synoptical table of British butterflies', Ipswich, J. Raw, 1827, 2nd edition, five engraved...

Sale Price: £75.00

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8117
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Lot No: 8117 (zero)

Bernard D'Abrera: 'Birdwing Butterflies of the World', Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1975, 1st edition, profusely illustrated in colour throughout, folding distribution map loosely inserted, folio,...

Sale Price: £95.00

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8118
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Lot No: 8118 (zero)

Frederick William Frohawk: 'Natural History of British Butterflies', London, Hutchinson, [1926], 1st edition, two volumes, 60 coloured plates and four black and white plates,...

Sale Price: £270.00

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8119
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Lot No: 8119 (zero)

Rev. F.O. Morris: 'A History of British Butterflies', London, George Bell, 1876, 4th edition, 72 coloured plates + 2 uncoloured plates as called for,...

Sale Price: £80.00

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8120
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Lot No: 8120 (zero)

F.W. Frohawk: 'Varieties of British Butterflies', London, Ward Lock, 1938, 1st edition, 48 coloured plates as called for, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper

Sale Price: £65.00

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