forthcoming sales - Dominic Winter Book Auctions

120 Aldrovandi (Ulisse). De quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen
integrum, Bologna: Nicolo Tebaldini, 1639, eng. title and colophon
both dated 1639, woodcuts to text, woodcut initials, embossed lib.
stamp to upper outer corner of initial two blanks and title with ink
and pencil shelf-marks to verso of latter, occ. spotting, modern light
tan antique-style calf with six raised bands and old leather spine
label in cloth slipcase, folio (350 x 240 mm)
(1) £700-1000
121 Bewick (Thomas). The Fables of Aesop, and others, with
Designs on wood, by Thomas Bewick, 1st ed., Newcastle, 1818,
numerous wood eng. vignette illusts., slight marginal browning to
first & last few leaves, contemp. gilt & blind dec. calf, extrems.
rubbed, 8vo (large paper copy), together with History of British Birds,
2 vols., Newcastle, 1804, wood eng. vignette illusts., occ. scattered
spotting, contemp. half calf, gilt & blind dec. spines, 8vo, with
Bewick’s Select Fables of Aesop and Others..., Faithfully Reprinted
from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T.Saint in 1784, pub.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., [1878], eng. port. frontis., wood
eng. illusts. throughout, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig.
publisher’s qtr. morocco, 8vo
(4) £200-300
122 Bradley (J.D.; Tremewan, W.G. & Smith, Arthur). British
Tortricoid Moths. Cochlidae and Tortricidae: Torntricinae, 1st ed.,
1973, num. col. and b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., spine faded,
rubbed to extrems., 4to, together with Heath (John, ed.), The
Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, vols. 1 & 9 only,
1976-79, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s, 4to, plus Paton
(Jean A.), The Liverwort Flora of the British Isles, 1st ed., 1999, orig.
col. pict. boards, large 4to, thirteen other natural history related, incl.
The Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe, by
D.R. Ragge & W.J. Reynolds, 1998, etc.
(17) £80-120
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123 Couch (Jonathan). A History of the Fishes of the British
Islands, 4 vols, 1877-78, 252 colour printed plates (complete), neat
owner’s name to front endpaper of each vol., light spotting to
prelims, a.e.g., modern dark-blue half morocco gilt by Maltbys of
Oxford, 8vo
(4) £300-400
124 Crescenzi (Pietro de). Pietro Crescentio Opera di agricoltura...,
Nouamente con grandissima fatica alla sua pristina restituita & con
diligenza ridutta, Venice: Per li heredi di Ioanne Padouano, 1553, lacks
A1 (title) & VV7 (blank?), blank leaf VV8 present, few woodcut dec.
initials, fraying to first & last few leaves, slight spotting, 18th c. dec.
paste-papers, worn, 8vo
This edition not found in Adams.
(1) £200-300
125 Curtis (William). Curtis’s Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden
Displayed: in which the most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated
in the Open Ground, the Green-house and the Stove are accurately
represented in their natural colours, 2 vols., 1815 & 1819, 240
engraved plts. with contemp. hand colouring (including eleven
folding), each with page of descriptive text, text pages with near
contemp. ink marginalia and additions. very occ. spotting
throughout, a.e.g., near contemp. half calf gilt, 8vo
The spines of each volume are numbered 14 & 19 respectively, however the
title pages are numbered as volumes 45 & 49. These title page numbers have
been crossed out in near contemp. ink manuscript and the numbers matching
the spines written in. The plates appear to be a compilation of flower types
as the images do not run in date order and are spread randomly between
1789 and 1825. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
(2) £400-600
126 Darwin (Charles). Voyage d’un naturaliste autour du monde
fait a bord du navire le Beagle de 1831 a 1836, trans ed. Barbier, 1st
French ed., Paris, 1875, wood eng. illusts. to text, 20 pp. pubs. cat.
dated July 1882 bound at rear, heavy spotting throughout, old
ownership name and address stamp to half title and bookseller’s
small ticket to title, partly uncut, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and
marked, (Freeman 181), together with Wallace (Alfred Wallace),
Tropical Nature and Other Essays, 1st ed., 1878, pubs. ad. leaf at rear,
some spotting at front and rear, ballpoint pen ownership signature to
title, front free endpaper detached, orig. green cloth gilt with black
rules, sl. rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus others including geology
(10) £200-300