1. Appleton, Douglas H.

The Beagle Handbook. No.25 The Dog Lover’s Library. Giving the History Points and Breeding of the Show Dog, and a Section on the Hunt and the Pack.

London, Nicholson & Watson, 1959. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. XI, 162 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket slightly worn and some brown stains on the page edges. Dustjacket price has been clipped. Writing on inside page to previous owner. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

2. [Boyle Bernard, Richard (Dean of Leighlin)] Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de.

Buffon’s Natural History, Abridged – Including the History of the Elements, The Earth, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Winds, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Shellfish, Lizards, Serpents, Insects & Vegetables. Illustrated with Great Variety of Copper Plates. With 106 [of 107 Plates] in absolutely stunning condition, spread throughout the two Volumes. Including the two often missing and very rare fold-out-plates of Snakes.

Two Volumes (complete set). London, Published as the Act directs for C. & G. Kearlsey, Fleet Street, 1792. Octavo (15 cm x 21,5 cm). Volume I: Frontispice [″Nature lamenting over the Tomb of M. de Buffon & exhibiting a Portrait of that distinguished Naturalist”], Engraved Titlepage [with a scene of grieving onlookers to the outbreak of the Volcano / Mount Vesuvius], XXXVII, Errata-Leaf, 353 pages / Volume II: Engraved Titlepage [with a scene of fowling at the steep cliffs of St.Kilda)], 494 pages including a thorough Index. With 106 [of 107 Plates] spread throughout the two Volumes. Including the two often missing and very rare fold-out-plates of Snakes. Hardcover / One Volume rebound to style and one Volume in its original 18th century full leather. Original bookplate / Exlibris of Dean Richard Boyle Bernard, Dean of Leighlin and MP for Bandon Bridge to pastedown of Volume I. Both Volumes now housed in a bespoke built Solander Box. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3. Crane, Walter / Kearton, Richard / Kearton, Cherry / English, Douglas / Ward, John J. / Lockyer, J.S. / Irving, Henry / Fitzgerald, H. Purefoy.

The Nature Book – A Popular Description by Pen and Camera of the Delights and Beauties of the Open Air. Profusely illustrated with Photographs and numerous coloured plates by famous artists.

Three Volumes (complete). London / New York / Toronto / Melbourne, Cassell and Company, no year (c.1912). Quarto. 1128 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Hardcover / Spectacular binding with gilt lettering and ornament to covers. Binding signed; “K” within the illustration on front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The magnificent gilted illustrations on cover in unusually excellent condition. Presentation copy from Anatomy Professor D.P. Fitzgerald, Professor of Anatomy UCC Cork, to his colleague Andrew Whelton (Cork City). A handwritten entry by D.P. Fitzgerald reads: “Bound in Nov.1913”.

4. [Darwin, Charles] Dover, Gabriel.

Dear Mr Darwin Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVI, 268 pages with illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Dickens, Michael / Storey, Eric (Photography).

The World of Butterflies.

Reading, Osprey Publishing Limited, 1972. 14 cm x 22 cm. 127 pages. Several colour photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers only. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper.

6. Dutton, E.A.T. [Eric Aldhelm Torlogh].

Kenya Mountain. With an Introduction by Hilaire Belloc.

Second Edition. London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. 18 cm x 26 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 219 pages. 55 illustrations including frontispiece. Fold-out map at rear detailing Mount Kenya topography and Durron and Melhuish’s route in 1926. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Light Foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean. Inscribed and signed by the author Eric Dutton on the front free endpaper in Lusaka on 14th November, 1935.

7. [English History Collection] – Johnston, Thomas / Gilmour, J.S.L (editor).

Botanical Journeys in Kent & Hampstead. A facsimile reprint with Introduction and Translation of his Iter Plantarum (1629), Descriptio Itineris Plantarum (1632).

Pittsburgh, The Hunt Botanical Library, 1972. 20 cm x 27 cm. IX, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. White cover slightly dirty/discoloured.

8. Goldsmith, Oliver/ [Washington Irving] / [Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886)].

A History of The Earth and Animated Nature – With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: “A Life of the Author”, by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]).

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). London, Edinburgh and Dublin, A. Fullerton and Co., 1846-1848. Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage.

9. Jones, Steve.

Almost Like A Whale: The Origin of Species Updated.

London, Anchor Books, 2000. 12.5 x 19cm. (37), 499 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed with previous owner’s name.

10. Kearton, R.

Birds’ Nests, Eggs, and Egg-Collecting. Illustrated with 16 coloured Plates [colour-chromolithographs of eggs in nests].

London / Paris / Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1890. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 71 pages plus several pages of historical advertising. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s cloth in protective collector’s mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains an inscription by Professor J.H. Pollen from the year 1892.